Koji Yakusho

biography: Kōji Hashimoto (橋本 広司, Hashimoto Kōji, born 1 January 1956), known professionally as Kōji Yakusho (役所 広司, Yakusho Kōji), is a Japanese actor. He is known internationally for his starring roles in Shall We Dance? (1996), 13 Assassins (2010), The Third Murder (2017), The Blood of Wolves (2018), Under the Open Sky (2020) and The Days (2023). For his performance in Perfect Days (2023), he was awarded the Best Actor award in the 76th Cannes Film Festival.

「愛に燃える戦国の女」−豊臣家の人々より−

original_name: 「愛に燃える戦国の女」−豊臣家の人々より−

original_language: ja

サハリンの薔薇

original_name: サハリンの薔薇

Middle-aged Bachelors

overview: Three close friends realize, at the age of 40, that maybe it's time to think seriously about getting married. Employed by an advertising agency, each struggles with his own weakness-one consistently strikes out with women, while the second can't seem to break his attachments to his mother, and the third is an unabashed playboy. This adult comedy exposes the humorous views and sobering misconceptions of marriage by single men today.

original_name: オトナの男

The Password is Courage

overview: The story takes place in a small rural village surrounded by beautiful nature. However, it is about to be destroyed by a waste disposal plant. Something must be done. The villagers rise up. They get a lawyer from Tokyo to help fight alongside them. Only that he's not a real lawyer but a washed-up actor (Yakusho Kōji), who once played a lawyer on TV.

original_name: 合い言葉は勇気

宮本武蔵

character: Miyamoto Musashi

original_name: 宮本武蔵

name: Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

original_name: 世にも奇妙な物語特別編

Takeda Shingen

overview: During the 16th Century Japan was involved in the Sengoku Period, an era of Civil Wars and the powerful Warlords who fought them. One of the earliest and strongest of these men was the Great Lord TAKEDA Shingen. A tremendous military genius, his battles are the stuff of legend.

character: Takeda Shingen

original_name: 武田信玄

The Life of Bangaku

overview:
Master swordsman Bangaku Ajigawa is a Ronin with an honest heart, and hates deception. With no family or money, he lives by his own rules. Bangaku’s one treasure and reason to live is his master sword, Hekimitsuhira. But because of it, people around him regularly lie and deceive him. This light-hearted samurai drama follows the comedic life of Bengaku.

Produced by Eizou Kyoto, this drama is to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Director Kon Ichikawa.

character: Ajigawa Bantake

original_name: 盤嶽の一生

Hana no Ran

overview: The story takes place during the Muromachi period of Ancient Japan, in the midst of the Ōnin War. The main character in the series is Tomiko Hino, a historical figure with a bad reputation because of her actions to rebuild Kyoto after the Ōnin War.

original_name: 花の乱

Lethal Three

overview: A wandering samurai, ronin, and ninja; meet by chance repeatedly and reluctantly team up to solve the problems of innocent villagers along the way.

original_name: 三匹が斬る！

Rikuoh

overview: A CEO struggling to maintain his small sock business risks the company's future with a new challenge — creating a line of running shoes.

character: Koichi Miyazawa

original_name: 陸王

Golden Horse Awards

overview: The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ Yǐngzhǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-pak Kim-má iáⁿ-tián) is a film festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan. It was founded in 1962 by the Government Information Office of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan. The awards ceremony is usually held in November or December in Taipei, although the event has also been held in other locations in Taiwan in recent times

character: Self

original_name: 金馬獎

original_language: zh

Kinagashi Bugyō

overview: Koheita, a newly appointed magistrate, never shows his face in the magistrate's office, instead spending his time in the 'Horisoto', a den of evil where anything goes, from theft to prostitution to murder. However, this man is about to clean up the city in an unconventional way!

original_name: 着ながし奉行

name: The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die?

overview: An epic of love and death that depicts how soldiers and ordinary people lived and fought during the Russo-Japanese War, when Japan's very existence was at stake in the face of the great power of Russia.

original_name: 二百三高地 愛は死にますか

Momi no Ki wa Nokotta: Ranshin

overview: A human drama based on the "Date Riots".

original_name: 樅ノ木は残った 乱心

水曜ドラマ 宮本武蔵

character: 宮本武蔵

original_name: 水曜ドラマ 宮本武蔵

Chotchan

overview: The 38th NHK Asadora. Based on the autobiography of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's mother.

character: 神谷容

original_name: チョッちゃん

Hacchōbori Torimono Banashi

overview: A jidaieki drama where a hard-nosed doshin, Shinpachiro Kariya, takes on difficult cases with exquisite teamwork under the supervision of a young magistrate.

original_name: 八丁堀捕物ばなし

Ties: A Miraculous Colt

overview: Based on novel "Kizuna ~ Aru Jinba no Monogatari~” by Akihiro Shimada (published from June, 2012 to December, 2012 in horse racing portal site ‘netkeiba.com’).

character: Masayuki Matsushita

original_name: 絆～走れ奇跡の子馬～

THE DAYS

overview: Blamed by some, hailed as heroes by others, those involved with Fukushima Daiichi face a deadly, invisible threat — an unprecedented nuclear disaster.

character: Masao Yoshida

original_name: THE DAYS

Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story

overview: Traces Japan’s history with the Olympic games and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics for viewers before Tokyo hosts the event again in 2020. The first half tells the story of marathon runner Kanakuri Shiso, who became one of the first Japanese nationals to participate in the Olympics in Stockholm in 1912. The second half features Tabata Masaji, the coach who laid the foundations of Japanese swimming and helped bring the games to Tokyo for the first time in 1964.

character: 嘉納治五郎

original_name: いだてん〜東京オリムピック噺〜

Vivant

overview: Yusuke Nogi of Ryosho's Energy Development Division said that 10 times the official down payment was mistakenly sent to GFL, a local infrastructure company involved in a solar energy plant to be built in the Balkan Republic in Central Asia. Suspected of involvement, he heads to the Balkan Republic to collect the difference of $90 million. With the cooperation of his CIA friend Sam, Nogi obtained information that the terrorist al-Zaer had laundered the full amount of the contract money into diamonds and brought it out.

character: Nogōn Beki

original_name: VIVANT

New Yotsuya Kaidan

overview: New Yotsuya Kaidan" is an adaptation of the original work by Tsuruya Nanboku, "Yotsuya Kaidan," incorporating the emotions of modern youth and arranging it in a contemporary style. The unique casting includes roles such as Iiemon played by Koji Yakusho, Oiwa played by Ryoko Sakaguchi, Osode played by Kawase Koiseko, and Oume played by Kumiko Ohba.

original_name: 新･四谷怪談

Back of Father

overview: A 10-part omnibus drama by 10 different scriptwriters on the theme of fathers and their sons and daughters.

character: Aoki Sosuke

original_name: おやじの背中

Pension Metsä

overview: Tenko runs a pension alone. The pension is located in a forest in Nagano, that is full of the Japanese larch tree. She interacts with her guests, who come from all walks of life.

character: Tsuneki

original_name: ペンションメッツァ

Tokugawa Ieyasu

overview: The story chronicles the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

character: Oda Nobunaga

original_name: 徳川家康

Did Someone Happen to Mention Me?

overview: Gen Takasegawa, the first Japanese actor to play the lead role at London's Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, has been unable to return to Japan for some time. After two years, he finally makes his way back home, only to find out that he is suddenly and completely forgotten by the entire world.

character: Gen Takasegawa

original_name: 俺のこと、なんか言ってた？

Inochi

overview: The drama begins in August 1945, three days after the end of the Pacific war. A freight train completely jam-packed with passengers heads for Aomori from devastated Tokyo. On the train is Takahara Miki and her sister Sachi. Miki and Sachi are the daughters of a wealthy landlord living in a village in the Tsugaru area in Aomori prefecture, but they have been living in Tokyo since before the war to attend school. After seeing her village does not have a doctor, Miki is determined to become a rural doctor.

character: Naohiko Hamamura

original_name: いのち

Matrilineal Family

overview: ~~ Adapted from the novel of the same title by Yamasaki Toyoko (山崎豊子)

character: 矢島嘉蔵

original_name: 女系家族

English

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iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

Deutsch

Koji Yakusho

biography:
Kōji Yakusho ist ein japanischer Schauspieler. Er arbeitet für Kino, Theater und Fernsehen.

Kōji Yakusho wurde 1956 als jüngster von fünf Brüdern als Kōji Hashimoto in Isahaya geboren. Nach Abschluss der Oberschule für Technologie der Präfektur Nagasaki im Jahr 1974 begann er, für das Gemeindeamt des Stadtbezirkes Chiyoda in Tokio (jap. Chiyoda-ku Yakusho) zu arbeiten. Seinen Künstlernamen entnahm er dieser Arbeitsstelle.

Als er 1976 eine Aufführung von Maxim Gorkis Theaterstück Die Kleinbürger sah, beschloss er, Schauspieler zu werden. Im Frühjahr 1978 sprach er beim Mumeijuku-Schauspielstudio, das der Schauspieler Tatsuya Nakadai leitete, vor und wurde eingestellt. Dort traf er die Schauspielerin Kawatsu Saeko, die er 1982 heiratete und die 1985 den gemeinsamen Sohn gebar.

Bekannt wurde Yakusho durch diverse Rollen in Fernsehserien. Im 1983 von NHK produzierten Fernsehdrama Tokugawa Ieyasu verkörperte er den Kriegsherren Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582), den Samurai Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645) spielte er von 1984 bis 1985 in einer gleichnamigen Fernsehserie.

In der Komödie Tampopo (1985), deren eigentliche Handlung das Bekanntmachen eines Nudelsuppenrestaurants ist, hatte er die Rolle des weißgekleideten Yakuza. Seine zweite größere Spielfilmrolle hatte er in der sowjetisch-japanischen Koproduktion Der weiße Wolf aus dem Jahr 1990.

Der endgültige Durchbruch in Japan gelang ihm in den Jahren 1996 bis 1997. In Masayuki Suos Tanzfilm Shall we dance? (1996) spielte er Shohei Sugiyama. Neben Hauptrollen in Tatsuoki Hosonos Shabu gokudo (1996) und Yoshimitsu Moritas Shitsuraken (1997) war er der Hauptdarsteller in Shōhei Imamuras Melodram Der Aal, das 1997 die Goldene Palme bei den Filmfestspielen von Cannes gewann. Für Shitsuraken und Der Aal gewann der Schauspieler seinen zweiten Japanese Academy Award, für den er zwischen 1999 und 2005 noch sechsmal nominiert war.

Einen weiteren Erfolg hatte er mit dem Thriller Cure, für den er auf dem Tokyo International Film Festival 1997 als Bester Darsteller ausgezeichnet wurde. Mit dem Regisseur von Kyua, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, arbeitete er in den folgenden Jahren noch mehrmals – unter anderem bei Kōrei (2000) und Doppelgänger (2003) – zusammen. Die zweite Zusammenarbeit mit Regisseur Shōhei Imamura erfolgte 2001 mit dem Film Wasserspiele, wo er einen arbeitslosen Sarariman, der auf der Suche nach einem Schatz eine merkwürdige Frau trifft, darstellt.

2005 hatte Kōji Yakusho eine Nebenrolle im US-amerikanischen Liebesdrama Die Geisha, wo Zhang Ziyi und Ken Watanabe die Hauptrollen übernahmen. Der Film, der auf dem gleichnamigen Roman von Arthur Golden basiert, gewann drei Oscars und spielte weltweit über 157 Millionen US-Dollar ein. Sein zweiter US-amerikanischer Film war Alejandro González Iñárritus Film Babel, der im Mai 2006 bei den Filmfestspielen von Cannes seine Premiere feierte. In Babel spielte er unter anderem neben Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett und Gael García Bernal. Er verkörpert in dem Film Yasujiro, den Vater der gehörlosen Jugendlichen Chieko (gespielt von Rinko Kikuchi), der seine Tätigkeit als Großwildjäger aufgab und sein Gewehr seinem ehemaligen, marokkanischen Jagdführer schenkte.

Im Jahr 2023 gewann er für seine Hauptrolle in Wim Wenders’ Spielfilm Perfect Days den Darstellerpreis des 76. Filmfestivals von Cannes.

iso_639_1: de

iso_3166_1: DE

english_name: German

日本語

役所広司

biography: 長崎県出身。1979年にデビューし、伊丹十三監督の「タンポポ」（85）などを経て、西村京太郎原作の「アナザー・ウェイ D機関情報」（88）で映画初主演を務める。96年、後にハリウッドでもリメイクされる「Shall we ダンス？」がヒット。翌年は「失楽園」も成功し、「うなぎ」がカンヌ国際映画祭パルムドールを受賞。以降、カンヌ映画祭の国際批評家連盟賞とエキュメニカル賞受賞作「EUREKA（ユリイカ）」（00）をはじめ青山真治、黒沢清らの作品に欠かせない存在に。ほかにもアカデミー作品賞ノミネート作「バベル」（06）、モントリオール世界映画祭審査員特別グランプリ受賞作「わが母の記」（12）などで国際的にも高い評価を得る、名実ともに日本を代表する俳優となった。主演作「ガマの油」（09）で監督にも初挑戦した。19年には「孤狼の血」（18）で、「Shall We ダンス？」「うなぎ」に続く、3度目の日本アカデミー賞最優秀主演男優賞を獲得した。

iso_639_1: ja

iso_3166_1: JP

english_name: Japanese

한국어/조선말

iso_639_1: ko

iso_3166_1: KR

english_name: Korean

普通话

役所广司

biography: 役所广司 ，日本世纪之交最具代表性的实力派男演员。出生于长崎。1978年入普通学校学习，1981年开始舞台表演。1983年在大河剧作《德川家康》中扮演织田信长，首次在屏幕上与观众见面。其真正的电影表演是从1985年的《蒲公英》开始的。1988年，在《另一条路/D机关情报》中首次担任主演。1995年以一部《开飞车的出租车》获得《每日电影》最佳男主角奖，其后又因主演《谈谈情，跳跳舞》、《拳道浪子》、《沉睡的男人》等片囊括了1996年的各种男主角奖。1997年，他又主演了森田芳光导演的《失乐园》和今村昌平导演的《鳗鱼》。

iso_639_1: zh

iso_3166_1: CN

english_name: Mandarin

Pусский

iso_639_1: ru

iso_3166_1: RU

english_name: Russian

עִבְרִית

קוג'י יאקושו

biography: קוג'י יאקושו הוא שחקן יפני. הוא ידוע בזכות תפקידיו ב-  Shall We Dance? (1996), 13 Assassins (2010), The Third Murder (2017), The Blood of Wolves (2018), Under the Open Sky (2020) and The Days (2023).

iso_639_1: he

iso_3166_1: IL

english_name: Hebrew

普通话

iso_3166_1: TW

Português

Kōji Hashimoto

biography: Kōji Hashimoto (1 de janeiro de 1956), conhecido profissionalmente como Kōji Yakusho), é um ator japonês. Ele é conhecido por seus papéis principais em Sharu wī dansu (1996), Jūsannin no Shikaku (2010), Sandome no Satsujin (2017), Korō no Chi (2018), Subarashiki Sekai (2020) e The Days (2023). Ele é mais conhecido internacionalmente por seu papel em Unagi (1997), de Shōhei Imamura, Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), de Rob Marshall, e Babel (2006), de Alejandro González Iñárritu. Por sua atuação em Perfect Days, foi premiado com o prêmio de Melhor Ator no 76º Festival de Cinema de Cannes. Em 2018 esteve em Korō no Chi. Por sua atuação em Perfect Days, dirigido por Wim Wenders. akusho ganhou o prêmio de melhor ator no Festival de Cinema de Cannes de 2023.

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iso_3166_1: BR

english_name: Portuguese

Český

iso_639_1: cs

iso_3166_1: CZ

普通话

役所廣司

biography: 役所廣司 ，日本世紀之交最具代表性的實力派男演員。出生於長崎。1978 年入普通學校學習，1981 年開始舞台表演。1983 年在大河劇作《德川家康》中扮演織田信長，首次在屏幕上與觀眾見面。其真正的電影表演是從 1985 年的《蒲公英》開始的。1988 年，在《另一條路/D 機關情報》中首次擔任主演。1995 年以一部《開飛車的計程車》獲得《每日電影》最佳男主角獎，其後又因主演《談談情，跳跳舞》、《拳道浪子》、《沉睡的男人》等片囊括了 1996 年的各種男主角獎。1997 年，他又主演了森田芳光導演的《失樂園》和今村昌平導演的《鰻魚》。

also_known_as:
橋本広司
Koji Hashimoto
Kôji Yakusho
Kouji Yakusho
Кодзі Якусьо
קוז'י יאקושו
کوجی یاکوشو

title: Babel

overview: Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

title: The Great Department Store Robbery

title: The Eel

overview: A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking  to almost no one except for an eel he befriended while in prison.

title: Shall We Dance?

overview: A bored accountant spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.

title: Tampopo

overview: In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.

title: Sleeping Man

overview: Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighbors care for him as new events occur every day.

title: Doppelgänger

overview: Shortly after hearing from a colleague about a woman whose brother committed suicide after seeing his doppelgänger, a Japanese engineer on the verge of a breakthrough in medical technology is confronted by his own.

title: Bounce Ko Gals

overview: Jonko runs a group of high school girls involved in paid dating. Raku is a street dancer. Togo was brought up in the US, and after being back in Japan for one year, wants to escape to New York. Their contact with the world of talent scouts and yakuza places them in danger over the span of one day and night in the Shibuya district of Tokyo.

title: Pulse

overview: In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.

title: Séance

overview: A psychic housewife and her husband accidentally find a kidnapped girl. Instead of informing the police, they hatch a scheme to get famous by working with the police as a psychic consultant to 'find' the girl. Just when it all seems to go right, everything goes horribly wrong.

title: Gelatin Silver, Love

overview: The story of a photographer who becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman who lives in the apartment opposite his.

original_title: ゼラチンシルバーLOVE

title: Cure

overview: A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.

title: Eureka

overview: In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.

title: Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean

overview: A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on Harutoshi Fukui's novel Shuusen no Lorelei.

title: University of Laughs

overview: In pre-war Japan, a government censor tries to make the writer for a theater troupe alter his comedic script. As they work with and against each other, the script ends up developing in unexpected ways.

title: Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

overview: A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.

title: Hunter in the Dark

overview: Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter-clan conflict. Tanigawa quickly rises in stature in the clan, but finds his boss's enemies almost overwhelming.

title: Retribution

overview: A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since the crimes are in the same vicinity, by the same method. However, as evidence points towards the detective, a ghost in red follows him, and he begins questioning his identity. His realization of what seems to be reality results in something far larger and more sinister.

title: Paco and the Magical Book

overview: Onuki asks people in a hospital to perform a play for Paco, who suffers from memory disorder. His only hope is to help Paco survive from her illness.

title: Lost Paradise

overview: Kuki is a veteran newspaper reporter who has been shuffled off to a book-development branch and finds escape in an illicit relationship with Rinko. Together they find the passion no longer present in their marriages.

title: The Last Ronin

overview: 16 years after the fateful "revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin," involving samurais from the Ako domain who avenged their leader and then commited seppuku (ritual suicide), the sole survivor of that incident, Kichiemon Terasaka (Koichi Sato) traverses the country on a mission. His purpose is to find the families of the fallen samurais and spread the truth of the ronin uprising.

title: Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

overview: A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.

title: 13 Assassins

overview: A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.

title: The Woodsman and the Rain

overview: 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.

title: Suite Dreams

overview: New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment and a special dinner planned and yet there is trouble everywhere. An Animal is on the loose, a politician to protect, a prostitute to handle, a bellhop to focus and a few things more.

title: Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet

overview: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order he was duty bound to obey which went against his own personal beliefs. While this infamous attack is a low point in Japanese and US history it wouldn’t have happened if the Japanese government had listened to Yamamoto in 1939 and searched for a more peaceful way to end their war campaign, proving his many ominous presages of the outcomes of the attack to come true.

original_title: 聯合艦隊司令長官 山本五十六 – 太平洋戦争70年目の真実

title: The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity

overview: In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.

title: Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho

original_title: アナザーウェイ　Ｄ機関情報

title: The Terminal Trust

overview: Shinzo Egi is an asthma sufferer who does not want to be place on life support. As a last request, Shinzo Egi asks his doctor Ayano Orii if she could follow his wish. Doctor Ayano Orii is then questioned in a criminal case because of her decision.

title: Aurora Borealis

overview: The story of a man and a wolf-dog in East Siberia during the early 1900s.

original_title: Под северным сиянием

title: The Law of Hell

overview: At a restaurant called Anrakutei on an island is a wasteland surrounded by moat and swamp. The owner Ikuzo manages the restaurant with his daughter. It’s customers who have a dark past have utmost respect for Ikuzo. One day, a half-dead man Tomijiro comes to the restaurant. This is the beginning of Ikuzo’s terrible fight.

title: Perfect Days

overview: Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.

title: Yukon

overview: Takayuki Iwabuchi, a former yakuza member with a tattoo of Kisshoten on his back. Although he has a criminal record, he is currently working as a driver at a hearse transportation company. One day, a young man visits the company and asks Takayuki to transport the body of his fiancé, Sawa, who had unexpectedly passed away, to her hometown in a rural area of Takamatsu, Shikoku. Takayuki decides to go to Shikoku with the young man, However, the man disappears when leaving to take a call while they are stopped at a rest area near Setoo Bridge. Left alone, Takayuki arrives at Sawa's home village after much searching. He then tells Sawa's bereaved family about the situation at her parents' house. There, he learns of the tradition of posthumous marriage, or 'Yukon', from the village elder...

title: The World of Kanako

overview: When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his investigation progresses, his idealized image of Kanako cracks: the girl hides a dark life that her father can not even imagine.

title: The Kiyosu Conference

overview: After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and Tsuneoki Ikeda meet to decide on a successor. The conference would become Japan's first group made political decision. The meeting was known as the Kiyosu Kaigi.

title: Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

overview: This engaging series of childhood recollections tells of an unconventional school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedom, and love. The school had old railroad cars for classrooms and was run by an extraordinary man – its founder and headmaster, Sōsaku Kobayashi – who deeply valued children's independence, and who was a firm believer in freedom of expression and activity.

original_title: 映画 窓ぎわのトットちゃん

title: Gratitude

overview: A man wanders alone, away from his family, in search of a place to die. He runs away from the massage therapist who is supposed to heal him, and drives into the deep mountains in a car he stole on the road. He abandons his car and walks further into the forest, where he meets a strange young man.

title: History of Jirocho Shimizu

overview: A historical chivalric drama with tears and laughter, telling the story of Jirocho Shimizu's family, his confrontation with Katsuzo Kurokoma's family, right up to the final battle on the Tenryu River to avenge Ishimatsu Mori.

title: Toad's Oil

overview: The story of Takuro Yazawa, a day trader who claims he can earn hundreds of millions of yen in one day, and those around him as they attempt to cope with the death of his son and somehow find a way to benefit spiritually from the experience.

title: The Lakeside Murder Case

overview: Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare intensely for a prestigious high school's entrance exam with the help of a private tutor. One night, one of the wives confesses to her husband that she has killed his mistress.

original_title: レイクサイド マーダーケース

title: Silk

overview: French silkworm trader Hervé is married to the beautiful Hélène. When an outbreak of disease ravages European silkworms, Hervé must travel to Japan to retrieve healthy eggs. After a long journey, Hervé finally arrives at a village where he can buy them. He becomes infatuated with a young concubine and goes to great lengths to see her again. But, when war breaks out in Japan, the concubine flees, forcing Hervé to return home to his wife.

title: Família

overview: One day a young Brazilian man living in Japan crashes his car into the side of the house of a happy family. They take him in after realizing he had been beaten. As they get to know each other they find the bonds of family transcend blood and lineage.

title: Twelve Months

overview: A young queen requests a bouquet of snowdrop flowers for New Year's Day in exchange for a reward. One greedy woman sends her stepdaughter, whom she does not like, to look for the flowers in a cold forest, knowing the task will be impossible for her. The girl almost freezes to death in the forest, but she is rescued by the spirits of the Twelve Months, who create spring around her. The girl is able to deliver the bouquet to the queen, but others want a share of the reward.

original_title: 世界名作童話　森は生きている

title: Tadon and Chikuwa

overview: A film based on two short stories by Shiina Makoto. Tadon is the story of a cab-driver who spends his days listening to his passengers' conversations. Chikuwa is about a writer who faces a creativity bottleneck.

title: Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather

overview: Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai. His struggles with his boss, the Shikoku Godfather, and the tumultuous life of his adopted daughter, Matsue, form the backdrop of this epic tale of justice, obedience, and bloody vengeance.

title: Dora-heita

overview: A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own misperceptions and prejudices to defeat his enemies and uproot corruption.

title: Kamikaze Taxi

overview: A young foot soldier in the yakuza seeks revenge when his prostitute girlfriend dies after a session with a high-ranking Japanese politician with a taste for torture. He sets out on a 'kamikaze' mission to kill his bosses and the politician; along the way, he acquires the aid of a taxi driver who has recently returned to Japan after living in South America for several decades and is struggling to cope with poverty and the prejudices of native-born Japanese.

title: I Just Didn't Do It

overview: A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all the while insisting that he is innocent.

original_title: それでもボクはやってない

title: License to Live

overview: Having fallen into a coma following a car accident at 14, Yutaka wakes ten years later and realizes that his family is no longer intact: father, mother and sister live at different places, so he decides to reopen the farm that his family once ran.

title: Charisma

overview: A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action. Leaving his job and family without explanation, he makes his way to a mountain forest, encountering a peculiar tree called Charisma.

title: Chronicle of My Mother

overview: Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own behavior has taken on his increasingly distant family and resolve his own long-simmering resentments. Evocative of classic Ozu, this gorgeously wrought epic family portrait explores the tenderness and trappings of familial bonds.

title: The Emperor in August

overview: In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meeting has continued through days and nights, but a decision cannot be made. The U.S. drops atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. General Korechika Anami is torn over making the proper decision and the Emperor of Japan worries about his people. Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki leads the cabinet meeting, while Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu can't do anything, but watch the meeting. At this time, Major Kenji Hatanaka and other young commissioned officers, who are against Japan surrendering, move to occupy the palace and a radio broadcasting station. The radio station is set to broadcast Emperor Hirohito reading out the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War.

title: Tokyo Sonata

overview: The winds of change blow as a family grapples with unemployment, alienation, mistrust and a lack of communication. When a Japanese salaryman loses his job to outsourcing to China, it's simply the beginning of a series of shattering incidents, leading to the implosion of the family unit.

title: The Choice of Hercules

overview: When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its challenges. Upon arriving in mountainous Nagano, Sassa had to compete with freezing winter temperatures, conflicting opinions between the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and the Nagano Prefectural Police, as well as public opinion to gain entrance to the lodge that held the single woman captive.

original_title: 突入せよ！「あさま山荘」事件

title: Whistleblower

overview: A seemingly lazy salaryman is tasked with managing a company secret.

title: The Boy and the Beast

overview: Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his spirit guide. That encounter leads them to many adventures.

title: Father of the Milky Way Railroad

overview: Kenji, the eldest son of Masajiro, a wealthy moneylender, refuses to work in the family business and becomes obsessed with farming, jewelry and religion.

title: I Am Searching For Myself

overview: Interview with actress Nana Komatsu on her debut film "The World of Kanako".

original_title: 私はわたしを探しています。

title: The Fir Trees Remain

overview: The 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for his misbehavior during his short stay in Edo. On the next day, his 4 attendants were killed one after another. Sakai Utanokamike, the Rozyu, is turned out to be involved in this scheme, and the aim is to destroy the Date family. Tsunamune's brother Munekatsu Date who is willing to take over the family doesn't know the real purpose of Utanokami and helps him. Munesuku Harada gets to know the whole picture of the incident and takes action alone for the sake of protecting the Date family, leaving his own family. His lonely fight continues for 10 years and he got in danger in Utanokamike's house, and...

title: Ekiro

overview: An employee of a bank goes missing following his retirement from the bank. Veteran detective Yobuno (Koji Yakusho), who is set to retire himself, is charged with the investigating the missing person case. Det. Yobuno quickly finds more mysterious as he delves into the case, but a woman named Keiko Fukumura (Eri Fukatsu) surfaces who may hold the key to case.

title: Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ars longa, vita brevis

overview: A Music Special episode broadcasted by NHK. This documentary looks back at the great achievements and innovative works of Ryuichi Sakamoto's carreer, with a variety of rare footage from the NHK archives and other sources. The programme is narrated by Koji Yakusho, a long-time friend of Sakamoto.

original_title: 坂本龍一 芸術は長く、人生は短し

title: Hakkenden

overview: Takizawa Bakin, a popular Edo period author, begins to recount a story he is planning in front of his friend, the artist Katsushika Hokusai. The story is about eight warriors who, each carrying a jewel, gather together as if guided by fate and embark on a harsh journey to fight the curse of the Satomi family.  Hokusai is drawn into the story that Bakin is telling, and visits Bakin on various occasions to hear the rest of the story, and a strange relationship between the two begins. The serialization becomes Bakin's life's work, with the idea of "rewarding good and punishing evil in a world where evil is rampant," but after 28 years, as the story finally approaches its climax, Bakin begins to lose his sight.  With the completion of the story in doubt, he receives an unexpected proposal from his daughter-in-law. Will the story ever be completed?

title: Crimson Lotus

overview: Sakura and Kenzo are married. Both think they can live a happy marriage, despite the fact that she cannot have children and he does not want to give up her relationship with her lover Yoko.

title: Jubaku: Spellbound

overview: When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to dig, breaking open a money-and-favours scandal that threatens to rock the entire structure of business and government to its core. While the bank's top executives continue to vacillate, a quartet of middle-management reformers, led by straight-arrow Kitano (Koji Yakusho), decide to stage a boardroom coup and install a new, clean management team. With the aid of a hotshot news anchor (Mayumi Wakamura) and a hard-nosed prosecutor (Kenichi Endo), heads begin to roll.

title: Oh Lucy!

overview: A lonely, chain-smoking office lady in Tokyo falls for her teacher when she decides to take English lessons. When her teacher disappears, she sets out on a journey to find him.

title: The Third Murder

overview: A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.

title: Dark Society in the East

overview: A story about the activities of Southeast Asian Mafia gangs in Shinjuku. Ryosuke Kano is an ex French Foreign Legion soldier and is now a cocaine smuggler and dealer. He is acquainted with Larry, a Japanese American, but he turned out to be an undercover cop from New York.

title: The Legend of Sayo

overview: Sayo has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday when she attends a temple festival. On her way back she sees a large cherry tree which is infamous for the legend of dead white horse. When her fiancé returns from war and visits her he comes across a white horse which he takes in. The man also does not see himself engaged anymore as his family has lost its wealth.

title: A Samurai Chronicle

overview: A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life.

title: Sekigahara

overview: The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mitsunari. The story includes the intrigues and shifting loyalties of the various retainers, family members, and samurai.

title: Mifune: The Last Samurai

overview: An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.

title: Fireflies: River of Light

overview: After finally passing his teacher's exam, Miwa (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) devoted himself to teaching in a rustic primary school. He struggles to get through to his students, until he creates a class project to raise fireflies to fly over it once again. All students, even the reserved girl Hikari (Risako Sugaya), become passionately involved in the project. However, it brings them into conflict with parents and the school, one problem after another stands in his way.

title: Argentine Hag

overview: After the death of her dearest mother, her serious-minded father goes missing, leaving their only daughter Mitsuko. Six months later, it turns out that he is at Yuri's house, who is rumored to be an eccentric and is commonly known as Argentine hag.

title: The Hunter and the Hunted

overview: Jin (Yakusho), a young, widowed police detective who is thinking of leaving the force to better take care of his 8 year old daughter Misaki (Kanno), by chance arrests Neko (Emoto), an accomplished middle aged burglar who has just fixed Misaki's bicycle. After Neko has several weeks to see Jin in the interrogation room, he decides to confess to Jin and teach him how to become a capable detective and worthy adversary. By the time Neko serves his 10 year sentence, Jin is a highly regarded detective and they can they start their contest in earnest.

title: The Blood of Wolves

overview: Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the yakuza. He is partnered with Detective Shuichi Hioka and they investigate a missing person case involving a financial company employee. Conflicts between opposing yakuza groups become more serious.

title: The Sin

overview: A housewife was killed by a falling fire extinguisher, which a boy of seven years dropped from the top floor of an apartment. The offender, however, was not accused because he was too young. Ten years later, a series of murders occur, which target young girls only. It is the boy accused of killing the housewife who comes up in the couse of investigation, while the son of the murdered mother is the witness of a new murder. When the two families of the offender and of the victim meet again, two opposite morals conflict with each other – one is to crack down on the sin beyond the law and another is to disapprove the retaliation.

title: Mirai

overview: Unhappy after his new baby sister displaces him, four-year-old Kun begins meeting people and pets from his family's history in their unique house in order to help him become the big brother he was meant to be.

title: Eternal Monument

overview: A remake of the 1953 film of the same name.

title: Bonds

overview: Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father. His life begins to unravel when a journalist following him takes an interest in the wife of a boyhood chum, and the wife of another close friend takes an interest in Ise. A couple of murders later, Ise/Haga goes on the run and also sets out for revenge.

title: Wings Over Everest

overview: An experienced mountain rescue team is tasked with recovering crucial documents from Everest’s notorious death zone

title: Walking My Life

overview: A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovered that he has got terminal lung cancer and will die within half a year. He declines any treatment and decides to go to see some people he has not met for years, to write farewell letters to his family, relatives and friends...

title: Shabu

overview: Makabe is a yakuza who is addicted to 'shabu' (a slang refers to stimulant drug). He lives as if he wants to destroy himself. He steals a mistress of the boss of a big yakuza syndicate by force. He takes over the yakuza group he belongs to, by killing the old boss. When he tries to use 'shabu' as the main financial resource of his group, it leads to the serious confrontation with another big yakuza syndicate.

title: Willful Murder

overview: The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and shutdowns. The government says that the president was murdered; the police claim it was a suicide. A quizzical reporter follows the case for years, but the basic question remains unanswered: was the victim killed by members of the burgeoning Communist movement in Japan, or was the death stage-managed by the authorities in hopes of discrediting the Communists?

original_title: 日本の熱い日々 謀殺・下山事件

title: Under the Open Sky

overview: Mikami, an ex-yakuza of middle age with most of his life in prison, gets released after serving 13 years of sentence for murder. Hoping to find his long lost mother, from whom he was separated as a child, he applies for a TV show and meets a young TV director Tsunoda. Meanwhile, he struggles to get a proper job and fit into society. His impulsive, adamant nature and ingrained beliefs cause friction in his relationship with Tsunoda and those who want to help him.

title: Memoirs of a Geisha

overview: In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

title: Osaka Gokudo Senso: Shinoidare

original_title: 大阪極道戦争　しのいだれ

title: Tokyo: Level One

overview: Panic occurs when the Governor of Tokyo proposes to attract a nuclear power plant to Tokyo.

title: Belle

overview: Suzu is a 17-year-old high-school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day discovers the massive online world "U" and dives into this alternate reality as her avatar, Belle. Before long, all of U's eyes are fixed on Belle, when, suddenly, a mysterious, dragon-like figure appears before her.

title: The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai

overview: In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Makino clan of Nagaoka, dreamt of independence from the restraints of vassalship. Despite his progressive views and his desire for his estate to remain neutral during the Boshin Civil War, he was bound by loyalty and duty to the clan and was compelled to choose sides.

title: The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood

overview: In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who get involved in misadventures while on set.

original_title: バイプレイヤーズ もしも100人の名脇役が映画を作ったら

title: Megumi no Sekai

overview: A unique combination of social problem and entertainment TV movie about a female journalist who is hurt to the core when the truth of an article is questioned.

title: Suzume Iro Doki

overview: The TV movie is about a third-rate female lawyer who is an alcoholic, has a history of divorce, and only handles divorce settlements. She spends her days in a state of despondency, but when her estranged husband and daughter disappear, she embarks on a search, partly out of ambition.

title: Snowflowers: Seeds of Hope

overview: A touching true story which portrays a doctor who selflessly dedicated his personal fortune to spreading the smallpox vaccination for saving people's lives.

original_title: 雪の花 －ともに在りて－

title: Keijitachi no Natsu

overview: The TV movie follows a detective with a burning sense of justice who risks his life to pursue a corruption case involving the prime minister's office.

title: People Without a Fort

overview: After female high school student Furuya Meiko is found dead in her apartment from an apparent suicide, police investigate and discover that she was involved in prostitution. The night before Meiko's death, her secret job was exposed and broadcasted to the public by well-known journalist Nagasaka Fumio on a very popular news program. Filled with anger and confusion, her boyfriend, Yahiro Kiichiro vows to get revenge on Nagasaka.

title: Common Ground: Under Construction Notes

title: Takeda Shingen

overview: During the 16th century, Japan was involved in the Sengoku Period, an era of civil wars and the powerful warlords who fought them. One of the earliest and strongest of these men was the Lord Takeda Shingen, a tremendous military genius.

title: The Brightest Sun

overview: When a private detective is murdered, a former colleague and a trainee detective are sent to investigate. Along the way, they uncover a tragic truth that triggers memories from their own haunted pasts.

title: Early Autumn

overview: As summer gives way to autumn, Matsubara Tatsuhira (played by Yakusho Koji), who runs a wine specialty store in Nagano, feels a mix of emotions as he sends his daughter off to her wedding. Since his wife passed away 20 years ago, Matsubara has dedicated himself to raising his daughter, even sacrificing another chance at love. However, his daughter's marriage seems to have left this strong man feeling a sense of emotional loss and loneliness. Afterward, he temporarily sets aside his work and travels to Kyoto to visit his old friend, the writer Shigeo Shuzuki (played by Iwasaki Ryō), and also reunites with his high school friend Yamabe Kōsuke (played by Ten Ten). At Yamabe's request, Matsubara went to a nightclub to investigate the other man's daughter—who was also Matsubara's daughter's friend—Reiko (played by Nakagawa Noriko). Reiko had secretly loved Matsubara since childhood, and the hidden emotions in this middle-aged man seemed to be awakening once again...

title: Scarlet

overview: After failing to avenge her father's murder, Princess Scarlet, wakes up in the "Land of the Dead." In this world filled with madness, if she does not achieve her revenge against her nemesis and reach the "No End Place," she will become "Void" and cease to exist. Can Scarlet find a way to live at the end of her endless journey?

title: 39th Edogawa Rampo Prize "Kao ni Furikakaru Ame"

overview: Film adaptation of Natsuo Kirino's Edogawa Rampo Award-winning novel Kao ni Furikakaru Ame.

original_title: 第39回江戸川乱歩賞『顔に降りかかる雨』

title: Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende

overview: At 80 years old, German director and photographer Wim Wenders talks about his unwavering joy in creating and telling stories. From "Paris, Texas" to "Perfect Days" and "Wings of Desire," this is a tender and luminous portrait of the most European of filmmakers.

title: Tales of the Bizarre: 35th Anniversary Special – Autumn Special

overview: 35th-anniversary Fuji TV special featuring three new “Tales of the Unusual” shorts: Anata Hakubutsukan, Nanakai Tōsō, Tomaranakereba Ikirarenai Game, plus a one-night revival of the 1991 classic “Happy Birthday to My Home.”

original_title: 世にも奇妙な物語35周年SP 秋の特別編

title: The Fox Dancing in the Dusk

overview: A heartfelt period drama that delicately portrays the joys and sorrows of a thief and the people living on the margins of society. Ihei, played by Tatsuya Nakadai, works as a painter by day. In reality, however, he is a skilled thief. To target the home of a moneylender’s mistress, he recruits a group of amateurs to join him. Men in need of large sums of money for various reasons begin to gather around Ihei, but…

title: Toad's Oil

title: Perfect Days

title: The World of Kanako

title: Babel

title: The Great Department Store Robbery

title: The Eel

title: Shall We Dance?

title: Tampopo

title: Sleeping Man

title: Doppelgänger

title: Bounce Ko Gals

title: Pulse

title: Séance

title: Gelatin Silver, Love

original_title: ゼラチンシルバーLOVE

title: Cure

title: Eureka

title: Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean

title: University of Laughs

title: Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

title: Hunter in the Dark

title: Retribution

title: Paco and the Magical Book

title: Lost Paradise

title: The Last Ronin

title: Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

title: 13 Assassins

title: The Woodsman and the Rain

title: Suite Dreams

original_title: 聯合艦隊司令長官 山本五十六 – 太平洋戦争70年目の真実

title: Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho

original_title: アナザーウェイ　Ｄ機関情報

title: The Terminal Trust

title: Aurora Borealis

original_title: Под северным сиянием

title: The Law of Hell

title: Perfect Days

title: Yukon

title: The World of Kanako

title: The Kiyosu Conference

original_title: 映画 窓ぎわのトットちゃん

title: Gratitude

title: History of Jirocho Shimizu

title: Toad's Oil

title: The Lakeside Murder Case

original_title: レイクサイド マーダーケース

title: Silk

title: Família

title: Twelve Months

original_title: 世界名作童話　森は生きている

title: Tadon and Chikuwa

title: Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather

title: Dora-heita

title: Kamikaze Taxi

title: I Just Didn't Do It

original_title: それでもボクはやってない

title: License to Live

title: Charisma

title: Chronicle of My Mother

title: The Emperor in August

title: Tokyo Sonata

title: The Choice of Hercules

original_title: 突入せよ！「あさま山荘」事件

title: Whistleblower

title: The Boy and the Beast

title: Father of the Milky Way Railroad

title: I Am Searching For Myself

original_title: 私はわたしを探しています。

title: The Fir Trees Remain

title: Ekiro

original_title: 坂本龍一 芸術は長く、人生は短し

title: Hakkenden

title: Crimson Lotus

title: Jubaku: Spellbound

title: Oh Lucy!

title: The Third Murder

title: Dark Society in the East

title: The Legend of Sayo

title: A Samurai Chronicle

title: Sekigahara

title: Mifune: The Last Samurai

title: Fireflies: River of Light

title: Argentine Hag

title: The Hunter and the Hunted

title: The Blood of Wolves

title: The Sin

title: Mirai

title: Eternal Monument

title: Bonds

title: Wings Over Everest

title: Walking My Life

title: Shabu

title: Willful Murder

original_title: 日本の熱い日々 謀殺・下山事件

title: Under the Open Sky

title: Memoirs of a Geisha

title: Osaka Gokudo Senso: Shinoidare

original_title: 大阪極道戦争　しのいだれ

title: Tokyo: Level One

title: Belle

title: The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai

title: The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood

original_title: バイプレイヤーズ もしも100人の名脇役が映画を作ったら

title: Megumi no Sekai

title: Suzume Iro Doki

title: Snowflowers: Seeds of Hope

original_title: 雪の花 －ともに在りて－

title: Keijitachi no Natsu

title: People Without a Fort

title: Common Ground: Under Construction Notes

title: Takeda Shingen

title: The Brightest Sun

title: Early Autumn

title: Scarlet

original_title: 第39回江戸川乱歩賞『顔に降りかかる雨』

title: Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende

original_title: 世にも奇妙な物語35周年SP 秋の特別編

title: The Fox Dancing in the Dusk

「愛に燃える戦国の女」−豊臣家の人々より−

original_name: 「愛に燃える戦国の女」−豊臣家の人々より−

original_name: 二百三高地 愛は死にますか

Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story

original_name: いだてん〜東京オリムピック噺〜

Did Someone Happen to Mention Me?

original_name: 俺のこと、なんか言ってた？

title: Toad's Oil

title: Perfect Days


Helena Bergström

biography:
Helena Bergström (born 5 February 1964 in Kortedala, Gothenburg) is a Swedish actress.

The granddaughter of legendary Swedish actor Olof Widgren and the daughter of Hans Bergström (director) and Kerstin Widgren (actress). Bergström is married to Colin Nutley and is known for playing the female lead in many of his films. Being one of Sweden’s most highly acclaimed stage actresses she has played the lead part in plays like ”Miss Julie”, ”Twelfth Night”, ”Pygmalion”, ”Piaf”, "A Dolls House", the part of Hamlet in “Hamlet”, “Medea” and Blanche in “A Streetcar Named Desire”. In the autumn of 2008 she will play the part of Sally Bowles in Stockholm City Theatre’s production of “Cabaret”.

Despite being born into a theatrical family, Bergström's childhood dream was to work with animals. Aged 15, she travelled to Mississippi in the US as an exchange student and lived there for a year. During this time, she became fascinated with the theatre and decided that the stage was her calling. Back in Sweden, she won a part in a TV series but failed in her first attempt to achieve a place at stage school. Thanks to tuition from Margreth Weivers, she succeeded on her third attempt in 1985.

On graduating from the Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting in 1988, she worked at both the Dramaten Theatre and the Stockholm City Theatre. Her breakthrough came with the film 1939 in 1989. Colin Nutley spotted her on a poster for the film "Women on the roof" Kvinnorna på taket (1989) and gave her the leading role in his film Blackjack (1990). She was also the obvious choice for his film Änglagård (1992) as well as its sequel ”House of Angels – the Second Summer”. In 1998 she played the part of Astrid in the English production ”Still Crazy” which was to be followed by Colin Nutley’s Oscar-nominated ”Under the Sun” - a film that also received the Special Jury Prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival "for the quality of its acting".

Winner of several awards including Best Actress at the Swedish Film Awards, the Montreal Film Festival and the 1995 Istanbul Film Festival for her performance in Nutley’s ”The Last Dance”.

In 2007 she made her directorial debut with “Mind the Gap” (Se upp för dårarna).

Has two children, a son and a daughter, with Nutley.

Who Do You Think You Are?

overview: A Swedish version of the British genealogy documentary series Who Do You Think You Are?, where famous people are searching for truths and hidden stories about their family history.

character: Herself

original_name: Vem tror du att du är?

original_language: sv

Renées brygga

overview: TV presenter invites Swedish celebrities and interesting personalities to her summer island in the Stockholm Archipelago for an evening filled with food, drink, laughs and emotion. She interviews her guests about their career, life and dreams, trying to learn new things about them.

original_name: Renées brygga

Robins

overview:
Robins is a Swedish late-night talk show which premiered on SVT2 on August 23, 2006. The host is the young stand-up comedian Robin Paulsson from Malmö. The show's format is similar to that of other late-night shows, Robin makes jokes about recent news, shows sketches, and talks to a guest in the studio.

One of the most popular sketches in the show features Robin appearing as Swedish football player Zlatan Ibrahimović.

character: Self - Guest

original_name: Robins

Luuk & Hallberg

original_name: Luuk & Hallberg

Så ska det låta

overview:
Så ska det låta is a Swedish game show, based on the Irish The Lyrics Board. The show was introduced in 1997 and led by Peter Harryson until Peter Settman took over in 2006.

Så ska det låta can be watched online at svt play for approximately one month after airing.

original_name: Så ska det låta

Doobidoo

overview:
Doobidoo is a Swedish musical game show first aired in 2005 on the public service network SVT. There is also a Polish, TVP2, version called Dubidu - show host Piotr Gasowski - and an Australian version that goes by You may be right, hosted by Todd McKenney

The Swedish version of the show is hosted by entertainment personality Lasse Kronér.

original_name: Doobidoo

Min sanning

original_name: Min sanning

Stjärnorna på slottet

overview: Five celebrities spend five days together on a castle somewhere in Sweden. Each episode (or day) centres around one of them. This person decides what to to and eat. The others get the chance to ask questions about this persons life and career.

original_name: Stjärnorna på slottet

Skavlan

overview:
Skavlan is a Norwegian-Swedish television talk show hosted by Norwegian journalist Fredrik Skavlan. It premiered in Sweden on Sveriges Television in January 2009, and the first guests to appear on the show were former Prime Minister of Sweden Göran Persson and his wife Anitra Steen. On 8 May 2009, it was announced that Skavlan had been renewed for a second season. It was also announced that the show would no longer only be produced by SVT in Sweden; Skavlan would now be partly produced in Norway by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. The first twelve episodes of Skavlan's second season were produced by SVT in Sweden, and the remaining twelve by NRK in Norway.

Skavlan speaks Norwegian and his dialog is therefore subtitled in Swedish in Sweden, even though the two languages are quite similar and mutually intelligible. If the persons being interviewed by Skavlan are Swedish, he often tells them to let him know if they do not understand what he is saying. Swedish novelist Jan Guillou has criticized SVT for subtitling the program, stating "there is no need for that. If the host had been Danish, subtitling would have been necessary, but with a Norwegian host it does not make any sense."

original_name: Skavlan

origin_country: NO SE

original_language: no

Tillsammans med Strömstedts

original_name: Tillsammans med Strömstedts

Missing

overview: Police inspector Maja Silver returns to her hometown in the Swedish Bible Belt as a terrible discovery paralyzes the small community.

character: Maja Silver

original_name: Saknad

Hellenius Hörna

original_name: Hellenius Hörna

name: Ture Sventon och jakten på ungdomens källa

overview: Ture Sventon and the Hunt for the Fountain of Youth takes place at the detective agency in Lingonboda, but during the journey, viewers are taken on a hunt that leads Ture and Matilda Jansson to the Amazon, Rome and Hawaii.

character: Matilda Jansson

original_name: Ture Sventon och jakten på ungdomens källa

Codename: Annika

overview: Finnish art fraud investigator, Emma, goes undercover to infiltrate an auction house in Stockholm to investigate the firm’s connection to a notorious money launderer known as Blanko. To go undetected, Emma chooses the cover identity Annika, a hot-headed socialite who lives for wild parties, drugs and alcohol and is the opposite of the cool, calm, and collected Emma. By adopting this wild persona, doors begin to open to the hidden world of high-class art fraud. However, becoming Annika means Emma must confront memories from her past that she has tried to forget.

character: Agatha Torstensson

original_name: Koodinimi: Annika

original_language: fi

The Fourth Man

overview: The year is 1975, and the West German embassy in Stockholm is occupied by German terrorists. It's an attack not only on the embassy, but on Sweden's long-standing pride as a peaceful nation. In the aftermath of the violent occupation, the Swedish Security Police suspects the six terrorists had help from the outside, possibly from a group of Swedish sympathizers. But no leads can be found until fourteen years later.

character: Stein

original_name: Den fjärde mannen

Selma

overview: The story of Swedish world renowned novelist Selma Lagerlöf’s life.

character: Selma Lagerlöf

original_name: Selma

Weddings, Funerals and Baptisms

overview: An uncharacteristic slip-up at her daughter's wedding leads a married woman to a most unexpected dilemma.

original_name: Bröllop, begravning & dop

Melodifestivalen

overview:
Melodifestivalen (direct translation: The Melody Festival) is an annual music competition organised by Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT). The competition is a six part tour (5 heats + the final) with stops in cities across Sweden to determine the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Melodifestivalen is also known informally as "Mello", or internationally as "Melfest".

original_name: Melodifestivalen

Vänligen: Lars Lerin

overview: Lars Lerin is one of Sweden most beloved artists. Now he seeks new friends and meet creative people he honestly wants to get to know.

original_name: Vänligen: Lars Lerin

Tack för musiken

original_name: Tack för musiken

BIANCA

overview: Unfiltered and unexpected when Bianca Ingrosso invites Swedish and international stars to Sweden's new big talk show - BIANCA.

original_name: BIANCA

Sweden's Got Talent

overview: Talang Sverige, formerly named Talang between 2007–2011, is the Swedish version of the Got Talent series show where singers, dancers, comedians, variety acts, and other performers compete against each other for audience support and the prize money. The show was broadcast for five seasons on TV4, between 2007–2011, before TV4 put the show on indefinite hiatus. Two years later, on June 19, 2013, TV3 announced that they had acquired the rights for the show and will re-launch the show in Spring 2014 under the name "Talang Sverige".

character: Jury member

original_name: Talang

The Guldbagge Awards

overview:
The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the name Guldbaggen. The awards, first presented in 1964 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, are overseen by the Swedish Film Institute. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards.

The awards ceremony was first televised in 1981.

character: Self - Best Actress winner

original_name: Guldbaggegalan

Springfloden

overview: A homeless former detective and an aspiring police officer join forces to solve a cold case in which a pregnant woman was buried alive on a beach on North Koster Island.

character: Linn Magnusson

original_name: Springfloden

The Pirate Bay

overview: The series tells the remarkable story of how three young men, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij, united in the fight for a free internet and founded the download site The Pirate Bay. Their idea of free access to information, music, books and movies would fundamentally change the internet.

character: Monique Wadsted

original_name: The Pirate Bay

name: Ture Sventon and the Secrets of The Bermuda Triangle

overview: Swedish family adventure in six parts about the detective Ture Sventon, who takes his neighbor children Siv and Gittan on a dizzying journey. His cunning arch enemy Ville Vessla has escaped from prison and the odd trio must quickly put an end to his horrendous plan. The star-studded cast includes Robert Gustafsson, Johan Glans, Björn Gustafsson and Helena Bergström.

character: Fröken Jansson

original_name: Ture Sventon och Bermudatriangelns hemlighet

Vilket liv!

character: Herself - Huvudgäst

original_name: Vilket liv!

character: Herself - Gäst

Bergs bärbara talkshow

original_name: Bergs bärbara talkshow

Bäckström

overview: Murder investigator Evert Bäckström is convinced that crimes have been committed when a women's cranium is found on an island in the archipelago. But his investigation is countered by the police chief and when the woman's identity is clarified, the entire investigation is turned upside down.

character: Tussan Carlsson

original_name: Bäckström

Plura's Kitchen

original_name: Pluras Kök

Weddings, Funerals and Baptisms

job: Writer

department: Writing

Deutsch

Helena Bergström

biography:
Helena Bergström (geboren am 5. Februar 1964 in Kortedala, Göteborg) ist eine schwedische Schauspielerin.

Sie ist die Enkelin des legendären schwedischen Schauspielers Olof Widgren und die Tochter des Regisseurs Hans Bergström und der Schauspielerin Kerstin Widgren. Bergström ist mit Colin Nutley verheiratet und bekannt für ihre Hauptrollen in zahlreichen seiner Filme. Als eine der renommiertesten Bühnenschauspielerinnen Schwedens spielte sie Hauptrollen in Stücken wie „Fräulein Julie“, „Was ihr wollt“, „Pygmalion“, „Piaf“, „Nora oder Ein Puppenheim“, die Rolle des Hamlet in „Hamlet“, die Rolle der Medea und die Blanche in „Endstation Sehnsucht“. Im Herbst 2008 verkörperte sie die Rolle der Sally Bowles in der Produktion „Cabaret“ des Stockholmer Stadttheaters.

Obwohl sie aus einer Theaterfamilie stammt, war Bergströms Kindheitstraum, mit Tieren zu arbeiten. Mit 15 Jahren reiste sie als Austauschschülerin nach Mississippi in den USA und lebte dort ein Jahr. In dieser Zeit entdeckte sie ihre Leidenschaft für das Theater und beschloss, dass die Bühne ihre Berufung war. Zurück in Schweden ergatterte sie eine Rolle in einer Fernsehserie, scheiterte aber beim ersten Versuch, einen Platz an einer Schauspielschule zu bekommen. Dank der Unterstützung von Margreth Weivers gelang es ihr 1985 im dritten Anlauf.

Nach ihrem Abschluss an der Schwedischen Nationalen Akademie für Pantomime und Schauspiel im Jahr 1988 arbeitete sie sowohl am Dramaten-Theater als auch am Stockholmer Stadttheater. Ihr Durchbruch gelang ihr 1989 mit dem Film „1939“. Colin Nutley entdeckte sie auf einem Plakat für den Film „Frauen auf dem Dach“ (1989) und gab ihr die Hauptrolle in seinem Film „Blackjack“ (1990). Auch für seinen Film „Änglagård“ (1992) sowie dessen Fortsetzung „House of Angels – Der zweite Sommer“ war sie die ideale Besetzung. 1998 spielte sie die Rolle der Astrid in der englischen Produktion „Still Crazy“. Darauf folgte Colin Nutleys oscarnominierter Film „Under the Sun“, der beim Filmfestival von San Sebastián den Spezialpreis der Jury für die schauspielerische Leistung erhielt.

Sie gewann mehrere Preise, darunter den Preis als Beste Schauspielerin bei den Schwedischen Filmpreisen, dem Filmfestival von Montreal und dem Filmfestival von Istanbul 1995 für ihre Darstellung in Nutleys „The Last Dance“.

2007 gab sie mit „Mind the Gap“ (Se upp för dårarna) ihr Regiedebüt.

Sie hat zwei Kinder, einen Sohn und eine Tochter, mit Nutley.

also_known_as:
Helena Kristina Bergström
Helena Bergström Nutley

title: Heartbreak Hotel

overview: Elisabeth and Gudrun are two Swedish divorcées, both over 40, who meet when Elisabeth parks her car on a loading zone and is ticketed by Gudrun. Despite this shaky start, a friendship grows between the two. Elizabeth, a gynecologist, is sexy and confident. She leads the shy Gudrun through the dangerous waters of single life. But as they cavort through the dance floors and bars of Stockholm's nightlife they are led to a deeper examination of the relationships with men.

title: Still Crazy

overview: In the 1970s, Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. Twenty years on, these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the idea of a reunion tour is lodged in the head of Tony, former keyboard player of the Fruits. Tony sets out to find his former bandmates with the help of former manager Karen to see if they can recapture the magic and give themselves a second chance.

title: Once in a Lifetime

overview: Mona Bergström is a sweet eurovision-obsessed woman in her 30s. She is married to a lazy husband and has four children, all named after her favorite Swedish Eurovision popstars. Her brother is a crossdressing guy self-titled "Candy Darling". Mona works in a retirement home for disabled people, where she is responsible for taking care of a young man named David who suffers a movement-restricting disease forcing him into a wheelchair. David's parents have abandoned him, as they wanted a normal child. Mona holds a big place in David's heart, and vica versa. David's goal is to get his parents to come and visit him, and he wants to show them that he is a great person, despite his handicap. Therefore he works with music on his computer, and his goal is to create a song, send it to "The Cardigans", a famous Swedish band and have them play the song and credit him, hoping his parents would spot it and want to visit him.

title: House of Angels

overview: In a small village in Västergötland, everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies and his cottage is inherited by his unknown relative Fanny. She rides into town on a big black motorcycle with her androgynous boyfriend Zack, wearing black leather and spikes. When they decide to stay, Flogfält's plans to buy the cottage are upset.

title: Paradiset

overview: Tabloid journalist Annika Bengtzon is writing about a murder in the port of Stockholm and she suspects that the Yugoslav mafia is involved. However, she also finds links to a foundation that runs a shelter for battered women, Paradiset. Looking for a good story she also meets a welfare official, Thomas, who also thinks that the foundation should be looked into. Written by Mattias Thuresson

title: The Hunters

overview: A policeman from Stockholm come to Norrbotten in Sweden, to join his brother, now when their father is dead. While there he starts to work on a long-running case where reindeers have been poached and soon discovers that his brother is involved...

title: Angel

overview: Angelica "Angel" Holst was a celebrated rockstar in the '80s, but since then her fame and popularity has faded. Now it's time to step back into the spotlight – but to reach the top again she needs media attention, and the question is what price Angel is willing to pay to get back?

title: House of Angels: The Second Summer

overview: Fanny and Zack is back, after she inherited Änglagård last year. Everytone looks forward to their new stay. Axel has told Fanny he is her father, but who else? Ivar also thinks he is her father. Be ready for expectations and confusions.

title: BlackJack

overview: Kaj, Lennart and Robert are 30-somethings who go out to dance every weekend. At one dance they meet Inger, whom Kaj falls in love with. Kaj has some friends who are playing in a band. The drummer Tommy is known for being the local Casanova, seducing women when ever he gets the chance. It doesn't take him long to have an affair with Inger, behind Kaj's back.

title: Under the Sun

overview: Olof lives alone on his family's farm after the death of his mother. Unable to read and write, he is dependent on his younger friend, Erik, who helps him in the afternoons. Once a sailor, Erik brags of having known hundreds of women. Out of the blue, Olof advertises in the local paper for a young lady housekeeper, and Ellen, a middle-class city woman, arrives to take over the house and, as the summer goes on, Olof's heart and Erik's desire as well.

title: Somewhere Else

overview: Alongside a tranquil road somewhere in Sweden live a number of people who are pretty much like people in general. When a highly improbable and catastrophic chain of events besets them, it leads to break up and change. A tragicomic story that feels both familiar and alien at the same time.

title: House of Angels - Third Time Lucky

overview: A lot happens in a small village in 15 years. People fall in love, get married, have kids and divorces. Some move, some die - in Yxared just like in other places. Zac, Fanny and her daughter Alice travels back to to the small village in Ostergotland. Alice makes them return - where does she come from, what are her roots? The question about who Fanny's dad is, arises once more. And Alice, who's her dad?

title: Deadline

overview: The Victoriastadium is totally destroyed in a bomb attack and Christina Furhage, head-responsible for the Olympic Games in Stockholm, dies with it. Why did someone destroy the stadium and why is Christina murdered? The police desperately seek for clues that will lead them to the perpetrator but without any luck. As the Olympic Games draws near the situation becomes more desperate. Annika Bengtzon, a reporter for Kvällsposten, se a connection that no one else sees and without understanding it she starts a carousel that in the end will threaten her own life.

title: The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

overview: Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys' rural family home on the eve of young Jack's 16th birthday. Her remarkable likeness to Jack's mother, Emily, who tragically died in an accident eight years ago both baffles and unsettles the family. She even wears the same pearls that Emily wore.

title: Such Is Life

overview: Tin-Tin is a bar pianist, living with the radio talk show host Paul in a relationship gone stale. Still, her parents are expecting grandchildren. Then a self-assured Norwegian business man turns up giving her the eye.

title: The Last Dance

overview: Blackpool, a dancing contest, a dead woman. This is the opening scene of this movie, which then continues by telling us the story preceding this sad accident - or is it a murder? We will get to know the tensed relationship of the dancing contestant couple Tove and Claes, and see how there lives are affected by Liselott and Lennart, their opponents and friends.

title: Pariserhjulet

overview: Their dream of happiness and the perfect caper became a dizzying adventure, full of excitement, humor, passion and great adventure.

title: The Women on the Roof

overview: An innocent and beautiful girl, Linnea rents an apartment in Stockholm just before WWI. As she works for an old man who owns a photography studio she meets Anna, a photographer with whom she develops a complex friendship. Anna’s circus-performer boyfriend and European politics complicate Linnea’s routine.

title: 1939

overview: When the war breaks out, Annika lives with her parents in Värmland, close to the border to Norway. Her cousin Harald is a dealer in the black market but has to escape from the police to Norway. Annika moves to Stockholm and gets a job as a waitress. She meets the happy-go-lucky Berit and together they have a wonderful time. She also meets a young man, Bengt, whom she marries. But almost immediately she discovers that her husband is different from the man who was courting her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

title: Gossip

overview: A Hollywood producer auditions ten Swedish actresses for the title role in a big-budget remake of Greta Garbo's classic Queen Christina.

title: Friends

overview: John is a legal assistant who is looking forward to marriage to his fiancee Sally, but his daydream is interrupted when a model plane crashes through his window. Following the plane is a family of six who invade his life and apartment.

title: Se mig!

overview: More and more people dream of becoming famous. It has become the ultimate evidence of being "somebody". What you're famous for is many times less important. Filmmakers Stina Gardell and Benjamin Wolff have followed six people whose lives revolve around the Stockholm celebrity circuit.

title: Medicine

overview: Johanna works as a journalist on a women magazine. But her boss is an idiot, her salary is ridiculous and her husband has left her for a younger woman. With a great life crisis she decided to try a new medicine.

title: Inga Tidblad - Lysande stjärna av sin tid

overview: Inga Tidblad started acting in 1921 and became one of Sweden's greatest and most successful actresses of all time. Daughter Meg Westergren, colleagues Bibi Andersson, Helena Bergström, Thommy Berggren and Sven Wollter are a few who talk and remember her as a person and as an actor.

original_title: Inga Tidblad - Lysande stjärna av sin tid

title: A Holy Mess

overview: A comedy about the new alternative family and how different family situations and relationships come to a head during the premier family weekend.

title: VD

overview: A managing director (Ernst-Hugo Järegård) comes uninvited home to one of his workers and humiliates him and his girlfriend.

title: The Cake General

overview: Set in 1984, Hans Pettersson (Hasse P.) decides to create the largest sandwich cake ever made in order to put his home town, Köping, on the map.

title: Ängel

overview: The writer Stig Larsson's feature film debut. A different film which moves around various acting styles - various reality levels. The writer Stig converses with his friend Kim who's in London. A conversation which will get a fateful result.

title: Mrs Klein

title: Husbonden

overview: Young Charlie becomes a farmhand on a remote Swedish island during the early 19th century. His master is a pirate who, together with his two daughters, live on killing shipwrecked sailors and stealing their cargo. Eventually, Charlie begins to question the correctness of his master living.

title: Ernst-Hugo

overview: A gripping portrait of the dramatic, extravagant and ego-centric actor Ernst-Hugo Järegård (1928-1998) who would always be at the center of everything. On the out side he was a hailed and confident diva. In his solitude he was plagued by insomnia, anxiety and a complicated relationship with his father. Includes Ernst-Hugo Järegårds last performance "Aktörens läte/ The sound of the actor" (1998) and "Abstract Poker" (1971).

title: Bröllop, begravning och dop - filmen

overview: An independent sequel to the TV series. Here we follow the families Öhrn and Seger and take us through autumn and winter on our way to Christmas celebrations and to a New Year's Eve which inevitably means an end to the old and a beginning of something new… A film about love and death and everything in between.

title: Malou möter Helena Bergström

overview: Helena Bergström is fearless in the spotlight, but anxiety and worry have accompanied the actor and director her entire life. Helena was only 26 when she met director Colin Nutley, who gave her the lead role in Black Jack, the film that floored Swedish cinema audiences. In a candid interview with Malou von Sivers, the couple talk about what it's like to grow and age together.

title: Rat Winter

overview: Two men pick up fourteen-year-old prostitutes girls. One of the girls begins to fight her client. A neighbor intervenes.

title: Resan till Piemonte

overview: The film follows four newly retired people who travel to Italy to help Eva sell an olive farm she inherited. But during their sunny stay, new thoughts arise about life, freedom and the dreams they have yet to realize. The trip becomes a chance to reevaluate what really matters when you reach the second half of life.

title: Rise Above - Filmen om Anton Hysén

overview: In 2011, Anton Hysén comes out as Sweden's first male gay footballer. Suddenly he has a decision to make - to pursue the sacrificial dream of becoming a professional footballer, or to step into a world that generates immediate recognition.

title: Se upp för dårarna

overview: Two girls from different backgrounds, one an immigrant from Turkey and the other a girl who needs to get out of her father's shadow, apply to the police academy, where they become close friends.

title: Se upp för dårarna

title: So Different

overview: Single mother Lotta and her younger sister Sanna are both successful in their different jobs, and are living very different lives, but are attracted to men who are their opposites.

title: Julie

overview: It's Midsummer Eve and Julie sets her sights on Jean, Kristin's betrothed. What can Kristin do? Both she and Jean are employed by Julie's father. Julie gets her night with Jean. But at what cost?

title: Julie

title: Kulkuset kulkuset

overview: Two diverse families meet for the first time over Christmas dinner. The evening goes off the rails right from the start when the male host couple reveal a closely guarded secret: there's also a hostess in the house, and she's very pregnant! Of course, the frantic group of relatives don't take the news lightly and demand the paternity to be confirmed - which is no simple task. A series of misunderstandings drives the Christmas guests to the brink of a nervous breakdown, and as the evening progresses, Santa Claus himself is forced to look in the mirror. Their Christmas together seems doomed to failure until, to everyone's surprise, the evening culminates in a heart-melting Christmas miracle.

title: A Holy Mess

title: A Holy Mess

title: Mending Hugo's Heart

overview: "What a Damn Circus" - A young university student Hugo falls in love with promising violinist Agnes, but something happens that changes his life completely. Moving on, the story turns into a romantic drama-comedy with great portions of humour and warmth, as Hugo ends up at Circus Margôt and is drawn into that absorbing existence.

title: Mending Hugo's Heart

title: No More F*cks To Give

overview: Mia Skäringer mixes lightning-fast humor with music and honest monologues in an intimate and charged special performance. It is a show about being a woman, about owning oneself and dictating one's own terms.

title: Dancing Queens

overview: The story of Dylan Pettersson, a 23-year-old girl from a small island in the Swedish archipelago with big dancing aspirations.

title: Dancing Queens

title: Bröllop, begravning och dop - filmen

title: Heartbreak Hotel

title: Still Crazy

title: Once in a Lifetime

title: House of Angels

title: Paradiset

title: The Hunters

title: Angel

title: House of Angels: The Second Summer

title: BlackJack

title: Under the Sun

title: Somewhere Else

title: House of Angels - Third Time Lucky

title: Deadline

title: The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

title: Such Is Life

title: The Last Dance

title: Pariserhjulet

title: The Women on the Roof

title: 1939

title: Gossip

title: Friends

title: Se mig!

title: Medicine

title: A Holy Mess

title: VD

title: The Cake General

title: Ängel

title: Mrs Klein

title: Husbonden

title: Ernst-Hugo

title: Bröllop, begravning och dop - filmen

title: Malou möter Helena Bergström

title: Rat Winter

title: Resan till Piemonte

title: Rise Above - Filmen om Anton Hysén

title: Se upp för dårarna

title: Se upp för dårarna

title: So Different

title: Julie

title: Julie

title: Kulkuset kulkuset

title: A Holy Mess

title: A Holy Mess

title: Mending Hugo's Heart

title: Mending Hugo's Heart

title: No More F*cks To Give

title: Dancing Queens

title: Dancing Queens

title: Bröllop, begravning och dop - filmen