Sakae Kimura

Cicada is the story of Jumpei-- a man who loses sight of his progeny when he finds out he is infertile, but then is given the gift of clairvoyance and begins to see glimpses of the future. These glimpses lead him to a series of cicada shells, which become symbolic of his desire to shed his old self. Though his lineage ends with himself, Jumpei starts anew as a father-figure to his sister's young son.

Sequel of gedobo

Mashiba works hard for a group called Wakagashira's However, Mashiba was not satisfied with the people who loban, including the boss, who were blinded by money and had no humanity. One day, he meets a monk doing alms on the street. With that encounter, Mashiba's destiny begins to change.

Tamotsu is expecting a persimmon to dry and yet he cannot accept that it is time for a man on his deathbed to die. As the persimmon mysteriously, or supernaturally, holds out from drying, so Tamotsu tries his hardest to keep the man alive. Only when Tamotsu has let go can the persimmon take its natural course.

1972年2月19日、警察に追われた連合赤軍のメンバー5人が、“あさま山荘”に侵入、管理人の妻・小雀真理子さんを人質に立てこもった。山荘は雪と氷に閉ざされ、外はマイナス10度を超える極寒の地。警察側は多数の警官を動員して周囲を包囲するものの、人質と大量の武器を抱えた犯人相手に容易に近づくことが出来ずにいた。この時、現場のNo.2として指揮を執る佐々淳行は後藤田正晴警察庁長官より「人質の救出」「犯人の生け捕り」など6項目からなる指示を受ける。しかし、銃器の使用に関して佐々が求めた現場の判断に任せるとの意見は却下される。

Former yakuza gang boss Noboru Ando reminisces about old partner in crime Kei Hanagata.

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon (Ciaran McMenamin), Lt. Jim Reardon (Kiefer Sutherland) and Maj. Ian Campbell (Robert Carlyle) are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. While Campbell wants to rebel and attempt an escape, Gordon tries to take a more stoic approach, an attitude that proves to be surprisingly resonant.

Yakuza Zombie opens with an introduction to a mysterious Yakuza graveyard deep in the forest, and a story of the baddest Yakuza of them all, Naruo Ryuuji (shown in cut scenes played by Ozawa Hitoshi). Naruo Ryuuji was a fearless killer who eventually got into heroin and, exactly like Ishimatsu Rikuo in Takashi Miike's Graveyard of Honor, eventually leaps to his death from the top of a prison, claiming he'll be back. I'm assuming this is a reference to real life crazy Yakuza Ishikawa Rikio, whom the original Graveyard of Honor was based on. It's established that the corpse of the fierce Yakuza Ryuuji is buried in the graveyard beneath a marker with the Japanese characters "Jingi" (Honor), and then we are taken to the modern day.

ゴジラシリーズ第23作にして、従来のシリーズとの繋がりを断って再度リブートした、「ミレニアムシリーズ」第1作。漁船・第三北海丸を破壊したゴジラが北海道根室市に出現した。ゴジラ予知ネットワークを主宰する篠田雄二は、娘のイオ、雑誌記者である一ノ瀬由紀らと共にゴジラと間近で遭遇し、発電所を破壊するゴジラの姿に「ゴジラは人間の作り出すエネルギーを憎んでいるのではないか」と感じる。時を前後して、鹿島灘沖の日本海溝で強い磁力を帯びた岩塊が発見された。新しいエネルギー資源の可能性を見いだした危機管理情報局の宮坂四郎は、局長の片桐光男に引き上げを進言する。しかし岩塊は、引き上げ作業中に自力で浮上してしまった。

The film opens with kidnappers of a corporate executive making an unusual ransom demand: that a wizened executive from another company haul large bags of money through downtown Tokyo as the media documents his every move. When the first old man almost dies from exhaustion, a second, and eventually a third elderly corporate fat cat is ordered to do the same. The police detective assigned to the case (Tetsuya Watari) and his younger partner (Masatoshi Nagase) are livid with indignation at this sorry spectacle. They learn that these four men were involved in a massive industrial spill that poisoned an entire rural hamlet 20 years previous. Suddenly, the detective -- who studied in the States and apparently absorbed some John Wayne-like mannerisms in the process -- isn't sure who are the victims and who are the villains.

The fifth installment of the Gokudo Action Series, which depicts the process of the yakuza organization walking on the path to national domination, centered on the confrontation between the two gangsters who became their nemesis. This work is set in a certain area of ​​Hiroshima, which is shaken by the construction problem of an industrial waste treatment plant.

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。

A criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill.

A Korean taxi-driver interacts both humorously and tragically with his customers and employers in '90s Tokyo.

黒澤明監督自身が見た夢をベースに、時に美しく、時に残酷な8つの物語がオムニバス形式でつづられ、豊潤なイメージ世界が描かれる作品。きつねの嫁入りを見た少年の話「日照り雨」。花吹雪の中、人形たちが舞い踊る「桃畑」。戦争で生き残った男が体験する不可思議な物語「トンネル」。ゴッホが絵画の世界に入り込んだ「鴉(からす)」。原発の恐怖を描いた「赤富士」など、8つの物語が、時に美しく、時に残酷にオムニバス形式でつづられていく。黒澤監督の豊潤なイメージ世界を堪能できる作品。