Koichi Kawakami

스러져가는 핑크 영화업계에 사는 영화감독 쿠타니와 각본가 지망이었던 남자 이세키는 장마의 어느 날에 만나, 자신들이 사랑했던 여자 배우 쇼코에 대해 이야기하기 시작한다. 3명이 매달려왔던 영화로의 꿈이 너덜너덜하게 무너지기 시작하는 중, 각자의 인생이 교착해간다.

Mito Domain Samurai Seki Tetsunosuke must pay the consequences for his role in the assassination of Great Elder Ii Naosuke. Based on true events.

In Kagoshima, in the final days of World War II, an offer of marriage comes to Etsuko Kamiya, who lives with her brother and his wife. The offer comes from Nagayo, but Etsuko is attracted to his friend, Akashi.

Short film part of "Three... Extremes", a horror film collaboration consisting of three segments by three directors from three countries. Kyoko, a 25 year-old novelist, frequently experiences nightmares of her past as a circus performer.

segment 1 - '상자(Box)'(일본). 서커스 단원인 쌍둥이 자매, 쿄코와 쇼코. 의붓 아버지 히키타를 사랑하는 교코는 그의 사랑을 독차지하는 쇼코를 질투한다. 언니가 없어지길 바랬던 교코는 그녀를 위험에 빠뜨리고 결국, 쇼코는 화재로 목숨을 잃는다. 어느덧 어른이 된 교코. 어느 날, 언니의 이름으로 배달된 흰 장미꽃과 초대장을 받는다. 이제, 오랫동안 감춰져 있던 무서운 비밀들이 하나씩 드러나기 시작하는데... segment 2 - '만두(餃子: Dumplings)'(홍콩). 젊은 시절 유명 배우였던 칭. 어린 여자를 만나는 남편 때문에 외로움과 질투를 느끼던 그녀는 젊어지고 싶은 욕망에 사로잡힌다. 그러던 중, 먹으면 젊어지게 된다는 메이의 만두 가게를 찾아 간다. 매일 매일 만두를 먹던 그녀는 거짓말처럼 다시 젊음을 되찾게 된다. 어느 날, 칭은 신비의 만두가 낙태한 태아로 만들어졌다는 엄청난 비밀을 알게 된다. 그러나, 이미 중독이 되어버린 그녀는 더 큰 재료를 찾아다니기 시작하는데... segment 3 - '컷(Cut). 한국. 능력 있고, 부유하고, 착하기까지 한 남부러울 것 없는 인기 영화감독. 어느 날, 그의 집에 괴한이 칩입했다. 감독은 자신의 집과 똑같이 만든 촬영 세트장에 갇히게 된다. 감독을 착하다는 이유만으로 납치한 괴한은 그의 아내를 피아노 줄로 꽁꽁 묶어 놓은 채, 길거리에서 데려온 아이를 죽이지 않으면 아내의 손가락을 자르겠다고 협박한다. 아내의 손가락이냐, 아이의 목숨이냐... 이제, 감독은 끔찍한 딜레마에 빠지게 되는데...

About a family shouldering an unexpected responsibility when Alzheimer's disease strikes their grandmother. The superb cast portrays this serious and realistic situation with heart-warming compassion, stressing the importance of empathizing with the victims of this difficult disease.

Living in an old Tokyo district, Kenichi works at a second-hand bookshop to support his sister, Yoko, a high school student. When Yoko graduates, she starts work at a photo shop. By the time, Kenichi's girlfriend has decided to marry someone else as she is tired of waiting for him. When Yoko starts dating Kenichi's best friend, Makoto , he is strangely resentful, but when Makoto is involved in a fatal accident, brother and sister resume their routine life.

Kazuo encounters a religious group travelling around Japan performing "miracles". He discovers they are fakes, but is intrigued by the showmanship of the group, and becomes involved with them. The group is split into two, some members concentrating on spiritual teachings, and the others using the facade of religion to make money. The business faction dismiss the old spiritual master and choose Kazuo to lead their group.

A widow and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku people are forced to reside. The two boys are continuously harassed by their teachers and classmates through their childhood as a result of their Buraku heritage. In the midst of the 1918 Great Rice Riots in Osaka, Seitaro meets with Asako, the daughter of a rice shop owner, and falls in love with her. She too is of Buraku descent. At the same period, Hideaki, an old friend of the brothers returns to Komori, and he along with Koji and the townspeople create "Zenkoku Suiheisha", the National Levelers Association, an organization pledged to build a bridge over the river of discrimination, making all people equal in every way.

A hospital accidentally gives a man Count Dracula's blood while trying to save his life. A year later, he's back from the dead, trying to right the wrongs of his life while trying to resist the urge to become a vampire.

야마모토가 여관에서 주인공 츠구미와 친구인 마이아의 관점으로 바라보는 청춘영화. 소녀에서 여자로 탈바꿈하는 시기에 세 주인공, 츠구미와 요코와 마리아가 바닷가 마을에서 함께 보내는 마지막 여름. 거기에서 타카하시 교이치라는 남자를 만난 츠구미는 사랑에 빠진다.

Yusuke Mikuni, a department manager at his company, buys a one-room apartment to have some space to himself. He signs an agreement with a young woman named Chako and has an affair with her once a week at the apartment.

A sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine.

Based on the novel of the same name by Yoshio Kataoka.

Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband's emotional conflicts with the wisdom of an adult. Kazumi's younger and more inexperienced husband Hideo is continually suspicious of her fidelity.

홋카이도의 황야를 배경으로 30대 부부와 20대 부부의 이야기가 그려지며, 결혼 교환을 주제로 강렬한 에로스와 섬세한 이미지로 두 남녀의 미묘한 감정이 그려진다.

Yahagi Michiko is accosted and raped walking home one evening. From there she maneuvers the logistics of the police, hospital, and criminal justice system while balancing her home life including romantic relationships.

A story about a woman who is a research student of a theater company and the three men who are at the mercy of her.

‘여자의 몸은 머리부터 발끝까지 성의 도구가 된다.' 여대생 토시는 시인인 오다 선생을 만나, 누가 먼저랄 것도 없이 서로에 대한 연정을 키워간다. 많은 나이 차에도 두 사람의 사랑은 깊어만 가지만, 토시는 유부남인 오다의 애정에 갈증을 느낀다. 한동안 연락이 없는 오다의 빈자리에 토시는 점점 지쳐 가는데…

A young woman breaks off her long-term relationship with her boyfriend to move to Tokyo in search of new experiences.

Mariko is living the life of a typical Japanese college student in the 70's, spending far more of her time balancing boyfriends and part-time jobs than on her schoolwork. She finds herself torn between a former boyfriend who's the tough, insensitive-but-sexy, type, and a new acquaintance who's more sensitive to her feelings, but who still acts childishly selfish at times. Will she choose one of them, or decide to go her own way?

My Town, My Youth is an inspiring film shot twenty years after the official recognition of the disease and focuses on a group of young people (many born with the disease) as they mobilise to keep their cause visible by organising a concert by the popular enka singer Ishikawa Sayuri.

Third and Shinbunbu embark on a plan to make money by Third becoming a pimp and Shinbunbu a prostitute.

This film was directed by a member of the Ogawa collective, Fukuda Katsuhiko, while they were finishing the documentary Sanrizuka: Heta Village. Fukuda left the collective after this film and continued making documentaries in the village of Heta. Credit: ICA London