Yoriko Dōguchi

Maki Yoshioka is a novelist and mother. She has been experiencing writer's block. One day, she gets into a disagreement with her neighbor Miwako Wakata over a futon. Maki gets harassed by Miawako increasingly more as the days pass. She decides to write about Miwako Wakata in a novel, but this has unexpected consequences. The small quarell becomes a media sensation.

В XVII веке два священника-иезуита подвергаются насилию и преследованиям во время странствия по Японии, куда они приехали с целью найти своего наставника и распространять христианское Евангелие.

Shu Kubota is killed by someone with a baseball bat. A metal bat and an old toy are found at the crime scene. Detective Yoshito (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) with the special investigation unit goes to the crime scene to investigate. There, Detective Yoshito realizes that he made the old toy about 10 years ago when he worked at the public relations divsion of the Kyoto Prefectural Police Department. Detective Yoshito decides to solve the case by himself and without the help of his partner Detective Chinami (Kaho Minami). --asianwiki

The ever versatile Kazuki Kitamura stars as masterless samurai Kyutaro Madarame, a feared swordsman who has fallen on hard times in old Edo. Caught between two warring gangs in an epic battle of cat lovers and dog lovers, he begrudgingly accepts the canine faction's offer to assassinate the opposite leader's beloved pet: an adorable white cat. Yet upon raising his lethal sword, he cannot bring himself to go through with the act, and the cat melts his ronin heart. But before finding peace as a newly minted cat person, the still fearsome Madarame will have to take on both gangs in a classic samurai street brawl.

In January 1946 a British military transport plane departs from Shanghai on its to Tokyo, Japan. During the flight the airplane makes an emergency landing on Sado Island. The residents on the island have heard stereotypes of the British soldiers and have mixed feelings about the their new "guest." Nevertheless, for the next 40 days the islanders take care of the crew members until the plane can take off once again. This includes Chiyoko Morimoto who is the daughter of the inn owner where some of the British crew members stay.

High school student Tomoyuki (Hoshi Ishida), his father (Kazuhiro Sano), and Yuki (Miwako Wagatsuma), a girl that Tomyuki likes, gather together as a family and performs road shows out of their truck. A sense of loss, farewells, and relations are all brought out.

Кохэй Накасима замкнут в себе и нелюдим. В старшей школе он был объектом постоянных издевательств и пережил немало ужасных моментов. Теперь, повзрослев, он устраивается на необычную работу в компанию, которая занимается уборкой домов после смерти недавно умерших людей… Там он знакомится с сотрудницей компании Юки, и оказывается, что у них много общего. Она также прошла через издевательства в школьные годы. Постепенно они начинают общаться и чувствовать родственные души друг в друге. Но внезапно Юки исчезает...

Based on a true story, Yoshiko and Yuriko relates the journey and great love affair of Yoshiko, who was a renowned translator of Russian literature and drama, and Yuriko, who was a feminist novelist and great activist of the post-war democratic literature movement. Both have left huge marks on Japanese literary history. The two women shared a strong attraction to each other from their first meeting and enjoyed a powerful love affair. Yoshiko reveals that she's an out lesbian, whilst Yuriko is married (not altogether happily) to a well-known scholar - a situation she can't walk away from with ease.

Ken, a newspaper carrier attends college without registering. Haru was watching Ken steal a piece of bone from an archeology laboratory, "Never gotten someone so closely". They hold earch other on the street in the mid-night. Just as they begin to live together, Ken gets caught on stealing again. An associate professor, Shikishima entices Ken into his research instead of rebuking. One night, Shikishima comes to Haru to confess that she resembles his dead girlfriend. The lonely journey of lovers accelerates on.

A Crowd of Three tells the story of two men, Kenta & Jun, who grew up as almost brothers at a children's facility. Kenta & Jun now works as part of a demolition crew but become fed up with their jobs. The friends then decide to take a road trip up north to visit Kenta's brother at the Abashiri prison.

After Japan's defeat in WWII, "Pandora no hako" follows a young man named Risuke (Shota Sometani) who has contracted tuberculosis. He travels to the countryside to a unique nursing facility to receive treatment for his disease. At the sanatorium all the patients and nurses go by nicknames and Risuke decides to reinvent himself as Hibari. During his stay, Hibari develops realationships with other patients and nurses. After Hibari's friend Tsuikushi (Yosuke Kubozuka) gets discharged from the nursing facility, Hibari writes to him about his relationships with Dakesang (Mieko Kawakami) the chief nurse and Mabo (Riisa Naka) another nurse that is bright and seems to like him.

О чём мечтает подросток в самом расцвете сил? Конечно же о любви! О чём думает подросток у которого папа после смерти мамы стал священником, и теперь бедному парню нужно признаваться в своих грехах, которых он не совершал?

Yuka, a troubled young woman who suddenly begins working part-time as a high-class call girl, finds unexpected romance while on the job.

In the mountain hot springs of Izu, Japan, a love triangle is waiting to happen. It is the late 1930s when the paths of a stunning woman fleeing Tokyo, a handsome bachelor and a blind masseur cross.

For no apparent reason, four strangers find themselves with a rope around their necks, balancing on an unstable chair. They will quickly realize that each of them has the code to remove the padlock blocking the rope of their left neighbour. But just when they were about to exchange the codes, one of the four people will make a revelation with serious consequences...

The story centers around the communication between a man who abruptly appears in a world 10,000 years in the future and a boy who lives in that world.

Sakai's Happiness is a humorous and bittersweet portrayal of an ordinary family dealing with the challenges of everyday life.

Shinku is a compelling drama that focuses on the strange relationship that develops between two people who find their lives irrevocably changed as a result of a horrible multiple homicide. The first person traumatized is the lone survivor of the terrible family bloodbath, a girl who grows up to be a pretty college student. The second person affected by this heinous crime is the daughter of the murderer, a young girl who ends up becoming a tattooed bartender. A full decade after the crime, the killer is finally going to be executed, and the surviving member of the massacre decides to reach out and befriend the murderer's daughter. A tentative, odd sort of friendship blossoms between these two people, both of whom seem to have little in common personally, and every reason in the world for not wanting to meet. Yet they do, but not without reservations. And really, is this friendship quite what it seems? Or is it all part of some twisted plan for vengeance?

A scientific exploration in search of a new energy source unleashes a group of powerful demons who begin possessing human bodies and destroying civilization. Close friends Akira and Ryo wind up on different sides of this epic struggle. Akira’s inner strength allows him to maintain his identity and fight for good, but the weaker Ryo is completely overtaken by Satan himself.

2004 film

Film director Mario Baba meets a mysterious gentleman, and realizes he is a important man from his boyhood. The two chase each other around, causing a lot of commotion.

Самое страшное из всех проклятий - предсмертное. В минуту, когда жизнь покидает тело человека, погибающего насильственной смертью, вся бессильная ярость и неистовый гнев несчастной жертвы против мучителя обрушивается на место, где свершилось убийство. Душа погибшего не найдет покоя. Мятущийся призрак станет являться там, где бывал при жизни, и, одержимый жаждой мщения и слепой злобой, убивать всех, кто рискнет вступить в его владения. От страшного проклятия нет спасения.

Благоволит ли к людям мать-природа? Или может она относится к своим детям так безжалостно и непримиримо из-за того, что они так жестоко и безразлично обращаются с ней. Картина описывает историю странного конфликта, причиной которого стало нелепое, старое и кривое дерево. Это дерево вызывающе возвышается напротив научной лаборатории, где работает героиня фильма. Она уверена, что дерево — ядовито и опасно. Защитники же дерева убеждены в обратном, полагая, что древо сие — величественно и прекрасно. А ещё одна компания «любителей природы» просто хочет срубить его, чтобы заработать денег. Нам предстоит понаблюдать за игрой нешуточных страстей, развернувшихся вокруг одинокого и безмолвного растения.

Главный герой Ютака, когда ему было 14 лет, попал в автокатастрофу и 10 лет пролежал в коме. В 24 года, он прошёл курс реабилитации и вышел из больницы. Вернувшись, домой, он никого там не нашёл, кроме «друга семьи» Фудзимори, который занимается разведением рыбы. Ютака долго не может решить, как ему жить дальше, чем заняться. Однажды он, катаясь верхом на лошади, принимает решение восстановить семейную конюшню и разводить пони.

Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from. Meanwhile, a police detective is investigating a string of brutal murders, where he also runs across the name "Tomie." How are the two connected?

Детектив Такабэ и психиатр Сакума привлекаются к расследованию серии загадочных убийств. Общение с подозреваемыми не приносит никакого результата, пока в руки полиции не попадает странный молодой человек…

Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a brother and sister who want to drive a local yakuza gang member out of their neighborhood.

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.

Having lost everything to horse racing, Yûji accidentally gets 10 million yen. But this sum belongs to a Yakuza.

Yûji and Kosaku are hired to track down an old man. But when he suddenly dies, his granddaughter surfaces with a map to his buried fortune, which the yakuza and a dirty cop are determined to find.

People from all walks of life (a high-school student, a middle-aged businessman, a yakuza chief, etc.) all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to go to a small island in the Inland Sea that evening. At the stroke of midnight, the lost ship emerges from the sea and they are given a brief time to say their final words to their lost loved ones, before the deceased must once again board the ship and it sinks back into the depths.

Hapless gangsters are hired by the yakuza to tail his daughter. Once the identity of the boy she's dating has been unveiled, the boss offers a reward for his capture.

Two petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members, fortunately they are rescued by a kindly Kindergarten teacher.

Japanese film directed by Masahiro Honda.

Юную Акико берут на должность арт-менеджера в новый 12-й отдел корпорации Акэбоно, занимающей огромное здание где-то на окраине. В тот же день на вахте появляется новый охранник, угрюмый бугай под 2 метра ростом, по слухам, когда-то бросивший сумо. А по радио то и дело пугают страшилками про убийцу-психопата в бегах и, как на грех, тоже бывшего сумоиста. Нечеловеческие страсти тихо тлеют в мрачных коридорах компании Акэбоно, как в кривом зеркале отражая закоулки психики инфернального мессии-дегенерата.

A haunted melody, a used record one must possess. At any cost. Adapted from Junji Ito's short story Used Record.

A quiet killer is looking for a room. The real state agent, shy and expressionless, guides him through Tokyo, towards the ruins the decadent economy has left behind, in hopes of finding The Room.

During World War II, the Japanese military established a secret underground laboratory in Tokyo. Three Olympic-level athletes were selected to undergo a process that would turn them into Jinra-go, superhuman armored soldiers. By March 1945, one of the soldiers had been completely transformed into the half man/half machine ultimate soldier called Mikadroid. But American B-29s firebomb the city and, while the two super soldiers manage to escape, Mikadroid and the lab are apparently destroyed. 45 years pass, Tokyo is rebuilt, and old secrets are forgotten. The site is now home to a complex that includes the Discoclub Layla. The disco’s patrons dance late into the night, unaware that a faulty basement generator has reactivated Mikadroid and the cyborg now prowls the basement levels, killing anyone in its path...

Девушке Наёко с момента вступления во взрослую жизнь было предначертано судьбой стать живым талисманом — те, кто с ней жил имел удачную судьбу. Сначала это был бизнесмен, ее первый мужчина, который за три года сумел сильно подняться по социальной лестнице, затем политик. Всем своим мужчинам она приносила удачу. Тех же, кто ссорился с ней, ждали неприятности.

An old man falls into a coma and dreams about his childhood during WWII.

An original, ethereal poem created from Junichiro Tanizaki's famous original work.

Суровая работница налоговой инспекции снова выходит на тропу войны. На этот раз она бросает вызов коррумпированному религиозному ордену.

2 almost inseparable friends. The talented painter recognized by all decided to leave the town where they live and become an artist and the shy poet who only sees his future in his mother's business.

Лихой водитель грузовика в ковбойской шляпе помогает симпатичной вдове превратить её скромную лапшичную в заведение, куда люди стали приходить из других кварталов. Он и его товарищи помогли ей узнать рецепты блюд, научиться мастерски их готовить, изменить интерьер заведения.

Знакомство по переписке забросило селянку Акико на столичный психфак. Там у неё условлено первое свидание с Ёсиокой, местным разгильдяем, навешавшим ей лапши, будто он — лидер студенческой рок-банды. На психфаке народ крайне распущен — первый курс слушает лекции о том, как стать бесстыжими, экспериментирует друг с другом в постели, пляшет и поёт. Одна только Акико ищет чистой и светлой любви. Однако вместо этого с головой погружается в труд профессора Хираямы «Психология раскрепощения», чтобы помочь тому исследовать феномен телесных мутаций, вызванных крайней стыдливостью.