Michiyo Yasuda

Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, a dull novelist and a legendary killer. Susumu Ichikawa, an obsolete writer with no manuscript at all, had another face - a legendary hitman. But the truth of the matter is... he had never shot a person. One day, he receives a murder request from a friend. Seeing this as an opportunity to achieve the ideal hard-boiled novel, he decides to hire a real hitman and demands that he report to him the assassination situation as it was.

Whether it's someone mixing burnables and recyclables or noise from a neighbor's domestic spat, there's always something occupying the residents of a housing project in the suburbs of Osaka. However Hinako (Naomi Fujiyama) and Seiji (Ittoku Kishibe) couldn't care less. Having moved in just six months ago after the closure of their herbal medicine shop, the old couple is reluctantly putting their life back together. But when Seiji disappears, the apartment rumor mill churns: divorce, murder, dismemberment? As the story spins out of control, and a mysterious man with a parasol puts in a tall order of natural remedies, the truth turns out to be even more fantastic than gossip. Ranging from incisive comedy of errors to absurdist adventure to moving late life romance, "The Projects" is one of the biggest surprises of the year.

신흥 종교 단체의 젊은 카리스마 지도자(후지와라 타츠야)가 직면하게 된 충격적인 운명을 그린 휴먼 드라마 작품. 어느 종교집단의 교주인 젊은 사내는 음주운전으로 상대편 오토바이 운전자를 죽게 만들고 동승한 여인을 코마 상태에 빠트리게 된다. 숨어 지내는 그를 위해 3명의 남자가 일종의 보디가드로 고용이 되고 주인공은 그들과 삶과 죽음에 대해 고민을 하기 시작하는데..

The annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However, Yoshi's life is thrown into disarray days before the performance when his estranged wife and former best friend arrive back in town...

술, 약물, 자살시도, 여자와 바람에도 아내 미치코는 다자이에게 잔소리조차 하지 않는다. 다자이는 셋째를 임신한 미치코를 두고 다음 소설 집필에 영감을 받는다는 핑계로 오타 시즈코와 연애를 즐기며 소설 사양을 출간한다. 하지만 사양이 유행하자 다자이는 더 큰 걸작을 써야 한다는 압박에 시달린다. 설상가상으로 시즈코가 임신을 하자 야마자키 토미에와 도피하듯 사랑을 나누며 자유롭게 살아간다. 방탕한 생활로 건강을 잃고 원하는 글을 쓸 수 없는 상황에서 다자이는 결국 자신의 모든 것을 파괴하고 피를 토하듯 마지막 소설 인간실격의 집필에 들어가는데...

A son quits his job and is persuaded by his father to head off to a cottage in the remote mountains. Together, the two of them manage to get through their days while wearing old jerseys left by a deceased grandmother. The following summer, the two once again leave the stifling heat of Tokyo, as if escaping to the mountain cottage. However, the next summer is very different...

운명에 이끌린 사랑이 시작되다. 후작 가문의 젊은 후계자 ‘키요아키’와 백작 가문의 아름다운 딸 ‘사토코’는 어린 시절을 함께 보낸 친구 사이다. ‘사토코’는 시간이 흐를수록 ‘키요아키’에 대한 자신의 사랑도 함께 커져가는 것을 깨닫고 그에게 계속 자신의 마음을 전한다. 하지만 사랑을 자각하지 못한 ‘키요아키’는 그녀의 그런 마음을 몰라주고 ‘사토코’를 매몰차게 밀어내기만 한다. 강물이 나누어 진다 해도 결국은 만날 것이니… 그러던 중, ‘사토코’는 황실의 눈에 들어 혼담이 오가게 된다. ‘키요아키’를 사랑한 ‘사토코’는 그에게 자신의 사랑을 담은 편지를 계속해서 보내지만 답장은 한 번도 받지 못한다. 그런 ‘키요아키’에게 실망한 그녀는 마지 못해 왕자와의 혼담을 받아들이고 만다. 상대가 황실인 지라 ‘사토코’의 약혼 소식은 일본 전역에 공표되고 ‘키요아키’ 역시 그 날카로운 진실로부터 예외일 수 없다. 이후 ‘키요아키’는 고요하던 자신의 가슴에 한바탕 큰 동요가 이는 것을 느끼고 뒤늦게 그녀에 대한 자신의 사랑을 깨닫는다. 그리고 격렬하게 ‘사토코’를 갈구하게 되는 ‘키요아키’. 운명으로 얽힌 그들은 결국 해서는 안 될 사랑을 키워나가게 되는데..

쿄바시 집안의 딸, 아들인 마나와 코우는 학교에 거의 가지 않고 있다. 어느 날 마나와 코우의 어머니 에리코는 식구들에게 일어나는 무슨 일이든 서로 숨기지 않기로 결정을 내리고 마나는 자신이 러브호텔에서 만들어졌다는 사실을 알게 된다. 건축에 관심이 많은 코우는 러브호텔의 형태에 흥미를 느끼고 안내를 받으려다가 미나를 만나게 되는데 미나는 쿄바시 집안의 아버지인 다카시의 애인이었다. 다카시에게는 또한 이이즈카라는 다른 애인도 있었으며 에리코는 이 사실을 눈치채고 있었다. 그러나 에리코에게 정작 괴로운 것은 어머니 사토코와의 앙금이었다.다카시가 집으로 돌아와 보니 미나가 코우의 가정 교사로 들어와 있었다. 다카시는 미나를 처음 만나는 척 한다. 며칠 뒤, 미나와 사토코는 크게 다투게 되는데...

A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange characters. He finds a job skewering meat in a dirty old room in a shabby old house filled with prostitutes, gangsters and a weird old tattoo master. He clearly doesn't fit in to this new world, and the inhabitants of it immediately despise him.

‘자토이치’는 도박과 마사지로 생계를 이어가는 맹인 방랑자. 하지만 이 남루한 행색의 사내에겐 외모와는 달리 신기에 가까운 능력이 있다. 번개처럼 빠르고 한치의 오차도 없이 상대를 찌르는, 전광석화 같은 검술이 그것! 민심이 흉흉한 어느 마을에 당도한 자토이치. 그는 도박장에서 비밀스러운 게이샤 자매를 만난다. 치명적인 미모를 지닌 ‘오키누’와 그녀의 동생 ‘오세이’는 아버지의 원수를 갚기 위해 신분을 위장한 채 주점에서 일하고 있다. 한편, 마을에 군림한 채 온갖 악행을 저지르는 ‘긴조’는 숙적들을 처단하기 위해 떠돌이 무사인 하토리’를 고용하기에 이른다. 맹인 검객, 게이샤 자매, 떠돌이 무사. 이제 이들은 결코 피할 수 없는 숙명적인 대결 앞에 서게 되는데.

Awkward and withdrawn, Masako kills her sister in an explosion of pent-up humiliation and rage that sends her tumbling into fugitive life.

Hisashi gets fired from his temp job due to his impulsiveness. One day he meets Chikako, a housewife who constantly shoplifts at the supermarket he regularly goes. He somehow agrees to help her to look for her run-away son, Masaru. Unfortunate to Hisashi, Masaru starts following his around instead of returning home, after he was found by Hisashi. Then they end up stealing a gun from a police officer! In their course of running away, the similar two who cannot adapt to society very well start to develop a mutual friendship…

다이쇼 시대의 유명 화가 다케히사 유메지를 다룬 ‘다이쇼 로망스’ 3부작 중 마지막 작품. 고삐 풀린 삶을 이어온 화가의 욕망과 불안이 현실과 환상을 오가며 펼쳐진다. 1991년 칸 영화제 주목할만한 시선에서 처음 소개되었다.

Mugiko, an 18-year-old attempts to escape her unhappiness with village life by going to Tokyo to live and work in the geisha house run by her aunt. The daughter of a once great geisha, Mugiko is entitled by blood to train in the geishas ancient art of classical Japanese song and dance.

In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school (Shingon) offered extensive training in complex and very demanding practices which might eventually bring about spiritual purification and realization. Various Zen schools offered students a lengthy path, literally composed of a blank wall and unceasing meditation. Yet another school (Tendai) emphasized complex metaphysics and the study of philosophical systems. Basically, all of them were designed to cater to the few who were able to give up everything else in their lives and focus on liberation, such as scholars and noblemen. In this historical and biographical drama, this is the situation that the young Shinran (1173-1263) discovered when he began exploring Buddhism as an alternative to the violence and ceaseless civil wars that racked Japan at the time.

Based on a polemic novel by Amy Yamada, Bedtime Eyes is about the intense love relationship between a second rate Japanese jazz singer and a black American GI on the margins of the law.

The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book The Location (Za Rokēshon), an illustrated 229-page document about the cameraman’s experiences with pink cast and crew on the sets of several films produced in the late 1970's.

1920년대 다이쇼 시대의 일본. 극작가인 마쓰사키는 우연히 신비로운 미녀 시나코를 만난다. 그녀와의 만남이 몇 차례 반복될수록 꿈과 현실 사이의 구분이 점점 모호해진다. 이즈미 교카의 동명 소설을 원작으로 한 ‘다이쇼 로망스’ 3부작 중 두 번째 작품이다.

‘다이쇼 로망스’ 3부작의 첫 번째 작품으로 우치다 핫켄의 소설을 원작으로 했다. 영화는 독일어 교수인 아오치의 여정을 따라가며 현실과 환상의 경계를 허문다. 내러티브보다는 스타일 자체에 집중하는 세이준 특유의 미학이 극명하게 드러나는 작품이다.

호시노 관방장관의 비서가 2억엔을 빌리러 금융왕 이시하라를 방문하지만, 이시하라는 바로 거절한다. 이시하라는 이 관방장관을 신문기자 후루가키에게 조사하도록 시킨다. 후루가키를 통해 현 정부의 부패를 알게 된 이시하라는 가미야 의원을 통해, 국회 결산 폭로하려고 하지만, 가미야의 배신으로 결국 후루가키는 살해되고, 이시하라는 세금 탈세로 붙잡히게 된다.

아들을 동반한 검객 5

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?

The woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law.

Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after, and they promise each other to meet again a year later. However, Seijiro gets jailed for five years. Unable to find him, Shizue gets married to a yakuza boss who can help her family business.

Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poisoning lawful wife of Tayu. To gain more power Ogin let her lover Isogai Iori, kill whoever interrupts her. Film it is based on Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's novel "Kyofu Jidai".

Story about a big boss who built the foundation of an industrial city.

The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the best 60′s B&W ninja movie ever seen in the otherwise color-dominated year of 1970. Issei Mori directs Hiroki Matsukata as the reluctant leader of a small band of spies charged with kidnapping a noblewoman from a heavily ninja-proofed castle. The finality of the air slowly began to fill like smoke, and in all that had become dark the loyalty of the Ninja who dared to go shone like light as they entered a world shrouded in mystery. Things do not go as planned in what is possibly the darkest and most fatalistic of the already noir-ish 60′s fare. Both the decade and it’s distinctive style of shinobi cinema went out on a high note with Mission Iron Castle.

Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies.

As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the famed Drenched Swallow sword. As an adult, she has become a skilled swordswoman and lives a carefree life with her adopted family. One day, Okin saves a girl from a group of yakuza, and in doing so, gets involved in a grand conspiracy involving religious leaders, government officials, the yakuza and Lord Daizen-dayu, the man who killed her father and mutilated her body...

Japanese crime film

Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

Japanese crime film

One of the nuns at Senjuan is Sister Shunko (Michiyo Yasuda). Unlike the usual nun, however, she often goes out to see the world, being of the opinion that nuns should not lead cloistered lives but should see something of modern life. She makes the acquaintance of a young girl named lkuko (Kayo Mikimoto) and saves her from the advances of a gangster named Goro (lchiro Nakatani). In the meantime she turns down several propositions and, in revenge, one of her admirers denounces her to the Mother Superior (Kuniko Miyake). This lady is of liberal views, however, and refuses to do anything about it. Then Shunko is visited by Goro's gang boss who wants lkuko back and says he will blackmail Shunko unless she agrees.

Sixth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

Japanese crime film

Ken Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by WWII. A broken man, he leads the dissolute life of a gigolo until a chance meeting with a fiery young athlete named Hiroko (Michiyo Yasuda). Realizing that she has talent as a sprinter, Miyagi sees a second chance at Olympic glory in becoming her coach. Following Miyagi’s unconventional, military-style training, Hiroko sets a record for the 100-meter dash, but her greatest hurdle proves to be a “sex check” which all professional athletes must pass.

A prostitute and her stepfather are falsely accused of murder, imprisoned, sexually abused and tortured. The real murderer will be discovered - and the girl will take revenge.

Fourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she enslaves him to her whims.

In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidaka to inaugurate negotiations. He was mysteriously assassinated, however, when his car was blown up. The General Staff Headquarters in Japan, sends Lieutenant Shiina, a graduate of the famed Nakano School of Spies inaugurated by Colonel Kusanagi, to investigate the matter. Arriving in Shanghai, he disguises himself as a Chinese coolie and sets out to watch for developments, the only clue being a silver dollar found beside what was left of the victim.

During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated in the Soviet Union, Ken sets off in search of him. The friendship of the great clown and the boy continues in Moscow.

[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned to overthrow him. It was the beginning of the Sengoku (Warring States) period. Three men attack a gunpowder maker in a farmhouse, the first chopping off his arm with his sickle-&-chain weapon, the second blinding him with sword, the third giving the killing blow. His son Kojiro Kosume escapes the attackers as everything he has known up to then explodes into conflagration. He grows up & enters the start of the Tokugawa Era, intent on avenging his father.

Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.

Keizo Tsujiguchi believes his wife Natsue was having an extramarital affair when their child was kidnapped and killed. He believes of her extramarital affair she was unable to watch over their child properly and blames her for their daughter's death. To exact revenge on his wife, he then adopts the killer's child without telling the truth to his wife or their newly adopted child.

A father decides to put his delinquent daughter into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere novitiate. Initially resistant to all forms of discipline, she ends up falling in love with the nun who is in charge of her.