Akira Yoshimura

Seventeenth century. Set in a small village, nestled between the sea and the mountain, the father of Alan, a young fifteen-year-old boy, has sold himself for two years to indentured service. Alan is forced to take the place of his father and struggles to support his family.

One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cell in Akita Prison. He forces open the glass window and breaks out of jail. This crime even reaches the ears of Urata Susumu, the chief warden of Kosuge Prison in Tokyo. Urata had been in charge of those sentenced to life in the prison until last year. Although Sakuma is a dangerous person who had also broken out of jail in Aomori, he submits to Urata who is the only person who had treated him kindly in the past. However, three months after escaping from jail, Sakuma shows up at Urata’s house. He has come to complain about the inhumane Akita prison officers. But he is locked up again after Urata notifies the police during an unguarded moment. A year later, Sakuma is sent to Abashiri Prison and Urata is also ordered to transfer as the prison’s chief warden.

This is the true story of the last officially recorded case of adauchi, when a young man avenged the death of his father by brutally killing the murderers in broad daylight. Samurai revenge killings, or adauchi, was considered a rightful and noble act of honor and virtue.But all that changed abruptly on February 7, 1873, when adauchi became prohibited as part of the Meiji Restoration’s goal to Westernize Japan.

The prison guards working in penitentiaries where death row inmates are locked up are forced to spend their daily lives constantly facing death.

Classic Saturday Night Live skits featuring the hilarious Phil Hartman.

かつて、妻の浮気に逆上し妻を殺してしまった男・山下拓郎。以来、極度の人間不信に陥った山下は仮出所後、理髪店を営みながらも人々との交流を避け、本音を明かす唯一のパートナーとして“うなぎ”を選ぶ。ある日、山下は河原で自殺未遂の女性・桂子を助ける。桂子は恩返しにと理髪店の手伝いを申し出て、山下は渋々雇うことにするが…。

小浜房次郎は、娘トキ子が結婚したいという、町で喫茶店をやっている青年・依田俊一に会った。彼は養子に来て漁師になっても良いと言う。マグロ漁に命賭けで取り組んできた房次郎は、簡単に漁師になると言われて無性に腹だたしく感じた。店をたたみ大間に引越してきた俊一は、毎朝、房次郎の持ち船（第三登喜丸）の前で待ち受け、マグロ漁を教えて欲しいと頼む。十日以上も俊一を無視し続けた房次郎が、一緒に船に乗り込むのを許した。

嵐で船が難波し、無人島に漂着した男が、十二年の歳月を経て、再び人間社会に生還するまでを描く。吉村昭の同名の原作の映画化。

After witnessing a murder, a married woman and a student agree not to meet and see each other out of fear of exposing their affair.

An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the Taishō era. About 15 families who moved in search of agricultural land to the land of the pioneers in Hokkaido led a peaceful life. One day, one of the pioneers, Mikio Shimakawa's wife Yura, and her child Taichi are attacked and killed by a bear that cannot hibernate. To resolve the situation, Shimakawa goes against all odds and turns to Ginshiro, the most hated hunter in the village, for help. While Shimakawa was away from the village, Yura and his friends were holding a funeral, the bear attacked again...