Shôhei Hino

Professional boxer Sota Kusunoki has gained popularity for his fighting style, where he goes headlong into his opponents. However, years of fighting have taken their toll on his body, and he is forced to retire by a doctor's stoppage. He takes the opportunity of his retirement to marry his girlfriend, Sachiko, and start a new life, but he is completely useless in society and is made acutely aware of the harsh reality of his situation. One day, a mysterious man who claims to be a fan of Sota's receives an offer to fight in an underground martial arts tournament, where he will fight for a large sum of money and where his desires are thriving... The prospect of fighting once again revives his almost forgotten excitement, and his adrenaline surges as if to fill the emptiness in him. Will the madness and honesty of a man obsessed with fighting have a happy ending or a bad one?

Childhood friends Sota, and Rakuto are on a journey to find the Phoenix, which shouldn't exist. As adults, there remains a dark shadow over each of them as their lives have progressed, thus they seek a bit of escapism in their travels. Parallel to their own story, is the mysterious bride. Not to mention a deserted youkai snack bar in the underworld, a gang from an SM Castle, an agricultural rapper, a young man on a bike trip, a monk peaching about enlightenment, the owner and operator of an empty movie theater, and more that the duo meet on their aimless journey. The hints of the true colors of life are within the journey, so what kind of Phoenix are they looking for?

8th entry in the series

Seventh entry

신문기자 아쿠츠 에이지(오구리 슌)는 쇼와시대 최대의 미제사건을 뒤쫓는 특별기획팀에 배속되어 남겨진 증거를 기반으로 취재를 거듭하는 바쁜 나날을 보내고 있었다. 그렇게 30여 년 전에 발생한 사건의 진상을 파헤치던 중, 아무리 해도 마음에 걸리는 부분이 있었다. 왜 범인들은 협박 테이프에 세 아이의 목소리를 녹음한 걸까....한편, 교토에서 양복점을 운영하는 소네 토시야(호시노 겐)는 아버지의 유품 속에서 카세트 테이프 하나를 발견한다. 왠지 모르게 마음에 걸려 그 카세트 테이프를 재생하자 들려온 소리는 다름아닌 어릴 적 자신의 목소리였다. 놀랍게도 그 목소리는 30여 년 전 복수의 기업을 협박해 전국민을 충격에 빠뜨린 쇼와시대 최대의 미제사건에 범인들이 사용한 협박 테이프와 완전히 똑같은 목소리였다! 머지않아 운명에 이끌리듯 두 사람이 만나 어떤 커다란 결단을 향해 나아간다

2011년 3월 11일 오후 2시 46분, 동일본 대지진이 발생한다. 후쿠시마 원자력 발전소 제1발전소는 위험한 상황에 빠진다. 원전 안에 남아, 사고를 수습한 후쿠시마 출신의 작업원들은 해외 언론 매체들에 의해 '후쿠시마의 50인(Fukushima 50)'이라고 불렸다. 그 안에서 과연 무슨 일이 일어나고 있었던 것일까? 진실은 무엇일까? 동일본 궤멸이라는 위기가 다가오는 와중에도 고뇌에 찬 결단을 내려야 했던 그들은 과연 무슨 생각을 하고 있었을까?

Juzo Kimura is a wandering Ronin with a past. 15 years later, after winding up in Edo, he becomes a sword teacher to support his wife and daughter. But he has a dark side to him; at night, he becomes an assassin for hire. The fates of men living double lives cross in the shadows of Edo.

High school student Jinta (Nijiro Murakami) is a hikikomori and lives in Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. One summer day, when Jinta is absorbed in a video game, a girl suddenly appears in front of him. The girl is Jinta's childhood friend Meiko (Minami Hamabe), but it seems impossible because Meiko died on a summer day. Meiko wears the same white dress when she died, but she looks a little taller. She tells Jinta that she has a wish and that's why she came back as a ghost, but Meiko can't remember what her wish was. To grant Meiko's wish, Jinta along with his friends Atsumu (Jun Shison), Naruko (Airi Matsui), Chiriko (Marie Iitoyo), Tetsudo (Yuta Takahata) and Meiko gather together for the first time in 7 years. Jinta soon realizes that he is the only one able to see Meiko.

The touching romance between a middle-aged single guy and a woman with bipolar disorder. Iwata abandons his dream of becoming a guitarist, and works as an apartment building janitor. He spends his days living modestly as he deals with his unglamorous work. One day, he meets tenant Yumi when she returns home wasted.

사고로 부하 직원을 잃은 후 트라우마에 시달리는 남자 ‘타츠오’ 가족들을 보살피기 위해 자신의 삶을 포기한 여자 ‘치나츠’ 우연한 만남에서 시작된 호감은 걷잡을 수 없을 만큼 커져가고 서로를 향한 마음을 인정하게 된 두 사람은 조심스럽게 사랑을 시작하려 한다. 하지만, 이들 주변을 맴도는 끝없는 사고들로 두 사람은 점점 더 깊은 절망 속으로 빠져드는데..

Akari Dojima (Yukie Nakama), an illustrator, is the third daughter of Chairman Dojima, the head of a construction company. During her childhood, she had an accident which left her crippled and forced her to spend her life in a motorized wheelchair. The sudden suicide of Akari's father sets off a chain of events. Members of Dojima family and their servants are killed one after another and an investigation begins. After that, the body of their driver (Kitaro), who had hung himself, is found in the garage...

음악을 전공하고 첼로리스트로 활동하고 있는 매혹적인 여자, 카이토 시즈코는 자신을 뒷바라지 해 주던 나이 많은 부자와 결혼을 하여 평탄한 삶을 보내던 중 남편이 갑작스럽게 죽게 되면서 다른 대그룹의 회장 부인으로 가게 되고 출장을 가있는 사이 남편을 기다리며 외딴 곳 별장에 머무르게 되면서 남편의 하녀와 집사들에게 온갖 성적 고문과 시련을 당하게 되는데… 이 모든 성적학대를 지시한 사람은 가장 가까운 어딘가에서 그녀를 지켜보고 있다.

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed floor plans to them. He suffers an injury to his leg while trying to help a parent and a child being threatened by samurai. Heizo jumps in and chases the samurai away. Feeling indebted to Heizo, Sutegoro decides to become his spy. Now, together they will try to stop scheming Myogi Danemon’s gang of merciless thieves...

Starting with director Gosha Hideo's version in 1992, the puppet theater of Chikamatsu Monzaemon has been made into a film on countless occasions. The actor Sakagami Shinobu wrote and directed this version. This new interpretation focuses on a woman who played a minor role in the original version, and features a bold performance from former pin-up model Fujikawa Nozomi. Yohee (Yasuda Shingo), son and heir of the store Kawachiya, runs up huge debts due to his obsession with the prostitute Okiku (Fujikawa). Told by her husband Chizaemon, Okichi (Yamada Kinuwo) goes to condemn Yohee. On her way back home, Okiku laughs and mocks her, which Okichi finds sexually exciting.

The classic tale retold. This is one of Japan’s most popular stories in a brand new version starring the great Matsukata Hiroki following in the footsteps of Yorozuya Kinnosuke as Yagyu Tajima, the grandmaster swordsman whose plot to maintain the succession of Iemitsu as shogun encounters obstacles on all sides. Loaded with action and featuring many of Japan’s new up and coming sword stars this exciting movie brings back the feelings of the golden age of motion pictures. Stunning cinematography brings 17th Century Japan to life in this exciting tale of loyalty and betrayal, leading up to an ending that won’t be found in any history book.

야쿠자 조직의 중간 보스인 오자키는 최근 정신이 이상해졌다. 길에서 우연히 마주친 차나 애완견을 보고 야쿠자 공격용으로 만들어진 것이라고 주장하며, 주위를 불안하게 만든다. 마침내 조직의 보스는 오자키의 심복인 미나미에게 그를 죽이라고 명령한다. 오자키와 함께 나고야 부근을 여행하던 미나미. 어느 순간 오자키는 사라지고, 미나미에게는 온통 이상한 일들과 기인한 인간들이 그의 앞에 나타난다.

Mizusawa (Takenouchi Yutaka), an explosives expert, is arrested and charged with a string of bank robberies. Because he is a flight risk, Detective Kayama (Ogata Ken) is assigned to transport Mizusawa to Shizuoka for questioning. On the way, Kayama receives word that the hotel where his wife and daughter are attending a party has been rigged with a time bomb. Being a "by-the-book" kind of cop, Kayama refuses to abandon his job and return to help his family. Meanwhile, the hotel is swarming with police and the bomb squad who are searching for the bomb and the culprit. Time is almost up. Mizusawa claims that he is the only who who can deactivate the bomb.

The year 1864: The Shinsengumi, the shogun’s armed force in Kyoto ripped the city apart, with blades in hand, searching for pockets of resistance, slaughtering the samurai who sought to bring down the shogunate and restore Japan’s emperor to power. By chance, Murao Mayumi and his sister Shiho, meet samurai Kurata. Murao, seeking his fortune with his sword-arm, will join Shinsengumi, never suspecting his friend Kurata is secretly Kurama Tengu, who hides his face in a black hood, and who will tear a bloody swath through Shinsengumi’s massed blades, to aid the samurai who had taken up the emperor’s cause. Will friend kill friend in a time of war?

Small-time con man, Jiro (Shunsuke Matsuoka), makes his living tricking small businesses out of large sums of money. In the process he acquires a helpmate Kumiko, a refugee from her stepfather's sexual abuse. But things start to get out of control when yakuza boss Kamewada (Shohei Hino), muscles in on the action.

When an innocent young country girl falls for a low level yakuza, she enters a completely different world in which the line between good and evil are quickly blurred. Through great ups and downs their love will be tested, but the ultimate test lies in whether or not they will survive the downward pull of the lifestyle they have chosen.

The third series of action series depicting the success of a woman torpedo who was caught in two groups of conflicts at a small port town in the Seto Inland Sea.

After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his brother after World War II.

A historical chivalric drama with tears and laughter, telling the story of Jirocho Shimizu's family, his confrontation with Katsuzo Kurokoma's family, right up to the final battle on the Tenryu River to avenge Ishimatsu Mori.

Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the second is a ghost story about a beautiful woman who falls victim to passion and evil.

One day, Mori no Ishimatsu (Kankuro Nakamura

Two childhood friends find themselves caught in the midst of an all-out turf war between rival factions in the yakuza-stained region of Kyushu.

From all over Japan, the greatest warriors: Yagyu Jubei, Miyamoto Musashi, Araki Mataemon, and more came to test their blades in a tournament of swords. But behind the match a bloodthirsty plot is born. Tokugawa Yorinobu, a corrupt shogunate official plans to assassinate Shogun Iemitsu and take his place. With scheming samurai Yui Shosetsu and ruthless Negoro ninja leader Genyusai, he plans to incite a ronin uprising and cut a bloody trail across Japan, with terrifying Chinese gunboats to back his play. Matsudaira Izu-no-kami, councilor and friend to the shogun, along with master swordsman Yagyu Jubei and ninja master Hanzo Hattori must stop Yui Shosetsu and his army of ronin and ninja assassins from tearing the country in half and taking over the government!

After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years.

Japanese drama film.

Remake of classic samurai film of 1932

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.

A photographer for a weekly magazine becomes obsessed with Nami, a woman he first saw getting brutally raped in an underground porn video. After tracking her down, he begins an affair with her, initially unaware that she is also in an abusive relationship with Muraki, the man responsible for the video that started it all.

A group of seemingly ordinary merchants is really a band of assassins for hire. When they discover that all the assassins in Edo are being killed they must act quickly to find the culprit.

Rumors are circulating that the shogunate is losing control of some feudal domains. Lord Yagyu Munefuyu is assigned to deal with the problem and the rebellious clans will be crushed! Meanwhile, a former vassal of the Kazama clan is shot and killed. Moments later a second man is killed by a mysterious master swordsman. Matsudaira Choshichiro and his companions arrive at the crime scene and find a new type of repeating gun. The carved seal on the gun stock belong to the Saiga; a ninja clan abolished by the shogunate many years ago. The blame for the murders is placed on the Kazama clan. Are they guilty or is this a wise cunning plan by Lord Yagyu to be able to destroy the Kazama clan? Choshichiro sets out to reveal the truth and try to save the doomed Kazama clan! In his way are the Owari, Lord Yagyu and his ninja assassins, and the mysterious master swordsman! Will Choshichiro prevail against impossible odds...?

The Story of the three Japanese castaways Otokichi, Kyukichi and Iwakichi. After their ship the Hojunmaru was damaged, they drifted to America and landed on the US-Westcoast in 1834. They had the wish to return to Japan, a long journey was awaiting them.

Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.

영화 속 노래의 후렴구이기도 한 ‘에에쟈나이카’는 새로운 사회적 분위기가 만들어지던 에도 말기에 발생한 대중적 운동, 또는 현상을 폭넓게 지칭하는 말이다. 격변의 에도 말기, 한 가난한 농부가 미국에서 일본으로 돌아온다. 겨우 고향으로 돌아왔지만 그는 다시 한 번 힘든 시기를 보내야 한다. 당시 일본 사회의 급격한 변화를 여러 인물과 사건을 통해 스케치하듯 그린 작품. (2017년 한국시네마테크협의회 - 이마무라 쇼헤이 회고전)

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

A story of the everyday life of a couple living together, ordinary but full of warmth and love. Starring Miura and Yamaguchi's first movie since making public of their romance--their real-life story on the screen.

This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.

떠돌이 카츠는 두 명의 남자를 살해하고 현금을 훔쳐 달아난다. 자신을 쫓고 있는 경찰의 수사망을 따돌리기 위해 그는 동거녀와 부모님께 남기는 유서를 써놓고 투신자살을 위장한다. 이후 그는 대학교수, 변호사 등으로 위장하여 살해, 절도 등을 저지르며 여자들과 놀아난다. 사상 최대의 수사망에도 불구하고 극악무도한 범죄를 저지르고 다니던 카츠는 하마마츠의 하숙집에 머무르는 동안 하숙집 주인 여자의 정부가 되는데...

Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her trauma, and finally, rescues his niece who is about to be lured into prostitution.

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