Mishima Kiko was exploited by her own family. When she was little, her mother neglected her. After her mother remarried, Kiko was abused mentally and physically by her mother, stepfather, and younger stepbrother. She didn't belong to this family. Somehow, she disconnects from her family in Tokyo and moves to a seaside town in Oita. There, she meets a 13-year-old boy named Mushi. He has been abused by his mother and does not speak due to trauma from the abuse. Mushi reminds Kiko of herself when she was younger.
Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
A world where it has been established that people routinely swing between slightly different parallel worlds... Koyomi Takasaki, who lives with his mother following his parents' divorce, enrolls in a local university prep school. Due to the atmosphere concentrated on studies and his social awkwardness, Koyomi is unable to make friends. One day, he is suddenly approached by his classmate Kazune Takigawa, who tells him that she has travelled from the 85th world where she and Koyomi are lovers.
Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
A world where it has been established that people routinely swing between slightly different parallel worlds... Koyomi Hidaka, who lives with his father following his parents' divorce, meets a girl named Shiori Satō at the research institute where his father works. They both have a little crush on each other, but everything changes when their parents remarry. Koyomi and Shiori, convinced that they will never be together, try to jump into another world where they won't be step-siblings... There's no meaning in a world without her.
Minoyama
Tamura Yujiro and Hiyori have been married for four years. They look like a happily married couple, but, Hiyori secretly badmouths her husband on social media page "Husband Death Note."
Michiko Wataguchi
Jun Wataguchi lives a lazy, half-hearted life, not going to school, hanging out with half-witted delinquents, and begging money from his friends. His parents, who run a shipping business transporting earth and sand for reclamation by boat, manage to get by, despite the dwindling number of jobs and lack of successors over time. Jun showed no interest in his parents' business, and the father and son hardly ever spoke to each other. One day, one of Jun's friends is attacked by someone and an unexpected person emerges as the culprit.
Hanae Shoji
Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing population and declining industries. Keita Izumi (Tatsuya Fujiwara) begins to produce black fig on Shishikari Island. Because of his well received product, the island is close to receiving a 5 billion yen grant from the government, which is part of the goverment's policy to reinvigorate rural economy. The residents of the island are excited, but their peaceful days changes by the appearance of Mutsuo Komisaka. Keita Izumi and his friends Jun Tanabe (Kenichi Matsuyama) and Rookie Police Officer Shinichiro Moriya are suspicious about him. One night, Keita Izumi's daughter goes missing. Due to that, Keita Izumi, Jun Tanabe and Shinichiro Moriya happen to kill Mutsuo Komisaka. They decide to hide Mutsuo Komisaka’s murder to protect the future of the island and their families. It turns out Mutsuo Komisaka was a psycho killer. Police officers come to Shishikari Island to catch Mutsuo Komisaka.
Hiyori (Kei Tanaka) is an ornithologist (expert on birds). His wife is Rinko (Miki Nakatani). She is the leader the minority opposition party. One morning, Hiyori is about to travel to an isolated island to watch birds on a 10 day trip. Before he leaves, Rinko asks him if she becomes the prime minister would he be inconvenienced. Hiyori then goes on his bird watching trip. During this time, he is completely isolated from the outside world. When he returns home, his wife Rinko is now the prime minister of the country. She is also the first ever female prime minister of Japan. Suddenly, Hiyori is now the first gentleman of the country. He decides to support his wife, but he finds himself caught up in unexpected circumstances.
Setsuko Goto
Un hombre desnudo y ebrio aparece en directo en una televisión japonesa en plena celebración de la festividad de Namahage, en la que hombres disfrazados de ogros irrumpen en las casas para asustar a los niños y que se porten bien todo el año. Tasuku, un joven padre, es condenado al ostracismo por avergonzar al pueblo y su tradición y huye a Tokio solo. Dos años después regresa al pueblo para intentar arreglar las cosas con su exmujer y su hija pero se encontrará con una situación muy dura.
Miko Noshiro
Set at the Hotel Royal, situated in the marshland of Hokkaido, Japan, and follows the guests, the family that runs the hotel, and the hotel's staff. Masayo Tanaka is the only child of the family that runs Hotel Royal. She failed to enter an arts school and she now works at the hotel. She does not show her emotions to anyone.
Michiyo Muramatsu
Single father Kenichi has raised his daughter Miki alone for the past ten years, from when she attended nursery school until her graduation from elementary school. Kenichi is currently 30 years old. His wife Tomoko died at a young age and he has raised Miki alone since that time. While raising his daughter alone, he has encountered various problems.
Ogata Yoko
Tōko Muranushi is married and they have a lovely daughter. She doesn't have any major problems in her life. One day, Tōko meets her former lover, Akihiko Kurata, at a friend's wedding. They haven't seen each other in ten years. Tōko indulges in a sexual relationship with Kurata.
Eiko Tanaka
In 2030, AI is everywhere including the medical field, finance and security. Artificial intelligence has become essential in people's lives. They have come to completely trust AI, but artificial intelligence becomes out of control and it causes disaster.
A young girl, Sayaka, develops a heartwarming friendship with an old man named Hasu. Based on an award-winning novel by Ijuin Shizu.
Fuyuki is an established artist who runs several bars in Yokohama. One day, injured Shinji runs into his bar. He always idolizes Fuyuki as his elder brother. Shinji is a member of the charity group which looks after troubled young girls in Yokohama. Fuyuki decides to help Shinji who is in a trouble with Yakuza for helping an underage girl out of their prostitution business. In the midst of getting involved in this conflict, Fuyuki learns that his dearest love, Kyoko has a very short time to live, and he feels a strong desire to express his love for Kyoko in a painting...
Mrs. Saito
In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into WWII.
Cafe's manager (segment "Our Birthday")
Six Stories based on Six Songs.
Enokida Trading Post is a second-hand shop run by Yojiro Enokida , whose personal mantra is, "Anything but garbage. We take it all." The shop serves as a gathering place for employees and regular customers, who come with troubles in hand. One summer day, part of the shop's sign falls down. Yojiro thinks this is a sign that something spectacular is about to happen, and indeed their problems take on lives of their own from that day onward.
March 1952, the only doctor in the village Shiba had found a dead body of Sanako. The cause of death is overdose of sleeping pills. Sanako had been suspected for killing her own husband so Dr. Shiba’s sister Kana is guessing that she has committed suicide due to being tormented by killing her husband. Everyone who was in Mr. Kuroido’s house is the suspect, including all the members of Kuroido family, butler, secretary, maids, etc. The Detective Suguro (Hercule Poirot) will investigate the case. Dr. Shiba will be assisting him. As things are searched by them, a shocking fact has been brought to light…
Mitsuko
Cultures meet and values are learnt through the renovation of an inn.
Akiko
Kuma is an author, a sex obsessive and a wheelchair user. Beautiful and volatile Ryoko is unlike anybody he’s ever met before. She barrages into one of his lectures, demanding to know why he only talks of sex, not love, before declaring her own affection. It’s the first of many inappropriate acts by Ryoko and the start of a relationship that is by turns sweet, strange and toxic. Ryoko hopes that she and Kuma’s love can change the world. What she fails to realise is that sometimes it’s the small gestures, not the grand ones, that feel most revolutionary.
Koto
Oei, later known as Katsushika Oi, was born the third daughter of Edo’s talented painter Katsushika Hokusai and his second wife Koto. Although Oei became the wife of a town painter for a time, her love of the paintbrush more than her husband spelt disaster and she comes back home to Hokusai from the family she had married into. This is how Oei starts to help her father out in his painting of the “insurmountable high wall”. Meanwhile, Oei can only talk to the painter Ikeda Zenjiro, who is her father’s student, about her pain and worries. Zenjiro has taken Edo by storm as Keisai Eisen, the master of ukiyo-e portraying beautiful women. He visits regularly because he admires Hokusai and secretly likes Oei although their relationship is like childhood friends. Oei respects her father whose paintings fascinated her and continues to work as a painter who supports him behind the scenes. When Hokusai’s masterpiece Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji was completed, she was also by his side.
(segment “Hammer”)
Six directors picked a favorite song by Japanese punk rock band "The Blue Hearts" and made a short film inspired by the song.
요네자와 사유리
Mayu Daimon is a woman who does not remember her mother's face, and her father is the only person she has blood relationship in this world, but he is going to die soon. Mayu has just started a new life as a detective at the Criminal Investigation Division which deals mainly with murder cases soon, and has to handle with two corpses of old men continuously. One corpse found frozen buried in the snow and the freezing sea. Soon with a detailed investigation she finds out a connection between the two cases which seemed to be completely different at first glance. It was just the breach to open a history of an incident which had origin back to the 1960s in Aomori Prefecture. Growing more and more as a detective, Mayu has to unravel the mystery of a case which goes beyond time and space and which ends in Hokkaido with a result that no one expected.
Chieko
The Master’s late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle delivery man struggling with love.
Eiko Segawa
Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and eventually marries her. Not longer after their marriage, Kozo Nakase suddenly collapses and dies. Kozo Nakase leaves everything to Sayako. The rest of his family are left out of his will including his daughter Tomomi. Tomomi hires a private investigator, Honda, to find out more about Sayoko.
Kô Mittwer
The story of Henri Mitowa, a 93-year old Japanese monk, who wants to make a movie based on his own life.
Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense
Godzilla, fuerza destructiva insondable para el hombre, resucita en el Tokio de hoy en día para acosar de nuevo ala civilización. Un país aún atormentado por las secuelas de un desastre natural, experimenta de repente el horror catastrófico de Godzilla. Apremiado por la muerte y la desesperación, Japón deberá encontrar el poder para superar este desafío. Primera película de Godzilla realizada en Japón desde "Godzilla: Final Wars" (2004) de Ryuhei Kitamura, dirigida por Hideaki Anno ("Evangelion") y Shinji Higuchi ("Attack on Titan").
Speaker
Tenei village is located in Fukushima prefecture's beautiful surrounds. It is 70 kilometers away from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. When the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant failed in March 2011, radioactive particles fell and contaminated the rice fields. But the farmers couldn't just abandon their land as they live on the land and wanted to protect it for future generations. The farmers decided to pursue scientific methods to secure food safety. They were on their own without Government assistance. This film documents their determination and efforts in overcoming an environmental crisis that had never been experienced before.
Izumi Nobuko
Segunda parte de uno de los mangas más aclamados de la historia. Sinichi ha sido capaz de aprender a vivir con uno de sus parásitos en su mano derecha y ahora se siente con la obligación de ayudar al resto del mundo a combatir contra estas criaturas. El destino de la Tierra está en juego y Sinichi junto a su parásito lucharán contra el resto de criaturas extraterrestres. He aquí uno de los manga más aclamados de la historia, en dos películas y en manos de uno de los directores más exitosos del cine nipón.
Motoko Ueno
A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by someone or committed suicide.
Motoko Ueno
A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by someone or committed suicide.
Hiroe Minami
Ichie is the owner of a dressmaking shop. Her grandmother started the shop and now Ichie runs the business. Her clothes are made with an old sewing machine and are very popular. Following her grandmother’s will, Ichie only makes clothes for individuals and turns down offers to turn her clothing into a brand.
Izumi Nobuko
La Tierra es invadida por unos seres extraterrestres que se introducen en el cerebro de los humanos tomando control de sus cuerpos. Un adolescente impide que se finalice el proceso cuando uno de estos alienígenas se introduce en su mano, terminando como parásito de su cuerpo en una relación en la que ambos tienen sus personalidades intactas. Juntos, lucharán contra el resto de parásitos que devoran humanos.
Chieko Hanawa
A restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a series of flawed patrons including Tamako, whose boyfriend has passed away, live-in worker Michiru, and ruckus-raising Kenzo.
Ranko Takigawa
Set half a year after the first season of "First Class." Chinami Yoshinari (Erika Sawajiri) begins work as a fashion designer. In the high-end luxury field, big money is involved and Chinami Yoshinari is again trampled over by other women. She attempts to get through by using her wisdom and toughness that she gained from experience.
Ryoko Nakaoka
Ayako Akaike
It isn't easy to find a dream to chase when you're young, but Mugiko has one: she can't wait to become an anime voice actress. Saving up for classes while she works part time in a manga store, she lives with her older, gambler brother after her father's death. When the mother she never knew turns up out of nowhere and moves in, it only causes irritation for the aspiring otaku. But when her mother just as quickly disappears, it leaves Mugiko (or "Sweet Pea") searching for answers, bringing her back to her mother's hometown to discover what happened to her mother's own dream.
Mitsuru Funaki
Después de divorciarse tras un año de matrimonio, Haru recibe una proposición de un chef samurai de la región de Kaga para que se case con su hijo Yasunobu Funaki, que eligió las espadas en vez de los fogones. Ahora Haru tiene que enseñarle a su nuevo marido el arte de la cocina para preservar el nombre de la familia y su posición como chef samurai.
«Mate a este hombre y recibirá 1 millón de yenes como recompensa ». Con esta publicidad publicada en todos los periódicos japoneses, el multimillonario Ninagawa pone un precio a la cabeza de Kiyomaru, El presunto asesino de su nieta. Millones de enemigos potenciales van a obstaculizar la ruta de los policías responsables de escoltar a Kiyomaru hasta Tokio, transformando el periplo en una persecución infernal que lleva al espectador al corazón de un western urbano cuyo final es incierto.
"Daijobu 3 Kumi" depicts the interactions between new teacher Shinnosuke Akao, who was born without arms and legs, and the 28 students in his 5th grade class, told from the vantage point of school board member Yusaku Shiraishi
Taeko Yokomichi
The year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old Yonosuke Yokomichi arrives in Tokyo from Nagasaki. Ordinary in every way possible, he lives in a suburb far from the excitement of the big city and commutes to a university in the center of Tokyo.
Haruko Inamura
Nobuko is a plain, unattractive woman with disheveled hair, and is hired as a housekeeper in the Inamura residence in Tokyo. The Inamuras are a family of six. The father, Tatsuya, is the head of a university hospital's department of internal medicine. He lives with his wife Haruko, their three sons, and Tatsuya's mother, Shigeko. Although the Inamuras appear to be a happy family, Nobuko soon uncovers the truth.
Tamiko Hamasaki
A prison officer hands in his resignation after his wife's death, to drive to the port where she wants her ashes scattered at sea. Eiji (Ken Takakura) works as a prison officer in Hokuriku. At the age of 53 Eiji loses his wife who he loved the most. Eiji then receives a letter from his dead wife which requests that her ashes be spread by in the sea next to her hometown. Her wife never mentioned such a thing while she was alive. In order to find out her real intentions, Eiji heads to his wife's hometown of Nagasaki with his homemade camper van.
Naomi
In 1945, Japan surrendered to the United States and the Second World War was over. Right? Wrong. For eighty percent of the Japanese community in Brazil, Japan had won the war and defeat was nothing more than American propaganda. The few immigrants that accepted the truth were persecuted. Some were hunted down and assassinated - by their own countrymen - causing the start of a new, private war. Dirty Hearts is a thriller and love story told by the wife of one of the fanatics dedicated to preach Japanese victory. Little by little, she watches her husband, a hard-working immigrant, become an assassin and their love story fade away.
Toyo Taiga
Troubled high school student Makoto arrives in Tokyo to exact revenge from a past incident. He then falls in love at first sight with Ai, a daughter raised in a wholesome family. Around Makoto and Ai are Iwashimizu, who has feelings for Ai and Gamuko, a gang member who eyes Makoto.
Kumi Muramatsu
In 2011, top-secret data on nuclear power is stolen from a university facility. At the same time, leaked information comes in about enriched uranium from the Korean peninsula. Sumimoto of the external affairs fourth division suspects that a conspiracy has been hatched to rock Japan-Korean relations.
Suzuki Tane
Erika Sawajiri plays Kimiko, the main character of the story who has died. Although the title implies that it is a story of a “wicked woman,” the original novel was divided into 27 chapters, one for each “testimony” by someone who knew Kimiko at some point in her life, providing a range of perspectives on what kind of person Kimiko was. ~~ Adapted from 1978 novel series "Akujou ni Tsuite" by Ariyoshi Sawako.
The mysterious life of Princess Nouhime.
Maiko Ayasato (Misty Fey)
"Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney" traslada a la pantalla una popularísima saga de videojuegos ambientada en un futuro donde los juicios criminales se han convertido en desaforados procesos de tan solo tres días. Ante ese escenario, el joven abogado Phoenix Wright deberá sacar lo mejor de sí mismo para lograr resolver el misterioso asesinato de su mentor.
Yoko
A couple decide to relocate from Tokyo to the northern island of Hokkaido where they settle and establish a bakery and café called Mani. One cooks. The other bakes. Everyone walks out happy.
The story is set against the beautiful scenery of Yamakoshi, Niigata, which is also known for bullfighting. Yanagiba plays a man named Satoshi who raises fighting bulls, while Kanjiya plays his deaf and mute daughter Mio. Osamu plays her fiance Maru, a charming young man from the lower part of town.
Domestic drama focusing on a soon to be retired train driver and his wife.
Satoko Kurita (Haruko's mom)
Mikio (Masato Sakai) is a married man and works hard for the company where he is employed. Then one day Mikio is diagnosed with depression. Mikio's wife is Haruko (Aoi Miyazaki). They have been married for 5 years. Haruko draws comics for work, but they do not sell well. She mainly relied on Mikio for support. Meanwhile, Haruko did not notice any changes in her husband. She begins to blame herself for not noticing any signs. Mikio's depression derived from his work. His company has been pressing him to quit the company. After Mikio quits his job his condition improves, but the dynamics of their relationship changes.
Innkeeper
An abandoned car is discovered near a camping ground and inside it is the body of an identified middle-aged man and a dog who seems to have died months later. This is the story of the life of the loving and faithful dog and his owner told from the dog's point of view. City hall employee Kyousuke Okutsu is assigned to uncover the man's identity for a proper funeral. As he investigates the situation, he remembers his late family and his own dog's unfailing loyalty.
Angel
After the collapse of their relationship, Kiwako abducts the 6-month old child of a man she was having an affair with. Raising the child as her own, it is four years before the authorities catch up with her and the young child.
Yasuko Tanaka
Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through an unexpected set of circumstances, she winds up becoming roommates with an aging ladies’ man named Tony and a timid younger man named Kosuke.
Yoriko Shimizu
Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services and going on random encounters with girls looking for spending cash. His world is shattered one day when he is involved in the murder of one of his former encounters, the sweet-faced Ishibashi Yoshino who, after being jilted by playboy Masuo Keijo, berates and mocks the troubled loner.
Shizuka Takei
Dr Toma, a skilled surgeon, starts work at a regional hospital in Japan. After performing an operation to remove a patient’s liver cancer, something that normally would not be done at this hospital, he quickly gains a very good reputation amongst the town’s people. Some of his colleagues become so jealous they are resentful and waiting patiently for the perfect opportunity to crucify him. Soon they get their chance as Dr Toma considers performing a controversial operation…
Ruriko
After a bad breakup, a young woman returns to her hometown and opens a menuless restaurant. A young woman in her mid 20's becomes so heart broken she loses her voice. To recover, the woman decides to go back to her hometown and stay with her free-spirited mother whom she has not been very close to in the past. The young woman then decides to open a restaurant which accepts only one customer a day, allowing for thoughtful preparation for that customer.
Receptionist Yoshiko
Una muñeca hinchable de tamaño natural vive en un modesto piso de Tokio. Es la única compañía de su solitario amo, un hombre de mediana edad. Él le habla, la baña y le hace el amor cada día cuando vuelve del trabajo. Sin embargo, esta rutina se rompe cuando, de repente, la Muñeca Hinchable cobra vida y con ella un alma. Acaba de nacer y no entiende lo que ocurre a su alrededor, aunque se da cuenta de que existe otro mundo más allá de las paredes del piso. Cuando, por fin, se atreve a salir al mundo exterior, se siente fascinada por todo lo que ve. Conoce a mucha gente, pero nadie es capaz de explicarle qué significa "estar viva". Un día, entra en un videoclub y conoce a Junichi, el vendedor, del que se enamora inmediatamente...
Akemi Ohtake
Osamu Ino is a great doctor who is beloved in his rural village. His knowledge and dedication make an equally strong impression on his reluctant medical intern, Keisuke Soma. But, Soma and the villagers reconsider their opinion when they learn about a shameful incident from Dr. Ino's past. Now the once-respected doctor must account for his past actions.
Kohei Miyazaki (Naoto Takenaka), a former railroad worker, has become obsessed with discovering the ancient country of Yamataikoku. His obsession sprouted from a day when he discovered ancient ceramics while repairing railroad tracks. Now completely blind, Kohei relies on his wife (Sayuri Yoshinaga) to guide him through the country and read the maps in their pursuit of Yamataikoku.
Yuriko Kamimura
Daigo es un violonchelista al que despiden de la orquesta donde trabaja. Su mujer y él deciden volver a su pueblo, donde la vida es más barata. Creyendo que está siendo entrevistado para un trabajo en una agencia de viajes, se da cuenta que el trabajo que le ofrecen está relacionado con partidas y viajes sin regreso.
Reiko
Abandonada inesperadamente por su novio, una joven norteamericana llamada Abby (Brittany Murphy) se encuentra de repente sola y sin saber qué hacer en la ciudad de Tokyo.
Kita no mandokoro
Chacha, the woman of the blood of Nobunaga, who loved with Hideyoshi, and feared Tokugawa.
A yakuza must take care of some children from a nursery
Born into a wealthy family, 17-year-old Masato (Emoto Tasuku) has never been deprived of material comforts, but his distant relationship with his parents leaves him empty and rebellious. Telling himself that his real mother is actually a woman who kidnapped him as an infant, Masato takes off to Okinawa to find her. Curious to learn more about her (Matsuyuki Yasuko), he ends up staying to work at her restaurant. As the two grow closer over time, an ambiguous relationship develops, not quite mother and son, not quite lovers.
"Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as "Kayokyoku". Kayokyoku is a catch-all term to describe the music that defined two generations of post-war Japan. Although the term survives, it has a strong connotation with a simpler, pre-"Economic Bubble" era when Japanese people shared a common identity in the reconstruction of their nation.
Mayumi Sasaki
Min, a Korean boy, moves to Japan with his father who is a potter. One day at a local shrine, he meets Nanae, a beautiful Japanese girl with stunning eyes who is aspiring to be a painter. Min falls in love at first sight and finds out that Nanae attends the school to which he has just transferred. Their friendship develops fast despite their cultural and language difference. When Min's grandmother falls ill, Min returns to Korea and Nanae is nowhere to be found. Had his true feelings for Nanae not been apparent to her? Why has Nanae disappeared without a word?
Kinu Murozono
Kitahara Shuji, an ordinary business man turns into a spy for his town's war against a neighboring town in a Dystopian society.
Mamoru Uchida llega a un puerto del sur de Japón en busca de un bote que la lleve al lugar donde reposan los restos del acorazado Yamato, en el 60 aniversario de su hundimiento. Todos los marinos rechazan llevarla, pero Katsumi Kamio, un viejo lobo de mar, accede, conmovido, a llevarla sin sospechar quién es en realidad esa chica ni qué va a encontrar después de 60 años.
Toru Kojima and his friend Koji are young student boys with one thing in common - they both love to date older women. Koji is a playboy with several women, young and older, whereas Toru is a romantic with his heart set on on certain lady.
Higuchi Ichiyo is the first female professional novelist in Japanese literature. This tanpatsu drama is a biography of her personal life.
Yoko's Stepmother
Making her way through life by forming superficial relationships, Yoko keeps everyone at arm's length, whether it's her father and stepmother or Hajime, the owner of a small bookstore who could be the father of her unborn child. Yoko seems most at home when she's riding the train, speeding around the city with only her thoughts to entertain her.
2004 film
After finally passing his teacher's exam, Miwa (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) devoted himself to teaching in a rustic primary school. He struggles to get through to his students, until he creates a class project to raise fireflies to fly over it once again. All students, even the reserved girl Hikari (Risako Sugaya), become passionately involved in the project. However, it brings them into conflict with parents and the school, one problem after another stands in his way.
Hatsuko Kim
He can't control himself inside of him. Hidenori, a Japanese-Korean, hasn't seen his family in a few years. He doesn't want to go to school but just wander the streets. He always grins at a trifle. When he is caught stealing and he feels pain as his finger is cut off, he just smiles. He murmurs "Should I commit suicide?" in front of his dead sister. Yumi, an obsessive-compulsive girl, has a sticky finger. A boy who wanders the Sybuya. They join Hidenori's reckless plan by chance. They plan to stow away in order to show Korea to his sister, who has never seen the motherland. Three people who are out of this world and the dead go toward Hakata.
Eri Yuki
Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high school's grounds. The dog, named Kuro, stays at the school and becomes a special friend to everyone.
When a promising young boxer is crippled in a car accident, he falls into a life of dissipation and depression. No boxing ring or martial arts club will take him on -- that is, until an aiki jujitsu master helps the young man develop techniques uniquely tailored to a wheelchair. What starts off as a sad film revs up into an exciting and fun series of epiphanies in which the young man realizes his situation isn't as hopeless as it seems.
Mieko's Mother
Hotel Hibiscus is the story of one very young energetic girl named Mieko and her internatioanl family who live in Okinawa. They live in a run down old hotel called Hotel Hibiscus with only one room for rent.
Hana is a nineteen-year old expectant mother. She travels with her grandmother's ashes to her grandmother's house. Hana's mother, who gave birth to Hana when she herself was a teenager, now resides in the home. They are on the outs with each other, but are forced to stay with each other when Hana's boyfriend fails to show.
Rume
A boy who suffers from impaired hearing and a young girl pianist try to solve the mysterious connection between a series of murders and the boy's entangled memories.
A seeing-eye dog (Shiro) is granted one wish by his former owner. He chooses to become a human for a short time so he can find the girl who trained him as a puppy. While attempting to get to know her (as he runs along behind her and sniffs for her around town) he eventually falls in love with her.
Aya's Mother
Entre Japón y Corea, Tokio y Seúl, dos personas llevan vidas paralelas: U-In es un funcionario que trabaja en el departamento de reciclaje y recolección de basura del Ayuntamiento. El reciclaje es de por vida, al igual que su trabajo. Aya es una estudiante que lucha por adaptarse a la edad adulta mientras estudia para sus exámenes de ingreso a la universidad. Habiendo perdido recientemente a su abuela y admirando el suicidio de su abuelo al contener la respiración, comienza a fantasear con quitarse la vida. Para esto necesita dinero. U-In es un solitario, con una indiferencia palpable hacia su trabajo y su vida en general. Recurre a Internet en busca de compañía. Aya también recurre a Internet, publicándose en un sitio de contactos personales y cambiando su nombre a Asako. De alguna manera se encuentran tanto en línea como fuera de línea.
Former childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu cross paths again. Kaneo is now a yakuza member, while Masatatsu is a nightclub owner with a distaste for crime gangs. When a yakuza boss dies, a struggle for his position takes place between Kaneo's boss Awano and the young Nakahira. Nakahira's men try to extort money from Masatatsu, bringing him in between a yakuza battle.
An officer struggles to solve a murder case despite being at odds with his lieutenant. Officer Tetsubei discovers the body of a man whose face has been crushed and his fingerprints erased. Tetsubei describes the circumstances surrounding the discovery of the body, including his own theory, and is angered by Lieutenant Yukari. That night, Tetsubei visits the shop of Kanako, whom he has a secret crush on. There, Mizutani, Kanako's husband, who has been missing for seven years, appears.
The third and final V-Cinema sequel.
In this startling psychological thriller from Japan, Mami (Hijiri Kojima) is a teacher who meets Tomo (Koji Chihara), a psychotic criminal with a short temper and no visible means of support. Amour fou blooms between them, and a year later they're living together, with Mami taking part as Tomo abducts, tortures, and kills one of their neighbors. Eventually the cycle of crime goes too far for Mami and she leaves Tomo, but several years later, he arrives at her home to disrupt her life with her new husband. Hysteric was directed by Takahisa Zeze, who previously received critical acclaim for the film Kokkuri. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Chikako's mother
Kawamoto works and lives in a dilapidated pool hall which also serves as a rehearsal space for him and his friend Chikako. They seem contented to while away their hours doing nothing much at all. Meanwhile, an old pool shark meets some people from his past that he is none too happy to see again. How will this affect their private haven?
Hama-chan accompanies Su-san on a business trip to Okinawa in the middle of the recession, but Su-san remains in low spirits over business matters.
Midori Chiaki
Una curiosa historia se produce en una familia japonesa. Madre e hija deciden irse a esquiar, pero desgraciadamente el autobús que las transporta sufre un accidente que provoca la muerte de la madre, no sin que antes transfiera ésta su alma al cuerpo de su hija. Así que ahora ésta posee doble personalidad y piensa como progenitora e hija, provocando situaciones delicadas e incluso hilarantes, en las que se llega a plantear la posibilidad de un incesto al pretender la madre que está en la chica, acostarse con su marido... que a la vez es su padre.
A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged father shows up at his house requesting shelter. One of the best of Somai's seriocomic studies of the messiness of family life.
Kuramoto
A widow who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins attending a technical college to gain new qualifications. She meets others looking for a new start in life, including a former salaryman with whom she begins a furtive romance...
A fifteen year old boy travels through the Amagi Pass, he encounters some strange people, one of them is the geisha Ozuka Hana. After a murder takes place, the police searchs for the culprit.
Immoral Affairs (Fukigen na kajitsu) is a Japanese film made in 1997 and directed by Katsuo Naruse.It centers on two characters: Mayako, played by Kaho Minami, a young women who is not content with her husband and begins to have many affairs with other men, and Kiriko Okabe, played by Isako Washio, a woman whom she befriends. Mayako's husband is played by Jinpachi Nezu.
Anzu's Mother
A young student believes that the spirit of an alien from another planet has gone back in time, taking over his body to infiltrate and study humanity in order to find the reasons why our civilization is doomed to future destruction. He replicates the spirit of another alien in a girl that he meets, and together they use their video cameras to document modern urban Japanese society.
An odd journey starts as Mitsuru, a private detective, and a boy, whom a dying mobster entrusts to him, decide to go to northern Japan in search of the boy’s mother, and the detective’s buddy Hisashi joins them later.
Man's Lover in TV Drama
Takashi y cuatro de sus compañeros de escuela no son capaces de girar en la barra del gimnasio. Su profesor les da un ultimátum: si quieren aprobar, deberán superar esa dificultad; pero si uno de ellos fracasa, suspenderán los cinco.
Un jornalista en el terremoto de Kobe en 1997 recuerda un viaje que hizo cuando era un niño junto con su familia. En él, navegó desde Awaji hasta Beppy para enterrar las cenizas de su hermano mayor, asesinado en la recién terminada II Guerra Mundial.
Ran
Cuando una pareja llega a su casa, Toyama y su mujer, Yoko, se encuentran que ha sido invadida por Gosekai, un teniente del jefe yakuza Aihara, y sus hombres, Toyana sólo puede mirar como los yakuza violan a su mujer, sin que pueda hacer nada al respecto. Incapaz de vivir con ello, Yoko se acaba ahorcando. Toyama se hace una espada y va en busca de Aihara y sus hombres, pero no sabe muy bien por donde empezar. Un robo en una joyería le dará las primeras pistas para encontrar a los culpables y conocerá a cinco mujeres que le ayudarán a encontrarlos.
Yukawa
A young girl wanders into a wing of her elementary school that has been abandoned for years and is rumored to be haunted. When she doesn't come back, a group of her classmates go looking for her, only to find that they, too, are trapped inside. They must somehow find their way to safety, and quickly, because the rumors of ghosts are turning out to be true.
A V-Cinema effort from the mid-90s starring Show Aikawa and Misa Aika. Misa Aika plays Miyuki, a high school girl who is a computer nerd. She is contacted by someone on the net who calls themselves an "angel". Meanwhile, an AV cameraman, Yoichi, has fallen in love with Miyuki at first sight, and devoted himself to filming her secretly. However, as he films her, Yoichi begins to notice other strangers who have an interest in Miyuki.
Después de un accidente, Tonbo se ve obligado a trabajar fuera del teatro. Es entonces cuando da rienda suelta a su otra pasión, la pintura. Ante la aparición de numerosos grabados bajo el nombre de Sharaku, los mayores pintores de la época se preguntan quién está detrás de estas genialidades.
A youth romance that fantastically depicts the unstable emotions of high school girls who refuse to transform into adults
Nami es la mujer de un policía de narcóticos asesinado en cumplimiento de su deber. Sorprendida de que su marido, en lugar de ser enterrado con honores, ha sido acusado de relacionarse con el crimen organizado. Para limpiar su nombre, Nami intenta introducirse en la yakuza, pero pronto es víctima de una brutal violación que le incita a cometer suicidio. Lo evita un policía llamado Muraki, junto al que trabaja para tratar de resolver el caso
Jiro becomes a happy instructor but a shocking suspicion was raised by Owada who took the place of his parents.
Detective Suwon was involved on the war on drugs in Yokohama because of his mischief.
Nami Tsuchiya
Jiro is a Tokyo man who offers a stand-in service where he'll do "anything". A woman claiming to be from Fukuoka wants to be shown around Tokyo and see the sights. What Jiro doesn't know is that this woman isn't who she says she is. She's on the run from her Yakuza boyfriend, and Jiro is going to be unwittingly entwined in the situation.
Adaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark.
Nami Muraki
Una detective novata investiga la pista de un misterioso asesino en serie y lo persigue a través de Japón.
A man tries to mend his past by helping his best friend’s sister.
A mother and her daughter move from the urban sprawl of Tokyo to the remote island of Ishigaki in the Ryukyu archipelago, and try to adapt to life there.
Jinpachi Nezu who lost both his wife and daughter during a feud against the yakuza 10 years ago while he was an accountant for their organization. One day he comes across a young idol and rescues her from being kidnapped by the yakuza.
Jiro
Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.
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.
Junko Mihara is full of mysterious charm and is involved in ambitious work.
First television special.
A carnivorous monster lives on the island of Sipang. A group of office ladies band together to fight it.
During the Vietnam War era, the influx of American soldiers to Okinawa boosted the local economy and introduced many bars and nightclubs. With exhausting displays of energy, Sai presents a whirlwind romance between a local rocker and the daughter of a mixed American-Okinawan marriage.
A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz band and reignites his youthful passion for the music, giving him a chance to set things right in his life.
Sanae Ebino
Yuichi Koga is an upper-class business executive, running his own adult video company, and living a successful life with his wife and daughter. Outwardly, his family seems really happy, but in reality Yuichi enjoys sex with everyone but his wife Chikako. One day, he gets a phone call from a woman named Sanae, an old elementary school classmate of his.
A hardened gangster encounters by chance a woman he hasn't seen since childhood. They are both engulfed in the underground world of intergang warfare.
