Penalty Loop
Sawako worked as an emergency physician at a university hospital. Due to to a situation, she returns to her father Tatsuro's home in Ishikawa Prefecture. She then begins to work at the local Mahoroba Clinic. She works with the clinic director Toru, Nurse Mayo and staff Seiji. Seiji, who worked with Sawako at the university hospital, followed her and works with her again. Mahoroba Clinic provides home healthcare to patients. Sawako visits the patients' homes and provides treatment there. At first, she has a hard time due to the different system. She becomes acclimated to the different system and finds a way to deal with the patients, their lives, and their families. --asianwiki
Aoshi Shinomori
O ano é 1879. Jurados de vingança, Kenshin e seus aliados enfrentam o inimigo mais forte de todos: Enishi Yukishiro e seus comparsas.
Emperor Kiritsubo
Rai, a frustrated student and part-time labourer, is wandering home after setting up a museum exhibition on the classic novel "The Tale of Genji". There is a blinding flash of light and he finds himself mysteriously time-slipped into the Heian period, the setting for the famous novel. Armed with a pamphlet on the history of the period and a bottle of headache tablets he passes as an onmyoji (magical protector of the capital) and is hired by the emperor’s wife Nyogo Kokiden. Fearless and coldly analytical she plots to have her son take over the Emperor’s position. Rai is expected to help. This light-hearted historical fantasy is a treat for lovers of sumptuous kimono.
DJ Oily
Agetarō, a third generation tonkatsu shop owner, one day makes a bentō delivery for the first time to a club where he experiences an uplifting feeling he's never had before. Furthermore, he is wholeheartedly set on winning the heart of Sonoko, with whom he fell in love at first sight, so he decides to be both a tonkatsu shop owner and DJ.
Richard Shindo
Satoshi Makino is a genius classical guitarist. One day, he meets journalist Yoko Komine. They become attracted to each other, but Yoko Komine has a fiancé.
Sho Akutsu
People from Saitama Prefecture are persecuted and, because of this, they hide the fact that they are from there. In Tokyo, Momomi Hakuhodo is a male high school student and the son of the Tokyo governor. Physically, Momomi Hakuhodo looks like a girl. One day, he meets mysterious male transfer student Rei Asami. They are attracted to each other, but Rei Asami is from Saitama Prefecture.
Yujiro Shiozaki
Iwao Shishido has found a wife. After paying three million yen for a bridal tour to the Philippines, he comes home with Irene, who is promptly confronted by Tsuru—Iwao’s freshly widowed mother, who’s infuriated her loser son has married a woman she’s never met.
Detective Hagihara
Um trabalhador de escritório de meia-idade encontra alienígenas e é dotado de tecnologia alienígena e poderes ilimitados.
Heki Daizen
Goes behind the scene of making the Japanese film, Shinobi no Kuni.
Jōtarō Kūjō
Um adolescente chamado Josuke Higashikata descobre que possui habilidades sobrenaturais; herdadas de uma linhagem amaldiçoada e bizarra que abrange gerações. Quando ele descobre que alguém dentro de sua cidade natal está concedendo a outros poderes semelhantes, Josuke inicia uma aventura para desvendar quem é esta misteriosa ameaça.
Daizen Heki
Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon (Satoshi Ohno, of idol group Arashi) is a carefree 16th-century mercenary. When the ninja council makes a power play to defeat the young Nobukatsu Oda struggling to step into his father’s warlord shoes as they expand rule across the country, Mumon jumps into the fray to satisfy his new bride Okuni’s (Satomi Ishihara of Shin Godzilla, Attack on Titan) demand that he make good on his promises of wealth. Yet Mumon soon finds what is worth fighting for beyond money or nation. A longtime JAPAN CUTS favorite known for his offbeat dramas, Yoshihiro Nakamura (Fish Story, Golden Slumber) takes on the jidaigeki epic with his signature sense of play featuring a jazzy soundtrack and fantastical ninja tricks. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film
Matora
Tatsuhiko Shiratori works as a scout, recruiting girls to work in the adult entertainment business. He movies to Yokohama from Shinjuku, Tokyo. He comes into conflict with Masaki Taki who is the CEO of a scout company.
Takayanagi
Lone wolf detective with an enormous personal grievance seeks to connect the mysterious death of his daughter to an urban legend of a villain who terrorizes Japan by insinuating himself into people's dreams and the collective psyche of the Japanese people.
Matora
Shiratori Tatsuhiko works as a scout for Burst, a talent agency in Kabukichō, Shinjuku's red light district. In a business where money means everything Tatsuhiko finds himself in a constant struggle between rival talent scouts and the yakuza.
Jo Hikomura
Na vida após a morte, escritores ocupados estão criando cenários para a humanidade. O que eles escrevem dita o destino de todos. Chasuke, um servidor de chá celestial, está sempre fazendo o seu trabalho para garantir que os dramaturgos sigam em sua tarefa sem fim. Ele não pode evitar ouvir as conversas, e está especialmente interessado na história da jovem Yuri. Um comentário descuidado muda o destino dela em um acidente de carro fatal. Só Chasuke pode resgatá-la, voltando ao mundo físico.
Yuki
No começo da Segunda Guerra Mundial, uma cidade asiática se torna um grande ponto para competições entre espiões de vários países a fim de ganharem vantagens na diplomacia mundial. Quando Kato (Kamenashi Kazuya) está prestes a receber uma punição por desobedecer seus superiores, ele é escoltado por um homem chamado Yuuki (Yusuke Iseya) para se tornar espião na agência D Kikan. Após muito treino, é dado a Kato a missão de se infiltrar em uma cidade multicultural para roubar um valioso objeto de um embaixador. Porém Kato não é o único a querer o tal objeto e agora terá de lutar contra outros oponentes, inclusive uma misteriosa mulher chamada Rin (Kyoko Fukada). Baseado em um romance de Koji Yanagi.
Koji Sawada
The talented Korean tenor, Bae, who penetrate the audience's hears through his delicate and powerful singing, is on the rise to stardom at the European opera scene. Sawada, a Japanese music producer, is searching for a new tenor for an upcoming performance. He watches a performance of Bae and invites him to Japan, which marks the beginning of friendship. But, the thyroid cancer strikes Bae. During an operation, the nerves of his vocal cords has be cut due to the widely spread cancer. Unfortunately, Ba ends up losing his voice at the peak of his career. Sawada cant's stand to watch Bae's miserable so he starts to look for a solution.
Aoshi Shinomori
O fanático revolucionário Shishio Makoto zarpa em seu navio couraçado em sua tentativa de iniciar uma guerra civil no Japão para derrubar o Governo Meiji, levando Kaoru com ele. Para impedí-lo a tempo, Kenshin treina com seu antigo mestre para aprender a sua técnica definitiva.
Aoshi Shinomori
Kenshin vive tranquilamente com Kaoru e seus amigos, mas é chamado pelo Imperador do Governo Meiji. Dez anos atrás, Shishio Makoto, um ex-assassino tal como Kenshin, havia sido traído, incendiado e deixado para morrer na Batalha de Toba-Fushimi. Ele sobreviveu e vai para Kyoto e se reúne com seus guerreiros numa conspiração para derrubar o novo governo. Contra a vontade de Kaoru, Kenshin aceita relutantemente ir até Kyoto para ajudar a evitar que o país entre em uma guerra civil.
Nobukane Oda
After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and Tsuneoki Ikeda meet to decide on a successor. The conference would become Japan's first group made political decision. The meeting was known as the Kiyosu Kaigi.
Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eventually becomes one of the primary influences upon the Japanese tea ceremony. With his elegant esthetics, Sen no Rikyu is favored by the most powerful man in Japan Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Nao Omori) and becomes one of his closest advisors. Due to conflicts, Toyotomi Hideyoshi then orders Sen no Rikyu to commit seppuku (suicide). Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of Kenichi Yamamoto's award-winning novel of the same name received the Best Artistic Contribution Award at the 37th Montréal World Film Festival, the Best Director Award at the 2014 Osaka Cinema Festival, the 30th Fumiko Yamaji Cultural Award and the 37th Japan Academy Film Prize in nine categories, including Best Art Direction, Excellent Film and Excellent Actor.
Tanigawa
An old couple, their only son, the son's wife, a young man and his lover live peacefully in a village. Then, a terrifying earthquake strikes that causes a nearby nuclear station to explode. The residents must evacuate, but the family lives on a farm, with only half of the area designated as an evacuation area.
Jiro Ota
After losing their restaurant in a fire, a husband and wife come up with a strange plan to rebuild their shattered finances: marrying the husband off to a series of lonely women and defrauding them.
Minami Hideaki
(I will Soar to the Skies in my Wheelchair ) Hasebe Yasuyuki is living his life carelessly alone in his apartment, until one day, he jumps from the top of a building escaping a street gang and injures his spinal cord. And the doctor tells him that he can't walk anymore. His mother, Haruko, hurries to the hospital for her son, however Yasuyuki is on bad terms with her, so he asks her to leave him alone. There he meets an ill kid in the hospital named Ishii Daisuke who is living his life positively, and the store staff Katou Kumi, who always smiles even though she had a sad past. He gains confidence and decides to start his rehabilitation. After Yasuyuki is discharged from the hospital, he starts relying on everybody everywhere, so he falls into despair and starts thinking of committing suicide seeing no future for himself.
Scenario Writer
A college senior (Mirai Moriyama) takes a bicycle trip for his last summer vacation. On his trip he comes across drive-in "HOUSE475" and its manager Seii (Hidetoshi Nishijima). The college senior then helps out at the store and becomes influenced by his experience at "HOUSE475".
Director
A college senior (Mirai Moriyama) takes a bicycle trip for his last summer vacation. On his trip he comes across drive-in "HOUSE475" and its manager Seii (Hidetoshi Nishijima). The college senior then helps out at the store and becomes influenced by his experience at "HOUSE475".
Seiya Ichijo
Kaiji pagou todas as suas dívidas por navegar com sucesso através de jogos que desafiam a morte, um após o outro. Um ano depois, porém, ele está de volta na situação da dívida. Kaiji então ganha uma chance para livrar-se de sua dívida de 200 milhões de Yen, mas ele tem apenas 2 semanas.
Kaji então decide assumir a mãe de todas as máquinas de pachinko com o nome "O Pântano". O pagamento vencedor superior é mais de 1 bilhão de ienes. "O Pântano" é controlado por uma operação de casino ilegal chamado Teai. Enquanto isso, Seiya Ichizo, controla a máquina a partir de um local remoto para assegurar que a máquina nunca paga o jackpot. Kaiji recruta a ajuda de Yumi Ishida cujo pai foi morto por Teai, Kotaro Sakazaki um funcionário demitido de Teai e Yukio Tonegawa, que perdeu sua posição nas mãos de Teai. Todos eles se juntam a Kaiji para derrubar "O Pântano", mas suas vidas estão em jogo.
Toru Rikiishi
Baseado no mangá de sucesso de mesmo nome. O filme é ambientado nos anos 60, Joe Yabuki é um órfão problemático que vaga pelos bairros pobres de Tóquio quando conhece o ex-boxeador alcoolátra Danpei Tange que ve nele um grande potencial como boxeador. Mas então, Joe termina em problemas e é recolhido no centro de detenção juvenil. Uma vez dentro. Joe se mete em uma briga mas termina sendo derrotado por Toru Rikiishi que é um boxeador campeão de calibre profissional. Enquanto esta preso, Joe recebe aulas especiais de Danpei Tange através de cartas. Após sua libertação, Joe rapidamente se torna um boxeador de elite e famoso por seu golpe cruzado. Enquanto isso Toru também é liberado da cadeia e rapidamente retoma sua carreira no boxe. Toru finalmente consegue sua oportunidade para lutar pelo cinturão de campeão do mundo, mas antes disso, Toru quer uma luta com Joe Yabuki. Quem será que ganhará?
Koyata
A paz do Japão feudal de 1844 está sendo ameaçada por um tirano cruel e impiedoso chamado Naritsugu Matsudaira. Um veterano guerreiro chamado Shinzaemon Shimada é recrutado para deter o tirano. Ele reúne mais doze guerreiros para se unirem a ele em uma missão suicida que irá assassinar o lorde Matsudaira.
Masao Horiki
The story of a young man who has felt since childhood utterly alien from others around him. Since that time he has learned to put on a face to hide his alienation. He feels incapable of belonging to the human society, especially so by society's refusal to take him seriously. He then follows a descent into alcohol, drugs, & suicide ...
First Blind Man
Quando uma epidemia chamada cegueira branca aparece em uma cidade, a mulher de um médico é a única pessoa que ainda consegue ver. Ela vai para um abrigo com seu marido cego e encontra todos vivendo em condições precárias. Agora ela tem que guiar um grupo à liberdade.
Yoshitsune
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.
Ryu Ishitobi
Kae Horii moves into her new flat in an undisclosed area of Kyoto. While unpacking her belongings, she discovers a hidden compartment behind a inconspicuous mirror. In that compartment, Kae finds a notebook, that turns out to be a diary belonging to the previous tenant. Later that evening Kae starts to read the diary. The writer of the diary is Ibuki Mano, a young lady about to embark on her first year as an elementary school teacher. Ibuki is also in love with a man named Takashi, who may or may not hold similar feelings for Ibuki.
Taichi
Original story by Yasushi AKIMOTO, writer of the mega hit movie One Missed Call (Chakushin Ari) series. As the project was in development with an idea of an "infectious song (Densen-Uta)", one of the staff called out..."There was a real Densen-Uta!" He discovers on the internet of a song back in 1933, Hungary, which caused mysterious deaths of many people. In "Densen-Uta", high school girls get mixed up in the Japanese version of this infectious song, and with the help of third rate gossip magazine reporter, tries to solve the mystery and horror behind the song. They come to know just how real, an urban legend can become.
Kaoru's client
The film begins in the present, with its heroine, Kaoru, a grown-up woman working as a real-estate agent, while helping out the folksy proprietor of a neighborhood fishing pond. There she meets a shy girl who needs her help baiting a hook and reminds her of herself in the fourth grade.
Na
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.
Yakuza Naoki Sando (Yosuke Natsuki) discovers his daughter Hiroko (Kumi Kaneko) in bed with his adopted son Kohji (Yusuke Iseya). Three years later, Kohji is working the streets as a hustler, still yearning for a way to earn his estranged father's approval to continue his borderline incestuous relationship. Hiroko sees a way back to her brother's arms when Sando's shady colleague Marc Tanner (François Trottier) absconds to Canada with gambling funds destined for the big boss. Presumably with her father's permission, she calls Kohji and tells him to hurry to Montréal, recover the money and kill Tanner.
Kimura (voice)
Na cidade do Tesouro a vida pode ser doce ou brutal. Isto é a pura verdade para nossos heróis Black e White, dois meninos rebeldes de rua que tomam conta da cidade, lutando constantemente contra o vilão do velho mundo Yakuza e criaturas alienígenas assassinas que pretendem destruir a metrópole.
Katsuya Kita
Koji Namiki is a young pitcher who has shown great promise on the diamond by winning the National High School Basketball Championships. Shortly after entering college, however, Namiki's athletic career is called into question after he suffers a severe elbow injury. But despite a disheartening diagnosis, Namiki is determined to make a comeback. With a little help from his teammates it appears that he is getting back on track, too. Recently, he's even developed a new slow ball that he and his teammates have christened "the magic pitch". Fate can be a cruel mistress though, and when World War II breaks out Namiki the entire team join the navy and begin a training regiment specifically designed to prepare them for the ultimate darkness, an submarine attack method also known as "The Human Torpedo".
Morita
Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as they prepare to venture out into the real world on a great voyage of self-discovery.
Kazuomi Shijo
Every high school has its misfits, its square pegs, its rebels. St. Michael's Academy, nestled on an impossibly pretty and strangely remote Japanese island, is no exception. In fact, given the atmosphere of strictness, propriety and even subtle menace looming over the elite, aristocratic, Catholic boarding school, it's no wonder Fumio, Kazune and Yuzuko quickly bond over their dislike of the place. With rumors of rich girls being kidnapped in the region, and even more so, their legal guardians, including the school's enigmatic headmaster, Mr. Lawrence, and Fumio's brother are suspicious and on alert. Then an accidental and inexplicable unleashing of magic power infuses the girls with spectacular abilities. When the truth about the kidnappings is revealed, they're going to need them.
Yoichi Ryu
Sho deixou sua cidade natal para tentar ser músico, mas nada deu certo. Um dia é acordado pelo pai portando as cinzas de uma tia que ele nem sabia que existia; o pai pede que vá limpar o apartamento da mulher que foi expulsa da família 30 anos atrás, e aos poucos Sho vai descobrir a história da tia que nunca conheceu.
Manabu Yazaki
Following a tip, Manabu Yazaki loses his last money betting on the older "banba" horse "Unryu" (jockied by Makie, a legendary jockey's daughter) in a draft-horse race held in his childhood home of Obihiro on the island of Hokkaido.
Tetsuya Azuma
É quase final do século XXI. Decorridos cinqüenta anos de uma guerra devastadora entre a Europa e a Federação do Leste, esta última emergiu vitoriosa e foi formada uma nova federação, que recebeu o nome de Eurásia. Já não é mais possível se viver na glória da paz já que o planeta é varrido pelos efeitos das armas nucleares, químicas e biológicas, e toda a raça humana é vítima de conflitos que já duram meio século. Porém, um cientista genético chamado Dr. Azuma consegue trazer uma nova esperança na forma do que ele chama de "neo-célula", e que tem o poder de rejuvenescer partes do corpo humano sem causar risco de rejeição. Entretanto, a natureza interfere no caminho da ciência para criar uma nova ameaça, que obriga toda a humanidade a enfrentar a última guerra contra sua própria extinção.
Keisuke Himuro
Namiko Morita, who lived in Otaru, moved to this area with her husband, Yutaro, and opened the brewery "Morita Brewery". Eventually, they succeeded in this business and lived happily while raising three children. However, in August 1945, the situation changed completely due to the Soviet invasion of Manchuria.
Three short films with the theme of death and dead ends in common.
Screenplay
A very energetic, fresh and skilful début in DV from young Tokyo actor and model. Hanging out, clubbing and drugging, a young band of friends get way in over their heads when they inadvertently lose a stash of drugs they're meant to deal to their friends.
Ryo
A very energetic, fresh and skilful début in DV from young Tokyo actor and model. Hanging out, clubbing and drugging, a young band of friends get way in over their heads when they inadvertently lose a stash of drugs they're meant to deal to their friends.
Director
A very energetic, fresh and skilful début in DV from young Tokyo actor and model. Hanging out, clubbing and drugging, a young band of friends get way in over their heads when they inadvertently lose a stash of drugs they're meant to deal to their friends.
When dead people starts returning to the small Japanese town of Aso, government official Kawada is dispatched to uncover the “truth”.
Masaru
Mais de cem pessoas foram assassinadas pela seita religiosa Arcos da Verdade. Três anos após o massacre, quatro amigos que são também parentes de vítimas iniciam uma perenigração em direção ao lago em que tudo ocorreu. Ao chegarem os amigos cohecem um homem, que esteve presente com os assassinos quando o massacre teve início. Ao ouvir seus relatos, a busca dos colegas muda de rumo.
Cofeeshop Guy
Sachiko vive com a mãe que já tentou suicídio e falhou, após o término com um namorado; o pai já havia abandonado as duas muito tempo antes. Com apenas 12 anos de idade a garota envolveu-se com um professor e o caso foi descoberto; ele fugiu para outra cidade e agora os dois trocam cartas. Agora com treze anos a estudante não consegue mais ir à escola e consegue fazer amizade apenas com pessoas excluídas da sociedade, talvez os únicos que conseguem compreende-la.
Ayumu Nippori
Meet NIPPORI Ayumu, an 80 year-old man, who, due to a serious heart condition, has spent sixty years of his life confined to his house. One morning, he wakes up believing himself to be twenty again. In his mind, he has become the youthful young man that he once was. However, reality fails to keep up with his illusion, and everything around him seems to be quite different from what he is used to. So, he decides that he is simply dreaming. As his reality becomes his dream, his unhappy world turns into a life enriched with happiness and expectations for the future. Ayumu is now enjoying his life to the full again.
Yusuke Iseya
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.