Keiichi Suzuki

Based on the murder of nine street peddlers in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake

Uma ex-acompanhante irreverente começa a trabalhar no restaurante de uma cidadezinha do litoral e alegra a todos que cruzam o seu caminho.

An old Chinese woman visits Japan to find her missing daughter whom she adopted in post-WWII China. Her granddaughter and a retired Japanese policeman join her search.

The secret history behind Nintendo's biggest cult classic, MOTHER, better known as EarthBound Beginnings. Learn how a prototype leaked out, was dumped online by teenage hackers in the late 90's, then released officially on the WiiU virtual console 25 years later as we talk to the employees that localized the game, the composer in Japan, and a lawyer to find out just how much trouble we're all in!

Dois meninos se conheceram e se apaixonaram durante os tempos de colégio. Então 13 anos se passaram – Os dois moram em lugares diferentes. Nagisa partiu para a Austrália após romper com Shun. Nagisa se casou com uma mulher e teve uma filha, mas eles têm dificuldades para continuar o casamento. Ele ainda está apaixonado por Shun, então ele volta para o Japão com sua filha para vê-lo. Esta é a mais pura história de amor de dois homens e como eles podem sobreviver da discriminação e do preconceito.

It is only at their sister's and mother's funeral when a woman meets her niece after many years. The niece is now a grown girl. The sister takes on the task of informing the deceased's friends of the death while the daughter cannot bring herself to symbolically accept the demise of her mother. In the midst of all this an old flame messages the sister to say he is still in love with her, but is he messaging the living sister or the dead one?

Após a morte de seus pais, a jovem Okko vai viver com sua avó, dona de um tradicional hotel japonês no campo. A garota faz uma descoberta incrível sobre o hotel: existem espíritos bastante amigáveis que ali vivem e só ela os pode ver. Okko provavelmente tocará o hotel de sua avó no futuro, portanto se dedica a cuidar do hotel e trabalhar em diversas atividades ali. Não será fácil lidar com novos hóspedes que acabam de chegar ao hotel, apesar de que o lema do lugar é receber todos indistintamente e não rejeitar ninguém. É um desafio para Okko, mas também a chave de um importante aprendizado sobre a vida. Baseado na obra infantil de Hiroko Reijo, ilustrado por Asami.

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.

Mari is exhausted by life in the city and opens up a shop selling snow cones in the small town of Nishiizu where she grew up. The simple flavors of her cold desserts soothe the emotional wounds of her customers and Mari comes to terms with herself by spending time with a young woman with a scarred face.

Ryuzo and his 7 former henchmen are all retired yakuza, but they now live as regular old men. One day, Ryuzo becomes the victim of a phishing fraud. He calls his 7 men together to reform their society.

For the Plasma begins in a remote house on the coast of Maine, where a young woman named Helen has found work as a forest-fire lookout responsible for monitoring the nearby woodland. While analyzing CCTV footage of the surrounding forest, she discovers she can reconfigure her perception to predict shifts in global financial markets. But when her inquisitive and demanding friend Charlie arrives at the house, Helen finds herself challenged and unsettled by her new colleague, and the two girls’ relationship begins to unravel. From this cryptic premise grows a lo-fi mind-bender of intimate scale and startling relevance that flirts with sci-fi and horror conventions, even as it subverts them. To the strains of an electronic score, For the Plasma juxtaposes pastoral imagery with surveillance technology, every shade and shadow captured in gorgeous 16mm.

Tamako graduated from a university in Tokyo, but she now lives with her father back in Kofu. Tamako doesn't help her father or tries to get a job. She spends her time just eating and sleeping throughout the four seasons of the year.

E se Jesus e Buda estivessem vivendo na Terra atualmente? E se eles compartilhassem um apartamento no Japão? Saint☆Young Man é uma série sobre o dia-a-dia de Jesus e Buda, morando juntos no Japão dos dias de hoje.

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.

A woman from rural Japan marries a struggling cartoonist in Tokyo. Their life is difficult before he finds success, but at least they're together.

Sekiuchi, o presidente do poderoso clã Yakuza Sannokai, arma e instiga a morte entre os pequenos clãs da família e a pequena família Murase, de forma a tomar a região controlada pelo chefe Murase e centralizar em si o poder do grupo Sannokai. O filme discorre sobre traições e vinganças e é composto de cenas fragmentadas, quase sempre revelando as verdadeiras facetas das personagens.

Too shy to speak out the word of appreciation, too busy to show that you care... Many excuses lie between each and every couple, when they look back the distance created during the long years in which they took each other for granted... Love Letters sent from husbands to wives and from wives to husbands, quietly voice their unspoken appreciation for each other over the years that they have shared. The original idea comes from the postcard project "Love Letters at Sixty" which has brought a wave of sympathy to the precious emotions shared by many married couples.

Hayato Akaboshi quits racing cars and settles in a village when he accidentally kills another driver. He works at a garage and turns its fortunes around, making the owner of another garage jealous.

Uninvolved with the political movements of the time, Ichiro and Sachiko hope for something better, but they’re no revolutionaries; their spare time is spent drinking, smoking, daydreaming, and sleeping—together and at times with others.

15-year-old Hatsuko (Higashi Ayu) lives with her elder brother in a humble town house. Their mother died when they were young, and the father disappeared. The brother (Shioya Shun) left high school before graduation to work at a factory, but spends their meager house-keeping money on adult entertainment. Hatsuko, who is poor and has no friends, finds emotional support in Mishima (Sano Kazuma), a boy in her class, who helps her with her study to go to a high school together. However, Hatsuko's brother causes trouble at the factory and gets the sack. Hatsuko gives up her dream of going to high school. In spring, the modest relationship continues between Mishima, now a high school student, and Hatsuko who works at a biscuit factory. One day, Hatsuko's long-gone father reappears. In a drunken frenzy, he sets fire to the house to go and rejoin the mother, leaving Hatsuko without a place to live. Hatsuko leaves the town on her own, drawing strength from the promise of marriage with Mishima.

30 years of the band, 30 years of Japanese rock. The story of passion toward the band and music.

Compilation film featuring short works from directors Hitoshi Yasaki ("Short Cakes"), Yuki Tanada (scriptwriter "Sakuran," "Tsuki to Cherry"), Hiroyuki Nakano ("Stereo Future," "Samurai Fiction"), Masahiko Nagasawa ("Yoru no Picnic"), Masaya Kakehi ("Bijokan), and more for a total of 18 shorts. This time around the theme is "24 hours," where filming for each work must have been completed in 24 hours in order to appear in this film.

A terceira produção de Satoshi Kon, um dos mais interessantes diretores de anime da atualidade. Hana uma ex drag queen, Gin um antigo ciclista alcoólatra e Miyuki, uma adolescente fugitiva são três sem-teto que em sua tumultuada existência encontram um bebê abandonado no dia de natal. Os três resolvem então peregrinar em busca da solução do mistério e encontrar os pais da criança antes da chegada do ano novo. Durante a busca, deparam-se com fatos ocultos sobre o passado que são forçados à confrontar, ao mesmo tempo que aprendem a enfrentar o futuro juntos.

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.

Former boxer Iwano, teamed up with Sada and Maru, who live in the same apartment building, makes his daily living as a punching bag for drunken businessmen in some corner of the amusement quarters. The three have continuously avoided putting themselves in a situation that could tie them down, especially Iwano, who is totally clueless about what he wants to do with his life. One day, they receive notice that their apartment building will be torn down. As a compensation for the eviction, their remaining rent is considered as settled. Having lost their place to live, the three each try to find their way.

An industrial section of Japan got the name of Yentown as many immigrants come to make money and hope to go home rich. A small group of people in Yentown try to work together to survive, there is a girl named Ageha who has no family, Glico the hooker, Fei Hong a poor immigrant from Shanghai, Arrow an ex boxer from the US and Ren the mysterious guy who seems to know too much about guns. Fortune shines upon them when they find a cassette that we'll get them rich but along with money trouble will always follow.

Believing that the world will end that very day, three mental patients Coco, Tsumuji, and Satoru set out upon a journey. Walking upon the tops of the walls of the city, they seek to find a picnic spot with the best vantage point to view the final event.

Hiroko attends the memorial service of her fiancé, Itsuki Fujii, who died in a mountain-climbing incident. Although Itsuki's mother says that their old house is gone, Hiroko records the address listed under his name in his yearbook and sends him a letter. Surprisingly, she receives a reply, and discovers it came from his old classmate, a girl who also happens to also be called Itsuki Fujii.

It's Christmas Eve in Tokyo as Ichiro is moving into his new apartment one month ahead of schedule. As he is getting settled in, two strangers enter the apartment and are surprised to find him there. They begin complaining that he is upsetting their plans for a Christmas party to be thrown in the apartment that night before attempting to kick him out.

A documentary capturing the recording process of singer Yano Akiko's 1992 cover album, Super Folk Song.

Yukihiro Takahashi Live 1983