Shosuke Tanihara

Iwane Sakazaki returns to his homeland and gets caught in the middle of an incident that results in the tragic death of two of his best friends from childhood. He decides to leave his domain, parting with his fiancée Nao, and becomes a vagrant masterless samurai with nothing more to lose. Iwane drifts to Edo, filleting eels during the day and working as a bodyguard at night for Imazuya, a reputable money exchanger. He gradually wins the trust of the people around him because of his mellow nature, the chivalrous way he treats everyone with courtesy, and his skills of swords. One day, he learns that Imazuya is being targeted in a conspiracy to sabotage a new monetary system implemented by the government, and Iwane decides to protect the people who have given him support.

Nanami Ishikawa works as an editor at a publishing company. She travels Hiroshima to go after her father Asahi who left home. During her visit to Hiroshima, she learns about the tragic story of Asahi's older sister Minami Hirano. When Minami Hirano was 13 years old, she was exposed to radiation by an atomic bomb.

Two sets of parents divorce and marry each other, while their children Miki and Yuu are caught in the middle and start falling for each other.

Following of the Detective Katherine shown on September 2015.

A sequel to "The Pierrot Prays to the Moon", which won the "Gold Medal Prize" at the Chicago International Film Festival Television Awards. A beautiful village in the mountains. Mayu is a wife, a mother and a daughter-in-law. While taking care of her husband and son, she is faced with despair every day as she visits her mother-in-law with a long-term illness. Amidst all this, she meets a man from Tokyo by coincidence and falls in love with him. A secret and illicit love where they understood each other's hearts. For Mayu, this love was captivating, a love that is one of a kind. In the midst of this love, time passes and after several years, it had brought her a whole new meaning to life. This is even more so being the forbidden kind of love. When the man invited Mayu to return to Tokyo with him, she must decide whether to stay in her hometown or abandon her home and follow him.

Katherine Turner initially accompanied her father, Vice President of the United States, on his official trip to Japan but decided to stay longer to study the Japanese art of flower arrangement for her business back in the States. Yukio Hamaguchi, Minister of Foreign Affairs and also a very good friend of Katherine’s father, assigns his nephew Ichiro to escort Katherine during her stay. Ichiro is halfhearted at first but when Katherine’s old friend Maiko becomes the victim of a murder case, Katherine and Ichiro start to reveal their talent as brilliant detectives by untangling clues and solving the case together.

At a small station in a very small town somewhere in Japan, a woman with eyes as beautiful as the sky, sits at a bench. A man comes to the same station to get a train back to the city, and here he meets this beautiful lady but finds that she is blind. This movie tells the fantasy love story of a day where a man and woman meet accidentally in a small town.

Aida Mana é uma garota que está sempre ansiosa para fazer coisas pelo bem dos outros. Um dia, quando estava visitando a cidade Clover, durante o programa de orientação de sua escola, inimigos que se chamaram de “Selfish” apareceram de repente e tentaram manipular seu coração! Para lutar contra estes inimigos, ela recebe o poder de Charles, uma fada, para se transformar em Pretty Cure! Para proteger a paz do mundo, outras lendárias Pretty Cure se unem a ela na batalha! Um misterioso bebê também aparece, transformando cada dia em uma experiência de acelerar o coração! As quatro Pretty Cure, sempre mantendo o amor em seus corações, estão lutando pelo destino do mundo!

Shizuru Tamai (Takako Tokiwa) lives in a small mountain town in rural Japan with her mother and grandmother. Her grandmother is partially unable to move, and Shizuru has to care for her with her mother, who tries to keep Shizuru shackled at every opportunity. Shizuru’s days are filled with endless monotony. She works as a receptionist at her former classmate’s hospital, and one day goes to buy picture books for the waiting room. It’s then that she recalls a book from her childhood ‘The Pierrot Prays to the Moon’. Wanting to read the book again, Shizuru finds it on an online auction site. Once it finally arrives and she begins to read it, a small slip of paper gently falls from its pages. On the paper are what appear to be instructions for a recipe. The recipe prompts Shizuru to contact Tobuse (Shosuke Tanihara), the man who sent her the book.

Um documentário comovente sobre o homem que abriu uma lendária casa de lámen em Tóquio.

Young Atsuko Kagami comes into possession of a magical mirror that lets her transform into anything she wishes. Atsuko Kagami then attempts to save a company which is about to be sold by using her transformation abilities. She also falls in love as a 22-year-old college student.

Akane é a caçula de três filhas de Soun Tendo. Seu pai, Soun Tendo, dirige um dojo para artes marciais. Akane espera levar o dojo de seu pai para um futuro distante. Enquanto isso, Akane foi escolhida para se casar com Ranma, filho do amigo de longa data de Genma, Genma. O relacionamento de Akane e Ranma se transformou em um relacionamento de amor e ódio. Além disso, Ranma não é seu garoto típico. Durante uma jornada de treinamento, Ranma caiu na Primavera da Garota Afogada e agora se transforma em mulher sempre que água fria é derramada sobre ele. Água morna permitirá que ele volte a ser macho. Os problemas surgem quando o pai de Akane declara que o sucessor de seu dojo deve ser um homem. Agora, Akane e Ranma (sendo um homem apenas metade do tempo) devem encontrar uma fonte secreta que possa curá-lo de sua maldição.

Police Officer Kankichi Ryotsu (Shingo Katori) is back at the Kameari Park Polic Box. Kankichi Ryotsu usually means to do well, but more often than not he ends up causing all kinds of trouble. Like on his way to work he away when he is asked to pay up by a shop owner or cheats an elementary school student. Ryotsu's co-workers Reiko Catherine Akimoto (Karina) and Keiichi Nagakawa (Mokomichi Hayami) have had about all they can take from Kankichi and his boss Ohara (Masato Ibu) is constantly berating him.

The film stars Seishiro Kato as Rantaro who is sent to a ninja training school by his parents. During the summer, their teacher is invaded by a group of rival ninjas culminating in a race to ring a bell on top of a mountain.

Ash, Pikachu, Iris e Cilan, que estão viajando pela região de Unova, chegam a Aind Oak, uma cidade com um castelo central chamado Earth's Sword (Espada da Terra). Uma vez, esta cidade floresceu como o 'Reino do Povo da Terra', mas agora está em declínio. Ash e seus amigos participam numa batalha em celebração ao festival da colheita local

Durante suas viagens pela região de Unova, Ash e seus amigos Iris e Cilan chegam na Cidade de Eindoak, construída ao redor de um castelo chamado a Espada do Vale. Os três Treinadores vieram para competir na competição de batalhas anual da cidade, e Ash consegue vencer com um pouco da ajuda inesperada do Pokémon Mítico Victini! A maior aventura na história Pokémon se aproxima!

While the Japanese government is trying to crack down on international crime organizations' money laundering in tax havens, the Chief of Police's son is found dead in a hotel in France.

Sci-fi writer Sakutaro (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and bank employee Setsuko (Yuko Takeuchi) met at as high school freshmen during their summer vacation. Since that time, the couple has always been together and eventually married.One day, Setsuko complains of a stomach ache and is hospitalized. Sakutaro then learns that his wife has colon cancer. Sakutaro takes the advice from his doctor that laughter helps the immune system and proceeds to write a short story for his wife every day. At first, Setsuko was expected to live for only 1 more year, but she lived for 5 more years and Sakutaro eventually wrote 1,778 short stories for his wife.

This is based on a collection of short stories by Keigo Higashino. A membership-based investigation agency dedicated to VIP will usually lead the case to a quick and calm resolution. Members are only VIPs in the political and business world. Tow people are in charge of it, a man in his mid-30s who has a deeply carved face away from the Japanese and a beautiful woman who seems to be in his late 20s. She works as an assistant to the man, and has extraordinary memory. Their group is nicknamed the Detective Club by the owners who are VIP members.

Nodame e Chiaki mutualmente decidem que seria melhor se separarem para que possa praticar para uma competição próxima. No entanto quando as coisas não saem do seu jeito, ela fica impaciente e deprimida. Enquanto Nodame está afastada a ex de chiaki, a pianista Rui retorna para tomar o seu lugar. Para piorar a situação, Rui e Chiaki são determinados para tocar a música dos sonhos de Nodame com Chiaki O concerto em G de Ravel.

Based on a short story by Seichi Matsumoto from 1956 and remake from the 1957 movie of the same name, the story is about an actor who has the opportunity to become a success but 9 years earlier, he had killed a woman with whom he was involved and there was an eyewitness to the murder.

A carreira de Chiaki como maestro está em ascenção. Ele é convidado para se tornar o maestro permanente da Orquestra Roux-Marlet. Entretanto, a orquestra está péssima: falta de verba, membros desinteressados e ruins, falta de público e um primeiro-violino que acha que é ele quem dá as ordens. Em um prazo apertado, o nosso jovem perfeccionista terá que fazer mudanças profundas se quiser trazer a orquestra em sua antiga glória. Enquanto isso, Nodame se esforça para melhorar cada vez mais no piano em busca de seu sonho de se apresentar junto de Chiaki.

Tenshi no Koi conta a história de Ozawa Rio, uma estudante de 17 anos que usa as pessoas como bem quer e não sente nem uma gota de remorso, tudo devido ao seu passado traumático. Ela é o tipo de pessoa que usa a sua beleza para conseguir o que quer e está envolvida em um mundo de prostituição e chantagem. Até que conhece Ozawa Kouki um professor de História do Japão que faz com que ela mude totalmente o seu modo de vida.

30 year old Yoko Sasaki (Arisa Mizuki) works diligently at a publishing company. She then receives the unexpected news that she is pregnant. Having now to chose between having a baby and or her career.

Yutaro é um cozinheiro de mão cheia e de bom coração. No entanto, traumatizado desde a infância, tudo o que lhe ocorre de ruim ele atribui à sua feiúra. Cansado de ser maltratado pelas pessoas por causa de sua aparência e acreditando que somente sendo bonito poderá conquistar Ryoko (Kato Rosa), uma moça que aparece para trabalhar em seu restaurante, Yutaro aceita a proposta de um cientista de vestir um terno estranho, que promete lhe trazer a tão sonhada beleza. Agora transformado no bonitão Hikariyama Anni (Tanihara Shunsuke), Yutaro vai conseguir superar seus complexos e ser feliz?

Em uma realidade alternativa alguns meninos chamados kildren são geneticamente modificados e se destinam a viver em uma eterna adolescência, nunca envelhecendo. Os Kildren estão cientes de que todos os dias podem ser seus últimos dias: seus papéis são os de peões de um jogo de guerra organizado por adultos.

A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a mysterious hitman — an assassin the hustler has no idea how to contact. Instead, he hires an actor to play the role, though the thespian has no idea what he's getting into.

A man’s body is found in the suburbs of Tokyo. The dead man was hit by a car and his head beaten by the reckless driver after the accident. The dead man had a wife named Noriko. She likes fancy things and she has a lover named Tsukada. It's also learned that the dead man was insured for 300 million yen. The media and the public look at Noriko and her boyfriend Tsukada with suspicion, but they have perfect alibis. Then, Detective Hibiki, who is in charge of the case, and Private Detective Kono become involved in a series of mysterious murder cases.

Ichitaro's adventure goes on. He starts to feel earthquakes, which no-one else does, and a voice telling to kill Ichitaro. His grandma gives him one flower's seeds and also tells Ichitaro's mother to let him go to Hakone. Mother approves it and Ichitaro takes up a trip to Hakone with Matsunosuke, Hakutaku and Sasuke, but only two of them arrive to Hakone, where earth trembles even more and people are more vulgar.

Shizuka Kamei is a young high school student whose family is in deep debt since the disappearance of her father. After being expelled from her high school because of her money problems, she finds a part-time job: here she is an assistant to a lawyer, Nonaka Hiromu, who fantasizes about the uniforms of high school girls.

Japão, 2077: Uma agente chamada Vexille é enviada para Tokyo com o objectivo de investigar os japoneses e o desenvolvimento da sua tecnologia biónica, que foi banida pelas Nações Unidas devido à sua potencial ameaça para a Humanidade.

Koizumi Risa an unusually tall high school girl, meets the "vertically challenged" young man Otani Atsushi. They find common ground in height anxieties and interests. Risa (Ema Fujisawa), a tall Japanese girl, gets rejected by a boy because she is taller than him. Otani (Teppei Koike), a short Japanese guy, gets rejected by a girl because he is shorter than her. Obviously these two would make the oddest of couples and would never be a good match for each other right? Well love doesn’t always follow such logic as Love Complex shows.

Sho deixou sua cidade natal para tentar ser músico, mas nada deu certo. Um dia é acordado pelo pai portando as cinzas de uma tia que ele nem sabia que existia; o pai pede que vá limpar o apartamento da mulher que foi expulsa da família 30 anos atrás, e aos poucos Sho vai descobrir a história da tia que nunca conheceu.

The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to a platoon from the Fleet Training Group. No sooner is the Isokaze on open water, however, then the FTG reveal themselves to be terrorist stowaways who kill the ship's captain, send the rest of the crew overboard and take control of the vessel. The ship is carrying a secret biological weapon which the terrorists are now threatening to use to level Tokyo! Only a stowaway NCO, Sengoko (played by Sanada Hiroyuki from Ring and Twilight Samurai) is in a position to stop them - but does he really have what it takes to save the day? Playing like a cross between a sea-faring version of Top Gun and Die Hard, director Sakamoto Junji shows that it's not just Hollywood that can produce thrill-a-minute action spectaculars.

Breathe In, Breathe Out centers on six, later seven, individuals who have gotten jobs harvesting sugarcane on a small Okinawa island. Each worker has their own unique personality as well as their own issues as they learn to work together...

A serial-murderer is on the loose who just so happens to also be removing the hearts of his victims and taking them with him. His victims however, are not merely random humans as thought by the police. They are in fact, the past and present guardians of the gateway of the afterlife.On the day he is to be married, Detective Kanzaki, who happens to be on the case, discovers that his fiancé Mina has been murdered with her heart also missing. He also learns that the killers are Kudo, a geneticist, and his evil secretary Rei. The two are trying to obtain six hearts from the guardians so that they may call forth a horde of demons from the Gate of Rage and have their every desire granted. Only problem is, once they open the gate the entire world will be covered in darkness.

Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2003 Fall Special" presents five tales. 1. *Kagi (The Key) - starring Eguchi Yosuke. 2. Perfect Couple - starring Yada Akiko. 3. Toosugita Otoko (The Man Who Was Too Far Away) - starring Nakamura Shido. 4. Meiro (The Maze)- starring Tanihara Shosuke. 5. Kage ga Omonaru Toki (When Shadows Accumulate) - starring Yashima Norito. * Adapted from a novel by Tsutsui Yasutaka.

Japanese horror starring Stephen Fung as a man who dies in a skiing accident, only for his best friend to marry his wife and inherit his fortune. Supernatural hijinks ensue.

After surviving from an incident of Cruise ship hijacking, both doctor Tamaki and the boy injured in the incident, Ryota Inamoto, suffered from different degrees of PTSD. Meanwhile, Doctor Chiharu Kanbayashi's wife is about to give birth to their first children. Would these doctors and patients succeed in overcoming their problems and welcome a happy new year?

In an alternate timeline the original Godzilla is never defeated and repeatedly reemerges to feed on Japan's energy sources. A new inter-dimensional weapon called the Dimension Tide is created with the intent of eliminating Godzilla. However, the new weapon might also serve as a gateway to something far more sinister.

Kenichi is a half-Japanese, half-Chinese man of the underworld. You can sell him anything except children's organs. His domain is in Kabukicho, a gangland controlled by various Shanghai gangs intent on taking control. His former partner-in-crime, Fu-Chun, is rumored to have returned to Kabukicho, having fled years earlier after killing the number two of gangland boss, Yuan. Yuan wants to get even and attempts to do so by using Kenichi.

A violent action film depicting the story of "Fudokuichi," a clear-headed high school student who is the young head of a Kyokudo family in Kyushu. Starring Tanihara Shosuke, Takeuchi Riki, Natsume Rei and others.

The story of Fudoh II concerns a group of delinquent high school girls who decide they will take over organized crime in Tokyo's Shinjuku district. Their method is simple: murdering as many mobsters as possible.

Based on the comic book of the same name by Kaoru Tada.

In order to settle a business dispute, a mob leader murders one of his own teenage sons. The surviving son vows to avenge his brother's death, and organizes his own gang of teenage killers to destroy his father's organization.

It's a story about a girl who becomes a student at Eitoku Gakuen, the institute for very rich people. She is faced with four of the most powerful and rich guys at school who call themselves F4.

Catherine Turner is the daughter of the Vice President of the United States, and she had come with her father on his official visit to Japan. Since she runs a flower arrangement business back in the US, Catherine decides to stay on in Japan to learn Ikebana, after her father had returned home at the end of the official visit. Japan's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hamaguchi Yukio, asks his nephew, Ichiro, to escort Catherine during her extended stay in Japan with the strict instructions that he is not to fall in love with her.