Kôzô Okazaki

To encourage a positive attitude, hearing-impaired mother Asako joins a theatrical troupe with her daughter Ai. Problems arise during rehearsals between the deaf and the hearing but they learn to work together by overcoming. On the public performance day, two deaf lovers are objected by their parents, which leads to Ai knowing Asako losing hearing when giving birth to Ai, As the curtain rises, Ai is found missing from the back stage…

An auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent. Finally the man opens up, and the girl is able to piece together her aunt's tragic story.

A middle-aged man's family loses patience with him as he struggles with his seemingly directionless life.

This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel Cintra) is a left-wing political leader and ladies man with a bright future. His ex-wife Isabel (Manuela de Freitas) both loves and hates him as Joao plays on her wavering emotional state. He is sent to Italy to retrieve wayward family member Antonia (Caroline Chaniolleau), the beautiful young woman with a terrorist boyfriend. Joao is forced to recognize his feelings as the political and amorous climate changes around him.

A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.

This gripping docudrama is a fictionalized account of what could happen to a Japanese family when one of their sons shames them in front of the entire nation.

August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family.

An alien with super powers fallen from the sky is befriended by some people who help him stop an evil group out to get him.

Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole thing is a set up in a bitter blood-feud between two brothers, one who follows the traditional path of the samurai and the other a businessman. At the behest of the businessman, Rick undertakes samurai training from the other brother, but joins his cause. He also becomes romantically involved with the samurai's daughter.

19세기 포르투갈의 작가인 벤세슬라우 드 모라이스의 특별한 삶을 다룬 영화. 가족을 뒤로하고 포르투갈의 식민지였던 마카오로 건너간 그는 중국 여인과 결혼한다. 그리고 다시 일본 여인과 사랑에 빠져 남은 인생을 일본에서 보내기로 한다. 1982년 칸영화제 경쟁부문 상영작.

After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.

The film tells the story of a man who was washed ashore on an uninhabited island after a ship wrecked by a storm, and after twelve years, he returned to human society.

An adaptation of “The Courier for Hell” (“Meido no Hikyaku”) by Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725).

Mariko Miyagi is back documenting the activities of disabled children from her own school, Nemunoki. This time, the whole documentary focuses itself on the powers of creativity and drawing.

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.

A very beautiful Japanese woman is in love with Persian carpets. She is being chased by lecherous Saburi Shin and a handsome young photographer. Lecherous Saburi Shin knows what she wants, and is able to produce it for her.

In this third film version of the Bad News Bears series, Tony Curtis plays a small time promotor/hustler who takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team which sparks off a series of adventures and mishaps the boys come into.

Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an unrequited love for Lord Ukon, who has angered Hideyoshi by becoming a Christian convert. Ogin's father Rikyu also displeases Hideyoshi by opposing the warlord's plan to invade China and Korea. When the animalistic Hideyoshi is rejected by Ogin, he threatens her and her father with arrest and worse.

A Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He comes off at a certain moment to look for his luck in the gold rush in Alaska. But he does not forget them.

An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him to fantasize about her as the personification of his impending death. As his dialogue with his imagined mortality continues, he actually meets the living woman who is the template for his fantasy, and together they tour rural churches. Gradually he comes to some kind of peace about the diagnosis. When he returns to Japan, he is met with a series of challenges which profoundly test the lessons he has learned.

Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are especially fans of Nakadai will appreciate how the actor comically rants about here. His home life is almost disastrous, with a ditzy (but attractive) wife, three young children, a loud school nearby that’s controlled by a corrupt businessman he loathes, and frequent visits from layabout friends. And the grey-furred, green-eyed cat!

Akira, a Japanese expat working in Amsterdam, falls in love with a Japanese woman at Schiphol Airport who he thinks is his high school love.

일본에는 350년이라는 역사를 가지고 있으면서도 드러나지 않는 세계가 있다. 신비한 의식과 칼이 지배하는 세계. 일부 무사도로 통하면서도 상당히 두려운 세계. 야쿠자라고 불리는 세계이다. 이 세계에 싸움을 각오하고 진입한 미국인이 있다. 그 이름하여 해리 킬머. 어느날 친구인 타나가 일본의 야쿠자 동조직과의 무기 판매 약속을 지키지 않아 딸을 유괴당하고 길머에게 중계를 의뢰해 온다. 그러나 자신이 살아 남기 위해서는 의리를 중요시 하는 일본인의 심리를 이해하지 않으면 안 된다.

Mariko Miyagi was an actress who had also written screenplays, produced, and directed films. She was also the director of Nemunoki Gakuen, a school for disabled children - the first ever such school in Japan. The school was founded by Miyagi in Shizuoka-ken in April 1968 using her own money. At Nemunoki, children and young adults with physical, intellectual or familial difficulties are gently encouraged to discover and develop their talents through such activities as painting, music, tea ceremony and dancing. The Silk Tree Ballad was the first in a series of documentaries, initially distributed by the ATG.

Adaptation of the novel by Toyoko Yamasaki.

7년 전의 일로 어머니를 미워하는 하루오. 하지만 그의 어머니는 집요할 정도로 하루오와 같이 살고 싶어한다. 대학병원 의국에 있는 하루오는 어느 날 이발소에서 일하는 동창생 에이코를 우연히 만나게 되고 깊은 관계가 된다. 그러나 며칠째 연락이 되지 않던 에이코가 탐욕스러운 이발소 마스터에게 학대를 당했다는 것을 알게 되고 두 사람은 위험한 계획을 세우게 되는데... 한 남자와 그의 어머니, 그의 여자, 거기에 어린 환자의 보호자 어머니까지 얽히며 벌어지는 이상한(?) 이야기.

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 woman looks after her father in law.

Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last days of World War II.

야쿠자 조직의 3인자이면서도 한발짝 뒤로 물러서 고독만 씹고 있는 남자를 그린다. 참고 참고 또 참는 야쿠자이지만 마지막 대혈투에선 참지 않는다.

사방이 수로로 둘러싸인 좁은 황무지 위에 자리 잡은 선술집 ‘안락정’에는 세상에 발붙일 곳 없는 무뢰한들이 모여 있다. 이들이 하는 일은 네덜란드나 중국에서 들여오는 상품의 밀무역. 한 지붕 아래서 운명을 같이하고 있지만, 일당은 서로를 믿지 않는다. 당국의 수사망이 좁혀지는 가운데, 또 한 건의 의뢰를 처리하는 이들에게 위기가 닥쳐 온다.

Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.

An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.

A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.

2차대전 당시 상관에게 폭행 당해 청력을 잃어버린 주인공. 전쟁이 끝난 후 발명가로 살아가던 그는 특허청에서 자신을 폭행했던 상관을 다시 만난다. 엔도 슈사쿠의 소설을 원작으로 한 작품. 1969년 칸영화제 경쟁부문 상영작.

Based on the hit song, the story involves a young boy and girl who leave their home in Hokkaido to come and live in Tokyo.

#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to 25 years later, the students have each settled into their careers and cross paths with Professor Sakai's son, a P.E. teacher (also played by Sakai).

Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are forever looking for new maids. As the years go by maid servants become hired help and more bossy and independent, so Chikura and his wife find themselves adjusting their lives to keep up with changing times.

Ensemble comedy.

A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young man who has a master license menkyo kaiden in the art of swordsmanship, but weak against lies and women. A remake of Bungaku no Issue, shot by Sadao Yamanaka in 1933.

A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.

Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of World War II.

Japanese fantasy film.

The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and Masami is betting on changes and asks singer Hibari Misora to perform. Musical youth comedy with young actors, passion, funny songs and laughter. Hibari Misora appears as herself.

Musical-comedy about nine soldiers deserted on an island in South Pacific.

The 40th and final "Tengu Kurama" feature starring Kanjuro Arashi.

미크로네시아의 북마리아나 제도의 아나타한(Anatahan) 섬에서 일어난 사건에 기반한 영화. 면적 32㎢ 정도인 작은 섬에서 여자 1명과 남자 31명이라는 남초 성비로 7년간 살아야 했던 이야기이다. 이후 여자를 둘러싼 갈등이 발생했고 살인 등의 사고가 벌어졌다. 미군에 의해 생존자들이 구조되면서 사건은 막을 내렸다.

미크로네시아의 북마리아나 제도의 아나타한(Anatahan) 섬에서 일어난 사건에 기반한 영화. 면적 32㎢ 정도인 작은 섬에서 여자 1명과 남자 31명이라는 남초 성비로 7년간 살아야 했던 이야기이다. 이후 여자를 둘러싼 갈등이 발생했고 살인 등의 사고가 벌어졌다. 미군에 의해 생존자들이 구조되면서 사건은 막을 내렸다.