Yoshi Kazamatsuri
長野県下伊那郡大鹿村。南アルプスを望むこの山麓の村では、300年以上にわたって大鹿歌舞伎が村人たちの間で伝統芸能として演じられ、親しまれてきた。今年もその定期公演が近づき、ふだんは村でシカ料理店を営む花形役者の風祭善が芝居の稽古に励んでいた矢先、18年前、彼の妻・貴子とともに駆け落ちして村を出奔した善の幼なじみの治が、認知症を患った貴子を伴ってひょっこり姿を見せ、かくして村は大騒ぎとなる。
Wataru
小学生の兄弟、航一と龍之介は、両親の離婚で、鹿児島と福岡で暮していた。新しい環境にすぐに溶け込んだ弟・龍之介と違い、鹿児島に移り住んだ兄・航一は、現実を受け入れられず、憤る気持ちを持て余していた。ある日、航一は、新しく開通する九州新幹線、「つばめ」と「さくら」の一番列車がすれ違う瞬間を見ると奇跡が起こるという噂を聞く。もう一度、家族で暮したい航一は、弟と友達を誘い“奇跡”を起こす計画を立てる。
若手刑事の片桐慎次郎と定年間近の滝口政利が担当した事件の死体は三億円強奪事件の最重要容疑者・葛木勝であった。独自捜査で核心に近づいていくがその前には巨大な陰謀が立ちふさがっていた。三億円事件のその真実とは?
Genkichi
A blind master swordsman attempts to lead a quiet life with his wife but he is provoked back into battle.
Nursing home "Yuyoso". Many lonely old people live there, including botanist Taro Makiso, a physicist, an actor, a bar mom, and a chef. Maki has spent most of his life studying botany, and has lived without regard for entertainment, drinking, women, or everything else in the world. Then came my 80th birthday. He and a young staff member go digging for wild yam and find a mysterious golden flower. It was the flower of immortality, the "Golden Flower", which was said to bloom beside the Himalayan Virgin, which he had been looking for for many years. From that day onwards, fragments of memories from his youth, which he had intentionally sealed off in order to immerse himself in botany, surged into Maki in a whirlpool.
Shozo murata
Hi no Sakana (火の魚, Fish of the Fire) is a Japanese novel by Murō Saisei; it was first published in 1960, and was later adapted into a single episode TV drama that was broadcast on NHK Hiroshima in 2009. The story describes the interactions between an elderly author and a young staffer from a publishing company as they collaborate on a book cover design for the author's latest novel.
Dr. Misawa
Youjin is a quirky young man living in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Yojin has a difficult time sitting still and can't focus on extended conversations. His life revolves around farming his grandmother's vegetable garden. Yojin experiences a new kind of feeling when he meets a pretty young lady named Machiko. The feelings are strong enough that he feels the need to be with her and gain her affection.
Nobuo Kanzaki
A humorous wedding story fueled by a rather no-good father and son, disguised as the old and new “good guys.” The father Nobuo, and his son Tamio, are unable to mature, unable to break the parent-child roles, have no sense of responsibility, and keep holding on to the past. The pair is overwhelmed by all the colorful characters around them telling them what to do. They go to strenuous and humorous efforts to make Tamio’s wedding an event to remember.
Kyohei Yokoyama
夏の終わりのある日、横山良多は、再婚した妻のゆかりと、彼女の連れ子を伴って、久々に実家を訪問する。この日は、良多の亡き兄の15周忌だった。開業医だった父・恭平は、跡継ぎにと期待を寄せていた兄を不慮の事故で失ったショックから今なお立ち直れずにいて、目下失業中の良多との対話は、何かと衝突してぎくしゃくしがち。一方、やはり自分の家族を連れて帰省した姉のちなみは、努めて明るく振る舞う。
Yuji Takasaki
Taro is a 12-year-old into baseball and radio, especially "Music Express," a song-request show. Sound quaint? But it is 1977 and a small town in Hokkaido, a more innocent, pure-hearted time and place, we are told. Taro, however, has a blood disease that lands him in the hospital where his aunt is a nurse. Rounds of tests, transfusions and injections sap his spirit, despite the kindness and dedication of his young doctor and the Doctor's hospital-director father. The latter, a music buff who broadcasts classics over the hospital's PA system, asks Taro to relieve him as DJ — and soon the boy is ensconced in the hospital director's well-stocked library-cum-studio, spinning popular J-Pop tunes. He also becomes acquainted with Tamaki, a girl he first calls "the mummy" because of her bandages and full body cast — she was injured in a traffic accident. He later changes his tune when she is revealed as a cute 13-year-old — for him, an older woman...
Based on the short story from the best-selling collection "Poppoya" by Jiro Asada, "The Invitation from Cinema Orion" tells the story of a couple's undying love for the cinema and each other.
日本赤軍との関係も深い若松孝二監督が、革命を叫ぶ若者のそばから1972年の連合赤軍・あさま山荘事件に迫る人間ドラマ。殺害される運命の遠山美枝子を坂井真紀、中心メンバーである永田洋子を並木愛枝、坂口弘をARATAが熱演。狂信的な連合赤軍メンバーの革命への夢が、悪夢へと至るプロセスが臨場感たっぷりに描かれる。壮絶なリンチシーンは目をそらしたくなるほど衝撃的だが、それ以上に彼らの思いが圧倒的な力強さで表現されている。
Jukai
はるか昔、賢帝歴三千四十八年、景光が魔物と契約してから20年後。とある街の酒場で、踊り子に化けた魔物と戦う青年・百鬼丸を目撃したコソ泥・どろろ。百鬼丸は身体の四十八カ所を魔物に奪われており、その欠けた箇所を義肢で補っていた。通りすがりの琵琶法師から百鬼丸の身の上話を聞いたどろろは、その左腕に仕込まれた魔物を爆発蒸散させることのできる妖刀に興味を持ち、つきまとうようになる。初めは鬱陶しがっていた百鬼丸だが、時を重ねていくうちにしだいに心を開き、共に魔物を倒し、元の身体を取り戻すための旅をする。 旅をしていく中で深まる二人の絆と、次々と明らかになってゆく百鬼丸の過去。どろろの両親の仇、醍醐景光とは何者か。何故百鬼丸は身体の四十八カ所を奪われたのか、百鬼丸の本当の両親は誰なのか。その謎が明かされたとき、物語は大きく動き出す。 父の野望のため身体を奪われし者、そして時の権力に両親を奪われし者、失われた身体と心を取り戻すための二人の旅は続く。
Keizo Oishi
場勤めになったばかりの女刑事、慶子は謎めいた事件を担当する。夢を見ながら死んだようだという証言と、死者たちが死ぬ間際に何者かと話したことを示す携帯電話の発信記録から、事件を解く鍵は夢にあると推測。他人の夢の中に入れる能力を持つ悪夢探偵の存在を知った慶子は、彼に協力を求める。
Steel-worker Saito Tetsuo, driven by an unexplained anxiety, steals bike after bike to move away from his hometown to Tokyo. Through snow-storms and empty landscapes, the breathtaking photography allows us to look deep into the mindscape of a man searching for an answer - although the question itself is never quite articulated.
Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association
Junai Onodera
徳川5代将軍・綱吉の泰平の御代、赤穂浪士たちが吉良上野介を仇討ちするかどうかに関心が集まっていた元禄15年。父親の仇討ちのため、郷里を後にした若侍、青木宗左衛門の江戸暮らしも半年を過ぎ、庶民の町での生活もすっかり板についていた。いつしか自宅の向かいに住む夫を亡くした女性、おさえに恋心を抱くようになった彼だが、実は武士とは名ばかり。剣の腕前がからっきしだめなことが長屋の面々にも知れ渡ってしまう。
Seven young Tokyoites get scammed into working as hosts for "Dog Days" bar. Will they be able to overcome their individual differences and keep the club open?
Koichiro Kajimoto
ある日、東京湾沖で訓練航海中だった最新鋭のイージス艦“いそかぜ”が乗っ取られるという重大事件が発生。それは、副長の宮津と某国対日工作員ヨンファが共謀して引き起こしたものだった。すでに艦長は殺害され、乗務員たちも強制的に退艦させられる。さらに宮津は政府に対し、全ミサイルの照準を東京・首都圏内に合わせたことを宣言。しかもその弾頭には、わずか１リットルで東京を壊滅させる特殊兵器“GUSOH（グソー）”が搭載されていた。一方、政府が対応に手間取る中、艦の構造を熟知している先任伍長の仙石が単独で艦を取り戻しに向かう。
The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.
Takezou Fukuyoshi
3年前広島に落とされた原爆で家族や友を失い、一人暮らしをする美津江の前に、突然亡くなったはずの父が現れる。彼女は父に勤務先の図書館で会った青年の話をする。
Yamaki
地上で、伝説の“恋する花火”を復活させようと奮闘する香夏子。天国で、ある女性の未完成の組曲を完成させようとする健太。2人が出会ったとき、愛の奇跡が起きる。
Hirota - the Shop Owner in Gunma
東京都調布市。この町に暮らす6人の少年、イシハラ、ノブエ、ヤノ、スギヤマ、カトウ、スギオカ。普段はバラバラに生活している彼らは、儀式と称して定期的にカラオケ・パーティを行うことで繋がっていた。彼らがそこで歌うのは昭和の歌謡曲のみ。ある日、睡眠不足のまま町をさまよっていたスギオカに、猛烈なスピードで歩いて来た中年女性ヤナギモトがぶつかる。転びかけたスギオカだったが、無視して歩き去るおばさんのお尻に欲情を覚え、怒るどころかお茶に誘う。しかし、ヤナギモトはそんなスギオカを変態呼ばわりするのだった…。
Torakichi Hasegawa
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.
Mizusawa (Takenouchi Yutaka), an explosives expert, is arrested and charged with a string of bank robberies. Because he is a flight risk, Detective Kayama (Ogata Ken) is assigned to transport Mizusawa to Shizuoka for questioning. On the way, Kayama receives word that the hotel where his wife and daughter are attending a party has been rigged with a time bomb. Being a "by-the-book" kind of cop, Kayama refuses to abandon his job and return to help his family. Meanwhile, the hotel is swarming with police and the bomb squad who are searching for the bomb and the culprit. Time is almost up. Mizusawa claims that he is the only who who can deactivate the bomb.
Gessai Obata
“関ヶ原の戦い”を経て、覇権は豊臣家から徳川家へと移った。しかし、未だ徳川家康の天下は盤石とは言えず、反乱分子の芽は決して見過ごすことの出来ない存在だった。そこで、太平の世を願う家康の側近、南光坊天海は、爺に対して反乱を企てる危険のある者を事前に抹殺するための暗殺者集団育成を密かに命じた。それを受け爺は、少女あずみをはじめ戦乱で孤児となった幼子を集めると、過酷な修行を課して最強の戦士へと鍛え上げていく。それから10年、無事修練を終えたあずみら10人の戦士たちは、自らに課せられた尊い使命を信じ希望と闘志に燃えるのだった…。
Client
Private detective Mike takes on an assignment to return a girl, who is set to marry into a prestigious family, from a mysterious commune in the forest.
Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki's sixth decade behind the camera, "A Boy's Summer in 1945" (literally "A Beautiful Summer in Kirishima") is a lyric, novelistic drama set in the countryside in the last days before Japan's surrender ending WWII. Striking a welcome retro note in its languid pacing and delicate handling of seriocomic ensemble threads, handsome production is a natural for fests. It might also prove a cornerstone for retrospectives or ancillary releases of works by a helmer ("Preparation of the Festival," "Ronin-gai") who's long been appreciated at home but has won just limited attention abroad.
若きナショナリストの山口、市川、小菅の幼馴染み3人は東条英機版ネオナチともいうべき結社“ネオ・トージョー”を立ち上げ、特注の白い戦闘服をまとう。その出で立ちで、自分たちの育った街・渋谷から汚いゴミを一掃しようと、日々街中で半端な不良どもを狩っていた。そんな彼らは、右翼系の政治結社・青修同盟の会長・青田に一目置かれ、何かと世話をしてもらうようになる。ある日、山口ら3人は不良外人が堂々とドラッグを捌いているクラブを襲撃する。だが、その店は青修同盟と対立する暴力団が経営していた。それが発端で抗争が始まり、山口たちは巻き込まれていく。
Akikazu Kamikawa
This movie is a political/espionage thriller, based on a real kidnapping incident of Korean politician, Kim Dae-Jun.
Onna Kuni Shuu Ikki is a 2002 Japanese historical drama directed by Takashi Miike. It is one of three historical films included in the 2002 DVD compilation, Kumamoto Monogatari. The other two are Kikuchi-jo Monogatari: Sakimori-tachi no Uta and Zuiketsu Genso: Tonkararin Yume Densetsu, both also directed by Miike.
Kaido is a professional pickpocket who works the Tokyo subway with his young foster-daughter, Rei: She lets herself be groped while Kaido relieves the groper of his wallet. More often than not they're observed by a middle-aged cop, who generally lets Kaido go free. Rei is unsettled when Kaido takes on a young street punk, Kazuki, as an apprentice -- with instructions to make Kaido stop drinking. Kazuki, however, would like to go into business with Rei.
Captain Banana
Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from the mob, his ex-girlfriend, her obsessive boyfriend, the mob soldier sent to retrieve the briefcase, another mobster sent to kill them, master voyeur Captain Banana and his new apprentice, The Mister Yellow. Who will end up with the money?
Kyushiro
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses.
Detective Tobitaka
脳みそが抜き取られ料理されるという、猟奇連続殺人事件が発生した。遺体や現場の状況から検屍官の赤城によって、犯人は体重100キロ、握力150キロ以上、しかも料理が得意な人物と目された。事件を担当した捜査一課の早瀬刑事は、犯人像とは似ても似つかないと反対する飛鷹警部の意見を押し切り、事件の3日前に美術館に出かけたまま行方不明になっていた女子大生・柏木千鶴を容疑者として捜索を開始。だが、彼女もまた脳みそがない状態の死体で発見されるのだった。しかし、事件はそれで解決した訳ではなかった。その後、同じような事件が若い会社員・木村敦や警察病院の医師・笹本美奈によって引き起こされる。早瀬は、以前担当した事件の犯人だったキャバクラ嬢の朝子に、真犯人は人間ではない何かだと助言を受けるが、彼女もまたその何かに体を乗っ取られてしまう。そして、その何かとは「悪意」だった。
Joji
Fu and Suzu are two pretty anarchist girls who decide to take to the road. They set off on a journey to visit the tomb of a small pig by name Pupu. On the way, they meet Suzu's ex-lover, a gay couple, and a golf player; always getting in trouble. But whenever trouble comes, 'Trunk Man' the hero appears to save them.
大阪界隈をシマとする暴力団、大隈組の行動隊長・田坂は、ケンカとシャブなしでは生きられない性分。懲役刑となってからは、シャブとは手を切り、特効力を活かし組のために奔走していた。田坂と対照的な頭脳派の若頭・松井は、関東で力をつけている宇崎組と手を組むことを考え、宇崎と敵対関係にある組幹部の命を取るよう田坂に依頼する。田坂は弟分の浜岡を連れて東京へ向かうが、偶然、双眼鏡で見張り中に見つけたコーヒーショップの娘・洋子に心を奪われてしまう。
Noriyuki Kunihiro
After spending over half his life in prison, ex-hitman Kunihiro is determined to go straight. But the shortcomings of the new gangs mean that he is soon having to call on his old-school yakuza talents. And when he falls for Asako, a beautiful piano player, she unknowingly ignites a fire within Kuni that will immolate everything and everybody around him. Regarded by many as his masterpiece, Onibi has all the hallmarks of a Mochizuki film, with the gangster elements tightly compressed and controlled to allow space in which a subdued romance can bloom. Coming from a background in porno cinema, this master of sexual relations injects a fresh passion and tension into the macho world of the yakuza film.
A detective, a mysterious beauty Ekin and other characters appear in the film. It creates a mysterious visual world that takes us one step further into the world of Ekin. This is the second art documentary film produced by the Museum of Art, Kochi, following Hiroyuki Oki's HEAVEN-6-BOX. This time, the stage performances of butoh greats Maro Akaji and Dairakudakan were documented by Hayashi Kaizo.
The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. It's a small god with a pointed head, a fat belly and a characteristic smile. When the casket in which the statuette was found is broken, the spirit of Billiken is free. After that he tries to fulfill the wishes of all those who had prayed to him, but it doesn't always works.
An entertainment drama depicting the conflict of yakuza, centering on the female torso and her sister's feud.
Yoshio Eguchi
音楽評論家の江口由夫は妻と長男の周一、嫁の菊子と暮らしている。ある日、母屋のシャワーを使っていた菊子は全裸姿を由夫に見られる。以来、ふたりの間に男女の意識が芽生え…。
Haida, once a famous private detective, is now down and out and running out of reasons to live. One day, while engaging in a group volunteer project to clean up a river, he loses what's left of his will to live and lets the water carry him away. He ends up rescuing a drowning man who alters his view of life totally. Soon he gets a job investigating the mysterious disappearance of a student who sent her mother a cryptic letter, "Wait a bit, Mother. I'm sending my breath. It will arrive soon."
Ryuji Takayama
In different parts of Tokyo, four young and seemingly healthy people suddenly die of heart failure at exactly the same moment. Reporter Kazuyuki Asakawa decides to investigate the deaths, and discovers that the four had stayed at a rural inn together just a week earlier. At the inn, he comes across a strange video that ends with a message saying that anyone who watches it will die exactly seven days later. Now the clock is ticking for Asakawa. Can he break the curse in time?
Shizuo Tanaka
14 year old Nakamura is sexually abused by her stepfather. She invents a friend who is coming to her rescue when she really needs it.
Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts, his publisher shows him a newspaper with an account of events just like his forbidden story. As the film progresses, fantasy and reality intermingle in a tale that draws heavily on influences from Poe and Stoker's Dracula. The film's strongly Expressionistic direction skillfully combines a variety of media (animation, computer-generated imagery, grainy black-and-white fast film stock, color negatives) for artistic effect.
Takeda
ポール・ラシーンは、日本でのビジネスで名古屋に来ていた。仕事が終わったのちに市内の飲食店でキリナという女性に出会い、2人で市内のビジネスホテルに泊まることに。その後すぐポールはホテルを出るが、ポールがエレベーターに乗った直後、間違えてキリナの部屋の鍵を持ってきてしまったことに気づく。 そこでキリナの部屋に戻り、こっそり鍵を返そうとドアを開けると、なんと部屋の中には忍者が数人いて、刀をキリナに向けている。ポールはすぐにフロントへ電話をかけ、キリナを助けようとするが、刀を持っていた忍者に妨害をされ、病院送りとなってしまう。 その後ポールは、度々忍者達に命を狙われることに...。
A man must overcome many obstacles as he works his way through the dangerous crime world to the level of yakuza.
Tatsuya is on a honeymoon in Australia. A couple of unfortunate encounters land him in jail, where he’s imprisoned without a chance of ever getting out again. His wife tries her best to launch an appeal, but it’s Tatsuya’s inmates who are his best chance of escaping his current predicament.
An omnibus featuring the work of three different filmmakers.
地方巡業を続ける小劇団“北村宗介一座”の座長・宗介は、一座の女優でもある妻レイ子の浮気をいつも許し、今も妻子持ちの男性と駆け落ちしたレイ子の帰りを待ちながら、彼はそんな自分に“彼女が帰ってきたら自分の勝ち”と想いながら、男として満足を感じていた。やがて劇団員のジミーが腎臓移植手術を受けることになり、手術費を工面しようと彼は故郷の青森へ帰るが、父親の余命が短いことを知らされるなどの事件が続く。
Noji
北海道を舞台に、現金を強奪した男女のその後の争いを描いたアクション・バイオレンス。2億円のホテルの売上金を狙い現金輸送車を襲った4人の男たち。しかし奪った現金は予定に程遠いたったの5千万だった。そしてメンバーの一人・井村が現金を独り占めしようとしたことから、彼らの血みどろの死闘が始まった...。
Homeless
Sukezo, a farmer manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but business does not go well and the family becomes progressively poorer.
Wakiya
毎夜悪夢にうなされる夢二。そんな中、夢二は駆け落ち相手の彦乃と落ち合うべく金沢近郊の湖畔へとやって来る。だが、彦乃は現われない。そして、静かな村に銃声が鳴り響く。旅館の女将は、鬼松という男が妻と妻を寝取った男・脇屋を殺し山へ逃げ込んだため、山狩りをしているのだと教える。一方湖では、殺された脇屋の妻・巴代が湖面にボートを浮かべ夫の死体が浮かび上がってくるのを待ち続けていた。その姿を目にした夢二は次第に巴代の虜になっていく。
Dr. Akira Aryo
Professor Sarusawa and his psychic daughter Mai live together after the suicide of the Professor's wife years earlier - which was caused by a suicide plague running rampant throughout the city. Dr. Aryo lives in a nearby castle with his wife, whom Dr. Aryo created, and a hunchbacked assistant. Dr. Aryo once worked at the same university with Professor Sarusawa but was fired for his morbid experiments. Now, Dr. Aryo may hold the key to unlocking the origins & cure for the suicide virus which Professor Sarusawa may now have. Meanwhile Professor Sarusawa's daughter Mai can be bring to life Dr. Aryo's stitched up cadavers which Dr. Aryo hopes to create a new race with.
Katsu, who belongs to the Murai group of the Sakagami Union, was frustrated by the distance from the yakuza world he had envisioned. At that time, Katsu, who met Osamu who belongs to the conflicting Dainippon Kyokushinkai, feels the real gangster scent of Osamu.
A directionless young man, recently released from prison, tries to make a new start in life as a boxer...
Katsuhiko Goda
新宿・歌舞伎町を舞台に、ヤクザ絡みの犯罪に巻き込まれた元全共闘たちの戦いを描いたハードボイルド・ロマン。かつて全共闘闘士だったスナックのマスター郷田が、20年続けてきた店を閉めるその日、一人の女が逃げ込んできた。名はメイラン。どうやら、警察とヤクザの両方に追われているらしい。郷田と元同士の律子にとって、彼女との出会いが大きく運命を変えることになっていく...。
Gennai Aramaki
江戸末期の下町を舞台に、そこの裏界隈を生きるアナーキーな浪人たちの人間模様を描いたチャンバラ時代劇。江戸の下町。食い詰め浪人が集うところ。この街で夜鷹が次々と斬られていく事件が発生する。犯人は遊び半分に凶行におよぶ旗本一党だった。
Aida, a daredevil detective who isn't afraid of power or challenges. The great evil has begun investigating a major corruption case involving a leading trade company and the nation.
Yoshimoto
Two brothers, Jinta and Wataru, are raised in a travelling circus. After an accident, Jinta decides to leave the circus and travels the countryside working as a con-man. After a run-in with a local gang of yakuza, he is invited to join their ranks, where he makes the mistake of falling for a boss's mistress. Wataru stays with the circus and works hard to regain its former glory
Makio Sajima
A Japanese boxer stages a dramatic and dangerous comeback after suffering brain damage in the ring.
Mori Masahisa
A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka.
Mr. Roku
After the death of her mother a young woman wants to meet her real father
Yamaguchi
On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of people in Nagasaki the day before that fateful event. It presents the human drama of people's lives, and their feelings of joy and sadness. These include a newlywed couple, an expectant mother, and lovers who must say farewell because the boy is called to serve in the army. Each of these people, like others in the city, hoped to live with their dreams for ‘tomorrow’. But tomorrow never comes for them, as their lives are brought to an abrupt and unexpected end. Knowing how the story ends, in this case, doesn't detract from it at all; rather, it enhances the emotional impact, which is further heightened by the poignant musical score from Teizo Matsumura. 'Ashita' is the first film in Kazuo Kuroki's 'War Requiem Trilogy,' which also includes 'Utsukushii Natsu Kirishima' (2002) and 'Chichi to Kuraseba' (2004).
A young woman aspires to be a motorboat racing champion.
Life and love stories of stunt men and women.
A hardened gangster encounters by chance a woman he hasn't seen since childhood. They are both engulfed in the underground world of intergang warfare.
Harry Callahan
All the protagonists move about in a Tokyo Bar that has an entire wall taken up with a black-and-white reproduction of a photo of Monument Valley. The action starts as Billy the Kid, in full living color, walks out of the photo and gets a job as a waiter. Along with him on the working staff are a samurai straight out of the history books, a G.I. from World War II, and several other anachronistic characters. The plot (as such) revolves around keeping away the brutal mobsters and thugs who dominate the city streets outside of the bar, making the tavern safe for its easily recognized facsimiles of well-known characters.
Shirae
栗本薫の同名小説を「上海バンスキング」の田中陽造が脚色し、製作者でもある角川春樹が「愛情物語」に続いて監督した、角川映画十周年記念作品。薬師丸ひろ子や原田知世をはじめ、豪華なゲスト出演が話題になった。 大学のジャズ・サークルに所属する俊一は、本物のジャズの音を求め、大学生活と決別して場末のキャバレー〈スターダスト〉でサックスを吹いている。店の片隅にある指定席で、いつも決まって「レフト・アローン」をリクエストする男がいた。それは菊川組の代貸を務める滝川だった。滝川の暗殺計画をたまたま耳にした俊一が本人に知らせたため、計画を未然に防ぐことができた。こうして俊一は、徐々に組織同志の抗争やキャバレー従業員の人間関係に巻き込まれていくのだった。 allcinema ONLINE
人気絶頂の若手ミュージシャン裕司は、悲願だったニューヨーク公演が中止になり、同じマンションで同居する謎めいた少女つみきから“北に行くな”と警告されながら、あえて北海道旅行へ。そこで裕司は、牧場で働きながら世界的ボクサーになることを目指す若者・六郎や、天才的ジャズピアニストである麻弓と出会うが、町の指導者のような青年から東京に帰るよう警告され、それを無視したため、青年やその仲間たちと戦うことに……。
Producer
Stuck doing show-biz schlock, an investigative reporter stumbles on a scheme to swindle pensions through an attractive gold futures scam, a potential news-story.
takahata yoshio
旧友の坂口が下山建設の社長に襲いかかって逮捕されたことを知り、新藤は沖縄の小さな港町に帰ってきた。下山建設は町の再開発を担当しており、坂口が経営するホテルを買収しようと嫌がらせや脅迫を続けていたのだ。新藤はそのホテル〈フリーイン〉に泊まり、事件を探り始めた。下山建設の高畠開発部長や、下山と癒着している徳田刑事などに会い、新藤は事件の真相を知った。坂口は、誘拐された一人息子の竜太を助けようとして、下山建設に乗り込んだのだった。そして新藤は、坂口が癌に冒され、余命数ヶ月であることを知る。
Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area whose inhabitants are mainly from Okinawa. Upon her return, Barbara faces problems beyond her control. Her brother and two friends take one of their teachers hostage to extort money to go on a school trip. Miyazato, the man who loves Barbara is there, but not Aiko, her best friend. Miyazato, a yakuza and manager in a nuclear power plant has forced Aiko into prostitution for the workers of the plant. Barbara plans to help her escape from this hell. Aiko has been sent to Mihama. Without even thinking for a moment, Barbara decided to go see her friend.
大森一樹監督、吉川晃司主演の“民川裕司シリーズ”第2作。裕司はデビューして1年、押しも押されもせぬスターとなったが、最近、自分の心が乾いてしまっていることに気づいていた。神戸公演前日、彼はCMの仕事を一緒にした映画監督を訪ねて鎌倉に行く。監督は不在だったが、裕司はニューヨークから来た夕子と知り合う。
A magazine publisher called Out Of Focus hires a new female camerawoman. This company is located in Tokyo. The new photographer moves from outside the city to Tokyo and upon arrival and on her first day is tasked with immediately snapping pictures. Her boss sends her on a mission with a senior colleague. The senior cameraman uses rogue ways surprising his new colleague. A new assignment related to a former Japanese Prime Minister falls on her lap. The court does not look fondly at photography of this kind.
Daisaku Tokito
古い因襲にとらわれた小村で、いとこ同志でありながら風習を破って一緒になった捨吉とスエ。だが二人が暮らす村も、近代化の波に飲まれて変わりつつあった。
Yonamine
In Okinawa, a Japanese-Filipino gangster named Joe kills an Okinawan mobster. Joe temporarily escapes the pursuing mob by fleeing to the Philippines, hoping to find there safety and perhaps to link up with his father. He meets Yoko, a saloon girl, who looks after him, but soon Joe's enemies show up, determined to make Joe pay.
Tsutomu Yahagi
広島の高校3年生の少年・裕司は夏休み、東京の演劇界に憧れて上京し、六本木にたどり着く。裕司は喫茶店でウエーターとして働きだすが、先輩店員の吉夫は歌手になりたいと憧れながらオーディションに落ち続けていた。吉夫のアパートで居候させてもらいながら、裕司は演劇界で働く夢を諦めそうになるが、ロックミュージシャンとして意外な才能を目覚めさせていく。一方、吉夫は引き続いて歌手として芽を出す機会に恵まれずに……。
Japanese drama film.
Takeshi Kakeuchi
現職刑事を夫に持つ柿内園子は、食器店で銀のスプーンを万引きしている現場を、OLの志藤光子に目撃されてしまう。事を公にしたくない園子は求めに応じ、光子と関係を持つようになるが、徐々に自ら快楽を求めるようになっていった。夫の剛は自分と体を重ねようとしない園子に疑いを持ち、部下を使って妻を尾行させ、光子の存在を突き止める。園子と光子を問い詰める剛だったが、二人は関係を認めようとしない。だがある日、園子は光子を家に連れ込み、男一人女二人の生活が始まるのだった。
Bookstore Father
少年院あがりで、20歳のときに「30歳になるまでに何かドデカいことをやったる!」と誓った竹田明夫。それまでの生活を一変させるため、パーマをかけ、胸に刺青を入れキャバレーのボーイになった。同じ店のナンバー・ワン・ホステスの三千代を強引にくどき同棲を始める…。
男は、駅の改札で切符切りの仕事をする地下鉄職員。仕事は単調で退屈な上に、家でも妻子を相手に代わり映えのしない毎日を過ごしている。ある日、息子が夏休みの課題の昆虫採集に使う注射と睡眠薬を見て、ふとある悪巧みを思いつく。やがて彼はある薬品を自ら大量に仕入れると、ひとり暮らしの若い女性の部屋に行き、相手を眠らせるという不埒な犯罪を繰り返していく。
Wada
たび重なる偶然から知り合った品子という謎の美女の誘いで現世ともあの世ともつかぬ世界で翻弄される劇作家の姿を描く。
Teruo Miyazato
ゴローとさち乃との出会いは第三京浜だった。白いムスタングから放り出されたさち乃を助けたのが、バイクで走っていたゴローだったのだ。二人は同棲を始める。またムスタングを運転していた中年の男も、奇妙な同棲生活を送っていた。さち乃はクイーンエリザベスという名のスナックで働き始める。ゴローは喧嘩をしてバイトを辞めてしまう。ゴローが家を出たため、さち乃は中年の男と会うことにする。
Eisuke Misaki
Two men and a woman plan to steal 1.5 Billion yen.
Nakasago
旅に出た、士官学校教授の青地豊二郎と友人の中砂糺。その途中、彼らは弟の葬式に出席してきたという芸者の小稲と出会う。それから1年、中砂から結婚の報を受けた青地は、彼の家を訪ねることに。だが、妻だという園が小稲とうり二つであることに驚かされる。やがて、園は生まれたばかりの娘を残して逝去。中砂の様子を見に行く青地だが、今度は小稲が乳母として娘を抱いていることに驚く。
Yataro Tanigawa
老中・田沼意次が幕政を裏で操り、金権政治による腐敗が世にはびこる徳川10代将軍・家治の時代。市民生活の舞台裏では、金で殺しを請け負う“闇の狩人”たちが暗躍していた。ある事件をきっかけに記憶を失っていた浪人の谷川はひょんなことから闇の狩人の元締めのひとり、五名の下で働くようになる。やがて五名は、元北前藩の悪徳家老・下国左門から、お家再興を願う元藩士たちを亡き者にするよう殺しの依頼を受けるのだが…。
映画を一年に三六五本見ることを二十年続けるとうそぶく中年の映画狂と映画館で甘い夢にまどろむ青年の友情に一人の少女を絡めて描く。脚本、監督は映画ジャーナリストからこの作品でデビューした原田眞人。
A police detective tries to investigate the mystery of a victim who was shot in the head, but no bullet was found.
東京の生活になじめないまま、忠夫は故郷である信濃に帰ってきた。親友の哲治にスナックへ連れて行かれた忠夫は、そこで働くあけみに一目惚れする。哲治が金を借りに忠夫の家を訪ねてくるが、スナックのホステスいずみと東京へ行くためだと言う。忠夫が反対するのも聞かず二人は金を持って町を出てしまうが、哲治は東京でいずみに捨てられ、すぐに町に帰ってきた。あきらめきれない哲治はいずみの働くスナックへ行くが、彼女の昔の男に殴られてしまう。忠夫も男に殴られたが、あけみから「店が終わるまで待っていて」と言われ…。
In this crime thriller produced by Toshiro Mifune (who has a supporting role), hard-boiled Shiro Akitsu goes on a relentless search for his abducted 7-year old daughter, with the aid of an Ainu dog summoned by a whistle she gave him.
Sakata
At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent family, and Yamazaki, son of an engineer at the local nuclear power-plant, are found tied-to on a beach, as if they intended to commit double suicide. Nogami, a reporter, begins to investigate.
Sanza Nagoya (Flute Player)
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and birthmark which undermine his respect. Iemitsu and his brother Tadanaga become bitter rivals for the shogunate, and the land is split into factions, eventually erupting into warfare. Iemitsu's mentor, his fencing instructor Yagyu, is fixated upon securing Iemitsu the shogunate and ends up betraying everyone, even his own family, in pursuit of the goal.
Heitaro
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
Miyake
A model must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.
Japanese action film.
Detective Yamura
西村寿行の同名小説を原作としたサスペンスアクション作品。 検事の杜丘冬人は新宿の雑踏で見知らぬ女から「金品を盗まれ強姦された」と告発され緊急逮捕されてしまう。他の男も「カメラを盗まれた」と供述、逮捕に必要な証拠も揃っていた。自分にかけられた罠を取り除くため、現場検証の場から逃走を図る冬人。女の正体をつかみ彼女の郷里へ向かうが、すでに女は殺されており、冬人は殺人犯として追われることに。日高山中に逃げ延びた冬人は、自分をはめた真犯人が政界の黒幕である長岡了介ではないかと思い始める。
Tsuyoshi Nishino
A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same man that her husband is hunting. Once he discovers this, he loses his nerve and turns in his badge. But the chase turns into a personal vendetta where the ex-cop plans to wipe out the entire gang.
Toshihiro Nakajima
昭和30年代初頭。町の信用金庫に勤める20歳の楯男には、シナリオ作家になるという夢があった。そんな楯男にとってひそかに想いを寄せる存在が幼なじみの涼子だった。しかし、涼子には恋人がいて、どうすることもできない楯男は、隣家の精神異常の娘と寝てしまう…。
Arashi
A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.
Ryoma Sakamoto
慶応3（1867）年11月13日。雨降る京都の街並みを走るひとりの男がいた。彼の名は、坂本龍馬。土佐藩を脱藩して海援隊を組織し、薩長同盟の斡旋にも尽力した彼の奔走のおかげで、ひと月前の10月14日、大政奉還がついに実現。日本の体制は大きく変わりつつあったが、それを快く思わない連中が、龍馬の命を付け狙っていた。龍馬の元の同志である陸援隊隊長・中岡慎太郎も、龍馬を自らの手で殺すかどうか、大いに悩む。
Shusuke Tokunaga
Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.
Jokichi of Mikogami
In feudal Japan, women are vulnerable, in need of protection, and capable of deception. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter, has not yet fully revenged the death of his wife and son. He searches for Kunisada Chuji, who in turn has hired the knife-throwing Windmill Kobunji to kill him. Kobunji and Jokichi meet in the winter, near Sasago Pass, when both have rescued women: Jokichi has saved the lute-playing Oyae whose clan and whose lover want her dead; Kobunji has rescued Oharu, a well-born woman married to an innkeeper. Is this rescue a whim or something deeper? And why does Jokichi become the consumptive Kobunji's protector? What ultimately will Jokichi do about Oyae?
A young outlaw can’t escape his rebellious past despite connections to a well to do family.
Jokichi of Mikogami
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.
Jokichi
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.
Priest
Several high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure; their halcyon days are soon coming to an end.
Young man returns from prison and sets out to destroy the gang that killed his friends and boss of his former gang.
Pirania
The series swansong, Beat '71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and with the help of some hippies she strives to be re-united.
Yūji, fresh out of prison on parole, meets a stranger named Nao that asks for his assistance...
Tetsu Tsukada
The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He roamed the streets as a one man band, wearing a denim jacket and long hair with sunglasses to cover his piercing eyes. Befriending a like-minded lone wolf by the name of Gebasaku, Tetsu builds a coalition against higher forces. A graphic portrayal of irrepressible anger and a friendship worth dying for.
竹中克巳
竹中は協立コンツェルンの城所に会社を奪われ、その上、恋人までも取られてしまった。父親も兄も自殺に追いやられた。竹中は憤り、城所を殺そうとして失敗。獄中で一人うめいていた。やがて、十年の刑期を終えて出所した竹中は、城所一味への復讐を深く心に秘めて、ち密な計画を開始させる。
