John A. Bushelman

Goliath Awaits

job: Sound Editor

overview: During World War II the passenger liner "Goliath" is sunk by a German submarine. Portions of the ship's hull remain airtight, and some of the passengers and crew survive. Over the decades they build a rigidly regulated society completely isolated from the surface world until, in contemporary times, a diving team begins to explore the wreck.

department: Sound

original_name: Goliath Awaits

original_language: en

Fury

job: Editor

overview:
Fury is an American western television series that aired on NBC from 1955 to1960. It stars Peter Graves as Jim Newton, who operates the Broken Wheel Ranch in California; Bobby Diamond as Jim's adopted son, Joey Clark Newton, and William Fawcett as ranch hand Pete Wilkey. Roger Mobley co-starred in the two final seasons as Homer "Packy" Lambert, a friend of Joey's.

The frequent introduction to the show depicts the beloved stallion running inside the corral and approaching the camera as the announcer reads: "FURY!..The story of a horse..and a boy who loves him." Fury is the first American series produced originally by Television Programs of America and later by the British-based company ITC Entertainment.

department: Editing

original_name: Fury

origin_country: US NO

English

iso_639_1: en

english_name: English

also_known_as:
John Bushelman
John Bushlman

title: Mr. Kingstreet's War

overview: A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the waterholes.

original_title: Mr. Kingstreet's War

title: Frankenstein 1970

overview: The baron's grandson rents the family castle to a TV crew to fund his atomic revival of the family monster.

original_title: Frankenstein 1970

title: Angel's Flight

overview: A series of murders involving a stripper are investigated by a hard-drinking reporter.

original_title: Angel's Flight

job: Associate Producer

title: Angel's Flight

department: Production

title: Tormented

overview: A jazz pianist is haunted by his dead ex-lover's crawling hand and floating head.

original_title: Tormented

job: Story

title: Daughters of Satan

overview: A man buys a painting depicting witches being burned at the stake, one of whom bears an uncanny resemblance to his wife.

department: Writing

original_title: Daughters of Satan

title: Hell Bound

overview: After WW2, a Los Angeles crime ring uses a complex scheme, involving a freight ship, a junkie, and a corrupt health officer, to smuggle drugs into the USA.

original_title: Hell Bound

title: War Drums

overview: The friendship between a white man & an Apache chief is tested when they fall in love with the same woman

original_title: War Drums

job: Director

title: Day of the Nightmare

overview: A young wife's marriage begins to crumble after she's attacked by a knife-wielding woman whom the police believed was already dead.

department: Directing

original_title: Day of the Nightmare

title: Way Out

overview: A story of two men who become heroin addicts, what they must do to support their habit and how it affects their lives.

original_title: Way Out

title: Cat Murkil and the Silks

overview: A street-gang member kills the gang's leader and blames it on a rival gang.

original_title: Cat Murkil and the Silks

title: The Broken Land

overview: A cowboy rides into a small town that is ruled with an iron fist by a corrupt sheriff. He becomes involved with a pretty young town girl and some residents who are trying to oust the sheriff, resulting in a robbery, a murder and his being pursued by a vengeful posse.

original_title: The Broken Land

title: Sniper's Ridge

overview: A combat unit under Capt. Tombol's command undertakes a perilous final patrol amidst heightened tensions, despite an imminent Korean War treaty. Tragically, Tombol steps on a "Bouncing Betty" landmine.

original_title: Sniper's Ridge

title: Cat-Women of the Moon

overview: Astronauts travel to the moon where they discover it is inhabited by attractive young women in black tights.

original_title: Cat-Women of the Moon

title: The Silent Call

overview: Young Guy Brancato and  parents have to move from Elko, Nevada to Los Angeles, California, they are unable to take Guy's dog Pete. Guy is angry at his parents and even more distressed when he learns that Pete has run away from the neighbor who was tending him. But Pete has plans to travel to Los Angeles on his own.

original_title: The Silent Call

title: Fear No More

overview: Accused of killing a woman on a train, Sharon Carlin runs home to find another corpse there too!

original_title: Fear No More

title: The 3rd Voice

overview: Marian Forbes has been having an affair with her boss and when he drops her for another woman. In an act of jealousy and greed she convinces an acquaintance to murder her former lover and then impersonate him just long enough to get their hands on a large sum of money.

original_title: The 3rd Voice

title: High Seas Hijack

overview: Terrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands.

original_title: High Seas Hijack

title: Big House Blues

overview: Ren and Stimpy, on the streets starving, are captured by the dog catcher. They end up in the pound and become frightened when one of the dogs tells them of the "big sleep".

original_title: Big House Blues

title: Pharaoh's Curse

overview: Archaeologists in Egypt find one of their crew has been turned into a blood sucking mummy after they have unleashed a three thousand year curse.

original_title: Pharaoh's Curse

title: Jungle Heat

overview: Japanese communists attempt to take over Hawaii and only Dr. Jim Ransom can stop them.

original_title: Jungle Heat

title: Picture Mommy Dead

overview: Susan Shelley is released from an asylum where she's been confined to after the shock suffered over the fiery death of her mother. Her father has a new wife, who has only married him for the money left to him by his dead wife. Susan is still haunted by her mother's memory, and her step-mother is conspiring with her lover to get the troubled girl to lead them to her mother's missing diamond necklace.

original_title: Picture Mommy Dead

title: The Louisiana Hussy

overview: Cajun newlyweds must deal with the jealousy of his brother, who also loved her, and the arrival of a mysterious seductress in their bayou backwater.

title: Violent Zone

overview: A group of mercenaries team up for an assignment to locate a wealthy man's long lost son.

title: Village of the Giants

overview: "Genius" accidentally invents "goo" which causes living things to rapidly grow to an enormous size. Seeing an opportunity to get rich, some delinquent teenagers steal the "goo" and, as a result of a sophomoric dare, consume it themselves and become thirty feet tall. They then take over control of the town by kidnapping the sheriff's daughter and dancing suggestively.

title: The Iron Triangle

overview: Based on the diary of an unknown Viet Cong soldier, this film provides a sympathetic look at a Viet Cong soldier who protected a captured American soldier whom he believed did not kill him when the American had the opportunity. Written by John Sacksteder

title: Dinosaurus!

overview: After undersea explosions near a Caribbean island, prehistoric creatures are unleashed on the unsuspecting population.

title: Dragstrip Riot

overview: An adolescent arrives in a new town where he tries to join the drag-racing crowd.

title: How to Succeed with Sex

overview: A man having trouble scoring with his girlfriend reads a book about sex and seduction to get some pointers.

title: Fort Bowie

overview: Fort Bowie commander Colonel Garrett, suspecting that his wife Alison is having an affair with good-looking Captain Thompson, sends him on a dangerous mission to try to persuade renegade Indian leader Victorio to cease his attacks against white settlers and soldiers.

title: Sniper's Ridge

title: The Gospel Blimp

overview: A church group uses a blimp to evangelize to their hometown, but things don't work as planned.

title: Mr. Kingstreet's War

title: Frankenstein 1970

title: Angel's Flight

title: Angel's Flight

title: Tormented

title: Daughters of Satan

title: Hell Bound

title: War Drums

title: Day of the Nightmare

title: Way Out

title: Cat Murkil and the Silks

title: The Broken Land

title: Sniper's Ridge

title: Cat-Women of the Moon

title: The Silent Call

title: Fear No More

title: The 3rd Voice

title: High Seas Hijack

title: Big House Blues

title: Pharaoh's Curse

title: Jungle Heat

title: Picture Mommy Dead

title: The Louisiana Hussy

title: Violent Zone

title: Village of the Giants

title: The Iron Triangle

title: Dinosaurus!

title: Dragstrip Riot

title: How to Succeed with Sex

title: Fort Bowie

title: Sniper's Ridge

title: The Gospel Blimp


Tatsuya Fujiwara

biography: Tatsuya Fujiwara is a Japanese actor. Internationally, he is best known for his leading roles as Shuya Nanahara in the Battle Royale films, Light Yagami in the Death Note films, Kaiji Itō in the Kaiji films, and Rikuhiko Yuki in Hideo Nakata's The Incite Mill.

School Cop

overview: Tatsuya Fujiwara plays a talented detective who trades hardened criminals for troubled teenagers. Placed in an unruly public junior high school, he gets to work contending with the many problems it faces and uncovers some more serious ones. While the detective tries to operate in the hard-line way he knows best, he finds himself confronted by a skeptical and fiery teacher, played by award winning actress Yoko Maki.

character: Ryuhei Shimada

original_name: 青のSP ー学校内警察・嶋田隆平ー

original_language: ja

The Battle at Sekigahara

overview: The Japanese Self-Defence Force suddenly time-travels to 1600s Japan in the middle of the epic battle of Sekigahara. With the latest weapons at their side, they join the battle.

character: Kobayakawa Hideaki

original_name: 戦国自衛隊 関ヶ原の戦い

Heaven's Kiss

overview: High school girl Asumi is a huge fan of visual rock star Shu. When Shu suddenly announces he is giving up singing, she is devastated. She desperately wants Shu to return to music. At the same time, Asumi is surprised by the return of her childhood friend, Kai. His return is somehow connected to Shu. But how? Then a horrible accident happens, leaving Asumi with some amazing paranormal powers. She is almost like a ghost! Will Asumi be able to use her new powers to help Kai and Shu?

character: Kai Shinohara

original_name: 天国のKiss

Frozen Summer

overview: The Oikawa children are still coming to terms with the death of their mother and the addition of a stepmother. The head of the family takes out his frustration on the children, inflicting mental and physical wounds, while the children’s lives outside the home reflect their abuse as they get into everything from street violence to teenage companion services. A sharp lawyer and new stepmother to the children attempts to forge a stable family, but as she does so the mystery behind her predecessor’s death slowly becomes chillingly clear to her.

character: Oikawa Yusuke

original_name: 凍りつく夏

Live

overview: Misaki decides to join the Brass Band Club having heard of its prestigious past from her father, a former member. However, Misaki finds that much has changed and the club is now full of dull and inactive students. Misaki determines to do her best to return the club to its glory days, but she must help many of the students overcome their personal problems.

character: Shinoda Kazuomi

original_name: L×I×V×E

Three Sisters Investigate

overview: Three sisters, all otherwise typical junior, high school student and college students, who, while probing into the murder case of their father, get themselves in the middle of other cases and wind up becoming detectives themselves.

original_name: 三姉妹探偵団

Feeling relief is easy

overview: Higashiyama Noriyuki stars as a playboy who is not about to be caught, and relative newcomer, Ryo, is the naive young woman who dreams of eventually ensnaring him even if she must sit back and watch him cavort with a string of other women and act like his mother, too.

character: Takazawa Mitsuru

original_name: 愛しすぎなくてよかった

The Last Song

overview: Just when about to commit suicide after being deserted by his bride-to-be during the wedding, a man meets a university professor who is also at the point of killing himself. A woman nearby intervenes, one thing leads to another, and the three lost souls move in together. Each episode is a distinct story about the sometimes painful, sometimes warm romances between them and the people they meet while sharing an apartment.

original_name: 世紀末の詩

name: Border - Criminal Psychology Investigation File

overview: Serial killers driven by deviant desires-the only way to stop them is to understand them. This thrilling drama series is based on the current popularity of criminal psychology. Kirie works as a psychological profiler with the local detective squad. Using crime-scene data, she puts together a likely profile of the culprit based on the system devised by the F.B.I. But events from her own past help explain her ambition in this trade... Kirie works closely with two other investigators, Tsuji, the chief homicide investigator, and Fubuki, the youngest detective on the team. Fubuki's obvious admiration for Kirie and her work are offset by Tsuji's lack of faith in the profiling profession. But both are driven by their unwavering desire to bring the killers to justice.

original_name: Border ~hanzai shinri sousatsu file~

Keigo Higashino 3-week drama SP series

character: 末永拓也

original_name: 東野圭吾3週連続スペシャル

渦が森団地の眠れない子たち

original_name: 渦が森団地の眠れない子たち

Baton

overview: On Planet Abel, humans and robots co-exist. One day a mysterious stowaway on a transport vessel tries to invade the planet, but is discovered by Apollo, a robot that looks like a human; and Mikaru, a human that looks like a robot. The stowaway had in his possession a memory chip containing the latest in camouflage software, the mysterious "Cipher" OS. Apollo takes the Cipher chip simply for fun, but has no idea what he's getting himself into. He suddenly starts acting strange, but Mikaru has no idea what's wrong or that Cipher is behind it. What exactly is Cipher? What sort of secrets does it hold? Apollo and Mikaru will unravel a mystery encompassing the past, present, and future to find out.

character: Cipher (voice)

original_name: BATON

The History of Our Family

overview: Wagaya no Rekishi is a Japanese three-part television mini-series, shown on Fuji TV from April 9, 2010 to April 11, 2010 to celebrate its 50th Anniversary. The show was known for its star-studded cast.

character: Osamu Tezuka

original_name: わが家の歴史

てにあまる

original_name: てにあまる

Red Confusion

overview: Sachiko is the 17-year old daughter of radiotherapist Professor Oshima. After exposure to radiation in the hospital, she develops leukemia. As if that was not enough trouble for one lifetime, Sachiko discovers that Oshima is not her real father, and that her boyfriend is really her half brother.

character: Sagara Mitsuo

original_name: 赤い疑惑

Musashi

original_name: ムサシ

Love is Still Necessary

overview: Rage, a pimp who only loves money and himself, is sent to jail for 6 months. While he is in the jail, Rage’s partner, Reiji, dies in a traffic accident. Released from prison, Rage finds himself having lost everything but a debt of 6 million dollars. One day, Rage is visited by a lawyer that mistakes him for Reiji. According to the lawyer, Reiji’s father died and left him a large inheritance. Reiji’s only other living relative is his blind sister. Rage smells money and hatches a plan to pretend to be Reiji and steal his money.

character: Akutagawa Naru

original_name: 愛なんていらねえよ、夏

Shinsengumi!

overview: Shinsengumi! is a Taiga drama television series produced by Japanese broadcaster NHK. It was a popular drama about the Shinsengumi, a Japanese special police force from the Bakumatsu period.

character: Okita Sōji

original_name: 新選組！

Yasuragi no Sato

overview: The drama is set in an retirement home named "Yasuragi no Sato La Strada" where only those who had worked in the TV entertainment industry such as actors, writers, musicians and artists are allowed to live at. Kikumura Sakae, who used to be a popular scriptwriter, lives among the former stars and the problems they face are presented in a humorous manner.

original_name: やすらぎの郷

Lost ID

overview: Shinichi Todo is handsome and smart. He is loved by family, friends and his girlfriend. Everything in his life seems to go well, but, one day, someone with the same name is arrested. After that, his smooth life changes. An imposter takes his life.

character: Shinichi Todo

original_name: そして、誰もいなくなった

Reverse

overview:
Kazuhisa Fukase graduated from a prestigious university, but he leads a boring life. His only strength is making delicious coffee. Whenever he makes coffee, he is reminded of his friend Yoshiki Hirosawa. He was friends with Yoshiki Hirosawa back in their university days, but Yoshiki Hirosawa died on a snowboarding trip 10 years ago.

One day, he meets Mihoko Ochi at a coffee shop. He is strongly attracted to her.

Kazuhisa Fukase goes to a professor’s retirement celebration at a university. There, he meets Kosuke Asai who went snowboarding with Yoshiki Hirosawa on that fateful trip. Journalist Toshio Ogasawara also appears there. He has been investigating Yoshiki Hirosawa's death.

character: Kazuhisa Fukase

original_name: リバース

ファイル ボーダー

original_name: ファイル ボーダー

Kaiji

overview: Kaiji Itou is a good-for-nothing loiterer who spends his days drinking beer and stealing hubcaps—that is, until he ends up being tricked by his former co-worker. Unable to suddenly repay his friend's huge debt all by himself, Kaiji is offered a shady deal to participate in an illegal underground gamble on a cruise ship. This turns out to be nothing more than the beginning of his new life of hell—thrown headlong into a life-threatening roller coaster of mind games, cheating, and deceit.

character: Man in Black (voice)

original_name: 逆境無頼カイジ

ST～警視庁科学特捜班～

character: 赤城左门

original_name: ST～警視庁科学特捜班～

From the Heart

overview: A young autistic woman, Mayuko, who has difficulty understanding and processing human emotions, meets with a young former psychiatrist, Shinichi, who is still getting over the unexpected death of his longtime girlfriend. Shinichi begins to help her with her skills of human interaction, but as he gets to know Mayuko better, he finds that she may be helping him to remember the feelings of love that he has forgotten in his grief.

character: Jun Amemiya

original_name: 君が教えてくれたこと

ST MPD Scientific Investigation Squad

overview: The ST is a group of outcasts though each highly talented in their realm of specialty. Besides Akagi, the team includes a female profiler with a boyish appearance and a phobia of "orderly" things who is never afraid to speak out, a female physicist with a superhuman hearing ability that can pick up sounds afar and a constant fear of being "constrained," a combat-skilled chemist with an acute sense of smell and an aversion to pointy objects, and a monk who would have won the Nobel prize in chemistry if he had chosen the path to do so. In short, the "ST" is a menagerie of odd people which makes Yurine question whether his promotion was just a one-way ticket off of the career track...But gradually, the ST team begins to grow on Yurine, as he does everything he can to sustain the team. Can the ST prove themselves worthy of their badge and prevent their disintegration, and will Akagi and Yurine's partnership somehow find common ground to overcome their differences?

original_name: ST 赤と白の捜査ファイル

25-year-old Grandpa

overview: 46 years ago Kurihara Minoru went to the mountains to take pictures, but never returned. Fast forward to the present and he is discovered perfectly preserved in ice. He then miraculously wakes up. The head of the Kurihara household is now Kurihara Norihiko, who is Minoru's son and 52 years old. There are also Minoru's grandson Kensuke and granddaughter Mai. Their family is set for upheaval as their grandfather (who still looks 25, but is now 71) returns to their home.

character: Minoru Kurihara

original_name: おじいちゃんは25歳

稲垣吾郎の金田一耕助シリーズ

character: Tatsuya Igawa / Yōichi Kamei

original_name: 稲垣吾郎の金田一耕助シリーズ

Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

overview: The heroine Balsa is a skilled bodyguard and a masterful spear-wielder. One day she rescues Prince Chagum who has fallen into a river. The prince is carrying a mysterious spirit egg in his body, and is in danger of being assassinated by his father, the Mikado, who fears this will damage his imperial prestige. Balsa embarks upon a perilous journey when she accepts the queen’s plead to protect her son from her husband.

character: The Emperor

original_name: 精霊の守り人

The New King

overview:
Koshiro runs a temp agency experiencing financial distress. Koshiro dreams of becoming a successful businessman.  Akiba who was once a successful businessman, is now working on developing apps in Koshiro’s office.  Isao runs a successful investment company and dominates people with his wealth.

Akiba and Isao team up to buy a Tokyo broadcasting station.

character: Akiba

original_name: 新しい王様

Get Ready!

overview: This dark medical drama examines the meaning of human life, centring on a team of unidentified black-market doctors who undertake any kind of surgery with superhuman surgical skills and exorbitant medical expenses. Hazama Eisuke, also known as "Ace", is a genius surgeon who works as a patissier during the day. He has an operating room equipped with the latest equipment in the basement of his patisserie, where he performs surgeries on patients who have been abandoned by others. Shimoyamada Jo, also known as "Joker", is a brilliant international lawyer and a negotiator with patients.

character: Jo Shimoyamada

original_name: Get Ready!

裸にしたい男

original_name: 裸にしたい男

Tokyo Air Raid

overview: When Sakuragi Haruko's father's factory is bombed, Oba Hiroto stops Haruko when she tries to rescue her father from the fire. They meet again a few years later when Haruko is working as a nurse and Hiroto is brought in as a patient with a heart condition. The second couple is a Korean man, Boku Hitoshi, and another nurse, Yamada Kazue

character: Oba Hiroto

original_name: 東京大空襲

Furuhata Ninzaburo

overview:
Furuhata Ninzaburō is a Japanese television series that ran periodically on Fuji Television from 1994 until its final episodes in 2006. It was written by Japanese playwright Kōki Mitani and is often referred to as the Japanese version of Columbo.

The series is a police detective drama starring actor Masakazu Tamura as Furuhata Ninzaburo and Masahiko Nishimura as his stereotypically bumbling sidekick, Shintaro Imaizumi. The program aired weekly and featured a guest villain each time, usually a famous talent in Japan. Pop-stars like SMAP, television hosts like Sanma Akashiya and even sports figures like Ichiro Suzuki have been featured on this program. It was one of the most popular television dramas in the history of Japanese television, having spawned several seasons and TV specials.

original_name: 古畑任三郎

졸음 선생님

character: 사부로

original_name: 졸음 선생님

original_language: ko

Kaitei no Kimi e

original_name: 海底の君へ

Candy House

overview: Sakurai Taro’s parents died young. His grandmother, Akiko, has been making great effort to protect her struggling candy store, Sakuraya, in the old part of Tokyo, but it's not easy. Taro eats candy with regular customers such as chilhood friend Saegusa Hiroki who aspires to be a scriptwriter, and talk nonsense, like in their youth. However, they realize this unfettered, comfortable existence will end some day with the passage of time. Then Taro’s ex-classmate, Kimura Reiko, comes back home with her son after a divorce. He and his friends start to notice what is truly important to them as they face up to their pasts, dreams and pains.

character: Musashi

original_name: おかしの家

The Sun Does Not Move

overview: Kazuhiko Takano is an agent for spy organizatoin "AN Tsuushin." His rookie partner is Ryoichi Taoka and they sneak into the International City Fair, which will be held in three years in Tokyo. Various schemes exists surrounding the selection of the construction site for the International City Fair. An explosion suddenly takes place in front of Kazuhiko Takano.

character: Kazuhiko Takano

original_name: 太陽は動かない ―THE ECLIPSE―

Fish Masters

overview: A variety program exploring the mysterious world of fish with the fish expert Sakana-kun.

character: ナレーター

original_name: ギョギョッとサカナ★スター

name: AARO -All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office-

overview: A special investigative unit tackles everything from mysterious disappearances and shadowy figures to eerie supernatural phenomena.

character: Okitama Miyabi

original_name: 全領域異常解決室

The World Heritage

overview: TBS’s ”World Heritage,” is a 30-minute weekly documentary series that is registered by UNESCO under Natural Heritage, Cultural Heritage and Cultural Sciences. The program started in spring, 1996, and over a span of 10 years has covered about 560 topics around the world. To better convey the grandeur of these treasures of the world, TBS has shot the series in High-Definition. High quality images, impeccable narrative, and beautiful music...the elements are simple and straightforward. The producers feel that this style of presentation works best to visually document and preserve the wonders of the world, and continue to do so to this day.

original_name: 世界遺産

普通话

藤原龍也

biography:
身高178cm，血型A型。1997年參加舞台劇《身毒丸》的甄選，從5537人當中脫穎而出，更在倫敦的演出中一躍成名。在日本也以和舞台大師蜷川幸雄合作多部舞台劇而知名。

曾參與電影《大逃殺》及其續作的演出，並在2004年NHK的大河劇《新選組！》中飾演沖田總司一角。2006年，擔任演出著名漫畫《死亡筆記本》電影版的男主角「夜神月」一角。

普通话

藤原龙也

biography: 藤原龙也（日语：藤原 竜也／ふじわら たつや Fujiwara Tatsuya，1982年5月15日—），日本男演员，出生于埼玉县。身高178cm，血型A型。1997年参加舞台剧《身毒丸》的甄选，从5537人当中脱颖而出，更在伦敦的演出中一跃成名，在日本也以和舞台大师蜷川幸雄合作多部舞台剧而知名。

普通话

藤原龍也

biography:
身高 178cm，血型 A 型。1997 年參加舞台劇《身毒丸》的甄選，從 5537 人當中脱穎而出，更在倫敦的演出中一躍成名。在日本也以和舞台大師蜷川幸雄合作多部舞台劇而知名。

曾參與電影《大逃殺》及其續作的演出，並在 2004 年 NHK 的大河劇《新選組！》中飾演沖田總司一角。2006 年，擔任演出著名漫畫《死亡筆記》電影版的男主角「夜神月」一角。

also_known_as:
藤原龍也
藤原龙也
후지와라 타츠야
تاتسویا فوجیوارا

title: Battle Royale

overview: In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

title: Battle Royale II: Requiem

overview: It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring down the government. His terrorist group, Wild Seven, stages an attack that levels several buildings in Tokyo on Christmas Day, killing 8000 people. In order for the government to study the benefits of "teamwork", the new students work in pairs, with their collars electronically linked so that if one of them is killed, the other dies as well. They must kill Nanahara in three days - or die.

original_title: バトル・ロワイアルII 鎮魂歌

title: 八つ墓村

title: Kamaitachi no Yoru

overview: Fans of Kamaitachi no Yoru gather to shoot a film based on the game until one of the cast members is killed.

title: Shiren & Ragi

overview: Two souls were drawn to each other without any possible escape from their doomed fates. It was in an era when the country was divided in the north and the south. A legendary woman "Shiren"(Hiromi NAGASAKU) who was born to a family of assassins. A young sword fighter "Ragi"(Tatsuya FUJIWARA) who looked up to Shiren with admiration. News was brought to the north that said the King of the South "Godai"(Katsumi TAKAHASHI) has revived who once was assassinated by Shiren. Shiren was once again ordered by "kyougoku"(Arata FURUTA), a high-ranking vassal of the North, to assassinate Godai. Shiren was upset about Godai being still alive whom she believed she had killed. Ragi who sensed Shiren's distress volunteered to accompany her on the mission. Shiren's cold heart started to melt by seeing Ragi's determination to be there for and support her. Finally the moment to attack Godai comes. It was the moment when an astonishing truth was revealed to the two who had shared their love by that time.

title: Baton

overview: Baton is a collection of three 20-minute Sci-fi anime films dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the establishment of Yokohama city. On Planet Abel, human-like robot Apollo (Ichihara Hayato, Rookies) and robot-like human Mikaru (Ueto Aya, Azumi) come upon a stowaway robot with a mysterious "Cipher" chip. Not knowing Cipher's powers, Apollo takes the chip for fun, throwing both him and Mikaru headfirst into a mind-boggling mystery that affects the past, present, and future.

title: Chameleon

overview: Keiko who leads a lonely life as a fortune teller on the streets meets Goro, a leader of the con-artists. One day, Goro witnesses a group of men kidnapping a middle-aged man in the parking garage. Goro records the man on his cell phone without knowing he could be in big trouble.

title: Death Note

overview: Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious murderer. An all out battle between the two greatest minds on earth begins and the winner will control the world.

title: The Incite Mill

overview: Drawn by the exorbitantly high hourly wage of 112,000 Japanese yen, ten men and women gather at a mansion. Everyone thinks the simple psychology experiment will get them some quick cash... until one of them winds up dead. The participants are overcome with frenzied suspicion. Various deadly weapons are left in their rooms and they are killed off one by one.

original_title: インシテミル 7日間のデス・ゲーム

title: Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler

overview: Kaiji Ito moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with society at large, Kaiji spends his days gambling, vandalizing cars, and drinking booze. Two years later and his life is no better. A debt collector named Endo arrives to collect money owed. The debt collector offers two choices to Kaiji: spend 10 years paying off his loan or board a gambling boat for one night to repay his debt & possibly make a boat load of money. Could the debt collector Endo actually be setting up Kaiji? One way or another, for Kaiji it's going to be the night of his life.

title: Death Note: The Last Name

overview: In the second installment of the Death Note film franchise, Light Yagami meets a second Kira and faithful follower Misa Amane and her Shinigami named Rem. Light attempts to defeat L along with Teru Mikami (a Kira follower) and Kiyomi Takada (another Kira follower) but in the end will Light win? or will a Shinigami named Ryuk make all the difference in Light's victory or his ultimate death?

title: The Secret World of Arrietty

overview: 14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty.

original_title: 借りぐらしのアリエッティ

title: Parade

overview: The story of a strange living situation in a 2LDK apartment in suburban Tokyo. There are five residents ranging in age from eighteen to twenty-eight. They are not in any way romantically involved with one another, but one can see subtle hints of affection and friendship among them. In the end, however, none of them really know each other.

title: A Man with Style

overview: Miyata lost his wife early on and single-handedly raised their two children. One day he notices a change in his physical condition, and decides that it must be stomach cancer.

title: Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler

overview: 3 years after the ultimate life-or-death game with Teiai Group, Kaiji was entrapped by Teiai and again back in the underground, forced to do hard labour. One day, Kaiji wins a bet to get out of the underground with 1 million yen, and promises the other workers that he will save them. But to do so, he only has 14 days and needs 200 million yen! Kaiji meets his former rival Tonegawa and learns that there is a chance to turn the tables in the game. It was a monster casino machine that will make 1 billion yen if you win...

original_title: カイジ2 人生奪回ゲーム

title: Sabu

overview: When a young man is sent to a prison workhouse for a crime he did not commit his friend on the outside must find evidence to clear his name.

title: I'm Flash!

overview: Rui is the charismatic leader of a new religious group. Consequently, he starts to gain attention from the mass media. After becoming involved in a car accident, Rui goes to a remote island with ex-gangster now bodyguard. On the island, Rui reveals more about his religious group, while a set of ominous events are about to occur.

title: Shield of Straw

overview: Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide Kiyomaru. Kunihide Kiyomaru has a prior conviction for assaulting and killing a girl 8 years ago. The police could never apprehend the suspect in the prior killing.

title: Making of 'Battle Royale'

overview: An abundance of footage from the shooting of Battle Royale and cast and crew discussions.

title: Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE

overview: The late Kinji Fukasaku directed "Battle Royale" - his 60th movie - at the age of 70. This film follows the shooting of the film.

original_title: 映画は戦場だ 深作欣二 in「バトル・ロワイアル」

title: The Final Battleground — Making of Battle Royale II

overview: Prolific director Kinji Fukasaku died suddenly during the production of Battle Royale 2. His son and screenwriter Kenta took over as director and completed the film.

original_title: 深作欣二・最後の戦場 父と子のバトル・ロワイアル Ⅱ

title: Making of Battle Royale II: Requiem

original_title: バトル・ロワイアルⅡ 鎮魂歌 外伝

title: Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno

overview: Kenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached with a request from the Meiji government. Makoto Shishio, a former assassin like Kenshin, was betrayed, set on fire and left for dead. He survived, and is now in Kyoto, plotting with his gathered warriors to overthrow the new government. Against Kaoru's wishes, Kenshin reluctantly agrees to go to Kyoto and help keep his country from falling back into civil war.

original_title: るろうに剣心 京都大火編

title: Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends

overview: Shishio sets sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the government. In order to stop him, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final technique.

original_title: るろうに剣心　伝説の最期編

title: Brutus's Heart

overview: An elite researcher (Tatsuya Fujiwara) dreams of committing the perfect crime.

title: The Last Revenge

overview: This is the true story of the last officially recorded case of adauchi, when a young man avenged the death of his father by brutally killing the murderers in broad daylight. Samurai revenge killings, or adauchi, was considered a rightful and noble act of honor and virtue.But all that changed abruptly on February 7, 1873, when adauchi became prohibited as part of the Meiji Restoration’s goal to Westernize Japan.

original_title: 遺恨あり 明治十三年 最後の仇討

title: Musashi

overview: Musashi is a play by Hisashi Inoue. It is set six years after the Ganryujima duel, when Musashi Miyamoto and Kojiro Sasaki are reunited at a Zen temple in Kamakura.

title: 疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳 〜生きる覚悟〜

overview: 'The Ninagawa of the world', still ill.  The 80-year-old's intense run to stay alive, even after falling ill!

original_title: 疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳 〜生きる覚悟〜

title: Shintokumaru

overview: The film depicts the fatal, forbidden love between Nadeko, who is bought by a shop selling her mother, and her son-in-law, Jisumaru.

title: Monsterz

overview: A somber paranormal thriller that offers an original, exciting variation of the tale of two men with supernatural abilities, locked in a duel to the death. A battle between a man who can control people with a stare, and the only man he cannot control. When their fate cross, the survival battle begins. The two men with inevitable fate, who will survive?

title: ST: Aka to Shiro no Sôsa File the Movie

overview: The ST team at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department consists of eccentric members. Some members do not cooperate with others and others do not reveal themselves in front of others. With Samon as the leader of the ST team and young Inspector Tomohisa tasked with managing the team, the ST (Scientific Task Force) attempt to solve the most difficult of cases.

original_title: 映画 ST赤と白の捜査ファイル

title: One Third

overview: The manger of cabaret club "Hanibani" named Shū, a worker at the club named Koji, and one of the patrons named Ken succeed in robbing a bank. They agree to divide the stolen money equally into three, but they become consumed by greed and try to get more than their share. In addition, a renowned figure is after their money.

title: Snakes and Earrings

overview: While alone in a nightclub, straight-laced Lui meets sensitive but troubled punk kid Ama. Mesmerized by his split tongue, she becomes obsessed with body modification and soon wants the same treatment. After Ama's heavily-tattooed friend Shiba pierces her tongue, Lui finds herself inexorably drawn to both men – and to her growing list of desires, she now adds a tattoo.

title: The Chart of Love

overview: Dr. Ichito works at Honjo Hospital. His longtime friend Dr. Tatsuya Shindo, who comes from Tokyo, begins working at Honjo Hospital. In their university days, Tatsuya was referred to as "the conscience of the medical school". Ichito notices a difference in Tatsuya now, as he leaves work on time. Then, Ichito's senior colleague Dr. Nukita collapses.

title: Zen

overview: In the early 1200s, Dogen brought Chinese Zen philosophy to Japan, and established the Japanese Zen school of Buddhism. He taught that a person was capable of realizing Buddhahood within himself, by way of Zazen. Zazen is extended hours of sitting and meditating to achieve a state of “Mu” (nothingness, or empty existence).

title: Welcome Home, Hayabusa

overview: Kento Ohashi (Tatsuya Fujiwara) is a novice ion engine developer working on a team that is launching the unmanned Hayabusa spacecraft into outerspace. His father Isao (Tomokazu Miura) was the leader of a previously failed space probe named Nozomi. Now, Kento pursues his dreams and his father's while experiencing the unexpected surprises that comes with the Hayabusa's 7 year odyssey.

title: You Dance with the Summer

overview: Shinpei (Junpei Mizobata) dreams of being a professional cameraman and lives in Tokyo. One day, he hears that his mother has been hospitalized and returns to Kochi for the first time in five years. At the hospital, Shinpei finds out Sakura (Ayane Omori) who is the younger sister of his ex-girlfriend, has a bad disease, which no one has lived with for more than 5 years. This might be her last summer. Sakura strongly hope to dance at the Yosakoi festival, and five years ago, Shinpei made a promise to her that they would one day dance together. Sakura still remembers the promise and it also gives her the drive to live longer. Shinpei decides to dance once more at the upcoming Yosakoi festival, however. . .

title: Moonlight Jellyfish

overview: Seiji (played by Battle Royale’s Tatsuya Fujiwara) struggles to look after his younger brother Michio, who suffers from Xeroderma Pigmentosum – a rare disease that is fatal if exposed to sunlight. Matters are even more complicated due to Michio’s state of mind, which is equivalent to that of a six year old child. In order to support his younger brother, Seiji is forced to join the local Yakuza and work through the ranks to become a respected member. One night, Seiji saves a woman named Keiko (Aya Okamoto) from a drunken pervert. By sheer coincidence, she is also Michio’s nurse and falls in love with Seiji thanks to his courageous act. Whilst Seiji continues to see his new girlfriend, the activities of the Yakuza begin to affect their lives…

original_title: ムーンライト・ジェリーフィッシュ

title: 蜷川幸雄×藤原竜也〜ハムレットへの軌跡

original_title: 蜷川幸雄×藤原竜也〜ハムレットへの軌跡

title: Julius Caesar

title: Persona

overview: Into the bully-infested home room class struts a fearless, ceramic-masked student. Squarely confronting a gang of ruffians, it is soon discovered that behind the mask is none other than Danta, an otherwise weakling student who has heretofore been picked on relentlessly by these same bullies. Donned with his mask, however, Danta exhibits a totally other personality, lacking fear and intimidation. The other students, looking on, soon experiment with the power of masks and find to their glee that behind a facade of anonymity, they experience an overwhelming power to act without the confines of self-consciousness.

title: Hey Handsome!!: The Movie

overview: Live-action movie adaptation based on Risa Itou's "Hey Hey Pitan!" Manga.

title: Erased

overview: Struggling manga author Satoru Fujinuma is beset by his fear to express himself. However, he has a supernatural ability of being forced to prevent deaths and catastrophes by being sent back in time before the incident occurred, repeating time until the accident is prevented. One day, he gets involved in an accident that has him framed as a murderer. Desperate to save the victim, he sends himself back in time only to find himself as a grade-schooler one month before fellow classmate Kayo Hinazuki went missing. Satoru now embarks on a new quest: to save Kayo and solve the mystery behind her disappearance.

title: Glory of the Expedition

overview: Sugisaki (Tatsuya Fujiwara) is an actor already past his prime. He lands a job as the lead in a TV program. The television program ventures into unexplored territories to locate a legendary UMA (unidentified mysterious animal). Initially, Sugisaki just goes along with the staff who lack a specific plan. Sugisaki soon engages his leadership position in the program and takes his job seriously.

title: ST Keishichou Kagaku Tokusou-han

overview: Five outstanding researchers from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s crime lab are gathered and given powers for special investigations in response to diversified modern crimes. They are called the Scientific Task Force or ST for short. The new, elite Inspector Yurine Tomohisa becomes the ST’s commanding officer. Meanwhile, a shooting rampage breaks out. Five people are shot and one of them, a female company employee, dies. The media reports this as Japan’s first case of indiscriminate shooting. The ST is mobilised and Yurine heads to the crime scene...

title: Furuhata Ninzaburo The Resurrection Of Death

overview: Furuhata investigates a series of bizarre, seemingly random accidental deaths. He zeroes in on the suspected murderer, but loses faith in his instincts when the suspect is himself killed. However, in the end, he ends up solving three murders and catching the real suspect.

original_title: 古畑任三郎ファイナル 今、甦る死

title: Memoirs of a Murderer

overview: The movie begins in the year 1995 where there were 5 peculiar murder cases. The murderer would always get someone close to the victim to witness how he would strangle the victim from behind with a rope but he would let the witnesses go and speak to the media on how the murders happened. Ito plays the role of Makimura, the police detective who was in charge of investigating the serial murders but failed to catch the cunning murderer and his respected superior ended up being killed as well. 22 years later in 2017 when the case is nearing its statute of limitations, a man named Sonezaki claims to be the culprit for the 1995 murders and even publishes a book titled "Watashi ga satsujinhan desu" to talk about the cases. Despite the disgust towards Sonezaki's actions, the intensive attention showered on him via the media and SNS makes him become the talk of town.

original_title: 22年目の告白 ―私が殺人犯です―

title: Million Dollar Man

overview: A man, who is repaying a 30 million yen debt left by his brother, wins the 300 million yen lottery. He grapples with the question of whether money can buy him happiness.

title: Death Note: L Change the WorLd

overview: "The human whose name is written in the Death Note shall die." After making the hardest decision ever, another serious case confronts L. There are only 23 days left and without his best partner Watari, L has to solve the case all by himself for the very first time.

title: Diner

overview: A former murderer and genius chef along with a waitress come together with a group of fantastical assassins in a diner. A girl with a hollowness in her heart, who believes that she belongs nowhere, is thrust into a series of attacks where she must struggle to find her will to live.

title: Aircraft Carrier Ibuki

overview: The story takes place over a 24 hour period.  In the southernmost part of Japan, 20 fishing boats of an unknown nationality suddenly fire upon and occupy parts of the Hateruma archipelago. Members of the Japan Coast Guard are detained. Under the extremely tense situation, the Japanese government sends Aircraft Carrier Ibuki and an escort fleet to the area. Ryota Akitsu is the captain of the Aircraft Carrier Ibuki and Toshiya Niinami  is second-in-command. It is now 6:23 am. and Japan faces one day which they never have before.

title: Death Note: Light Up the NEW World

overview: 10 years has passed since the confrontation between Kira and L. Again, Shinigami sends death notes to the ground and due to this, the world soon falls into chaos. Tsukuru is a member of the Death Note special task force team with 6 other investigators including Matsuda who experienced the Kira case of 10 years ago.  Mass murders caused by the death note takes place on Wall Street in the U.S., Shibuya in Japan and other places. World famous private investigator Ryuzaki, who is the rightful successor of L, also investigates the mass murders. They discover that 6 death notes exists in the world.  A computer virus called Kira spreads in the world. A message in the Kira virus says to turn in 6 death notes.  A person who has 6 death notes overwhelm the world. The confrontation begins between the person who wants Kira’s revival and the people who want to stop it.

title: No Longer Human

overview: The story of Osamu Dazai, one of Japan's most celebrated novelists, absorbed in alcohol and love; married and in a relationship with two other lovers.

original_title: 人間失格 太宰治と3人の女たち

title: Lupin III: The First

overview: The iconic "gentleman thief" Lupin III returns in an action-packed, continent-spanning adventure, as Lupin III and his colorful underworld companions race to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Bresson Diary, before it falls into the hands of a dark cabal that will stop at nothing to resurrect the Third Reich.

title: Proof of the Man

overview: In Tokyo, 1974, a young African American is found dead in a lift. A knife is stuck deep into his chest and a streak of tear is running down his cheek. A policeman, Munesue starts to investigate the case. On the same day, there is a grand reception party held on the top floor by Kyoko, a popular beautician adored by everyone as an ideal wife and mother. The investigation reveals the victim was raised in a ghetto in NY, was able to speak a little Japanese, and his dying words was “su to u ha.” Startling connection between him and Kyoko is to be revealed…

title: Pokémon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages

overview: Ash, Pikachu, and their friends come to a desert city by the sea. Here they meet the Mythical Pokémon Hoopa, which has the ability to summon things—including people and Pokémon—through its magic rings. After a scary incident, they learn of a story about a brave hero who stopped the rampage of a terrifying Pokémon long ago. Now, the threat that has been bottled up for years is in danger of breaking loose again.

original_title: ポケモン・ザ・ムービーXY 光輪の超魔神 フーパ

title: The Sun Stands Still

overview: Kazuhiko Takano and Ryoichi Taoka are industrial spies. A conspiracy exits behind the technology which can shake the political and economic world in Japan. Takano faces Korean spy Kim, a mysterious woman Ayako and powerful men from various countries.

title: Kaiji: Final Game

overview: Kaiji is about to have his life changed. The thrill is beyond anything he, or most people, have experienced. The adventure is not without risk and danger however. He is given four games, which are challenges, and include life and death situations.

original_title: カイジ ファイナルゲーム

title: Tales of the Bizarre: 2017 Fall Special

original_title: 世にも奇妙な物語 '17秋の特別編

title: Every Trick In The Book

overview: Shinichi Tsuda, a Naoki Prize winning author, is working to publish his newest story. It revolves around Tsuyama, a driver for a call girl business in Toyama Prefecture, who comes across a mysterious counterfeit bill and has his life targeted by underworld kingpin Kurata. Is his story fact or fiction? His editor, Nahomi Torikai, decides to verify whether his latest work is mere fiction based on real-life experiences. She looks into a family that vanished, a post office worker who went missing, a shady load of cash, the whereabouts of the doves, and the fateful encounter from that night... A series of shocking facts are revealed from Tsuda’s stories. Why did the counterfeit money end up in Tsuda’s hands? What is the “ending” that Tsuda wished to portray?

title: The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan

overview: Shoji Segawa was a quiet and inconspicuous boy, but, for the first time, he is recognized by people after winning the National Middle School Shogi Tournament. At the age of 26, his dream of becoming a professional shogi player collapses due to an age restriction. After he quits playing shogi, he becomes desperate. With the support of his peers, including Yuya Suzuki, and his love of shogi, Shoji Segawa begins to play shogi again. A miracle happens to him.

title: Noise

overview: Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing population and declining industries. Keita Izumi (Tatsuya Fujiwara) begins to produce black fig on Shishikari Island. Because of his well received product, the island is close to receiving a 5 billion yen grant from the government, which is part of the goverment's policy to reinvigorate rural economy. The residents of the island are excited, but their peaceful days changes by the appearance of Mutsuo Komisaka.  Keita Izumi and his friends Jun Tanabe (Kenichi Matsuyama) and Rookie Police Officer Shinichiro Moriya are suspicious about him. One night, Keita Izumi's daughter goes missing. Due to that, Keita Izumi, Jun Tanabe and Shinichiro Moriya happen to kill Mutsuo Komisaka. They decide to hide Mutsuo Komisaka’s murder to protect the future of the island and their families. It turns out Mutsuo Komisaka was a psycho killer. Police officers come to Shishikari Island to catch Mutsuo Komisaka.

title: Nakamura Nakazo - A Rebel in the Kabuki Establishment

original_title: 中村仲蔵 ～歌舞伎王国 下剋上異聞～

title: Saint Young Men The Movie ~Holy Men vs Demon Army~

overview: There are saints living in Tokyo, Japan: Buddha the Enlightened One, and Jesus, Son of God. After successfully bringing the previous century to a close, the two share an apartment in Tachikawa while enjoying some well-earned time off down on Earth. Buddha pinches pennies like a typical neighborhood housewife, while Jesus is prone to making impulse buys.

original_title: 聖☆おにいさん THE MOVIE～ホーリーメン VS 悪魔軍団～

title: Making of Death Note

overview: Documentary on the first live action Death Note film.

title: Making of Death Note: The Last Name

overview: Documentary on the second live action Death Note film.

title: Macbeth: The Empty Throne

title: Pokemon: Hoopa, The Mischief of Pokemon

overview: The story of how Baraz and Meray tried to teach a Hoopa to behave, when they were kids. This is a prologue to the "Hoopa and the Clash of Ages" movie.

title: Death Note: Genius of the Counterattack

overview: Death Note: Genius of the Counterattack is a television movie in the Death Note film series. It condenses the first two films Death Note and Death Note: The Last Name, with additional scenes related to the miniseries Death Note: New Generation and the new film Death Note: Light Up the NEW World. The film serves as a summary recap for audiences before they see the new film Death Note: Light Up the NEW World, and it aired on television the evening before the film premiered.

original_title: デスノート 逆襲の天才 特別編

title: Kaiji: Life Revenge Game

overview: Burdened by debt, Kaiji Itou is forced into a series of high-stakes gambling games where he must risk everything to survive and take control of his future.

original_title: カイジ 人生リベンジゲーム

title: Death Note: The Last Name

title: Battle Royale

title: Battle Royale II: Requiem

original_title: バトル・ロワイアルII 鎮魂歌

title: 八つ墓村

title: Kamaitachi no Yoru

title: Shiren & Ragi

title: Baton

title: Chameleon

title: Death Note

title: The Incite Mill

original_title: インシテミル 7日間のデス・ゲーム

title: Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler

title: Death Note: The Last Name

title: The Secret World of Arrietty

original_title: 借りぐらしのアリエッティ

title: Parade

title: A Man with Style

title: Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler

original_title: カイジ2 人生奪回ゲーム

title: Sabu

title: I'm Flash!

title: Shield of Straw

title: Making of 'Battle Royale'

original_title: 映画は戦場だ 深作欣二 in「バトル・ロワイアル」

original_title: 深作欣二・最後の戦場 父と子のバトル・ロワイアル Ⅱ

title: Making of Battle Royale II: Requiem

original_title: バトル・ロワイアルⅡ 鎮魂歌 外伝

title: Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno

original_title: るろうに剣心 京都大火編

original_title: るろうに剣心　伝説の最期編

title: Brutus's Heart

title: The Last Revenge

original_title: 遺恨あり 明治十三年 最後の仇討

title: Musashi

title: 疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳 〜生きる覚悟〜

original_title: 疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳 〜生きる覚悟〜

title: Shintokumaru

title: Monsterz

title: ST: Aka to Shiro no Sôsa File the Movie

original_title: 映画 ST赤と白の捜査ファイル

title: One Third

title: Snakes and Earrings

title: The Chart of Love

title: Zen

title: Welcome Home, Hayabusa

title: You Dance with the Summer

title: Moonlight Jellyfish

original_title: ムーンライト・ジェリーフィッシュ

title: 蜷川幸雄×藤原竜也〜ハムレットへの軌跡

original_title: 蜷川幸雄×藤原竜也〜ハムレットへの軌跡

title: Julius Caesar

title: Persona

title: Hey Handsome!!: The Movie

title: Erased

title: Glory of the Expedition

title: ST Keishichou Kagaku Tokusou-han

original_title: 古畑任三郎ファイナル 今、甦る死

title: Memoirs of a Murderer

original_title: 22年目の告白 ―私が殺人犯です―

title: Million Dollar Man

title: Death Note: L Change the WorLd

title: Diner

title: Aircraft Carrier Ibuki

title: Death Note: Light Up the NEW World

title: No Longer Human

original_title: 人間失格 太宰治と3人の女たち

title: Lupin III: The First

title: Proof of the Man

original_title: ポケモン・ザ・ムービーXY 光輪の超魔神 フーパ

title: The Sun Stands Still

title: Kaiji: Final Game

original_title: カイジ ファイナルゲーム

title: Tales of the Bizarre: 2017 Fall Special

original_title: 世にも奇妙な物語 '17秋の特別編

title: Every Trick In The Book

title: The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan

title: Noise

original_title: 中村仲蔵 ～歌舞伎王国 下剋上異聞～

original_title: 聖☆おにいさん THE MOVIE～ホーリーメン VS 悪魔軍団～

title: Making of Death Note

title: Making of Death Note: The Last Name

title: Macbeth: The Empty Throne

title: Pokemon: Hoopa, The Mischief of Pokemon

title: Death Note: Genius of the Counterattack

original_title: デスノート 逆襲の天才 特別編

title: Kaiji: Life Revenge Game

original_title: カイジ 人生リベンジゲーム

School Cop

original_name: 青のSP ー学校内警察・嶋田隆平ー

The Battle at Sekigahara

original_name: 戦国自衛隊 関ヶ原の戦い

Keigo Higashino 3-week drama SP series

original_name: 東野圭吾3週連続スペシャル

渦が森団地の眠れない子たち

original_name: 渦が森団地の眠れない子たち

Lost ID

original_name: そして、誰もいなくなった

ST～警視庁科学特捜班～

original_name: ST～警視庁科学特捜班～

ST MPD Scientific Investigation Squad

original_name: ST 赤と白の捜査ファイル

稲垣吾郎の金田一耕助シリーズ

original_name: 稲垣吾郎の金田一耕助シリーズ

Fish Masters

original_name: ギョギョッとサカナ★スター


Taro Yamamoto

biography: Tarō Yamamoto is a Japanese politician and former actor, who is the founder and current leader of the anti-establishment political party Reiwa Shinsengumi. Yamamoto served as a member of the House of Councillors from 2013 to 2019 and was a candidate in the 2020 Tokyo gubernatorial election.

At Seventeen

overview: After parting with her six childhood friends for several years, Takumi decides to return back to her hometown to reunite with them. However, her six friends worry about her comeback as she's a real trouble-maker and has made their lives very miserable in the past. Slowly, they come to realise that they are wrong about Takumi, and just then she disappears before them once again, leaving behind the sweet memories they have together at the age of seventeen.

character: 木村浩介

Real Clothes

original_name: リアル・クローズ

God Does Not Play Dice

overview: Everything seems normal until the Oriental Air 402 plane is swallowed into some kind of energy and disappears. Ten years after having everyone think the plane had mysteriously crashed and everyone died, in 2006, it reappears as if nothing had happened. Now the passengers of 402 apparently can experience how life is 10 years after the day they boarded that plane...

character: Kiuchi Tetsuya

original_name: 神はサイコロを振らない

Medaka

overview: Takako Meguro, a typical office worker known to her friends as Medaka, starts a new career as a night school teacher when her company restructures. At first, she's not so crazy about her new job and gets by with a minimum of effort. But as she continues, she finds out it's quite a challenge after all. Her students range from a high school dropout to a salaried worker, and also include a self-employed fellow, and a cabaret hostess, in short, a motley crew! What's more, half of them are older than her and, to make matters worse, one of them is a elementary school classmate. But a certain turn of events results in Medaka's becoming a really dedicated teacher! Although she's surprised herself at this change of character, her trials are just about to begin.

character: Yabe

original_name: めだか

Best Friend

overview: Kouhei asks his girlfriend Kaede to marry him. He also reveals that his company going to transfer him to London office and that he would like his bride-to-be to come along. As Kaede walks home she bumps into Yuuko, a girl from far-off Yaizu who has come to town for meeting with her ex-boyfriend's buisiness partner. The girls inadvertently swap addresses books in the confusion, leading Kaede to discover that Yuuko has meeting planned with Kouhei. She immediately expects the worse.

character: Yamada Taisuke

original_name: ベストフレンド

Shinsengumi!

overview: Shinsengumi! is a Taiga drama television series produced by Japanese broadcaster NHK. It was a popular drama about the Shinsengumi, a Japanese special police force from the Bakumatsu period.

character: Harada Sanosuke

original_name: 新選組！

BAZOOKA!!!

original_name: BAZOOKA!!!

The Ice Wall

overview: Two mountaineers fall in love with the same woman. When one of the men plunges to his death, suspicion falls on the survivor.

original_name: Hyouteki

Sankaku Heart

overview: Tomo is a shy young man, pathologically nervous in the company of young women, who can trace this condition back to the childhood bullying he received at the hands of his cousin Ikuko. But when his parents go abroad for along trip, the fearful Tomo is forced to move in with his relatives, only to discover that the horrible Ikuko has grown into a beautiful young woman.

character: Morisawa Takuya

original_name: さんかくはぁと

Detective School Q

overview:
The city is filled with countless urban legends. Strange incidents that occur in the midst of these legends lead people into a labyrinth... It is the five young detective hatchlings who take on these difficult cases. Overflowing with intellectual curiosity, they make the most of their abilities. They are full of intellectual curiosity and show their abilities to the fullest as they run through the city and get to the bottom of the mystery.

And what lurks behind the scenes is a professional criminal planner... Through fierce battles with the enemy and encounters with various people, they are sometimes hurt, but they gradually grow up. This is a pop youth mystery that depicts the friendship and adventures of a group of talented detectives.

character: Kotaro Nanami

original_name: 探偵学園Q

Regatta: Kimi to ita eien

overview: Makoto is a promising oarsman at a University regatta team. One day, he loses his best friend by a tragic accident which he believes and blames himself for the very cause. Although he once leaves the team out of tremendous sense of responsibility, he finally decides to return by the encouragement of Misao and his teammates, and moreover, for the love and passion of regatta. He is determined than ever to become a top class oarsman and struggles to fulfill his dream to participate in the Olympic games. Through the severe practices and competitions of regatta, Makoto learns the bitterness and difficulties of life. Rivalry with teammates, agonies of love and friendship.

original_name: レガッタ〜君といた永遠〜

Futarikko

overview: Born over a tofu shop in Osaka, twin sisters Reiko and Kyoko have very different characters. Reiko is diligent, and longs for a secure, middle class lifestyle. Kyoko is a free spirit, who seeks thrills and adventure.

original_name: ふたりっ子

The Files of the Young Kindaichi

overview: A young man who showed little promise while a high school student becomes a master detective, just like his grandfather.

character: Ryunosuke Tatsumi

original_name: 金田一少年の事件簿

Shusaku's Odyssey

overview: In Edo, a determined young swordsman, Chiba Shūsaku, joins a dojo to pursue his dream. He forges strong friendships with fellow students, including one who works for a magistrate. As Shūsaku trains under a respected master, he faces challenges both within the dojo and in the city, growing as a swordsman and navigating the vibrant Edo society.

original_name: 熱血!周作がゆく

Hyōheki

overview: Yasushi Inoue's masterpiece is set in modern times and depicted as a love suspense film full of scale. Just below the summit of K2, one of the world's most difficult peaks, his best friend Zail's partner mysteriously slips to his death. A married woman who drove her best friend to death appears before a man chasing the truth. Are you really an enemy or an ally? A thrilling depiction of the beautiful but sad love story of a mountain man and a woman who falls in love with him, intertwining the friendships, conflicts, and intentions of a large company that is betting on the survival of the mountain-possessed men.

character: Akira Kitazawa

original_name: 氷壁

English

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Français

iso_639_1: fr

iso_3166_1: FR

english_name: French

日本語

iso_639_1: ja

iso_3166_1: JP

english_name: Japanese

普通话

山本太郎

biography: 山本太郎是日本政治家和前演员，是反建制政党令和新选组的创始人和现任领导人。山本太郎于2013年至2019年担任参议院议员，是2020年东京都知事选举的候选人。

iso_639_1: zh

iso_3166_1: CN

english_name: Mandarin

한국어/조선말

iso_639_1: ko

iso_3166_1: KR

english_name: Korean

Český

iso_639_1: cs

iso_3166_1: CZ

english_name: Czech

Український

iso_639_1: uk

iso_3166_1: UA

english_name: Ukrainian

普通话

山本太郎

biography: 山本太郎是日本政治家和前演員，是反建制政黨令和新選組的創始人和現任領導人。山本五十六於 2013 年至 2019 年擔任參議院議員，是 2020 年東京都知事選舉的候選人。

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title: Battle Royale

overview: In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

character: Shogo Kawada (Boy #5)

original_title: バトル・ロワイアル

title: The King of Minami: Nest Egg Robbery

overview: #40 in the series, following "Pride." Made-for-TV special following Manda and crew as they search for the man who stole a restaurant owner's life savings, resulting in the death of one of their clients.

character: Kohei Shinjo

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王 スペシャル Ver.40 裏金略奪

title: The King of Minami: Bankruptcy - Loan Shark Murder

overview: #30 in the King of Minami series, introducing Ginjiro Manda's new sidekick Kohei. This installment explores the fatal effects of bankruptcy on the loan shark profession, when a young business owner gets tricked into declaring bankruptcy in order to escape from his massive loan debts, prompting Manda to seek revenge on the wily financial advisor behind it all.

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王 破産-金融屋殺し

title: Be-Bop High School 11

overview: In addition to the familiar Aitoku bad members, Taro Yamamoto dresses as Toshimitsu Yamada and the super battle explodes!

original_title: BE-BOP HIGHSCHOOL 愛徳VS城東 代理戦争篇

title: Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler

overview: Kaiji Ito moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with society at large, Kaiji spends his days gambling, vandalizing cars, and drinking booze. Two years later and his life is no better. A debt collector named Endo arrives to collect money owed. The debt collector offers two choices to Kaiji: spend 10 years paying off his loan or board a gambling boat for one night to repay his debt & possibly make a boat load of money. Could the debt collector Endo actually be setting up Kaiji? One way or another, for Kaiji it's going to be the night of his life.

character: Joji Funai

original_title: カイジ 人生逆転ゲーム

title: Secret Love

overview: A love story in which a man with a dark past and who lives lonely days apart from others, meets a woman named Arisa.

character: Toru Honda

original_title: 秘愛

title: 252: Signal of Life

overview: At some point in the distant future, a massive, catastrophic earthquake strikes Tokyo, causing the temperature of the Pacific Ocean to rise meteorically and the largest typhoon in recorded Japanese history to sweep toward the city and inundate it with water. The Tokyo Fire Department and its team of crack rescuers swing into action, and shortly after they do, a distress call arises from an underground subway station - with repeated indications of the rescue code, 252 252, and the exclamation "We Have Survivors." It soon becomes apparent that the local rescue squad must attempt to save the survivors, doing so at the expense of their own lives and safety. Written by Nathan Southern

character: Tatsuya Miyauchi

original_title: 252 生存者あり

title: Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider OOO & W Featuring Skull: Movie Wars Core

overview: Confronting a mysterious enemy, the Pteranodon Yummy, Kamen Rider W receives aid from Ryu, who has infuriated Akiko by being too busy to attend her wedding! Akiko demands to know why he even became a Kamen Rider in the first place and the Pteranodon Yummy as it uses the Memory Memory on her to give her the answer to her question. Meanwhile, at the Kougami Foundation, Kousei Kougami talks of the most avaricious man in Japan, Oda Nobunaga, whose final resting place was found. With Doctor Maki overseeing the process, Kougami commissions the creation of a Cell Medal homunculus based on Nobunaga himself.  Later, Kamen Rider Core begins to destroy the area as Kamen Riders OOO and W team up to fight the enemy. However, Kamen Rider Core proves too powerful and the two go underground to destroy the Gaia Memory’s source of power to even the odds.

character: Seiichiro "Matsu" Matsui / Spider Dopant

original_title: 仮面ライダー×仮面ライダー オーズ&ダブル feat.スカル MOVIE大戦CORE

overview: The late Kinji Fukasaku directed "Battle Royale" - his 60th movie - at the age of 70. This film follows the shooting of the film.

character: Self

original_title: 映画は戦場だ 深作欣二 in「バトル・ロワイアル」

title: A Day on the Planet

overview: Masamichi is about to take up postgraduate study. He invites six student friends round for a farewell dinner at his Kyoto flat.

character: Yamada

original_title: きょうのできごと

title: My Way

overview: During the invasion of Normandy the photograph of a slim Korean man in German uniform was found. It transpired that the man had served as a soldier in the Japanese, Russian and German armies. His incredible story inspired director Kang Je-Gyu to create this epic war drama.

character: Noda

original_title: 마이웨이

title: The King of Minami: Yakuza in Debt

overview: #31 in the King of Minami series. A washed-up yakuza named Fukunaga borrows money from Manda, unwittingly involving him in a sinister murder plot.

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王 劇場版XIV 借金極道

title: Tsutsumi honoo no gotoku

overview: Kaori, who can find nothing in her daily life but sex with her male friend Taro, suddenly meets a middle-aged man named Kosuke. She hopes that Kosuke will quench her thirst, but is disappointed to learn that he has a woman named Naomi. Upon learning of Kaori's feelings for him, Taro...

character: Taro

original_title: 突然炎のごとく

title: The Triumphant Return of General Rouge

overview: A year after the celebrated cracking of “The Glorious Team Batista” case, the talented medical staff at Tojo University Hospital once again finds itself embroiled in a web of intrigue and scandal.The scandal occurs this time in the ER when a mysterious letter arrives for Dr. Kimiko Taguichi. The letter reads: “Chief Surgeon Hayami of the Emergency Center has a collusive relationship with a medical supplies maker. And the head nurse is in on it with him.” An unimaginable truth then awaits.

character: Takuma Sato

original_title: ジェネラル・ルージュの凱旋

title: GO

overview: Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.

character: Tawake

original_title: GO

title: Moon Child

overview: Moon Child follows a group of childhood friends as they advance in a futuristic criminal underworld. Sho feels he is doomed to walk in his idol Kei's footsteps as a vampire with the gift of eternal life and the curse of blood thirst. Over time, their tight friendship becomes corrupted because of their rivalry and love for the same woman.

character: Toshi

original_title: ムーンチャイルド

title: The Millennial Rapture

overview: Sennen no yuraku is set in a small community called “Roji” where Kenji Nakagami—one of the most famous novelists in Japan—drew the absurdity and passion of life since its inhabitants have been living and dying. There were beautiful men in “Roji” who struggled to live with the blood of the Nakamato Clan, blood called “noble yet unholy.” Oryu, a midwife, has watched all those men growing up, living and dying... She is now aging old and starts to talk with the dead men souls of the Nakamoto Clan...

title: The Boat to Heaven

overview: A young boy, Masahiko Sakurai, grows up in Nagasaki where he sees the clear blue ocean everyday. His mother wants him to be a violinist. To make her dream come true, Masahiko goes to Tokyo to learn the violin, and stays with his aunt, Setsuko, in Kamakura near Tokyo. Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of Masashi Sada's novel of the same name received the 21st Japanese Cinema Reconstruction and Promotion Award and the 46th Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actor.

title: Run Ichiro Run

overview: Various individuals named Ichiro undergo life-changing events while being inspired by the baseball player Ichiro. A heartwarming movie about the people who root for the baseball player Ichiro, and their struggles to make their own dreams come true.

title: Red Moon

overview: Namiko Morita, who lived in Otaru, moved to this area with her husband, Yutaro, and opened the brewery "Morita Brewery". Eventually, they succeeded in this business and lived happily while raising three children.  However, in August 1945, the situation changed completely due to the Soviet invasion of Manchuria.

title: Under the Same Moon

overview: When Tetsuya (Yosuke Kubozuka) was 10-years-old he met Emi (Meisa Kuroki), who suffered from a heart disease. In hopes to cure Emi's condition, Tetsuya decided to become a doctor. Following through on his dreams, Tetsuya is now a doctor and is about to marry Emi. One day though, Tetsuya hears about Don (Edison Chen). Tetsuya remembers the times he spent with Emi and Don as a child and also feels insecure about Don.

title: Perfect Education 4: Secret Basement

overview: A shy, nerdy man, Takeru finds a schoolgirl hooker Lily is unconscious in a Tokyo park, so he decides to bring her home and lock her up in a secret basement. Although Lily is afraid of him, in fact, Takeru didn't do anything to hurt her. After Lily begins to uncover a shocking episode

original_title: 完全なる飼育 秘密の地下室

title: The King of Minami: Business Loans - The Guarantor's Trap

overview: #33 in the King of Minami series. The CEO of a health food start-up borrows money from Manda using his fiancee's house as collateral, but when his American supplier demands more money than expected, he turns to a business loan company to make up the difference. Meanwhile, a hapless festival merchant turns to Manda when a run-in with the yakuza threatens to derail his business.

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王 劇場版XV 商工ローン・保証人の落とし穴

title: Princess Raccoon

overview: Amechiyo (the banished prince) falls in love with Tanukihime (a princess of raccoon dog disguised as human). This is an operetta which includes comedy, singing and dancing, and a love story.

title: Love Letter

overview: A romantic film about the spiritual exchange between a gangster and a Chinese woman who got married to him under false pretenses.

title: Umarekawaru to shitara

overview: A mysterious world of images of an old, almost forgotten barbershop in the middle of the city, with its owner who is just “waiting” for something, and the people who visit him. A barbershop is a place where people want change. A place to find a new self. The barber finds a different self on the other side of the mirror, and between drowsiness and thoughts, he is lost between dreams and reality, pondering in a different space. The barber travels with various customers to a mysterious space. Invisible images are projected into each mind along with the recitation of poems.

title: My Summertime Map

overview: Elementary student Tanabe Kento is struggling to draw a map of his town for his summer vacation homework. One day, a fracas occurs involving a mysterious man, junkman. After that, Kento discovers a Hiroshima that he'd never known, and decides to draw a map of his very own.

title: Daida kyoushi akiba, shinken desu!

overview: Based on the comic book series by Yoshiyuki Hayasaka and M.A.T.

original_title: 代打教師 秋葉、真剣です!

title: Through the Night

overview: When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble of a destroyed shantytown they plan to haul it out for profit. Amidst this plan there is discrimination, war and an infatuation between a man and a woman, but like everything around them there and owing to the forces around them, there is as much chance that these may burn to ashes and be destroyed or be the beginning of something new.

title: That's Cheating! The Biggest Plan in History?

overview: The setting is the prestigious, traditional Japan University of Science. Mitsugu Kimura, a top-achieving student, is a resident of Sigma House, a student dormitory. Mitsugu is joined by a group of unique, problematic students with the lowest grades, but Sigma House is in danger of being demolished. Professor Migita, who is conspiring to build a hotel on campus, has plotted to close the dormitory unless all the students get straight A's on their next exams. In Campus Academic Wars, students wage a cheating war against a corrupt university professor, with the survival of Sigma House at stake. Will glory or ruin await them at the end of this righteous(?) cheating that brings together all their intelligence and physical strength? Namie Amuro, the top J-pop music sensation, plays one of the students. Screening alongside the film In Tomoko's Case (starring Rie Tomosaka, directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro) as a double feature theatrical release.

original_title: That's カンニング! 史上最大の作戦?

title: The House of Rising Sun

overview: The Hirata are a typical family residing in picturesque Kosai, Shizuoka Prefecture. Their lives are thrown in chaos when an earthquake strikes and causes a nearby nuclear power plant to explode. They must evacuate their home.

title: July 7th, Sunny Day

overview: Hinata Mochizuki (Arisa Mizuki) is a superstar in the pop music scene, and Kenta Yamabe (Masato Hagiwara) is a very ordinary office worker. One day, the two meet, and then fell in love. However, due to the influence of various external factors, the relationship between the two does not go smoothly.

title: Izo

overview: Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.

title: Rain of Light

overview: This documentary-style film recreates the infamous Asama Sanso Incident of 1972 wherein an extreme faction of the Students Allied Red Army holed themselves up in a mountainous cabin in the dead of winter. By the time the police finally caught up with them, it was discovered that they had murderously turned upon themselves in a bizarre extension of their radical philosophy. This event virtually marked the end of the Student Revolution.

title: Eden

overview: When Miro's transsexual friend Noripee dies, Miro and his friends from the gay bar 'Eden' are once again reminded of the discrimination they are constantly facing from society. They decide to convince Noripee's parents, who disowned her, to bury Noripee's body.

title: Woman in Witness Protection

overview: Vain, middle-aged actress Biwako is placed in witness protection while authorities investigate the brutal murder she witnessed. Under the watch of two dedicated cops, Biwako struggles to maintain her career, her public image, and her personal life as she prepares for her new role on the witness stand.

title: Get Up!

overview: A James Brown fanatic gangster decided to disband his own gang and see his long lost daughter before entering prison. Hoping to change his mind, his underlings planned to kidnap James Brown to convince him to perform privately for their boss.

title: Goemon Rock 2: Rose and Samurai

overview: A woman has thrown herself away for rescuing a country. A man has picked up a sword to protect a woman. Time in the 17th century, and place in the Iberian Peninsula. The master thief of the era Goemon ISHIKAWA (Arata FURUTA) has been rampaging in the Mediterranean Sea as a protector of a female pirate named Anne the Tornado (Yuki AMAMI)./span> One day, it turns out that Anne is the heir-to-the-throne of a small country. Heard of the corrupt politics in that country after the king's death, her inborn masculine spirit makes-up her mind to become the Queen of the country. The first duty as the Queen is to eradicate the pirates. Against her will, she is forced into a fight against Goemon who protected her former comrades. Godemon, who became suspicious of the series of events, brakes into the castle to steal Anne out. What Goemon saw there was ......!? What would be the fate of Goemon and Anne...!!

title: Reiwa Uprising

overview: Kazuo Hara follows Ayumi Yasutomi, a transgender candidate, who is also a Tokyo University professor, as she embarks on a national campaign for a seat in Japan's Upper House.

title: Granny Gabai

overview: Gabai Granny is based on the bestseller Saga No Gabai Baachan (Gabai Granny from Saga), which is penned by comedian Shimada Yoshichi as he recounts his childhood memories of growing up under the care of his grandmother.

title: Orochi - Blood

overview: The story of Orochi revolves around the life of the Monzen family. Aoi Monzen, a famous, but aging, movie star and Kazusa and Lisa Monzen her two daughters. Aoi hopes for them both to take over her legacy as a star, but Kazusa does not live up to her expectations. The mother is always pitting the girls against one another competitively. As a result, as the years pass, the love the sisters shared grows to a hidden hatred.  When another girl named Orochi saves the girl's mother from a terrible accident a bizarre chain of events is set in motion spanning many years. The atmosphere in their estate builds up until Orochi reveals a terrible truth that the family must keep hidden from the world. Orochi serves as the narrator of the story. The movie is based on a Kazuo Umezu manga series which ran from 1969 to 1970.

title: Friends After 3.11

overview: In March 2011, Japan was struck by a catastrophic earthquake, with the devastating tsunami that followed causing a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power station that sent ripples of discontent throughout the country. Director Iwai Shunji's Friends after 3.11 (2011) is a deeply personal documentary which uses the statements of some of his closest friends to express the views of a society in a state of political despondency.

title: The King of Minami: License for Cruelty

overview: #35 in the series, following "Toichi Ransom." Manda uncovers an extortion operation run by a golf-obsessed businessman (Kenichi Endo), who forces bankrupt business owners to buy back their repossessed items at double the auction price.

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王16 非情のライセンス

title: The King of Minami: Toichi Ransom

overview: #34 in the series, following "Business Loans - The Guarantor's Trap." Manda teams up with a seasoned con man and an elementary school girl to take on a corrupt lawyer who preys on people unable to pay back their debts.

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王15 トイチの身代金

title: The King of Minami: Yakuza Finance

overview: #36 in the series, following "License for Cruelty." The CEO of a yakuza-backed finance company teams up with a shady consultant to convince debtors to sign away the deed to their property in order to declare bankruptcy and clear their debts.

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王17 極道金融

title: The King of Minami: Dark Judgment

overview: #41 in the series, following "Special Ver.40"

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王19 闇の裁き

title: The King of Minami: Certified Alibi Trap

overview: #32 in the King of Minami series. When the failed president of a recruitment company turns to offering fake job titles for a fee, he is targeted by the yakuza and forced to borrow money from Ginjiro Manda. Despite his attempts to escape his debts by declaring bankruptcy, Manda has other plans.

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王14 アリバイ証明の罠

title: The King of Minami: Formula for Deception

overview: #37 in the series, following "Yakuza Finance."

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王18 騙しの方程式

title: The King of Minami: Bonds - KIZUNA

overview: #42 in the series, following "Dark Judgment"

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王20 絆-KIZUNA-

title: The King of Minami: The Men's Past

overview: #44 in the series, following "The Price of Betrayal."

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王22 男たちの過去

title: The King of Minami: The Price of Betrayal

overview: #43 in the series, following "Bonds - KIZUNA."

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王21 裏切りの報酬

title: The King of Minami: Fraud Methods

overview: #45 in the series, following "The Men's Past"

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王23 詐欺の手口

title: The King of Minami 24

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王24 海に浮く札束

title: The King of Minami: The Flower of Temptation

overview: This is the 25th installment of the long-running OV series, which delves into the dark side of society that is often overlooked. This ambitious film sheds light on the ruthless, unknown side of sex-related businesses such as host clubs and brothels, which target people indulging in unbridled desire. Maejima (Bonchi Osamu), an ice shop owner who falls in love with a woman working at a restaurant in Toyota Shinchi, borrows 2 million yen from Ginjiro (Takeuchi) to help her out of debt, but falls into a clever trap set by the greedy host club owner, losing both the shop's land and the building.

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王25 誘惑の華

title: The King of Minami 26

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王26 一千万の銃弾

title: The King of Minami: The Masked Woman

overview: #49 in the series, following "Fraud Methods"

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王27 仮面の女

title: Promise: The Nabari Poisoned Wine Case, The Life of a Death-row Inmate

overview: Masaru Okunishi is a prisoner who has been on death-row for over 40 years. In 1961, 5 women died from drinking poisoned wine in a small village gathering in Nabari City in Mie Prefecture. After his arrest, he appealed his innocence on the grounds that the police coerced his confession. He was found not guilty in the first trial. However, it was overturned and he received a death sentence in the second trial, which was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1972. Since then, Okunishi has continuously appealed for retrial, fighting against the horror of capital punishment.  This TV dramatization of the Nabari Poisoned Wine Case depicts Okunishi in an isolated cell, his mother’s unwavering belief in his innocence, and the effort of people who have rallied to Okunishi’s defense.

original_title: 約束 名張毒ぶどう酒事件 死刑囚の生涯

title: Kattobi Boogie 2: Flat Out Baby

original_title: かっとびブギ２　フラットアウト・ベイビー

title: Rikidozan: A Hero Extraordinaire

overview: Story of Rikidozan, a sumo wrestler who can only achieve limited success in Japan because he's half Korean. But when Rikidozan goes to the United States and discovers professional wrestling, he becomes a hero back home.

title: The King of Minami: Debt Seminar

overview: #38 in the series, following "Formula for Deception."

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王 劇場版XVI 借金セミナー

title: School Days

overview: Haruo Aizawa, who made his debut in the entertainment industry at the tender age of zero and took the world by storm as a child prodigy, gets caught up in his parents' divorce and retires at the age of eight, much to the regret of the public, saying, "I want to go back to being a normal kid!" However, Haruo, now a high school student, finds that there's nothing good about being a normal kid, so he decides to make a comeback and auditions for the super-popular drama "Outcast! School Days," and passes with flying colors! He develops a strong admiration for the passionate teacher, Mr. Konoike, in the drama and is gradually influenced by him. However, he becomes so engrossed in his role in the drama that he loses his balance with reality, and eventually Mr. Konoike starts to appear in his real life... This is an unconventional new coming-of-age school movie that uses a TV school drama as its motif and cynically depicts the boundary between the world of reality and fiction!

title: The King of Minami: Pride

overview: #39 in the series, following "Debt Seminar." A former pro baseball player turned youth baseball coach borrows money from Manda to lend to the gambling-addicted father of his star player.

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王 劇場版XVII プライド

title: Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji

overview: Set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins from the death of her husband, a Japanese noble, then moves on to her recruitment to train the Prince's young 'wives in waiting'. It is dotted throughout and actually composed mainly of one of the fictional stories she wrote, the tale of Genji. Genji is a rich playboy who falls in love and has a son to his stepmother. He falls in love often and has many wives whom are all completely subservient to him.

original_title: 千年の恋 ひかる源氏物語

title: Love Song of the Old Capital

overview: In Kyoto in 1944, poet Tomohiko Nagata meets Shizue, the wife of Kyoto University assistant professor Takeichi Naito, during a lecture. Drawn to poetry and classical literature, Shizue becomes Nagata’s devoted pupil, but their relationship gradually grows beyond that of teacher and student. As rumors spread among Kyoto’s literary circle and reach her husband, jealousy and resentment tear through the Naito family. For their daughter Momoyo, the affair becomes a painful shock, yet Shizue finds herself unable to give up her love for Nagata.

title: Battle Royale

title: The King of Minami: Nest Egg Robbery

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王 スペシャル Ver.40 裏金略奪

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王 破産-金融屋殺し

title: Be-Bop High School 11

title: Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler

title: Secret Love

title: 252: Signal of Life

original_title: 映画は戦場だ 深作欣二 in「バトル・ロワイアル」

title: A Day on the Planet

title: My Way

title: The King of Minami: Yakuza in Debt

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王 劇場版XIV 借金極道

title: Tsutsumi honoo no gotoku

title: The Triumphant Return of General Rouge

original_title: ジェネラル・ルージュの凱旋

title: GO

title: Moon Child

title: The Millennial Rapture

title: The Boat to Heaven

title: Run Ichiro Run

title: Red Moon

title: Under the Same Moon

title: Perfect Education 4: Secret Basement

original_title: 完全なる飼育 秘密の地下室

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王 劇場版XV 商工ローン・保証人の落とし穴

title: Princess Raccoon

title: Love Letter

title: Umarekawaru to shitara

title: My Summertime Map

title: Daida kyoushi akiba, shinken desu!

original_title: 代打教師 秋葉、真剣です!

title: Through the Night

original_title: That's カンニング! 史上最大の作戦?

title: The House of Rising Sun

title: July 7th, Sunny Day

title: Izo

title: Rain of Light

title: Eden

title: Woman in Witness Protection

title: Get Up!

title: Goemon Rock 2: Rose and Samurai

title: Reiwa Uprising

title: Granny Gabai

title: Orochi - Blood

title: Friends After 3.11

title: The King of Minami: License for Cruelty

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王16 非情のライセンス

title: The King of Minami: Toichi Ransom

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王15 トイチの身代金

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王14 アリバイ証明の罠

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王18 騙しの方程式

title: The King of Minami: Yakuza Finance

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王17 極道金融

title: The King of Minami: Dark Judgment

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王19 闇の裁き

title: The King of Minami: Bonds - KIZUNA

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王20 絆-KIZUNA-

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王21 裏切りの報酬

title: The King of Minami: The Men's Past

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王22 男たちの過去

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王25 誘惑の華

title: The King of Minami: Fraud Methods

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王23 詐欺の手口

title: The King of Minami 26

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王26 一千万の銃弾

title: The King of Minami 24

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王24 海に浮く札束

title: The King of Minami: The Masked Woman

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王27 仮面の女

original_title: 約束 名張毒ぶどう酒事件 死刑囚の生涯

title: Kattobi Boogie 2: Flat Out Baby

original_title: かっとびブギ２　フラットアウト・ベイビー

title: Rikidozan: A Hero Extraordinaire

title: The King of Minami: Debt Seminar

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王 劇場版XVI 借金セミナー

title: School Days

title: The King of Minami: Pride

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王 劇場版XVII プライド

original_title: 千年の恋 ひかる源氏物語

title: Love Song of the Old Capital

Regatta: Kimi to ita eien

original_name: レガッタ〜君といた永遠〜