Kenji Sawada
Nacimiento : 1948-06-25, Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, Japan
Historia
Singer and actor.
Tsutomu
Tsutomu lives alone in the mountains, writing essays, cooking Zen food with the vegetables he grows and the mushrooms he picks in the hills. His routine is happily disturbed when Machiko, his editor and love interest, occasionally visits. Tsutomu seems content with his daily life. On the other hand, he still hasn't let go of his wife's ashes, although she died 13 years ago...
Gō
The story centers on a man who loves movies, having once worked at movie studio in pursuit of his dreams, surrounded by great directors and famous actors. In this tale of love and friendship spanning a lifetime, the "god of cinema" that Go has worshipped since he was young will transcend time, and work a miracle in the lives of one family.
Seiichiro Inada
Shoichi Enomoto
Eiko Akimori is a 23-year-old woman who lives alone in an apartment. One day, Eiko is made to buy a big stone ring that brings happiness from a catch sales on the way home from work.
Okayasu
When a young man is sent to a prison workhouse for a crime he did not commit his friend on the outside must find evidence to clear his name.
Masao Katakuri
La familia Katakuri acaba de abrir una casa de huéspedes en las montañas, pero con la mala fortuna que su primer cliente se les suicida. Para evitar problemas deciden enterrarlo en el jardín. Las cosas no mejoran con su segundo cliente: un famoso luchador de sumo que muere teniendo sexo con una menor....
In this contemporary documentary, the cast and the crew share their experiences of making the film.
Man at Tokyo Station
An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.
Shimotsuki, Ryûsuke
Young Wakana is the daughter of a husband and wife comedy act, who have worked together for 20 years without any big success. Wakana’s parents quarrel constantly, and her mother often threatens to leave. When one day her father disappears, Wakana sets out to find him.
Hajime Shiraishi (segment "カラダだけの男")
Yumeji Takehisa
Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.
Hieda Reijirou
Se construyó una escuela en una de las Puertas del Infierno, detrás de la cual hordas de demonios esperan el momento en que serán libres para vagar por la Tierra. Hiruko es un duende enviado a la Tierra en una misión de reconocimiento. Decapita a los estudiantes para ensamblar sus cabezas en los cuerpos con forma de araña de los demonios. Hieda, un profesor de arqueología, y Masao, un estudiante embrujado, investigan las sangrientas muertes y finalmente luchan contra Hiruko.
Nobuhiko Shimizu, Police Officer
When a gun belonging to a police officer is stolen, it ends up in the hands of a student, who decides to use it on a yakuza who beat him recently. Now the police officer is hot on the student’s trail, and he’s determined to prevent the gun from going off.
Osamu (segment "Kyoko's House")
Producida por Coppola y Lucas, "Mishima" es un retrato biográfico del consagrado autor japonés Yukio Mishima. La película investiga la inquietud interior y las contradicciones de un hombre que trató de alcanzar una imposible armonía entre sí mismo, el arte y la sociedad. La trama se centra en el día en que Mishima conmocionó al mundo, al hacerse en público el seppuku o harakiri (25 de noviembre de 1970), en el Cuartel General del Ejército. El relato está salpicado de flashbacks para contar diversos episodios de su infancia, sus comienzos como escritor, el posterior triunfo profesional, su tranformación en estrella mediática, sus obsesiones por la belleza física y sus ambiguos gustos sexuales, así como la creación de la "Sociedad del Escudo". (FILMAFFINITY)
Tetsugoro Osawa
Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.
Naoya Kudo
Deaths in Tokimeki tells the disturbing, compulsive story of a hit-man waiting to carry out a job: the assassination of the leader of a religious cult, masterminded by the leader's own deputy. But it is a story that is told in blocks, like the phrases in a child's computer game, and what counts most is not the narrative but the spaces between the blocks-the gaps that are filled with undefined menaces as potent as anything in Lovecraft.
Ken Ota is a Japanese-American GI. He comes to Hiroshima after WW2 looking for his big sister, but finds Keiko, a bomb victim with a keloid scar on her shoulder.
Saburo
Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist Saburō, and attempts to play matchmaker between the two when they all return to Tokyo.
Ryuji Miyazawa
Can a woman love two men at the same time? Set against the backdrop of Kyoto's rich history, this story depicts a woman's difficult choice for love. Ayako, played by Yukiyo Toake, is an international conference coordinator. Torn between her childhood sweetheart (played by Kenji Sawada) and her English professor (played by Noboru Nakaya), Ayako will seek answers to love, marriage, and choice.
Yakuza
Tras salvar a una joven de ser violada una noche, un hombre se obsesiona con las pocas medidas de seguridad que ponen en sus casas las mujeres que viven solas. Harto de trabajar rodeado de gente durante el día, por las noches va merodeando por las habitaciones en que sensuales jóvenes duermen solas y da rienda suelta a sus deseos.
Shiro Amakusa
Un samurai vende su alma al diablo para cobrarse venganza contra Dios. Satán le otorga el poder de levantar a los muertos para que lo ayuden en su personal carnicería.
Makoto Kido
A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.
Japanese drama film.
Drama about young people in the Japanese rock scene starring the lead singer of Japanese rock band The Tigers (1966-1971, 1981-1983).
Akio
One day an innocent-looking girl in white clothes appears on board of a ramshackle boat The owner of the boat, Okin, decides to let Mari stay with him without asking her any questions. Turmoil ensues with the reaction of the crew when the runaway girl starts working alongside with them.
Julie
The Tigers are much too busy to have a holiday; but one day a mysterious man appears in their dressing room and offers them a trip to anywhere in the world. But he tells them they must come back in 24 hours or else he'll own their hearts. The mysterious man is the devil.
Kenji Uno
The Tigers, a rock band, escape their parents and teachers trying to forcibly cut their long hair, but accidentally stow away on a train to Tokyo. In Tokyo they get in some trouble, but eventually get jobs as musical assistants. Can they make the stage debut they've always dreamed of, or will their dreams be cut short?
Julie
An alien spaceship crashes on Earth due to the powerful musical energy emanating from Group Sounds band The Tigers. The Tigers have to protect an alien princess who escaped from the ship and became obsessed with their lead singer Julie. Can they save the day by performing their megahit songs like "Mona Lisa's Smile" and "Seaside Bound"?