Hiromitsu Suzuki

In the time of warring states, the female ninja Murasame is assigned to assassinate the rebel Lord Daizen Osakabe, who has aligned himself with the Tokugawa clan in a plot to betray the Taiko! Despite overwhelming odds, Murasame nearly succeeds, but in the end is outnumbered and badly wounded. Fleeing the daimyo's Samurai, she collapses, awakening to find herself not dead, but hidden within a mysterious convent. However, the woman-loving abbess's promises of shelter are not all they seem, for already a sinister plot has taken control of Murasame's future. Now she must use all her skills, both as a Ninja and as a woman, to escape a deadly web of slavery and deception. But it is not just escape that Murasame must seek, but also revenge... for when you betray a Ninja, you must forfeit your life! Kaede Matsushima stars as the naked steel of one female Ninja is tested as never before in NINJAKEN - THE NAKED SWORD!

When good-natured Mayumi finds herself at the mercy of her sadistic, panty-crazed teachers, only one brave naked soul is capable of confronting her tormentors -- Kekko Kamen! Wearing nothing but knee-high red boots and a red leather mask, this nunchaku wielding superhero gives these perverts a dose of their own medicine. Wildly cornball and completely over the top, this will have you watching with mouth agape in utter disbelief! Two Nipples Up!

A school that teaches young boys and girls how to become famous anchorpeople in the media. But there is something strange going in this school. The facility takes a sick pride in handing our S & M style punishments to students for the most trivial things. But there is one among them, a hero that hides her face but bares everything else in the name of justice. Her name is Kekko Kamen, all know the legend of how Kekko Kamen defeated the evil Mangriffin in a local high school, but now she's back and out to stop the evil twisted fiends once again.

따돌림당하는 남고생 단다가 가면을 쓰고 나타나자 학생들 사이에 가면 쓰는 게 유행처럼 번진다. 그러다 가면이 벗겨진 어떤 학생이 자살하는 사건이 벌이지고. 이 가면과 살인의 연관성을 알게 된 여고생 유키가 조사를 시작한다.

14-year-old Takuya lives in a rural town near mountains and rivers. His 29-year-old uncle Koji works as a graphic designer in urban Tokyo. Koji's father dies and Takuya is arrested for attempted robbery-the two young men must now face a crucial crossing in their lives. The concluding chapter to director Higashi Yoichi's "boy and river" trilogy, the film highlights contemporary themes like family, adolescence, and the healing properties of nature. The wild but beautiful Kuma River stars as a threatening symbol for the boy's rite of passage. Supernatural beings reign in the mountains above the village.

14살 때 교통사고를 당해 10년 동안 혼수상태에 빠져있던 요시이(니시지마 히데토시)는 어느 날 갑자기 기적적으로 깨어난다. 10년이라는 세월 동안 그의 가족은 뿔뿔이 흩어져버렸고, 깨어난 그를 찾아온 사람은 가해자와 아버지의 친구인 후지모리(야쿠쇼 코지)뿐이다. 요시이는 후지모리의 도움을 받아 새로운 생활을 시작하게 된다. 하지만 그가 진정으로 바라는 것은 사고 전처럼 온가족이 함께 모여 화목하게 사는 것이다. 소식을 들은 가족들이 하나둘씩 그를 찾아와 곁에 머무르지만, 잃어버린 10년은 쉽게 회복되지 않는다. 시간을 잃어버린 청년이 느끼는 존재에 대한 불안감을 절제된 롱테이크와 롱쇼트로 표현해냄으로써, 손쉬운 감동보다는 적극적인 사유를 요구하는 작품. 극적인 소재를 다루면서도 오히려 특별한 사건이 일어나지 않는 일상을 무덤덤하고 담담하게 그려내고 있다. 1999년 베를린영화제 출품작. 이 작품은 감동보다는 사유를 요구하는 구로사와 감독의 의지를 드러낸다. 다작을 생산하는 감독으로 알려진 그는 독특한 작가성을 인정받고 있는 반면, 계속되는 실험 지향적 성향을 우려하는 목소리도 적지 않다. (2015 한국영상자료원 - 구로사와에서 구로사와까지, 일본영화의 절대강자들)

Sho Aikawa plays a police detective whose dark personal history makes it impossible for him to stay within the limits of the legal system. But he is not just a detective; he is also a husband who has to explain to his wife how he got blood on his sleeve. And the criminals he pursues turn out to be as imperfect and oddly human as he is-and just as determined to protect their own families. This is the first of Kurosawa's films to pay homage to 1970s American gunslingers like Dirty Harry and reinvent them for modern Tokyo.

A look a the lives of two sex workers in Tokyo: Rei, who works as an S&M dominatrix, and Ayumi, in the more straightforward profession of call girl. In addition to their working life, the film also looks at their private lives. Rei is acting in an amateur theatre company (along with the receptionist from Ayumi's escort service), while Ayumi is living with her student-boyfriend as he struggles to finally get accepted to college.

The story of a bus conductor who dedicates his life to the cherished Japanese symbol.

A man in hospital has a weird and sexy conversation with a woman in the next bed, whom he cannot see. He later discovers she is in her sixties. They meet several more times and, each time, she is younger.

Densuke Hamazaki is an office worker at Suzuki Construction and gets transferred to the main Tokyo office. After settling in to his surrounding along with his wife Eri, Densuke befriends an elderly man named Ichinosuke Suzuki. Ichinosuke is a lonely and old man who learns to enjoy life again through his friendship with Densuke. Meanwhile, Densuke is completely unaware that Ichinosuke is the boss of his construction company. The two men become friends through their shared passion for fishing.

This is a sad and beautiful story about a father who is a popular comedian and a son who suffered by an incurable disease.

Karate expert Katayama (Takeda) investigates the robbery of a bank in Hokkaido, where an apple seed left at the scene holds the answer to the robbers' whereabouts.

Based on the true story of a Japanese young man that crossed the American continent by roller skating.

When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first violinist returns to his home and manages to get the orchestra back together for a grandiose performance, saved at the last minute by their original conductor -- and boding well for the future of the die-hard musicians.

In this Japanese animated film, Sea Prince and Fire Child are two youngsters in love who flee from their disapproving parents into a world filled with risks and adventure.

카마쿠라의 고등학교에 다니는 소년 코오지와 초능력을 가진 소꿉친구 유카는 지극히 평범한 일상을 보낸다. 그러던 어느 날 코오지 일행 앞에 나타난 수수깨끼의 전학생 미치루의 존재는 소년 소녀들의 마음과 학원의 공기를 위험하게 변화시킨다. 전학 온 미치루는 신기한 매력과 마력으로 학생과 선생님을 농락하고, 선도회 회장이 되어 풍기를 어지럽힌 학생을 단속하는 학내 순찰대를 조직해 자신의 생각대로 학원을 만든다. 그것을 초능력 때문으로 생각한 사람은 없었다. 오직 한 사람, 유카만 의문을 품기 시작했다. 순찰대에 대한 불만은 더해 갔다. 그리고 미치루의 방식에 비판적인 야마가타 선생님이 교통사고를 당해 빈사상태의 중상을 입는다. 또 동료 노무라, 무라세도 이상한 사고를 당하게 되자 마침내 유카와 코오지는 일어섰다. 모든 원인이 "영광숙"에 있다고 생각한 유카, 코오지는 그곳으로 향했다. 그리고 미치루를 쓰러뜨리고 학원은 예전과 같은 밝음을 되찾는다.

A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.

Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.

Set at the height of the Japanese student rebellion in 1968, the film tells the story of the friendship between two very different men—a fortyish film maniac who spends nearly all his time at the movies and a 19-year-old going through the final rites of passage from adolescence to adulthood.

도쿄 아카사카의 고급 호텔의 엘리베이터에서 흑인 남자가 한 권의 시집과 수수께끼 같은 말을 남기고 살해되었다. 수사 선상에 패션 디자이너 야스기 쿄코와 그 아들, 흑인 남자의 과거를 쫓아 도미한 형사. 야스기와 흑인 남자의 뜻밖의 관계, 그리고 미국의 형사 동기와의 관계가 드러나는데… 모리무라 세이이치의 원작의 베스트 셀러를 드라마화 한 작품이다. 일본과 미국을 무대로 전후 30년이라는 세월에 새겨진 다양한 인간의 삶을 그린 서스펜스 드라마. 복잡한 인간상을 다양하게 그려내고 있다.

Based on the manga of the same name by Kazuo Kamimura.

Chotaro and Nakanishi, a duo of unemployed advertisers, drifted to Isehama, a port town near Yokohama, but a gang was making its presence felt in the town and the shopkeepers in the shopping arcade were troubled by it. Chotaro poses as a journalist and uses his words of wisdom to suggest that pen is mightier than the sword, so they create a mini-comic magazine and launch a campaign to expel the gang.

The first of many movies featuring the lighthearted adventures of two truck drivers. Momojiro and his best friend Kinzo take to the road on their cargo trucks impressing each other with their skills in driving fast and evading the police while transporting commodities throughout the country. Chance encounters with people along the way help them to come to terms with events clouding their past and offer them a shot at redemption.