Yukiyo Toake

A story about the special friendship between Phan Boi Chau and Japanese doctor Asaba Sakitaro, which began 100 years ago when Chau went to Japan to seek support for Vietnam’s national independence movement.

「松本清張生誕100年記念作品・駅路」。2009年4月11日21:00-23:10、フジテレビ系列の「土曜プレミアム」枠にて放映。松本清張生誕100年と向田邦子生誕80年を記念し、向田の脚本に脚色・演出を加え制作された作品。 銀行の営業部長を定年で退職した小塚貞一は、その年の秋の末、簡単な旅行用具を持って家を出たまま、行方不明となった。家出人捜索願を受けて、呼野刑事と北尾刑事は捜査を始める。家庭は平和と見えたし、子供も成長し、一人は結婚もした。人生の行路を大方歩いて、やれやれという境涯に身を置いていたように思える。自殺する原因もない。自分から失踪したとすれば、何のためにそのような行動を取ったのか……。

Follows the life of an Office Lady who gets through her tedious work days by dreaming of a legendary soup and soup chef she's heard of. She decides to go in search of it.

This film is the memoirs of Takasugi Shinsaku about the life of his great teacher Yoshida Shoin. Yoshida Shōin (吉田 松陰, 1830-1859) was one of the most distinguished intellectuals in the closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate. He devoted to developing many Ishin Shishi who made an outstanding contribution to the Meiji Restoration. At least two of his students, Takasugi Shinsaku and Itō Hirobumi later became famous, and virtually all of the survivors of the Sonjuku group became officers in the Meiji Restoration. Takasugi led rifle companies against the shogun's army when it failed to conquer Chōshū in 1864, rapidly leading to the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Ito Hirobumi became Japan's first prime minister. His admirer, Maebara Issei, was later killed rebelling against the Meiji regime. He is now enshrined in Setagayaku-（世田谷区）Tokyo, Japan.

長野県のデザイン会社に勤める前原真紀と弟で大学生の宏は、建設会社勤務の父と共に3人暮らし。母親は18年前、家族を捨てて別の男のもとへ去ったのだった。そんな父は何一つ語らず、突然の心臓発作で亡くなる。真紀は自らの思いをワープロに打ちこんだが、偶然にもこの文章に宏が気づき、真紀に秘密で“日本一短い「母」への手紙”コンテストに応募してみることを思いつく。

The live of the daimyo Date Masamune

The tale of Taira Kiyomori who started as a young inexperienced warrior who led the Heike into the battle against the brutal pirates on Setouchi.

The early days of the Tokugawa shogunate are brought to light in this exciting historical tale of broken vows and violent swordplay. In an ambush reminiscent of Miike’s 13 Assassins, although pre-dating that incident by 160 years, the heir to the shogun’s seat is brutally cut down by those who hope to install the emperor’s 5th son as military leader of the nation.

The rise to power of the famed Lady Kasuga no Tsubone, who established the 'Ooku' (the women's quarters at Edo castle) and acted as nursemaid to Tokugawa Iemitsu, the future 3rd Shogun is chronicled in this historical drama. Intrigue and suspicion abound as the two brothers Iemitsu and Tadanaga vie for the post of Shogun, while behind the scenes the remnants of the defeated Toyotomi faction, lead by Lord Ishida Mitsunari attempt to discredit the Tokugawa Shogunate and regain their former position as rulers of the nation. The hidden battles between Shogun Hidetada's wife and mistresses of the 'Ooku' come to light as they force the two brothers into a life or death struggle.

日本有数の大手新聞社のひとつ“太陽新聞”。会社は現在、会長派と社長派に割れ、激しいつばぜり合いをしていた。両派が多数派工作に奔走するさ中、社長が腹上死してしまう。これによって“次期社長”を巡る抗争は一気に激烈さを増し、社内は混迷の度を深める。

A story about love triangle between mother and daughter relation...

After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate retreated to the north where they actually started a sovereign nation that was recognized by more than one European country. Survivors of the Shinsengumi were among the followers of Enomoto Takeaki who took them to the northernmost island of Ezo where they fought their final battle at the star shaped fort, Goryokaku. The Japanese Civil Wars fought in the name of the emperor signaled the complete end of the feudal system and Japan’s entry into the modern world as those brave samurai tried to halt progress and learned that the age of modern warfare and weaponry had passed them by. Swords were no match for rifles and cannons, nor was any man a match for the power of the imperial flag. Japanese loyalty to the emperor has long defined the nation and culture despite the changing times.

まともに組長としての務めを果たせない孝明に代わり、妻の遊紀が重宗組を取り仕切っていた。関西新国際空港の建設予定地が、敵対する河東組により地上げされてしまう。孝明は痴情のもつれから女に撃たれ入院。重宗組は磐城組から家と土地を三億円で譲るよう脅迫を受ける。気弱な孝明は組を売ってしまおうかなどと言い出す始末。遊紀は姉貴分を頼って徳島を訪れ、そこで伝説のヒットマン・木本と出会う。

関西新国際空港の建設が進む大阪。予定地周辺は重宗組の縄張りだったが、現組長の重宗孝明は気弱な名ばかりの親分で、実質的な権限は妻の遊紀が握っていた。そんなある日、敵対する河東組が空港建設予定地の地上げを無断で強行したことから、利権をめぐって両組の抗争が激化、さらには重宗組の縄張りを狙って複数の別の勢力も暗躍を始める。遊紀は徳島の姉貴分を頼り、伝説のヒットマンである木本を紹介される。

During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his upcoming high school examinations. When he was little, he and Eiko had heard that in April of a year when the winter has been very harsh, any couple finding fireflies together needs to get married. However, his family's situation does not allow Tatsuo to continue his worrying about such things for very much longer.

A woman faces betrayal, which tests her love.

Rising from the lowliest of country samurai to the heights of power as Taiko, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is one of the pivotal figures of the Sengoku period.

インタビュアーの仕事をこなし、中学生と小学生のふたりの息子と暮らしている榎本登起子。単身赴任中の夫から愛人がいることを告げられる。やがて、離婚を決意し、そのことを子どもたちにも伝える。子どもたちも登起子の気持ちを理解し登起子をバックアップしていく。

A story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a series of high risk surgical procedures.

Grandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when he is affected by Alzheimer's disease, but his affliction serves to deepen family ties. Japan's submission to the 58th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

1914年(大正3年)。高知の下町で生まれた女性・喜和は、15歳の若さで芸妓のスカウトを仕事とする岩伍のもとに嫁ぐ。そんな岩伍は旅先から高知へ菊という少女を連れて帰り、やがて豊美という少女も預かるように。それから12年後、成長した豊美は染勇と名乗る高知一の芸者になっていた。しかし岩伍は妻以外の女性と子どもをつくった揚げ句、染勇から言い寄られるなど、妻である喜和は岩伍とどう関係を続けるか悩むが…。

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。

August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family.

Can a woman love two men at the same time? Set against the backdrop of Kyoto's rich history, this story depicts a woman's difficult choice for love. Ayako, played by Yukiyo Toake, is an international conference coordinator. Torn between her childhood sweetheart (played by Kenji Sawada) and her English professor (played by Noboru Nakaya), Ayako will seek answers to love, marriage, and choice.

光源氏 は、桐壺帝 の二番目の皇子として生まれた。母は桐壺更衣と呼ばれ、帝の寵愛を独り占めしていたが、三歳の源氏を残して他界。嘆き悲しんでいた帝は、やがて桐壺に生き写しの藤壺を女御として迎える。初めは藤壺を母と慕っていた源氏の気持ちは、いつの間にか恋にまで深まった。源氏にはその妻に左大臣 の娘・葵の上が定められていた。葵の上は美しいが権高な女性だったこともあって、藤壺に心を寄せる源氏とは睦まじく打ち解ける仲にはなれない。 ある日、源氏は藤壺に抑えきれぬ胸の内を明かした。藤壺を激しく抱きしめるが、彼女は「もうこれ以上罪を犯すことは出来ない。二度と会うことはない」と告げた。その後、源氏は夫のいる空蝉との一夜限りの契り、夕顔とのはかない愛、美人ではないが心優しい女・末摘花、幼い頃から手塩に掛けた若紫との結婚という愛の遍歴を重ねていく。

Masako, a five-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Chiba, gets a tiny scratch on her finger while playing with mud in a marsh. After that, she suffered all kinds of horrible spasms including biting her tongue. The doctor checks on her for hours on end and arrive at the conclusion that she has tetanus. It seems like the devil has come to dwell in the little girl's body. Her parents have to to bear the sufferings of their child and face the fear that they might also be the victims of tetanus. The once peaceful family has changed completely and the three have been cast into a bottomless hell.

「男はつらいよ」シリーズ第14作。博が工場で手のケガをしたところへ、寅さんが戻って来てひと騒動となる。やがて旅に出た寅さんは、佐賀県の呼子で、女房に逃げられた男（月亭八方）から赤ん坊を押し付けられ、呑まず食わずのまま柴又へ帰る。赤ちゃんが高熱を出すが、とらや一家が恐れていたのは、寅さんが美人看護士の木谷京子（十朱幸代）と会ってしまうことだった…

Based on the novel of the same name by Hisashi Inoue.

About small time gangster Asakichis chaotic life in the 1930s. His gambling addiction means that he must not continue working in the family business. Instead He supports himself on arranging cockfights. He becomes ex-geisha Okinus patron and lover, and goes directly into disfavor with the Yakuza.

Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same wet-nurse as Zatoichi. He also encounters a boyhood friend, Shinbei, who now is wealthy and appears not to remember Zatoichi. Shinbei seems to be interested in repaying the villagers' debts, but is in reality manipulating the ownership of a now-valuable rock quarry. Zatoichi learns of the subterfuge and confronts his old friend, who has a score of yakuza swordsmen backing his play.

BLOOD END is one of the great unknown films from Japan's golden era of the late 1960's. Starring NAKADAI Tatsuya in one of his best roles, this is the story of the Mito Tengu Group who attempted to overthrow the Shogunate at the beginning of the Bakumatsu Period. Their political aspirations led to countless assassinations, as well as senseless killing of innocent people who got in their way. Sentaro (NAKADAI), a farmer who's been severely beaten for his outspoken defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine is befriended by one of the group's leaders, KADA Gentaro (KATO Go) and joins up. This is the masterpiece of director YAMAMOTO Satsuo (who is best known for the first film in the NINJA, BAND OF ASSASSINS series) the erstwhile 'Leftist' director, who used his films to make his political points. Stunning fight choreography, and ultra-violence make this one of the bloodiest films of that era. A powerful film Rare classic!

Around Ginza there is a night-city of bars and cabarets, hostesses, customers. Assisting to keep order here is Kagari (Akira Kobayashi) who specializes in the women, their problems and troubles. He has saved many a girl from blandishments of pimps, makes customers pay up and women play straight. So he is called 'the woman's police-man' and he takes his job seriously. One day, Chiyoko (Yukiyo Toake), a former hostess, comes to him. Her husband has been murdered and she wants help. The man had been a college classmate and Kagari decides to do what he can. In his investigation he overturns a whole nest of intrigue. Men he had thought irreproachable turn out to be corrupt; solid citizens are seen as the worst kind of scoundrels. Until now, Kagari has specialized in women and their problems. But, realizing the real state of affairs, he rolls up his sleeves for a good cleaning- up-at the same time discovering the murderer of his friend.

Japanese comedy film.

Romance about student-nurse interns.

A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He fiercely battles violent elements in southern Japan like there is no tomorrow.

A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo with a big dream of becoming a composer, and despite the unfamiliar city life, sticks to his original intentions with the gentle encouragement of his young wife, and takes the music world by storm.

A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they leave him alone, as he wants some freedom. Each of the daughters has a romantic interest and it's noticeable that the father, too, has someone in mind.

Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollars. He was sent by a jewelry company in Hong Kong to retrieve a certain diamond that was stolen from them. The "Himalayan Star" is worth couple hundred million yen and unbeknown to Ryu, it now lays in the hands of Aizu (Jo Shishido), the infamous ”Pirate of the Tokyo Bay."

The brother of an up-and-coming kendoka is mysteriously murdered while working on a new model of motorboat.

In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greatest performance as a gambler returning to his home town. Swearing allegiance to his fiancée’s father, a decent boss, he had taken to the road after a gang fight until things cooled down. While honing his sword skills in his travels, everything in the town had changed and he descended into a virtual hell of violence. Opponents were being slaughtered by a former samurai ‘Bodyguard’ played by Tanba Tetsuro at the height of his amazing career. While these two master swordsmen are fated to meet, before that can even happen they must survive one of the longest, bloodiest swordfights in movie history!

Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the evenings. He even rents a secret apartment where he keeps record of his girl hunts in his diary, the ‘Hunter’s Diary’. One day, he finds an article in the newspaper – a murder of a young woman in his diary. A few days later, another woman from his diary is murdered. He soon finds himself in a labyrinth of fear, as women named in his diary are killed one after another...

On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university years she made sure that she would always come out on top, and she did. With a victorious graduation behind her, she plans out the next chapter of her life: become a successful novelist and go out with a classmate she's been secretly eyeing for the past couple of years.

日本人の心をゆり動かし、幾多の名作を世におくり出した、長谷川伸の傑作股旅文学の映画化。顔に大きな刀傷、生き別れの妹を探して旅から旅の関の彌太ッぺ。旅の途中、ふとしたことで助けた、親を失くした一人ぼっちの少女に妹の面影を見い出した。...そして10年。再会した少女は美しい娘に成長していた。

Ayako (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a free-willed college girl who shares a room with Takako and Kimie. They each have a clear vision of what they want from their career and love life. Soon, their room share takes a turn, when ideals begin to clash with reality.

The supply of sea bream to the fish market has decreased, and the price has increased to a whopping 1 ryo, and unable to face his customers openly anymore, Tasuke closes the shop and goes on a trip to celebrate the first wedding anniversary with his wife Onaka. Staying at the inn, Tasuke sees that dishes from magnificent sea bream are served here, which is very cheap. Tasuke goes to a fishing village and finds out here that a rich merchant is stopping the shipment of fish...

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. With nowhere to go, the two wander around, befriending a cosmetics salesman and a kind waitress who give them beer. This biting social satire starring two memorable grandmothers, scripted by Yôko Mizuki, picked up on Japan’s aging population problem far ahead of its time.

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends.

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.

会津若松で育ち、東京の大学に通う岩垣が久々に帰省し、４人の友人と再会した。しかし、現在の立場や環境を異にする彼らには、既にそれぞれの人生の苦悩があり…。

A playful short film made in the style of a trailer for a fictional feature film that seems to be a spoof of films that were popular in Japan at the time.