Kazuyoshi Okuyama

세 명의 영화 관객은 그들이 화면에서 보는 세계로 마법처럼 옮겨진 후 전쟁의 공포를 경험한다.

남자들을 홀리고 다니는 38세의 여인 에리카. 하지만 그녀는 60이 다 되었고, 새로운 남자를 만나 거대한 사기극을 시작한다. 그리고 모든 악행의 중심에 서게 된다. 실제 사건을 바탕으로 한 에리카 38은 남자들의 세계에서 기이한 방식으로 자신을 찾아가는 중년 여성의 삶을 그려낸다.

Years after she related to him the story of her parents’ death in a fire, for which – rightly or wrongly – she feels responsible, Japanese psychiatrist Dr. Sanada meets his former patient Azusa once again. Back then, she lambasted him for being wrong for the job. Back then, he let slip that she isn’t actually crazy. Now she’s a prostitute living in precarious circumstances in Los Angeles and is accused of murder, with her memories once again moving inexorably towards a fire. Sanada assesses her in the presence of an investigator who appears not to understand Japanese. Is Azusa now mentally ill for real? Was she back then? And why does the description of her tormentors upset him so?

The world's first human-android acting duo, called Android Theater Project, is the collaborative brainchild of noted Japanese playwright Oriza Hirata and the leading robotics scientist Hiroshi Ishiguro. "Sayonara" is a remakable android play and has been adapted to feature film by the acclaimed filmmaker Koji Fukada (Hospitalité, Au revoir l’été). In this film project the setting of the story is largely expanded, depicting time and space in a way which can only be achieved in film, examining life and death though the communication between dying human and immortal android.

유키오(오카다 마사키)는 남들보다 아버지가 3명이나 더 많다. 무려 4명의 아버지들은 유키오가 태어날 때 부터 함께였다. 그러다 오늘, 유키오의 친구인 마스지가 나타나면서부터 유키오의 일상은 묘하게 꼬이기 시작한다. 불량배들로 부터 마스지를 구하는 것으로 재회한 두 친구는 그 일로 인해서 어떠한 일에 얽히게 되는 두 사람. 설상가상으로 마스지가 얽힌 불량배들이 동네를 주름 잡는 '톤다 바야시'와 관련이 있게 되고, 마스지의 그의 심부름까지 펑크를 내면서 일은 더욱 심각하게 꼬이고 만다. 그때 유키오의 아버지들이 등장하여 톤다 바야시의 사기 문제를 해결하는 조건으로 마스지의 일을 좋게 마무리 하는 줄 알았으나, 다음날 유키오가 학교에 등교하지 않는 친구네 집에 들렀다가 납치를 당하게 되면서 일은 점점 더 커져만 가는데...

Based on 16-year-old writer Sarie Hinakura’s award winning story Jellyfish is centered around two adolescent girls disconnected from their immediate environment of school and mates. They first get together while staring into a jellyfish tank at a local aquarium. The relationship that ensues eventually faces tension from the divergent personalities of the two protagonists, one of whom explores a heterosexual relationship with a fellow student. Jealousy and the wrath of a lover spurned are inevitable spillovers.

Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.

First major English-language documentary profile of the cult Japanese actor/director, Takeshi Kitano. Featuring interviews with many of his regular contributors and colleagues, the film explores Kitano's rise from working-class poverty to superstar of Japanese radio, TV, comedy and journalism, and follows the making of his US-Japanese gangster film, 'Brother'.

Elmer is told by a traveling cat about a baby dragon who is being held captive and mistreated on the scary Wild Island. Elmer decides to investigate and battles tigers, crocodiles and gorillas in order to rescue the little dragon.

An entertainment drama depicting the conflict of yakuza, centering on the female torso and her sister's feud.

A small time Yakuza thug is thrown into a bloody battle after a bank robbery he was forced into goes wrong when all the men begin to turn on each other a hitch-hiking serial killing couple decide to steal their loot.

나이트클럽을 운영하는 만다이(사토 코이치 분)는 계속되는 불황과 야쿠자의 빚이 산더미처럼 늘어난 상태로, 어느날 야구연습장에서 실직자 하기와라 쇼헤이(다케나카 나오토 분)를 알게 된다. 그는 동성연애자 준이치(모토키 마사히로 분), 이혼한 전직 형사 긴(네즈 진파치 분), 야쿠자 출신 지미(시이나 깃페이 분) 등 5명(고닌)이 뜻을 모아 야쿠자의 사무실을 급습, 1억엔(약 10억원)을 훔쳐내는데 성공한다. 하지만 야쿠자에 고용된 냉혹한 킬러 오리스기 이치로(기타노 다케시 분)의 추적을 받아 하나 둘 죽어가는데...

A disgraced warrior planning the murder of a Japanese diplomat, and a ninja in the employ of a navy official are about to land in San Francisco when a band of thieves steal the money the diplomats are carrying. The two set off on a chase across the American west to catch the robbers.

Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts, his publisher shows him a newspaper with an account of events just like his forbidden story. As the film progresses, fantasy and reality intermingle in a tale that draws heavily on influences from Poe and Stoker's Dracula. The film's strongly Expressionistic direction skillfully combines a variety of media (animation, computer-generated imagery, grainy black-and-white fast film stock, color negatives) for artistic effect.

Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts, his publisher shows him a newspaper with an account of events just like his forbidden story. As the film progresses, fantasy and reality intermingle in a tale that draws heavily on influences from Poe and Stoker's Dracula. The film's strongly Expressionistic direction skillfully combines a variety of media (animation, computer-generated imagery, grainy black-and-white fast film stock, color negatives) for artistic effect.

In Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for nearly twenty years. Each day passes eventlessly... until one day. The monotony of their daily lives is interrupted by the appearance of a beautiful female college student, Momoko, who comes to visit her aunt. After catching a glimpse of Momoko, both Tatsuya and Nobuyuki can't stop thinking about her. Since then, the small town is not so quiet anymore…

In the middle of the desert, a solipsistic Japanese-American woman, along with her elderly and paralysed friend Barbara, runs the Desert Rose Cafe. Things liven up with the arrival of a mafia henchman (whose boss is hiding out at a nearby ranch), a battered Japanse man (who turns out to be a terrific chef, but who also triggers Barbara's memories of internment during WWII), and an attack on the mob boss' camp.

야쿠자들의 동경 생활은 비지니스맨이나 샐러리맨들처럼 규칙적이며 사무적이다. 그 중에서 무라카와는 눈 한번 깜짝하지 않고 사람을 기중기에 매달아 강물에 처넣는 프로페셔널한 야쿠자이다. 야쿠자 집단의 내분으로 인해 오키나와 해변의 허름한 집에 머물게 된 무라카와와 그의 부하들은 천진난만한 동심의 세계로 돌아간다. 한가하게 종이인형으로 스모를 하거나 권총으로 러시안 룰렛을 즐기며 시간을 보내는 무라카와. 한편 야쿠자들의 음모가 비밀리에 진행되면서 낚시꾼으로 위장한 킬러가 오키나와 해변으로 찾아오는데...

A low-key private detective agency in Paris is run by Rie and her lover and partner Kishin, two ex-pats who tick along between cases by giving guided tours of the city to busloads of Japanese tourists. After the wealthy Okuyama hires them to trail his French mistress Lorraine whom he believes to be having an affair, feeble-willed Kishin finds himself seduced by this femme fatale and way out of his depth in a seamy underworld of rich Japanese businessmen, S&M games and huge piles of money.

Faraway Sunset tells the story of the famed bacteriologist who is known to have discovered the agent that cause syphilis, and for his relentless search for a cure to yellow fever. As a toddler, his mother's neglect had caused an accident to his left hand, fusing together all the fingers in a bizarre twist of fate. Naturally extremely remorseful for being the cause of her son's handicap, she does everything she could to ensure that he gets to lead a normal life, despite having to fend off bullies and unfair prejudices.

The indolent son of an oil vendor becomes a regular customer of a prostitute, racks up a mountain of debt, and is disowned by his parents.

Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to commit suicide. Princess Goh, daughter of the lord but adopted by Hideyoshi, is outraged when Rikyū's severed head is thrown in the Nijo River. She sends Usu, Oribe's servant, to retrieve the head and deliver it to Rikyū's adopted daughter.

Melodrama about a woman refusing surgery.

In the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, there was a cute warrior, Souji Okita, who belonged to the armed police of the shogunate in Kyoto. Very few knew that Souji was not a boy, but a woman. Souji loved the vice-leader of the armed police, Toshizou Hijikata. Souji suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis and coughed up blood during a battle. Toshizou helped her but said that he did not care for the girl with a smell of blood. Souji had a real talent for swordsmanship and no one but Ryouma Sakamoto could compete with her. Ryouma was a liberal intellectual and tried to carry out a revolution without blood. However, the bloody Meiji Restoration broke out and Souji killed Ryouma who lost his dream. Because a friendship had sprung up between Toshizou and Ryouma, Toshizou got angry and slashed at Souji with a sword. Unwillingly, she unsheathed her sword and thought that she might get love if she was killed by the man she loved.

A successful office lady, who has made herself sexually available to a doctor, has her routine disrupted when her former boyfriend's son appears in her life. She is not connected to the boy, but his father has been in an accident.

Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.

동네 야구단의 멤버이기는 하지만 긴장 때문에 좋은 성적을 거두지 못하던 마사키는 삼진아웃을 당해 팀을 지게 만든다. 경기 후 일터로 돌아온 마사키는 우연히 야쿠자와 싸움을 하게 되고, 결국 카즈오와 함께 총을 구하기 위해 오키나와로 향한다. 그곳에서 그들은 야쿠자인 우에하라와 타마키를 만나고, 총을 건네받는다. 마침내 총을 손에 넣은 마사키와 카즈오는 복수를 위해 도쿄로 돌아오는데...

폭력적인 성향을 지닌 아즈마 형사는 신참인 기쿠치 형사와 함께 부두 살인 사건을 조사하기 시작한다. 용의자 아카네를 잡으려다 오히려 형사들이 당하게 되자 아즈마는 추적 끝에 용의자가 타고 있던 차를 들이 받는다. 마약 판매상인 하시즈메의 자백을 받아낸 그는 보안과의 이와키 형사가 마약을 빼돌리고 있다는 것을 알게 된다. 한편 마약업주 니토는 킬러인 기요히로를 고용하여 하시즈메를 제거하고, 이와키는 자살한다. 사건을 조사한 아즈마는 이것이 니토의 소행이라는 것을 알아차리고 그에게 경고를 한 후 기요히로를 체포한다. 그리고 기요히로를 취조하던 중 그에게도 이와키와 똑같이 자살을 하라고 협박을 하고, 이것이 문제가 되어 경찰을 사퇴하게 되는데...

Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents before the coup was suppressed.

Based on a true story. Shiro, a dog who lives in an inn on Akajima in Okinawa, swims to the opposite shore on Zamami to see his love, a dog named Marilyn. Shiro is portrayed by the real-life Shiro.

Life and love stories of stunt men and women.

우에노 교수는 제자로부터 하얀 강아지 한마리를 선물받는다. 초롱초롱한 눈망울의 강아지는 단번에 식구들의 귀여움을 독차지하고, 우에노 교수는 힘차게 땅을 박차고 서있는 이 강아지를 보고 八자라는 뜻의 '하치'라는 이름을 지어준다. 하치에 대한 우에노 교수의 사랑은 부인도 질투할 정도로 각별했다. 이에 보답이라도 하는 듯 하치는 매일같이 시부야 역으로 교수를 배웅하고 마중을 나간다. 그러던 어느 날, 우에노 교수는 강의 도중 쓰러져 다시는 일어나지 못하게 되고, 이를 알지 못한 하치는 여전히 역에 나가서 그를 기다리는데...

Keiichi (Kenichi Hagiwara) is a weather man. He gets involved with two married women, Yoshiko (Mitsuko Baisho) and Miyoko (Chieko Baisho). Both want to divorce but are trapped in meaningless marriages. While being undecided of who he wants to chose, Keiichi witnesses passions boil to an unforgiving climax.

Tetsu gets into an argument with some Okinawa yakuza and is murdered by them. His brother Ryo comes to Okinawa shortly thereafter and teams up with Tetsu's girlfriend and Max an ex US soldier to extract revenge.

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.

A drama depicting the conflict between a man that ran to an old lover suffering from advanced leukemia, his wife and child that were left behind, and the friendship that develops between his wife and his former lover.

A girl whose younger brother as well as her lover were killed is drawn with a pistol in her hand.

At a Japanese school, a desperate student council struggles with a recurring problem. The aggressive and relentless members of the Yagyu biker gang stop by the school each semester to beat up the kids, steal their lunch money and vandalize their belongings. The kids want to fight back but realize they're too weak and undermanned against the bikers, and so they hire a handful of tough gals to train and defend them.

Released after seven years in prison, an inveterate thug goes from strength to ruthless strength as he makes his way through a succession of dubious jobs, illegal schemes, and brutal romances.

1938년 일본 오카야마현 쓰야마에서 일어난 30인 살인사건에 기반한 영화

A run-in with the police once again puts three former reformatory inmates on the wrong side of the law. Their situation becomes increasingly desperate as events spin out of control, culminating in an audacious hijack at sea...