Shoichi Maruyama

Nacimiento : 1948-04-06, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan

Películas

I Never Shot Anyone
Screenplay
Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, a dull novelist and a legendary killer. Susumu Ichikawa, an obsolete writer with no manuscript at all, had another face - a legendary hitman. But the truth of the matter is... he had never shot a person. One day, he receives a murder request from a friend. Seeing this as an opportunity to achieve the ideal hard-boiled novel, he decides to hire a real hitman and demands that he report to him the assassination situation as it was.
Strangers in the City
Writer
Former high school teacher Kazuo Hatano (Toru Nakamura) reunites 12 years later with Masako Tezuka (Manami Konishi). Masako Tezuka was his former high school student whom he married after her graduation. Their marriage became a scandal & the couple divorced ...
Chameleon
Screenplay
La nueva obra de Junji Sakamoto es un thriller de venganza basado en un guión escrito hace 30 años por Shoichi Maruyama, un clásico de la productora Toei, que debía protagonizar la estrella del momento, Yusaku Matsuda. Convenientemente adaptado a los nuevos tiempos, Chameleon está protagonizada por el emergente Tatsuya Fujiwara, que ha atraído a las taquillas japonesas a más chicas de las que suelen interesarse por este tipo de películas. El protagonista de este filme es un misterioso joven con capacidad para transformarse según el entorno y las emociones de los que lo rodean. Líder de un grupo de timadores callejeros, un día es testigo del secuestro de un hombre a manos de un extraño grupo de individuos. Cuando estos empiezan a liquidar uno a uno a los miembros de su banda, se tomará la justicia por su mano, desatando un vendaval de violencia.
Genghis Khan, the Blue Wolf to the Ends of the Earth and Sea
Writer
Adaptación de la novela de Seiichi Morimura, que narra la historia de la vida de Genghis Kan desde su nacimiento hasta su conquista de Asia.
Yo-Yo Girl Cop
Author
Recruited by a clandestine police organization, "K" must stop a plot by student radicals to create anarchy in Japan. Armed with a hi-tech steel yo-yo, and a new name (Asamiya Saki), she must infiltrate an elite high school to find the terrorists but finds an even more sinister plan is about to unfold.
Quill
Screenplay
Como un cachorro de labrador, Quill es entregado para vivir con una pareja, Isamu y Mitsuko Nii, que trabajan como voluntarios entrenando perros-guía. Cuando se convierte en un perro adulto es llevado a un centro de entrenamiento por un amistoso pero firme entrenador llamado Satoru Tawada. Aunque Quill es un poco más lento que los demás perros, parece tener una empatía inusual y una paciencia especial con sus entrenadores. Tawada decide que Quill será el perro-guía ideal para Mitsuru Wanatabe, pero él, un solitario y malhumorado hombre de mediana edad, no es tan entusiasta ("preferiría dormir antes que ser arrastrado por ahí por un perro"). A partir de ese momento la historia es narrada por la hija de Wanatabe, Mitsuko, y poco a poco Wanatabe se rehabilita, aventurándose al mundo exterior y aprendiendo no solo a confiar en otras personas, sino también en el animal que lo guía.
Through the Night
Screenplay
When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble of a destroyed shantytown they plan to haul it out for profit. Amidst this plan there is discrimination, war and an infatuation between a man and a woman, but like everything around them there and owing to the forces around them, there is as much chance that these may burn to ashes and be destroyed or be the beginning of something new.
Madness in Bloom
Writer
Yamaguchi, Ichikawa and Kosuge dress in white military-style uniforms to "clean" the streets of Shibuya from bad elements. After rightist gang boss, Aota takes an interest in the three, the boys gradually become influenced by him, but start to go their different ways.
Dog Race
Writer
Ethnically Korean Japanese filmmaker Yoichi Sai directs this madcap crime comedy. Nakayama (Goro Kishitani) is a suave police detective who doesn't play by the rules. He busts a drug ring, but not before sampling a few of the wares, and he closes down an underaged prostitution ring after enjoying the company of a school girl hooker. One of duties is to shake down sniveling Korean gangster Hideyoshi (Ren Osugi) for information. In spite of their positions on opposite sides of the law, the two discover that they share a fair amount in common. A disregard for the law and the love of a comely prostitute from China named Momo-chan (Makoto Togashi). Though Hideyoshi is running an illegal alien smuggling ring with her and has lusted for her from a far for quite a while, Nakayama manages to bed her first. When she does finally appear in Hideyoshi's bed, she's unfortunately a corpse.
Pinocchio: A Man Without Nationality
Screenplay
A yakuza search for his past
An Angel with Many Scars
Screenplay
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.
MARKS
Screenplay
Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later in a similar manner, he begins to suspect that something bigger is going on...
Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
Writer
A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her palentologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs.
The Triple Cross
Writer
Following the bloody aftermath of a heist, three robbers are double-crossed by a new accomplice, who is then tracked down amid escalating carnage and spectacular car chases.
The Most Suitable Profession for Women
Screenplay
Kinpira
Screenplay
A yakuza boss's daughter starts a pirate TV broadcast.
Water Moon
Screenplay
As the monk Ryuun, whose past and origin make him prone to internal and external fits, leaves the temple towards Tokyo, he gets to catch a glimpse of enlightenment resonating with the blind Kanoko.
READY! LADY
Writer
Ryoko, a free-spirited 23-year-old woman, quits her job after being caught having an affair with a co-worker and finds herself on the street. She comes to Tokyo, relying on her aunt Moeko, a career woman who works as a manager at a major city bank. The two, who have completely different personalities, quarrel constantly whenever they see each other.
Just Two Of Us
Writer
The love that occurs 24 hours after a man and woman in their 20s meet against the backdrop of the bubble period.
Memories of You
Screenplay
University student Akira meets the lovely 14-year-old Yumi, whom he had tutored years ago. Her mother is told by her doctor that the schoolgirl has leukaemia and has only 6 months to live.
The Gentlemen’s Alliance
Screenplay
Etsuko, a female college student, tries to beat the con artists at their own game after she gets scammed one after another.
A Homance
Screenplay
A homeless man suffering from memory loss is unbeatable in a fight. He becomes involved with the Yakuza. It is based on a manga by Carib Marley.
Take It Easy
Screenplay
Coming of age film about rock musicians.
Let Him Rest in Peace
Writer
A man returns to his seaside roots to confront a yakuza boss. Along the way, he charms young men, softens a hard woman and busts a few heads.
Fine, with Occasional Murders
Screenplay
Kanako returns from the USA to a troubled mother who witnessed a man leaving a murder scene and is consequently under persistent threat. For the time being.
Sukanpin Walk
Screenplay
Musical star vehicle for a young Kikkawa Koji.
Our Wedding
Screenplay
On her wedding day, Makiko is stabbed by a woman in wedding dress. The wound isn't serious but the attacker blows herself up and can't be identified. The attacker is thought to be an ex-girlfriend of Tsutomu, the groom. He gives two names to the police but these two are still alive. But there is still one woman in Tsutomu's mind...
The Last Hero
Writer
The 8th All-Japan Road Race Championship. The internationally ranked A-level SUGO circuit is on the edge of its seat as the 500 cc final draws near. Akio Kitano and Keishi Ooki face off: private team versus factory team. In the final lap, Akio is overtaken by Ooki and loses by a hair. The reason for his defeat? The difference between their two machines. With their scores tied, the two wait for the next match to settle the score for good.
化石の荒野
Writer
Yokohama BJ Blues
Writer
Former blues singer turned private eye, BJ becomes involved in a dangerous gang business.
The Beast to Die
Screenplay
A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi, who is leading the investigation, learns that the author of the killings “walks like a dead man”. Kashiwagi runs into Date, a former correspondent in the Vietnam War. There, Date discovered hell and something snapped in his mind.
Dreamy Fifteen
Screenplay
Aspiring to be admitted to a good university and to become a lawyer, Tasiro Yuusuke, a tenth-grader from Kyushu, enrolls in a prestigious high school in Tokyo. Plans are made for him to live in his uncle's house, part of which is rented out while his uncle is abroad on business. A realtor's mistakes leaves Tasiro sharing the house with Kei Yamaba, the most beautiful girl in the school, who is also his classmate. There is the risk that their unexpected 'co-habitation' will be discovered by the school authorities.
The Execution Game
Writer
The third movie in Tôru Murakawa's Game trilogy about a hitman. Narumi is set up by a mysterious woman. Abducted and tortured, Narumi is forced to take on a difficult job. The target is a veteran killer as good as him.