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Haruhiko Madarame
Hiroto Miyama works with rookie lawyer Honoka Kono on a team that specializes with criminal cases for Madarame Law Firm. Atsuhiro Sada has become the director of the law firm. One day, the law firm receives a request about a case that took place 15 years ago. The case was about a poisonous wine incident.
The super unconventional lawyer is back! Our new friends are comic book girls! And the biggest enemy of all! The strongest lawyer who manipulates the prosecution behind the scenes sets out to prove the devil... Take on a case that is 100% impossible to prove!
Hiyori (Kei Tanaka) is an ornithologist (expert on birds). His wife is Rinko (Miki Nakatani). She is the leader the minority opposition party. One morning, Hiyori is about to travel to an isolated island to watch birds on a 10 day trip. Before he leaves, Rinko asks him if she becomes the prime minister would he be inconvenienced. Hiyori then goes on his bird watching trip. During this time, he is completely isolated from the outside world. When he returns home, his wife Rinko is now the prime minister of the country. She is also the first ever female prime minister of Japan. Suddenly, Hiyori is now the first gentleman of the country. He decides to support his wife, but he finds himself caught up in unexpected circumstances.
Kazuyuki Ishida
Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, a dull novelist and a legendary killer. Susumu Ichikawa, an obsolete writer with no manuscript at all, had another face - a legendary hitman. But the truth of the matter is... he had never shot a person. One day, he receives a murder request from a friend. Seeing this as an opportunity to achieve the ideal hard-boiled novel, he decides to hire a real hitman and demands that he report to him the assassination situation as it was.
Kozaburo Yanagi
Shuichi is engaged to Sanae and they will marry soon. One day, Shuichi is driving a car and his friend Teru sits as a passenger. He is speeding because he is late for a meeting about his upcoming wedding ceremony. On the way there, he hits a woman and flees. The woman dies later and her parents Hikaru and Chizuko Tokiyama are grief stricken. Veteran detective Kozaburo Yanagi and rookie detective Shun Maeda investigate the hit-and-run case.
Yukio Suzuki
Suzuki Koichi, a 30-something hikikomori shut-in, allows his mother to dotingly tend to his needs. When she discovers that Koichi has killed himself, the shock is so great she loses consciousness and her memory of that day.
Takeshi Kano
A woman was killed by a truck wheel, which flew off while the vehicle was in motion. As the freight company which owns the truck becomes the target of the public and the media’s wrath, Tokuro Akamatsu, the president of the freight company, realizes that a structural defect within the truck itself may have been to blame. A conspiracy of the wheel manufacturer's attempts to cover up a defective product is uncovered.
Kazuo Yamaoka
The film follows the relationship between a mother and her son. In 1945, the mother played by Sayuri Yoshinaga fled with her two sons from the Russians to Hokkaido. In 1972, her son played by Masato Sakai returns to Japan after finding success in the U.S.
Morishima
После былых разборок Отомо залег на дно, однако ему приходится вернуться в жестокий мир якудзы…
Shinjiro Watari, a former tap dancer, plays the lead as a dancer who is forced into retirement following an accident while on stage. He tries his hand at Directing, but struggles to make the transition. Shinjiro turns to alcohol to cope with his plight. But when the manager of a theater being closed down turns to Shinjiro to direct its final performance, he works with a group young dancers and in the process learns a few things about himself. The movie is very well done and worth the price of admission. A view into the Japanese dancing world, as well as Japanese society.
Kojiro Himuro is a champion figure skater taking part in an upcoming world competition. Yet, he is suffering from a complicated CTEPH (chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension). Kantaro Kurosu is the director of the Cross Medical Center. He asks Michiko Daimon to perform surgery on Kojiro, but, right before his surgery, she is deprived of “the most important weapon as a surgeon.”
Seiji Yamashita
Whether it's someone mixing burnables and recyclables or noise from a neighbor's domestic spat, there's always something occupying the residents of a housing project in the suburbs of Osaka. However Hinako (Naomi Fujiyama) and Seiji (Ittoku Kishibe) couldn't care less. Having moved in just six months ago after the closure of their herbal medicine shop, the old couple is reluctantly putting their life back together. But when Seiji disappears, the apartment rumor mill churns: divorce, murder, dismemberment? As the story spins out of control, and a mysterious man with a parasol puts in a tall order of natural remedies, the truth turns out to be even more fantastic than gossip. Ranging from incisive comedy of errors to absurdist adventure to moving late life romance, "The Projects" is one of the biggest surprises of the year.
Tanuki
Botchan (Kazunari Ninomiya) has sense of strong justice and does not lie. He is offered a teaching job at a middle in a small village far away from his hometown of Tokyo. Botchan accepts the position and begins to work as a math teacher. The assistant principle there wields absolute power. Botchan has a hard time dealing with his fellow teachers and the students.
A biopic of seminal 20th century artist Leonard Foujita, a contemporary of Picasso and Modigliani, who was famous for mixing up European and Japanese styles.
77-летняя Итико живёт в Токио одна. Она отошла от дел и собирается продать квартиру и отправиться в дом престарелых. Но прежде ей хочется разыскать картину под названием «Сцена из детства» знаменитого художника Кэнъитиро Мия. Итика уверена, что именно она много лет назад вдохновила художника на создание этого полотна.
The fifth work of the "Kita-Shirakawa school movie" in which a student of Kyoto University of Art and Design, a professional film staff, and a cast team up to make a film. With a certain big disaster, people are struggling for love while holding their own circumstances, and as a result, they ask what it is to "live correctly" even in a vague and uneasy era. Ittoku Kishibe played Yanagida, the protagonist of the protagonist who created and exhibited objects that incorporate radioactive materials to create and display indiscriminate terrorism.
Isamu Yoshioka
早坂
Set within the fictional city of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada runs a "benriya" - a general problem solver for hire. His assistant is his former high school classmate Haruhiko Gyoten. A big crisis then occurs for them.
Okichi Kitano
Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed for lack of references, Haruko's strong accent intrigues a linguistics professor, who undertakes to coach her.
Kazuyoshi Honjo
A professional scammer is hired by a wealthy young businessman to find a hidden treasure looted from the Bank of Japan and supposedly stashed away by a group of men after WWII in various locations around the globe. Eventually an assassin is put on their trail.
Based on a novel by Shinya Tanaka, this film is set in a quiet riverside town, where 17-year-old Tooma lives with his father and his father’s lover. Tooma witnesses his father’s sadistic behavior towards his lover and soon finds himself following in his father’s footsteps.
Нацуми переезжает в Токио, чтобы поступить в университет изобразительного искусства. В Токио Нацуми встречает Риосукэ и вскоре они начинают встречаться. Риосукэ хороший парень, но из–за отсутствия работы он просто слоняется повсюду. Чтобы оплатить расходы за проживание, Нацуми приходится работать в баре.
История повествует о мальчике по имени Хайме Сенох, прозвище «Ха». Его отец, Морио, владелец ателье. С началом Второй мировой войны для их семьи наступают трудные времена…
Gotou Yoshitaka
Youko and Harumi have been friends since youth as their life circumstances were similar. Youko ends up marrying a politician and publishes a successful picture book basen on Harumi's life, when her son suddenly gets abducted.
The annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However, Yoshi's life is thrown into disarray days before the performance when his estranged wife and former best friend arrive back in town...
Hayasaka
In Mahoro, the fictional suburb of Tokyo, Tada works as a general problem solver for hire. One day, former classmate Gyoten appears unannounced. Both men are over 30 years old and divorced. With no explanation, Gyoten suddenly asks to spend the night at Tada's home. Eventually, Tada accepts Gyoten as his assistant and together they become involved in various cases concerning an assortment of people from different walks of life.
homeless man
One day, five kindergarten children suddenly disappear from a kindergarten in Tokyo, sending their teachers and parents into a panic. The five of them are connecting on trains and headed to an unfamiliar place for some purpose. Before their journey, they had made a promise to each other “not to cry no matter what happens”
Onoda
The kidnapping of some chiefs of police by a rogue ex-policeman is just the beginning for a much much bigger story that it seems at first sight.
Osaka Love & Soul (TV film) Drama 2010, 75 min
Yatokube Sanshu
«13 убийц» (яп. 十三人の刺客 Дзю:саннин но сикаку?) — кинофильм режиссёра Такаси Миикэ, вышедший на экраны в 2010 году. Ремейк одноименного фильма 1963 года, снятого режиссёром Эйити Кудо. Действие происходит в Японии в 1844 году. Жестокий господин Нарицугу, брат сёгуна, приобретает в стране всё большее влияние и власть. Это грозит ей хаосом, разорением и даже ставит под угрозу существование самой системы сёгуната. Советник сёгуна господин Дой после долгих раздумий решает начать действовать и поручает надёжному и опытному самураю Синдзаэмону Симаде ликвидировать опасного властителя. Синдзаэмон собирает команду из двенадцати бойцов, достаточно хорошо владеющих отживающим искусством фехтования, и вырабатывает план нападения. Оно должно состояться во время поездки Нарицугу из Эдо в его владения в сопровождении большой свиты. Теперь основной задачей становится необходимость нивелировать преимущество врага в количестве воинов.
Deputy Chief Retainer Tsuda
Фильм рассказывает историю периода Эдо. Мастер меча Канэми Сандзаэмон убил Рэнко, любовницу могущественного феодала. За это он получил неожиданно мягкое наказание и вернулся в свой клан всего лишь через пару лет. Но есть подвох: он должен служить телохранителем у господина, которого он предал.
Professor Yokoshi
Based on the true story of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada who has spent over 40 years incarcerated on death row. Iwao Hakamada was arrested for the June 10, 1966 murder of a family in Shizuoka . Iwao Hakamada has always insisted on his innocence and many others also believe Iwao Hakamada has been falsely accused ...
Totani
Komaki is a thirty-something woman that has had it with her perpetually unemployed aspiring writer husband. Following the divorce, she moves back to her Tokyo-area hometown of Kyojima along with her young daughter, Non-chan. However, she has a difficult time making ends meet in big city Tokyo. Her solution? Take a chance and try opening her very own bento (lunch box) shop.
Seinosuke Yanagihara
Зоопарк Асахияма на Хоккайдо — первый в Японии зоопарк, в котором животные содержатся в своих естественных условиях. Но в 1990-е годы для него наступили нелегкие времена. Количество посетителей падает, растут долги. Зоопарк находится под угрозой закрытия. Заступивший на работу в этот критический для зоопарка момент Цуёси Ёсида — робкий, неуверенный в себе юноша, испытывающий трудности в общении. Но под руководством директора Кандзи Такидзавы он приобщается к жизни зоопарка и с энтузиазмом ищет способы, как повысить посещаемость. Благодаря новым и неординарным решениям зоопарк Асахияма постепенно возвращает былую популярность…
Jukichi Matsuda
"GS Wonderland" is about the 1960's Group Sounds bands - A Japanese pop movement inspired by the Beatles and other mid-1960's Brit Pop. Three young men set out to start their own band "The Diamonds" when they are signed to a recording contract during their very first rehearsal. Things turn for the unexpected when their agent brings Mick (Chiaki Kuriyama) into the group as their keyboardist.
Shoji Takahashi
Действие фильма разворачивается в аэропорту и на борту самолета. Каждый рейс обслуживает множество профессионалов — пилотов, стюардов и стюардесс, наземных команд, механиков, диспетчеров, контролеров… Их главная задача — обеспечить безопасность полета. Обычный рабочий день, обычный рейс — самолет взлетает по расписанию и направляется в Гонолулу. Для Кадзухиро, помощника командира корабля, этот полет — последний экзамен на пути к должности командира корабля, а для стюардессы Эцуко — первый международный рейс. Однако по техническим причинам самолету приходится вернуться обратно в Японию… Режиссер Синобу Ягути, прославившийся в Японии фильмами о юношеской команде синхронного плаванья («Water boys») и о школьницах, организовавших джаз-банд («Swing girls»), с присущим ему юмором рассказывает о тех сторонах авиации, о которых обычный пассажир даже не подозревает.
Takanori Kubo
A film about family life in Osaka. Following the death of their father, three boys struggle to find their own identity with the help of their outgoing mother and weak-willed uncle.
Ohmasa
Jirocho (Kiichi Nakai), a fledgling bakuto who left his wife, goes on a year-long training with his minions: right-hand man and military master Ohmasa (Kishibe Ittoku); stinky priest Daigoro (Takashi Sasano); well-known stranger Ishimatsu Mori (Yoichi Nukumizu); beautiful Masagoro Oiwake (Kazuki Kitamura); and others. As Jirocho's fame spreads, he gains more enemies. Among them are Katsuzo Kurokoma (Koichi Sato), who is one of the most powerful in Koshu, and the villain who is also Ishimatsu's nemesis, Masaru Mima (Riki Takeuchi). A traitor also emerges from the family, Yoshikazu Ebisu (Yoshikazu Ebisu). Meanwhile, Jirocho's wife falls ill and other terrible situations occur. Jirocho falls into a pinch of absolute despair. What on earth will he do? What is the fate of his minions? The Jirocho family will face a fierce battle...
Masayuki Kawahara
Yotsuya
In this direct continuation of the earlier special, Godai tries to figure out what to do with his life after college while competing with Kyoko's impossibly perfect tennis coach for her affection.
Keiko who leads a lonely life as a fortune teller on the streets meets Goro, a leader of the con-artists. One day, Goro witnesses a group of men kidnapping a middle-aged man in the parking garage. Goro records the man on his cell phone without knowing he could be in big trouble.
Kohken Onoda
A former TV presenter is murdered. On the same day, two police officers from the Metropolitan police Special Mission Task Force, Sugishita Ukyo (Yutaka Mizutani) and Kameyama Kaoru (Yasufumi Terawaki), are guarding a female Diet member, Katayama Hinako (Yoshino Kimura). The pair identifies explosives and saves her life. From the clues left at the scene, Sugishita builds up his case and finds a connection between the murder of the TV presenter and the attempted murder of the Diet member. During a painstaking investigation, the savage murder case of a young overseas volunteer five years earlier emerges in the background, and the pair prevents indiscriminate murder at the Tokyo Big City Marathon event by suppressing the perpetrator.
Ittoku Kishibe
A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.
Koichi Fujiyama
A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovered that he has got terminal lung cancer and will die within half a year. He declines any treatment and decides to go to see some people he has not met for years, to write farewell letters to his family, relatives and friends...
Remake of Kurosawa Akira‘s Ikiru
Kaoru Kayama
Токийский прокурор Кохэй Курю расследует простое убийство, которое с лёгкой руки высокопоставленного коррумпированного чиновника неожиданно для Курю превратилось в судебное разбирательство с широким общественным резонансом.
Doctor
It is the second work of the Oita trilogy of Obayashi . Following " Nigori Snow ", Ise Masazo draws a song written by composers and songwriter "Farewell of 22 years old " as a motif and draws a story of love that spans two generations of mother and daughter.
Yotsuya
Based on a hit manga by Takahashi Rumiko, this is a romantic comedy about the relationship of Otonashi Kyoko, the beautiful widow and manager of a boarding house and Godai Yusaku, a poor student tenant.
Junzo Shirai
After the death of her dearest mother, her serious-minded father goes missing, leaving their only daughter Mitsuko. Six months later, it turns out that he is at Yuri's house, who is rumored to be an eccentric and is commonly known as Argentine hag.
Keisuke Okishima
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.
Norio Yoshimoto
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Сёмантэй Кёкаку прославился как величайший мастер жанра «ракуго», он знаменитый рассказчик фривольных историй и анекдотов. Он воспитал целую плеяду талантливых учеников. Прощаясь с ушедшим учителем, они показывают всё своё мастерство. Их шутки заставляют и мертвецов пуститься в пляс.
Kazuma Seto
Японский военный блокбастер про то, как террористы захватывают военный корабль, на котором расположено американское секретное оружие. Их цель – уничтожить Токио, чтобы, стерев с лица земли старую империю, начать возрождение новой Японии.
Minako (TANAKA Yuko), begins her day running up and down the hills of her hometown delivering milk door to door. When that's done, she heads to her day job as a supermarket cashier. Minako is 50 and single. In one of the houses to which she delivers milk is a man with whom she has secretly been in love since high school. The man, Keita (KISHIBE Ittoku), lives with his wife Yoko, who is terminally ill. Caring for her at home, he works in the children's affairs section of the local municipal office. Though he insists that he wants nothing more than an "ordinary" existence, his life is in turmoil below the surface. The director uses a variety of narrative devises to portray the loneliness, isolation, and hope of these people who have seemingly allowed their goals and dreams to slip away, whilst keeping them agonizingly close to hand.
Mr. Maru
Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mountainous and bordered by an unkempt buried forest.
Hibi tells about mother who does pottery and lives rather simple life, growing her children up. She does remarkable job in pottery, finding a new way to make natural pottery in her own tunnel kiln. Then, her son gets leukemia. And entire family has to fight hard to find a donor who has matching bone marrow.
Caretaker
Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens it is discovered that one of the victims isn't related to the family.
Seiichi Shirai
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.
Producer
A young man awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook full of drawings of dissections, Hiroshi is drawn to a medical school where he catches the eye of a fellow student. But it’s another who becomes his obsession…the dead woman on the cadaver table.
Dr. Kashiwabuchi
A young man awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook full of drawings of dissections, Hiroshi is drawn to a medical school where he catches the eye of a fellow student. But it’s another who becomes his obsession…the dead woman on the cadaver table.
Tatsuya Kobayashi
Муж и его умирающая жена, успешный гипнотизер, специалист по рекламе, группа из трех грабителей и наемный убийца. Жизни этих совершенно разных людей оказываются связаны друг с другом самым загадочным образом.
Matsunaga
Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater, and rock music, and develop their project into a school road block. This plan however catches the attention of television stations and newspapers, and soon even the cops became involved in this teenage adventure.
Tei Maruyama
A story about a hitman named Hayamada who carries a distinctive red gun. As the film progresses we discover the reason for his work, and how he came to be alone. His aim right now is to reach a desitination, but he’s late.
Director of Finance Bureau Ohno
Panic occurs when the Governor of Tokyo proposes to attract a nuclear power plant to Tokyo.
A James Brown fanatic gangster decided to disband his own gang and see his long lost daughter before entering prison. Hoping to change his mind, his underlings planned to kidnap James Brown to convince him to perform privately for their boss.
Boss Inosuke Ginzo
Япония, XIX век. Затоичи — слепой странник, который зарабатывает на жизнь игрой в кости и массажем. Но за этим скромным фасадом скрывается боец, искусно владеющий мечом, обладающий молниеносной реакцией и наносящий удары с потрясающей точностью.Затоичи приходит в расположенный высоко в горах городок, находящийся во власти шайки Гиндзо. Безжалостный Гиндзо уничтожает всех, кто становится у него на пути, а с тех пор, как в шайку вступил могучий самурай-ронин Хаттори, — делает это молниеносно.В игорном заведении Затоичи и его верный юный друг Синкити знакомятся с двумя гейшами. Столь же опасные, сколь и красивые, Окину и её сестра Осеи пришли в город, чтобы отомстить за убийство своих родителей. Сестрам-гейшам известно лишь таинственное имя Кутинава, но у них в запасе есть масса хитроумных уловок.
Tsutomu Minagawa is set to retire; the organized business life, a perfectly normal family living in a two-story house with a garage, the once unstoppable routine is about to close down forever. However, Tsutomu's last day changes him forever, as a car accident leads to his new purpose and sets him on a mission to clean every traffic mirror in Japan in order to save lives.
Ryutaro Morishita
Elderly ladies rise to the challenge of staging a play and struggle to launch a theater company. Based on the actual amateur theater company "Theatrical Company Hono" in Fujieda City, Shizuoka Prefecture, where the presiding officers and performers are composed of elderly women. They have been performing stage plays about issues related to the elderly for a long time.
A young Japanese boy's life is changed when his sister returns to the small island, full of eccentric characters, where he lives.
Dr. Obana
Inako Natsui is a quiet, modern girl working in a laboratory and living a closed and somewhat monotonous life in a small town. From time to time she goes to nearby to visit her lonely mother Wakayama who has been a widow for the past seventeen years. The girl's relatives, particularly Aunt Sadako and Uncle Shuhei, the local mayor's deputy, plan to introduce her to a suitable young man, but Inako has no real desire to get married. She is more interested in the hot mineral springs from where she takes her laboratory specimens. This all changes when she meets Mr Tamamiza, a young divorced man who's been left with a little boy. Her relatives are decidedly against the match. The girl falls in love with the man without realizing that she will encounter a painful conflict between her family and providence, as unexpectedly as the spring which gushes out from the geological fold, driven to the surface by mysterious subterranean forces.
Tokuzo
Tatsuo and Ikuo have been raised by hard-working parents who run a funeral home. For relief, they practice games of manzai, a Japanese comic vaudeville. Tatsuo grows up to be a handsome chick magnet, while Ikuo is nerdy and unappealing. He spies on his brother to get material for their reality porn show. The show is bleeped heavily, and their bleep language becomes trendy and makes them stars.
Oribe Sakakibara
Сукэроку – забавный и добродушный герой этого фильма, который считает себя странствующим якудзой. Правда, он ненавидит оружие и кровь, и меч, который он никогда не вынимает из ножен, совершенно заржавел без дела. Парадоксально, но на жизнь Сукэроку зарабатывает тем, что помогает родственникам жертв отомстить убийцам их близких, и делает это виртуозно избегая кровопролития. Однажды он получает особенно щедрую награду за труды, и решает вернуться в родные края, жениться и остепениться. Однако оказалось, что и в безмятежной родной деревушке назревает кровная месть, и Сукэроку снова придётся с головой окунуться в драматические события. Причём на этот раз, неведомо для него, они будут иметь к нему прямое отношение...
Taira no Tadanori
Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism. His faith in pacifism, however, is shaken and ultimately broken by the attacks from a trio of fighters known only as the demons. Taking up his sword once more, he sets out to end their murderous terror.
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.
Аихати — гейша, живущая в Маруяма, одном из районов Нагасаки. После сорока лет тяжелой работы она стала лучшей гейшей в этой местности. Женщина постарела, но так и не нашла свою любовь, пока не встретила Когу Дзюдзиро, учёного страстно изучающего старый Нагасаки. Он слушает пение Аихати и однажды предлагает ей совершить путешествие по стране, чтобы собрать старые песни. Эта поездка и музыка полностью изменит их жизни.
Eiichi Hanada
Главная героиня фильма — Масако, неуклюжая и замкнутая женщина, которой далеко за тридцать. После долгих лет унижения она в приступе гнева убивает сестру и пускается в бега. Разыскиваемая полицией и преследуемая чувством вины, она впервые должна отвечать за свои поступки. На пути встречаются хорошие люди, и в её жизнь приходит любовь. Масако очень меняется, но прошлое гонит её все дальше и дальше...
College Professor
A psychic housewife and her husband accidentally find a kidnapped girl. But instead of informing the police, they hatch a scheme to get famous by working with the police as a psychic consultant to "find" the girl. And then, things start to go terribly wrong.
Policeman
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses.
Shuzo Morouka
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.
Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.
Nanbu
Koji, a jazz musician, takes a cigarette break in between sets at a Tokyo nightclub. He witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Linda, who is being pursued by the killers. For the next two hours, Koji and Linda are running from both the hitmen and the police. Mistakenly identified as prime suspects, they have to solve the crime but time is running out: Koji has to be back to perform in his club by midnight, as a very special guest will be attending.
A virginal boy travels with three hookers to a small island to collect his estranged father's washed up and sun-bleached bones.
Headmaster
Togashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi's grade school entrance examinations, but he becomes jobless when his company folds. To regain his confidence Togashi decides to join the marathon that is taking place on the very day of his daughter's examination and the all important interview.
Inspector Nagoshi
The psychiatric evaluation of a young actor arrested for a brutal double murder concludes he may be unfit for trial. Further investigation, however, reveals the crime was a well-planned statement against the section of Japan's criminal code granting diminished responsibility to the mentally impaired.
A droll and formalistic comic drama about the various relationships among, and odd obsessions of, the residents of a Tokyo apartment block.
Tanuki
In dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexually warped Uncle Sonezaki. Fortunately, she met Samehada as she runs for her life, which is also escaping from some slayers. What follows is a wild chase that leads the audience into a comically violent world.
Director Mima
A heartwarming, based-on-true-story of how a hearing-impaired couple, Masahiro and Namiko, knew each other, got married and began participating in the Triathlon. The story is told in flashbacks as Namiko awaits childbirth.
Detective Kogoro Akechi is faced with a peculiar murder case involving forgeries of classic pornographic artworks.
Atsuo
Takashi and four of his classmates, fourth-grade students, cannot succeed in doing a back pullover around a horizontal bar. Their gym teacher warns them: they have one week to succeed; if they resign now, then, tomorrow, facing life difficulties, they will always run away and become bums. Furthermore, all five must succeed, if one of them cannot do it, then all of them fail. Takashi is really worried and wonders if he won’t be always the loser who couldn’t succeed in the back pullover bar exercise.
The story of a love triangle between two high school best friends and their cancer-stricken female classmate.
Youzou Tajimi / Hisaya / Shouzaemon
A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later.
The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. It's a small god with a pointed head, a fat belly and a characteristic smile. When the casket in which the statuette was found is broken, the spirit of Billiken is free. After that he tries to fulfill the wishes of all those who had prayed to him, but it doesn't always works.
Chief
Такудзи находится в коме после аварии в горах. Его соседи приезжают к нему в гости.
Tsuyoshi Sasayama
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.
John Manjiro
A disgraced warrior planning the murder of a Japanese diplomat, and a ninja in the employ of a navy official are about to land in San Francisco when a band of thieves steal the money the diplomats are carrying. The two set off on a chase across the American west to catch the robbers.
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.
Ikuo Kihara
Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later in a similar manner, he begins to suspect that something bigger is going on...
Kimio Hatsukaichi, Matsu's lover
The members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their hometown, they move from Shikoku to Tokyo and resume their fraudulent activities. Everything carries on smoothly until the eldest and the fourth sons' modus operandi go awry, the mother's lover runs off with another woman, and disasters strike one after another. This film is a collaboration between Yoichi Sai and Goro Kishitani following "All Under the Moon." The family business of the Ameya family is defrauding people. The matriarch, who keeps getting married and divorced, has five children with different fathers. The Ameya family chases after fortune and leaves a trail of trouble on their path.
Straight-laced, honest Japanese travel agent Misuzu gets a job as a tour guide so that she can the world. On her first assignment in Bangkok, Thailand she does her best for her ungrateful charges, but gets fired when the hotel (through no fault of her own) misplaces all their passports. She also finds herself the victim of a scam by two Japanese con-artists (innocent-looking Tondabayashi and half-Thai Thuy) living in Bangkok. When the hotel finds the passports, she decides to buck the system and sell them on the black market. She teams up with the two con-artists to scam, rip off and rob all the Japanese tourists in Bangkok. They keep trying to pull off bigger and bigger jobs, and end up in trouble with two dumb, sightseeing yakuza, among others. Also, a love triangle forms as Tondabayashi falls for Misuzu, and Misuzu falls for the older Thuy.
Sakakibara, The Politician
A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.
Go
Драма, в которой с определённой долей иронии рассказывается история о том, как молодой парень, решивший вступить в одну из новых религиозных сект, неожиданно назначается её духовным лидером и Учителем. Предыдущий учитель неожиданно возвращается к своей семье, которую он бросил. В секте есть две противоборствующие силы: молодые, действительно верующие в избранность учителя и группа, занимающаяся финансовыми вопросами, которую интересуют только деньги. После назначения Тадзуо на роль учителя между лидерами двух группировок начинается борьба за власть, заканчивающаяся убийством лидера молодых. Но Тадзуо к этому времени крепнет и смело берёт бразды правления в свои руки, действительно считая себя мессией.
Dr. Yamaoka
По мотивам книги Фумио ЯМАДЗАКИ. Доктор Ямаока каждый день сталкивается со смертельными болезнями. Его пациентам придется пережить шок, раздражение, торг, депрессию и смирение. Но идея смерти оказывается для многих из них спасительной. Эта жестокая и умиротворяющая одновременно лента основана на экспериментальном приеме комбинирования игрового и документального кино, которая рождает удивительное чувство жизненной правды.
Fumihiro Kusubayashi
A special effects filled fantasy adventure, in which an 8 year old boy encounters an ancient samurai warrior who is only six inches tall.
Businessmen competing for international building contracts in this globe-trotting comedy-adventure.
Ozaki
Ayase Shinsuke, a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up in. He meets a strange boy who calls himself by the author's real name.
Saito
Kantarou Kobayashi is an ordinary businessman who has multiple troubles on hand. He's been having an affair with a woman working in the same company, but she does lots of eccentric things. His wife has no interrest in anything but her plan to build a new apartment where their old house is. His son suffers skin eruptions. His mother appears to have senile dementia.
In a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an alley cat, bring order to the town of Horisoto, or is he, too a corrupt villain looking to gain wealth from the oppressed people? From the pen of famed samurai author Yamamoto Shugoro, this exciting tale turns the tables on the standard samurai story with a unique lead character previously portrayed in Ichikawa Kon’s “Dora Heita.”
Terauchi-sensei
It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called "The Rocking Horsemen." A warm and comic glimpse into high-school and small-town life in Japan in the 60's.
Япония, XVIII век. Окиши, жена торговца маслом, имеет на попечении ребёнка по имени Йохэй, сына компаньона мужа. Но ребёнок взрослеет. И когда он становится мужчиной, Окиши падает жертвой обаяния юноши…
One day, Mori no Ishimatsu (Kankuro Nakamura
Goto Sannosuke
Fifth movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. At the behest of a corrupt bureaucrat, a mysterious band of murderers wage a bloody battle against three deadly assassins.
Rikiya Azuma
A young asthmatic man learns he has magical powers.
Father
The Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a freak accident the year prior. When the other daughter Mika is suddenly in a dangerous situation, Chizuko returns as a ghost to save her; reunited with her sister, Mika begins spending time with Chizuko again.
По роману Ясуо Утида. Детективная история начинается в Токио с убийства торгового агента фирмы по производству костюмов для театра Но. Мицухико Асами волей судьбы попадает в круговорот загадочных событий.
Из тюрьмы выходят Хэйта Миякэ, пробывший за решеткой два месяца за мелкое воровство и Масаеси Акиба, отсидевший в камере три месяца за ограбление со взломом. Их друг Кэндзи Тонами тут же предлагает приятелям новое дело: похитить 82-летюю пожилую женщину и потребовать выкуп. Герои фильма «Грандиозное похищение: Дети радуги» полагают, что это будет легкая нажива, и быстро соглашаются. Однако они и представить себе не могут, каково это — иметь дело с главой семьи Янагава...
Toshio
Действие фильма происходит в 1950-е годы. Разлад в супружеской паре фонтанирует эмоциями и душевными переживаниями…
Nito
К сожалению, в нашем несовершенном мире не бывает плохих и хороших полицейских. Существуют лишь обычные люди, занимающиеся опасной и неблагодарной работой, люди, рискующие в любой момент получить пулю в лоб. Детектив Азума — один из них. Как и другие «стражи порядка», он далеко не совершенен. Азума — страстный, но неудачливый игрок; грубый и нетерпимый человек, решающий практически все проблемы при помощи кулаков. Единственное, что отличает детектива от сослуживцев, так это «особые» методы работы. Азума отстаивает справедливость яростно и жестоко, не останавливаясь ни перед чем. Расследование серии ужасных убийств приведет детектива к поединку с извращенным преступником-садистом. Живым из этой схватке будет суждено выйти лишь одному…
Karin has lived alone in a secluded mountain village with her consumptive mother since her father died. Her worried grandfather advises her to send her mother to a sanatorium and be adopted by him, although she refuses to accept. On the Buddhist All Soul’s Day Festival in August, a messenger from her grandfather pays a sudden visit to her house.
Comedy film.
Third movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. Chasing the killer of a lawman, a group of assassins fall foul of a group of blackmarket financiers who dispatch their own hitmen to dispose of them.
News Reporter
After a series of chance meetings a shiftless motorbike enthusiast Ko begins a romance with a carefree girl Miyo, after teaching her to ride. When Miyo proves herself a biker prodigy Ko begins to fear that she is destined to crash.
Yoshikazu Ishimoto
Grandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when he is affected by Alzheimer's disease, but his affliction serves to deepen family ties. Japan's submission to the 58th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Сатико Нагаи всю жизнь прожила в чайном доме. Никто не называет её по имени, для всех она обаятельная гейша Юмэтиё. В детстве она стала жертвой атомной бомбардировки. И вот теперь врачи ставят ей страшный диагноз, и утверждают, что ей осталось жить не более полугода. Что она должна успеть сделать за эти последние несколько месяцев?
Tetsu Yoshida
A lonely high schooler suddenly meets the love of his life out of thin air. Is she a real person or a figment of his imagination?
Yoshiharu Ishii
On the night of August 19, 1980, a bus was set on fire by the vagrant Hirofumi Maruyama at the Shinjuku West Exit Bus Terminal. In the burning flames, Mitsuko, who was exhausted by her affair, suddenly thought of suicide. As a result, she escaped too late from the bus and suffered a serious injury. From there, she was hospitalized for a long time. As she gradually recovered, the wife of her affair partner, Soroku Sugihara, died of cancer. Soroku proposed to Mitsuko again, and they lived together. Due to Soroku's mounting debt, they decided to flee to Tojinbo. With the desperate persuasion of her acquaintances, Mitsuko regained her desire to "live again."
Akira
Когда неожиданно умирает отец Чизуко, три дня похорон становятся тяжелым испытанием для семьи. Молодое поколение противостоит сложным ритуалам буддийской церемонии, которые стремительно отстают от современной японской жизни.
Swimmer
Deaths in Tokimeki tells the disturbing, compulsive story of a hit-man waiting to carry out a job: the assassination of the leader of a religious cult, masterminded by the leader's own deputy. But it is a story that is told in blocks, like the phrases in a child's computer game, and what counts most is not the narrative but the spaces between the blocks-the gaps that are filled with undefined menaces as potent as anything in Lovecraft.
Itakura
В начале 2-й Мировой Войны четыре сестры (Цуруко, Сатико, Юкико и Таэко) из знатной семьи Макиока борются за сохранение традиций, хотя времена изменились и знатное имя значит в Японии намного меньше, чем деньги и карьера. Жестокие времена рождают жестокие чувства, но любовь к своей семье, тесная связь между сестрами помогают им преодолеть все невзгоды и добиться счастья.
Maeda
After Emiko, a bookstore owner, is driven to suicide by loan sharks, her orphaned son Eisuke decides to take his revenge on them. As Eisuke has no relatives, he is taken in by Keiko, who keeps an eye out for him due to his unusual behavior. One day, Eisuke breaks into the loan company with an improvised gun. In the moment, Keiko ends up becoming Eisuke's accomplice and helps him succeed in the robbery. However, the two are surprised when they hear something on the TV news that differs from the truth.
Toshiyuki Katô(加藤敏之)
Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend Yamazaki who he knew since college. Yamazaki has a girl friend Riko who lives with her younger sister Yuko who's an actress. Yamazaki is a lyric writer/womanizer and he starts to have an affair with Masako, but he's still going out with Riko.
Toshio Fukushima
Однажды, после занятий в школе, Казуко случайно опрокидывает мензурку, наполненную странным белым дымом, пахнущим лавандой. Девушка теряет сознание, а после того как приходит в себя, обнаруживает, что происходит что-то странное со временем. Казуко потрясена, обнаружив, что эти явления в действительности — «телепортация» и «временной скачок».
Man in White
An alien with super powers fallen from the sky is befriended by some people who help him stop an evil group out to get him.
Kiyoshi Fujiwara
Can a woman love two men at the same time? Set against the backdrop of Kyoto's rich history, this story depicts a woman's difficult choice for love. Ayako, played by Yukiyo Toake, is an international conference coordinator. Torn between her childhood sweetheart (played by Kenji Sawada) and her English professor (played by Noboru Nakaya), Ayako will seek answers to love, marriage, and choice.
A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. The film follows their subsequent chaotic relationships.
Kazuo Yamazaki
Yazaki
After having dropped out of school and given birth at age 16, Mako has little choice but to move in with the baby's deadbeat father. Struggling to make ends meet by working at a bar and in constant conflict with her conservative parents, Mako has to find her way in a harsh world.
Sally
The Tigers are much too busy to have a holiday; but one day a mysterious man appears in their dressing room and offers them a trip to anywhere in the world. But he tells them they must come back in 24 hours or else he'll own their hearts. The mysterious man is the devil.
Osamu Akatsuka
The Tigers, a rock band, escape their parents and teachers trying to forcibly cut their long hair, but accidentally stow away on a train to Tokyo. In Tokyo they get in some trouble, but eventually get jobs as musical assistants. Can they make the stage debut they've always dreamed of, or will their dreams be cut short?
Sally
An alien spaceship crashes on Earth due to the powerful musical energy emanating from Group Sounds band The Tigers. The Tigers have to protect an alien princess who escaped from the ship and became obsessed with their lead singer Julie. Can they save the day by performing their megahit songs like "Mona Lisa's Smile" and "Seaside Bound"?
