Tetta Sugimoto

Tetta Sugimoto

Nascimento : 1965-07-21, Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

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Kyuuzō Itami
Tatsuya Iguchi, a legendary delinquent feared as the "Mad Dog of Komae," is released from juvenile detention. He starts a new life working at a yakiniku (grilled meat) restaurant called "Sanrui," located far away from his hometown, under the care of his uncle and aunt. However, Tatsuya is under probation, and if he gets into another fight, he's out. In front of him appears Kaname Abe, the vice leader of the biker gang "Zanjin Kirihito." This encounter marks the beginning of Tatsuya's intense journey toward rehabilitation. As he faces gang conflicts, forms new friendships and bonds with his newfound companions and family, the path Tatsuya must take to protect what's important to him unfolds.
Hard Days
O Vilarejo
Masaru Maruoka
Um jovem precisa trabalhar no aterro sanitário que destruiu a beleza do seu vilarejo, mas tudo o que ele quer é escapar desse destino.
Shylock's Children
Kazuo Furukawa
Ichigeki
Imuda Shohei
The drama depicts the exploits of the “Ichigeki Hishikkitai”, a special combat unit formed by farmers to deal with the "Imperial Robbers" and the "Imperial Thieves" of the Satsuma Clan who were causing a stir in Edo at the end of the Edo period.
SIGNAL The Movie Cold Case Investigation Unit
Munehisa Mitani
The story continues from the Japanese SIGNAL drama series. In 2021, a limousine taxi driver causes an accident on a highway and a high-level government official dies in the accident. The cold case investigation unit, including Kento Saegusa and team leader Misaki Sakurai, have doubts about the case. Meanwhile, in 2009, administrative officers die consecutively in car accidents. The police announce these deaths as accidents. Takeshi Ōyama believes that these deaths were not the product of simple accidents. At 11:23 pm, a walkie-talkie turns on and makes a connection between the future and past. Kento Saegusa and Takeshi Ōyama face the threat of bioterrorism.
必殺仕事人2020
Discord
Junpei Kodera
Based on the novel by Daimon Takeaki about brothers who were separated after the death of their father and reunited as police detective and prosecutor.
Hagetaka
Munenori Saeki
During turbulent economic times in Japan, Masahiko Washizu (Go Ayano) appears. He leads a foreign investment fund and he is criticized for being a vulture. Masahiko Washizu challenges to buy a bank with insolvent bonds and a company that is experiencing financial depression.
Castle of Sand
A bruised and battered corpse in Shibuya, Tokyo has the attention of the local cops. A veteran detective is assigned to the case. The last utterance of the victim is one clue that detective Imanishi has to work on. Yet, the case becomes more tangled quickly. Elsewhere, a prodigy named Waga Eiryo is composing an orchestral piece.
Yuukai Houtei: Seven Days
The Story of Shotaro Ishinomori, the Man Who Created a Hero
This story follows the semi-autobiographical account of manga artist Ishinomori Shotaro, author of the original Kamen Rider, Cyborg 009, and Super Sentai.
The Story of Shotaro Ishinomori, the Man Who Created a Hero
Father
This story follows the semi-autobiographical account of manga artist Ishinomori Shotaro, author of the original Kamen Rider, Cyborg 009, and Super Sentai.
Code Blue: The Movie
Akira Saijo
A medical team is dispatched to the patients on a helicopter to provide medical care in the field as soon as possible. One day, four young physicians are assigned to this latest medical system. The doctors experience traumatic medical situations, deal with personal ambitions, witness the fragility of life, and they grow personally and professionally.
8 Nen Goshi no Hanayome
Koji Nakahara
Hisashi e Mai são um casal feliz em seus 20 anos que estão noivos e se casarão em breve. Mas três meses antes do casamento, Mai fica gravemente doente. Seu coração para momentaneamente, e ela cai em um coma profundo. Hisashi visita Mai no hospital todos os dias antes do trabalho. Sem ideia se ou quando ela acordará, os pais de Mai incentivam Hisashi a encontrar outra pessoa, mas ele se recusa a desistir e continua a rezar por sua recuperação. Como se as suas orações fossem respondidas, Mai começa a recuperar a consciência vários anos depois, e até mesmo pronunciar algumas palavras. Mas, tragicamente, sofreu dano cerebral e não tem memória de Hisashi.
Tales of the Bizarre: 2016 Fall Special
(segment "Shachu no dekigoto")
Erased
Makoto Sawada
Struggling manga author Satoru Fujinuma is beset by his fear to express himself. However, he has a supernatural ability of being forced to prevent deaths and catastrophes by being sent back in time before the incident occurred, repeating time until the accident is prevented. One day, he gets involved in an accident that has him framed as a murderer. Desperate to save the victim, he sends himself back in time only to find himself as a grade-schooler one month before fellow classmate Kayo Hinazuki went missing. Satoru now embarks on a new quest: to save Kayo and solve the mystery behind her disappearance.
実録ドラマスペシャル 女の犯罪ミステリー
Detective Ballerino
Daiki Ozone
In the past, Kurumi Usushima (Yuto Nakajima) wanted to become a ballerino, but he is now a detective. Kurumi Usushima and his senior detective, Takao Washio (Masahiro Takashima), solve a case by using the hypnosis technique past life regression.
One Thousand Trillion Yen Randsom
片岡晋太郎
Based on the mystery novel by Yagi Keiichi, the former Deputy Prime Minister was investigated after leaving a national debt of 1,085 trillion yen, but charges were mysteriously dropped. Now, his granddaughter has been kidnapped. The ransom? Either 1,085 trillion yen- the same as Japan's national debt- or a formal apology and financial reconstruction plan from the former Deputy Prime Minister are to be prepared within the next seven days. Can the police save the young girl before the deadline?
Wife of a Kamikaze
Michiba Kazuo
In June 1945 Yamauchi Fusako goes alone to Manchuria where her husband, Setsuo, a second lieutenant of the Kwantung Army, is based. At that time, 200,000 Japanese had settled in Manchuria, a Japanese occupied territory, as settler communities. Fujita Hideo’s family worked hard to clear the wilderness, but the Soviets are lying in wait for an invasion of Manchuria from the North. Fusako is safely reunited with her husband at the headquarters of the Kwantung Army’s Fifth Training Squadron in Manchuria’s Dahushan. Setsuo also takes good care of his beloved wife, but his position is an instructor to the young soldiers who will eventually carry out suicide attacks. He wonders if he should have summoned her and speaks of these mixed feelings to his commanding officer, Michiba Kazuo, a first lieutenant. Michiba is concerned about Setsuo’s attempts to cherish his wife before the coming showdown on homeland. Fusako learns about life in Manchuria from Michiba’s wife, Etsu.
Hero
Masashi Tamura
Prosecutor Kohei Kuryu takes charge of a case with a foreign embassy possessing the key to solve the case. Due to the extraterritoriality involving the case, the investigation has not gone anywhere. A crisis then ensues. Kohei Kuryu and his office attempt to extract the truth behind the wall of the Neustrian Embassy.
Till Death Do Us What?
KZO
Kota and Yoko have known each other for 17 years. They finally get married and Yoko becomes pregnant. During her pregnancy, Yoko feels ill and gets a checkup. She learns that she has terminal cancer. Yoko is able to give birth and they try to smile everyday until her very last day.
Risking it All: The Spirit of the Men in Orange
Yamakura of the Kobe Fire Department aspires to wear the vaunted “orange” uniform of an elite rescue force that only 3% of all firefighters can attain. But to do so, he and his fellow trainees must suffer through the most rigorous training. As Yamakura and his fellow trainees grit their teeth and complain, their superior officer, Sakurai, impresses upon them the lessons of the Great Hanshin Earthquake (Kobe Earthquake) 20 years ago as “the only time we ever lost.” What happened on the front lines of rescue that day and in the aftermath? What raced through the hearts and minds of rescuers as they tried to get a handle on unimaginable disaster? The shocking facts pour from Sakurai’s mouth in hopes of preparing the recruits for the unforgettable event that awaits them.
O Segredo das Águas
Toru
Em Amami-Oshima, uma ilha subtropical do Japão, tradições sobre a natureza permanecem eternas. Durante a noite de lua cheia das tradicionais danças de agosto, o jovem Kaito, de 16 anos, encontra um corpo flutuando no mar. Sua namorada Kyoko tentará ajudá-lo a desvendar o mistério. Juntos, Kaito e Kyoko aprenderão a ser adultos experimentando a tessitura dos ciclos da vida, da morte e do amor.
Kids Return: The Reunion
Set 10 years after "Kids Return." Shinji and Masaru have graduated from high school with different paths in their lives. Shinji attempted to become boxer and Masaru a yakuza. They both tried to rise to the top of their respective fields.
Under the Nagasaki Sky
Hiroyoshi Takamori
Under the Nagasaki Sky
Strawberry Night: After the Invisible Rain
Night People
Detective Sone
Shinji (Kazuki Kitamura) runs a bar. A woman named Moeko (Eriko Sato) appears in front of Shinji. In the past, Moeko stole 200,000,000 yen from member of the National Assembly. Shinji , Moeko, Detective Sone (Tetta Sugimoto) and a gang soon begin to collide because of the money.
再会
Beautiful World
Yuuki Hiyoshi
A gangster runs a budget nursing home.
波の塔
요시오카 스스무
Ashita no Joe
Yoji Ando
Baseado no mangá de sucesso de mesmo nome. O filme é ambientado nos anos 60, Joe Yabuki é um órfão problemático que vaga pelos bairros pobres de Tóquio quando conhece o ex-boxeador alcoolátra Danpei Tange que ve nele um grande potencial como boxeador. Mas então, Joe termina em problemas e é recolhido no centro de detenção juvenil. Uma vez dentro. Joe se mete em uma briga mas termina sendo derrotado por Toru Rikiishi que é um boxeador campeão de calibre profissional. Enquanto esta preso, Joe recebe aulas especiais de Danpei Tange através de cartas. Após sua libertação, Joe rapidamente se torna um boxeador de elite e famoso por seu golpe cruzado. Enquanto isso Toru também é liberado da cadeia e rapidamente retoma sua carreira no boxe. Toru finalmente consegue sua oportunidade para lutar pelo cinturão de campeão do mundo, mas antes disso, Toru quer uma luta com Joe Yabuki. Quem será que ganhará?
Red Finger
A 7 years girl is found dead in the local park’s toilet. Kaga Kyouichiro, who was asked to find the girl, and his cousin Matsumiya Shuhei who’s assigned to investigate the murder case, have to work together to crack the case. Their evidence lead them to Maehara’s, a family with parents, a son and a senile grandmother.
Patrulha Estelar Yamato
O filme começa em 2220, vinte anos depois do desenho original. Na trama do animê, o planeta Terra está à beira da extinção devido à radição das bombas planetárias dos Gamilions. A esperança chega na forma de uma mensagem da Rainha Starsha, do planeta Iscandar. Ela dá aos terráqueos os planos para construir um motor superluminal, que pode levar os humanos a Iscandar, onde uma máquina - o Cosmo DNA - os espera. O artefato pode limpar a radiação na Terra. Mas será que a Patrulha Estelar conseguirá viajar 148 mil anos-luz e voltar em apenas um ano terrestre? Não se os Gamilions puderem impedi-los.
Strangers in the City
Yukio Sonobe
Former high school teacher Kazuo Hatano (Toru Nakamura) reunites 12 years later with Masako Tezuka (Manami Konishi). Masako Tezuka was his former high school student whom he married after her graduation. Their marriage became a scandal & the couple divorced ...
Ultraje: Muito Além
Ozawa
Sekiuchi, o presidente do poderoso clã Yakuza Sannokai, arma e instiga a morte entre os pequenos clãs da família e a pequena família Murase, de forma a tomar a região controlada pelo chefe Murase e centralizar em si o poder do grupo Sannokai. O filme discorre sobre traições e vinganças e é composto de cenas fragmentadas, quase sempre revelando as verdadeiras facetas das personagens.
Zero Focus
Sotaro Ubara
Spurred by the disappearance of a newly-wed husband, three women in post-war Japan are drawn into a murder mystery.
I Give My First Love to You
Minoru Kakinouchi
As a child Takuma is diagnosed with a heart condition that requires care from a cardiologist. He soon becomes friends with his doctors young daughter Mayu while being treated at the hospital. One day Mayu overhears her father saying that Takumas condition is serious enough that he most likely wont live beyond the age of 20. Takuma isn't aware of this himself, however, so at 8-years-old he makes a promise to marry Mayu when they turn 20. Later in life, Takuma becomes aware that he wont be able to keep this promise and he begins distancing himself from Mayu in hopes of protecting her.
John Rabe
Nakajima Kesago
Inspirado numa história real, o roteiro conta a trajetória de John Rabe, um grande empresário alemão que, no final da década de 30, salvou mais de 200 mil chineses no massacre de Nanjing.
252: Signal of Life
Tetsushi Mashiba
At some point in the distant future, a massive, catastrophic earthquake strikes Tokyo, causing the temperature of the Pacific Ocean to rise meteorically and the largest typhoon in recorded Japanese history to sweep toward the city and inundate it with water. The Tokyo Fire Department and its team of crack rescuers swing into action, and shortly after they do, a distress call arises from an underground subway station - with repeated indications of the rescue code, 252 252, and the exclamation "We Have Survivors." It soon becomes apparent that the local rescue squad must attempt to save the survivors, doing so at the expense of their own lives and safety. Written by Nathan Southern
GS Wonderland
Tomonori Sasaki
"GS Wonderland" is about the 1960's Group Sounds bands - A Japanese pop movement inspired by the Beatles and other mid-1960's Brit Pop. Three young men set out to start their own band "The Diamonds" when they are signed to a recording contract during their very first rehearsal. Things turn for the unexpected when their agent brings Mick (Chiaki Kuriyama) into the group as their keyboardist.
ICHI
Blind man
Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and walking stick. She’s in search for the kind man that brought her up as a child, but because of her beauty she encounters problems every step of the way. Fortunately for Ichi, she is also a gifted swordswoman and carries a lethal blade within her walking stick.
Nasu Shonenki
Teacher Hotta
Set in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture in 1954, movie tells the tale of 14 year old boys: their friendships, fights among friends, and rebellions against the school. It also tells the story of the adults who live around the boys. This is a nostalgic, bitter, and sentimental journey into lives in the post-war environment.
Kimi ni todoku koe
Keiichi Aritsu
Drama about a young doctor.
A Partida
Yamashita
Kobayashi casou-se e pensou em viver em Tóquio como violoncelista em uma orquestra, mas a falta de público levou sua equipe ao fim. Sem saber o que fazer, o rapaz decide voltar para sua cidade natal e tentar conseguir um emprego; procurando no jornal se interessa por um anúncio que oferece bom pagamento e pouco trabalho, ser um "nokanshi", coisa que ele desconhecia. É contratado imediatamente na sua entrevista de emprego e se assusta ao descobrir que seu novo trabalho é preparar mortos para a família prestar a última homenagem.
Ghibli's Scenery: The Japan Depicted by Miyazaki's Works
Tsuruta Mayu visits the places of “good old Japan” and discovers profound attractions like Totoro and Spirited Away and also shows the charm of Ponyo.
Shrill Cries of Summer
Kuraudo Ohishi
Early summer, Keiichi had just moved to a remote mountain village. As he becomes close friends with a group of girls, he was enjoying his life in the village. However when he starts to become suspicious that his friends may be deeply involved in successive murders that occur every summer, the situation around Keiichi gradually starts to turn into something more sinister.
The Silver Season
Tsukaeru Miyabe
The arrival of a bride-to-be shakes a hapless ski resort and proves to the three young down-and-out local skiers that there is much more to life than they think.
Chichi kara no tegami
Inuzuka (Hirotaro Honda), who asked about Mamiko (Rei Dan)'s disappeared father, Shinkichi (Ren Osugi), and her lover, Keiichi (Tetta Sugimoto), was murdered. A "letter" from her disappeared father holds the key.
High and Low
刑事
At a crucial point in his business life, executive Gondo learns that his son has been kidnapped and that the ransom demanded is near the amount Gondo has raised for a critical business deal. Gondo is prepared to pay the ransom - that is, until he learns that the kidnappers have mistakenly abducted not Gondo's son, but the child of Gondo's chauffeur. Now Gondo must decide whether the other man's child is equally worth saving.
Dororo
Depois de uma sangrenta batalha, um guerreiro faz um pacto com 48 demônios: Em troca de poder, ele dá todos os membros e órgãos internos de seu futuro filho aos demônios. Ao nascer completamente sem órgãos e membros, o bebê é abandonado num rio e adotado por um velho eremita, que com a ciência e tecnologia que só existem no mundo dos mangás, constrói os membros e órgãos para a criança a partir de pedaços de cadáveres. Ao crescer, Hyakkimaru descobre que se quiser ter os seus membros e órgãos verdadeiros de volta, precisa de matar os demônios a quem os membros foram oferecidos...
The Bicycle Thief Was Bad
Steel-worker Saito Tetsuo, driven by an unexplained anxiety, steals bike after bike to move away from his hometown to Tokyo. Through snow-storms and empty landscapes, the breathtaking photography allows us to look deep into the mindscape of a man searching for an answer - although the question itself is never quite articulated.
Diary of Beloved Wife: Feast
Masayuki
Only a fool loves their body more than their soul! Masayuki and Kyoko's bodies had both started to age to the point where they no longer experienced sexual passion. They are a couple that shares the same bed while finding separate pleasures with their own sex toys. Masayuki was always reminded that his true understanding of love came from his high school ethics teacher and that teacher's wife. The incident occurred when Masayuki was only 17. When he became alone with her he impulsively craved her body, only to notice that on the other side of the sliding paper screen...
A European Journey to Encounter Miyazaki's Works
Self - Host
Actors Yui Natsukawa and Tetta Sugimoto travel Europe.
Kindachi Kosuke: The Queen Bee
Ryuma Tsukumo
The movie is part of the Kindaichi TV movie series. Kindaichi is played by actor Goro Inagaki. The character's grandfather began with the written word. Kousuke Kindaichi started life in the novels of Seishi Yokomizo, written and set in post-war Japan. Inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie, Kindaichi is still very much a unique character, giving the Japanese their very own literary hero-detective. Young Hajime Kindaichi is a young man with bad dandruff and worse dress-sense (decades before Columbo), who wears a trademark, scruffy sunhat. He also happens to be better than the police at deductive reasoning. Having gained publicity for solving a high-profile murder case, the detectives allow him to work with them again. This story is slimmer than the twisty plots of Inugami and Village, but is graced by the presence of Chiaki Kuriyama (Battle Royale, Kill Bill Vol. 1, The Great Yokai War) in the title role.
Almas Reencarnadas
Tadashi Murakawa
Um professor universitário, possuído pela loucura, inicia uma massacre em um hotel turístico, matando 11 pessoas. Ao mesmo tempo em que filma seus atos com um câmera 8mm ele esfaqueia suas vítimas uma a uma, enquanto elas tentam fugir. 35 anos depois, Matsumura (Kippei Shiina) deseja transformar este acontecimento em um filme. Intitulado "Memory", ele convida a atriz Nagisa Sugiura (Yûka) para protagonizá-lo. Mas quando o início das filmagens se aproxima Nagisa começa a ter visões e sonhos assustadores, com o mesmo ocorrendo a outras pessoas.
Love Is Five Seven Five
MasuoTakada
A haiku club comprised of five unlikely students aim to win the national high school haiku tournament.
Zoo
Papa
Five different directors adapt the works of Japanese author Otsuichi in this collection of unconventional live-action and animated shorts. A woman is murdered under odd circumstances in the title film, "Zoo"; twin sisters are treated differently in "Kazari and Yoko"; two siblings find themselves trapped in "Seven Rooms"; a survivor learns about life and death in "When the Sun Shines"; and parents lose the ability to see each other in "So Far."
Dark Tales of Japan
Yoshio Ishiguro (story "Blonde Kwaidan")
Cinco dos maiores cineastas Japoneses de filmes de terror, prometem oferecer uma viagem aos limites mais longínquos do medo… São cinco curtas, num só filme.
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
Aki's Father
Enquanto procura por sua noiva Ritsuko, Sakutarou redescobre através de flashbacks o vazio dentro dele causado pelos eventos de seus dias de ensino médio.
Alive
Gondoh
Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presented with an option: face another execution attempt or subject himself to their bizarre and dangerous experiments.
Samurai Resurrection
Lord Tokugawa Yorinobu
Shiro Amasuka, dead leader of the Shimbara Revolt is resurrected from hell with the desire of overthrowing the shogunate for killing his companions. To do this , he resurrects an army of living dead swordsmen. Between him and his goal, only Yagyu Jubei stands...
Mokka No Koibito
Japanese film directed by Jinsei Tsuji
Waterboys
Mr. Sugita
In a Japanese school, 5 adolescent geeks join the new sport teacher and take up the challenge to take part in the synchronised swimming competition, in-spite of the mockeries of the real sportsmen.
Stereo Future
Keisuke, an aspiring samurai-movie actor lands a major role in a new film, but must contend with a director who has nothing but scorn for him, but who continually fawns over the film’s obnoxious ham of a star.
Autumn Blossoms
Pornostar
Matsunaga
A young man decides one day to start killing yakuza. After he kills his first two he gets roped into helping a wannabe gangster and his bumbling underlings to perform a hit. While things work out in the beginning, this young psychopath quickly becomes more trouble than the gang expected. Will they be able to rid themselves of him, or will they be his next victims?
Os Olhares de Tóquio
Roy
Tóquio, final do século. A polícia está atrás de um misterioso criminoso chamado "Quatro-Olhos", um justiceiro solitário que persegue suas vítimas com estranhos óculos que deformam sua visão. Enquanto o policial Roy (Tetta Sugimoto) é confundido pelos ataques aleatórios, sua irmã mais nova, Hinano (Hinano Yoshikawa), entediada com seu trabalho, decide assumir o papel de investigadora usando seu astuto conhecimento das ruas e trens da cidade para seguir o misterioso homem. Mas, quando a suposta ameaça à sociedade se revela um belo rapaz da sua idade (Shinji Takeda), obcecado por discos, games e que sai pela cidade com uma filmadora gravando tudo o que vê, Hinano tenta o entender e vai simpatizando com aquelas atividades à medida que vai se apaixonando pelo jovem.
Kiriko no fûkei
Yosuke Muraishi
During Muraishi's time in prison for fraud, he recalls his past and learns a power to penetrate and cure others. Upon release, he goes to Hakodate, where he can find his ex-wife, Kiriko. Though he cures a lot of people on the way and believes that he is the only one to make Kiriko happy, he is being depressed by discovering a guy together with her.
An Angel with Many Scars
An odd journey starts as Mitsuru, a private detective, and a boy, whom a dying mobster entrusts to him, decide to go to northern Japan in search of the boy’s mother, and the detective’s buddy Hisashi joins them later.
Sasori in U.S.A.
Japanese lady gets framed for killing her man and is shipped off to prison in California. She escape and seek vengeance against those who wronged them.
Love and Duty
Yoshihiko Takeda
Two married couples struggle to cope with their sex lives. Kenji and Misaki, a seemingly happy married couple, lead a sexless life. Misaki, whose numerous seductions have been turned down by her husband Kenji, longs for a way to solve their sexless marriage. On the other hand, Shoko, a career oriented woman, is annoyed by the constant sexual attention she receives from her husband Yoshihiko, who believes fulfilling Shoko’s sexual needs is the greatest expression of love. When a chance meeting brings Kenji and Shoko together in a passionate affair, they suddenly find themselves re-examining their lives and struggling to understand what is truly important.
Mogura
Mogura
Mogura, a shut-in former musician, falls in love with a young cellist after seeing her photo in a magazine.
Billiken
Billiken
The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. It's a small god with a pointed head, a fat belly and a characteristic smile. When the casket in which the statuette was found is broken, the spirit of Billiken is free. After that he tries to fulfill the wishes of all those who had prayed to him, but it doesn't always works.
The Trap
Sugimoto
When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I want you to look for me," Hama is drawn into a string of bizarre serial murders that have Yokohama's police baffled and the city terrified.
The Abe Clan
Takeuchi Kazuma
A Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the honor of an individual? In the spring of the 18th year of Kanei, Hosokawa Tadatoshi, feudal lord of the Higo area, died. Although Tadatoshi forbade his vassals to follow him in death before he died, they still committed seppuku one after the other. The new feudal lord, Mitsunao, Tadatoshi's son, also gave the order forbidding seppuku. Abe Yaichiemon obeyed his former lord's last wish but is now being called a coward by his comrades and finally decided to follow Tadatoshi in death in order to save his family's honor. Mitsunao, upset by Yaichiemon actions, punished the Abe family unfairly. Objected to this, the Abe family shut themselves up in their manor as the lords troops moved in. This is the true story of what happened within the Hosokawa clan in early Edo era.
Deep River
Enam
A group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India.
The Stairway to the Distant Past
Sugimoto
Broke, his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. But when Lily, a beautiful stripper from out of Hama's past, returns to town, the fuse is lit on a criminal powder keg set to blow the lid off the Yokohama underworld.
Luminous Moss
Goro
A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before sharing stories of their own.
Detective Story
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
Toshizo Hijikata
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.
1990 botan-dôrô
Adaptation of the traditional Japanese ghost story The Peony Lantern.
Shikibu monogatari
Yumenosuke
Toyoichi Otomo suffers from psychological and spiritual troubles after a horrific industrial accident. He lives with his elderly mother and wife near Mt. Aso in rural Kyushu. He seeks solace in a small religious group run by Buddhist nun Chishu-bo who claims to be the 68th descendant of famed 11th century poet Izumi Shikibu. The members of her sect regard her as a living saint. Yet instead of balming his soul, she riles his libido by playing a sexual cat-and-mouse game with the fragile Toyoichi. When she does bed him, it leads to a miracle healing -- followed by a terrible calamity.
Black Princess Hell Angel
Satoru Okamura
A violent action film depicting the success of a female investigator in the fight against drug syndicates.
Roppongi Banana Boys
A stylish light comedy about the “Banana boys”— two boys who were born and raised in Roppongi who are still growing up.
Hope and Pain
The adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War.
The West Tako Cheerleaders
A boy seeks manhood in joining his school’s militaristic cheer squad.
O Imperador dos Bordéis
Genkichi
At the time between the World Wars, Japan is involved in empire-building throughout East and Southeast Asia. After a brief career as a low-level military adventurer, Iheiji sets up chains of brothels throughout Asia. As Japan's power in the region grows, so does Iheiji's prosperity and patriotism.
Honba Jyoshikou Manual: Hatsukoi Binetsu-hen
Two childhood friends fall for the same boy.
Sukeban Deka: The Movie
Kikuo Katô
After the events of the TV series, the 18 year old Yoko Godai has abandoned her special agent Saki Asamiya name to return to her normal life, and is now studying for college entrance exams. However, she accidentally bumps into a young man named Kazuo Hagiwara trying to escape from a group of hitmen, and learns that he comes from Sanko Academy, a private school located in a remote island known as Hell's Castle. The school is ruled by a former revolutionary thought to be dead named Hattori who is trying to brainwash students into terrorists to help him stage a fascist coup d'etat in Japan.
A Promise
Takao, Yoshio's son
An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up to her death.
White Snake Enchantment
Masao Kanamishima
Uta married a priest who saved her when she tried to commit suicide at a waterfall. The love triangle between a lustful priest, his second wife and his son Masao.
Kawasaki Vice Squad
A photographer who takes pictures of a rendezvous between a politician, company president and yakuza boss is later found dead and the film missing.