Hiroshi Yamamoto

A lonely researcher doubting his own existence builds an android which looks exactly like himself.

Ai has had a crush forever on her classmate Tatoe. When she finds out that Tatoe is in a secret relationship with another girl, she sets out to sabotage their plans for the future.

After Kaji, a mutual friend and actor, passed away, the director Kinoshita (Hiroshi Yamamoto), the scriptwriter Tsuboi (Keishi Nagatsuka), and the actor Funaki (Takeshi Yamamoto) leave Tokyo to visit Kaji’s hometown. After attending the wake, the three go bar-hopping at an izakaya (tavern) and hostess bar in a town they’ve never been to, but they cannot find a way to cope with Kaji’s death. The next day, they go to Kaji’s parents’ house and receive, from his younger sister, Junko, a fan letter addressed to him. The letter is from a young Korean girl, and apparently, Kaji read it many times over before he passed away. The news of the death of Kaji, who was not a famous actor even in Japan, had no way of reaching a fan in Korea. The three are left at a loss as to how to tell her the news.

Бездетные супруги усыновили младенца и получили на это согласие его биологической матери, 14-летней девушки. Но шесть лет спустя в счастливую жизнь семейства вторгается женщина, совершенно непохожая на ту милую девушку. Она утверждает, что является настоящей матерью мальчика, и хочет вернуть его. А если пара против, то её устроит и круглая сумма.

Kato, a scriptwriter, is in love with Miho—but he can never manage to muster up enough courage to make the relationship anything more than a platonic friendship. Seemingly oblivious to Kato's feelings for her, Miho is always calling him up and spilling her guts about her own love problems. She's in love with someone else, it turns out, but Kato swallows his pride—hearing about it all is almost too much to bear, but he wants to be with Miho as much as he can.

Shota Iwamatsu is a young man, who dreams of becoming an actor. He teaches stage play at a nursing home for the elderly. Due to an incident, he flees with Takara Yamashita, who also works at the same nursing home.

Based on the legenday cult Japanese comic “Stop The Bitch Campaign” by Hideo Yamamoto (“Ichi the Killer”) and Tetsuya Koshiba (“Remote”), a fierce battle between the beautiful high-school girls and the middle-aged man erupts once again.

Послевоенная Япония. Известный писатель Осаму Дадзай ведёт беспутную жизнь — пьёт и при живой жене не прочь завести интрижку на стороне. Ему написала Сидзуко Ота, обеспеченная поклонница западной культуры, и тот в поисках вдохновения жаждет прочитать её дневник. Пока супруга ожидает третьего ребёнка, Дадзай «работает» над новым романом и обольщением молодой красавицы.

In Spring 1969, 21-year-old Megumi Yoshizumi goes to Wakamatsu Production. The company makes films popular with young people. Pink film director Koji Wakamatsu gathers there with young talented people who are all fascinated with movie making. When they are not making movies, they spend their time smoking, drinking alcohol, scouting for actresses and looking for material for their next film. When filming begins, everybody immerses themselves into the production and will do everything on the filming set from running, shouting to acting.

Akemi is unable to get over the death of his girlfriend, but a book leads to his encounter with Akane, a woman with a wonderful smile. He gradually falls for Akane, who soothes him with her positive outlook and cheerful disposition, but Akane has a boyfriend who has a limited amount of time left to live.

Twenty years have passed since the sudden disappearance of Amy, who was the femme fatale in her film studies group. Something that Naoko said triggers emotions that were frozen in time for the group's members, who see each other for the first time after a long absence: Asada Iida,Naoko,Okamoto,Miho,Goto and Kizuka.

Совершивший жестокое убийство преступник по имени Мисуми пойман. Теперь, через 30 лет после аналогичного преступления, ему грозит смертная казнь. За это дело берутся адвокаты. Несмотря на то, что Мисуми признал вину, его защитники в ходе работы над делом начинают понимать, что все далеко не так однозначно…

A Taiwanese girl Yuwen comes to a village of Fukushima to study abroad. She thinks falling-in-love is a stupid thing and the land is unusually dry as Yuwen’s heart because of no rains. Yuwen struggles to speak Japanese but learns Japan culture and relationships from her host family and neighbors. As she opens her heart little by little, rain falls on the small village after a long time.

A wordless man stages an unexplained hunger strike and the people surrounding him exploit his silence to further their own cause...

Only 3 days after A-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a streetcar started running through the town burned to the ground. The drivers were teenage girls working for the train company in place of men. The drama is based on a true story of people who strived for the restoration.

Конец Второй мировой войны. На одном из филиппинских островов доживает последние дни брошенная японская пехота. Больные и раненые оказываются вне стен военного госпиталя, где не считают необходимым тратить лекарства и пищу на никому ненужных японских солдат. Молодому рядовому Тамуре также отказывают в медицинской помощи. Он держится вместе со всеми, пока однажды ночью артиллерийские залпы не разрушают здание больницы.

Азия, канун Второй Мировой войны. В наказание за проступок Като отправляют в школу шпионов "D-Kikan", которую основал лейтенант Юки. После обучения Като приступает к своему первому заданию: ему надо завладеть конфиденциальной "черной тетрадью". В ходе выполнения этого задания Като оказывается в неком городе, где ему приходится сражаться с Рин, шпионскими организациями Германии, Советского Союза и США, и даже противостоять армии Японии.

Кики — молодая ведьма, проходящая обучение и живущая в деревне у своей матери, также ведьмы, изготавливающей целебные средства для местных жителей. Кики достигла возраста, когда по традиции она должна покинуть свой дом и в качестве стажировки провести год жизни в незнакомом городе. Героиня садится на материнскую метлу и отправляется в далёкий путь. Вскоре она находит городок, где после некоторых трудностей, ей удается обосноваться и открыть свою небольшую службу по доставке вещей посредством полётов на метле.

Akiko, a young woman, comes to Vladivostok to meet Matsunaga, a young businessman she has met in Tokyo only once. Akiko finally finds Matsunaga. However, he leaves her again, warning her not to trust strangers in a foreign country. She tries to follow him, but she is attacked by thugs and dumped on the outskirts of town.

Haji is an actor on the cusp of turning 40, who has gotten stuck in life. At the invitation of an old friend, he visits his hometown for the first time in ages. On the way Haji has an accident, and wakes up to find himself transported back to high school with his adult body in tact.

Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this boldly erotic yet movingly tender portrait of a group of vulnerable, variously wounded people — a depressed housewife, her high-school-aged lover, and his best friend, who is struggling to provide for himself and his senile grandmother — whose intersecting lives yield both sorrow and a fragile, yet enduring, hope for a brighter future. (TIFF)

In 2011, top-secret data on nuclear power is stolen from a university facility. At the same time, leaked information comes in about enriched uranium from the Korean peninsula. Sumimoto of the external affairs fourth division suspects that a conspiracy has been hatched to rock Japan-Korean relations.

Real estate company employee Komachi and steelworks heir Kodama are both train aficionados. Their hobby proves useful for their burgeoning careers, but their romantic fortunes do not go as smoothly. Will the awkward Kodama and the indecisive Komachi find the loves of their lives?

Sakuragi realizes that, when he becomes aroused, he can see how many sex partners someone has had.

5 girls and 5 guys find themselves mysteriously trapped in a room and are forced to play a psychological game of dare.

This psychological film follows for several days a very shy young adult woman, a loner with a good heart, who has the misfortune of growing up with obsessional attraction to rubber clothing, the attraction that potentially could make her a target for social rejection. She carefully conceals from her co-workers in a food factory the fact she wears such undergarments. One day an attractive male co-worker befriends her. When they get close in her apartment he indeed reacts to her rubber fetish with rejection. But they resume dating and now strive to meet each other's need for an intimate friendship.

Naoko returns home with her young daughter, where her mother Masako runs the only beauty parlor in town. The local women go there to pass the time lamenting their bad luck with men and laughing over dirty jokes. Unbeknownst to them, Naoko has been secretly seeing her former teacher, Kashima.

Yuukai Rhapsody follows a man who is stuck in a rut, no personal life and no cash lead him to the drastic decision of kidnapping a rich boy, unbeknownst to him the boy's father is a yakuza boss! With the yakuza and the police hot on his tail he is forced to take the boy and go on the run, somehow during the journey kidnapper and kidnappee begin to develop a friendship with one another.

Two filmmakers have to deal with a rogue mascot.

Jun Kanai is a lecturer at the University of Tokyo who despite being in his thirties is still a virgin. One day he reunites with an old student of his and decides that she will be the one to take his virginity but finds out that she will soon be studying abroad.

On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not cope with conditions and even death from malnutrition, and is also the supervisor of the more vicious variety. Shinjo, one of the employees, trying to convince the others that they will get good luck and fortune in his next life, and persuades them because they commit suicide to get there faster. It ends, however, in a single major failure. Rather than flee Shinjo being picked up by a Russian ship. Once there, he is overwhelmed by the social conditions that are completely different from those he has just left and decided therefore to return to Kanikosen to save their employees.

On April 5, 2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The bride, however, was suffering from late-stage breast cancer and had been given only a month to live. A young woman is diagnosed with breast cancer but keeps the information from her boyfriend. When he finds out, he decides to plan a wedding even though she only has one month to live. Based on the true story of Chie Nagashima, a women afflicted with breast cancer and her husband Taro Akasu.

Ryoko hides herself in a closet after a patron in her restaurant becomes ill from food poisoning & she is held responsible. Her husband and co-owner Daichi attempts to lure her out of the closet. After a violent argument with Daichi, Ryoko seeks out old friend Yuka...

Asako, a comic book artist in her early forties, is devastated by the death of her precious cat, Saba, which kept her company for over 15 years, as her assistant Naomi watches on with concern. Naomi is a young woman in her early twenties, who has her set of worries about love and future. Then one day, Asako meets a new cat, Gu Gu, which brings new joy and vitality to her life. What is more, she finds potential for love in a man named Seiji. Like Asako, Naomi, too, embarks on a new life plan.

Три совершенно разные истории, общее у которых лишь одно: место действия — мегаполис Токио. Первая «Дизайн интерьера» повествует о молодых людях, приехавших покорять столицу Японии. Акира мечтает стать выдающимся кинематографистом, а его девушка Хироко ищет свое жизненное предназначение и находит его неожиданно фантастическим образом. Вторая «Дерьмо» о «существе из канализации», безумном получеловеке-полузвере, пожирающем исключительно цветы и деньги и терроризирующем весь город. И последняя «Сотрясающийся Токио» о парне Теруюку. Он хикикомори. Так в Японии называют молодых людей, стремящихся к изоляции от внешнего мира, ведущих затворнической образ жизни. Все меняется, когда в дверь Теруюку стучится любовь в образе симпатичной разносчицы пиццы...

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.

Masaru, a 23-year-old who has a passive attitude toward life in general, professes himself as a “genius odd-job-man” but is screwing up all of the time. He is freeloading off his girlfriend Kiriko, who works as a tattoo artist. One day, he is offered to do a rather eccentric job from an otaku-looking public employee named Nirasawa, who claims that Masaru’s voice is necessary in activating a giant robot named Land Zeppelin. He goes on straight-faced that the Earth is about to be attacked by Saturnians, and the robot is necessary in the fight against them. At first, Masaru ignores this far-fetched story, but one day he is framed in a dangerous job he takes on together with his friend Kou, and is driven into a tight squeeze. What will happen to Masaru? Does this robot Land Zeppelin really exist?

Four different worlds are connected through the "Baumkuchen Seeds of Happiness." The World of the Kawanobe's - Three brothers, Taro (Mame Yamada), Jiro (Hiroshi Yamamoto), and Hiroto (Shoichi Honda) who is a so-called NEET (short for "Not in Employment, Education, or Training) make up the Kawanobe household. The World of a Bar - Two men (Mame Yamada and Hiroshi Yamamoto) sits in a bar and discusses the Kawanobe brothers' love story. The World of Yumi - Yumi is reading a novel about the characters in the bar. The World of a Novelist - Novelist Masatoshi (Shoichi Honda) is writing a novel about Yumi. In their own worlds, in their own way, each character will find a way to arrive at their happiness.

Было предсказано, что однажды встретятся две силы, повелевающие временем и пространством, которые столкнувшись уничтожат город… Предсказанное время настало, но в схватку сил вмешалась третья… И Эш с друзьями, естественно…

Это история любви и ненависти двух сестер, которые, каждая по-своему, стремятся осуществить свою мечту. История показана глазами маленькой девочки, которая рисует мангу, наполненную черным юмором и жестокостью.

Летние каникулы Каору начались с того, что ее мать ушла из дома. Сейчас, через двадцать лет, когда младший брат женится, она понимает, как много значило то далекое лето в ее жизни. В их семью вошла новая женщина, Ёко. На первый взгляд она кажется вульгарной и невоспитанной. Курит сигареты, хохочет по любому поводу, катается на велосипеде, позволяет Каору пить запретную кока-колу и слушать модные песенки. Постепенно между Каору и этой странной женщиной, так не похожей на ее мать, зарождается дружба. В конце лета мать возвращается, Ёко исчезает из жизни Каору, но ничто не проходит бесследно…

The movie revolves around Mitsuba, who studies traditional art of rakugo. Rakugo is a form of comical story telling, sometimes referred to as sit-down comedy. Even though Mitsuba is mediocre at best, he ends up teaching three students.

The movie is centered around five friends as they end up spending the summer of 1962 shackled up together in a tiny studio apartment in Tokyo. The five friends are Eisuke - the manga artist, Shoichi - the singer, Ryuzo - the novelist, Kei - the painter and Yuji – the 5th wheel (?). The friends spend the summer in pursuit of their own ideals of personal freedom - being able to do what they want. In the process of pursuing their dream they learn firsthand that however ideal it may seem, its not as easy as they think.

Когда вы приходите в салон или парикмахерскую, внимательно присмотритесь к вашему мастеру. Его движения плавные или порывистые, а в руках у него что: ножницы с феном или скальпель? Вы доверяете этому человеку едва ли не самую важную часть своего тела. А с накладками будьте особенно осторожны…

During a suicide attack on an airport, the hand grenade of 'M', one of three terrorists, malfunctions, leaving him captured. Exposed to maltreatment in prison, he slowly loses his grip on reality as he is forced to confront his ideological convictions.

Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki's same-titled short story collection, Ten Nights of Dreams brings ten fantastical dream sequences to film with great visual and psychological panache. Representing the combined efforts of eleven directors, this outstanding anthology delves into the surreal subconscious with ten madly imaginative, reality-subverting visions that range from wonderfully wacky to nightmarishly unsettling.

Okawa Family’s yakuza, Junji, is released from prison, and is told to take over a local radio station by his boss. Junji tries to explain that it is not a yakuza’s job to talk on the radio, but no one listens to him. He reluctantly goes to the radio building, and is met by a young, upbeat girl broadcasting a talk show and playing pop music. Will this seasoned gangster really fit in on such a show?

Молодого человека Тэппэя Канэко ошибочно обвинили в сексуальном домогательстве в общественном транспорте. В Японии в таких случаях подозреваемые обычно сразу признают себя виновными, договариваются с жертвой и выплачивают штраф. Если дело до ходит до суда, то со стопроцентной вероятностью вина будет доказана, обвиняемый сядет в тюрьму и получит клеймо на всю жизнь. Тэппэй же, несмотря на уговоры полицейских и адвоката, продолжает утверждать, что он этого не делал.

История восхождения маленькой деревенской девочки на пьедестал красавицы Хигураши-ойран, которой восхищались все без исключения. С детсва она обладала не простым нравом, что вызывало много сложностей и провоцировало появление завистников и недоброжелателей. Но, не смотря на это, красавица-куртизанка смогла подняться до статуса ойран, оставив позади всех конкуренток. Постепенно, она становится самой популярной женщиной Квартала. Богатый и влиятельный самурай изъявляет желание выкупить ее и сделать своей женой. О чем еще может мечтать куртизанка? Но вот есть одна проблема…. она беременна и с ребенком расставаться не хочет.

Странная жизнь женщины по имени Мацуко постепенно разворачивается перед глазами ее юного племянника. Волшебная сказка и страшная быль. Комедия и трагедия. Удивительная история жизни женщины, готовой на все ради любви. Есть ли смысл в жизни без любви? Бессмысленна ли жизнь, проведенная в поисках счастья? И чем вообще измерить ценность человеческой жизни?

Some high school girls receive an mail in they are told about a girl who was raped, became pregnant, and murdered by a group of men. Mail asks them to resend the mail to 9 other people in next 12 hours or they will be killed and treated as one of the wrongdoers to the murdered girl, some girls delete the mail and thus have to face gruesome truth

Two Japanese friends accidentally kill their boss and dump his remains in Black Fuji, a mountain/landfill hybrid. This leads to poor results when the chemicals of the landfill mix with the corpse (and many other corpses) to give rise to a zombie infestation in Tokyo.

Манабу Ядзаки оказался плохим бизнесменом. Потеряв все, он возвращается из столицы в свой родной город Обихиро. Его старший брат Такэо управляет небольшой конюшней, в которой содержат лошадей для «банъэй кэйба» — популярных на Хоккайдо скачек с препятствиями, в которых лошадей запрягают в тяжелые сани. Такэо не простил Манабу за то, что тот уехал из родного города и бросил мать, страдающую старческим слабоумием. Манабу видит отражение своих неудач в судьбе лошади по имени Унрю – от нее тоже хотят избавиться из-за плохих результатов. Он отдает ее на попечение женщины-наездницы, которая пытается оправиться после провала на скачках. Работа в конюшне, будничные заботы и радости, знакомства с новыми людьми, все это помогает Манабу взглянуть в лицо своим слабостям и начать новую жизнь.

A Japanese remake of the South Korean film of the same name.

«Линда, Линда, Линда» — так называется хит легендарной японской рок-группы The Blue Hearts, на который девчонки из школьной группы решают сделать свою кавер-версию для музыкального праздника. И тут начинаются проблемы… Всего за три дня до праздника группа почти распадается. Виной тому — сломанный палец и несдержанный характер. Отчаявшись найти выход из положения, Кей, Киоко и Нозоми встречают корейскую девушку Сон и уговаривают ее стать солисткой ансамбля. Последние репетиции проходят в панике: девчонкам кажется, что у них ничего не получается и провала не избежать. Но усилия молодых артисток не пропадают даром.

Three curvaceous go-go dancers (Kei Mizutani, Nao Eguchi and Yukari Nunokawa) on a rampage, looking for a big bag of cash that might be hidden in the kitchen of wheelchair-bound gangster. Director Ryuichi Honda keeps it flush with 60s flavors, mood-indigo music, paisley-print fashions in dayglo colors, outrageous zooms and dizzying pans, and best of all, it looks like it was made on a budget of 10 dollars - and when the money ran out the film ended.

Based on the classic adult manga of the same title, this film depicts the love between a stepbrother and sister discovered one weekend when their parents go away. The relationship must come to an end, but not before it changes their lives forever.

A train station worker just recently released on charges of kidnapping and confinement repeats his crime and attempts to gain the trust of a young girl. Living together in the back room of a train station, they eventually come face to face with their own evils.

Tsuboi and Kinoshita have just arrived at a desolate town. Both of them are amateur filmmakers. Tsuboi is a screenwriter and Kinoshita a director. They have come to this town because Funaki, an actor, has tempted them to come here, but he has yet to arrive. Tsuboi and Kinoshita start wandering around the town and happen to meet a young woman, Atsuko. The three of them go on a journey together and become friends. But one day, Atsuko disappears.

Daisuke and his girlfriend have failed at selling a smelly health drink named Akajiru in Tokyo, amassing five million yen in debts. In order to recover financially, they retreat to Daisuke's island hometown.

Tsutomu meets Kee outside a Pachinko hall. The two strike up an unlikely friendship.