Maiko Kawakami
Nacimiento : 1966-02-05,
Historia
Maiko Kawakami (川上 麻衣子, Kawakami Maiko, born February 5, 1966) is a Swedish-born Japanese actress who has starred in numerous movies and TV serials. She is a graduate of Keio University through distance education.
Aihime (Chinese Woman in the Waterfall)
The only movie theater on the Onomichi seafront is about to close its doors. Its last night of screenings will be an all-night marathon of Japanese war films. When lightning strikes the theater, three young men in the audience find themselves thrown back in time into the world inside the screen.
Yuki is a 2nd year high school student. She volunteers at a paediatrics ward for her summer vacation, because she wants to witness the moment a person dies. She got that thought after feeling envious of a transfer student's story of seeing a friend's dead body. Yuki has friend named Atsuko. She was bullied in the past and has anxiety issues. She volunteers at a nursing home for her summer vacation, hoping that she will gain courage if she sees the moment a person dies.
Shizuka
In 1940, Masaaki Takaoka works as a teacher in the agricultural division at a youth training institute. Although Japan’s defeat seems imminent, all of Masaaki’s students are drafted in a futile last-ditch effort. In an attempt to give the young men some hope, he makes everyone promise that they will all meet again under the cherry blossoms upon their safe return. Consumed by sadness over the fate of his students, Masaaki devotes the next 30 years of his life to develop a new species of cherry blossoms that could thrive in any climate in remembrance of his students.
Chieko Akiba
Masanao Ushio and other detectives from Shinjuku West PD discover the strangled dead body of a woman in an empty building in West Shinjuku in Tokyo. According to her husband Takeshi, the murdered Chieko Akiba was a top salesperson at the insurance company where she worked, but quit her job three months ago and planned to open a beauty salon after buying the building which happens to be the crime scene. The call history on her mobile phone reveals the victim answered a call at 8:16 PM and is presumed to have been murdered immediately afterwards. However, Ushio is surprised to hear who was on the other side of the call: Kyoko Yamano, a woman who accompanied Ushio under an umbrella on a rainy night one year ago and whose husband was killed by someone that very night...
Kimiko Izumikawa
Tsukiko, es un fotografo, miembro de un Club en la escuela, pero siempre se ha sentido menos que su hermana Tomie. Ella es linda y muy popular entre los niños. Sin embargo, un día, Tomie muere en un accidente horrible, por lo que Tsukiko,le provoca pesadillas escalofriantes. Un año más tarde, cuando Tomie se supone que cumpliría 18 años, y un día alguien llama a la puerta. Tomie está de vuelta. Poco a poco, Tomie comenzará a mostrar su lado más oscuro, por lo que Tsukiko vuelve a tener las mismas horrendas pesadillas.
19-year-old freeter (a Japanese expression for people between the ages of 15 and 34 who lack full time employment or are unemployed, excluding housewives and students.) Tsuyoshi Osanai enters a school for guide dog trainers. After 2 years of training, Tsuyoshi becomes an assistant trainer. His first dog to train is Chie.
Drama sobre los efectos de la segunda guerra mundial. La acción comienza en 1944, cuando el soldado Sadazo Morikawa recibe una emocionante postal de su esposa Tomoko, justo en la noche antes de partir al frente en Filipinas. Para evitar la censura militar, y temiendo que no fuera a sobrevivir al combate, Morikawa le pide a otro soldado que vuelve a Tokyo, Keita Matsuyama, que le entregue a su esposa en mano la postal con la respuesta.
Miki, a nursing care robot, is popular among some medical staff and patients for her dainty and efficient work, but others are more skeptical. One day, Miki malfunctions and begins to see and hear fragmented images and voices.
Michiko Ichikawa
Escrita y dirigida por Kaneto Shindo con 95 años de edad. Shindo basa la película en su propia maestra de escuela primaria. Está ambientada en la década de 1920 en la Escuela Primaria Ishiuchi Jinjo en las montañas de la prefectura de Hokkaido. Akira Emoto actua como un profesor entusiasta llamado Sr. Ichikawa que siempre tiene tiempo para sus estudiantes...
A young girl with leukemia travels a pilgrimage by skateboard.
Children born with special power. They seek blood for eternal life. And tonight, the victims ...!
About a group of itinerant actors.
Hostess at Pinky
Cinco hombres que tienen cuentas pendientes con la yakuza, acuerdan un plan para robar más de cien millones de yens a la mafia japonesa. El problema es que la jugada les sale mal, y el jefe de los yakuza contrata a un implacable asesino a sueldo que buscará a los responsables...
Nami
Nami is a photographer on the set of a porn film. When photographing a rape scene between a teacher and a schoolgirl, she becomes uncomfortable, having remembered a similar incident in her own past.
More than his indie debut Skinless Night, this was the film that launched Mochizuki on his distinctive trajectory through the crime and yakuza genres. Matsuzaki (Eiji Okuda) is a racing tipster for a sports paper, a lowlife who spends half his time drunk, hangs out with yakuza and other riff-raff and complicates his sex life by succumbing to advances from his girlfriend's sister. As played by Okuda, he's also a figure of considerable hangdog charm. Less a plot-based movie than a guide to the several forms of high stakes gambling in Japan, this centres on his attempt to help a friend swindled in a bent mahjong game. Hakuryu appears (memorably) as an inscrutable yakuza in a black leather jacket. The film's success led to two sequels.
Película de terror directa a vídeo que supuso el debut en la dirección de Hideo Nakata, más conocido por ser el director de The Ring. La película se divide en tres historias: - Historia 1: The Cursed Doll (La muñeca maldita). Alguien llama a Satomi en sus sueños. Cuando sigue a la voz, encuentra una muñeca que parece ser la fuente de una muñeca en el que se encuentra el espíritu de su difunta hermana. - Historia 2: The Spirit of the Dead (El espíritu de la muerte). Tras la muerte de su marido, una mujer realiza un viaje a un camping con su hijo, la escapa familiar será interrumpida por la aparición de un espectro femenino que cree que el chico es su hijo y le pertenece. - Historia 3: The Haunted Inn (La pensión encantada). Tres chicas deciden tomar unas vacaciones en una pensión tradicional japonesa. Desconociendo la tragedia que allí tuvo lugar, encontrándose con la presencia de fuerzas espectrales que les forzarán a repetir los sucesos de aquel fatídico día. (FILMAFFINITY)
A grieving young mother employed at a video game company is recruited to test and train a new virtual world. She finds a character in this world of fantasy who becomes her new albeit virtual daughter.
Akari
El detective Azuma es un policía solitario de métodos expeditivos que se ve envuelto en asuntos turbios al intentar salvar a su amigo y compañero corrupto Iwaki, que suministra y se abastece de sustancias confiscadas por la policía. Cuando una organización criminal de narcotraficantes yakuza asesina a su amigo y secuestra a su hermana, Azuma inicia una violenta y despiadada forma de justicia.
Kaguya-Hime
While visiting Japan, Big Bird wanders off from a guided tour bus in Tokyo, and is lost until a Japanese woman helps him get to where he needs to go. The woman, however, is hiding a secret.
Chako
Yusuke Mikuni, a department manager at his company, buys a one-room apartment to have some space to himself. He signs an agreement with a young woman named Chako and has an affair with her once a week at the apartment.
Keiko Aizawa
El cadáver del joven estudiante Takeshi Yasui es encontrado en un río. Todos los indicios apuntan a que ha sido una venganza por acoso escolar. Mientras la policía investiga a dos compañeros de clase, el director y los profesores intentan limpiar la imagen del colegio y evitar más situaciones de acoso.
Ayame
Internationally acclaimed for his cinematic realism and social commitment, Kaneto Shindo based the story of THE HORIZON on his sister's experiences. The film concerns Hideo, a young girl who leaves Japan in 1920 to settle her family's debt by being sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco. Over the next 20 years the couple works hard and raises 4 children. After Pearl Harbor is attacked they are interned with other Japanese immigrants in a camp, losing both their land and their assets. Hideo has now been uprooted twice and has to adjust to her son's going to war and her daughters' post-war assimilation and marriage to Americans despite her protests. But Hideo is a survivor and she awaits a new immigrant from Japan with hope.
Tetsuaki's struggling to write a novel while his mother fades; Mitsuko's engagement has been forced upon her unwillingly; the two individuals run away to share their grief.
Arrested and interrogated by the police for a murder, Kiyoshi Ôkubo remembers his past and ends up confessing to several murders. Inspired by the true story of the serial killer who raped and killed eight women in Japan in 1971. The case moved the whole country.
A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.
