Takeo Watanabe

足が不自由で外に出たがらなかったクララ。しかしハイジから素晴らしいアルプスの山々の話を聞くうちアルプスへの憧れはつのります。そんなクララをハイジとペーターは背負ってアルプスの山を登ります。初めて飲むしぼりたての乳、可憐な高原植物、雪をいただく山を真っ赤に染める夕陽、大自然の美しさに息をのむクララ。そして、かたわらで微笑む初めての友達。子供達をいつも優しくつつみこんでくれるアルムおじいさんは、3人の友情と山の自然がきっとクララを歩けるようにすると確信するのです。

Left on an orphanage porch, Candice White (Candy for short) always longed for parents. She watched as all the other children were adopted and her friends were taken away from her. Eventually, she gets adopted, but a child to love was not what her foster parent wanted; rather, Candy is to become a playmate for her step-sister Eliza. Eliza has no intentions of being friends with a commoner, however, and together with her brother they have made it their job to make Candy as miserable as possible.

The sequel to 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms' (1985)

ミカの家に突然送り付けられた荷物の中には、人間の言葉をしゃべるペンギンが入っていた！ペンギン王国の王子、ペンペンだと名乗り、人間界で修行するよう王様に言われたのだと言って、勝手に居候になってしまう。だが、何と言っても王子様。態度はデカいし、常識はないし、ミカたち一家は迷惑するばかり。追い出されそうとするたび、ご機嫌を取ろうと見当はずれのことばかりして、かえって大騒動を巻き起こす。

乱世の中国で大軍を率い、覇権を握ろうと猛進する曹操孟徳(もうとく)。劉備玄徳は義兄弟である2人の将・関羽と張飛と共に、平和な国を作ろうと戦っていた。

Itto Ogami- High Executioner to the Shogun- has been betrayed by his political enemies and sentenced to a dishonorable death. Seeking to restore the honor of his name, Ogami- The Wolf- must flee the Shogun's grasp and live long enough to prove his innocence. Taking only his sword and his son, Ogami embarks on a bloody journey of righteousness and revenge as he seeks to destroy those who would disgrace his family's name. Hunted mercilessly by the Shogun's troops, by his enemies, and by those who seek the reward put on his head, Ogami must fight his way through feudal Japan, challenging and defeating all who stand in the way of his quest for honor. Can Ogami- a true Samurai Warrior- endure the ceaseless violence which surrounds him?

By all indications, an anti-government conspiracy is brewing in the Satsuma Domen. Already seven oniwaban spies sent by the shogunate have infiltrated Satsuma in order to scout everything on the spot. However, they had all disappeared, and it was unclear whether they were alive or dead. Kenzaburo Kamiya and Iori Matsumura successfully infiltrate as the eighth and ninth spies and witness law-breaking exercises using a cannon. However, soon Satsuma men found them and drove them to the cliff...

藤沢周平の同名小説を北大路欣也の主演で映像化したTV放送向けの時代劇。徳川家の次代将軍の座をめぐる陰謀劇に巻き込まれた主人公、その悪戦苦闘をスリリングに描いた。 江戸時代の中期。妻の予期せぬ不倫をきっかけに御家人の立場を捨て、長屋住まいをしていた腕利きの剣士・鶴見源次郎はある晩、大勢の浪人たちがひとりの男性を斬り殺す現場に偶然立ち会う。男性は公儀隠密で、死ぬ間際の彼から密書を託されたことから、源次郎は徳川家の次代将軍の座をめぐる意外な陰謀劇の渦中に巻き込まれる事態に。老中の松平から助太刀を頼まれた源次郎は、八嶽党なる闇の徒党の暗躍阻止に乗り出すのだが……。

Hyuma Hoshi dreams of becoming a top baseball star like his father, a 3rd baseman who was injured in World War II and forced to retire. Hoshi joins the wildly popular Giants team and soon realizes the difficulty of managing high expectations. From the grueling training to his rivalry with Hanagata of the Hanshin Tigers, Hoshi will need some pitching magic to make it in the big leagues.

Toma (Go Kato) is a son of a doctor in Takane, Yoshitomo Monzen. He was ordered by the sick federal lord and travel to Edo. It was said that Tsurunosuke, the man supposed to be the next federal lord, got a heavy disease, and the order aimed to make sure if it is true or not. On his way to Edo, Toma gave a hand to Kiku (Mayumi Okamura) who had a stomachache. However, she seemed to be in big trouble, and there were many warriors on the roads… This is the remade drama of “Wakasamamono” written by a popular novelist Tatsuji Satte. Go Kato as Dr. Waka brandishes a sword to come up against the plot of Karo, related to the inheritance of Takane Han.

ホワイトベースは、再び宇宙へと飛び立った。ニュータイプとして覚醒したアムロは、ガンダムで迫りくるジオン軍を次々と撃破、すさまじい戦果をあげていく。運命の少女ララァの乗るエルメスと交戦したとき、アムロの精神は、激しく共鳴をはじめた。だが、その戦いは、恐ろしい悲劇につながっていく。ひとの革新とは本当にあるのか?果てしなき喪失感を越えて、アムロの還える場所は…。

ホワイトベースの戦いは続いていた。ランバ・ラルのグフ、黒い三連星のドムがホワイトベースを襲う! 連邦軍のオデッサ作戦が進行する中で、アムロはかけがえのない人たちを次々と失っていく。ランバ・ラルとハモン、マチルダとリュウが生命をかけて戦い、散華するさまに、アムロが見たものは何か。死と生の交錯する戦場で、アムロのニュータイプへの覚醒が始まった!

宇宙世紀0079。宇宙植民地(スペースコロニー)サイド3はジオン公国を名乗り、連邦軍に独立戦争をしかけてきた。 サイド7に住む15歳の少年アムロは、ジオン軍の奇襲の中、モビルスーツ・ガンダムに偶然乗り込み、敵モビルスーツ・ザクを撃退する。 避難民を乗せたホワイトベースは、ジオン軍の追撃をかわし、逃避の旅を続ける。迫るジオン軍の赤い彗星シャア。大人はみんな死んだ。 生きのびたければ、やるしかない。アムロの意志が、ガンダムを飛翔させる!

Buck is a half German Shepard half Saint Bernard whose life is peaceful and happy living with the Millers in California. However, one day he is tricked and sold off. He ends up in the snowy North where he has become a sled dog during the Gold Rush. His story takes many twists and turns and he has to fight for his own survival.

Based on Soseki Natume's 1906 novel, which was one of Japan's best-selling books. The novel included autobiographical elements: Natsume once taught in Matsuyama, where Uranari comes to teach.

A TV special based on the novel, Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott. It covers a year in the lives of four sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy as their father is away fighting in the American Civil War.

Remi, an orphan kid gets hired out to a traveling street entertainer Vitalis when her foster parents fall on hard times.

In the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan.

A woman on the run is raped, rescued, then raped again. Escaping, she heads for the hills and finds safe haven at a convent. After becoming a postulant (trainee nun), she catches her fellow sisters engaging in lesbianism, fighting over nothing, hurling snakes at each other, and engaging in mild flesh eating.

Based on the comic by Toshiya Masaoka.

After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new life as a labor racketeer.

Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. 1 - During a time when Christians are persecuted vehemently, Iori falls in love with young Christian girl. When she and her family are captured during a raid, his sadistic master takes her as his personal slave to torment Iori, and tries breaking her spirit by means of rape, torture and pure sadism. After Iori refuses to participate any longer he is exiled, but vows to get her back no matter what it takes. 2 - When Sutezo is forced to serve the barbarous master of a brothel in order to repay his debts, he becomes friends with a young girl named Sato in process. Together, they both escape and try to get by on scams and petty theft.

The superhero The Kagestar fights the monsters of the Satan Empire.

Heidi (1974) Japanese anime series by Zuiyo Eizo (now Nippon Animation) based on the Swiss novel Heidi's Years of Wandering and Learning by Johanna Spyri (1880). It was directed by Isao Takahata A feature-length film Heidi in the Mountains, aka The Story of Heidi, was edited from the series by Zuiyo (which by then was a separate entity from Nippon Animation, which employed many of the TV series' animation staff) distributed in 1979. All cast were replaced excluding Heidi and the grandfather. This movie is also the only incarnation of the Heidi anime to have been released commercially in the United States in English (on home video in the 1980s). Isao Takahata remarked "Neither Hayao Miyazaki nor I are completely related to any shortening version" on this work.

Thirsting for revenge, Jokichi rashly attempts to assassinate the evil Chogoro but ends up being captured by Yakuza. His life is spared by Boss Juzaburo, in order that the harmony of an important commemoration not be further disturbed. Though now even more of an outcast, Jokichi is asked by another Yakuza boss, Umezo, to guard Oyuki, the wayward daughter of Juzaburo. The tragic consequences of this assignment will lead him into a deadly trap and a final confrontation with Chogoro.

Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after protecting a woman in distress: they marry, have a son, and Jokichi pursues his father's craft. After three years, the gangs he embarrassed when he saved his wife find the family and leave Jokichi in grief, vowing revenge. To parry his terrible swift sword, rival gangs join forces, hiring a prostitute to pose as a woman needing help and breaking the code of honor to double cross the drifter. He finds unlikely allies: a thief who aids him for fun and a one-eyed swordsman who may be Jokichi's equal in skill and honor.

A ruffian joins the ranks of the emperor’s guards.

A 16-year-old girl works in a factory to pay her late father’s debt. When she makes up her mind to become a hostess, a boy approaches her with kind and gentle manners...(Also occasionally known in English as “Play”)

Bunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan Gambler.

Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.

A dramatic captivating tale tells of widowed Tei (Junko Fuji), she has become a coalmine operator and is determined to be successful despite mining being a predominately male domain. Overcoming the natural hardships, a more serious threat to Tei and her mine, the menacing presence of rival mining gangs who sense her vulnerability... Nihon jokyo-den:ketto midarw-bana is an outstanding drama, highlighted by wonderful characterizations/performances. Yamashita's excellent direction maintains a rich emotional flow from the opening seconds to the last. Intense and bloody encounters punctuate throughout the engaging multi layered tale!

Taking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling skills, teams up with the vagabond Tsukuba Tsuneji and comes into conflict with gamblers plotting to take over a rustic hot-spring town. Handling a gun and sword as skillfully as a man, Fuji Junko portrays an appealing personality that differs from Oryu in the Red Peony Gambler series. Tsuruta Koji stars as the vagabond Tsukuba Tsuneji that tops the list of an impressive all-star cast that includes Endo Tatsuo, Kogure Michiyo, Ashiya Gannosuke, Kitamura Eizo, and many others. This film is an authentic yakuza movie that conveys the true "Matatabi" (wandering gambler) feeling.

Soft-Boiled Goro is a 1970 film directed by Kazuo Ikehiro

Hyuma, who completed the magic ball and big league ball, and his fateful rival, Mitsuru Hanagata. The confrontation between these two people. In other words, the traditional giant vs. Hanshin Tigers ... The whereabouts of this game and the fate of Hyuma's big league ball ... Also, what is Kawakami's prophecy that "a terrifying thing will happen at the end"! !!

人気劇画「あしたのジョー」の最初の実写映画。泥沼の世界から這い上がっていくジョーが、友情に支えられ、現代社会のジャングルに敢然と立ち向かう、血と汗と傷だらけの物語。

昭和初期、兄貴分の妹と駆け落ちした主人公が、その幸せもつかの間、愛する妻に死なれて一人息子を連れて旅を続けるが、恩義ある親分が殺されたのを知り、幼い子どもと彼を慕う娘をふり切って、仇討ちのために単身殴り込む！ 主演の高倉健が、見事なドスさばきを魅せながら、テキ屋魂を画面いっぱいに叩き付ける任侠娯楽大作。メガホンをとる小沢茂弘監督が、渡世の義理と人情の板ばさみに苦悩する男の哀愁や、人情の機微を描き出した意欲作。

Oichi the Blind helps a woman escape the clutches of a high government official to go off with the man she loves. The official puts a reward on her head of fifty gold pieces and soon a menagerie of bounty hunters are after her skin. Three of them band together to accomplish this, one an expert swordsman, another a huge judo master and the third is deadly with a chain. To escape, she heads for the fishing town of Itso but soon comes face to face with Sankuro, the swordsman...

Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poisoning lawful wife of Tayu. To gain more power Ogin let her lover Isogai Iori, kill whoever interrupts her. Film it is based on Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's novel "Kyofu Jidai".

A coward boy fencer becomes invisible and matchless through a magic pill.

Getting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself involved in a series of dangerous encounters.

Junko Fuji returns as Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey after the death of her father. After collecting her sickly follower from jail, she is taken in by a fishing village. Feeling indebed to their generosity, she stays to work for the village and promises to leave her yakuza ways behind. When a dispute breaks out for the gambling rights to a local festival, the villagers are harrassed by a gang of thugs. When the harrassment turns violent, Oryu must decide wither to keep her promise or protect the villagers.

A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her, the scroll is actually a formula for a new kind of gunpowder. An evil clan that is planning to overthrow the Emperor is also after the scroll, and they try to take it from her.

Sumi Muraoka, nicknamed "Sumi Banten", due to the fact that her back is decorated with a tattoo of the goddess Banten, the woman who heads the Banten Yakuza family. She comes into confrontation with a powerful of Yakuza group Mutsumi-kai, seeking to capture all power in their hands.

The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the vile Lord Kira. Remake of Hakuôki AKA Samurai Vendetta (1959).

「緋牡丹博徒」シリーズ第3弾。明治中期、渡世修行中のお竜（藤純子）は、熱田神宮大祭の勧進賭博を控える名古屋随一の西之丸一家に草履を脱ぐが、賭博を仕切る貸元の座を狙う金原一家に恩義のある渡世人・花岡（高倉健）と、双方の仁義なき抗争に巻き込まれていく。

Just when you think Kyoshiro's life can't get any stranger, someone starts running around raping and murdering, and leaving notes proudly proclaiming that he did it. Tracking down the real culprit willtake him along a twisted trail that involves the Shogun's harem, hidden christians, and positively pregnant politics!

ある博徒一家の二代目襲名をめぐって、二代目を押し立てる侠気の組長と、そのシマを狙う卑劣な大博徒一家が大激突！その争いの中、関東の大親分との友情、殺し屋との名勝負、鉄火肌の芸者との華麗な恋が鮮やかに織り交ぜられていく。 義理と人情に支えられた任侠道の美しさを真っ向から謳いあげる中に迎える、日本刀が縦横に飛び交う大殺陣のクライマックス！ 高倉健、鶴田浩二、若山富三郎、菅原文太、藤純子、北島三郎といったオールスターが顔を揃えて、ベテラン小沢茂弘監督が任侠映画の魅力を華麗に映像化。

シリーズ第二作。明治17年、上州で生糸の流通をめぐる勢力争いが起きる。渦中の戸ヶ崎組とつながりのある緋牡丹お竜は、急ぎ上州へ向かう。しかし戸ヶ崎組は弟分だった笠松一家に滅ぼされていた。情け容赦のないやり方を目の当たりにしたお竜は、義憤のうちに笠松一家へと乗り込む。

Second part of the Zenka mono series.

ボクサーを夢見て上京した男性。彼は、トレーニングに励みながら楽団の音楽にも触れ、充実した日々を送る。しかし、楽団のリーダーが暴力団に脅迫される事件が発生。自らの大切な人々を守るため、彼は復習を決意する。

牡丹の刺青に女を封じた男勝りの度胸と啖呵。日本映画史に燦然と輝くヒロインが誕生！藤純子の代名詞となった任侠シリーズ第1弾。博徒・矢野組の組長だった父の仇を討つため、女博徒となって旅を続ける竜子。“緋牡丹のお竜”の異名を取る彼女は、あるいざこざに巻き込まれたところを片桐という博徒に助けられ、彼に惹かれていく。

白い素肌に赤いバラ! ギターに秘めた両刃のナイフ! 港々の盛り場で派手に売り出す女三匹! 神崎みな子は、縄張り争いから姿を隠した兄の行方を追って、同僚の白浜たまき、藤川よし枝と関西の港町までやってきた。 ところが、このあたりを牛耳る畑中一家は、彼女たちを自分の経営するクラブの専属にしようと、事あるごとに流しの邪魔立てをした。 業を煮やしたみな子は、畑中一家の若親分・吉蔵を訪ね、ダイスでその決着をつけることになるのだが……。

Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his swordsmanship and bravery, his impeccable manners, and his brilliant talent in gambling. One late fall at an inn in Kiso Fukushima, Isazo befriends a young boy whose mother turns out to be his old love Yoshino, with whom he was not unable to consummate a marriage due to the class differences between them.

A prostitute and her stepfather are falsely accused of murder, imprisoned, sexually abused and tortured. The real murderer will be discovered - and the girl will take revenge.

Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involving Kyoshiro in the conflict against his will is the textbook example of a bad idea - especially when the collateral damage starts to tick him off.

Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.

Saburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai Jingi series. During the early 20th century, Ryuji from Asakusa, a wandering yakuza, joins the Narumi Family in Yokohama. However, when he confronts Shiotaro, the head of the rival family, Ryuji takes a liking to him. He ends up leaving his current family, and becomes close to Shiotaro like brothers swearing to become a full-fledged yakuza.

The Son of the Black Mass returns in this ninth installment in Daiei's longstanding Nemuri Kyoshiro series. This time Raizo Ichikawa as Nemuri is called to see that a gold statuette of the Virgin Mary gets safe passage to Kyoto from the prying hands of a sect of murderous Christian ronin that call themselves the Black Finger Group.

Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.

Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.

An absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with old man. They are both arrested by detective. A year later gambler is staying with gangster boss when he comes across that woman and her partner again. Boss lusts for both her and his own daughter, while the boss's crazy yakuza brother loves his daughter, who, in turn, watches the player and wants to destroy the people standing in her way. And here lies one of the film's remarkable departures from the standard ninkyo efforts: it doesn't have a third party villain, nor a clear distinction between good and evil. It's bursting with romantic emotion and wrenched with gritty realism, shot with striking black and white compositions, and explodes into shocking carnage. It has lengthier, more detailed gambling scenes than any other yakuza film I've seen. And it has a heartbreakingly beautiful score. You could call it the Ashes of Time of ninkyo yakuza films. A masterpiece!

[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned to overthrow him. It was the beginning of the Sengoku (Warring States) period. Three men attack a gunpowder maker in a farmhouse, the first chopping off his arm with his sickle-&-chain weapon, the second blinding him with sword, the third giving the killing blow. His son Kojiro Kosume escapes the attackers as everything he has known up to then explodes into conflagration. He grows up & enters the start of the Tokugawa Era, intent on avenging his father.

Set during the last days of the Tokugawa (Edo) Period, Moeyo-ken tells the story of Hijikata Toshizo and the Shinsengumi. Hijikata Toshizo is a samurai eager to test his skills and sword and make his first kill. The dojo he belongs to practices the Tennen Rishin style and teaches this to farmers. Not considered real samurai by other dojo's, they receive a request for a duel by a rival dojo practicing the Kogen Itto style. Sohaku Rokusha, a teacher there, challenges them and fights with Hijikata Toshizo. The outcome of the fight creates a deadly animosity between them that lasts through the ages.