Sachio Obi

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

A youngster, Wil had a dissatisfaction to the society which the computer controls the total life of a person. One day he catches a strange telepathy from outer space.

1938년 일본 오카야마현 쓰야마에서 일어난 30인 살인사건에 기반한 영화

야시로 세이이치의 동명 희곡을 영화화한 작품. 춘화도를 그렸던 카츠시카 호쿠사이의 이야기를 그린다.

Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.

A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk.

Kobayashi Isamu, a first-year high school student, lives in a family of four with his father, an artist, his mother, an insurance agent, and his sister, an office worker. To make ends meet, he works as a milkman. At school, he is a member of the kendo club and spends his days working out with his seniors. Over time, he has various encounters with a series of girls.

A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same man that her husband is hunting. Once he discovers this, he loses his nerve and turns in his badge. But the chase turns into a personal vendetta where the ex-cop plans to wipe out the entire gang.

Suspense film about a beautiful photographer who becomes involved in a murder case.

The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child. Rescued and adopted by a master swordsman, he has grown into a master swordsman and a very kind gentleman. The time is around 1868 the year that the nails were finally put into the coffin containing the feudal system that nurtured and sustained the samurai. Sugi is confused and unsure about what is happening but his teacher wants him out of the chaos of the multiple power struggles between the various clans.

A sentimental drama about aspiring artist, Eiji, who rescues a blind girl. His friends Goro and Minoru and the blind girl's sister Kazue are a happy group until Goro steals money from Kazue's purse. Goro is arrested and his friends start bothering Eiji. To escape their harassment he changes jobs. But then he becomes the victim of an unexpected accident.

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Kojiro. Part II builds toward that great duel on Ganryu Island, with considerable focus on Musashi's planning & forethought as to how to gain an advantage.

Two assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone is watching...

Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.

Comedy of a phony doctor.

After a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride.

Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his sister Sakura. Meanwhile, a new tenant moves into Toraya restaurant.

Tsutomu (Kensaku Morita), an orphan who once stabbed a man, is released from a reformatory and goes to Tottori, on the Japan Sea coast, to enter a high school. On the beach, he meets a young fisherman, Yusuke (Norihiko Yamamoto) also a student of the same school. They become friends and Tsutomu is offered free board at Yusuke's home.

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.

After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an honest worker with a steady job.

After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he owes them, but the plan hits a snag. Also, a pretty kindergarten teacher rents a room at Toraya.

Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.

Contemporary drama of action-oriented photographer who scuba-dives. He witnesses an accident that appears to be a homicide.

Tora-San, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly at a marriage meeting and ruining Sakura's chance to marry someone, as well as just being a real pain to those around him. There is a sentimental side to him also, and the best way to describe him is that he grows on you.

Light comedy about three high-school girls on the campus.

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.

Also known as "History of a Man’s Face" and "By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him" . Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense, and only the tough but suave Dr. Amamiya (Ando) can stop them, as long as he gets rid of his silly peace-loving ideals.

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.

When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.

Love story between a student and girl whose parents are itinerant entertainers. Set in Japan in the 1920's.

시노다 마사히로의 데뷔작으로 당시 폭발적인 인기를 얻고 있던 로큰롤 뮤직광들의 세계를 허무주의적인 시각에서 다룬 작품. 목표 없이 방황하는 젊은이들의 삶을 통해 당시 사회의 모순을 감각적이고 예리한 시선으로 고발하는 한편, 방향성을 잃은 현대일본의 방황과 소외, 염세주의 등 시노다 마사히로가 이후 계속해서 천착하게 되는 모더니즘적인 테마가 잘 드러나 있다. (2006년 한국시네마테크협의회 - 일본영화 계승과 혁신 : 쇼치쿠 110주년 영화제)

A mother and her daughter who run a quiet mountain hotel, and guests who visit the hotel. A girl who does not know what a broken heart is, the attractive joy of first love, and separation is like parting with life. The mother-daughter duet with Isuzu Yamada attracted a lot of attention at that time. Haruko Wanibuchi, demonstrated rare attractiveness and pure charm by playing a heroine living in a beautiful and pure first love.

Japanese romantic comedy film.

A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.

젊은 커플이 2차 세계대전의 공습하에 동경의 수키야바시대교에서 만나게 된다. 둘은 반년 후 다시 만날 것을 약속하나 결국 약속을 지키지 못하게 된다. 그녀는 다른 남자와 결혼하게 되고... (2004 한국영상자료원 - 1950년~60년대 동아시안 멜로영화전)