Haruko Katô

A woman named Kazuko (Kimura) who was guilty of a “serious crime” in the past, along with three of her friends. Those friends suddenly begin to die one by one. Kazuko learns that one of those deaths is somehow connected to Mamoru (Nakamura Aoi), her younger brother from whom she has been separated ever since their father disappeared 15 years earlier. Although Mamoru knows nothing of his sister, Kazuko is determined to find the killer in order to protect Mamoru and herself.

結婚してすぐに夫を亡くし、小さな薬局を営みながら、女手ひとつで娘の小春を育てた姉・吟子と、役者としての成功を夢み、無為に歳を重ねてしまった風来坊の弟・鉄郎の物語である。鉄郎は姉・吟子の夫の十三回忌の席で酔っ払って大暴れし、親類中の鼻つまみ者となっていた。以後10年近く吟子との連絡も途絶えていたが、娘のように可愛がっていた姪の小春が結婚することをたまたま知り、披露宴に駆けつけた。

カメレオンのようにいくつもの顔を持つ野田伍郎は、何の疑いも持たれず安い詐欺を繰り返し、金を奪ってきた。ある日、仲間たちといつもの詐欺に成功した帰り道で偶然、政府要人の拉致現場を目撃。それが原因で命を狙われるようになり、仲間たちが次々と殺されてしまった。伍郎が街で知り合った占い師の小池佳子も事件に巻き込まれてしまい、怒りに震えた伍郎はついに復讐を計画する…。

After the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy marriage seem to suddenly vanish as she finds out that her husband had lived a double life. Struggling between her anger and the chance to begin a new chapter for herself, she finds her life moving into unchartered waters as she faces her 60th birthday.

父親の帽子店で帽子を作って暮らしていた18歳のソフィーは、荒野の魔女の呪いで90歳の老婆の姿になってしまう。彼女はハンサムだが気弱な魔法使いハウルと出会って、彼の居城でいっしょに暮らすようになるが、その城は4本足で歩く動く城だった。

Seikichi, makes his living fishing from a small boat off the coast of Okinawa. He and his 12-year-old grandson Akira live in a small, tree-lined village in the northern part of the island which is surrounded by a white-sand beach and plots of pine and flowering bushes. On the cliff that skirts the shore sits an open-air burial ground containing the skull of a kamikaze pilot who was shot down during the last days of World War II. When the wind blows through the bullet hole in the skull, it produces a whistling sound. The locals call it the "Crying Head."

雨の降る公園。女子高生の梨里は、金の工面が出来なかったことで恋人に殴られていた。そのまま捨てられ、ボロボロになった彼女はゴミ捨て場に倒れ込む。やがて、物陰から男が現われ、傷だらけの梨里を担ぎ上げてその場を去っていく。その男・タケルは過去のトラウマから言葉と記憶の一部を失っていた。彼が連れて帰った洋館の屋根裏部屋で目を覚ます梨里。下着姿の彼女は自分が監禁されたと悟り、すぐさま脱走を試みるが、傷の痛みで身動き出来ない状態にあった。そこへタケルが姿をみせるのだが…。

LIFE IS JOURNEY is an anthology of four stories about people who live in solitude, but who yearn for togetherness. Each day brings chance meetings and reluctant partings, joy and pain. The first vignette, "Life", portrays half of a woman's life in one-scene, one-cut, nine-minute sequence. "N" is a comical take on a man abandoned by his lover. "Ya" explores the bond of female friendship as one woman consoles a brokenhearted girlfriend. In "Nowhere", a man and a woman roam the streets of a foreign land in search of lost time.

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.

Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father. His life begins to unravel when a journalist following him takes an interest in the wife of a boyhood chum, and the wife of another close friend takes an interest in Ise. A couple of murders later, Ise/Haga goes on the run and also sets out for revenge.

Yoshihiko now lives with a couple of old friends, a married couple, Ryosuke and Aya. They share a past in several senses. It was Ryosuke who walked off with Yoshihiko’s girlfriend Aya. In doing so, he broke up with his own girlfriend, Reiko. Now they are all back together again and old feelings begin to surface.

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。

Movie adaptation of a novel by Rampo Edogawa.

寛政時代の江戸。老中・松平定信は町人文化の隆盛に危機感を抱き、厳しい弾圧を加え始めていた。そんな中、役者絵の第一人者・歌麿は、定信が江戸出版界の大物・蔦屋重三郎を標的にしていることに気付き、早々と蔦屋のもとから他の版元にくら替えしてしまう。売れっ子の歌麿に逃げられた蔦屋は彼に代わる絵師を探し始め、やがてけがで引退を余儀なくされた元役者のとんぼこと十郎兵衛に、荒削りながら斬新な才能を見いだすが…。

Eiji Kawano (Kunie Tanaka) has recently broken from the Japanese company he used to work for. As an immigrant to Tasmania, he has been won over by the island's immense natural beauty, and he is conscience-bound to oppose his former employer's ecologically unsound practices. He is also estranged from his grown son, who still resides in Japan. When his son comes to Tasmania for a visit, he must face the challenge of renewing their relationship.

Based on a semi-autobiographical story by Ogai Mori, about a Japanese medical student who goes to Berlin to study in the 1880s and falls in love with a German ballet dancer.

13歳の魔女キキは、古い一族の掟に従い、黒猫ジジと修業の旅に出る。そして、海辺の大きな街で修行をすることに。箒で飛ぶ以外に能がないのキキは、空飛ぶ宅急便を始める。しかし、最初の仕事でいきなり荷物を無くしてしまう……。

生涯一度も銃や刃物を持たず、常に相手を素手で叩きのめして、ヤクザの間で“死神”と恐れられた男・花形敬。戦後から高度経済成長へと変貌を遂げる渋谷を舞台に、33年の短い生涯を全力で駆けぬけたこの破天荒なヤクザの生き様を描く。本田靖春のベストセラー『疵・花形敬とその時代』を映画化。花形敬は、相棒の松田と新興ヤクザ・安藤組が経営する渋谷興業の組員になる。妊娠した妻・美佐子がヤクザから足を洗うよう頼むが、花形は聞き入れなかった。

万里村奈加の漫画『黒のミラージュ』を原作に、浅野ゆう子主演で実写映像化したサスペンス作品。貧しい家庭に生まれ育った三田村圭子は、大企業の御曹司・時任和彦に見初められて結婚。しかし、圭子には暗い過去があり、その過去を知る本田に脅迫され彼を殺してしまう。時任は素行調査で圭子の過去と本田から脅迫されていることを知っていた。圭子の殺人に気付いた時任は離婚を要求する。圭子は最愛の時任まで殺害してしまう…。

地上げ屋同士の熾烈な攻防戦が吹き荒れるバブル期の東京。オフィスビルの建設ラッシュを機に、政治家・建設業者・商社・銀行が結託して巨額の利益を上げんと欲望を燃え上がらせていた。 そんな中、代議士の漆原は天の道教団の管長・鬼沢に目をつける。鬼沢は宗教を隠れ蓑に風俗業など数々の商売をし、さらにヤクザを操り地上げの嵐を吹き荒らしていた。しかもそれらの商売による収益を宗教法人に入金して課税を免れていた。 「宗教活動以外での所得は課税対象となる」という税法を盾に、やり手査察官・板倉亮子をはじめとする国税局査察部・通称マルサは鬼沢の内偵調査を行う。亮子は大蔵省のエリート官僚・三島を引きつれ鬼沢の身辺調査に入るが、教団信者やヤクザ達の妨害に遭い、調査は難航。ようやく脱税のシッポを掴んだマルサは強制調査に着手し、鬼沢の取調べが行われるが、鬼沢は頑として脱税を認めず、逆ギレして地上げの正当性を主張する。 そんな中、鬼沢の手下が射殺される。査察部は脱税を隠蔽するために鬼沢が「トカゲの尻尾」のように切り捨てたのではないかと疑うが、やがて鬼沢本人が狙撃される事件が発生。危うく難を逃れたが、鬼沢も「トカゲの尻尾」、つまり使い捨てられる駒でしかなかったのだ。 鬼沢の地上げした土地ではビルの着工を前に地鎮祭が行われる。鬼沢を背後で操って自らは手を汚すことなく利益を得た大臣・代議士・企業幹部が談笑する。その姿を少数の同僚とともにフェンス越しに隠れて見つめていた亮子は、やりきれなさに唇を噛む。 一方、鬼沢は自分の墓に巨額の財産を隠していた。最後に笑ったのは鬼沢であった。

Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a dangerous match with the husband of her frigid cousin.

The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojo for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to celebrate the birth of an heir to the lord of their clan. To see the sacred tea scrolls Gonza promises to marry the daughter of the family which possesses them, even though he is unofficially engaged to another. When studying the scrolls with Osai, the mother of the house, Bannajo sneaks into the house and steals their obis and runs through the town proclaiming the two as adulterers.

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

物語は三島由紀夫最後の一日となる朝から始まり、『金閣寺』『鏡子の家』『奔馬』を劇中劇として見せながら三島の生涯を描いていく。 どもりを持つ学生・溝口は金閣寺はその美しさに見苦しい自分の姿を責め悩み、放火をしてしまう『金閣寺』。容姿端麗で華奢な美青年・治が、最後はマゾヒスティックな狂愛に溺れていく『鏡子の家』。剣道に励む青年が同じ学生仲間とクーデターを決起する『奔馬』。そして、三島由紀夫の最期の瞬間に至る…。

Set in Mexico. The love story of an architect and a fashion designer. Both from Japan

Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.

While trying to search for her missing father, Atsuko Moriya (Noriko Watanabe) meets a group of outcasts that help her. Having only an encrypted disk in her possession and while being chased by unknown people, Atsuko tries to solve the mystery of her family origins...

青年テロリストが要人暗殺までストイックに毎日を過ごす、異色ハードボイルドサスペンス。森田芳光がクールな時代感覚、スタイリッシュな映像美という独自のスタイルを極め、閉鎖的な空間の中、印象的な小道具の数々を巧みに配し、物語性よりも主人公の乾いた心情に迫った会心作。

The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his granddaughter who brings him a letter from his disinherited and recently dead son. This brings back memories of his life with his wife and family following the attack on Pearl Harbor, in particular of his son who had gone off to join the war for the Americans.

二ツ目の落語家、志ん魚は二十三歳の誕生日、志ん米はじめ、仲間の援助で初めてソープランドに行った。志ん魚についたエリザベスは初々しい彼に興味を抱き、二人はその日からデートを重ねた。数日後、そんな志ん魚に、女子高の落研に所属する女の子たちがコーチを依頼に来る。志ん魚はその中の一人、由美に心を寄せる。純な志ん魚は由美のことをエリザベスに告白するがバレなければいいと気にしない。志ん魚は割りきれないまま、エリザベス、由美とデートを続ける。

Saito Masao reminisces on the days of his youth more than 50 years ago and his forbidden love of his older cousin Tamiko. When he was 15, Tamiko moved in to take care of his sickly mother. The two quickly fell in love with each other but were inevitably forced by their family to live separate lives.

Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.

Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead with him to take her brother's case. They live in Kitakyushu which, though a city, she contends that the local lawyers are not up to the job. Otsuka contemptuously brushes her off. A year passes. Masao has suicided in jail, his appeal having failed due to the lack of interest and competence of the local defence lawyer. Kiriko returns to Tokyo, planning revenge on Otsuka for refusing the case and causing her brother's death.

This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tokyo, being with her friends and studying. Her biggest interest is ladies hats. She is rather well off, as her father is the ambassador of Japan in Spain. One day when she is out driving, she is attacked by a group of yakuza, but is saved by the honorable yakuza Jiro. This will change her life forever.

Romance film

Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seeking love and defending the honor of an elderly widower (Mori).

A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. When the nunnery runs into debt, she resorts to gambling and challenges the racketeer threatening to sell the place to a game.

Based on Shinichi Mori song

Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he remembers his former love Mitsu, a rural girl whom he met and later left while in college. Shimako, a former friend, persuades Yoshioka to meet with Mitsu while she plots to blackmail Yoshioka by photographing the meeting to break up Mariko and Yoshioka.

バクダッドの水売り商人アルディンは奴隷市で一目惚れした女奴隷ミリアムを強引にさらってしまう。二人は互いに愛し合い幸せのひとときをおくるが、アルディンは富豪殺しのぬれぎぬを着せられ、二人の仲は引き裂かれてしまう。アルディンは監獄にぶち込まれるが、やがて看守長の手助けで脱獄を果たす。ミリアムの元へ急ぐアルディン。しかし、時すでに遅くミリアムはこの世を去っていた。自分を陥れたバドリーへの復讐を誓い、彼を追いかけるアルディンだったが、彼を待ち受けていたのは世にも不思議な冒険の数々だった…。

Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

大学生の村瀬（石坂）は、友人から押し付けられて依田家の家庭教師となり、短大卒業後も両親に就職を反対され家庭に渋々こもる同家の娘・久美子（浜）に出会い、悩みなどを聞くうちに惹かれていくが、彼女には知られざる秘密があった。

Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is first engaged and all goes well until the young man disappears

A young man longs to travel to Hawaii, the birthplace of his deceased father, against the wishes of his family, who are estranged from those relatives in Waikiki.

Three short tales from stories by Ichiyo Higuchi. In one, a young woman is degraded by her family after an arranged marriage. Another deals with the troubles heaped upon a young servant by her family and the wealthy people who employ her. The final story tells of a prostitute and her hopes of finding a new, respectable life.

Japanese war-era film

Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations of their widowed father's wedding to his chosen bride, Maki Tsuneko (Sadako Sawamura), who's anxious about her conduct as the bride.

Enoken's anachronistic take on the beloved (and already very funny) Edo-period novel "Shank's Mare," aka Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige, in which Yaji and Kita, two plebeian nobodies, have all sorts of strange and colorful encounters on the long road from Edo to Kyoto.

Based on the book Heaven and Maiko by Yoshiya Nobuko, it is the story of two girls of different family backgrounds in Osaka.