Tomoko Yamaguchi

Forty years after leaving Japan for a boxing career in the U.S. that never panned out, Jin returns to restart his life with his old boxing buddies. When hotheaded young boxer Shogo asks for Jin’s help to get him back into the ring after an unfair loss, the two men decide to seize their final chance at glory. A boxing film so authentic that it inspired co-star Yokohama Ryusei to qualify as a pro boxer, Zeze Takahisa’s boxing drama is one of the veteran director’s most crowd-pleasing films thanks to the touching father-son bond at its core.

La historia se centra en Sosuke, un niño de 5 años, y su relación con una princesa pez que ansía convertirse en un ser humano. Libre adaptación de "La sirenita" que obtuvo muy buena acogida de la crítica en el Festival de Venecia 2008.

Making-of documentary for Swallowtail Butterfly

Ambientada en un decadente barrio futurista de Tokio, Yentown. Después de que fallezca su madre, una prostituta se hace cargo de la hija de ésta, dándole el nombre de Mariposa. Comenzará a trabajar para un negocio por el que pasan todo tipo de despojos sociales...

The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. It's a small god with a pointed head, a fat belly and a characteristic smile. When the casket in which the statuette was found is broken, the spirit of Billiken is free. After that he tries to fulfill the wishes of all those who had prayed to him, but it doesn't always works.

When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I want you to look for me," Hama is drawn into a string of bizarre serial murders that have Yokohama's police baffled and the city terrified.

Eight love stories start and end in an amusement park.

One night, as pub owner Sotaro is caring for his sick wife, Shizuko, she asks him to promise that if she dies, he will never remarry. Thinking she is just being dramatic, he promises and tells her to go to sleep. When he wakes the next morning, however, Shizuko is dead. Sotaro keeps his promise, until one day he meets Satoko. The two quickly fall in love, and agree to get married. Their first night together, however, is interrupted by Shizuko, who is angry over her husband's broken promise. Sotaro and Satoko must find some way of appeasing the spirit before she drives them from their home.

Moemi is not overly pleased when Yukio brings home a couple of turtles to keep her company. Although Yukio works at home as a writer, Moemi feels neglected and desired a dog or a cat, but neither is allowed in their apartment.

Yousuke Obata vive en la isla de Pago Pago, en el archipiélago de Fiyi, con su padre Tetsurou, un especialista en biología oceanográfica. Después de que una tormenta azote la isla, Yousuke viaja a la laguna con su moto de agua y encuentra allí un extraño bebé reptil. Tras llevarlo al laboratorio de su padre, decide quedárselo y llamarlo Coo. A medida que Coo crece y su tamaño aumenta, su parecido a un dinosaurio de hace más notorio y hará que haya otras personas interesadas en la criatura...

Several otaku band together to save the baby of a Filipina mother.