Mame Yamada

A married Japanese man living in the country agrees to meet with an ex-lover in Tokyo, leading him to question his life choices.

Shiro works a dead-end job cleaning the homes of the recently deceased. But when he stumbles onto the residence of his childhood idol, the great Detective Jubei Yagyu, Shiro’s life changes forever. With the help of his trusty partner Mio, Shiro is determined to honor the legacy of his fallen hero by becoming a great detective... if only somebody had a case!

A medieval Book of the Dead is discovered in the catacombs that run under a small town strip club. When one of the desperate strippers raises an army of the undead, the rest of the strippers must kick some zombie ass to save the world.

Zebra City 2025 – music echoing across what used to be Tokyo from Zebra Queen marks the start of Zebra Time, a 5 minute window twice a day when the city population is free to commit any crime and the Vengeful Zebra Mini-Skirt Police and masked Zebra Police can shoot civilians at will. Zebraman wakes in the street, unable to remember the last 15 years, or his superhero past. He must rely on a band Zebra Time survivors, a man who played him in a TV show version of Zebraman and a mysterious silent girl to battle this Zebra obsession that is splitting the city in to absolutes of black and white.

Based on the Japanese legend of 15th century adventurer, Oguri Hangan Daisukeshige, Toyoda places us in a surreal world of tattooed Japanese slave workers whose real life roles serve more as symbols than actual characters. After being hired by a local despot, Daizen, to massage away a nasty venereal disease, Oguri is viley betrayed after refusing to stay longer.

Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" goes goth in Mari Terashima's screen adaptation of the children's classic. Terashima brings together Goth Loli performance troupe Rose de Reficul et Guiggles, doll maker Mari Shimizu and magician and actor-dwarf Mame Yamada (Blue Spring, 9 Souls) to create a macabre trip down the rabbit hole. The film appears animated, but the gothic characters are as real as can be.

In future Tokyo, a young woman in the privatized police force tracks down her father's killer while battling against mutant rebels known as engineers.

Four different worlds are connected through the "Baumkuchen Seeds of Happiness." The World of the Kawanobe's - Three brothers, Taro (Mame Yamada), Jiro (Hiroshi Yamamoto), and Hiroto (Shoichi Honda) who is a so-called NEET (short for "Not in Employment, Education, or Training) make up the Kawanobe household. The World of a Bar - Two men (Mame Yamada and Hiroshi Yamamoto) sits in a bar and discusses the Kawanobe brothers' love story. The World of Yumi - Yumi is reading a novel about the characters in the bar. The World of a Novelist - Novelist Masatoshi (Shoichi Honda) is writing a novel about Yumi. In their own worlds, in their own way, each character will find a way to arrive at their happiness.

There are many different kinds of lives in this world. When everyone is gone only the afterimage remains.Ai has only recently came to Tokyo. In this unfamiliar city she is a little bit upset. One day lead by a mysterious stray dog she finds a letter inside a hole in the tree trunk. Tomohiro who works night hours at a nursery hadleft it there. Ai being encouraged by this letter writes a letter back and leaves it in the hole. This was the beginning of their strange correspondence.

フリーライターの“俺”（伊勢谷友介）は、「月刊　黒い本」の美人編集長（水野美紀）から、仮死体験できるという“死にモドキ”を使って死後の世界をルポするよう依頼される。“俺”は、友人でアル中のオルゴール職人、エンドー（松尾スズキ）を強引に誘い、共に旅に出ることに。彼らは元SM嬢で自殺願望を持つサヨコ（菊地凛子）、ヤクザの目玉のおっちゃん（岩松了）とその弟分のチョロリ（ふせえり）などと偶然合流しながら旅を続ける。やがて“俺”とサヨコは、手掛かりとなる情報を得て臨死体験ショーに入ってみることに。そのショーに出ている半分男（村松利史）が古い言い伝えを知っており、師匠（三谷昇）と呼ばれる男が“死にモドキ”使いの末裔だという。まもなく“俺”とエンドーは師匠が住むというホームレスだらけの奇妙な島に上陸する。そこで同じく“死にモドキ”を求めて行方不明になっていたカメラマンの真島（松重豊）が現れる。そして師匠から“死にモドキ”の正体を聞く。それはかつて、海女が海に潜る時に無酸素状態を維持させるために使っていた“虫”だという。こうして“死にモドキ”をめぐる騒動は、“俺”の命を懸けた不思議な旅が終わるまで続くのだった。

An American journalist travels through 19th Century Japan in search of Komomo, the missing love of his life that he had abandoned years ago, promising to come back to her later. After an encounter with a deformed prostitute that tells him of Komomo's passing, he drinks sake with her and learns of the tragic story of her life.

小学生の美津子は実の父親・剛三に犯され続けていた。しかし、それが忌むべき近親相姦と自覚することはなく、ただ心だけが壊れていく。妻・小百合は、そんな夫と娘の関係に激しい嫉妬覚え、娘への虐待を繰り返す――。一方、倒錯したエロスの世界を描く車イスの人気女流作家・三ッ沢妙子。新たに担当となった編集者・田宮雄二はそんな妙子に気に入られるのだが…。

タダシ（神木隆之介）は両親の離婚により、母親と祖父と共に田舎で暮らすことになった。都会育ちでもやしっ子のタダシは、田舎育ちのクラスメートともいまいち馴染めないでいた。そんなある日、タダシは神社のお祭りで、大勢の子供の中から“麒麟送子”に選ばれる。

秋江の夫は浮気をしているが、子供が出来ない負い目から黙認していた。しかし夫に相手にされない淋しさから秋江は廃品回収業の男と一度限りのつもりで関係を持ってしまい、情事に溺れてゆく...。

After discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track down the key of the universe, which a fellow prisoner known as the Counterfeit King said he had hidden.

This is another masterpiece by Takao Nakano. A sort of mix of Ed Wood and Russ Meyer. The story ? Well, just a sort of parody of the famous manga/anime "Cutie Honey". If you have liked L.E.G.S, if think that this one will give to you a big big moment of pleasure. No english subs ? Really, I assure you that it doesn't matter at all.

男子高。新学期から3年生になる九條（松田龍平）ら6人は最屋上の柵の外に立ち、手をたたいた回数を競う「ベランダゲーム」に興じていた。失敗すれば校庭にまっさかさまのこのゲームで新記録を出した九條は、勝者としてこの学校を仕切る権利を手に入れた。しかし彼にとっては「ゲーム」も「学校を仕切る」ことも無意味でどうでもいいことだった。自分の行き場に迷いながらも、宙ぶらりんな日常を送る九條たちに、やがて進路選択という現実が突き付けられてゆく……。