Masahiro Motoki

An eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a village population forty-seven in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is a geographic description of the work and non-work of a farmer. A portrait, over five seasons, of a family, of a terrain, of a soundscape, and of duration itself. A film-as-adaptive-landscape. A georgic in five books.

The novelist Shiga Naoya lives with his wife Haruko and their 4-year-old daughter Saeko. He is paranoid about Saeko’s health, making her wear heavy clothes even in summer in order to prevent her from catching a cold. Their child before Saeko died due to an epidemic, and he believes thorough enforcement is a natural consequence. In 1918, the Spanish flu reaches Japan. As the number of infected people grows, Shiga starts to suspect their servant Ishi might have gone to watch a travelling entertainment troupe’s performance which drew a great number of villagers. It is something Ishi is likely to do. But when Shiga questions her, she says that she did not go. However, she makes him have misgivings on a regular basis and he decides to take this opportunity to make her quit. An uproar ensues. Shiga feels that he has become a tyrant and refrains from kicking her out but he loses all reason and faith in humanity amid the pandemic…

A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief—or lack of it—in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident.

Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The power company, prefectural government and media all receive a fax. The fax contains a threat that if the nuclear power plant is not taken offline the helicopter will be dropped. 8 hours is given as the deadline. Making the situation even more dire, a young child is in the helicopter.

In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meeting has continued through days and nights, but a decision cannot be made. The U.S. drops atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. General Korechika Anami is torn over making the proper decision and the Emperor of Japan worries about his people. Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki leads the cabinet meeting, while Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu can't do anything, but watch the meeting. At this time, Major Kenji Hatanaka and other young commissioned officers, who are against Japan surrendering, move to occupy the palace and a radio broadcasting station. The radio station is set to broadcast Emperor Hirohito reading out the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War.

Musical band "Yajima Biyoshitsu" comes to Japan from Nevada, USA to debut their CD.

Kobayashi casou-se e pensou em viver em Tóquio como violoncelista em uma orquestra, mas a falta de público levou sua equipe ao fim. Sem saber o que fazer, o rapaz decide voltar para sua cidade natal e tentar conseguir um emprego; procurando no jornal se interessa por um anúncio que oferece bom pagamento e pouco trabalho, ser um "nokanshi", coisa que ele desconhecia. É contratado imediatamente na sua entrevista de emprego e se assusta ao descobrir que seu novo trabalho é preparar mortos para a família prestar a última homenagem.

A successful Japanese make-up artist collides with a tough-talking Shanghai taxi driver in this romantic dramedy that twists traditional roles by making the beauty expert a male and the cab driver a feisty female. Although he works in a glamorous industry, Naoki Mizushima can't help but notice that his life is anything but beautiful. Can the uncouth Lin Xi help him make over his life for the better?

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.

A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II and in the midst of the Japanese imperial ambitions in Eastern Asia. The spy becomes acquainted with a sympathetic communist who like he is attached to the ideals of freedom and rule of the masses. Sorge is able to feed the Soviet Union useful information regarding the Axis allies and their movements in Asia and beyond.

The legendary duel between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro on Ganryu Island is brought to life in a way never before seen. The vile Musashi has raped a farm girl and commandeered a boat for his trip to the island.

Matsuzaki, who gets critically injured after a sketchy deal, is taken by his girlfriend to a church where it is rumored that miracles happen. There, they find strange twins named Pinoko. With Pinoko's guidance, Matsuzaki is saved by a genius surgeon, BJ, in exchange for exorbitant fees. However, Matsuzaki is captured by the police. Meanwhile, Reiko, a female detective who pursues Matsuzaki and other organizations, tries to solve a mystery by conducting an independent investigation. It turns out Matsuzaki was found dead.

When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.

Wada é funcionário de uma multinacional japonesa e é escalado para fazer uma viagem à província de Yun Nan, China, para investigar uma possível descoberta de um valioso veio de pedras de jade. Wada sabe apenas que um guia o levará às montanhas, mas ao desembarcar e encontrá-lo descobre que foi seguido por um mafioso japonês que tem negócios pendentes com sua empresa.

There still stands a famous apartment building where such prominent manga artists as Tezuka Osamu, Shotaro Ishinomori and Fujio Akatsuka once lived, worked, and shared experiences.

Shohei Sugiyama (Kôji Yakusho) é um típico homem de negócios japonês, que durante o trajeto do seu trabalho para casa vê Mai Kishikawa (Tamiyo Kusakari), uma bela jovem mulher, através da janela de uma escola de dança. Atraído por ela, Shohei se matricula na escola e conhece Mai, uma professora de dança. Inicialmente Mai confunde Shohei com um sedutor, mas para surpresa dela ele é um dançarino naturalmente talentoso, que só está interessado em ter uma boa parceira. Assim Mai começa a treiná-lo para uma competição.

O destino de cinco homens, que se juntam num pacto de vingança, é mostrado neste filme de ação, com a atmosfera excêntrica e assustadora do submundo japonês. De um lado um executivo endividado, um desempregado, um ex-policial e um gigolô. D eoutro, dois assassinos da máfia. Cada um tem seus próprio poder e seus próprios motivos. Violência e sangue são o resultado.

Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts, his publisher shows him a newspaper with an account of events just like his forbidden story. As the film progresses, fantasy and reality intermingle in a tale that draws heavily on influences from Poe and Stoker's Dracula. The film's strongly Expressionistic direction skillfully combines a variety of media (animation, computer-generated imagery, grainy black-and-white fast film stock, color negatives) for artistic effect.

This suave lad triple books himself for christmas dates.

A black comedy about a former Rock'n'Roll singer, who becomes the mayor of Tokyo.

Um grupo de estudantes universitários é obrigado a fazer parte de um clube de sumô para poderem se formar. Inicialmente desinteressados e atrapalhados, os estudantes aos poucos se envolvem com o espírito do mais tradicional esporte japonês.

Remade in Korea as Going by the Book.

Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.

Youngsters find work as part-time festival street vendors and flourish in work, friendship and love.

Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline, he learns to adjust. Then his girlfriend shows up, enticing him to return to his rock 'n' roll roots.

Actress Moeko comes to Singapore to look for Kariya, the man she loves. She checks in at Raffles Hotel and finds out that he lives in a big house with his wife and children. In the darkness, Moeko suddenly stands in front of Kariya with a camera in her hands. The shutter's sound resounds through the room. When it fades away, Moeko has vanished...

An amateur op (detective) with a career as a former legal instructor . From the search for a runaway daughter requested by Akiko "Beppin" to the murder case. A mystery drawn with a hard-boiled touch set in Kobe (some locations in Ashiya and Yokohama ). The scenery of Kobe before the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake is included in various background scenes, and you can see the buildings and scenery that can not be seen now.

Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents before the coup was suppressed.

Film about a pirate radio station.

The story of friendship, love and sportsmanship among high-school students.

Three high school boys leave their dormitory and go to a resort and fall in love.

Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what really happened when his Japanese girlfriend mysteriously vanished without a trace from London fifty years earlier.