Ayumi Ito

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.

Desde el final de su estación de radio pirata, la vida ha sido tranquila para los chicos de Kurupt FM, pero todo está a punto de cambiar. Les llega la noticia de que una de sus canciones se ha utilizado en un popular programa de juegos en Japón. Lo han logrado. Su música está llegando a cientos de miles de personas. Finalmente es hora de que disfruten de la fama y la fortuna que siempre supieron que merecían. Chabuddy G regresa con entusiasmo a su papel de gerente cuando Grindah, Beats, Steves y Decoy comienzan su viaje hacia el estrellato internacional, pero ¿Japón está realmente listo para Kurupt FM?

Who can tell the scariest story? Three friends try to out wit each other on a camping trip in Hawaii. But only one can win The Story Game.

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.

Haruki Bando decides to quit his family's sport of judo after a shoulder injury and start a new project with his childhood friend Kazuma. Together they form a cheerleading group called 'Breakers'.

ogane Takichi, the CEO of a construction company, is shot dead in the street in Nishi Shinjuku in Tokyo. The only eyewitness, Odagiri Naoto, refuses to cooperate with the police for some reason. Fukamachi Kotaro, a senior member of the IR Analysis Office, is ordered by Nitta Yukihiko, the head of the First Investigative Division, to handle Odagiri. The newly established office was set up on the pretext of tracking and monitoring suspects and witnesses to advance investigations by using the many surveillance cameras and GPS trackers installed in Tokyo.

La historia de "Sekigahara" tiene lugar en 1600 durante la Batalla de Sekigahara. Mitsunari Ishida (Junichi Okada) y Tokugawa (Koji Yakusho) se enfrentan con el destino de la nación colgando de un fino hilo. Hatsume (Kasumi Arimura) es enviada como un espía para matar a Mitsunari Ishida, pero se enamora de él. Está basada en la novela "Sekigahara" de Ryotaro Shiba que se publicó desde Julio de 1964 a Agosto de 1966 en Shukan sankei.

Set 3 years after the drama series. Kitano Yuichiro comes to give a lecture in the town where divorcee Sasamoto Sawa now lives quietly. The two meet again and their love story continue.

The movie is set in Japan and tells the story of Furu, a young aspiring musician, who is dreaming of a getaway out of his small coastal town in Northern Iwate. He succeeds but the price is very high.

A major advertising festival is held each year to determine the best television commercial in the world. A rookie ad man at a big advertising company named Otan is selected as a judge on the festival jury. Meanwhile, a coworker also named Ota (although the Japanese characters are slightly different) poses as his wife so that he can attend an open party which is held nightly. Knowing that he’ll get fired if his company doesn’t win the Grand Prix, he’s forced to resort to a variety of desperate tactics.

A strange phenomenon takes place. A beautiful flower blooms on a selected woman's body and that flower is called the "Shanidar". When the Shanidar is in full bloom, the flower produces a substance which is then sold at a high cost to develop new drugs. Kenji Otaki works as a researcher at the facility where the Shanidar is grown.

The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she was playing. The murder is never solved. Emili's mother, Asako, is torn by grief and puts a curse on the four girls when they claim not to remember the killer's face. Each of the girls, in their own way, will do penance for their silence.

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.

Tamiko (Ayumi Ito) lives happily with her husband Hideaki (Sho Aoyagi) and step-daughter Kotoyo (Hazuki Inoue). Tamiko married her deceased friend Mari's (Mami Nakamura) husband. Tamiko gets along well with her step-daughter Kotoyo, but Kotoyo still doesn't call her mother. There is a traditional sumo game held to celebrate the moving of Mizuwakasu's shrine. The traditional sumo game is important to Tamiko who grew up on the island, while her husband Hideaki's reputation is not so good on the island because he broke off his engagement to a woman his parents set him up with. In order to marry his first wife Mari, he ran away from the island. Since then, his parents disowned him. Nevertheless, Hideaki and his first wife Mari still liked the island and went back to live there. Hideaki began sum wrestling then.

Kenichi Shibuya is a 50-year-old salaryman who divorced a few years back. Since the divorce, his relationship with his daughter has become awkward. One day, Kenichi Shibuya and his boss Yumi Ayase are struck by lightning and die. They go to the afterlife. There in the afterlife they hear of a legendary soup. If someone drinks the legendary soup, that person is reborn, but the reborn person has no memories of their prior life. Kenichi Shibuya then searches for the secrets in the legendary soup, hoping to be reborn, but not forget his daughter.

Yumi moves into her boyfriend's Tokyo apartment but on the night of the move, he is called away for business in New York. The couple communicates over Skype and over the course of four nights, their relationship descends into an abyss of mistrust and lies. Yumi believes there's a ghost in the room haunting her as her only connection to the outside world is Taka on the other side of the world. Taka believes she's slowly going crazy right in front of his eyes. The story concludes with a shocking twist that will haunt both of them forever.

Los más de treinta tomos del manga de Hiroya Oku no podían comprimirse en una única película. Y mucho menos si se tiene en cuenta que estos dos volúmenes se han convertido en uno de los platos fuertes de la ciencia ficción nipona. Quizá por eso, el director Shinsuke Sato ha decidido dividir la historia en dos películas y dejar a los espectadores o fanáticos del cómic en ascuas hasta que no vean la adrenalítica segunda parte. En Gantz: Perfect Answer, recuperamos a Kei, bajo los designios de la bola Gantz, en plena lucha contra alienígenas y demonios.

Kei y Masaro son arrollados por un tren. Lo próximo que ven es que están en una habitación, que no están solos y que una bola gigante que preside el espacio les invita a participar en un juego macabro. Nunca hemos visto un purgatorio así: con trajes y armas especiales, los personajes deberán enfrentarse a todo tipo de amenazas. El ganador se llevará un premio nada desdeñable: volver a la vida.

Meiko y Taneda son una joven pareja de graduados universitarios que vive en Tokyo. Tras dos años en un aburrido trabajo de oficinista, Meiko decide dejarlo todo y vivir de sus ahorros para intentar buscar su verdadera vocación, y animando además a Taneda a ganarse la vida con su grupo de música.

Relato de un extraordinario romance. El samurai de bajo rango Eguchi se encuentra con Ito, hija de un oficial del clan. Intrigado por la fama de su habilidad con la espada, Eguchi la reta a un duelo que hará saltar chispas.

Set in the 1990s during Japan's "band boom" era, the film tells the tale of a girl in high school, Asako, who goes to a concert and meets Natsu, vocalist of the new band LANDS. Asako ends up being the band manager, but as the band's popularity starts to soar, the band's friendship begins to suffer.

Shiro's struggle with his father's cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he must communicate his love and admiration for him before it's too late. A series of flashbacks reveals their relationship over time, and the trouble Shiro faced connecting to his strict father who was also his teacher and soccer coach. With a consuming secret of his own, Shiro, now in his late twenties and about to get engaged, must eventually learn how to share the pain of it with his loved ones.

OVA que narra la historia de Denzel, dentro de los dos años posteriores al videojuego de Final Fantasy VII y la película generada por computadora de Advent Children, donde Denzel después de su intención de formar parte del WRO (World Regenesis Organization) cuenta su pasado, donde perdió a sus padres, mucho antes de conocer a Cloud, Tifa y Marlene.

Higashigaoka Junior High School is in turmoil as one of the pupils, Noguchi, who had been bullied, attempted suicide last term. On the first day of the new term, a substitute teacher arrives to take the second year class. When the teacher, Murauchi (Hiroshi Abe), introduces himself, the pupils are surprised by his stutter. He has a speech impediment. Unable to speak eloquently, Murauchi faces his pupils with ‘words of truth’. His first instruction to the pupils is to return Noguchi’s desk and chair to the original place in the classroom. Every morning Murauchi greets the empty desk, “Good morning, Noguchi.” This causes a ripple beyond the classroom and among other teachers and parents, but Murauchi will not stop doing it. Eventually the day comes when Murauchi must leave.

Tokio es una antología de tres cortometrajes de los directores Michel Gondry (Francia), Leos Carax (Francia) y Joon-ho Bong (Corea), cada uno de los cuales ofrece una visión imaginativa y transnacional / sobrenatural de la Megapolis de Tokio.

A vast wheat field, a straight road that has no end, a sky without a single building in sight – this is a town in the country where time comfortably passes by. But this former paradise is now being stirred up by a fight amongst its people over constructing an airport. This is a tale of three young people exploring youth and friendship as they reach out into the sky.

Basada en la vida de Wu Qingyuan, el más aclamado maestro chino del popular juego asiático “go”

"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.

Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn between the inherited recklessness of his father Oton and the inherited responsibility, wisdom and emotional strength of his mother Okan. Following a period of intensely rebellious behavior, Boku learns that his mom has contracted cancer; suddenly, his mother comes to live with him in Tokyo the entire emotional landscape of his life is altered.

Coming of age story about a boy and his mother.

Kaoru, una mujer pudiente que esta perdiendo su juventud, ha abandonado el ajetreo de la ciudad para llevar una vida tranquila en una casa de la costa. Ahí se ocupa de un hombre viejo, ciego y mudo como si se tratara de un insecto, un niño o un animal de compañía. Él no puede hacer nada, así que ella le alimenta y le acompaña en sus paseos. Esta fuerte dependencia mutua ofrece a Kaoru un escape de la sociedad y le permite liberarse de las restricciones impuestas por el sentido común. La realidad es que él no parece necesitarla tanto como cree y ese pensamiento va a malograr la singular relación que mantienen, difuminando la barrera entre realidad e ilusión.

Eight school friends innocently join together to play a game that, if played well, promised to make their greatest dreams come true. But, they soon discover that mistakes may cost them more than even their dreams could tell.

Tomboy Yui (Mao Inoue) brings her 3 male friends along with her to see a live performance of local Okinawan rap group, “Workaholic”. Upon witnessing the crowd reaction, the boys decide to start a rap group of their own to impress chicks—while Toru (Hayato Ichihara) has the added motivation of impressing his older, more sophisticated love interest Nagisa (Ayumi Ito). With only 2 weeks to learn how to play instruments and prepare for their first show, the performance is predictably humiliating. In order to save pride they decide to give it another shot, but this time they ditch the instruments for a sampler and stay truer to themselves. Will Toru be able to capture Nagisa’s heart? Will Yui ever confess her love to Toru or will she just keep practicing her advanced pro wrestling techniques on him instead?

Kaori is pursuing her career as a journalist for a magazine with great enthusiasm. But as a result of an article she wrote, she is sent to work for a community magazine at Fukuoka. An anonymous letter arrives, which puts her in contact with an old and forgotten theater, the 'Minato Theater' in nearby Shimonoseki.

A bank robbery goes completely to pot, a pair of shoplifters get both an old man and a cop behind them. It is the beginning of this zany comedy, including the guys from boy band V6.

Kazuya goes to live with his mother Shinobu because his father, Yoshiki, who works in the same company, has fired him according to the company policy regarding redundancy. However, Shinobu soon gets remarried to Sakamoto depriving Kazuya of a place to stay. He then meets Sachiko who works in a salon where sexual pleasure is offered to men. They promise to have a date on the next Sunday by the sea.

El OVA "Last Order" narra los eventos que, ocurren aproximadamente 4 años antes de "Final Fantasy VII", cuando dos Soldados de ShinRa, Zack Fair y Cloud Strife, escapan de los laboratorios investigación de la compañía. Al mismo tiempo, los distintos personajes van recordando cómo se relacionan estos eventos con un desastre ocurrido 3 años antes (7 años antes de Final Fantasy VII) en Nibelheim.

Esta película generada íntegramente por ordenador, es la continuación del videojuego de Square Enix; Final Fantasy VII y forma parte de una estrategía de la propia compañía para completar la historia de la saga. El argumento nos sitúa dos años después de Final Fantasy VII. Cloud Strife, el protagonista, vive solo en la iglesia de Aeris y está afectado por una extraña enfermedad, el GeoStigma, un virus que lo está matando poco a poco dejándole sin energía...

Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens it is discovered that one of the victims isn't related to the family.

Niño de 8 años, Shimpei, amante de la pesca y la pintura, vive con su bella madre, rodeado de naturaleza. Su madre, Satsuki, tiene una constitución débil y perdió a su esposo hace años. Cuida a su hijo con amor, pero a veces estrictamente, sola. El amor de infancia de Shimpei, Sayuri, es sordo, pero de alguna manera pueden entenderse y siempre pasan tiempo juntos.

Do you believe in love after death? On the eve of her 19th birthday, Mizuki (Kuriyama) doesn't have a lot to celebrate about. Her mother recently committed suicide, her stepfamily bothers her, her boyfriend has been cheating on her and her best friend has betrayed her. Hurt and disillusioned, Mizuki runs from everything and is drawn by some unknown force to a dilapidated estate. Deep within the house Mizuki discovers the mysterious Adam (Hyde), playing a hauntingly familiar melody on the guitar. Melancholy and full of secrets, it seems that Adam, and the house, have a strange, irresistible link to Mizuki. Can Mizuki's boyfriend and a couple of well-meaning schoolchildren uncover the secret of what happened 19 years ago and free Mizuki before the last quarter of the moon falls?

Hana y Alice pasan la gran mayoría de las horas juntas, son amigas inseparables. Hasta que un día se interesan en dos chicos que coinciden con ellas en el tren. Hana se obsesiona con uno de ellos, a tal punto que le sigue allá a donde va. En uno de estos seguimientos, el chico se golpea la cabeza y Hana decide convencerle de que sufre de amnesia, y de que ella era su novia. Hana contará con la ayuda de Alice para tramar su plan, pero no cuenta con que Alice también tiene sentimientos...

Siete amigos se reúnen para hacer una fiesta. Todo parece normal, no es más que un día cualquiera en el mundo, un día en el que unos amigos están pasándoselo bien mientras un ladrón queda atrapado entre dos edificios y una ballena está varada en la playa.

Tadao Kuramochi, an ordinary salaryman, decides one day to reach for his dreams and start his own wrestling federation. Tadao must succeed to save his family on the verge of collapsing.

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.

Una madre y su hija están atrapadas en un pueblo fantasma y se mueren de hambre. Se les ocurre un plan para salir de su situación que implica la explotación de los pocos hombres que se pierden en su cabaña... Ellas ofrecen servicios sexuales con finales no tan felices...

The making of 'All About Lily Chou-Chou' starting from its conception as an interactive story that played out on a BBS

El joven Hasumi vive 2 mundos, por un lado ha montado una web en la que adora junto a otros fans a la cantante pop Lily Chou-Chou, y por otro lado sufre abusos de un grupo de chicos y chicas de su instituto, para quienes la prostitución, la delincuencia y las violaciones ya no son cosas de adultos...

Traditional Japanese pop singer Reiko (Muroi) decides to enter a well-known TV program for amateur singers along with a confused teenager (Ôtomo) and a 40-year-old father of four (Bito).

1945, vísperas de la rendición japonesa. En medio de una tensa atmósfera de guerra, el Doctor Akagi, médico de un pueblo pesquero en una de las islas japonesas, está consternado por la cantidad de personas que caen afectadas de hepatitis, primera causa de muerte en el desnutrido país. Ante esta grave situación decide implicarse para salvar su integridad profesional. Se alía con sus viejos colegas; un monje que ha colgado los hábitos, un cirujano nihilista adicto a la morfina y una mujer, formando así un grupo al margen de la sociedad militar japonesa

Based on real-life events, this erotic thriller tells the sad and sadistic tale of a Japanese geisha whose behavior spiraled out of control.

A refined psychological portrait of youths on their way to maturity

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.

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...

A special effects filled fantasy adventure, in which an 8 year old boy encounters an ancient samurai warrior who is only six inches tall.