Isao Bitō

The documentary about how Beatles went popular in Japan and did a concert in Budokan back in 1966.

Master Shinkome asks Shinden to find a former disciple, Shintoto, from his rakugoka (comic storytelling) family. Shinden visits ex-disciples in his search for Shintoto.

첫 번째 인연, 고아원에서 도망나와 빵을 훔치다 붙잡힌 아키오. 겁에 질려 있는 그에게 형사 토오야마는 따뜻한 빵을 건넨다.. 두 번째 운명, 엄격하고 강압적인 감화원 생활 속에서 따뜻하고 다정한 요코 선생님을 만난다. 그녀로 인해 에클레르에 대한 동경과 '과자와 소녀' 노래를 의지삼아 미래의 희망을 꿈꾼다. 세 번째 악연, 감화원을 떠나 후사노 아주머니 댁에 입양된 아키오. 처음으로 가족이 생긴 기쁨에 은혜에 보답하고자 부지런히 일을 하며 돈을 벌어오지만, 사고로 잠시 일을 쉬어야 하는 지경에 이르자 후사노 아주머니의 본심을 알게 되고 크게 실망한다. 네 번째 우연, 집을 뛰쳐나온 아키오. 거리에서 떠돌다 유랑극단을 만나 잡일을 하면서 전국을 순회하며 살게 되지만, 전쟁으로 인해 극단은 해산되고 아키오는 또 다시 혼자가 된다. 다섯번째 필연, 요코 선생님은 남편을 따라 히로시마로, 아버지처럼 따랐던 토오야마 형사는 공습에 죽었다는 소식을 듣고 절망한 아키오는 결국 모든 삶의 끈을 놓기로 한다.. 거리의 고아들에 의해 다시 살아난 아키오는 새로운 꿈과 희망을 품고 씩씩하게 살아간다.

2006년에 개봉한 '이누가미 일족(1976)'의 리메이크 영화. 76년작을 만든 감독 이치카와 콘과 배우 이시카와 코지가 다시 제작, 출연했다. 노노미야 다마요 역에는 마츠시마 나나코가 출연했다. 76년작과 거의 차이가 없으며 오히려 밋밋해졌다는 평가를 받으며 혹평을 받았다.

Kotaro and Kuroe marry almost immediately in a Christian ceremony and move into an apartment. Life is completely joyous until, one day, Kuroe falls ill.

에도 시대, 한 마을의 관가에서 일하는 사람들이 아직 출근하지 않은 새로 부임한 사또에 대해 험담을 하고 있다. 이전에 있던 사또가 너무나 나쁜 짓을 많이 하여 쫓겨나고, 새롭게 부임한 사또는 에도에서 온 자로 이름은 모치쯔키 고헤이타. 그는 딱딱한 관직에 있으면서 놀기도 좋아했지만 정의감에 불타는 인물로 붙여진 별명이 "정의의 사도 헤이타"라고 불리울 정도로 불의를 보면 참지 못하는 성격을 갖은 자였다. 이 마을의 외곽지역에 밀무역, 매춘, 도박, 살상 등이 아무렇지 일어나는 곳이 있었는데, 그 곳에는 3명의 두목이 권력을 잡고 있었으며, 그 두목들은 마을의 유지들과도 오랜 세월 결탁을 맺고 있었다. 헤이타는 그들의 부정을 퇴치하기 위해 이곳에 부임해 온 것이었다.

Traditional Japanese pop singer Reiko (Muroi) decides to enter a well-known TV program for amateur singers along with a confused teenager (Ôtomo) and a 40-year-old father of four (Bito).

Hot-selling artist Sosuke Natsume suddenly declares filmmaking on the final day of his concert. Although the staff at his music agency are panicking because of his sudden declaration, Natsume keeps preparing for it with the help of his old friend, cameraman Tamura. The film production finally starts after the staff agreed to his declaration. However, many obstacles, such as the severe public eyes on "cross-industry filmmakers," stand one after another in front of him...

Akagi appears again one year after the night where he first played mahjong.

After a death-defying game of chicken one evening in 1958, Akagi nonchalantly enters a Yakuza Mahjong parlor to shake the cops' trail. Even unfamiliar with the rules of Mahjong, his gambling intuition is enough to save a small time gambler, Nangou, and grant him a seat at the gambling table. As the night progresses, the stakes are raised both within the game and for Akagi, who is under the suspicion of local police. However, Akagi overcomes the situation with his tactics, defiant of both life and chance. When he leaves the gambling house, no one present is in doubt of his genius.

선술집 주인 "소타로(壮太郎)"는 아내 "시즈코(しず子)"가 숨을 거두기 전에 결코 재혼하지 않겠노라고 약속을 했는데도 불구하고 그 약속을 깨고 만다. 형 "토요조(豊造)" 부부가 반강제로 맞선을 보게 한 상대 "사토코(里子)"한테 반해서 부부가 되어 버리고 만 것이다. 그런데 저승에서 "시즈코"가 그것을 분하게 여기고 이승으로 되돌아 온다.

사무라이 명예의 고전적인 실화를 재구성한 이치카와 콘. 젊은 씨족 영주가 어쩔 수 없이 세푸쿠(의식적 자살)를 저지르면, 그의 충실한 추종자들(현재의 로닌, 주인 없는 사무라이)은 그의 죽음에 대한 복수를 위해 그들의 삶을 바친다.

60년대 일본의 작은 마을, 바이올린을 연습하던 고등학생 다케요시는 우연히 라디오에서 나오는 록음악을 듣고 홀린 듯 그 매력에 빠진다. 다케요시는 소심한 친구들을 어렵게 설득해 록밴드를 결성하고, 이들은 지금까지 겪지 못한 새롭고 낯선 경험을 한다.

Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.

Etsuko, a female college student, tries to beat the con artists at their own game after she gets scammed one after another.

A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist starts playing at a particular nightspot, a thug from the Yakuza adopts him as a special friend for no greater reason than he plays one of his favorite songs well. As the dangerous life of the gangster intertwines with that of the musician, it brings harm to the musician's girlfriend, who is raped. This changes the young saxophonist's attitude about his patron, but his Yakuza "friend" is still too embroiled in his own problems to worry about anything else.

야쿠자 두목을 살해한 혐의로 억울하게 기소된 젊은 작가 타마코는 곤경에서 벗어날 방법을 찾아야 한다.

함께 CF 촬영을 하던 배우 부부 이노우에 와비스케와 아마미야 치즈코에게 치즈코의 아버지가 갑작스럽게 심장마비로 세상을 떠났다는 소식이 전해진다. 본가가 아닌 그들 부부가 살고 있는 이즈에서 장례를 치르자고 고집하는 장모의 제안에 따라 장례식을 차례 차례 준비해나간다. 문상객들로부터 고인의 살아 생전 이야기를 듣기도 하고, 와비스케의 내연녀가 찾아와 소동을 일으키기도 하면서 우왕좌왕 생전 처음 겪는 장례식을 치뤄나가던 그들은 장례식 마지막날 장모가 왜 이곳을 장례 장소로 고집했는지 깨닫게 되는데...

The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his granddaughter who brings him a letter from his disinherited and recently dead son. This brings back memories of his life with his wife and family following the attack on Pearl Harbor, in particular of his son who had gone off to join the war for the Americans.

An ex-Olympic athlete and a student commit cash robbery. Aki Hoshino, a pre-med student, becomes inspired to steal money the school collected as “special fees” from parents wanting to assure their offspring’s’ acceptance into the hallowed institution. He forms an unbeatable alliance with an ex-employee and crime bosses to retrieve the ill-gotten money from the “wrong” hands.

Life seems to be good for Shintoto, an up-and-coming rakugo artist who has just had his first sexual experience at a local brothel. Lucky for him, he gets to date the beautiful sex worker he meets that day, and a younger high school rakugo aficionado is also vying for his attention. But for clumsy, heart-on-his-sleeve Shintoto, life doesn’t stay rosy for long.

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.

Political fixer Homei Yamaoka's misdeeds come to light, throwing Japanese politics into deadly confusion. But he's not going down without a fight.

In 1930, the chance meeting of a novelist and one of his fans opens the door to a series of mysterious events culminating in the death of a wealthy industrialist who may have been leading a double life.

Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and wide-ranging storyline, recreates the world of that time, as it appeared in Utamaro's paintings.

A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.

Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent gangsters battling their way through fight after bloody fight with rival yakuza on the streets of Okinawa.

Japanese action film.

Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.

The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constantly bullied by the upper organization and “bleed in vain” in gang wars.

Follows the fluctuating fortunes of three ronin in feudal Japan who wander from castle to castle, selling their services to whichever lord will fill their rice bowls. Though they use the servants' entrance, they still feel themselves bound by the samurai code of Bushido; and this tension leads to tragedy.

About a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging struggle to survive during and after the war with her son.

Kazama and three others defeated Yoshie Sangyo, but the Nishio group was disbanded due to public pressure, and the territory belonged to the Hirata group.

A professional hunter, Tetsuya, returns from Alaska to find that his hometown had become a lawless slum. He is shocked to learn that his younger sister had committed suicide after being raped by unknown men. One day, he rescues a girl from being attacked by some gang, and discovers that the same gang had driven his sister to death. Using his lethal hunting skills, Tetsuya begins to take revenge…