Yutaka Matsushige

Yutaka Matsushige

Nascimento : 1963-01-19, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Perfil

Yutaka Matsushige
Yutaka Matsushige

Filmes

família
Aoki
Seiji Kamiya, a pottery craftsman who lives alone in a mountain village, temporarily returns to Japan with his fiancée, Nadia, who has been assigned to work in Algeria. Seiji opposes Satoru, who declares that Seiji should quit the company after marrying and Satoru should take over the pottery business. On the other hand, Marcos, a young Brazilian resident in Japan who lives in an apartment complex in the neighboring town to where Seiji lives, sees Seiji, who helped him when he was being chased and in whom Marcos sees the image of his late father, and he becomes interested in pottery work. Meanwhile, a tragedy strikes Satoru and Nadia, who has returned to Algeria.
孤独のグルメ 2022 大晦日スペシャル
大川と小川の時短捜査
Inu-Oh
Tomona's Father (voice)
Inu-Oh era uma figura da vida real, um dramaturgo de Sarugaku Noh que foi extremamente popular no século XIV. No entanto, ele é praticamente desconhecido para as pessoas hoje em dia, pois poucos documentos sobre sua vida sobreviveram. Agora, cerca de 600 anos depois, este projeto de Inu-Oh retrata a irmandade entre o lendário Inu-Oh, que desapareceu da história, e um certo tocador de Biwa. Além de tudo, o filme é cheio de cenas de música e dança.
Running at Night
Kim-Jung Woo
Two men working in a suburban scrap factory. A society in which parts that are no longer usable are easily replaced and continue to rotate as if nothing had happened. Evil gives birth to evil, lies are overlaid on lies, and weak ones hit even weaker ones. How should we live in this ruthless world? Faced with such an unanswered question head-on, swallowing all the contradictions and confrontations that are unevenly distributed, yet the possibility of salvation and the guidepost for liberation are out of the standard. The movie you are looking for on the scale of is born. Suspense full of speed and excitement, unpredictable angry development, stubborn lyricism and rugged humor in the meantime-giving the viewer a different dimension of horizon while giving a surprise similar to dizziness A terrifying monster movie to take away, that is this "Running the Night".
Tsuyukusa
Middle-aged Fumi lives a quiet seaside life, she spends her days working at a small local factory, spending time with her neighbor’s son, and attending her sober-lifestyle group. One night while driving home her car is struck by a small meteorite, the odds of which are 100 million to 1. Seeing this as a good omen, Fumi decides she should be open to new possibilities in her life, even perhaps romance…
The Last 10 Years
Akihisa Takabayashi
The 20-year-old heroine learns that she only has 10 years to live due to an incurable disease of 1 in tens of thousands. She decided not to fall in love and not to be obsessed with living. But then, she met the hero at a local alumni association. Based on Kosaka Ruka's novel and also her true story. She died in 2017 at the age of 39 due to intractable disease.
What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?
Noboru Yamikumo
A large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief, the giant corpse left behind begins to slowly rot and bloat. If it explodes, the nation will be destroyed.
The Confidence Man JP - Episode of the Hero -
Tamba
Dako, Boku-chan and Richard commit their next con on Malta Island.
孤独のグルメ2021大晦日スペシャル~激走!絶景絶品・年忘れロードムービー
I Don't Have Any Money Left in My Retirement Account
後藤章
Atsuko and Akira are a husband and wife duo with a daughter and a son. Atsuko is in charge of the retirement finances. She saves from money given to her by her husband and also earns money herself by working part-time. She stretches every yen by leading a frugal life. yet, expenses come up. These include their daughter's upcoming wedding and the funeral expenses of the husband's father. Then, and at exactly the worst time, the couple finds itself unemployed.
The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who get involved in misadventures while on set.
孤独のグルメ 2020大晦日スペシャル~俺の食事に密はない
井字头五郎
The Voice of Sin
Yosuke Mizushima
Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago.The case involved a group of people extorting several companies for money. The group sent cassette tapes to the companies. Eiji Akutsu comes across a mysterious cassette tape. Meanwhile, Toshiya Sone lives in Kyoto and runs a tailor shop. He discovers a cassette tape among his late father's possessions. He plays the cassette tape and hears his voice from his childhood days.
Threads - Our Tapestry of Love
Ren Takahashi and Aoi Sonoda were both born in 1989. They met for the first time at the age of 13 and became each other's first love, but they separated. At the age of 21, they met again. They were unable to undo their past. Now, they are 31 years old.
Chichi to Musuko no Chika Idol
Sendo
A high school teacher, struggling to keep up with today's youth and estranged from his only son, receives the news about a terrible accident that left his son in a coma. Wanting to know more about his son's life, he finds out that he's been working as a producer for a new underground idol group who are now left without a guiding hand.
Our 30-Minute Sessions
Fujio Yoshii
College student Sota picks up a cassette tape left behind by musician Aki when he died a year ago. When the tape is played back, Aki takes over Sota's body for just 30 minutes. They share the same body and rush to reunite a band that split up and bring a smile to Aki's girlfriend Kana's face.
Tomorrow's Family
Shunsaku Onodera
Risa Onodera, played by Miyazaki, had a groom runaway on the wedding day four years ago. Her father, Shusaku (Matsushige) and her mother, Machiko (Matsuzaka), built a large two-family house to live with their daughter and her new family. One day, Risa says that she has been proposed to, Shusaku is surprised to see that face. This is because Kotaro (Nagayama) was a former subordinate of his workplace and was now his boss. Although he wants to congratulate his daughter's marriage, Shusaku wonders if he can live with his boss. Where is the love between Risa and Kotaro? Can the two get married? Can Risa and Kotaro, Shusaku and Machiko become a family?
孤独のグルメ2019大晦日スペシャル 緊急指令! 成田~福岡~釜山 弾丸出張編!
井字头五郎
Farewell: Comedy of Life Begins with a Lie
The editor-in-chief of a literary magazine who is popular with women sets up a fake wife and bids farewell to his mistresses.
Mr. Hikita, I Am Knocked Up
Kunio Hikita
A couple are perfectly happy to not breed and procreate. Thus their life is a content and unselfish one. He writes and admires his wife. However, she informs him that she wants a child. They try and try, but alas are not successful. It is time to visit a physician to unlock the fertility riddle. Well, he is the culprit it seems
Samurai Shifters
Sanemon Motomura
Shunnosuke Katagiri is a samurai and a bookworm. He receives a mission to help a daimyo move. With the assistance of Genemon Takamura and Oran, Shunnosuke Katagiri carries out his mission.
Konomichi
Tekkan Yosano
A genius and reckless poet and a hard working musician are asked by the CEO of a children literature magazine to write a war song to send children into the battlefield.
孤独のグルメ 大晦日スペシャル 京都・名古屋出張編
井字头五郎
Love At Least
Isoyama
For Yasuko every day is a challenge. Due to her mental illness and hypersomnia, simple things like household chores and holding a job seem impossible. Added to the mix is an indifferent, almost distant boyfriend and an ex-girlfriend with plans to win him back.
Designated Lawyer
Goro Kakeida
Suspicions fall on politician Tagane Seizo over the sale of nationally owned land to a social welfare service corporation back in 2010. Seizo Tagane is then given immunity for his testimony, but people become furious that he was not going to be prosecuted. A committee of prosecutors meets and concludes that Seizo Tagane should be prosecuted. An outstanding lawyer Yui Hitotsugi takes the prosecutor's position in the case with the help of the prosecutor Tachibana.
Cafe Funiculi Funicula
Yasunori Fusaki
Kazu works at "Funiculi Funicula" cafe. There is a mysterious rumour that if a customer takes a specific seat at the cafe, that customer can travel back to a time of their choice.
Killing for the Prosecution
Suwabe
Young public prosecutor Keiichiro Okino is assigned to the department of the Tokyo Public Prosecutors Office that deals with violent cases, where he will work with Takeshi Mogami, whom he admires. When a money lender is killed and it is suspected that someone from Mogami’s past is the perpetrator, the team prepares to do his best in order to prove the alleged criminal’s guilt.
ミッドナイト・ジャーナル 消えた誘拐犯を追え
Dynamite Graffiti
Detective Morohashi
When Suei was little, his mother had an affair with a young man who lived next door. Suei's mother and the young man killed themselves by using dynamite. After Suei graduated from high school, he worked at a factory before quitting his job. He then went to Tokyo and began working in the erotic magazine industry. Suei eventually became the chief editor of a famous erotic magazine in the 1980's.
Kodokunogurume ōmisoka supesharu ~ tabe-osame! Setouchi shutchō-hen ~
井之头五郎
The Last Shot in the Bar
Aida
In order to find a missing university student, a detective and his buddy get involved with the owner of a modeling agency.
Outrage Coda
Detective Shigeta
Cinco anos depois de sobreviver a guerra entre as famílias Sanno e Hanabishi, o ex-chefe de yakuza, Otomo, agora trabalha na Coréia do Sul. Um pequeno incidente provoca tensões e faz ressurgir um conflito que logo fica fora de controle e inflama uma violenta luta de poder. Otomo, então, retorna ao Japão para resolver as coisas de uma vez por todas. Terceira parte da trilogia.
Prison Break
One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cell in Akita Prison. He forces open the glass window and breaks out of jail. This crime even reaches the ears of Urata Susumu, the chief warden of Kosuge Prison in Tokyo. Urata had been in charge of those sentenced to life in the prison until last year. Although Sakuma is a dangerous person who had also broken out of jail in Aomori, he submits to Urata who is the only person who had treated him kindly in the past. However, three months after escaping from jail, Sakuma shows up at Urata’s house. He has come to complain about the inhumane Akita prison officers. But he is locked up again after Urata notifies the police during an unguarded moment. A year later, Sakuma is sent to Abashiri Prison and Urata is also ordered to transfer as the prison’s chief warden.
Fried levanilla with rib steak from Tsudanuma in Nakano
井之頭五郎
O Serial Killer Mascarado
Kozo Sekihata
Uma série de assassinatos grotescos que têm ocorrido em dias chuvosos, abalam uma cidade. A única informação sobre o suspeito é que ele usa uma máscara de sapo. E o detetive que investiga o caso encontra-se numa situação delicada, pois ele percebe que sua família é o próximo alvo.
Midnight Diner 2
Ryu
The Master’s late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle delivery man struggling with love.
Good Morning Show
Tetsuto Kuroiwa
The morning variety show, a staple of television around the world, offers news and entertainment but TV host Shingo didn’t expect to be himself the source of the news and entertainment.
Sniper
Tadataka Matake
Detective Ryoko Kozuki receives a demotion after having an affair with a superior. She succeeds in arresting a rapist in an undercover operation that puts her at risk. Her achievement immediately becomes the talk of the precinct, but no one approaches her because of her past. Ryoko is determined to bring criminals to justice. She takes on “The Prime Ministerial Candidate Snipe Case” which took place 15 years earlier.
Beef tongue set meal with seafood bowl of Onagawa in Sendai
井之頭五郎
Tales of the Bizarre: 2016 Spring Special
素敵な選TAXI SPECIAL〜湯けむり連続選択肢〜
Edawakare, the driver of the Time Taxi that allows passengers to return to their life's turning points, visits a hot spring this time around. An array of guests at the inn are fraught with troubles in their life and become passengers of the Time Taxi. And somehow all the clients are actually part of a bigger picture?!
Lost and Found
Touji Seo
Atsuto was abandoned by his mother when he was young. He now works in the lost and found department at the Hoshigaoka Station. He spends his days imagining about the owner of the lost item, how the item became lost and found. One day, Atsuto learns that his mother committed suicide. His life begins to move ...
Shinkoyaki and other croquettes in Asahikawa
井之頭五郎
First business trip away from Tokyo in a while,
2030 Kanata no Kazoku
Itakura Toru
In Tokyo in the year 2030, 27-year-old Itakura Kakeru lives in a shared apartment. He is suddenly approached by Ogiwara Misae, his housemate three years his senior, about wanting his help to have a child. Kakeru has never even considered having a family before. But as he searches for an answer for Misae, he comes face to face with his parents, grandparents and younger sister who went their separate ways 15 years ago, and starts to consider what family is. And then, Kakeru gives more than a passing thought to the significance of being connected to someone.
Hero
Kenzaburo Kawajiri
Prosecutor Kohei Kuryu takes charge of a case with a foreign embassy possessing the key to solve the case. Due to the extraterritoriality involving the case, the investigation has not gone anywhere. A crisis then ensues. Kohei Kuryu and his office attempt to extract the truth behind the wall of the Neustrian Embassy.
Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai
Katsushika Hokusai (voice)
Ano de 1814. Cidade de Edo (atual Tokyo). Um artista já realizado em vida e agora de meia idade, Tetsuzo tem em suas mãos clientes de todo japão e incansavelmente trabalha em sua "cheio-de-lixo" e caótica casa/ateliê. Ele passa seus dias criando incríveis obras de arte, desde um retrato gigantesco de Bodhidharma em 180 m² de papel, a dois pardais pintados em um grão de arroz. De temperamento curto, extremamente sarcástico, sem paixão por motivo ou dinheiro, ele investiria uma fortuna por qualquer trabalho que ele tivesse realmente interessado. Terceira das quatro filhas de Tetsuzo e nascida de seu segundo casamento, autodeclarada de 23 anos, O-Ei herdou o talento de seu pai e teimosia, várias das vezes ela quem pintava ao invés do pai, mesmo que descreditada. Sua arte é tão poderosa que algumas vezes gerava problemas.
Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
Kitao (school teacher)
A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by someone or committed suicide.
Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
Teacher Kitao
A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by someone or committed suicide.
Maestro!
Hiroaki Soma
Due to the economic recession, the orchestra is shut down. The members hear later that the orchestra will be reformed. Only some of the members, who have not yet been rehired, gather for the orchestra. For the first time since they disbanded the orchestra plays together, but they sound horrible. At that time, the conductor Tetsusaburo Tendou appears in front of them.
Midnight Diner
Ryu Kenzaki
A restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a series of flawed patrons including Tamako, whose boyfriend has passed away, live-in worker Michiru, and ruckus-raising Kenzo.
Kabukicho Love Hotel
Yasuo Ikezawa
This erotically charged drama traces the intersecting stories of a group of employees and visitors at a notorious "love hotel" in Tokyo's red-light district.
孤独のグルメSeason4 真夏の博多・出張スペシャル
Monsterz
Detective Shibamoto
A somber paranormal thriller that offers an original, exciting variation of the tale of two men with supernatural abilities, locked in a duel to the death. A battle between a man who can control people with a stare, and the only man he cannot control. When their fate cross, the survival battle begins. The two men with inevitable fate, who will survive?
Seven Weeks
Haruhiko Suzuki
Relatives gather from afar in wintery Ashibetsu upon the death of patriarch Mitsuo. A mysterious woman named Nobuko suddenly shows up. Her appearance gradually exposes wartime secrets and Mitsuo's unknown past.
A Woman from Ashio
A story about a woman from Yanaka Village, Tochigi Prefecture, which was abolished by the government due to the Ashio Copper Mine pollution incident in the late Meiji Period. The drama depicts the struggle of the woman who gradually matures as a person through her encounters with versatile figures, including socialists and writers, after moving to Tokyo.
Lemming
Yukichi Matsumoto's 2013 stage adaptation of Shuji Terayama's "Lemmings". Two cooks share a room, one of which talks with his mother's head: it lives beneath their tatami mats. On the other side of their room's wall, lives a wife who desperately cares for her feverish husband. As more and more walls are tore down movie studios, hospitals and prisons are revealed, destroying the physical boundaries between their boarding house and the city.
Real
Haruhiko
Koichi and Atsumi are lovers who have known each other all their lives. A year ago, however, a suicide attempt by Atsumi left her in a coma. Through 'sensing', a type of neurosurgical procedure allowing contact with the intentional aspect of a comatose patient's mind, Koishi tries to find out why Atsumi tried to kill herself, and to bring her back to consciousness. He enters her subconscious, and is told to find a picture of a plesiosaur she drew when she was a child. It turns out that a childhood incident buried in their past will bring their minds together.
It's Me It's Me
Hitoshi Nagano, who works at an electronics store, picks up a cellphone left behind by a customer and goes about a scam. He calls the person's mother and pretends to be her son. He then gets the mother to transfer money to his bank account. Soon, Hitoshi gets a lot more than he bargained for.
Detective in the Bar 2
Aida
"Phone Call to the Bar 2" desenrola-se em Susukino, um bairro de Sapporo e acompanha um detective privado (Yo Oizumi), que é contratado por uma mulher para resolver um caso. No entanto, o que parecia ser um caso de fácil resolução logo se revela mais complicado do que inicialmente poderia parecer, com o detective a ser raptado e enterrado vivo na neve, sendo salvo por Takada (Ryuhei Matsuda), o seu motorista. Furioso com esta situação, o detective jura vingança, enquanto o seu destino cruza-se com Saori, uma mulher misteriosa, bem como com um chefe da máfia (Toshiyuki Nishida) e quatro estranhos assassinatos...
Outrage Beyond
Detective Shigeta
A família de mafiosos Sanno se transformou numa enorme organização, expandiu seu poder para a política e legitimou seus negócios. Os escalões superiores da Sanno agora são dominados por jovens executivos, e os membros da velha-guarda estão ressentidos por terem sido empurrados para a margem. Enquanto isso, o detetive Kataoka prepara junto à polícia uma repressão em larga escala. Cheio de truques sujos, ele investiga conflitos entre os Sanno e seus aliados de longa data, Os Hanabishi, na esperança que eles, por fim, destruam uns aos outros. É impossível saber quem vencerá essa luta feroz pelo poder.
The Wings of the Kirin
Kobayashi
A man's body is found under the statue of a winged kirin in the Nihombashi area of Tokyo. A suspect named Yashima has a car accident and falls unconscious while he is attempting to run away. Yashima's lover Kaori comes from Fukushima and tells detectives that he is absolutely not a criminal. Meanwhile, Detective Kyoichiro Kaga's (Hiroshi Abe) investigates and uncovers a point of contact between the dead body and Yashima. A hidden fact of the victim is revealed which even his children did not know about...
The Love and Death of Kaoru Mitarai
Sasaoka
After she drives drunk and hits an old woman, a famous novelist is threatened with a law suit by the woman's son... unless she lets him publish his manuscript under his name.
Dog × Police: The K-9 Force
Yusaku Hayakawa dreams of becoming a detective, but works as a trainer for police dogs. When Yusaku gets an albino shepherd named Shiro, he forms a special bond with him. Everyone says that Shiro does not have the abilities to become a police dog, but Yusaku believes in him and trains him. When a terrorist act occurs, Shiro gets the chance to show what he has learned.
Phone Call to the Bar
Aida
In the Susukino red light district of Sapporo, a private detective (Yo Oizumi) drinks alcohol with his driver Takada (Ryuhei Matsuda) in his favourite bar. There he receives a phone call from a woman who identifies herself as Kyoko Kondo. The woman asks the detective to complete a simple task. The detective, having an excellent sense for danger, thinks the work is easy and accepts the case. The next day he begins the investigation.
Majutsu wa Sasayaku
A woman named Kazuko (Kimura) who was guilty of a “serious crime” in the past, along with three of her friends. Those friends suddenly begin to die one by one. Kazuko learns that one of those deaths is somehow connected to Mamoru (Nakamura Aoi), her younger brother from whom she has been separated ever since their father disappeared 15 years earlier. Although Mamoru knows nothing of his sister, Kazuko is determined to find the killer in order to protect Mamoru and herself.
Red Finger
A 7 years girl is found dead in the local park’s toilet. Kaga Kyouichiro, who was asked to find the girl, and his cousin Matsumiya Shuhei who’s assigned to investigate the murder case, have to work together to crack the case. Their evidence lead them to Maehara’s, a family with parents, a son and a senile grandmother.
Kaidan Horror Classics
Four short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers.
Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose
Bomb Disposal Team Leader
After Detective Shunsaku Aoshima is promoted to section chief he has the daunting task of dealing with eight cases at the same time, which includes a murder case, bomb threat, and a bus hijacking. Complications also arise between Detective Aoshima and his juniors.
Hanamizuki
Kenjiro Kiuchi
A young girl tries to maintain a long-distance relationship with an aspiring fisherman.
A Lone Scalpel
Takeshi Minorikawa
Dr Toma, a skilled surgeon, starts work at a regional hospital in Japan. After performing an operation to remove a patient’s liver cancer, something that normally would not be done at this hospital, he quickly gains a very good reputation amongst the town’s people. Some of his colleagues become so jealous they are resentful and waiting patiently for the perfect opportunity to crucify him. Soon they get their chance as Dr Toma considers performing a controversial operation…
All to the Sea
Natsuki, a sales clerk of a bookstore, and Koji. a high school student. Seemingly nothing in common, they have one thing they can share: books.
Go Find a Psychic!
Once a year, on Christmas Eve, Cafe Telekinesis holds a real psychic party. At the party, psychics gather together to show off their abilities while for the rest of the year they hide their abilities. Yone Sakurai is a program director for a psychic variety TV show called "Asunaro Psychic". She is stressed out and tired from her work, but proud of what she is doing. Yone actually believes in psychic abilities. By an audience request a new plan is set out for the program, a plan which requires the show to uncover real psychics or psychic events.
Dear Doctor
Yukinari Hatano
Osamu Ino is a great doctor who is beloved in his rural village. His knowledge and dedication make an equally strong impression on his reluctant medical intern, Keisuke Soma. But, Soma and the villagers reconsider their opinion when they learn about a shameful incident from Dr. Ino's past. Now the once-respected doctor must account for his past actions.
Instant Swamp
Kawabata
A woman finds out her father is not her real one after her mother falls into a coma while searching for a mythical creature. She decides to meet her real father who happens to be an off-beat antique shopkeeper.
Operação Corvo 2
Ushiyama
Genji e sua vitoriosa instituição encontram-se diante de um novo desafio lançado pelos alunos da temida Academia Hosen, que levam o nome de “The Army of Killers” As duas escolas, sempre tiveram uma história de sangue, entre si. O ódio está prestes a romper novamente e isto pode acabar com os últimos remanescentes da trégua que haviam observado até agora.
K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces
Prisoner
In an alternate version of 1949 Japan in which World War II never happened, the Japanese capital of Teito is home to both an ultra rich upper class and the dirt poor masses. The city is thrown into a state of panic when a phantom thief called “The Kaijin (Fiend) with 20 Faces” (K-20 for short) begins to use his mysterious abilities to steal from the rich and give to the poor. One day a circus acrobat named Heikichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is framed for K-20’s crimes and becomes determined to clear his name. He teams up with K-20’s next target, a wealthy duchess named Yoko Hashiba (Takako Matsu) and her detective fiancé (Toru Nakamura), to take K-20 down once and for all.
Myu no Anyo Papa ni Ageru
Kazuo Kurose
Essa é a história de Yamaguchi Hayato, de 25 anos de idade, um pai de família no auge de sua saúde que de repente começa a sentir dificuldades em movimentar-se e procura por ajuda médica. Após análise detalhada, Hayato é diagnosticado com uma doença muito rara que afeta o sistema nervoso e faz com que ele, aos poucos, perca o movimentos de seus membros. Mas, com a a juda de sua esposa e sua filha de 4 anos, ele está disposto a lutar contra essa doença para poder ter o direito de desfrutar de sua vida
Tokyo!
(segment "Shaking Tokyo")
Os diretores Michel Gondry, Bong Joon-ho e Leos Carax dirigem, cada um, um segmento deste tríptico sobre a vida em Tóquio do século XXI.
Little DJ
Suteji
Taro is a 12-year-old into baseball and radio, especially "Music Express," a song-request show. Sound quaint? But it is 1977 and a small town in Hokkaido, a more innocent, pure-hearted time and place, we are told. Taro, however, has a blood disease that lands him in the hospital where his aunt is a nurse. Rounds of tests, transfusions and injections sap his spirit, despite the kindness and dedication of his young doctor and the Doctor's hospital-director father. The latter, a music buff who broadcasts classics over the hospital's PA system, asks Taro to relieve him as DJ — and soon the boy is ensconced in the hospital director's well-stocked library-cum-studio, spinning popular J-Pop tunes. He also becomes acquainted with Tamaki, a girl he first calls "the mummy" because of her bandages and full body cast — she was injured in a traffic accident. He later changes his tune when she is revealed as a cute 13-year-old — for him, an older woman...
Smile
Takuya's father
Heartwarming human drama about a former tap dancer who trades in his tap shoes to woo a figure skating instructor. But by a twist of fate, he finds himself coaching a local ice hockey team of hapless youths and leading them to a championship
Aoi Hitomi to Nuage
Hideto Kaitsuka
Erika Ichinose, a clinical psychologist, is recruited by the National Police Agency in an attempt to stay one step ahead of a bomb terrorist.
Adrift in Tokyo
Tomobe
A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.
Operação Corvo
Ushiyama
A história é centrada numa guerra de gangues do colégio Suzuran Boys´ High - uma instituição que contém a maior concentração de rapazes violentos por metro quadrado do Japão. O colégio acabou ficando conhecido pela alcunha de Escola para Corvos, pois, no Japão, os pássaros são tão comuns - às vezes incômodos - quanto os pombos em algumas capitais brasileiras. Para passar o tempo, a molecada adora sair na porrada. E para saber quem é o maioral da escola, os rivais Genji e Tamao vão entrar em guerra até que sobre apenas um em pé.
Sukiyaki Western Django
Toshio
Há séculos o clã branco Genji, liderado por Yoshitsune, e o clã vermelho Heike, liderado por Kiyomori, batalham por um lendário tesouro enterrado em uma remota montanha. Esta guerra permanente acabou por esvaziar o lugar, que é praticamente habitado apenas pelos remanescentes dos grupos. Um dia, um estranho sem nome, taciturno e solitário, chega à cidade. Suas habilidades com a arma são impressionantes e seus tiros, certeiros. Os dois clãs fazem de tudo para cooptá-lo para o seu lado da guerra. Mas o forasteiro tem motivos bem mais profundos para estar naquele lugar.
The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
Mashima
A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly": find a bug with the power to bring humans back from the dead, in order to report on the afterlife. With his trusty companion Endo in tow, he sets off on a quest for the elusive insect and along the way meets the mysterious Sayoko, a former dominatrix and habitual wrist-cutter who delights in rubbing wasabi into her wounds.
Talk, Talk, Talk
Taichi Yugawara
The movie revolves around Mitsuba, who studies traditional art of rakugo. Rakugo is a form of comical story telling, sometimes referred to as sit-down comedy. Even though Mitsuba is mediocre at best, he ends up teaching three students.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Makoto Date
Former yakuza underling Kazuma Kiryū has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration and is trying to piece his life together and distance himself from his yakuza past. Unfortunately, Kiryū's problems slowly escalate as he is pursued by a former associate, the baseball-bat-wielding psycho Gorō Majima, who has a grudge to settle with Kiryū.
Si-Sei 2 -The Fallen Spider-
A tattoo changes a woman. A tattoo changes a man. Tattoo is everything ... Asami, a woman who breaks into an affair with a man who has a wife the name is Ninomiya, a man who leaves the house apart from his wife and is inviting a self-development seminar to live today. The two who atoned for the past and asked for salvation met by chance. Asami, who decided to carve a tattoo by her own choice, entrusts her skin to a genius skin carver, Kokari. Eventually, a splendid woman's tattoo leaps on her back, which dramatically changes herself. Tattoo greatly changes Ninomiya's way of life and captivates the sculpture that dreams of the completion of tattoos. Eventually, the fate of men and women who were tossed by tattoos began to fluctuate greatly.
Kanashiki Tenshi
The body of a 59-year-old male is found on the banks of a river. The stepson, Kazuo, confesses to his involvement but also implicates his estranged sister Nami. Two detectives, Okishima Keisuke and Kono Kaoru, then travel to the resort district of Beppu to stake out the house of Nami's ex-lover. They feel he may also be implicated in the murder and are certain that Nami will make contact. The detectives now wait.
The Catch Man
Takashi, an unemployed young man, is entrusted with a "catch ball shop" by a stranger he meets in the park. While accepting people's feelings through catch ball, Takashi himself remembers the important things that he had forgotten.
工藤新一への挑戦状~さよならまでのプロローグ~
东邦夫
Rough
A diver on the university team must decide which of her two childhood friends she loves, and they're both on the swim team. High school diver Ami (Masami Nagasawa) and swimmer Keisuke (Mokomichi Hayami) don't exactly get along. Their parents run rival sweets shops and Ami is long-time friends, and maybe more, with Keisuke's freestyle rival Hiroki (Tsuyoshi Abe). Over time, however, hostile words give way to hesitant attraction, leaving Ami torn between Keisuke and Hiroki. With the national championship coming up, the young swimmers are competing for more than the title, but also their hearts.
Princess in an Iron Helmet
The second feature from female director Shindo Kaze (Love/Juice), Princess in an Iron Helmet (a.k.a. Korogare! Tamako) is a bright and colorful youth film about a quirky young woman's reluctant coming-of-age journey. Tamako (Yamada Maiko) is 20 years old, lives at home with her mother (Kishimoto Kayoko) and teenaged brother, and simply refuses to grow up. Ever since her father (Naoto Takenaka) left the family, she's stopped trusting people, and now lounges around in her own small, claustrophobic world. Wearing an iron helmet whenever she steps outside, she ventures only to her mom's beauty salon, the mechanic shop, and the bakery - the source of her greatest joy in life, sweet buns. Her world is static, insular, and safe, and there's no need to change - that is until her cat runs away, the bakery closes, and her mom falls in love with another man.
Shinobi: A Batalha
Hattori Hanzou
É o ano de 1641, dois clãs ninjas, o da terra de Koga e o de Iga. Ambos são inimigos, mas têm um acordo de não entrar em guerra um com o outro. Os herdeiros dos líderes de ambas vilas se apaixonam sem saber que um é inimigo do outro por causa das tradições dos clãs. Mas um trágico destino espera o casal, é lançada uma maldição sobre a existência das famílias que coloca as duas vilas uma contra a outra. Os melhores ninjas de Koga e Ida são escolhidos para lutar uns contra os outros e Gennosuke Albora, o casal apaixonado, é colocado frente a frente aos inimigos. Por séculos eles vivem em guerras da escuridão, com estranhos poderes e habilidades, vivem somente para batalha, eles são Shinobi.
Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers
Ramen Chef
Suzume Katagura, a bored housewife, spends her days doing chores and taking care of her husband's pet turtle. One day, she sees a wanted ad for spies. Hoping for some excitement in her life, she decides to give them a call.
Welcome to Irabu's Office
The Ji'an Family
Negotiator
Mayuta
Japan's #1 negotiator Mashita Masayoshi is called into action again as a mysterious train terrorizes Tokyo's underground railway network. But this time his opponent is gunning for him personally.
Yakuza Ladies: Burning Desire
Tamaki's (Iwashita) husband is the head of the Idei clan, based in southern Osaka. As the film opens, punch-permed lieutenant Ginji (Riki Takeuchi) is killed while pumping iron. Following the hit, rumors and recriminations abound, slowly corroding the clan's cohesion. Ginji, it turns out, was mired in debt. After Ginji borrowed a small fortune to build a luxury resort, his bank went belly up and stopped financing the loan. Frantic for funds, he decided as a last resort to rat out his boss who had skimmed five-billion yen from the gang. Soon everyone assumes that Idei did the hit. Convinced that Idei is being framed, Tamaki sets out to find the real killer.
Lady Joker
Nishimura
A Japanese film by Hideyuki Hirayama, Lady Joker is a detective thriller with elements of social commentary on Japanese society that is based on the 1997 bestselling novel by Kaoru Takamura.
Consumido pelo Ódio
Nobuyoshi Ko
Em 1923 Kim Shun-Pei vai da Coreia do Sul para o Japão em busca de melhores condições de trabalho. Uma vida de muito trabalho pesado e discriminação tornam Kim um homem frio e violento, fazendo da vida de sua esposa e filhos um grande sofrimento.
Tales of the Bizarre: 2004 Fall Special
***Fushiawase wo Anata ni (We Bring You Misfortune) A woman sees a company called "Fushiawase wo Anata ni" (we bring you misfortune) promoting a new sales concept: giving its clients misfortune to motivate them to seek greater happiness. ***Kuuhaku no Hito (Blank Person) A woman wakes up in her bed every morning not remembering the events of the past night, and finding that someone has moved around the things in her room. ***Jigoku wa Manin (Hell Is Full) As there is no more room in hell, the evil/sinful find they cannot die. ***Kako kara no Nikki (Diary from the Past) A struggling author chances upon a diary which changes his life. ***Aketekure (Open Up!) A woman's husband dies in a car accident, but that same evening he is heard pounding on the door for someone to let him in.
Believer
Prayer Beads
(segment "It's Me")
This horror anthology is featuring nine independent episodes, each 30 minutes long, that are revolving around bad karma and terror.
Rockers
Guitarist Ko-chanis a mess of sexual repression after a childhood at the mercy of two elder sisters eager to use him as a guinea pig for their make-up skills. Bassist Gaku-chan keeps a bucket in the wings for whenever his nerves get the better of him, and drummer Momo-chan is doomed to forever carrying the botched childhood attempts at self-tattooing. It's not until this foursome is forced to look for an additional guitar player after Jin's dad burns his Stratocaster, that attitude and musical ability enter into the equation. Leather-clad, shade-wearing Tani (Tamaki), inseparable from his black Les Paul, is introduced as the king of R'n'R cool and Jinnai keeps him firmly seated on his throne throughout the film, retroactively proclaiming the guitarist, rather than himself, as the band's true hero.
A Última Vida no Universo
Yukio
Kenji é um jovem bibliotecário japonês que mora em Bangkok, na Tailândia. Extremamente tímido, é obcecado por organização e pela morte (especialmente a dele mesmo e não necessariamente nessa ordem). De repente, uma tragédia coloca à sua frente Noi, uma garota que é o seu oposto: desencanada, expansiva e que vive em uma casa que parece ter brigado definitivamente com a vassoura e com o detergente há décadas. Depois de um início cheio de estranhezas, os dois vão se entendendo. Ok, pode parecer mais uma dessas histórias em que os opostos se atraem, onde a maluquinha conquista e é conquistada pelo cara tímido e estranho, mas não é bem assim… (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Jusei: Last Drop of Blood
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?
Eau de Vie
井ノ上
T.R.Y.
At the turn of the 20th Century amongst tension between China and Japan, a Japanese swindler in Shanghai plans to profit by selling weapons. He steals arms from the Japanese military and sells them to the rich Chinese.
Tokyo Gokudo Conflict Outbreak
The long awaited visualisation of the original manga
Rock'n'Roll Mishin
Kenji has a dull life. He is unmotivated at the office, and unable to break off a lukewarm relationship with his girlfriend. Then, he meets an old classmate from high school, Ryoichi. Ryoichi says he's starting up a clothing brand with a group of friends. One day, Kenji visits their atelier, or workplace, and is fascinated by the sense of freedom that they share. As his relationship with them deepens, Kenji finds it harder and harder to accept the old world he comes from. One day, he punches his boss and quits his job. Now a proper member of Ryoichi's team, it's the start of a new and carefree life for him. However, it is short-lived. The clothes they make do not sell as well as they hoped for. Short on cash, energy, and ideas, the negative feedback loop forces each of them to start struggling in a search for alternative paths.
Drive
Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his van. They are in hot pursuit of their fellow robber who has snatched the money. Unfortunately for the bank robbers, Asakura never drives over 40 km/h speed limit even under the extreme situation.
Doing Time
Koya
A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon their individuality.
The Princess Blade
Anka
Raised by assassins, Yuki is the last of the Takemikazuchi royal bloodline. A deadly weapon in her own right, she learns the gruesome truth about the death of her beloved mother and joins forces with a mysterious rebel leader.
Go Heat Man!
17 year old Tokyo pizza delivery boy Kosuke crashes his bike into photographer Reiko and breaks her expensive camera. He promises to deliver homemade pizza to make up for her broken camera. After discovering that Reiko has moved 1,200 km away to her hometown of Nagasaki things become trickier, but Kosuke decides to fulfill his promise anyways by borrowing a moped from his workplace.
Jingi 29: Gokudo Corpse Robbery
Former sand group member Kasahara attacked the Akamatsu group's office and robbed cash. Kasahara, who was driven by the Akamatsu group and lost his escape, asks Hitoshi for help. Jin, who judged that he was an act that deviated from Jinyoshi, refused to rescue Kasahara. Kasahara, who was in a difficult situation, attempted suicide, and Jin was forced to shoot Kasahara and deliver the stolen money to the Akamatsu group. However, a few days later, Kim and Kasahara's corpse disappeared, and the suspicion was struck by Jin.
Gokudo Retsuden Sakura (HANA) and Dragon (RYU)
The birth of outlaw violence, depicts the passionate and fierce way of life of men that chose the path of Shura.
Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
Shigefumi Shiraki
A young, good-hearted doctor Kenichi suffers from a rare syndrome whereby his feelings cannot be hidden. Such people are known as "satorare" and their well-being come under special government protection.
Chogokudo
Togashi, the leader of Togashi-gumi, boasts enormous power. The leader of the Ryuokai is sent to prison because he distrusts him who controls the town, and a mysterious man who calls himself Takishima appears in front of Shinshiro who becomes the leader of the group.
Another Battle
Former childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu cross paths again. Kaneo is now a yakuza member, while Masatatsu is a nightclub owner with a distaste for crime gangs. When a yakuza boss dies, a struggle for his position takes place between Kaneo's boss Awano and the young Nakahira. Nakahira's men try to extort money from Masatatsu, bringing him in between a yakuza battle.
Hakata Movie: Chinchiromai
A musical- style comedy movie set in Hakata.
The Breed
Children born with special power. They seek blood for eternal life. And tonight, the victims ...!
Eureka
Matsuoka
Numa manhã quente de verão, um ônibus é sequestrado. Apenas três pessoas sobrevivem à carnificina: o motorista Makoto, a estudante Kozue e seu irmão Naoki. Dois anos depois, enquanto lutam para retomar a vida, Makoto compra um ônibus velho e convida Kozue, Naoki e o primo deles para uma viagem.
蜷川幸雄演出「パンドラの鐘」
Charisma
Nekoshima
A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action. Leaving his job and family without explanation, he makes his way to a mountain forest, encountering a peculiar tree called Charisma.
Embalming
Young female embalmer Miyako is called in to restore the body of a young man who has committed suicide, before the funeral. While performing the embalming process she finds herself pricks by a needle buried deep in the boy’s flesh where it should not be. During the night the head is removed from the body and stolen, Miyako begins a desperate search for it so she can finish her work. Miyako search finds her encountering organ harvesting, religious cults, incest, psychopathic schizophrenics as well as some very dark secrets from here own past.
Adrenaline Drive
Kuroiwa
A gas leak explosion at a yakuza hideout provides a shy nurse and a rental car clerk with the opportunity to take a briefcase full of money. A cross-country chase ensues.
Ring: Espiral
Yoshino
O patologista Mitsuo Ando é convidado a realizar uma autópsia em seu amigo e colega Ryuji Takayama. Ao investigar as circunstâncias da morte de Takayama, Ando descobre que era um amigo de Reiko Asakawa e que ambos acreditavam na existência de uma transmissão de um vídeo que assombrada e poderia matar as pessoas, após de sete dias de assisti-lo. Ando rejeita esta ideia, mas depois de receber e assistir a uma cópia da fita ele começa a acreditar, e em seguida ter sonhos com Sadako aparecendo para ele.
O Chamado
Yoshino
Após a morte de Tomoko Oishi, uma repórter, Reiko Asakawa, ouve histórias de um vídeo que mata quem o vê uma semana exatamente após assisti-lo. No início não dá importância aos rumores, mas ao descobrir que um amigo de Tomoko, que assistiu o vídeo, morreu exatamente uma semana depois ela começa a investigar. Após ver a fita estranhas coisas começam a acontecer.
闘牌伝アカギ
Flerte
Doctor
The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Tokyo). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returning home. In each case there are other people involved, an ex-partner and someone else in a "permanent" relationship, what do they choose to do?
A Last Note
Daigoro
A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring various stories and news of death and the past
The Guard from the Underground
Fujimaru
One of the contemporary masters of Japanese film, Kiyoshi Kurosawa here fashions a dark tale that is both a sharp satire of corporate life and a B-movie thriller. A former sumo wrestler now working as a security guard goes on a murderous rampage in the company that's employed him.