Yukio Watanabe

戦争末期に100名の中年兵士が召集された。松山啓太らその兵士達は上官のくじ引きで赴任先が決められ、フィリピンへの赴任が決まり生きて帰って来れないと悟った森川定造はハガキを読んだことを自分の妻、友子に伝えて欲しいとハガキを啓太に託す。終戦後、啓太ら、たった6人の兵士のみが生き残りハガキを元に友子の家を尋ねるが…

The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on a teacher he had when he was a child.

Writer/Director Kaneto Shindô recounts his time spent in the Japanese Navy in WWII. He tells about the harsh training, grueling conditions, and tragic losses which are reenacted in black & white sequences.

About a family shouldering an unexpected responsibility when Alzheimer's disease strikes their grandmother. The superb cast portrays this serious and realistic situation with heart-warming compassion, stressing the importance of empathizing with the victims of this difficult disease.

いちど見たらその個性的なキャラクターゆえに誰も忘れることのできない、戦後の日本映画界になくてはならない貴重なバイプレイヤーとして活躍した殿山泰司。自らを「三文役者」と称し女と酒とミステリ小説を愛しつづけた彼のことを、みなは親しみを込めて「タイちゃん」と呼んだ。1998年4月30日にその生涯を閉じた殿山泰司の俳優人生を長年の同志、新藤兼人監督が映画化したペーソスあふれる感動ドラマ。

Chinatsu and Kyoko are two close friends who live together and share pretty much everything, makeup, spoon and even their bed. They are so inseparable as to be almost a single entity. Yet they are neither a couple in the conventional sense, or in any other sense, since although Chinatsu is professedly gay, Kyoko is to all intents and purposes straight.

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.

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for the abandonment of the original. The film won the Golden St. George and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.

A suspenseful story about an earnest and kind-hearted taxi driver who, by chance, turns into a violent murderer and races through the darkness of the city.

手塚治虫とともにトキワ荘に暮らす、寺田ヒロオ。手塚が越した後、安孫子素雄や藤本弘ら多くの漫画家を夢見る若者たちがトキワ荘に住みつくようになる。早くから住人だった寺田は、よき相談役で兄貴分と慕われるが、後から来た若者たちが次々に売れていく中、時代に取り残されていく。しかし彼はねたみもせず、静かにみんなを応援する。

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring various stories and news of death and the past

Filmed in a documentary style six patients in six wards of different ages and circumstances await death at a hospital in Japan. The sterile and dismal environment is contrasted against the emotional being of the patients, their visitors and relatives and the outside world, which they will never again survey.

1879年、良家の長男として生まれ育った荷風。父の意向に反し早くから文学の道を志した荷風は、やがて玉ノ井の娼家でお雪と出会う。世の中の底辺に生きながらも清らかな心を持つお雪に、荷風は運命的なものを感じ57歳にしてついに結婚の約束をする。が、東京大空襲に見舞われた2人は離れ離れとなってしまう…。

Pinku from 1987.