Etsuko Nami
Nascimento : 1950-12-27, Kashiba, Nara Prefecture, Japan
Swimming Club Coach
People from all walks of life (a high-school student, a middle-aged businessman, a yakuza chief, etc.) all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to go to a small island in the Inland Sea that evening. At the stroke of midnight, the lost ship emerges from the sea and they are given a brief time to say their final words to their lost loved ones, before the deceased must once again board the ship and it sinks back into the depths.
An insecure young Asian man meets an interesting sensual European woman who teaches him the secrets of love and life.
A story about the development of a bright and strong yakuza. Otaki is an old-fashioned respectful yakuza who tries to protect his small yakuza family. When his boss gets shot, he decides to go after the plotters.
The Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a freak accident the year prior. When the other daughter Mika is suddenly in a dangerous situation, Chizuko returns as a ghost to save her; reunited with her sister, Mika begins spending time with Chizuko again.
Matsu
Based on actual events that occurred in Hokkaido, Japan, 1915. Rimeinzu: Utsukushiki yuusha-tachi tells the story of a group of bear hunters that are tracking a 900 pound brown bear nicknamed Red Spots that is terrorising the area. It attacks and kills men, but it feasts only on women.
Alice
Yoko Takahashi's directorial debut.
A man and a woman drift ashore after a typhoon. The man, dead, is an escaped perpetrator, and the woman, alive, is a hairdresser Masako. A detective in charge of an embezzlement case is tracking the whereabouts of disappeared money and suspects Masako. One year later, a real estate company president dies a suspicious death in front of Masako at her beauty salon. Was it an accidents or murder?
Miki Ogata
Shin’ichi “Sonny” Chiba é o único sobrevivente de um clã de lobisomens que confia em seus superpoderes selvagens ativados pela lua cheia para solucionar crimes misteriosos. Uma noite uma morte bizarra e sangrenta nas ruas de Tóquio o lança numa ampla conspiração povoada por políticos desonestos, mulheres nuas, um tigre fantasma e uma organização sombria.
Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.
Shizu
End of the Taisho period. In the city of Kiryu, where the wind is constantly blowing, the heads of the yakuza families of Kanhasshu (eight Kanto provinces) were to raise funds for the construction of the Chuji Kunisada monument. Responsible for the fundraiser was Jokichi from the Asami family, but Matsugoro from the Kuromatsu family, who wanted to become the greatest boss of the Kanhasshu yakuza, is trying to take over the textile market that Jokichi controls and intercept the fundraiser.
Comedy around a motorman and a conductor of a streetcar.
Coming of age/high school sports drama.
Kiriko
Story of love, jealousy and hatred among waitresses of a deluxe bar.
Yôko Moriya
Pinky and Yoko are about to graduate. Full of hope and uncertainties they embark on a tale of temptation.
Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka.
Light comedy about three high-school girls on the campus.