Makoto Ashikawa

Haruko is a single mother. She has an unusual living arrangement. She lives with her son Riku, her friend Aiko and Aiko's boyfriend Sorao. One day, Yuko stays at Haruko's house to attend an art institute for the summer. Yuko is the daughter of Haruko's old friend Tomoyo. They haven't spoken for many years prior to Tomoyo reaching out to Haruko to ask if her daughter could stay with her for the summer. Haruko and Tomoyo have an uncomfortable past.

Documentary with Makoto Ashikawa, who played Kikuchi in Violent Cop, and Masayuki Mori, the film's producer, commenting on the film and what was happening behind the scenes of Takeshi Kitano's first film as a director.

Sensual love story about a single woman struggling with romance. Director Morikawa Kei won the Grand Prix at the 2015 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival for Makeup Room. Yamagishi Shiori (Maru Junko) is a single 38-year-old woman working in the editorial department of a women's magazine. Workaholic Shiori's only diversion is watching erotic videos for women and indulging in fantasies of romance with her favorite male porn star Shunsuke (Arima Yoshihiko). Then, one day she covers a porn shoot for a feature story about popular male porn stars…

A novelist receives a letter from a female university student named Kubo about strange sounds that emanate from a room in her apartment. They begin to investigate incidents involving former residents, and eventually discover the shocking truths lurking inside the building.

A man with a wife and child attempts to run off with a hostess, but he doesn’t show up at the place they agreed to meet. The hostess continues to wait fully aware he won’t come. Then a man calls out to her…. “The Dork, The Girl, and The Douchebag,” the latest film in three years by OKUDA Yosuke who made his commercial film debut with “Tokyo Playboy Club” (11), is a powerful ensemble drama intertwining a drug dealer, a yakuza, an ex-convict youth, and others. It can be said the film inherits the setting of his previous work, but the intense realism exhibited in the raw chaos far exceeds the previous film and amply points to OKUDA’s future potential. Portraying the complex male character who only lives for violence, OKUDA’s talents as an actor should also not be overlooked.

In 1959, a body of a flight attendant of an international airline is found, strangled. Detective Rokuro Fujisawa takes charge of the investigation with a young detective Ichimura and his investigations lead him to Father Tolbeck as a suspect. But the police are forced to move very discreetly as the time was right after the Second World War, when a sensitive situation that involves Western people and religion is likely to become an international issue. The investigation leads to an unexpected discloser of a shadowy business behind the church that reflects the uncertainty of the time.

Saeko and Yukako live together in a small apartment complex in Tokyo. After the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, both live in a state of unease. Saeko, who is in a divorce, is worried that her daughter is exposed to radiation. Yukako is also afraid of radiation and tries to convince her husband to move. The two become friends after Yukako tries to save Saeko after a suicide attempt.

Shamoto foi espancado até a submissão pelas exigências da vida mundana. Ele tem um estranho relacionamento com sua segunda esposa que ainda não foi aceita por sua filha adolescente e rebelde, Mitsuko. A única alegria na vida de Shamoto é uma loja de pequenos peixes tropicais. Quando Mitsuko é pega furtando, Murata ajuda Shamoto a resolver as coisas com o gerente da loja. Murata, dono de uma loja de peixes tropicais chamada Amazon Gold, imediatamente cria um vínculo com Shamoto e se oferece para ajudar a filha rebelde, dando-lhe um trabalho com casa e comida. O conflito entre Mitsuko e sua madrasta parece estar finalmente resolvido.

When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Minister's assassination, and on the run from corrupt cops. It's only the beginning of what quickly becomes the worst, weirdest day of his life. But he'll get by with a little help from his friends, who include a famous pop diva, a rockabilly deliveryman, a crippled old gangster, and the world's most cheerful serial killer.

A rock band writes a song called "Fish Story" based on a sentence from a badly translated novel by a quack translator. The song exceeds the boundaries of space and time and ties people and their stories together. Thirty-seven years go by, and the song strikes a comet and saves the Earth from total destruction.

Shogo, the arrogant and condescending star of a popular call-in radio-show must temporarily broadcast out of Studio 6, a creepy and dilapidated booth abandoned since its last DJ committed suicide several years ago. Suddenly, Shogo begins receiving disturbing calls, the voice on the line whispers "Liar" over and over. Is the joke on him, has someone discovered the truth about his sinister past, or has the curse of Studio 6 been unleashed again? In this Booth, all sins will be atoned for.

Beat Takeshi leva a vida ocupada, e por vezes surreal, de uma celebridade do mundo do espetáculo. Mas o seu sósia loiro chamado Kitano, caixa numa loja de conveniência, ainda é um actor desconhecido à espera de uma oportunidade. Após cruzar-se acidentalmente com Beat, Kitano mergulha num estado de fantasia pontuado por aspectos da vida real e das suas personagens que Beat desempenhou...

Japão, século 19. Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano) é um andarilho cego que sobrevive como massagista e jogador de cartas, mas por trás de sua aparência humilde esconde-se um espadachim de raro talento. Numa de suas andanças ele chega a uma aldeia dominada pelo sanguinário bandoleiro Ginzo (Ittoku Kishibe), que, com a ajuda do samurai Hattori (Tadanobu Assano), seu capanga, elimina quem se oponha a seus objetivos. O embate entre Zatoichi e a quadrilha de Ginzo torna-se inevitável quando o cego conhece duas gueixas que desejam vingar a morte dos pais.

Lançado diretamente em vídeo antes de Ju-on: The Grudge e Ju-on: The Grudge 2. O que pensaria se alguém morresse vítima da ira mais profunda? Poderia o rancor transformar-se em Maldição? Como se sentiria se suspeitasse que essa terrível maldição o perseguiria amaldiçoando-o a si e a todos os que o rodeiam?

Com ciúmes de que sua esposa esteja apaixonada por outro homem, um professor da escola dela. Um homem mata brutalmente sua esposa e filho. Buscando o filho que tem faltado muito à escola, o professor entra em sua casa, só para encontrar o fantasma de sua mãe morta e consequentemente, tem um ataque de coração e se torna um fantasma. A história passa a contar sobre os novos inquilinos da casa e o que a experiência e uma investigação, por dois policiais, de por que tantas pessoas estão desaparecendo.

O detetive Nishi tem sua vida abalada após descobrir que sua mulher tem uma doença terminal; seu parceiro é baleado e ficará para sempre em uma cadeira de rodas. O policial começa a se sentir responsável pelo sofrimento dos dois e decide sair da polícia e pegar um grande empréstimo com a máfia para dar um pouco de conforto aos que estão à sua volta. Para pagar o empréstimo, Nishi arquitetará um plano que mudará o curso de sua vida.

Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place.

While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.

A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and Yakuza activities.

First mainstream film directed by Genji Nakamura, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1974 short story of the same title.

Kobayashi Isamu, a first-year high school student, lives in a family of four with his father, an artist, his mother, an insurance agent, and his sister, an office worker. To make ends meet, he works as a milkman. At school, he is a member of the kendo club and spends his days working out with his seniors. Over time, he has various encounters with a series of girls.

Ocho é sequestrado por um clã yakuza que usa uma quadrilha de mulheres para contrabandear drogas nas suas vaginas. Descobrindo que o chefe do crime havia matado o último chefe e sequestrado a sua filha, Ocho une forças com as mulas das drogas contra o clã.