Akio Yokoyama
Nascimento : 1930-09-26, Toyama, Japan
Morte : 2014-06-20
Jiro
A história de um irmão insensato e de sua irmã mais velha, uma moça bondosa que continua a acreditar nele, mesmo quando toda a família o vê como um estorvo. Um dia, um incidente põe fim à relação entre eles, e o irmão se encontra sozinho e devastado. Quando eles finalmente se reúnem, a irmã descobre que seu irmão está lutando contra uma doença fatal.
Plaster mask
A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.
A vast wheat field, a straight road that has no end, a sky without a single building in sight – this is a town in the country where time comfortably passes by. But this former paradise is now being stirred up by a fight amongst its people over constructing an airport. This is a tale of three young people exploring youth and friendship as they reach out into the sky.
After serving a jail sentence, a former leading yakuza (Takaaki Ishibashi) has gone straight. He has married and is now holding a regular job. However, he is continually harrassed by a police inspector who cannot forgive his past. Meanwhile a major gang war erupts. With his former gang in danger of being exterminated, will his loyalties draw him back in?
Security Guard
Rotineiramente, todas as segundas-feiras, um grupo de funcionários de um purgatório se reúne para definir o planejamento para a semana que se segue. Eles têm que recepcionar a vinda de um grupo de pessoas e guiá-las em suas atividades neste breve momento do pós-vida.
Young and beautiful germophobe Ritsuko moves into a picture perfect neighborhood with her parents, being monitored by a research team who want to cure her of her debilitating phobias. Will her new neighbors be able to cure her of her irrational view of the outside world, or will coming face to face with this fairy-tale setting only drive her further inside of her subconsciousness?
A manga artist stumbles into the sleazy world of perverts who stalk trains looking for women to molest. He discovers quickly that he is very much one of them and even finds love along the way. The first in the alarmingly long-running Molester Diary series.
Mr Lee
An anthology film based on the works of manga artist Yoshiharu Tsuge. The main character in all four segments is a fledgling cartoonist named Tsube . In the first segment, Tsube encounters a dotty old man named Ri after renting a tumble-down cottage in the country. The following day, Ri, his equally weird wife, and his two squalid children move into his house. Soon the wife is stealing the cucumbers in his garden while the two kids devour all the food in the house.
A police officer is recruited to a special agency and given a license to kill. He is given a dozen or so young policemen and a bar as a front. Meanwhile, girls are disappearing and the friend of one girl is searching for her. It turns out the girls are being kidnapped and sold into bizarre kinky sex games to rich industrialists by a megalomaniacal corporation. One of the young deputies becomes involved and finds a friend of his (the boyfriend of the searching woman) is involved.
Manager
A Francophile filmmaker in a creative rut tries to pass off a free-spirited young actress as his movie-star wife in order to fool a chief from the South Seas.
Mifuku
Um magnata da música reúne dois aspirantes a estrelas (o rebelde do punk rock Kan e o cantor romântico de new wave Shingo) e os transforma nos Stardust Brothers, uma sensação do synth-pop. Juntamente com sua fã número 1, que também sonha com uma carreira musical própria, a dupla alcança o estrelato.
The story of friendship, love and sportsmanship among high-school students.
Amaya
Em uma pequena aldeia em um vale, todo mundo que chega aos 70 anos deve deixar a aldeia e ir para o topo de uma determinada montanha para morrer. Se alguém recusasse, iria desonrar sua família. O velho Orin tem 69 anos. Neste inverno, é a vez dela ir para a montanha. Mas primeiro ela deve se certificar de que seu filho mais velho, Tatsuhei, encontre uma esposa.
Youth suspense movie.
Apartment House's Manager
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Second live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel.
Sailor
Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The film tells the tale of the four monks' youth and the life and times of the high priest Ganjin.
Japanese drama film.
