Akira Sera

TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV Asahi in 1978 and released theatrically by Office Henmi in 1988.

昭和7年。生活苦のため、姉の薫が芸者として売られることになったと知り、仙台の連隊から初年兵の溝口が脱走した上、捜索隊の上官を殺害するという事件が発生。どうか情状酌量をという宮城隊長の嘆願もむなしく、溝口は銃殺刑に処せられ、宮城も朝鮮の守備隊への転任を命じられる。その地で宮城は、芸者となっていた薫とくしくも巡り合う。その後、宮城は薫を妻にするが、皇道派の青年将校となった彼は次第に苦悩の色を深める。

From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With the loss of his master who held a secret to a weapons smuggling case and the corruptions of those who are involved, Goro's adventure unfolds.

ある日、国鉄蒲田操車場構内で扼殺死体が発見された。被害者の身許が分らず、捜査は難航した。が、事件を担当した今西、吉村の両刑事の執念の捜査がやがて、ひとりの著名な音楽家・和賀英良を浮かび上がらせる…。

With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji Tsuruta stars as a Kamikaze squad leader who has second thoughts about suicide runs. He becomes torn between his own morality and his duty to his country when he must deal with a pilot under his command who refuses to complete his mission.

Dr. Mikami is an elderly somewhat clumsy, very popular therapist, his patients turn to him with all possible and impossible questions. Because Dr. Mikami's specialty is sexual clarification... The world's best-selling sex literature was filmed here in a manner close to the original. And the openness of the image shows the shocking conflicts of young people in scenes that were never filmed. Shocking documents about sex life from the doctor's office.

Sixth film in the "Kyodai Jingi" series. Three gangsters challenge an underworld group in northern Japan.

In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.

Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to ice them one by one.

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at least he says he's unmarried) and falls in love. When she learns that he lied and is married to a woman whose child was fathered by another man, she is crushed. He returns to his wife. The woman becomes more distraught when she learns her uncle has misused the money she has sent. As the final straw, her mother dies, and the girl becomes sick.

一人の男が銃剣で刺殺されるという事件が起こった。犯人を追いつめたものの、男の姿は密室から忽然と消えうせていた。事件を追う桐岡記者は、物質転送を研究する仁木博士が、犠牲者と犯人・須藤を繋ぐカギであることを知る。犠牲者を含む大西たちは、14年前、須藤と仁木博士を生き埋めにしていたのだった……。

A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.

夫を亡くした圭子は、外国人マスターが経営する銀座のバー“ライラック”の雇われマダムだった。よく店に来ていた利権屋の美濃部が、かつて圭子の下で働いていたユリに店を持たせ、そちらへ頻繁に出入りしているようだ。マスターからはユリのように体を張って売り上げを回復させろと言われてしまう。ある日、狂言自殺をするつもりだったユリが本当に死亡した。葬儀の席で圭子は美濃部に食ってかかるが、血を吐いて倒れてしまう。酒の飲み過ぎで胃潰瘍にかかっていたのだ。やがて圭子は客に体を許すようになるが、その度に裏切られてしまう。

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor's vassal, prefers Ouso's stepbrother, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he has contrived. But Ouso prevails in the mission and returns to his father's castle under a new name, Prince Yamato Takeru. Otomo plots to have the Prince sent into even greater danger, but Otomo is unaware that the gods have favored the Prince and the outcome is far from what any of them expected.

第二次世界大戦末期の北支戦線。クズ兵士ばかりを集め危険な任務に当たらせる“独立愚連隊”と呼ばれる部隊に、従軍記者の荒木がやってくる。交戦中に中国人慰安婦と心中したという、見習士官のことを調べに来たという。実は荒木の正体は大久保元軍曹であり、彼こそ見習士官の実の兄であり、弟の死の真相を知るため戦地に赴いたのだった。死んだ慰安婦の妹から紙片を渡された大久保は、弟が上官の不正を部隊長に告発しようとして、その上官から逆に殺されたことを知る。

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man.

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.

An Ishiro Honda film.

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping to become a successful singer instead. Ryuta loves his brother, but Mineo's possible defection presents problems for the gang, and Ryuta realizes he must kill his brother if he wants to survive.

When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover Varan, a giant monster, Who decided to leave the valley and head straight for Tokyo.

Nuclear tests create a radioactive man who can turn people into slime.

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked for a loan.

美空ひばりが音痴なバスガイドのヒロインと自分自身の二役を務めた青春映画。「ひばりのチャチャチャ」「リンゴ追分」などを披露する。共演は『マタンゴ』の久保明。 野溝トミコは、東京の真中を走るバスの見習車掌。大スターの美空ひばりに瓜ふたつだが、鼻の横にホクロがあるので“びばりちゃん”と呼ばれる人気者。トミコの悩みは、父親が家出してしまったことと、美空ひばりとは似ても似つかぬ大音痴なこと。だが、そんなトミコに、ある日、本物の美空ひばりに会うチャンスが巡ってくる。

A musical starring 3 Japanese pop music and TV stars.

Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman.

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.

Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the truce by agreeing to fix a boxing match in which Maki has an interest in one of the fighters. After a terrible brawl, the two gangsters discover that they have both been played for suckers by their bosses. They join forces to turn the tables on the bosses.

When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability.

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

An Ishiro Honda film.

市役所の市民課長・渡辺勘治は30年間無欠勤のまじめな男。ある日、渡辺は自分が胃癌であることを知る。命が残り少ないと悟ったとき、渡辺はこれまでの事なかれ主義的生き方に疑問を抱く。そして、初めて真剣に申請書類に目を通す。そこで彼の目に留まったのが市民から出されていた下水溜まりの埋め立てと小公園建設に関する陳情書だった……。

In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides to overthrow Jakoman and his cohorts.