Izumi Hara

Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult lead by a corrupt sociopath.

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.

제2차 세계 대전을 앞둔 열렬한 민족주의자들의 수개월 동안, 반항적인 십대는 작은 내해 마을의 새로운 초등학교로 전학을 간다. 그는 그의 이복 여동생에게 낭만적인 관심을 갖는 학교의 지배적인 불량배와 경쟁한다. 그들은 그녀가 아버지의 빚을 갚기 위해 사창가로 팔려갈 것이라는 것을 알고 그녀를 풀어주기 위해 불안한 동맹을 맺는다.

트럭운전수 고로와 그의 조수는 라면이야기를 하다 잠시 트럭을 세우고 라면집으로 들어간다. 그곳은 바로 담뽀뽀가 혼자 꾸려가는 라면집 '라이라이'다. 담뽀뽀는 물이 끓지도 않는데 면을 집어넣고 라면을 끓이고, 적당히 먹고 일어서려던 고로는 담뽀뽀를 연모하는 패거리들과 싸움이 붙는다. 그것이 인연이 되어 담뽀뽀는 고로에게 라면 스승이 되어달라고 간청하고 고로는 담뽀뽀를 도와주기로 한다. 이들은 아침마다 운동을 해 체력을 키우기도 하고, 라면집을 순회하며 미각을 강화시키는 것은 물론, 경영전략을 익히기도 한다. 면발을 연구하기 위해 쓰레기통을 뒤지고, 몰래 남의 라면 국물 비법을 훔쳐보기도 하는 등 갖은 노력끝에 담뽀뽀는 점점 자신만의 라면을 만들어 가는데...

One spring, Tasaka, an elementary school teacher, receives a new class of first graders. While taking the children's attendance, Tasaka is surprised to see a call girl he once had an encounter with standing among the parents in the back of the classroom. According to the school's files, her name is Yukako Sawada, and her child Eisaku has no legal father. The next day, Eisaku gives Tasaka a letter from Yukako asking to meet at the hotel where they first met, and Tasaka sets out with an uneasy feeling...

In Okinawa, a Japanese-Filipino gangster named Joe kills an Okinawan mobster. Joe temporarily escapes the pursuing mob by fleeing to the Philippines, hoping to find there safety and perhaps to link up with his father. He meets Yoko, a saloon girl, who looks after him, but soon Joe's enemies show up, determined to make Joe pay.

1938년 일본 오카야마현 쓰야마에서 일어난 30인 살인사건에 기반한 영화

A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his romance with the eccentric Kaede and parents selected fiancee Ayako.

Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful twin sisters and tragic events unfold.

The biography of Mifune Chizuko a woman clairvoyant.

Based on the comic book by Leiji Matsumoto.

A Young couple find a boad buried under a beach,and are taken to another world where they must face a Deadly cult who want to sacrifice them.

1978 Japanese film directed by Yoichi Takabayashi.

Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead with him to take her brother's case. They live in Kitakyushu which, though a city, she contends that the local lawyers are not up to the job. Otsuka contemptuously brushes her off. A year passes. Masao has suicided in jail, his appeal having failed due to the lack of interest and competence of the local defence lawyer. Kiriko returns to Tokyo, planning revenge on Otsuka for refusing the case and causing her brother's death.

선천적으로 앞을 볼 수 없는 오린은 연주와 노래를 하며 떠돌아 다니는 맹인 여자 예인들인 고제가 된다. 남자와의 관계를 금하는 고제의 계율을 어겨 홀로 떠돌아 다니는 하나레 고제가 되어 힘든 생활을 하던 중 한 남자를 만나게 되는데...

‘팔묘촌’, ‘옥문도’의 작가 요코미조 세이시의 동명소설을 스크린에 옮긴 작품. 우리나라에는 소년탐정 ‘김전일’의 조부로 더 잘 알려진 명탐정 킨다이치 코스케가 이누가미 가문에서 벌어지는 연쇄살인사건을 해결해 나가는 추리물이다. 1976년 일본 최고의 흥행작이자 카도카와 영화사 시대를 연 기념비적 작품으로 독특한 오프닝과 몇몇 편집기법도 당시로서는 충격적이었다. 이 영화를 통해 킨다이치 코스케라는 가상의 인물은 일본의 국민탐정으로 떠 올랐고, 그가 등장하는 영화 및 TV 드라마가 수없이 만들어졌다. 2006년 감독 스스로 리메이크해 다시 한번 세상에 내놓기도 했던 작품.

낯선 카니발풍의 마을을 배경으로 한 어린 소년들의 성년 이야기는 감독이 20년 후에 가지고 있는 추억의 재창조가 된다.

Film about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.

Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru recalls the old days spent on the island with his young, beautiful mother.

A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.

"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving three women: his wife of ten years who announces she is pregnant by another man; a mistress who wants to have a baby with him; and an ex-lover who claims he fathered her son.

A master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special tree for carving a statue for the local temple. Finding refuge in an abandoned hut they celebrate their luck in finding the tree but soon they are visited by the Snow Witch who freezes the sculptor to death but takes pity on the apprentice. He must promise to never speak of this or she'll return and kill him.

A man sets out to search for his brother among the survivors of Hiroshima after an anonymous letter.

In ancient Japan, a good lord is killed and his throne is taken by the trecherous Yuki Daijo and his wizard friend Oroki-maru. The young prince Ikazuki-maru is rescued from the jaws of death by a magic bird sent by a wizard. Ten years later, Ikazuki-maru embarks on an adventure to avenge his parents and the wizard's death with his magic powers he learned from the wizard. He kills Yuki Daijo but then must battle Oroki-maru in a battle to the death.

The fictional land "Pandora" sends three (numbered) graduates of the "National Gambling University" to Japan. You should defeat the master player Kôji, control the international casino empire and use the profits to achieve world domination. But Japan's most famous left hand knows what to do.

After a yakuza boss is assassinated by a rival, his naval officer son returns home to take over the gang.

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. With nowhere to go, the two wander around, befriending a cosmetics salesman and a kind waitress who give them beer. This biting social satire starring two memorable grandmothers, scripted by Yôko Mizuki, picked up on Japan’s aging population problem far ahead of its time.

The murder took place at a hotel in Matsushima. The victim is a woman about 28 years old. The suspect is a young man who visited her the night before, and the evidence, in addition to shoe horns and handkerchiefs, is soap with the name of the tavern. When detectives at Shiogama Station followed the man's tracks, it turned out that he had come from Ueno.

전쟁에서 겪은 사고 때문에 청각을 잃은 아키코는 특수학교에서 만난 청각장애인 미치오와 결혼한다. 척박한 환경 속에서도 두 사람은 작은 행복을 향해 열심히 노력하고, 영화는 이들이 삶에서 만나는 기쁨과 슬픔, 고난의 순간을 생생하게 묘사한다.

전국 시대, 가이 지방의 후에후키 강변. 사다헤이와 오케이는 아들 셋과 딸 하나를 데리고 농사를 지으며 살고 있다. 농사를 싫어한 장남 소조는 입신양명을 꿈꾸며 다케다 신겐의 휘하로 들어가고, 부모의 반대에도 불구하고 동생들까지 데려가 버린다.

An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love.

일반 병사가 된 카지는 군대의 부조리를 보지 못하고 매번 부조리한 상황에 반항하게 된다. 하지만 자신과 같이 인간적인 면을 가지고 있는 선임 신조에게 끌려 그의 사상인 공산주의에 조금씩 끌리게 된다. 그러다 부상을 당한 카지는 병원에 입원을 하게 되고 그곳에서 자신과 같은 뜻을 가진 단게를 만나고 마음의 위안을 가지고 그곳에서 퇴원을 하며 자신의 고향 친구인 카게야마가 자신의 부대의 소대장으로 온다. 친구 카케야마의 도움을 통하여 신병들을 자신의 방법대로 인간적인 방법을 통하여 훈련시키게 되지만 이것을 탐탁치 않게 생각했던 선임들에게 매번 당하고 지내다 전쟁이 시작되고 카지는 전쟁에 휘말리게 되고 일본군은 대패를 하게 된다.

Focuses on the mutual antipathy of two groups of children in an Izu village.

The 3rd Moonlight Mask movie from the 50s.

Second Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

First Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

A touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a fishery business to revive an ailing farming community creates friction amongst the proud residents.

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the situation for the girls becomes increasingly desperate as food and shelter run out and the number of injured climbs, leading to the film's tragic finale.

This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the warmth of a Korean girl she meets, and the friendliness of this Korean girl’s family.

Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to him. Kayo, a strong-willed doctor, is also attracted to him. A mediator tries to arrange a marriage but just at that point Minowada receives military call-up papers.

Venice Film Festival 1939

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.