Mao Inoue

One day, Hiroko accidentally starts a small fire while she is cooking. Although it does not lead to a serious incident, it does result in her going to stay with her eldest daughter, Yuko, for whom Hiroko has never been the mother she wanted.

In August, 1918, Matsuura Ito lives in a coastal village of Toyama with her husband and three children. During the summer, there wasn't much fish to catch, so her husband has been far away from home to catch fish. To support herself and her children, Ito carries goods from ships like the other women in the village. Meanwhile, the residents encounter rising prices for rice. The women are unable to feed their family due to the high prices of rice. The women ask a nearby rice store to sell rice at lower prices, but it fails. The price of rice continues to rise daily. Due to an incident, Ito and the other village women step up to the plate.

Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, a dull novelist and a legendary killer. Susumu Ichikawa, an obsolete writer with no manuscript at all, had another face - a legendary hitman. But the truth of the matter is... he had never shot a person. One day, he receives a murder request from a friend. Seeing this as an opportunity to achieve the ideal hard-boiled novel, he decides to hire a real hitman and demands that he report to him the assassination situation as it was.

Set at a movie theater in a small village around 100 years ago. Silent films are play at the movie theater. A young man aspires to become a benshi, a performer that provides live narration to silent films.

A young couple is devastated when their son is killed by a falling tree during a windstorm. As the distraught father begins to look for answers into his son’s death, what appears to be a tragic accident turns out to have been the result of multiple blunders by multiple people.

Set in the 1970's in the Kansai region of Japan.. Yong-Gil is Korean, but he moved to Japan and settled down. He runs a small restaurant named Yakiniku Dragon. He is married and has three daughters: oldest daughter Jung-Hwa, middle daughter Yi-Hwa and youngest daughter Mi-Hwa. Oldest daughter Jung-Hwa is dating Tetsuo, but they break up. Middle daughter Yi-Hwa loves Tetsuo and marries him, but Tetsuo still loves her older sister and they divorce. Youngest daughter Mi-Hwa wants to become a singer, but she is in love with a married man.

O gatinho Rudolfo cresceu com a dona na pequena cidade de Gifu, no Japão. Certo dia, acaba acidentalmente entre caixotes num camião de transporte de longa distância. Quando dá por si, está a centenas de quilómetros de casa, mesmo no centro da cidade de Tóquio. Sozinho e totalmente desprotegido, é acolhido por Tenhomuitos, o chefe dos gatos vadios. Apesar de simpatizar imediatamente com o seu novo amigo, fica espantado ao perceber que ele aterroriza a população felídea da zona. É então que Tenhomuitos lhe revela um segredo que pode significar algo importantíssimo para Rudolfo: consegue decifrar a escrita humana. Com esse conhecimento, talvez os dois consigam encontrar um modo de fazer o pequeno gatinho regressar para os braços da sua dona...

An aspiring super hero gets his chance for bravery when a witch transforms his village into an uninhabitable mess. Now, he must save the day!

Beautiful Noriko Miki works at a cosmetic company. One day, Noriko is murdered. People begin to suspect her co-worker Miki Shirono might have killed her. Television begins to cover her story. A TV show interviews Miki Shirono's colleagues, family, people from her hometown. Rumors turn into fear. Is she a wicked a woman?

A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World War II. During their research into his life, they get conflicting accounts from his former comrades about his character and how he joined his squadron.

Ryoro Kurojima (Sadao Abe) is the director of a Tokyo apology center. His job is to teach others how to apologize. Ryoro Kurojima solves problems by using his apology techniques on anything from simple arbitration to a national crisis.

The mayor of Oita wants to improve the image of his city, so he instructs Chiaki - a young woman working for the city's PR department - to form a female tug of war team. Nobuo MIZUTA mixes comedy, drama and a pinch of social criticism to tell a tale of eight women, their everyday struggles and their support for each other.

Shima (Mirei Kiritani) is a second year high school student. She has already become the youngest ever winner of a "new writer award" for poetry. Yet, she keeps it a secret that she is a writer at school. Shima has developed feelings for fellow second year high school student Kento (Takahiro Miura). One day, Kento confesses his feelings for her and they begin to have a relationship. Shima has difficulties understanding other's emotions and can't understand Kento's feelings. Soon afterwards, Kento decides to break up with Shim...

After the collapse of their relationship, Kiwako abducts the 6-month old child of a man she was having an affair with. Raising the child as her own, it is four years before the authorities catch up with her and the young child.

In 1944, the American military lands on the shores of Saipan. Refusing to commit suicide with his superiors or be forced into camps for prisoners of war, Captain Oba Sakae leads a group of his men and other similarly minded local residents into the mountains. Even after hearing reports of the Japanese military's surrender, Oba dismisses the reports as propaganda and continues to launch guerilla attacks against the American soldiers, earning him the nickname "The Fox". Soon, even the American commander who's charged with the task of capturing Oba comes to admire his persistent enemy.

Drawing influence from the street musicians of Miyagi, four high school students form a band and spend their free time practicing for their school's upcoming festival. When the festival is abruptly concealed, they come up with a dimwitted strategy of faking a bomb threat to the school in order to force the principal to change his mind. Their plan seems to work at first, but when a real bomb goes off, the group is forced to take responsibility for the explosion and they are kicked out of school. Three years later, more details of the incident is revealed as the youth look back on the past.

Based on a true story. A Japanese girl and an American guy, fall in love in Japan. Their relationship will not be easy to manage, with their different cultures and their different langages.

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.

Nonoue Junichi is a psychiatrist working in the counseling room of a cancer treatment center by the beach. While tending to the patients, part of his job involves taking dictation from them when they want to send a letter to a loved one.

The second Anmitsu Hime TV-movie.

O filme se passa 4 anos após o pedido de casamento de Doumyouji. Ele anuncia seu casamento com Makino Tsukushi, que ganha da mãe de Doumyouji como presente de casamento o "Sorriso de Vênus", uma tiara valiosíssima, que contém 4 pedras preciosas, cada uma com um significado. Porém, essa tiara é roubada. Mas, como a mãe de Doumyouji não pode descobrir que os dois perderam a valiosa jóia, o jovem casal parte pelo mundo a fim de recuperá-la. Só que... essa tarefa não será nenhum pouco fácil. Com tantos obstáculos e dificuldades no caminho, Makino começa a refletir sobre o casamento dos dois... Será que eles realmente devem ficar juntos? Será que eles realmente serão felizes ao lado do outro? E é nesta jornada que eles descobrirão se o seu destino é de ficarem juntos para sempre... ou não.

At age 16, a tomboy princess, Princess Anmitsu, has no love interest in her life and worries her parents. Despite their concern, Anmitsu runs away from the castle to venture into the commoners' life. During her daring adventure, she befriends a group of children who make a living by pick-pocketing. At the same time, she finally meets her prince charming Senbei, the leader of the group. However, she soon finds herself in an awkward position when she learns of the children's new plot: they are planning to steal the treasures from her own castle. Will she be able to put a stop to it without revealing her true identity?

The tale of hardship, love, determination and life of Mineko, a young maiko (apprentice geisha) in the Gion district of Kyoto.

Há 250 anos, Soetsu, um humilde agiota, é assassinado por Shinzaemon, um samurai cruel, e seu corpo é depositado no Rio Kasangafuchi. Segundo a lenda, aqueles que afundam nesse rio jamais retornam à superfície. Vinte e cinco anos depois, por forças do destino, Shinkichi, o filho de Shinzaemon, encontra Toyoshiga, a filha de Soetsu e eles se apaixonam. Mas quando ela morre de uma doença misteriosa, Shinkichi descobre que não pode fugir do amor de Toyoshiga e é forçado a enfrentar a maldição do rio Kasanegafuchi

Kitaro is a half human, half creature who keeps an eye on the human society to save them from the evil attacks from another world. He finds that a magical ball that controls all powers had been brought into the human world, and stops it from falling into the wrong hands.

Tomboy Yui (Mao Inoue) brings her 3 male friends along with her to see a live performance of local Okinawan rap group, “Workaholic”. Upon witnessing the crowd reaction, the boys decide to start a rap group of their own to impress chicks—while Toru (Hayato Ichihara) has the added motivation of impressing his older, more sophisticated love interest Nagisa (Ayumi Ito). With only 2 weeks to learn how to play instruments and prepare for their first show, the performance is predictably humiliating. In order to save pride they decide to give it another shot, but this time they ditch the instruments for a sampler and stay truer to themselves. Will Toru be able to capture Nagisa’s heart? Will Yui ever confess her love to Toru or will she just keep practicing her advanced pro wrestling techniques on him instead?

A história gira em torno da vida do jovem Seita e sua irmã mais nova, Setsuko. Enquanto seu pai combate os americanos em alto-mar, Seita e Setsuko vivem com a mãe, sempre às voltas com os constantes alertas de ataques aéreos. Após perderem a mãe num intenso bombardeio, Seita e Setsuko são obrigados a amadurecer rapidamente e enfrentar situações difíceis e penosas... ainda assim, fazem de tudo para encontrar alegria e satisfação nas menores coisas, como um banho de mar ou observando vagalumes à noite. Mas a fome crescente, as doenças e a insensibilidade dos adultos tornam a vida de ambos cada vez mais dura, e as perspectivas para o futuro ficam cada vez mais sombrias...