Bito
An unapologetic former sex worker starts working at a bento stand in a small seaside town, bringing comfort to the lonely souls who come her way.
In the present day, the local government of Katori City is in the process of sponsoring a taiga drama about its famous historical figure Tadataka Ino, who is known for being the first person to make a map of Japan in 1821. During the process of of making the drama series, a surprising fact is discovered about the first map. That fact is that Tadataka Ino was not the person who made the first Japanese map.
Akira Asada
Masashi is a photographer. He has his parents and an older brother Yukihiro. Through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Masashi begins to take staged photos of his family.
Shigeru Hirayama
История о ликвидаторах аварии на АЭС Фукусима-1 после землетрясения у восточного побережья острова Хонсю в Японии 11 марта 2011 года, также известного как Великое восточно-японское землетрясение. Как руководству станции, так и обычным сотрудникам предстоит принять ряд важных решений и бороться с мирным атомом ценой собственных жизней.
Hiroshi Takubo
Four pianists take part in the preliminary round of an international piano playing competition. Each has a story that is different and unique. One is a former child prodigy who stopped playing when her mother died. One is a Julliard student. One is a new face and yet comes recommended.
Shigeo
Seven friends part ways after their last day at school. Some seek their fortune in Tokyo, others remain in their hometown Maebashi. Over the course of ten years, their paths keep crossing, and while they experience losses and broken dreams, they learn about the value of friendship. Director Michihito FUJII tells a timeless coming-of-age story in this outstanding ensemble drama.
Satoshi Numajiri
Detective Nobuhiko Kamamoto is a detective with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, armed with keen interviewing skills and the ability to read peoples’ personalities. But his personal life is in shambles and he must find a way to juggle problems at home while also handling multiple complicated investigations.
Yoichi
On Mihama, one of Tokyo's outlying islands, Shinji witnesses the rape of his girlfriend and middle-school classmate, Haruka, then commits an irreversible crime. But the following day, the island is besieged by a tidal wave which wipes out everything. Twenty-five years later, Shinji has a wife and daughter. A childhood friend, Tasuku, presents himself to Shinji and discloses the real truth of his hidden past. Shinji will have to try and protect Haruka again.
Le père de Manabu
To reward himself for his new teaching gig in Sapporo, 29-year-old Manabu decides to celebrate New Year's Eve with a little treat at a local sex club. On the verge of... climaxing, he's struck by a brain hemorrhage and ends up buck naked at the hospital surrounded by his worried family who want to know how this happened.
Yukihiro Taki
В 1995 году молодой следователь Ко Макимура пытался схватить серийного убийцу, на счету которого было три жертвы, но потерпел фиаско. Маньяк убил его наставника, после чего сбежал, затаился и преступлений больше не совершал. 22 года спустя после этих событий, когда истёк срок давности, и привлечь преступника за содеянное уже было нельзя, человек по имени Масато Сонэдзаки публикует книгу мемуаров под названием «Я — убийца», где признается во всех совершенных преступлениях. Книга становится национальным бестселлером, писатель — звездой и любимчиком прессы, но следователь Макимура не сдаётся.
Shigeo Sugita, Psychiatrist
Убита семья - муж, жена, ребёнок. Несмотря на общественный резонанс, преступление так и осталось нераскрытым. Спустя год после случившегося молодой журналист из еженедельной газеты решает расследовать это преступление. Из общения с людьми, знавшими погибших, он выясняет, что семейка была далеко не идеальной.
Koji Hashimoto
Yuichi is a freeter who has lazy days. He receives an allowance from a woman that he lives with. Tomoko is a housewife. Yuichi and Tomoko meet through an online dating website. They become involved in an intimate relationship, but their lives are about to be shaken by an incident.
Shozo Sugimoto (Father)
A fiancé, Keita, goes to meet the family, the father, Shozo, begins his secret appraisal – a test to see whether this fiancé is worthy or not of marrying his daughter. Trying to reduce the distance between them, the mother prepares a single nabe (cooking pot) for the shabu-shabu meal. As Shozo’s eyes glint brightly, Keita reaches towards the shabu-shabu.
Mitsuru
When friends graduate from junior high school and are enrolled in high school Koichi and Yakko join a motorcycle gang. They make new friends, have fights and flirt with girls. Yakko, however, is not having an easy time of it. Koichi stands up for his friend and joins the yakuza, which brings its own problems with it.
At a pawn shop called "K" which is known for being a place where backroom deals are conducted, a professional burglar named Ryo Fudo puts together a team with the aim of stealing a legendary cache of gold. Ryo plans to wash his hands of thievery once and for all after this one final job, but conflicting intentions and betrayal soon complicate the situation.
Two sisters living on a peach farm in Koori town, Fukushima Prefecture,are opposites. Haruka Miyamoto feels less beautiful than her sister Akiba Miyamoto and hates being compared to her. She finds comfort in playing a piano in a barn. A year after the Great East Japan Earthquake, she decides she wants to be a pianist. Akiba, for her part, moved to Tokyo to attend college. When she moves back to Koori, Haruka is unsettled and memories connected to the disaster she has tried to forget resurface.
Amamoto
Amamoto travels from his small village to Osaka to find his estranged daughter. When he meets a friendly young woman, she gives him a unique guide of the big city and helps him in his search.
Kyoko (Sakura Ando) works as an insurance agent. Due to a series of unfortunate events, she brings shame to her family and has to leave her hometown. Shuichi (Tasuku Emoto) killed his drunken father to save his mother. After he is released from prison, he begins to work at a small factory in Tokyo.
Middle-aged salaryman Ichiro Sasaki (Mitsuru Hirata) hears of the death of his childhood friend Okabe (Takeshi Itoh). Okabe left a message for Ichiro right before his death. From the message, Ichiro learns the truth of a sad cast from the past and that Okabe liked Ichiro's first love Sachi (Aoi Kirishima). When they were young, Okabe got everything he wanted, but Ichiro could not do anything about what he wanted. After Ichiro meets a young woman named Haru (Kanako Mizumoto), his passion for the younger days begins to revive.
Kunimura
The "Himawari So" ("Sunflower House") is a group home for mentally underdeveloped adults. Manga artist Itpon Aijo (Naoto Takenaka) begins to work at the "Himawari So". He moves into the home with his daughter Mako (Shihori Kanjiya), who is mentally underdeveloped. Uyan (Takayuki Takuma) is a resident at the group home. Uyan and Mako begin to develop feelings for each, but Itpon becomes worried about them.
This is the continuation and final part of Double Face SP, the Japanese remake of the highly successful 2002 Hong Kong film, Infernal Affairs. This special focuses on Police Inspector Takayama Ryosuke (Kagawa Teruyuki) who had been secretly supplying police information to the organized crime group, the Oda-gumi. Once a young street thug, Takayama was taken under the wing of Oda Hironari (Kohinata Fumiyo), the leader of Oda-gumi. Dressed, fed, and educated, Takayama was instructed to become a police officer and work as a mole for the group. Now, he is tasked to get close to Suenaga Mari (Aoi Yu), a daughter of an influential politician.
Two men, a detective and a gang member, infiltrate each other's organization. Soon they find their fates intertwined.
Police coroner Kuraishi Yoshio (Masaaki Uchino) and the crime lab team attempt to solve a serial murder case with a killer who seems to kill indiscriminately.
Mitsuharu
A widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for his help and increasingly starts to rely on him.
Taiso Yokota
Police Officer Kankichi Ryotsu (Shingo Katori) is back at the Kameari Park Polic Box. Kankichi Ryotsu usually means to do well, but more often than not he ends up causing all kinds of trouble. Like on his way to work he away when he is asked to pay up by a shop owner or cheats an elementary school student. Ryotsu's co-workers Reiko Catherine Akimoto (Karina) and Keiichi Nagakawa (Mokomichi Hayami) have had about all they can take from Kankichi and his boss Ohara (Masato Ibu) is constantly berating him.
Yuzo Sawada
В жизни Эрины Акиямы (Мао Иноуэ) произошла ужасная трагедия: когда ей было всего четыре месяца, ее похитила бывшая любовница ее отца, которая после аборта лишилась возможности иметь детей. В течение почти четырех лет Кивако Нономия (Хироми Нагасаку) растила девочку как свою собственную дочь, и маленькая Эрина, воспитывавшаяся под именем Каору, считала похитительницу родной матерью. Когда Эрину нашли и вернули родителям, она испытала страшное потрясение, а родная семья так и не стала для нее до конца родной. Лишь достигнув совершеннолетия, благодаря случайной встрече с журналисткой, знавшей ее в детстве, она пытается разобраться в своей судьбе, в том, как ей поступить, чтобы не повторить ошибок ни своих родителей, ни той женщины.
Tatsuzo
The year is 1947, during the war torn period of the Showa era. The story begins when a man, presumed to have been killed in battle, returns home. Who was this man? Before the war, he had a bright future ahead of him as the proficient and popular rakugoka (comedic story-teller), Usagi Morinoya. However, because of an injury sustained during the war, his face is covered in bandages, and he suffers from total amnesia. As if trying to recover his memory, the man only keeps mumbling in a hollow voice his trademark rakugo, "Sokotsunagaya".
Wasao, an Akita dog in Aomori Prefecture that became famous as an ugly-yet-cute dog from a traveller's blog. Heartwarming drama starring Wasao himself turns part of the life of this former stray into an original story. Setsuko, who runs a grilled-squid shop in a fishing village at the foot of the Shirakami mountains, decides to take in a large dog with a long, unruly fur that has shown up in town. She names the dog Wasao and showers it with affection, but Wasao at that time doesn't take to Setsuko.
Four short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers.
Haruo Miyazawa (2009)
Фильм охватывает жизни шести женщин, чья жизнь показана в течение трех поколений (начиная от 30-х годов и до сегодняшнего дня). Женщины разных поколений думают о ценностях брака, счастье семейной жизни, ответственности за своих детей, профессиональной самореализации. От решения каждой из них зависят жизни их близких. В фильме они переживают и разочарование, и потерю, и дискриминацию, и одиночество, и любовь, и радость материнства.
Koji Shimada
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…
Once a year, on Christmas Eve, Cafe Telekinesis holds a real psychic party. At the party, psychics gather together to show off their abilities while for the rest of the year they hide their abilities. Yone Sakurai is a program director for a psychic variety TV show called "Asunaro Psychic". She is stressed out and tired from her work, but proud of what she is doing. Yone actually believes in psychic abilities. By an audience request a new plan is set out for the program, a plan which requires the show to uncover real psychics or psychic events.
Wataru Kawagoe
A man arrives in the city upon news of a potential terrorist strike in Italy. He is Japanese foreign diplomat, Kosaku Kuroda, and he’s here under orders of his supervisor at the Foreign Ministry, Hiroshi Kataoka (Kiichi Nakai), to aid in the safeguarding of Japanese citizens. Kuroda’s main contacts at the Japanese embassy consist of Ambassador Kikuhara, Counselor Nishino, and fellow diplomatic envoys Haba and Tanimoto. All are busy preparing for the visit of Japanese Foreign Minister Kawagoe due to arrive for the high-profile G8 foreign minister’s meeting. Meanwhile, somewhere on the festively-lit streets of the city, a young Japanese girl has suddenly gone missing. Is it an abduction simply for ransom? Or could it be a prelude to terror?
Co. President Araki
An aspiring floral designer and the photographer next door become drawn to each other through the everyday sounds they hear through their shared walls.
Kohei Miyazaki (Naoto Takenaka), a former railroad worker, has become obsessed with discovering the ancient country of Yamataikoku. His obsession sprouted from a day when he discovered ancient ceramics while repairing railroad tracks. Now completely blind, Kohei relies on his wife (Sayuri Yoshinaga) to guide him through the country and read the maps in their pursuit of Yamataikoku.
Miyake
1944, in the depths of World War II. Toyomatsu Shimizu is a completely typical barber from a remote sea-side town who lives frugally but happily with his wife Fusae and their five-year-old son. Eventually, though, the army beckons and he is drafted. One day an officer on the battle-field orders him to kill a captive U.S. soldier. Although Toyomatsu lacks the spirit to kill the man, and only wounds him in the arm, the victorious U.S. soldiers will not accept this, and Toyomatsu is arrested and tried as a war-criminal. And he receives the cruelest sentence possible...
В детстве Минато бросили родители и её воспитала бабушка. По переписке она знакомится с парнем её возраста по имени Найт. И хотя они очень разные, если Минато — веселая и жизнерадостная девушка, то Найт — грубый и мрачный, они сильно подружились и Минато рассказывала ему обо всём, что с ней случалось. А когда она повстречала свою первую любовь — Сё, то сразу же решила поделиться об этом с Найтом. Но вскоре, Сё вдруг перестает с ней общаться и начинает избегать её. Подозревая, что в этом виноват Найт, Минато решает с ним поговорить с глазу на глаз и назначает встречу около почтового ящика, через который они обменивались письмами. Но Найт так и не показался.
Actor
28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protected room located in an isolated ward of a psychiatric hospital. Sakura first became unconscious because of heavy alcohol use and a druge overdose. She’s confined in the single room because of her high risk of committing suicide. Sakura tried to talk to the nurses and doctors but they didn’t listen to her. Under the circumstances another patient Miki, who suffers from an eating disorder, leads her to understand the unknown world. But, Sakura is looking for the way to get back to the real world as soon as possible.
Nobuhiro is convinced that, in order to honor his mother's death by suicide, he needs to find the reincarnation of his mother and die with her, together, under the spell of love. A young model tries to discover the truth behind one of his paintings which depicts the horrific death of a woman and her lover.
Koichi Shiina
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?
Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" wafts through a hospice recreation room. Sitting at the grand piano is a young girl, Chiori, with a prodigious ability to play any piece of music after one hearing. Keisuke Kisaragi whose career was abruptly cut short when he jumped in front of a bullet fired by a crazed gunman. The nerves in one hand were severed but he saved the life of Chiori. The tragic incident takes the lives of Chiori's parents, however, and Keisuke becomes her guardian. Not long after their return to Japan, Keisuke discovers Chiori's musical gift.
Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mountainous and bordered by an unkempt buried forest.
In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of Hokkaido. These people once supported the now displaced Samurais of the older days. After two years, over 500 of them settled in their new land under the leadership of Hideaki, husband of Shino. However, as crops fail he is to go to Sapporo to learn new techniques of farming, leaving his wife and daughter for 5 years. All this time, the new community is constantly watched by the government which choose to again uproot them from their new homes.
Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer from Tokyo, pays a visit to her town and the tree they shared time under some twenty years back after a TV commercial shoot. His remembrances of her, the tree, and the long unrequited love stir both of their hearts to fumbling action as they re-discover the love between them.
Director of Kasaoka Industrial Labor Bureau
Panic occurs when the Governor of Tokyo proposes to attract a nuclear power plant to Tokyo.
A rowdy, young yakuza takes revenge against a gang of thousands for the death of his boss.
Keiichi
Кэндзо Годай выходит из тюрьмы, где он отбывал 13-летний срок. Его внучка, Тамако, поначалу шокированная манерами и поведением Кэндзо, постепенно привыкает к нему и начинает звать его «дедушкой». Освобождения Кэндзо из тюрьмы с нетерпением ожидает босс местного клана якудза Хикита, мечтающий расправиться с ним. Кэндзо оказался в тюрьме за убийство подручных Хикиты, которое он совершил, чтобы отомстить за смерть своего друга, павшего от руки Хикиты. Гангстеры похищают Тамако, но Кэндзо удается спасти ее, после чего бывшие враги решают забыть прошлую вражду.
After his father figure like mafia boss is murdered, Azusa Moribe (Masaya Sato) goes on a one man killing spree to exact revenge.
Yamamuro
Yu Miri is a writer who's just become pregnant by her married lover. When she decides to keep the baby without his help, her ex-boyfriend Yutaka, decides to help raise him.
Kubozuka plays Araki Ryunosuke who starts working at a host club called "club NO.1" to pay his debt.
Kaido is a professional pickpocket who works the Tokyo subway with his young foster-daughter, Rei: She lets herself be groped while Kaido relieves the groper of his wallet. More often than not they're observed by a middle-aged cop, who generally lets Kaido go free. Rei is unsettled when Kaido takes on a young street punk, Kazuki, as an apprentice -- with instructions to make Kaido stop drinking. Kazuki, however, would like to go into business with Rei.
Yoshimitsu Iwazaki
A group of terrorists has taken hold of the largest dam in Japan. They also capture the workers as hostages, and demanded $5 billion yen from the government with a 24 hour deadline in exchange for the lives of the hostages. To make things more complicated, there was a snowstorm and no one can get in or out near the area. Fortunately, the terrorists did not capture Togashi, the dam controller, and he is the only person who can rescue those hostages from the terrorists...
Yasuhito Aida
Госпитализация матери из-за рака становится шоком для 17-летней школьницы Сатоки Аиды и нарушает комфортабельную гармонию её домашней жизни. Как это обычно бывает в японских семьях, Сатока и её отец редко общались без посредничества матери. Её внезапное отсутствие постепенно разрушает отношения с отцом, так как их неловкие чувства друг к другу проходят серьёзные испытания мыслями о возможной смерти матери и жены.
Kawaguchi
A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a hotel, but he is emotionally unable to part with his career as a railroader. His life takes a turn when he meets a young woman with an interest in trains who resembles his daughter.
Inspector Kamiya
Fourteen-year old student Ayumi has leukemia and starts losing hair. She becomes depressed but receives overwhelming support from her classmates when they all shave their heads for her.
Captain Kamiya
Kakegawa
Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this world to raise money for an expensive ring.
Japanese anthology follows the depressing lives of several people just trying to keep going in a nihilistic world.
Yonemura
An exciting 'psychic movie' starring Kanako Enomoto, adapted from the manga series by Yukio Tamai. Police detectives searching for clues related to a serial murder case seek out help from high schooler Yurika, who possesses latent split personality psychic abilities. The mystery deepens once Yurika is brought face-to-face with the crime scenes.
Shouldn't gangsters love stubborn people? To protect true love, the Shinsen-gumi gather at night in Tokyo!
Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya.
Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by the newspaper's owner, along with the young Yuko Kurita, to provide recipes for the "ultimate menu".
Tada
Действие картины начинается в конце Второй мировой войны. Преподаватель военной академии Утидо уходит в отставку и живет с женой в скромном домишке какого-то разрушенного имения, где его постоянно навещают преданные ученики — помогают ему, справляют каждый год день его рождения, организуют поиски пропавшей кошки, пропажа которой является самым волнующим событием за те 15 лет, которые вмещает действие фильма.
Shinzaburo
Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and resist the infection, she finds new friendship and companionship with a journalist named Miyuki and a man named Akira.
Based on the comic by Eisaku Kubonouchi
Aki-P for some inexplicable reason made a V-cinema horror anthology in 1991
Mineyama
A former yakuza returns to gangster life after an old enemy threatens his son.
Kotaro Yamazaki
Yuichi Koga is an upper-class business executive, running his own adult video company, and living a successful life with his wife and daughter. Outwardly, his family seems really happy, but in reality Yuichi enjoys sex with everyone but his wife Chikako. One day, he gets a phone call from a woman named Sanae, an old elementary school classmate of his.
Katsuyo plans her last gang robbery.
Yasuo (voice)
The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed and plenty of leftovers to munch on. In the midst of these high living times, Naomi and Ichiro plan to get married and start a family. But when a hard-bitten stranger roach named Hans appears with news of war with the humans across the lawn, it foretells disruption-not only of Naomi and Ichiro's relationship, but of the hive's entire way of life.
Nakama
Биография великой японской актрисы Кинуё Танака (1909 — 1977) представлена в обрамлении истории возникновения и развития японского кино. К сожалению, молодая красавица Саюри Ёсинага не может передать полностью обаяния своего прототипа. Ведь Кинуё Танака прошла путь от юной симпатичной простушки, героини немого кино до маститой актрисы, способной на самые трагические роли. Авторы фильма, режиссер Кон Итикава и сценарист Канэто Синдо пытались подчеркнуть значение Кэндзи Мидзогути в формировании её таланта. Но на самом деле среди великих режиссеров того времени трудно встретить того, кто не снимал эту потрясающую актрису.
A story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a series of high risk surgical procedures.
Ajisawa
Yoko Kon, a former rock singer, plays a stripper with unique nipples called Buds.
After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home.
Tamio Sakata
В Нагасаки Тора-сан и один его знакомый помогают пожилой женщине, которая упала и поранилась. Она приглашает их к себе домой, где они проводят ночь, в которую вдоволь едят и пьют. Здоровье старушки ухудшается, и она умирает. На её похоронах Тора-сан влюбляется в дочь старухи, но в итоге выступает в роли посредника для неё и молодого студента юридического факультета.
Thug (segment "Kyoko's House")
25 ноября 1970 года. Знаменитый японский писатель Юкио Мисима встал рано утром, надел военную форму и вместе с соратниками из «Общества щита» отправился на базу сухопутных войск сил самообороны в Итигая с целью призвать солдат совершить государственный переворот. По пути Мисима вспоминает свою жизнь и ее влияние на его произведения.
Torakichi
Начало 1930-х годов. Исполнитель традиционных баллад нанива-буси Каиэмон Тотюкэн с чужой женой уезжает в Америку. Они надеются добиться славы и успеха, вдвоем исполняя свои баллады: он будет петь, она — аккомпанировать. В Сан-Франциско они останавливаются в гостинице «Иокогама Хаус», которую патронирует местная японская мафия. Однажды Косомэ, спутница Каиэмона, проигрывает в карты саму себя и становится проституткой в этой же гостинице. Каиэмона прогоняют, и он бродит по улицам в японском костюме, исполняя свои баллады. Японский гангстер Ган Тэцу приводит как-то раз Каиэмона в клуб, где в него влюбляется певица Лилиан, обожающая все японское, особенно самураев. Тэцу скоро становится главой японской мафии. Ей противостоит Фрэнк Капоне, брат знаменитого гангстера Аль Капоне, работающий в связке с китайской мафией. С объявлением сухого закона Тэцу начинает тайно делать сакэ.
Hidemaru Mamiya
Four girls and their manager aiming for stardom!
Shinzou Hirota
Set in the 1930s in the international city of Shanghai, the film follows the extravagant life and times of a group of jazz musicians, living from one advance paycheck to the next, as the country teeters over the brink into the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Ochi
Эйдзи Фудзино оставил карьеру служащего и открыл дешевую закусочную «Тёдзи», теперь все его зовут Тёдзи. Трудно понять, откуда у этого бывшего спортсмена так много терпения, выдержки и смирения. Многие годы он хранит в сердце тайну.
Based on the novel of the same name by Kenzo Kitakata.
Adaptation of Shiro Ozaki's novel.
On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never gamble again. But, that night, Jirocho heads to a gambling den, where he bets the condolence money for his mother's funeral. No surprise to learn he loses the lot. Not the hard-boiled yakuza story it seems, this is a comedy featuring many new artists who were making a name for themselves at the time.
Yasu
Главный герой фильма актёр второго плана Ясу. Он снимается вместе со своим другом Гинсиро, очень известным и популярным актёром.
Однажды Гинсиро приходит к Ясу домой вместе с актрисой Конацу, которая беременна от Гинсиро, и, чтобы избежать скандала, они просят Ясу жениться на Конацу и стать отцом её ребёнка. Конацу тяжело переносит беременность, и её каждый день навещает Ясу. В это время, чтобы заработать больше денег, он соглашается на опасную роль с трюками. Когда Конацу выходит из больницы, она начинает открывать для себя настоящего Ясу и решает выйти за него замуж. Как-то раз появляется Гинсиро и жалуется на то, что у него наступила чёрная полоса в жизни и Ясу, чтобы поддержать друга соглашается, снятся в одном с ним фильме со сложным трюком. В день съёмок между друзьями происходит неожиданная ссора. Конацу очень переживает за Ясу, и в момент трюка она теряет сознание, но когда приходит в себя, она видит Ясу обнимающего их дочку.
Masakazu Kawachi
Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.