Yōko Yamamoto

With all the unrest and uncertainty in the world today, now feels as good a time as any for a movie portraying good will and love between people from opposing countries. The film is a love story set in the city of Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture on the Japanese island of Shikoku against the historical backdrop of the Russo-Japanese War. The movie is centered around the romance between a Russian officer, a war prisoner in Matsuyama, and a Japanese nurse who find themselves on opposing sides of the war. It is a kind of "Romeo and Juliet story of the Russo-Japanese War".

전설의 무사 만지는 영원히 죽지 못하는 저주에 걸린다. 잔인하게 죽임당한 여동생 때문에 괴로워하던 만지는 린이라는 소녀를 만나게 되고, 그녀의 부모를 죽인 사람들에게 대한 복수를 약속하게 되는데….

Fifty elderly women are abandoned to die on a snow covered mountain, but instead wor together to build their own village named "Dendera." Some of the women wants to live their remaining days in peace, but others seek revenge against the villagers and their own families who left them to die.

Fifth movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. At the behest of a corrupt bureaucrat, a mysterious band of murderers wage a bloody battle against three deadly assassins.

Nagare, a painter who wanted to commit a lover’s suicide with Mizue, the wife of his friend and patron Takigawa. Growing afraid at the last moment, he doesn’t go through with it – but Mizue sinks to the bottom of Blue Lake. Some time later, Nagare follows an invitation by Takigawa, who claims to have forgiven everything. To Nagare’s shock, Takigawa’s new wife, Ameko, looks exactly like Mizue. While staying as Takigawa’s guest, Nagare becomes haunted by Mizue’s ghost, who wants to be reunited with him at the bottom of Blue Lake.

오사카 공단 지역에서 곱창구이 가게를 운영하는 아빠와 함께 사는 초등학교 5학년 치에. 그녀는 항상 입버릇처럼 “난 일본에서 가장 불행한 소녀야!” 라고 말하고 다닌다. 노름을 좋아하는 아빠와 가출한 엄마를 재결합시키기로 결심한 치에. 그녀는 다양한 방법을 동원하여 아빠와 엄마의 만남을 만들어낸다.

비행기 승무원으로 일하는 테라다 타츠야는 신문에 난 사람찾는 기사를 보고 한 오사카의 법률사무소로 향한다. 기사에서 찾는 사람에게 있다는 특별한 화상이 자신에게도 있기 때문이다. 타츠야는 그 곳에서 자신의 외할아버지라는 이가와 우시마츠와 만나지만 우시마츠는 그 자리에서 돌연 급사하고 만다. 그 후 친척인 모리 미야코의 안내로 자신의 고향인 팔묘촌에 도달한다. 미야코는 타츠야의 이복형인 다지미 히사야가 병상에 누워 있기 때문에 타츠야가 다지미가의 뒤를 이을 유일한 후계자라 말하고, 이 팔묘촌에 얽힌 기괴한 과거사를 들려준다.

Japanese crime film.

Japanese crime film.

Adaptation of the novel by Toyoko Yamasaki.

2 years ago, Kumi broke up with Shuhei and decided to forget everything about him for good. However, after being told that her younger sister, Junko, fall in love with a man and is currently living with him. She was determined to discover who was the man who won her sister's heart. But what will happen when she found out that the man in question is Shuhei, her first love?

A 1971 crime film

A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.

Japanese crime film

Nomi-gumi, who plans to control Tama City, has begun to hurt Takase-gumi. Muraki, an executive, was entrusted with the destruction, but he was a brother of Takase-gumi's substitute, Tsukada. Muraki, who missed Tsukada and the old days at Tsukada's wife Shizue's shop, took the future of turning to the enemy painfully.

Japanese crime film

A college student comes to a wealthy family as a tutor for their son, an elementary school student, he cheerfully encourages his student, captivates him with the spirit of sports and falls in love with the daughter of the owner of the house. A masterpiece of youth drama starring the eternal idol Kazuo Funaki.

After being sexually assaulted on a rooftop, seventeen year old Poppo meets a mysterious boy, and swap their traumas and fears, with fatal consequences.

In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an English teacher.

Romance about student-nurse interns.

It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to star as the lead in "My Sweetheart". One day, half way through production, he meets his friends from a popular rock group, "The Spiders". Through their discussion regarding the climax scene, they criticize that the script is too grim. In a notion to protect their friend's career, they decide to pay the scriptwriter a little visit.

Kuroda (Jô Shishido) is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji (Tatsuya Fuji) and aspiring boxer Saburô (Jirô Okazaki), the trio escalate their mob retaliation to all-out turf war where no one will stop until one faction emerges victorious.

외딴섬으로 탐험을 떠난 사람들은 원주민이 신으로 숭배하는 갓파라는 존재의 알을 발견하여 도쿄로 가지고 온다. 알이 부화한 뒤 나타난 것은 날개 달린 도마뱀의 모습이었다. 고질라와 가메라에 필적할 갓파의 국내 첫 공개.

During the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a small town. But he does not know that his prowess has already attracted envious attention and that Senzo, the boss of the local gang, plans to have him killed. Seiji, the disowned son of the innkeeper, has run up a big gambling bill and, to settle it, the hoodlums decide to kill him. He is saved, however, by Hanako, star of the dancing troupe also staying at the inn. Gengo meets Hanako and learns that the troupe cannot open their show because the local police corruptly demand too much of the receipts. After another fight, Gengo sees the police-chief on behalf of the troupe, but is refused. So he suspects that the police and the hoodlums are implicated with each other. There seems no way to open the show until they hear that the governor is coming to the town for a local banquet. They appeal to him and he promises to investigate. It is decided that a duel will settle the matter...

A young boss proves his right to rule his gang.

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Namida ni naritai" by Teruhiko Saigo.

A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is the father of a woman he loves.

Yukiko is on her way to meet Boss Gunji. Judging by her appearance, no one would suspect that this beautiful young woman, sitting quietly in a suburban train, is the only woman able to beat the best professional players in Japan; or that she is wearing the tattoo of the man that loved her and died for her...

An eroticized adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu's classic novel, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the nobility of Kyoto for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing the one object of desire he must never obtain: his father's young and beautiful bride. Following the tragic consequences of his obsession, Genji wanders from one affair to another, always seeking some sort of completion to his life.

She'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again, Shimako was attending another wedding reception that wasn't hers. She knew the procedure: watch the bride and groom get congratulated, smile to cover up the loneliness. But she didn't want to feel like this forever. In that moment, Shimako decided that the next wedding she'd attend had to be her own.

When the mysterious “Joe of Spades” (Jo Shishido) executes one of the bosses of a powerful syndicate, his colleagues, fearing for their own lives, call on the services of assassin agency Murder Unincorporated to take care of the problem. This unique entry showcases some of the most peculiar killing tactics to ever hit Japanese cinema!

Japanese comedy film.

A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds himself torn by the death of an old friend - the son of crime kingpin Kiyomiya. A death Ryuji feels responsible for.

Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the evenings. He even rents a secret apartment where he keeps record of his girl hunts in his diary, the ‘Hunter’s Diary’. One day, he finds an article in the newspaper – a murder of a young woman in his diary. A few days later, another woman from his diary is murdered. He soon finds himself in a labyrinth of fear, as women named in his diary are killed one after another...

미카미는 대학 교육을 받고 사격선수로도 활동한 촉망받는 경찰이다. 그는 동료인 이시즈카와 함께 마약거래를 단속하던 중 중간책인 히라오카 영감을 붙잡는다. 미카미는 히라오카의 마음씨 착한 딸 레코에게 연정을 느끼지만 이송 도중 도주를 시도한 히라오카 영감을 사살하고 만다. 그리고 과잉 대처로 징계를 받아 경찰을 그만두게 된다.