Koichi Kawakami

The story is about a film director, Kutani, who lives in the dying pink film industry, and an aspiring screenwriter, Iseki, and their loved one, Shoko, whose dream of a film she has clung to begins to crumble, and their lives intersect.

Mito Domain Samurai Seki Tetsunosuke must pay the consequences for his role in the assassination of Great Elder Ii Naosuke. Based on true events.

In Kagoshima, in the final days of World War II, an offer of marriage comes to Etsuko Kamiya, who lives with her brother and his wife. The offer comes from Nagayo, but Etsuko is attracted to his friend, Akashi.

Short film part of "Three... Extremes", a horror film collaboration consisting of three segments by three directors from three countries. Kyoko, a 25 year-old novelist, frequently experiences nightmares of her past as a circus performer.

Три страшные истории. Кёко — знаменитая писательница и красивая женщина, но ведет одинокий образ жизни. Когда она была ребёнком, с ней случилось что-то страшное. Ни одна женщина не сможет устоять, если ей представится возможность омолодиться, а Цин может себе это позволить. Бывшая звезда телевидения вышла замуж за знаменитого богача и обречена на то, чтобы ее мечта сбылась. Она знакомится с таинственным поваром Мей, которая готовит ей пельмени по особому рецепту. Рю Цзи-хо — преуспевающий кинорежиссер — богатый, уважаемый, талантливый, симпатичный и красивый. Вернувшись однажды домой, он обнаруживает там совершенно незнакомого человека. Этот незнакомец — актер массовки, на которого Рю никогда не обращал внимания.

About a family shouldering an unexpected responsibility when Alzheimer's disease strikes their grandmother. The superb cast portrays this serious and realistic situation with heart-warming compassion, stressing the importance of empathizing with the victims of this difficult disease.

Living in an old Tokyo district, Kenichi works at a second-hand bookshop to support his sister, Yoko, a high school student. When Yoko graduates, she starts work at a photo shop. By the time, Kenichi's girlfriend has decided to marry someone else as she is tired of waiting for him. When Yoko starts dating Kenichi's best friend, Makoto , he is strangely resentful, but when Makoto is involved in a fatal accident, brother and sister resume their routine life.

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.

A widow and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku people are forced to reside. The two boys are continuously harassed by their teachers and classmates through their childhood as a result of their Buraku heritage. In the midst of the 1918 Great Rice Riots in Osaka, Seitaro meets with Asako, the daughter of a rice shop owner, and falls in love with her. She too is of Buraku descent. At the same period, Hideaki, an old friend of the brothers returns to Komori, and he along with Koji and the townspeople create "Zenkoku Suiheisha", the National Levelers Association, an organization pledged to build a bridge over the river of discrimination, making all people equal in every way.

A hospital accidentally gives a man Count Dracula's blood while trying to save his life. A year later, he's back from the dead, trying to right the wrongs of his life while trying to resist the urge to become a vampire.

Tsugumi, who lives in a small seaside town, has been in delicate health from birth. Her parents spoiled her and she is rough and selfish. However, a few people are attracted by her beauty and unique character.

Yusuke Mikuni, a department manager at his company, buys a one-room apartment to have some space to himself. He signs an agreement with a young woman named Chako and has an affair with her once a week at the apartment.

A sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine.

Based on the novel of the same name by Yoshio Kataoka.

Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband's emotional conflicts with the wisdom of an adult. Kazumi's younger and more inexperienced husband Hideo is continually suspicious of her fidelity.

Set in the wilderness of Hokkaido, the story of a couple in their 30s and a couple in their 20s is drawn, and the subtle emotions of the two men and women are depicted with intense Eros and delicate images under the theme of marriage exchange.

Yahagi Michiko is accosted and raped walking home one evening. From there she maneuvers the logistics of the police, hospital, and criminal justice system while balancing her home life including romantic relationships.

A story about a woman who is a research student of a theater company and the three men who are at the mercy of her.

Yuko is in love with an old poet who happens to be also a married man. She waits patiently for him and only him, yet she is constantly being lust by others.

A young woman breaks off her long-term relationship with her boyfriend to move to Tokyo in search of new experiences.

Марико живет жизнью типичной японской студентки колледжа 70-х годов, проводя много своего времени с двумя бойфрендами и работая неполный рабочий день. Она разрывается между бывшим бойфрендом, который жесткий, нечувствительный, но сексуальный и новым знакомым, который более чувствителен к ней, но по детски эгоистичен.

My Town, My Youth is an inspiring film shot twenty years after the official recognition of the disease and focuses on a group of young people (many born with the disease) as they mobilise to keep their cause visible by organising a concert by the popular enka singer Ishikawa Sayuri.

Third and Shinbunbu embark on a plan to make money by Third becoming a pimp and Shinbunbu a prostitute.

This film was directed by a member of the Ogawa collective, Fukuda Katsuhiko, while they were finishing the documentary Sanrizuka: Heta Village. Fukuda left the collective after this film and continued making documentaries in the village of Heta. Credit: ICA London