Senri Sakurai

오케스트라에서 쫓겨난 피아니스트 겐타는 피아노를 칠 의미를 잃은 채 술에 취해 정신을 잃고 쓰러진다. 얼마 후 겐타는 낯설지만 왠지 익숙한 곳에서 눈을 뜬다. 겐타는 책방의 주인 야마키에 의해 단기 아르바이트로 천국에 끌려온 것이다. 천국으로 올라온 사람들로부터 의뢰 받은 책을 읽어 주는 것으로, 죽기 전 장래가 촉망 되는 피아니스트였던 쇼코에게 첫 의뢰를 받는다. 쇼코가 건네준 책장 사이에는 ‘영원’의 미완성 악보가 그려져있는데...

Eiko Akimori is a 23-year-old woman who lives alone in an apartment. One day, Eiko is made to buy a big stone ring that brings happiness from a catch sales on the way home from work.

모든 남자들이 바가지머리를 하고 살아가는 작은 시골마을. 바가지 머리에 대단한 자부심을 갖고 살아 가는 이 마을 유일무이한 이발관 주인 요시노 아줌마. 아무런 불만 없이 잘 살아가던 이들에게 일생일대 반란(?)의 바람이 일기 시작한다. 그것은 바로 갈색의 찰랑이는 머리를 하고 당도한 전학생!! 모든 여학생의 관심이 전학생에게 몰리자 촌스러운 바가지머리 때문이라고 생각한 남자 아이들은 자신들의 헤어스타일에 의문을 품고 바가지머리에서 벗어나기 위한 작전에 돌입한다. 아이들의 반란이 태동하면서 전학생에게 더욱 조여오는 바가지 머리의 압박. 더는 피할 곳도 숨을 곳도 없다. 과연 그들의 반란은 성공 할 수 있을까? 그리고 그들이 진정 원하는 것은 무엇일까?

하급 무사인 이구치 세이베에는 가족들을 돌보기 위해 일과가 끝나면 동료들과 어울리지도 않고 곧장 집으로 돌아간다. 친구들은 이런 그를 황혼의 세이베에라며 놀리지만 그는 아랑곳하지 않는다. 그러던 어느 날, 세이베에는 옛친구인 이이누마와 재회하고 그의 여동생인 토모에가 친정에 돌아와 있다는 사실을 전해듣는다. 그리고 우연한 기회에 토모에의 남편과 결투를 하게 된 세이베에는 그를 간단히 제압하여 이름을 알리게 된다. 남편의 학대를 받고 살아오던 토모에는 이 일을 계기로 세이베에와 가까워지는데...

전쟁으로 폐허가 된 시공간을 알 수 없는 일본. 이자와는 비록 허름한 뒷골목에서 살고 있지만 영화를 만들겠다는 꿈 하나로 힘든 하루하루를 버텨가고 있다. 하지만 이자와를 둘러싼 사람들은 이미 세파에 찌들거나 전쟁의 후유증으로 미쳐간다. 창시자로 유명한 만화가 데츠카 오사무의 아들 데츠카 마코토가 만든 작품. 제4회 부산국제영화제 아시아 영화의 창에서 상영되었고, 1999년 베니스영화제에서 Future Film Festival Digital Award 를 수상하기도 하였다.

Sayo and Keiji have eloped to New Zealand to marry, away from the interference of Keiji's disapproving mother in Japan. On their honeymoon, they have the freedom to express their love away from her repressive influence. However, on what should be the happiest of days, Keiji is drowned and Sayo must, by custom, return to live with her cruel and selfish mother-in-law.

The members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their hometown, they move from Shikoku to Tokyo and resume their fraudulent activities. Everything carries on smoothly until the eldest and the fourth sons' modus operandi go awry, the mother's lover runs off with another woman, and disasters strike one after another. This film is a collaboration between Yoichi Sai and Goro Kishitani following "All Under the Moon." The family business of the Ameya family is defrauding people. The matriarch, who keeps getting married and divorced, has five children with different fathers. The Ameya family chases after fortune and leaves a trail of trouble on their path.

A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz band and reignites his youthful passion for the music, giving him a chance to set things right in his life.

During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and his family help the friend's daughter, who becomes romantically involved with an aspiring artist.

A young man working as a cameraman in Tokyo is visited for three days by his parents from the countryside.

Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife asks Tora-san to help find him, he falls in love with her, and secretly hopes the husband will not be found.

Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to take his place, but gets into an argument with his brother-in-law's boss and returns to the road. He meets a young woman in Niigata who, unbeknownst to him, is a popular enka singer.

Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist Saburō, and attempts to play matchmaker between the two when they all return to Tokyo.

Depicting the friendship of three boys in New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo.

Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.

Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt. Tora attempts to match Watt with a young waitress.

Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his family, he goes to a bar to drink, then brings home a surly old man with a sad story, whose identity will surprise everyone. Later, Tora meets Botan, a geisha.

Comedy of a phony doctor.

The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because the mine he worked in was shut down. He decides to resettle with his whole family to Hokkaido in northern Japan and start a new life as a farmer.

Comedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip.

A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats.

The sixth "Japan's No. 1 Man" feature. Followed by "Japan’s No. 1 Disconnected Man".

The desires and pretensions of woman of the Ginza are depicted.

A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats.

Two rival groups of gangsters vie for control of a tiny port town in northern Japan. Daisuke, a member of the older of the two gangs, and Kosuke, a hoodlum in the newer gang, both fall in love with the daughter of an inn proprietor, even though she evinces more interest in improving the town than in their romantic advances. Eventually, the two hoodlums come to respect her efforts and decide to join forces in ridding the town of all gangsters. The two men succeed in restoring peace to the town and, rejected by the innkeeper's daughter, they leave town as friends.

Hazama meets a woman at a restaurant and she asks him to protect her and her diamond.

International thief Zivaco, who can assume any identity, eludes the authorities and battles rival thief WCWC for a rare gold samurai sword.

After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just to cause them problem after problem.

Japanese drama film.

The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures throughout the 1960s. Las Vegas Free-For-All, one of their most popular movies, featured scenes filmed on location in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Hawaii. Appearing with the seven Cats were the lovely Mie Hama and such Japanese musical artists as The Peanuts, The Johnnys, The Drifters, and Jackie Yoshikawa & the Blue Comets.

A Japanese stage actor in Yokohama is terminally ill, and is determined to end his life, but doesn’t know to have inherited a large sum of money from Switzerland.

Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with Gen, a boorish drifter who approaches life one day at a time.

A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge themselves on cruel landlords, animate the corpse of a money-lender in order to frighten people. Then they assist at the marriage of a lovely girl and almost kill themselves gambling to provide her with a dowry.

Sangoro Oiwake runs out of money. He visits rice shop, eat and drink for free, and owners send him to prison. In prison Sangoro will have a new life

The music teacher, who danced the twist at the graduation ceremony of the solemn female school, was fired but became star. First film in popular "Number 1" Series.

An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder.