Ichirō Ogura

아리마 다케시(미우라 타카히로)는 35세의 독신남으로 아버지인 히로시(니시다 세이시로)로 부터 항상 "빨리 며느리를 얻어서 제대로 된 후계자가 되어라"라는 말을 듣지만 건축업에 종사하는 특성 상 여성과 만날 기회가 적은 데다가 다케시에게는 교제하고 있는 여성이 없다. 어느 날 소방단원이기도 한 다케시가 역 광장에서 스쳐지나가던 노인구명조치를 하고 있던 차에 섬 진료소에 근무하는 한국인 여성수련의 여지현(강지영)이 지나가자 둘은 노인의 생명을 살리게 된다. 서로 이름도 모르고 헤어진 두 사람은 훗날 한국 방문단의 통역 자원봉사를 하다 우연히 다시 만난다. 대학에서 배운 한국어를 잘하는 다케시는 지현과 곧 교분을 쌓게 된다. 1년에 한 번 추분날 전날 밤에 열리는 '줄다리기대회'가 다가오는 데 타케시의 아버지는 나라가 다르다는 이유로 반대를 하지만 두 사람의 사랑은 깊어지고 결혼을 의식하게 된다. 하지만 "줄다리기대회" 개최일 직전, 다케시는 지현으로부터 "앞으로 2주 내에 연수기간이 끝나 귀국해 한국의 병원에서 근무하기로 되어 있는데…"라는 이야기를 듣게 된다. 과연 바다를 건너 일본과 한국의 헤어지는 두 사람의 사랑은? 가족애를 테마로 한 작품을 계속 세상에 내보내고 있는 사사베 키요시 감독에 의해, 두 사람의 연애를 통해 「결혼이란?」, 「가족이란?」의미에 다가오는 감동작

Makoto Mioya, a highly successful Japanese author and publisher, has a life-threatening, near-death experience. Powerful spiritual beings with whom he has communicated most of his adult life visit Makoto to remind him he has the power within to heal himself. Reborn, Makoto commits his life to sharing the almighty wisdom he receives from the spiritual realm. As doubters, including some of his own family, challenge and question his new-found ardor, Makoto must find a way to connect with his family and the ‘family of man’ to inspire a better world.

승리밖에 모르는 냉정한 변호사 시게모리, 모든 범행을 자백한 살인범 미스미 그리고 피해자의 딸 사키에. 공장 사장 이츠오를 스패너로 죽인 뒤 흔적을 없앤 미스미의 변호를 위해 변호사 시게모리가 투입된다. 그리고 미스미는 돌연 자백의 내용을 뒤엎고 새로운 진술을 시작한다.

Onodera Yuriko sets off for Sweden where her husband, Major General Onodera Makoto, is stationed as a military attache in Stockholm during World War II. Called the "god of intelligence", Makoto is an intelligence officer of the Russian service of the Japanese Army General Staff. Fluent in Russian and German and trusted by the spies of many countries because of his integrity, his office would eventually become the most important Japanese intelligence post in Europe. From the day of her arrival in Stockholm, Yuriko helps her husband's intelligence activities. She encrypts the highly classified information obtained by Makoto and sends it in coded telegrams to the General Staff Headquarters in Japan every day. Husband and wife have jointly undertaken this intelligence work for confidentiality.

한때 로커가 되기를 꿈꿨던 소심한 직장인 스즈키 료이치는 우연히 본 작은 거북이에 마음이 꽂혀 회사에서 동료들 몰래 거북이를 기른다. 하지만 이를 알아챈 동료들로부터 비웃음만 당하고, 결국 그는 눈물을 흘리며 거북이를 하수도로 흘려보낸다. 그 후, 거북이를 그리워하며 눈물짓던 스즈키는 우연한 기회로 로커의 꿈에 한발 다가가게 되고, 지하 세계로 흘러들어 간 거북이는 엄청난 존재로 변신해 스즈키 앞에 모습을 드러내는데…

조그마한 바닷가 마을 카마쿠라에 살고 있는 사치, 요시노, 치카는 15년 전 집을 떠난 아버지의 부고를 듣고 장례식장으로 향한다. 아버지에 대한 미움도, 추억도 어느덧 희미해졌지만 홀로 남겨진 이복 여동생 스즈에게만은 왠지 마음이 쓰이는데...

Beppu Sumire is a wedding planner who works for True Love Bridal (TLB), a well-established wedding hall. Her late mother, Sakura, showered love on her and would always tell her that she is lovely. After she passed away, Sumire lived with her father, Tetsuro. Sumire gave up on her own romance long ago because of her disappointing looks. But she works hard with a smile even when she gets scolded by her stern superior, Umemiya Hitomi, her impertinent junior, Sudo Yuri, pins trouble on her, and her relationship with her father is not working out, in order to bring smiles to many people’s faces.

사립초등학교 입학을 위한 면접장에 노노미야 부부와 여섯살짜리 아들 케이타가 보인다. 이들은 면접관의 질문에 차분하게 대답한다. 아빠는 아이가 엄마를 닮아 성격이 유순하다고 말하면서 승부욕이 없는 걸 단점으로 지목한다. 아이는 아빠와 캠핑장에 가서 연을 날렸던 것이 가장 기억에 남는 추억이라고 말한다. 료타는 어느 날 병원으로부터 한 통의 전화를 받는다. 6년 간 키운 아들이 자신의 친자가 아니고 병원에서 바뀐 아이라는 것. 료타는 삶의 방식이 너무나도 다른 친자의 가족들을 만나고 자신과 아들의 관계를 돌아보면서 고민과 갈등에 빠지게 되는데...

Ayumi Aizawa is a lonely young man without a family. He works at Forest Hyde Press Hotel as a cleaner. His deceased grandfather Kenzaburo worked at the same hotel. When his grandfather worked at the Forest Hyde Press Hotel, the hotel was well known for its extreme hospitality. Now, the hotel is nothing more than an ordinary hotel. New manager Ryuuya Sawashiro then attempts to bring the hotel back to its glory days.

The annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However, Yoshi's life is thrown into disarray days before the performance when his estranged wife and former best friend arrive back in town...

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, in 1940, Lieutenant Kurokawa returns home as a honored and decorated soldier but deprived of his arms and legs lost in battle. All hopes, from the villagers and women to close family members, turn to Shigeko, the Lieutenant's wife. She must honor the Emperor and the country in setting an example for all by fulfilling her duty and taking care of the 'god soldier'. Kurokawa prior to leaving to fight in the war regularly beat and berated his wife for her barrenness and inability to bring him a son. When he returns home as an amputee with no hearing and no speech, his wife dutifully attends to him, even though he shows little appreciation for her dedicated care. His main concerns are getting fed and getting sex. Even in his own degraded condition, he manages to berate his wife. Eventually, though, his own memories infiltrate and he is haunted by his horrible, sadistic deeds, performed while in the duty of the Japanese military.

After World War II, a small aristocratic family in Japan has lost all of their money.

Kohei Miyazaki (Naoto Takenaka), a former railroad worker, has become obsessed with discovering the ancient country of Yamataikoku. His obsession sprouted from a day when he discovered ancient ceramics while repairing railroad tracks. Now completely blind, Kohei relies on his wife (Sayuri Yoshinaga) to guide him through the country and read the maps in their pursuit of Yamataikoku.

Recently appointed dean at a film school, Kimuro Hajime develops a special concern for one of his students, Daisuke. The brash, headstrong young man is fixated on with the Second World War. He feels a sense of frustration at the irrational sacrifice of young people's lives during the war six decades earlier. Daisuke finds that he can vent his frustrations to Kimuro, who experienced the war firsthand. Kimuro's wife, Emiko, is also troubled by memories of the war. She lost a loved one in the war and has never gotten over it. And Kimuro himself also has something from the past that he has yet to face. He believes that the burden of his unresolved past will eventually be the death of him. When Daisuke's neurosis causes him to quit school, life changes for all three of them.

Remake of Kurosawa Akira‘s Ikiru

A story about Sayoko Kano, a junior high school student, who is believed to be a descendent of an Indian goddess. Sayoko is a kind of femme fatale, who uses her supernatural power to control people, especially men. While in the original manga Sayoko is represented as a femme fatale always surrounded by men, the film will focus on the friendship between Sayoko and her friend Yuiko Asai, both now on their first year at university.

A Japanese street racer looks to track down a legendary racer for revenge. His quest continues.

Sisters "Manamo" and "Minamo" live separately in Hiroshima and London since the divorce of their parents. The elder sister Manamo lives in Hiroshima with her mother, she is a high school student, but moonlights at a Japanese cabaret-club. After her mother remarries and moves to Yamaguchi Prefecture, Manamo lives by herself in Hiroshima. One day, her younger sister Minamo returns from London to visit Manamo. It is ten years since they have lived together, and they argue every day.

Kazuya goes to live with his mother Shinobu because his father, Yoshiki, who works in the same company, has fired him according to the company policy regarding redundancy. However, Shinobu soon gets remarried to Sakamoto depriving Kazuya of a place to stay. He then meets Sachiko who works in a salon where sexual pleasure is offered to men. They promise to have a date on the next Sunday by the sea.

Portrait of the Wind centers on Tamio Murase, a world-traveling photographer who came home to take over the family business after his father’s fatal heart attack. One day at the family photo studio, he finds a kindred spirit in Ayako and the requisite sparks fly between them. The initial portions of the film deal with their budding romance, and it isn’t long before the two become a serious couple, and Ayako is pregnant with Tamio’s child.

Shinku is a compelling drama that focuses on the strange relationship that develops between two people who find their lives irrevocably changed as a result of a horrible multiple homicide. The first person traumatized is the lone survivor of the terrible family bloodbath, a girl who grows up to be a pretty college student. The second person affected by this heinous crime is the daughter of the murderer, a young girl who ends up becoming a tattooed bartender. A full decade after the crime, the killer is finally going to be executed, and the surviving member of the massacre decides to reach out and befriend the murderer's daughter. A tentative, odd sort of friendship blossoms between these two people, both of whom seem to have little in common personally, and every reason in the world for not wanting to meet. Yet they do, but not without reservations. And really, is this friendship quite what it seems? Or is it all part of some twisted plan for vengeance?

현대 - 거대 마화망 오로치가 해안을 습격하자 히비키가 도착해 전투를 벌이지만 별다른 상대가 되지 못한 채 히비키는 부상을 당하고 쓰러진다. 히비키가 누워있을 동안 오로치를 잡을 방법을 찾기 위해 옛 자료를 뒤적이던 이치로는 어떤 자료에서 아스무와 같은 이름을 가진 사람이 나온다면서 그 책을 아스무에게 보여준다. 전국시대 - 어느 해안 마을에서는 오로치에게 마을의 소년, 소녀들을 제물로 바치면서 목숨을 부지해가고 있었다. 그러던 어느날, 마을에 남은 소년 소녀 3명 중 한 명인 스즈(아키라와 동일 배우)마저 제물이 되고, 다음 차례로 히토에(히토미와 동일 배우)가 지목되자 마을을 구하기 위해 아스무는 마화망을 잡으러 다닌다는 오니를 섭외하겠다고 촌장에게 건의하고 촌장의 두 딸(카스미, 히나카)과 함께 오니를 찾으러 여러 마을을 돌아다니게 된다. 그리고 서글서글한 성격의 미청년 오니인 카부키와 만나게 된 아스무 일행은 추가로 오니를 섭외하려 다니고, 그 와중에 은퇴 오니인 히비키와 만나게 된다. 그러나 아스무는 어떤 이유에서 히비키를 적대시하는데...

Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" wafts through a hospice recreation room. Sitting at the grand piano is a young girl, Chiori, with a prodigious ability to play any piece of music after one hearing. Keisuke Kisaragi whose career was abruptly cut short when he jumped in front of a bullet fired by a crazed gunman. The nerves in one hand were severed but he saved the life of Chiori. The tragic incident takes the lives of Chiori's parents, however, and Keisuke becomes her guardian. Not long after their return to Japan, Keisuke discovers Chiori's musical gift.

Yoko Sakaki: 24 years old. Occupation: Ghost Negotiator. With her tomboyish attitude and severely bad mouth, she helps ghosts leave this world by shouting at them. But, that work is almost done - she and her boyfriend Toshio are about to get married, and their dream is to open a tofu shop together. However, she has kept her profession a secret from him, instead telling him she is a flight attendant... While out with him one night, Yoko gets a call from work telling her that a ghost has appeared in Hachioji... She goes to bust the ghost with her unreliable new partner, Yanagida, but can she hold on to her relationship at the same time?

Japanese school girls die violently after seeing a man wearing a black hood.

4년 전에 사고로 양친을 잃고 친구 미키의 집에 얹혀살고 있는 후도 아키라. 어느날 둘도 없는 친구인 료를 따라 료의 아버지인 아스카 박사의 연구자료를 찾는다. 하지만 아스카 박사가 각성시킨 사악한 생명체 '데몬'에 의해 습격당해 몸을 지배받는 아키라와 료. 료는 완전히 데몬에게 지배당했지만 아키라는 강인한 정신력으로 버텨내 인간과 데몬의 중간적 존재인 '데빌맨'이 된다. 데빌맨이 된 아키라는 인류를 멸망시키려는 데몬족과 싸우기로 결심한다.

제 2차 세계대전의 잔해가 채 가시지 않은 도쿄. 미 제국주의의 음악으로 재즈가 엄격히 금지되던 때, 재즈에 빠진 뮤지션들 중 몇몇은 몰래 옷장 안에 숨어서 그들이 사랑하는 음악을 듣곤 했다. 점령된 일본에서 재즈는 그들에게 안식처와도 같은 것이었다. 종전 후 그곳엔 코카콜라, 햄버거, 아이스크림 등 생전 처음 본 새로운 것들이 넘쳐나고 그들은 미국의 문화와 음악에 젖어 든다.

Tsutomu Minagawa is set to retire; the organized business life, a perfectly normal family living in a two-story house with a garage, the once unstoppable routine is about to close down forever. However, Tsutomu's last day changes him forever, as a car accident leads to his new purpose and sets him on a mission to clean every traffic mirror in Japan in order to save lives.

Record shop clerk and aspiring DJ Tsutomu searches for his masculinity when challenged to a kendo duel.

97년 12월 30일 자살관광여행을 떠나려는 열두 명의 관광객(?)이 탄 버스가 출발하려는 순간, 돌연 명단에도 없는 미츠키가 삼촌의 티켓을 가지고 진짜 해돋이 관광을 나온다. 뜻밖의 상황에 자살관광단을 모집한 아라가키는 당황하지만 어쩔 수 없이 그를 버스에 태운다. 자살관광단에 대해 아무것도 모른 채 덜컥 동승한 미츠키는 끝말 잇기 게임을 제안하는 등 버스 안의 썰렁한 분위기를 바꿔보려고 애쓰지만 잘 되지 않는다. 하지만 사뭇 비장한 표정의 사람들이 미츠키의 제안에 동참하면서 진짜 관광 나온 사람들처럼 들뜨기 시작하는데...

브래스 밴드의 흥겨운 음악이 흐르는 미도리다이(Midoridai) 중학교. 신입생인 사토미 쿠라하시(Satomi Kurahashi)는 신입생다운 설레임을 안고 입학식에 참석하게 된다. 친구 카나에 사와쿠치(Kanae Sawaguchi)와 코슈케 카시와기(Kosuke Kashiwagi)는 사토미와 같은반이 되고, 사토미의 부모 타케오(Takeo)와 에이코(Eiko)는 아사오카(Asaoka) 선생님이 딸의 담임을 맡게 되었다는 것을 알게 된다. 자연스럽게 사토미의 부모와 담임은 11년 전에 있었던 사건을 떠올리게 된다. 당시 미도리다이 중학교 학생이었던 사토미의 누나인 카오리(Kaori)가 갑자기 사라지게 되고, 대대적인 수사가 진행되지만 어떠한 흔적도 찾을 수 없다. 혹자는 납치되었다고도 추측하고 혹자는 정체불명의 악령에 씌었을 것이라고도 말한다. 입학 첫 날의 일정이 끝나갈 무렵 사토미와 친구들은 학교 뒷편으로 갔다가 우연히 사당을 보게 된다. 사토미는 누나 카오리가 실종되기 직전에 찍은 사진에 있던 바로 그 사당이라는 것을 알아챈다. 사토미가 사당의 녹슨 자물쇠를 쳐다볼 때 누군가 그녀의 이름을 속삭이듯 부르게 되고, 본격적으로 기이한 일들이 벌어지기 전에 사토미, 카나에와 야베(Yabe) 선생은 이층 화장실의 유리를 통해 서로를 보면서 놀라 기절한다. 곧 학교에는 "변소귀신 하나코"에 대한 이야기가 돈다. 사토미는 누나 카오리의 실종사건을 조사하기 위해 학교의 옛날 기록들을 뒤지기 시작하고 레이코 카시마라(Reiko Kashima)는 이름이 자주 등장하는 것을 확인한다. 사토미와 케내는 친구 에쓰코(Etsuko)의 제안에 따라 조심스럽게 영의 세계와의 접촉을 시도해본다. 이때부터 십일 년동안 잠자고 있던 악이 되살아 나면서 세 친구의 삶을 영원히 바꾸어놓을 공포 체험이 시작되는데.

Midori is a university student that finds part-time work at a hostess club, near the end of Japan's "Bubble Economy," in the late 80s. She agrees to become the mistress of one of the wealthy young patrons for two million yen a month, but then the bubble bursts...

18세기의 일본 판화가 사라쿠에 대한 전기영화.

Yama, a bloodthirsty demon full of hatred and anger. He who confronts it is selected to have a few supernatural powers. Maria, wages a supernatural war in a school and another dimension with the help of Hiroshi who has the same ability.

A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho. He quickly becomes aware that her life is in his hands when he learns she is hiding from the yakuza.

Just when Hideki thinks he will lose his virginity, he gets hit by a car, and dies. God gives him a 2nd chance by placing his mind into the body of Sachiko's best friend, a girl. Can he convince Sachiko of his love?

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

The story is about a Journalist who becomes infected with a Japanese demon. The demon incubates in the mans stomach before Violently tearing its way up and out through the Journalists mouth (Complete with mouth splitting wide open). As soon as the Demon is "born" it is snatched away by a mysterious stranger. The Journalist (Yes, somehow he survived) soon discovers that the man who grabbed up the demon is in fact a former infectee who has developed a taste for the little demons, In fact they taste so good that when a person eats their flesh they then instantly become addicted to it.

A young man working as a cameraman in Tokyo is visited for three days by his parents from the countryside.

Momoko Watanabe—a student who, upon visiting a shrine in order to wish good luck on a friend of hers, witnesses a murder in the forest...and she knows the culprit! Unfortunately, she doesn't have it in her to tell anybody about it, and to make matters worse, said aforementioned friend gets accused of the murder.

A kindergarten teacher meets a novice magician and together they travel to another city to find love.

인쇄소를 운영하는 '오노데라'는 어느 날 '타지마'라는 노인에게 '아마기산 살인사건'의 수사 참고 자료의 인쇄를 부탁받는다. 그 원고를 보고 그는 자신이 소년 시절에 겪었던 일을 떠올리게 되는데...

Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.

Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the 2nd World War.

A former retainer to a noble family kills his wife's father when he tries to expose his past crimes. When he begins an affair with the daughter of another clan's retainer, her father tries to poison him but the substance instead claims an innocent victim...

The story is set in Bakumatsu and revolves around the Bunta Sugawara character, a yakuza (of course :) but instead of a modern yakuza/gangster, he's a gambler/bakuto). After he kills someone and gets wound, is saved by a blind woman (Mitsuko Baishô), who took care of him. They has a happy time under the protection of the Tomisaburo Wakayama character, an oybun. But of course, happy time doesn't last long. The story is also related to Okada Izo and the Shinsengumi (w/ Kondo Isami played by Makoto Sato)

The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, exams, on field training, his commitment as a pro-reformist militant and his girlfriend, Ogino is starting to wonder if he's really cut out to be a doctor.

In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo's underworld.

A travelling group of young people running a pirate radio station from a small truck encounter an eccentric elderly couple who are on the run from the law.

A man working in a fish market is crazy about festivals.

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.

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.

Japanese crime film.

An omnibus comedy in which an unique lawyer teaches about laws regarding sex crimes.

Japanese drama film.