Shotaro Noshiro
Set at the Hotel Royal, situated in the marshland of Hokkaido, Japan, and follows the guests, the family that runs the hotel, and the hotel's staff. Masayo Tanaka is the only child of the family that runs Hotel Royal. She failed to enter an arts school and she now works at the hotel. She does not show her emotions to anyone.
Minatoya Hikobe
Takeshiro Matsuura was a Japanese explorer who was the first person to document the inner reaches of what is now known as Hokkaido. He explored the area extensively during the mid 19th century and created a map of the island that included parts which had been ignored by earlier cartographers. He visited Ainu communities and compiled records of the large numbers of the population who had been conscripted for forced labor far from their homes. Matsuura suggested the name Hokkaido for the area
Noriyuki Hamasaki
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.
Keiikichi Kudo
In order to find a missing university student, a detective and his buddy get involved with the owner of a modeling agency.
Osamu Suzuki
Ayami Kawaguchi is a 17-year-old high school student. Her family runs a tofu shop where the tofu is made with local spring water. She is a member of her high school's kyudo club, but she doesn't do well there. One day, Ayami delivers tofu to a local sake brewery. There, she finds the owner of the sake brewery, Shozo Sugita, collapsed and he is sent to hospital. Afterwards, Ayami Kawaguchi gets involved in a dispute over the water source succession.
Detective Ryoko Kozuki receives a demotion after having an affair with a superior. She succeeds in arresting a rapist in an undercover operation that puts her at risk. Her achievement immediately becomes the talk of the precinct, but no one approaches her because of her past. Ryoko is determined to bring criminals to justice. She takes on “The Prime Ministerial Candidate Snipe Case” which took place 15 years earlier.
Yukio Sakuraba
Starting in 1970s Hokkaido, the film charts the moral descent of Detective Moroboshi over three decades, the young cop quickly gets a bit too cozy with the other side of the law when his senior colleague Murai teaches him the ropes and ruts of the police business. Soon, he swaggers and rants through the streets of Sapporo a lean, mean, sex‐crazy bully, indistinguishable from a yakuza.
After the death of his grandfather, Koen Shirakawa (Atsushi Ito) quits his job at a bookstore and goes to a temple to become a monk.
Yamamura
Криминальная семья Санно выросла в огромную организацию, чья власть распространилась на политику и крупный легальный бизнес. Амбициозный детектив Катаока при помощи тайных заговоров и грязных трюков провоцирует конфликт Между Санно и их давними врагами Ханабиши, надеясь, что они окончательно уничтожат друг друга. Но козырем в руках Катаоки может стать тот факт, что из тюрьмы готовится выйти Отомо, босс семьи, когда-то раздавленной Санно, которого многие считали мертвым. Неожиданное возвращение Отомо сеет еще больше лжи и предательства между семьям. Невозможно угадать, кто одержит верх в этой свирепой схватке за власть.
Hoshio Yamano (Frank Sahwit)
Действие происходит в ближайшем будущем... Адвокату Фениксу Райту для того, чтобы выступить в защиту и доказать невиновность своей клиентки Майи Фей, приходится столкнуться в суде со своим другом детства Майлзом Эджуортом, являющимся теперь Главным обвинителем. Нынешняя правовая система отводит на судебный процесс только три дня, прежде чем судья примет решение о виновности или невиновности обвиняемого. Поэтому оба мужчины должны использовать в полной мере свое ораторское искусство и доказательства для убеждения судьи. После суда Феникс Райт узнает, что Майлз Эджуорт арестован по подозрению в убийстве. Адвокат решает защитить своего давнего друга и узнает, что его противником в этом деле будет ни кто иной, как легендарный обвинитель Вон Карма, не проигравший за сорок лет работы ни одного дела...
Fujita
Желая достойно умереть, обедневший самурай Хаширо просит позволения совершить ритуальное самоубийство в родовой резиденции клана Ли. Старый воин Кагею, интендант поместья, пытается отговорить его и рассказывает трагическую историю о молодом ронине Мотоме, обратившемся недавно в резиденцию с той же просьбой. Ужасные подробности смерти Мотома шокируют Хаширо, но он остается тверд в своем решении и просит лишь об одном: чтобы при совершении харакири с ним были три самурая Кагею. Однако по странному совпадению все трое самураев исчезают...
A pawn shop owner in Osaka is murdered, but due to a lack of conclusive evidence the police lists the man's death as a suicide. Detective Sasagaki, who investigated the case, can't forget the dark eyes of the main suspect's daughter Yukiho and the pawn shop owner's son Ryouji. As time goes by, more mysterious deaths surround Yukiho & Ryouji. Detective Sasagaki still unable to let go of the pawn shop owner case discovers startling details about Yukiho and Ryouji ...
Katagiri, a highly ambitious young detective, teams up with older detective Takiguchi, who is about to retire, to investigate a murder that took place by Sumida River. Katagiri is annoyed by Takiguchi's pushiness, but is surprised to hear that the victim was a suspect in the 300 million yen robbery.
Kazuya Kotani
Dr Toma, a skilled surgeon, starts work at a regional hospital in Japan. After performing an operation to remove a patient’s liver cancer, something that normally would not be done at this hospital, he quickly gains a very good reputation amongst the town’s people. Some of his colleagues become so jealous they are resentful and waiting patiently for the perfect opportunity to crucify him. Soon they get their chance as Dr Toma considers performing a controversial operation…
Wabisuke Jinnouchi (voice)
Одарённый старшеклассник Кэндзи Коисо принимает приглашение от девушки поехать к её семье. Если бы он только знал чем всё закончится. Сначала ему неожиданно приходится играть роль парня этой девушки перед её родственниками. Потом у него крадут аккаунт к стране Оз - виртуальной реальности, в которой не только играют и развлекаются, но и ведут вполне серьёзные дела, вроде покупки товаров и ведения бизнеса.
Это история про супергероя, который спасает мир вместе со своей подругой и машиной-роботом, а в свободное время чинит игрушки…
Suzuki Sora is a cheerful country girl from the small town of Bie. She made a promise to her father, and following this promise applies and is accepted for a magic intership in Tokyo, where she will face the life in a big city. While training to get better with her magic, she meets a mysterious boy also practicing to become a mage. While he can not use magic that well and he seems distant and cold at first, Sora’s fate intertwines with his and the two are thrown together, learning a lot of new things about life and each other.
Restaurant owner
Судзуко всего двадцать один год, а она уже успела хлебнуть горя и разочароваться в людях. Она отправляется в путешествие, дав себе зарок – оставаться в каждом городе лишь до тех пор, пока не накопит миллион иен. Судьба забрасывает ее на приморский курорт, на персиковую плантацию в горах. Повсюду она избегает близких отношений и, достигнув своей цели, отправляется к новому назначению. Устроившись на работу в цветочный магазин в пригороде Токио, она сходится с подрабатывающим там студентом Накадзимой. Это любовь с первого взгляда, но Судзуко не готова отказаться от своего решения – уехать, как только она заработает миллион иен…
Kenji Onizuka
Betrayed and disgraced, big-city reporter Kazuya Mizuno is banished to a desk at Kaname's boring little town newspaper. But Kaname isn't as boring as it seems on the surface. Not with characters around like Shimeko, a girl genius with a childlike lack of propriety, and her ace fisherman/folk-singer dad. Or the overbearing and unpleasant local Shinto priest, a former Christian cultist. Or Endo, Kazuya's new colleague, a bitter drunk after his son's suicide. Or Kin, a former terrorist, now a hermit on his boat engaging in secret "research." Or perhaps most importantly Teruko, the hypnotically beautiful bar owner, the focus of all manner of innuendo and intrigue. Something mysterious, even mystical, is going on Kaname, and hapless Kazuya is about to be thrown into the middle of it.
Девятнадцатилетний Аюта пытается пересдать экзамены для поступления в художественное училище, где учится его девушка Натсуки. На людях Аюта и Натсуки выглядят идеальной парой. Но однажды, Аюта увидел красивую женщину в поезде и влюбился с первого взгляда. Спустя несколько дней, он вновь встречает её в больнице, куда пришёл навестить своего отца. Она оказалась не только лечащим врачом его отца, но и сестрой Натсуки - Харухи. Наученная горьким опытом прошлого, Харухи не может принять человека на 8 лет младше неё. И всё же, решительность Аюты вскоре открывает в ее сердце место для новых отношений. Только готова ли она снова полюбить?
Shinichi Fujisawa
Yoko is an ordinary housewife living in an ordinary apartment block. She has no real complaints as she goes about her tedious days, although her husband, Shinichi, is rather predictable in bed. They have one son, Junichi, and Yoko feels at a loss regarding his recently-acquired adolescent interest in sex and his secret stash of erotic magazines. Junichi is about to write his junior high school entrance exams, so he’s heading off to cram school camp for New Year’s. Before going, he makes a surprising suggestion, “Why don’t you guys go somewhere for New Year’s?” Yoko and Shinichi are suddenly faced with the prospect of New Year’s apart from their son. How will this couple, who’ve already lived half of their lives, change their behavior when it’s just the two of them?
Eight school friends innocently join together to play a game that, if played well, promised to make their greatest dreams come true. But, they soon discover that mistakes may cost them more than even their dreams could tell.
Whenever Ami and her step-brother, Hiroshi accept one another in bed, the telephone rings; advising them of their parents’ death. 12 months later, Ami resides with Hiroshi and his spouse, Mariko. Apparently, they are delighted but there is indisputable pressure among Ami and Mariko. One day, Mariko gets angry at Ami for always following into their bed room without permit. Giving up her calm, Ami blurts out that she has a connection with Hiroshi…
Sakiyama
Fuki who lives with her grandfather Shoei in Taketomi Island, Okinawa, dreams of becoming a photographer. In her childhood, her mother Masami left Fuki to live in Tokyo. Although Masami has not come back, Fuki receives birthday cards from Masami every year on her birthday. On Fuki's fourteenth birthday, Masami promises to confess everything when Fuki becomes 20 years old. After her graduation from high school, Fuki moves to Tokyo to work as a camera assistant. Fuki starts off her hectic life in Tokyo, and soon, her nineteenth birthday comes. As usual, she receives a birthday card from Masami. A year later...
Hidaka
The Man Behind the Scissors centers around two serial killers: mastermind Yasunaga and helper Chinatsu. The two risk being found out when the police question them as witnesses to a gruesome murder they themselves may have committed. A quirky and perplexing police thriller centered around two murderers who thrive on slicing up schoolgirls. Calculated serial psycho Yasunaga (Tokokawa) and Chinatsu (Aso), his sweet female sidekick, find themselves being questioned as witnesses to a murder when their next potential victim turns up dead...with their M.O.
Naoto Imura
A woman as the main character, love and friendship, and one of the
Detective Mimura was living peacefully with his loving wife and son when the latter two were killed in an explosion caused by a 14-year-old boy, Yuya. Four years later, when Yuya is released from juvenile detention centre, Mimura's feelings towards the boy have evolved from grief to outright hatred, and he must cope with the pain. Meanwhile, Yuya's father quits his job as a teacher and dedicates himself to compensate the victims and to take care of his son. While the adults are trying to come to terms with their disrupted lives, Yuya is about to test the law again...
Concert Manager
Heaven's Bookstore is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Tetsuo Shinohara about a struggling classical pianist who is sent to heaven to work in a bookstore. It is based on two novels, written by Atsushi Matsuhisa and Wataru Tanaka.
A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.
When a young woman witnesses a suicide she is so overwhelmed with sexual excitement that she masturbates, unaware that she is being observed by a strange man. Later he invites her home where she is wined and dined. Soon she wakes up to find herself locked in a cage. Of course their twisted and sadomasochistic relationship will end in a sadistically explicit bloodbath... The version of "All Night Long 5" I have is in Japanese, but the above synopsis is general gist. I'm a big fan of Katsuya Matsumura and I absolutely love the first three "All Night Long" movies."All Night Long R" is also pretty good whilst still being deeply disturbing.Unfortunately "Initial O" is too long and sometimes dull, so I was a little bit disappointed.Still there is plenty of sex and some unsettling sexual torture on display. There is not enough gore,but some scenes (for example throat slashing or castration) are particularly nasty.
Masashi Ishikura
Проклятье, рожденное разъяренным разумом умирающего человека, не может сгинуть бесследно. Образ невинно загубленной души вновь и вновь является каждому, кто пытается постичь тайны ее страшной судьбы, замораживая кровь в жилах несчастных, ледяным ужасом неизбежного. Спустя некоторое время после необъяснимых событий в проклятом доме, где разыгравшаяся много лет назад кровавая драма, положила начало цепи страшных смертей и таинственных исчезновений, очаровательная Кийоко, японская «королева ужасов», одержима идеей снять в этом зловещем месте фильм-расследование. Она уверена, что создает сенсацию, и даже жуткие и необъяснимые события, преследующие Кийоко с начала съемок, не в силах изменить ее роковых намерений, ставших смертным приговором для кинозвезды и всех, кто ее окружает…
Nao's Father
Сэй — парнишка, живущий в пригороде Осаки. С организмом мальчика начинают происходить удивительные изменения: в нем постепенно просыпается мужчина. Что с этим делать и как к этому относиться, бедняга Сэй пока не понимает, и попадает в нелепые и комичные ситуации. Но самое ужасное — навещая родных в Киото, Сэй влюбляется в Наоко, девушку аж на два года старше него, и во что бы то ни стало хочет добиться взаимности.
Shangri-La follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly commits suicide and decide to help him out of his financial troubles. Using their various ingenious resources they embark on a complex scheme to blackmail a crooked businessman, whose bankruptcy claim has put people out of work. It’s a fun romp as these seemingly homeless people manage to outsmart the very people who cast them from society.
Yokoyama
A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon their individuality.
In her brother's apartment where he died, Yuki finds a vacuum cleaner with its cord still hooked up to the outlet. She discovers that the circumstances surrounding her brother's supposed suicide are sketchy at best, yet no one has any answers. When she starts having hallucinations involving his ghost, however, she seeks some psychological help, eventually uncovering some things that she may have wished she'd left covered.