Taka Okubo

Misaki, living a lonely life in Tokyo for college; decides to go back home to Fukushima for a month on her spring break. But by coming home without a notice, her mother would not welcome her nor let her in the house. She wanders around trying to find a friend to let her stay and fails miserably but ends up finding a small hotel called "Komorebi" looking for a short time live-in worker. There, she starts living with a kind and trustworthy woman, Kinuyo, and a hurt and depressed owner, Goro. A girl with a broken up family and a man with a dark past; their paths in life cross over as they start to change slowly...

War photjournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children. Because of Yasayuki's drinking problems the couple divorced. Yasuyuki is now coughing up blood, hospitalized, and violent. Even with all of these problems Yasuyuki can't give up drinking alcohol. His family gets tired. Yasuyuki is then hospitalized in an alcoholic ward. There he finds comfort living with other patients and having conversations with doctors. With the help of his family, Yasuyuki recovers mentally and physically, but his body has already paid a heavy toll.

A história gira em torno de Yu, um garoto cujo pai é um católico obcecado por pecados e confissões. O único jeito de Yu chamar a atenção de seu pai é se tornando um pecador, e assim ele se torna um especialista em tirar fotos por debaixo da saia de mulheres. Desse modo ele conhece Yoko, uma menina que sofrera abuso do pai, por quem se apaixona...

One rainy night in the Edo period, Kotono (a geisha) confronts samurais who killed her father. The samurais attack her one after another, but she fights hard against samurais with her sword. Kotono tries to chase the samurais who scramble to escape. Yet now three ninjas stand up against her. Kotono drops her sword by their wave of assaults. Can she beat them?

During a suicide attack on an airport, the hand grenade of 'M', one of three terrorists, malfunctions, leaving him captured. Exposed to maltreatment in prison, he slowly loses his grip on reality as he is forced to confront his ideological convictions.

Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mountainous and bordered by an unkempt buried forest.

The main character Akihiko lives in an old apartment. He plays the guitar and sings his own pieces on the street, but this cannot be called his dream. He has a girlfriend. The owner of the apartment next-door constantly repeats Buddhist prayers night and day. On the floor above, there lives a strange middle-aged man who wants to be kicked out of the apartment. Such an ordinary day exists. Akihiko is standing still on the street at dawn.

When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble of a destroyed shantytown they plan to haul it out for profit. Amidst this plan there is discrimination, war and an infatuation between a man and a woman, but like everything around them there and owing to the forces around them, there is as much chance that these may burn to ashes and be destroyed or be the beginning of something new.

A wanderer and his son arrive on an obscure northern island of Japan, causing the village of Pu to fall into disarray.

Based on the story of the same name by Shizuka Ijûin. Ran as a double feature with Chibusa (1993).

Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean women, meet a stowaway on Japanese soil from across the Genkai Sea.

This is the story of a bookstore thief named Birdy, who is led through various adventures in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko.

This is the story of a bookstore thief named Birdy, who is led through various adventures in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko.

Dark, cynical Japanese epic brought to U.S. in a dubbed version by shlockmeister Harry Novak. Still, this gory, sexy epic is made with style and interesting for to compare to "Yojimbo" and other masterworks of the form.

Shirō raids the office of the organization that attacked his lover, wreaking havoc and escaping with a stolen handgun. In retaliation, the organization hires two killers to get rid of Shirō. The duo begin to develop a strange kinship with their target...

Um detetive particular é contratado para encontrar uma mulher que aparentemente foi assassinada durante um filme de mortes reais. Mas acontece que ela não está morta, e eles começam um caso tórrido que o fará questionar sua percepção da realidade.