Commemorating the 70th anniversary of TV broadcasting in Japan, and the 60th anniversary of the Taiga drama, this special depicts the struggles of creating the first Taiga drama.
Denemon
When Mio was young, she lost her parents in a great flood and also became separated from her best friend Noe. Afterwards, Mio found her talent in cooking and eventually became a cook. Meanwhile, Noe has become an oiran (high-ranking courtesan).
Doctor Mita
The film follows the relationship between a mother and her son. In 1945, the mother played by Sayuri Yoshinaga fled with her two sons from the Russians to Hokkaido. In 1972, her son played by Masato Sakai returns to Japan after finding success in the U.S.
Acclaimed director of Summer of Chirusoku, Half a Confession and Yunagi City, Sakura Country Kiyoshi Sasabe casts Rin Takanashi and Takumi Saitoh as members of the farming industry. The Sowing Traveller 3 tells a universal story of the cherished act of growing fruit. Ayane is conflicted about coming back home because she feels it’s a setback. Filming took place in Akaiwa, Okayama prefecture, a peach growing area with lots of sun and fertile soil. Along with the harmony of daily life that the local people have with nature, an important feature of the film is its beautiful landscapes.
Yutaka Nomura
Двух ключевых событиях в турецко-японских отношениях, которые углубили дружбу между двумя народами.
Tadashi Ota
Kinjiro, an official with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, is a good-natured fellow who goes around the country helping farm families. At his new appointment in Usuki City, Oita Prefecture, he visits a tea-growing family he has known for a long time. There, he finds the family head's granddaughter Minori, who lost her job in Tokyo and has just returned home.
Mr. Samsa
Steven Berkoff's iconic adaptation of Franz Kafka’s novella, which tells the tale of a traveling salesman who is transformed into an insect, is brought to life in this highly physical and visually striking production. Captured live at the Parco Theater in Tokyo, this landmark performance is in Japanese with English subtitles. Considered one of Berkoff’s masterpieces and performed multiple times since it first appeared in 1969, Metamorphosis combines elements of sound, physicality and minimalist design to recreate Kafka’s absurdist world on stage.
Shintaro Suzuki
Teenager Tsubasa Sato returns to the parallel universe where demons are out to kill every person with the last name of Sato.
Kobatozawa
When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Minister's assassination, and on the run from corrupt cops. It's only the beginning of what quickly becomes the worst, weirdest day of his life. But he'll get by with a little help from his friends, who include a famous pop diva, a rockabilly deliveryman, a crippled old gangster, and the world's most cheerful serial killer.
Sakiko, works independently at a travel agent in Tokyo. She was raised by her mother, Tatsuko, is hospitalized, Sakiko returns to her hometown Tokushima on Shikoku. The town is famous for its annual Awa Dance Festival. She is told by doctor, Terasawa Daisuke, that her mother has terminal cancer.
Yōsuke Tsuchiya
Famous movie actress Nami is being interviewed by a magazine reporter about her new film in which the plot resembles her real life. Her actor husband Yosuke has an affair with a young actress Junko whereas in the movie, Nami acts as an actress whose husband has an extramarital relationship with a young girl, with Yosuke as the husband and Junko as the new girl friend. In the course of the interview, Nami falls into deep thoughts and flashbacks about her lascivious encounters with strangers in a night train, in the movie as in the reality. Despite whether her intention is to revenge her husband or to satisfy her own desires, Nami demonstrates bewitching charm in a series of intercourse with different men, positions and locations. Director Takashi Ishii attempts to explore female sexual psychology through perfect blends of aesthetic nudity and violence.
Baba
Кодзи Намики, талантливый молодой питчер, побеждавший в школьных национальных чемпионатах по бейсболу, поступает в университет, но вскоре после этого травмирует локоть. Он и его товарищи по команде упорно трудятся, чтобы вернуться на поле, возлагая все надежды на новую разновидность «медленной» подачи, которую они называют «волшебной».
Однако, начавшаяся Вторая мировая война разрушает все их планы относительно бейсбола. Они вступают в ряды вооруженных сил, и во флоте подвергаются суровой подготовке, которая готовит их к смерти. Смерть ждет их в «кайтен» (специальной торпедной подводной лодке или «человеческой торпеде») в мрачных океанских глубинах, но Кодзи не оставляет его мечту о «волшебной подаче».
Rikka Nikaidou is a cute and innocent girl sees two persons vanish into thin hair...
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Biopic of yakuza Noboru Ando, based on his autobiography.
Go Imai
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.
Shukichi Nishida
A couple flees Tokyo, their family and friends. The girlfriend is a member of a rock band. She is dating the man, but friends and family are against it compelling her to move away. They stay at an inn in an area in which they know no one. One inn employee finds out about their dilemma and introduces them to a local farmer who offers them work and a home.
Naoto Ogata plays Sadajiro, a young farmer fighting out the battle of the riot through to the end. Sadajiro's wife is played by Hiromi Iwasaki, his father is played by Go Kato and Ryuzo Hayashi plays a leader of the Riot. The Riot in Gujo is called one of the biggest three riots in the Edo Period as it took almost 5 years to settle and also involved the Edo government. This movie is a period film about the riot and Gujo farmers fighting for their tenacity of purpose. The farmers had suffered enough from heavy taxes and decided to rise up in riot when the domain lord, Yorikane, issued a new act, which practically forced tax increases. Asking the lord to retract the act, they pour down to the Hachiman Castle. For once they attain the repeal deed signed by the chief retainer. However the promise is broken. Now the farmers decide to make a direct plea to the Edo Residence…This film is full tension and breathless moments.
Takizawa joins a professional thief and carries out an assault.
Takuji Miyagawa
Чтобы сражаться с Годзиллой, японские ученые сконструировали два новых вида оружия — высокотехнологичный корабль Грифон и устройство «Приливная волна». Испытание «Приливной волны» совпадает по времени с появлением Мегануронов — стрекозообразных существ, которые питаются энергией человека. Королева Мегагирус, повелительница Мегануронов, монстр высотой метров в 60, готовится напасть на Годзиллу, чтобы поглотить ее энергию. Люди здесь, может показаться, совсем ни при чем, однако от исхода битвы двух супергигантов зависит судьба человечества…
Аихати — гейша, живущая в Маруяма, одном из районов Нагасаки. После сорока лет тяжелой работы она стала лучшей гейшей в этой местности. Женщина постарела, но так и не нашла свою любовь, пока не встретила Когу Дзюдзиро, учёного страстно изучающего старый Нагасаки. Он слушает пение Аихати и однажды предлагает ей совершить путешествие по стране, чтобы собрать старые песни. Эта поездка и музыка полностью изменит их жизни.
Kazuki spends his days training to leave his home town and become the best cook in Japan.
Yoshihiro Hasegawa
Junko was born with a type of ESP called pyrokinesis which she can use to incinerate anyone and anything at will. Junko is secretly in love with Kazuki, a young man who works with her. His sister is killed and a boy named Masaki suspected but the police don't arrest him. Junko tells Kazuki about her powers and takes revenge.
Thomas Kurita
Togashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi's grade school entrance examinations, but he becomes jobless when his company folds. To regain his confidence Togashi decides to join the marathon that is taking place on the very day of his daughter's examination and the all important interview.
Remake of Chusei Sone's 1983 comedy about a yakuza family trying their luck in show business.
Japanese film directed by Hiromasa Taguchi.
The 7th gangster action of men who continue to fight bloody battles in Tosa, Shikoku.
Suikyou
A retired warrior comes to see his former lord and learns that someone is making indestructible swords from some unknown metal. He is sent together with a swordsman to investigate the source. Along the way they meet a young girl working as a beekeeper. She is later witness to the appearance of three strange females from another dimension. They are searching for a lost weapon that has landed on earth and as one of them lay dying she enlists the girl to help them control the strange beast/weapon. Meanwhile the warrior and the swordsman learn that an old nemesis has created the swords from the shell that surrounded the alien weapon. Soon the alien beast/weapon is awakened and battle for control ensues.
A story about the friendship of the sons of two political rivals.
Colonel Yusuke Watarase
Ближайший родственник легендарного Годзиллы гигантская огнедышащая суперчерепаха Гамора защищает человечество от ужасных тварей, особей и чудовищ из космоса.
Masamichi Toyama is a loyal husband with a bad gambling debt. Mobsters out for the money track him down, beating him and raping his wife. Desperate for revenge, he makes himself a sword and sets out to wreak havoc. When he meets the Gonin, a group of five female thieves, his luck only gets worse. Run, Sayuri, Shiho, Saki and Chihiro are fast-shooting, strong-arm women. Not only that, but they're more than prepared to take on an army of gangsters. Unfortunately for them, they stole the ring Masamichi wanted for his wife, and now he's more likely to hunt them than join their cause.
When the famous SL "Lady of Childbirth" traveling on the Yamaguchi Line approached Tsuwano, a passenger saw a man crashing into the tracks from the top of the Usui Tunnel. When the conductor rushed to report it, the man was already dead. Shortly after, the witness passenger had disappeared for some reason! Detective Sato (Takuma), who rushes to the scene, learns that the dead man is Odagiri (Odagiri), a taxi driver whom he met earlier.
Yasumasa Ogoshi
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.
Police
Знаменитая пожилая актриса Йоко отправляется на короткий отдых в горную хижину. Когда-то она блистала в пьесах Чехова… Отголоски «Чайки» и «Трех сестер» можно заметить и в ее собственной истории. Это фильм о жизни японских стариков. О их радостях и горестях. Немного смешной, но в тоже время очень грустный…
Masafumi Nakasone
The Girls' Division of Okinawa Normal School and the First Okinawa Prefectural High School for Girls were also known as "Himeyuri no Gakuen". In July 1944, the students, who were supposed to spend their summer vacations at home, were called back to school to prepare for the coming war and to fulfill their duties as subjects of the Imperial State. The fate of the girls and teachers awaited them as the American army attacked.
Mitsuru Tsuchiya
An undercover narcotics officer is killed, and after his funeral some yakuza break into his apartment and rape his wife, Nami, while looking for the drugs they claim he stole from them. Afterwards Nami attempts to commit suicide, but after being rescued by a mysterious yakuza she decides to infiltrate the gang and get revenge.
Parfyon Rogozhin
Andrzej Wajda's Japanese-language film based on the last chapter of Dostoevsky's Idiot, in which Prince Myshkin and Rogozhin return to the past in a conversation over the dead body of Nastassya Filippovna. Bando Tamasaburo, regarded as one of the most outstanding female impersonators in Japanese theater, plays the dual role of Myshkin and Nastassya.
Odabe
Famed onnagata (a man who plays women's parts in Kabuki) Tamasaburo Bando follows up on the success of his directorial debut, Gekashitsu, with this soft-focused romance about love and obligation, based on a novel by Kafu Nagai. Set during the Meiji period (1868-1912), Kaede (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is the former mistress of a wealthy merchant. When he dies, she is forced out on the street and forced to give up her young daughter to the merchant's family. The film opens with her working in a high-class brothel abutting Tokyo Bay. Though she has passionate affection for a drug wholesaler, whom she loves as well, Kaede is swamped with not only debts to the bordello and family obligations -- she is expected to support her parents and her sister -- but also guilt over losing her child. This pain is only increased when Kaede learns that her daughter is being abused. She does the only thing she can: She buys back her child by signing on at the brothel for a longer stint.
Mikio Fujikawa
Hitomi Maruyama
A summery youth movie about love and beach volleyball, adapted by Yuhei Enoki from an original draft by Osamu Murakami. Starring Kenichiro Kikuchi and Eri Fukatsu.
Director Seiichi Yamamoto
Гениальный ученый Шурагами создал супер организм Биорант, используя для этого радиоактивные клетки Годзиллы, за которыми охотится международная мафия. А в это время извержение вулкана возродило спящего на дне Токийского залива Годзиллу к жизни. Жители Япония в панике — встреча двух монстров неизбежна и выживет только один из них. И на этот случай силы обороны приготовили своё новое оружие «Супер Икс-2», с помощью которого они готовы уничтожить уцелевшего монстра.
A biographical dramatization about the production of the original Ultraman, the beloved classic special effects fantasy series from Eiji Tsuburaya.
Ichiro Mamiya
Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada's ex-wife. Recovering from the shock, Harada indulges in melancholy, mainly on his failure as a husband and father, and goes to a 'Rakugo' (sit-down comedy) show, where a friendly man in the audience invites him home. Harada is puzzled at the strong resemblance of this man and his wife to his own parents, who were killed nearly 30 years ago when he was twelve.
Yuichi Koga
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.
Based on the comic book by Jūzō Yamasaki and Kei Sadayasu.
喜さぶ
Tamura
A woman named Fujiki Asuka arrives as an acquaintance of a sister in law for a day under the bar master Tamura who had guided Yakuza's escaping as a shoji. Tamura who lives on the second floor of the store for the time being the son who wants to work here. A few days later, Tamura finds a handgun from Yuko's baggage and holds a suspicion ....
Yoshirou
A 30-year-old man's life gets up-ended when his girlfriend accepts an arranged marriage meeting with a more successful man.
Ayumi Ishida won the Blue Ribbon for the Best Actress.
Keiji Akimoto (Army Major)
In the winter of 1945, Sakura the elephant gave birth to a baby elephant at Tokyo Fujimi Zoo under the watchful eye of the zookeeper Shota Tanabe. Around the same time, Shota's wife, Setsuko, also gave birth to a son. Hanako, the baby elephant, grows up while deepening her bonds with elementary school students who love zoos. However, as Japan enters the Pacific War, the military orders the animals in the zoos of five major cities to be killed.
Driver
A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist starts playing at a particular nightspot, a thug from the Yakuza adopts him as a special friend for no greater reason than he plays one of his favorite songs well. As the dangerous life of the gangster intertwines with that of the musician, it brings harm to the musician's girlfriend, who is raped. This changes the young saxophonist's attitude about his patron, but his Yakuza "friend" is still too embroiled in his own problems to worry about anything else.
Isao (segment "Runaway Horses")
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.
Awaji, the president of a famous food company, is found murdered in a locked bathroom. with mummified human hands found all over the body. Taki, a Young bonze, begins to privately investigate.
Yoshio
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.
Ja
In 1923 a Japanese comes to Munich and immediately falls in love with a street artist with a red hat, without knowing her past is. She turns to the Japanese, for the first time she thinks she has found her really great love- exotic stranger attracts her. They say a lot, but they do not understand each other - but they can show their love. Nevertheless, the relationship is doomed to failure from the beginning. Disappointment, death and loss.
Adaptation of Shiro Ozaki's novel.
Based on the true story of a Japanese young man that crossed the American continent by roller skating.
Michio Mikami
Три эпизода из жизни полицейского Эйдзи Миками. Кажется, что нас ожидает захватывающий боевик с драками и погоней, однако, каждый эпизод называется именем женщины, при этом Миками — волк-одиночка. С кем из них у него сложатся прочные отношения, не знает никто. Что изменилось в его душе за 20 лет службы в полиции, где он закончит свою жизнь, на заснеженных улицах Саппоро или на родном острове, где его ждет престарелая мать, теряющая рассудок?
Mitsuo Wada
A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his romance with the eccentric Kaede and parents selected fiancee Ayako.
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.
Eiichi Hongo
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.
A large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored.
Yasusuke Nogi
В этом фильме рассказывается об осаде японскими войсками русской крепости Порт-Артур во время русско-японской войны 1905 года.
Akimasa Matsuo
Противостояние двух ядерных сверхдержав приводит к тому, что смертельный вирус оказывается на свободе и начинает распространятся по планете с дикой скоростью, убивая все живое на своем пути. Вирус гибнет при низких температурах, и 863 выживших вынуждены переселиться в Антарктиду.
В этом большом многонациональном и мультиконфессиональном сообществе постоянно возникают конфликты. Одни обвиняют других во всех своих бедах. Но вовремя понимают, что все их обиды и склоки ничто, перед лицом новой опасности, исходящей с американского континента. Когда ядерная угроза их существованию становится вполне реальной, правительство Антарктической Республики поручает экипажу атомной подводной лодки достичь берегов США и предотвратить запуск ракет.
Hideo Mizoguchi
Когда молодого солдата, пытавшегося не дать продать свою сестру Каори в проститутки, убивают, его командир, полковник Мияги, пытается исполнить его последнее желание и спасти его сестру. Увидев Каоми на вечеринке в качестве гейши и затем спасая её от попытки самоубийства, полковник Мияги приглашает её жить к себе. Через некоторое время они сближаются, у Каори появляются к нему чувства, но полковник Мияги не может позволить себе ответить ей взаимностью. В ночь пред своей отправкой на войну Мияги наконец признаётся Каори в своих чувствах, но смогут ли они насладиться мирной жизнью вместе, когда начинается жестокое и кровавое восстание военных...
After the war-time government orders the disbanding of the Big-Six baseball league, the teams of Waseda and Keio universities play one final game before they are drafted into the armed forces and face the hardships of military service.
Atsuo Kuwata
Kei and Atsuo were both enrolled in summer school. Kei was an honor student, and Atsuo was the polar opposite - but opposites attract. After school, the two head to the beach, where they find another student from their school competing against a local gang member, to see who is able to hold his breath longer under water. Overwhelmed by the excitement, Kei and Atsuo decide to try themselves.
Soccer movie.
Фильм посвящен 700-летней годовщине со дня смерти монаха Нитирэна, основателя школы японского буддизма Нитирэн-сю, которая почитает Сутру Лотоса. Сюжет построен на жизнеописании мыслителя, который всю жизнь фанатично боролся за верховенство своих идей. Школа «Лотосовой Сутры» так и не получила статуса государственной религии Японии, однако и по сей день имеет там многочисленных сторонников.
Sergeant Yajima
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the post-war constitution, restore the national army and revive the traditional spirit of Japan. As the conspiracy is exposed, the coup squadrons are wiped out one by one. The remaining squadron takes over a night train bound for Tokyo.
The story of a high school boy (Toshiyuki Nagashima) in Tokyo returning to his home town of Nagano upon the death of his father.
Hiroshi Ueda
В суде слушается дело Хироси Уэда. Он обвиняется в убийстве Хацуко, старшей сестры Ёсико Сакаи, с которой вместе проживает, и которая ждёт от него ребёнка. К делу привлечено внимание общественности, поскольку Хироси несовершеннолетний. Адвокат Кикути чувствует, что в этом деле он может рассчитывать на успех, внимание общественности ему только на руку. Ювенальное право не позволяет назначить виновному смертный приговор, но какое наказание ждет преступника и всех его близких?
Third
Third and Shinbunbu embark on a plan to make money by Third becoming a pimp and Shinbunbu a prostitute.
Toru Nagashima
A high-school student rescues his baseball team. Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga "Dokaben".