Maiko Kawakami

Кинотеатр Setouchi Kinema закрывают. Его завершающий сеанс — ночной марафон японских фильмов о войне. Ударившая в кинотеатр молния отбрасывает троих молодых людей из кинозала в прошлое, где они становятся участниками событий, происходящих на экране: гражданской войны Босин, Второй японо-китайской войны, битвы за Окинаву. Наконец они оказываются в Хиросиме накануне атомной бомбардировки, где встречают труппу передвижного театра «Сакура-тай». Но могут ли они изменить ход судьбы и спасти труппу?

Yuki is a 2nd year high school student. She volunteers at a paediatrics ward for her summer vacation, because she wants to witness the moment a person dies. She got that thought after feeling envious of a transfer student's story of seeing a friend's dead body. Yuki has friend named Atsuko. She was bullied in the past and has anxiety issues. She volunteers at a nursing home for her summer vacation, hoping that she will gain courage if she sees the moment a person dies.

In 1940, Masaaki Takaoka works as a teacher in the agricultural division at a youth training institute. Although Japan’s defeat seems imminent, all of Masaaki’s students are drafted in a futile last-ditch effort. In an attempt to give the young men some hope, he makes everyone promise that they will all meet again under the cherry blossoms upon their safe return. Consumed by sadness over the fate of his students, Masaaki devotes the next 30 years of his life to develop a new species of cherry blossoms that could thrive in any climate in remembrance of his students.

Masanao Ushio and other detectives from Shinjuku West PD discover the strangled dead body of a woman in an empty building in West Shinjuku in Tokyo. According to her husband Takeshi, the murdered Chieko Akiba was a top salesperson at the insurance company where she worked, but quit her job three months ago and planned to open a beauty salon after buying the building which happens to be the crime scene. The call history on her mobile phone reveals the victim answered a call at 8:16 PM and is presumed to have been murdered immediately afterwards. However, Ushio is surprised to hear who was on the other side of the call: Kyoko Yamano, a woman who accompanied Ushio under an umbrella on a rainy night one year ago and whose husband was killed by someone that very night...

Tsukiko is part of the photography club at school, but has always felt less than her sister Tomie. She's cute and very popular among boys. However, one day, Tomie dies in a horrible accident, triggering endless nightmares for Tsukiko. One year later, right when Tomie was supposed to turn 18, someone knocks on the door. Tomie is back.

19-year-old freeter (a Japanese expression for people between the ages of 15 and 34 who lack full time employment or are unemployed, excluding housewives and students.) Tsuyoshi Osanai enters a school for guide dog trainers. After 2 years of training, Tsuyoshi becomes an assistant trainer. His first dog to train is Chie.

Кэйта Мацуяма вернулся с войны живым, но его преследуют тени погибших товарищей. Ему нет места в новой возрождающейся после войны Японии. Он решил уехать из страны. Покидая родину, он, выполняя волю своего товарища Сададзо Морикава, посещает его жену Томоко, и передает ей открытку, которую она сама написала мужу.

Miki, a nursing care robot, is popular among some medical staff and patients for her dainty and efficient work, but others are more skeptical. One day, Miki malfunctions and begins to see and hear fragmented images and voices.

Учитель Ёсио Итикава отдал школе всю свою жизнь. Ученики помнят его уpoки и через 30 лет после окончания школы встречаются вновь. Позади годы войны и разрухи. Смогли ли они воплотить в жизнь то, о чем мечтали? Смогут ли они исправить ошибки, которые совершили?

A young girl with leukemia travels a pilgrimage by skateboard.

Children born with special power. They seek blood for eternal life. And tonight, the victims ...!

About a group of itinerant actors.

Герои этой картины переступили ту черту, за которой уже нечего терять. И каждому из них позарез нужны деньги: Задолжавший бандитам владелец дискотеки; безработный конторский служащий; манерный вымогатель; сутенер-неврастеник и бывший полицейский… Однажды эти пять отчаянных мужчин решили ограбить гангстеров. И не просто гангстеров, а банду Огоши — одну из самых влиятельных семей якудзы в Осаке. В день налета им улыбнулась удача — дерзкий план сработал. К вечеру в руках грабителей — дилетантов уже была с кровью отвоеванная сумка с десятками миллионов йен. Но на этом подарки судьбы закончились: семья Огоши нанимает двух самых ужасных убийц в городе, от страшной мести которых еще никто и никогда не уходил.

Nami is a photographer on the set of a porn film. When photographing a rape scene between a teacher and a schoolgirl, she becomes uncomfortable, having remembered a similar incident in her own past.

More than his indie debut Skinless Night, this was the film that launched Mochizuki on his distinctive trajectory through the crime and yakuza genres. Matsuzaki (Eiji Okuda) is a racing tipster for a sports paper, a lowlife who spends half his time drunk, hangs out with yakuza and other riff-raff and complicates his sex life by succumbing to advances from his girlfriend's sister. As played by Okuda, he's also a figure of considerable hangdog charm. Less a plot-based movie than a guide to the several forms of high stakes gambling in Japan, this centres on his attempt to help a friend swindled in a bent mahjong game. Hakuryu appears (memorably) as an inscrutable yakuza in a black leather jacket. The film's success led to two sequels.

This is a series of three short supernatural-themed movies. The first tells the story of a teen girl who dreams of haunted doll. In the second movie, a widowed mother brings her children to a house in the woods to help them forget the death of their father. While in the woods one of the children meets a ghost that wants more than just to be friends. The last movie tells the story of three teen-aged girls who go on vacation, only to find themselves at a haunted inn.

A grieving young mother employed at a video game company is recruited to test and train a new virtual world. She finds a character in this world of fantasy who becomes her new albeit virtual daughter.

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…

While visiting Japan, Big Bird wanders off from a guided tour bus in Tokyo, and is lost until a Japanese woman helps him get to where he needs to go. The woman, however, is hiding a secret.

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.

На берегу реки убит 15-летний подросток. Кто виноват в его смерти, его одноклассники, учителя, он сам, а может быть общество, которое вынуждает каждого бороться за лучшее место под солнцем?

Internationally acclaimed for his cinematic realism and social commitment, Kaneto Shindo based the story of THE HORIZON on his sister's experiences. The film concerns Hideo, a young girl who leaves Japan in 1920 to settle her family's debt by being sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco. Over the next 20 years the couple works hard and raises 4 children. After Pearl Harbor is attacked they are interned with other Japanese immigrants in a camp, losing both their land and their assets. Hideo has now been uprooted twice and has to adjust to her son's going to war and her daughters' post-war assimilation and marriage to Americans despite her protests. But Hideo is a survivor and she awaits a new immigrant from Japan with hope.

Tetsuaki's struggling to write a novel while his mother fades; Mitsuko's engagement has been forced upon her unwillingly; the two individuals run away to share their grief.

Arrested and interrogated by the police for a murder, Kiyoshi Ôkubo remembers his past and ends up confessing to several murders. Inspired by the true story of the serial killer who raped and killed eight women in Japan in 1971. The case moved the whole country.

В книжном магазине неизвестный застрелил трех человек. Они никак не связаны между собой. Следствие начинается с того, что не известны ни убийца, ни выбранная им жертва. В расследовании принимают участие детективы Мураками, Кита и Норо. Они вынуждены не только искать убийцу, но преодолевать щемящее чувство одиночества, которое окружает их со всех сторон.