Haruko Katô

A woman named Kazuko (Kimura) who was guilty of a “serious crime” in the past, along with three of her friends. Those friends suddenly begin to die one by one. Kazuko learns that one of those deaths is somehow connected to Mamoru (Nakamura Aoi), her younger brother from whom she has been separated ever since their father disappeared 15 years earlier. Although Mamoru knows nothing of his sister, Kazuko is determined to find the killer in order to protect Mamoru and herself.

일찍 남편을 여윈 긴코(요시나가 사유리)는 도쿄의 한 상점가에 있는 약국을 혼자 힘으로꾸려 나가며 외동딸 코하루(아오이 유우), 시어머니 기누요(가토 하루코)와 함게 살아가고 있다. 엘리트 의사와 코하루의 결혼식 날이 정해져, 가족 모두 행복에 젖어 결혼식날을 기다리고 있는데 결혼식 당일 긴코의 남동생 테츠로(효후쿠테이 쓰루베)가 나타나 술에취해 피로연을 엉망으로 만들어 버리고 만다.

Keiko who leads a lonely life as a fortune teller on the streets meets Goro, a leader of the con-artists. One day, Goro witnesses a group of men kidnapping a middle-aged man in the parking garage. Goro records the man on his cell phone without knowing he could be in big trouble.

After the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy marriage seem to suddenly vanish as she finds out that her husband had lived a double life. Struggling between her anger and the chance to begin a new chapter for herself, she finds her life moving into unchartered waters as she faces her 60th birthday.

19세기 말 마법과 과학이 공존하고 있는 세계 앵거리. 소피는 돌아가신 아버지의 모자상점에서 쉴틈없이 일하는 18살 소녀이다. 어느 날 오랫만에 마을로 나간 소피는 우연히 하울을 만나게 된다. 하울은 왕실 마법사로서 핸섬하지만 조금 겁이 많은 청년이다. 황무지 마녀는 두 사람의 사이를 오해, 주문을 걸어 소피를 90살의 늙은 할머니로 만들어 버린다. 가족을 걱정한 소피는 집을 나오게 되고 황무지를 헤매다가 하울이 사는 성에서 가정부로 낯선 생활을 시작한다. 4개의 다리로 걷는 기괴한 움직이는 성 안에서 하울과 소피의 기묘한 사랑과 모험이 시작되는데...

Seikichi, makes his living fishing from a small boat off the coast of Okinawa. He and his 12-year-old grandson Akira live in a small, tree-lined village in the northern part of the island which is surrounded by a white-sand beach and plots of pine and flowering bushes. On the cliff that skirts the shore sits an open-air burial ground containing the skull of a kamikaze pilot who was shot down during the last days of World War II. When the wind blows through the bullet hole in the skull, it produces a whistling sound. The locals call it the "Crying Head."

비 오는 공원에서 리리는 정신을 잃을 정도로 애인에게 얻어맞는다. 물 속에 쳐박혀 온 몸이 젖은 소녀를 남겨둔 채 30만엔을 만들지 못하는 사람을 필요없다는 말을 남기고 사라지는 애인. 그리고 조금 떨어진 어둠 속에서 이 모습을 바라보고 있는 한 남자가 있다. 모진 폭우가 쏟아지던 그날 밤, 지나가는 행인들에게 30만엔을 구걸하는 리리. 그러던 중 한 남자가 리리를 세게 뿌리치게 되고, 결국 계단을 굴러 쓰레기더미장으로 떨어지면서 의식을 잃고만다. 얼마 뒤, 리리를 보고 있던 그 남자가 조심스럽게 나타나 소녀를 업고 어디론가 사라진다. 다음 날, 깨끗한 침대 위에서 눈을 뜬 리리. 속옷만 입고 있는 그녀 앞에 어제 그 남자가 다시 나타난다.

LIFE IS JOURNEY is an anthology of four stories about people who live in solitude, but who yearn for togetherness. Each day brings chance meetings and reluctant partings, joy and pain. The first vignette, "Life", portrays half of a woman's life in one-scene, one-cut, nine-minute sequence. "N" is a comical take on a man abandoned by his lover. "Ya" explores the bond of female friendship as one woman consoles a brokenhearted girlfriend. In "Nowhere", a man and a woman roam the streets of a foreign land in search of lost time.

암살자 조직의 삼인자인 ‘들고양이’ 미유키는 조직으로부터 암살 지령을 받지만, 암살 대상이 조직의 일인자와 이인자로 밝혀지면서 곤경에 처한다. 시각적 표현의 과잉, 영화 문법의 파괴 등 스즈키 세이준 스타일의 정수를 보여준다. 을 직접 리메이크한 작품이다.

Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father. His life begins to unravel when a journalist following him takes an interest in the wife of a boyhood chum, and the wife of another close friend takes an interest in Ise. A couple of murders later, Ise/Haga goes on the run and also sets out for revenge.

Yoshihiko now lives with a couple of old friends, a married couple, Ryosuke and Aya. They share a past in several senses. It was Ryosuke who walked off with Yoshihiko’s girlfriend Aya. In doing so, he broke up with his own girlfriend, Reiko. Now they are all back together again and old feelings begin to surface.

A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.

Movie adaptation of a novel by Rampo Edogawa.

18세기의 일본 판화가 사라쿠에 대한 전기영화.

Eiji Kawano (Kunie Tanaka) has recently broken from the Japanese company he used to work for. As an immigrant to Tasmania, he has been won over by the island's immense natural beauty, and he is conscience-bound to oppose his former employer's ecologically unsound practices. He is also estranged from his grown son, who still resides in Japan. When his son comes to Tasmania for a visit, he must face the challenge of renewing their relationship.

Based on a semi-autobiographical story by Ogai Mori, about a Japanese medical student who goes to Berlin to study in the 1880s and falls in love with a German ballet dancer.

마녀 엄마와 인간 아빠 사이에서 태어난 소녀 키키는 13살이 되던 만월의 어느 밤, 검은 고양이 지지와 함께 집을 나와 마녀 수업을 떠난다. 평소 바다를 동경하던 키키는 바다에 떠있는 커다란 마을에 정착하게 되고, 그 곳에서 갑자기 도로에 뛰어들게 되어 경찰에게 잡히지만 돔보라는 친구를 만나 도망을 치게 된다. 키키는 빵가게 앞을 지나가다 마음씨 좋은 아주머니를 만나게 되고 그 빵집에서 첫 배달이 시작된다. 어느날 비행선 사고가 일어나는데, 거기에 돔보가 포함되어있다는 것을 알고 급히 현장으로 가게 되고, 청소부의 대걸레를 빌려 마법을 사용, 돔보를 구출하려 하는데...

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.

Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a dangerous match with the husband of her frigid cousin.

The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojo for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to celebrate the birth of an heir to the lord of their clan. To see the sacred tea scrolls Gonza promises to marry the daughter of the family which possesses them, even though he is unofficially engaged to another. When studying the scrolls with Osai, the mother of the house, Bannajo sneaks into the house and steals their obis and runs through the town proclaiming the two as adulterers.

Grandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when he is affected by Alzheimer's disease, but his affliction serves to deepen family ties. Japan's submission to the 58th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

일본 소설가 미시마 유키오의 생애와 그의 세 소설 작품을 각각 흑백과 스타일 넘치는 컬러로 번갈아 가며 보여주는 독특한 구조의 이 영화는 삶과 예술을 하나로 통합하려했던 그의 최후 몸부림을 마지막 4장(부제가 '4장의 삶'이다)에서 그려내 내용과 형식의 긴밀함을 꾀하고 있다

Set in Mexico. The love story of an architect and a fashion designer. Both from Japan

Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.

While trying to search for her missing father, Atsuko Moriya (Noriko Watanabe) meets a group of outcasts that help her. Having only an encrypted disk in her possession and while being chased by unknown people, Atsuko tries to solve the mystery of her family origins...

Deaths in Tokimeki tells the disturbing, compulsive story of a hit-man waiting to carry out a job: the assassination of the leader of a religious cult, masterminded by the leader's own deputy. But it is a story that is told in blocks, like the phrases in a child's computer game, and what counts most is not the narrative but the spaces between the blocks-the gaps that are filled with undefined menaces as potent as anything in Lovecraft.

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.

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.

Saito Masao reminisces on the days of his youth more than 50 years ago and his forbidden love of his older cousin Tamiko. When he was 15, Tamiko moved in to take care of his sickly mother. The two quickly fell in love with each other but were inevitably forced by their family to live separate lives.

Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.

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.

This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tokyo, being with her friends and studying. Her biggest interest is ladies hats. She is rather well off, as her father is the ambassador of Japan in Spain. One day when she is out driving, she is attacked by a group of yakuza, but is saved by the honorable yakuza Jiro. This will change her life forever.

Romance film

Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seeking love and defending the honor of an elderly widower (Mori).

A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. When the nunnery runs into debt, she resorts to gambling and challenges the racketeer threatening to sell the place to a game.

Based on Shinichi Mori song

Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he remembers his former love Mitsu, a rural girl whom he met and later left while in college. Shimako, a former friend, persuades Yoshioka to meet with Mitsu while she plots to blackmail Yoshioka by photographing the meeting to break up Mariko and Yoshioka.

바그다드의 한 마을에 찾아온 청년 물장수 아르딘은 노예시장에서 팔려나갈 뻔한 미녀 밀리엄을 발견하고 대형 토네이도가 마을을 덮쳐 혼잡한 틈을 타 그녀를 데리고 간다. 이 때부터 아르딘의 파란만장한 인생이 시작된다. 밀리엄의 죽음, 40인의 도적, 여자만 사는 섬, 거인이 있는 섬, 마왕의 배. 그리고 보물을 둘러싸고 국왕의 자리를 건 싸움, 밀리엄과 닮은 소녀와의 만남 등 아르딘의 모험은 계속된다.

Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is first engaged and all goes well until the young man disappears

A young man longs to travel to Hawaii, the birthplace of his deceased father, against the wishes of his family, who are estranged from those relatives in Waikiki.

세 개의 각자 다른 이야기로 이루어진 영화. 외아들을 남겨둔 채 친정으로 돌아온 한 어머니의 이야기, 인정머리 없는 주인의 밑에서 하녀로 일하며 친척에게 돈을 빌리려 하는 미네의 이야기, 화류계를 떠나기로 마음먹은 기생 오리키와 그를 잊지 못하는 한 남자의 이야기가 차례로 펼쳐진다. 시네마준보가 그해 일본영화 1위로 뽑은 작품. (2013년 상반기 서울아트시네마 일본영화걸작 정기 무료상영회) 여류소설가 히구치 이치요의 단편소설 , , 등 3편을 원작으로 한다.

Japanese war-era film

Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations of their widowed father's wedding to his chosen bride, Maki Tsuneko (Sadako Sawamura), who's anxious about her conduct as the bride.

Enoken's anachronistic take on the beloved (and already very funny) Edo-period novel "Shank's Mare," aka Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige, in which Yaji and Kita, two plebeian nobodies, have all sorts of strange and colorful encounters on the long road from Edo to Kyoto.

Based on the book Heaven and Maiko by Yoshiya Nobuko, it is the story of two girls of different family backgrounds in Osaka.