Lúcia Veríssimo

Uga-Uga

overview: An orphaned young man raised in the wild by an indigenous shaman is found by his grandfather and returned to his estranged family, where he finds himself as heir to their wealth.

character: Maria Louca

original_name: Uga-Uga

Roda de Fogo

overview: Renato Villar is an ambitious businessman. After discovering a brain tumor, his life takes a turn, and he decides to settle his debts and live his true love.

character: Laís Brandão

original_name: Roda de Fogo

Young Hearts

overview: Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha High School.

character: Cristine

original_name: Malhação

Bachelor Party

overview: After an unjust imprisonment, friends return to the town of Remanso, facing betrayals and lost loves, while battling a corrupt lawyer.

character: Flávia Souza Bastos

original_name: Despedida de Solteiro

O Belo e as Feras

original_name: O Belo e as Feras

O Salvador da Pátria

overview: Sassá Mutema is a farm laborer who becomes the target of the city's powerful figures' cruelty. With Clotilde's support, he discovers that it's possible to start a new life alongside a great love.

character: Bárbara Souza Telles

original_name: O Salvador da Pátria

Madam Beja

overview: In imperial Brazil, a young woman stripped of her reputation is forced into exile from polite society. Recasting herself as Madam Beja, she builds an elite pleasure house that becomes a hub of political intrigue, economic power, and forbidden desire, using charm, intelligence, and ruthless strategy to bend the same men and institutions that once destroyed her.

character: Idalina Botelho

original_name: Dona Beja

Walking the Clouds

overview: The adventures of a man with amnesia who struggles to rediscover his past while learning to live in the present.

character: Flora Dumont Lacerda

original_name: Andando nas Nuvens

Rensga Hits!

character: Maria Abadia (Bad)

original_name: Rensga Hits!

O Sorriso do Lagarto

overview: Inspired by the work of the same name by João Ubaldo Ribeiro, the miniseries tells the love story between João Pedros, a biologist who decides to make a living from fishing, and the unhappy Ana Clara, married to the corrupt Ângelo Marcos, Secretary of Health. Together with his lover, Bebel, Ângelo plans to take real estate speculation to the paradisiacal island of Santa Cruz. And for this he counts on the complicity of Tavinho and Nando, who belong to the local elite.

character: Bebel

original_name: O Sorriso do Lagarto

Araponga

character: Tamara Paranhos

original_name: Araponga

Cara & Coroa

overview: Fernanda and Vivi are identical, but from different worlds. A cruel plan swaps their identities and transforms their lives into a game of lies and ambition.

character: Nadine Gonçalves

original_name: Cara & Coroa

Trail of Lies

overview: Paloma is a willful woman whose newborn baby is kidnapped by her own brother, Félix, who plans to become sole heir to the family’s fortune. Bruno is an honest man who, during the same night, loses his wife and son in childbirth and miraculously finds Paloma’s child in a dumpster. Destiny will unite their lives in a plot of secrets, revelations, and disputes, with the unpredictable consequences of lives based on a dangerous and surprising network of lies.

character: Mariah Piattini

original_name: Amor à Vida

Champagne

character: Eliana (Eli)

original_name: Champagne

Black August

overview: The series tells the story of a criminal investigation into the murder of businessman Paulo Gomes de Aguiar at the beginning of August. In the midst of the Vargas government crisis, the murder case is taken by police commissioner Alberto Mattos, an honest and incorruptible man who is not well regarded by his co-workers, as the place is totally turned over to corruption.

character: Luciana Borges Gomes de Aguiar

original_name: Agosto

América

overview: Sol and Tião are born to different social backgrounds—she to a poor suburban family in Rio, and him to an even poorer family who raised cattle in West São Paulo State. They eventually meet, due to unlikely circumstances, but part again, as she has set as her ultimate priority to reach the United States or bust. While she comes to the U.S. to live as an illegal immigrant, he remains in Brazil and, despite many trials and tribulations, he becomes a successful rodeo cowboy.

character: Gildete "Gil" Madureira

original_name: América

Mandala

character: Letícia

original_name: Mandala

Marina

overview: Marina is raised by her father on an island after her mother's death. As a teenager, she moves to Rio de Janeiro to study and live with her godparents, where she ends up falling in love with Marcelo.

character: Ana

original_name: Marina

O Cometa

character: Isabel

original_name: O Cometa

Os Imigrantes

character: Maria da Paz II

original_name: Os Imigrantes

Esperança

overview: The story of two young Italian lovers of different, rival families who are separated after he moves to Brazil and falls for another woman, while she is forced to marry a fascist.

character: Francisca Moreira Alves

original_name: Esperança

Amor e Revolução

character: Jandira Batistelli

original_name: Amor e Revolução

Delegacia de Mulheres

character: Marineide

original_name: Delegacia de Mulheres

Mário Fofoca

character: Mara

original_name: Mário Fofoca

The Trapalhões

overview:
Os Trapalhões was a Brazilian comedy group and also a Brazilian television series created by Wilton Franco. Its members were Dedé Santana, Zacarias, Mussum and their leader Didi Mocó, that was played by Renato Aragão. The name Trapalhões is derived from the Portuguese verb atrapalhar, which means the opposite of helping, to do something the wrong way or to Those that confuse. The name is translated "Tramps" in English DVD subtitles. It was aired by Rede Globo from 1977 to 1999.

On March 18, 1990, Zacarias died due to respiratory failure, but the group and the series didn't come to an end until July 29, 1994, when Mussum died due to an unsuccessful heart transplant.

character: Eva

original_name: Os Trapalhões

Chico Anysio Show

original_name: Chico Anysio Show

Santa Marta Fabril

character: Martinha

original_name: Santa Marta Fabril

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Português

Lúcia Veríssimo

biography:
Nascida no Leblon, cursou a faculdade de Jornalismo na Universidade da Cidade, no Rio de Janeiro, e soma mais de 20 trabalhos em televisão, incluindo novelas, especiais e seriados. É filha de Yvonne Veríssimo e do compositor, arranjador, pianista e cantor (falsete) e fundador do conjunto vocal, Os Cariocas, responsável pelo lançamento da Bossa Nova, Maestro Severino Filho. Estudou no Colégio Rio de Janeiro com a atriz Christiane Torloni, que a incentivou à carreira do teatro. Começou no teatro aos 6 anos de idade e estudou no Teatro tablado na adolescência, de Maria Clara Machado.

Em 1978 faz seu primeiro trabalho no cinema e em 1979 ingressa em sua primeira novela, na Rede Globo de Televisão, intitulada Marina. Em 1982, faz a primeira novela de Benedito Ruy Barbosa, Os Imigrantes, na TV Bandeirantes, que foi um sucesso internacional, levando seu nome pela primeira vez ao exterior. Depois voltou a trabalhar na Globo onde ficou por muitos anos atuando em dezenas de novelas, seriados, programas semanais e minisséries.

Em 1982, engajou-se na formação do Partido Verde, ao lado de Fernando Gabeira. No mesmo ano, fundou a Canela Produções para gerenciar os projetos da carreira. Com a Canela, produziu espetáculos teatrais, CDs e programas de TV, entre eles Terra Brasil, filmado em película, em 1997, o qual foi premiado no New York Festival. Cursou Direção de Fotografia e Edição na American University, em Washington, D.C.

É Vegetariana desde 1983 e ativista pelos direitos dos animais, apoia o movimento Segunda sem carne.

É proprietária de uma fazenda em Minas Gerais, a "Fazenda Independência", onde cria mais de 20 cavalos das raças Mangalarga Marchador e Quarto de Milha, entre outros animais. Começou sua relação com cavalos ainda jovem. Fez Hipismo Clássico e foi campeã de Apartação de Bois (Cutting), uma das modalidades de esporte que o Quarto de milha está apto. A criação não tem fins comerciais e os animais são cuidados com homeopatia e alimentação orgânica. Outra linha de negócios da atriz é a marca personalizada de cachaça assinada por ela, a LV.

Em 2010, estreou a peça Usufruto , primeira peça de autoria pessoal, da qual também é produtora e foi indicada ao premio de melhor atriz e autora em 2012.

Foi capa da edição brasileira da revista Playboy em 1983 e 1988.

Em 2015 começa a filmar o documentário EU, MEU PAI E OS CARIOCAS - 70 Anos de Música no Brasil, http://luciaverissimo.com.br/eumeupaieoscariocas/ , em homenagem aos 70 anos de palco do seu pai. O filme estreia em abril de 2017 como Abertura Oficial do Festival Internacional É Tudo Verdade. Acumula os prêmios de Melhor Filme do Juri Oficial no Festival In-Edit (Brasil e Barcelona - Espanha) e Melhor Filme do Juri Popular e Menção Honrosa do Juri Oficial do Festival MUVi (Lisboa - Portugal).

한국어/조선말

루시아 베리시모

biography: 루시아 베리시모 데 아라우조 실바는 브라질의 배우, 작가, 감독이자 사업가입니다. 그녀는 연속극, 특별 프로그램, 시리즈를 포함하여 20편이 넘는 TV 작품에 출연했습니다.

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iso_3166_1: KR

english_name: Korean

title: Sons and Lovers

overview: During a weekend in a country house, young people eager for strong emotions end up switching partners and experimenting drugs.

character: Sílvia

original_title: Filhos e Amantes

title: As Feras

overview: Paulo has a strange relationship with his cousin Sônia, whom he loves since childhood. But she despises him and, being in love with another woman, causes a lot of humiliating situations to him.

character: Sônia

title: The Naked Man

overview: Writer Sílvio Proença needs to travel to São Paulo in order to promote his new book. At the airport, he meets a group of old mates. With the boarding canceled due to a strong storm, the group goes to the apartment of Marialva, daughter of one of Proença's friends. Seduced by Marialva's music and charms, Proença spends the night there, where he wakes up the next day, completely naked. Still groggy from his hangover, he goes to pick up the bread left outside the apartment; that's when the wind closes the door and leaves him naked outside.

title: Jeitosa, Um Assunto Muito Particular

title: Antonio Meliande: Pau pra Toda Obra

title: Boca do Lixo: A Bollywood Brasileira

overview: A documentary on Boca do Lixo, a dowtown São Paulo square that became a tentpole for film distribution on the early 20th century, becoming, from the 1960s on, a production district for popular eroctic films and for avant-garde directors.

title: Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas

title: Uma Mulher do Outro Mundo

title: Um Casal de 3

title: Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas

title: Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas

title: Sons and Lovers

title: As Feras

title: The Naked Man

title: Jeitosa, Um Assunto Muito Particular

title: Antonio Meliande: Pau pra Toda Obra

title: Boca do Lixo: A Bollywood Brasileira

title: Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas

title: Uma Mulher do Outro Mundo

title: Um Casal de 3

title: Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas

title: Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas


Fernando Benini

biography:
Antônio Fernando Benini was born in São Paulo on November 18, 1942. He works in television, theater and cinema.

Fernando Benini was born in the neighborhood of Lapa, in the capital, but soon his parents moved inland, the city of Descalvado. Due to the strong Catholic faith of his parents, Fernando was referred to the Seminary in the Archdiocese of Campinas. But that's when the boy met the theater, and he was charmed by it. He also continued there, where he studied Philosophy. He only left the Seminary, when he became an adult, and was in the first year of Theology.

Fernando Benini then moved to the capital and entered FAAP, Faculdade Armando Álvarez Penteado, where he did Fine Arts. He graduated in 1977. He started teaching at Escola Granja Viana. He was a professor of Philosophy. He also taught Fine Arts, which he did from 1973 to 1984.

Carrossel

overview:
Carrossel is a children's telenovela created by Abel Santa Cruz and written by Íris Abravanel, originally transmitted on SBT from May 21, 2012 to present. It is a Brazilian remake of the Mexican telenovela Carrusel, which in turn had been inspired by the Argentinean telenovela Jacinta Pichimahuida, la Maestra que no se Olvida.

In a short time the display was a telenovela phenomenon of hearing canal causing quite successful among the children public yielding several CDs, DVDs, toys and other products in less than a year. including we have made several spin-offs based on it, including a cartoon series and television sitcom.

character: Firmino Gonçalves

original_name: Carrossel

original_language: pt

Super Plá

overview: After a fall, intelligent young Plácido becomes a little slow. As an adult he works at a bank and his keen intelligence returns when he drinks the soft drink "Super Plá". Other side stories include the love relationship between Baby Stompanato and Joana Martini, and the life of Majô Prado, a neurotic millionairess and prominent personality living in São Paulo.

character: Robô Macho

original_name: Super Plá

English

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iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

Português

Fernando Benini

biography:
Antônio Fernando Benini nasceu em São Paulo, em 18 de novembro de 1942. Atua em televisão, teatro e cinema.

Fernando Benini nasceu no bairro da Lapa, na capital, mas logo seus pais se mudaram para o interior, cidade de Descalvado. Devido a forte fé católica de seus pais, Fernando foi encaminhado para o Seminário na Arquidiocese de Campinas. Mas foi exatamente aí que o garoto conheceu o teatro e por ele se encantou. Assim mesmo continuou lá, onde estudou Filosofia. Só largou o Seminário, quando ficou adulto, e estava no primeiro ano de Teologia.

Fernando Benini mudou-se então para a capital e entrou na FAAP, Faculdade Armando Álvarez Penteado, onde fez Artes Plásticas.. Formou-se em 1977. Passou a lecionar na Escola Granja Viana. Era professor de Filosofia. Também ministrava Artes Plásticas, o que fez de 1973 a 1984.

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iso_3166_1: BR

english_name: Portuguese

普通话

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iso_3166_1: CN

english_name: Mandarin

also_known_as:
Antônio Fernando Benini
Nicéia Dutra

title: O Paraíso Proibido

overview: Celso Felix, a successful radio broadcaster in the metropolis, is disillusioned with his everyday life and leaves his wife and children to live in a small beach town on the brazilian coast.

character: Goiaba

original_title: O Paraíso Proibido

title: The Island of Prohibited Pleasures

overview: There's the continent ruled by a repressive government and there's an island  where political activists of the continent take refuge on running away from the continent's police. This island is their last stand – there they live in a way not possible in the continent – free love, no possessions, brotherhood… In the continent, a killer is sent to the island to kill the revolutionary leaders. The killer is a woman , Ana (Neide Ribeiro). She will go there as a journalist sent there to interview the leaders of the movement. On arriving to the island, she will find out that things were much different from what she expected. Will Ana be involved by the "island of forbidden pleasures." Will she fulfill her mission?

character: Nilo Baleeiro

original_title: A Ilha dos Prazeres Proibidos

title: A Gunman Named Papaco

overview: The adventures of a bisexual gunman named Papaco who wants to deliver a special delivery to anyone who’s willing to pay for it.

character: Papaco

original_title: Um Pistoleiro Chamado Papaco

title: Prisoners of the Amazon Jungle

overview: Some brazilian chicks are kidnapped by girl dealers and carried away on a small airplane to take them to the amazon jungle. What follows is catch as catch can between two groups of gangs... but the girls have fun anyway...

original_title: As Prisioneiras da Selva Amazônica

title: Male, Female & Co.

overview: Erotic comic trash that takes place at the beginning of time, with the right to the participation of God and the snake of Eden.

character: Cobra

original_title: Macho, Fêmea & Cia. (A Vida Erótica de Caim e Abel)

title: Hitler in the Third World

overview: Paranoia, guilt, misery, and technology in the developing country. A fragmented narrative, distorted frames, shouts, and noises. The Nazis take over São Paulo: prison and torture of revolutionaries, a samurai lost in chaos, locked lovers, a dictator and his bunch. Considered one of the most influential films of the marginal period.

original_title: Hitler 3º Mundo

title: Queen of Clubs

overview: An unhappy woman, married and mother of two children, has problems with her alcoholic husband, sexually rejecting him, and only reaching pleasure in hallucinating erotic dreams.

original_title: Dama de Paus

title: Orgy or The Man Who Gave Birth

overview: A countryman kills his father and heads for the big city. On his way, he meets the most bizarre and allegorical types: a robber, a drag queen who thinks he's Carmen Miranda, a black king, a fallen black angel, a priest, two whores, a pregnant cowboy, among others.

original_title: Orgia ou O Homem Que Deu Cria

title: As Amantes de um Jumento

overview: The woman of a Portuguese truck driver is in love with an ass, the donkey talks and lives in the bathroom and having dinner with her. One day, when he returns home, the Portuguese hitchhike to a black wanderer, but soon expels him and humiliates him out of prejudice. The revenge comes next, when this with Lia Soul taking advantage of the feminine benefits, the black enters in cut his

original_title: As Amantes de um Jumento

title: Abre as Pernas, Coração

overview: An aphrodisiac setting, a desert island, lots of pretty girls and two rednecks.

original_title: Abre as Pernas, Coração

title: Carrossel 2: O Sumiço de Maria Joaquina

overview: The children are invited by a Brazilian music star to one of his shows. But the trip turns into a nightmare when the villains Gonzales and Gonzalito, recently released from prison, decide to kidnap Maria Joaquina.

original_title: Carrossel 2: O Sumiço de Maria Joaquina

title: Um Jumento em Minha Cama

original_title: Um Jumento em Minha Cama

title: Laura's Vacation

overview: Laura, beautiful and seductive, decides to spend a few days at the farm of relatives, who have not seen them for 15 years. Her cousins, naive and simple people from the countryside, make it difficult for Laura... to have them. That is the goal.

original_title: Férias de Laura

title: Sede de Amar (Capuzes Negros)

original_title: Sede de Amar (Capuzes Negros)

title: Movie Dementia

overview: Transposition of the myth of Faust to modern Brazil. The heir to a bankrupt cigarette factory, amidst a personal crisis, leaves everything behind and heads for a supposed paradise he has seen in a tourist agency, where he believes he could find self-knowledge. In his search, he is inspired by a Mephisto-like character.

character: Wagner

original_title: Filme Demência

place_of_birth: São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

title: O Paraíso Proibido

media_type: movie

title: The Island of Prohibited Pleasures

title: A Gunman Named Papaco

title: Prisoners of the Amazon Jungle

title: Male, Female & Co.

title: Hitler in the Third World

title: Queen of Clubs

title: Orgy or The Man Who Gave Birth

title: As Amantes de um Jumento

title: Abre as Pernas, Coração

title: Carrossel 2: O Sumiço de Maria Joaquina

title: Um Jumento em Minha Cama

title: Laura's Vacation

title: Sede de Amar (Capuzes Negros)

title: Movie Dementia


Greta Martini

biography: Greta Martini is a Porn Star from Romania. She was born in Galati on September 7, 1985. She has blue eyes and blonde hair. Greta is 176 cm tall and weighs 50 kg.

Italiano

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iso_3166_1: IT

english_name: Italian

title: Double Choc

original_title: Double Choc

original_language: fr

title: The G.M. Affair

overview: A rich businessman organizes an elaborate robbery, using mercenaries that don't know his true identity. The police find one of the thieves, but not the mastermind. The detective in charge is joined by a beautiful but ruthless bounty huntress hired by the insurance company who will use her seductive ways to solve the case. Greta uses her unconventional methods to approach various jet-setters and after several unsuccessful attempts she identifies Terry Caldwell as the main suspect. A risky game of seduction starts between the two.

character: Greta

original_title: The G.M. Affair

original_language: it

title: The G.M. Affair

image_type: poster

place_of_birth: Galati, Romania, EU

title: Double Choc

title: The G.M. Affair

known_for_department: Acting


Toshinobu Matsuo

告発〜国選弁護人

original_name: 告発〜国選弁護人

original_language: ja

Kamen Rider

overview: Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.

character: Yoshimasa Morishita

original_name: 仮面ライダー

Time for Love

overview: When their mother falls ill, two sisters are faced not only with her extended care, but with the romances that spring from this change in situation. The younger sister, a married woman with children, falls for the man who found her mother in the park that day. The older sister is the president of her own company. She deals with both a man who (accidently?) assaulted her on the train and the doctor charged with her mother's care. The former keeps appearing in her life, always sad looking. He may seek a job in her company, since he recently lost his. The handsome doctor asked her hand in marriage, and she declined him. The story goes on...

character: Kenji Shibasaki

original_name: 恋の時間

Waraeru Koi wa Shitakunai

overview:
The story takes place in a department store, where Shizu-chan plays an elevator girl and Komoto plays the manager of a cake shop. The screenplay will be handled by Osamu Suzuki, who has previously written for the variety show "SMAP x SMAP. Tokyograph

Source: Wiki

character: Ryouhei Midoriyama

original_name: 笑える恋はしたくない

ジャッジ~島の裁判官 奮闘記~

original_name: ジャッジ~島の裁判官 奮闘記~

One Missed Call

overview: Yumi, a writer of a science magazine, witnesses a mysterious death of a high school girl who received a "one missed call" from her own cell phone, two weeks in the future. The disturbing message on the cell phone turns out to be the screams of the victim.

original_name: 着信アリ

Josei Hitoku Sosakan Hara Maki

original_name: 女秘匿捜査官 原麻希

Kissho Tennyo

overview: This psychological mystery is centered around a daughter of the Kanou family, Sayoko, who is said to be a descendant of a goddess. She has a face of a noble goddess and a heart of a most evil woman. She tries to keep her evil side hidden. But, when outsiders threaten to overtake her family fortune, she protect her family by using her charm and seduction to attract them into her trap.

original_name: 吉祥天女

Local Riders Fierce Fight File

overview: Local Riders Fierce Fight File is a series of minisodes to promote the film Kamen Rider Hibiki & The Seven Senki.

character: Kabuki

original_name: ご当地ライダー 激闘ファイル

Absolute Zero

overview: Izumi Sakuragi is a new police sergeant with the Special Investigations Office, which was set up within the Metropolitan Police in November last year. The new investigation team uses DNA analysis and the latest in forensics science to investigate cold cases as well as cases suspected to involve missing persons.

character: Kazuhiro Masuyama

original_name: 絶対零度

普通话

biography: 1977年生于大阪，日本知名舞台剧导演、剧作家、演员、专栏作家、小说家和散文家

日本語

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iso_3166_1: JP

english_name: Japanese

Český

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iso_3166_1: CZ

english_name: Czech

普通话

松尾敏伸

biography: 1977 年生於大阪，日本知名舞台劇導演、劇作家、演員、專欄作家、小説家和散文家

iso_3166_1: HK

Український

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iso_3166_1: UA

english_name: Ukrainian

also_known_as:
마츠오 토시노부
松尾 敏伸

title: Apartment 1303

overview: While celebrating with her friends in her new cheaply rented apartment on the thirteenth floor of a building, the young Sayaka unexpectedly jumps off the balcony committing suicide. Her mother goes insane and her older sister, Mariko, decides to investigate the mysterious death of her sister.

character: Iwata Kenichiro

title: Goth

overview: Itsuki and Yoru share a passion for the dark and death, making them the perfect choice to track down a serial killer who is roaming the streets.

character: Mamiya

original_title: GOTH

title: The Scary Folklore: Ura no Sho

overview: Five years have passed since 12 members of the choir were brutally murdered in the music room of Seiran Jogakuin, a prestigious school in the suburbs of Tokyo. A TV news crew visits the scene to clarify the rumor that children's songs can be heard from coming from the closed school. Accompanied by Kyoko, an acoustic analyst, the team begins their own investigation into the incident, but one after another, strange things begin to happen to the staff...

original_title: こわい童謡 裏の章

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: Kawachi

original_title: きょうのできごと

title: The Right Way of Playing with a Girl

overview: The script won the 2006 TV Asahi contest for new scenario writers. The story is about the secret game between two childhood friends. In that game, Kurokawa is a princess and her friend Mizushima is her servant. They promised to keep on playing the game until someone finds about it.

character: Endo Kazuya

original_title: 彼女との正しい遊び方

title: Scary True Stories: Grudge

overview: 1st installment in Broadway's "Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi" series.

original_title: ほんとうにあった怖い話 怨霊

title: Gakkou no Kaidan

original_title: 学校の階段

title: Fly, Daddy, Fly

overview: Suzuki’s world is shattered when his teenage daughter is brutally attacked. The assailant, Ishihara, son of a politician, brazenly mocks Suzuki as he throws him cover-up money. Angry, Suzuki finds he has no answer to Ishihara and in venting his anger, loses his daughter’s trust too. A sleep-deprived, crazed Suzuki goes to Ishihara’s school wielding a knife. He does not find Ishihara, but instead forms an alliance with an odd group of school misfits called the Zombies. The group’s elusive leader, Pak Sun Shin, decides to train Suzuki, who quits his job and embarks on a punishing programme to win back freedom for his daughter.

character: Minataka

original_title: フライ，ダディ，フライ

title: Piledriver

original_title: パイルドライバー

title: The Days of Morisaki Bookstore

overview: After learning her boyfriend and colleague was already in a relationship and about to marry another colleague, Takako quits her job and falls into a slump. Her uncle, Satoru, offers her a job and room in his used bookstore in Jinbocho. Despite her initial lack of interest, Takako is slowly drawn into the world of books through contact with the customers who frequent the store.

original_title: 森崎書店の日々

title: Kamen Rider Hibiki The Movie: Hibiki & The Seven War Oni

overview: When a powerful new Makamou attacks and defeats Hibiki, Asumu dives into Takeshi’s history and discovers a book that details the ancient Oni and a boy sharing his name. As he reads on, he learns of the tensions between humans and Oni as they struggle to stop the Orochi Makamou, but will he discover the key to defeating the new Orochi in the present?

original_title: 劇場版　仮面ライダー響鬼と７人の戦鬼

title: Sayonara Midori-chan

overview: Naive office girl Yuko supports her blithe big city lifestyle with a part-time job at a neighborhood cafe. Attracted to her manager there, the shallow but charming Yutaka, she willingly succumbs to his lascivious advances only to discover afterward that he already has a girlfriend by the name of Midori. Even so, Yuko's feelings for Yutaka continue to grow regardless of his aloofness. Before long she finds herself reluctantly cajoled into working as a hostess in a small karaoke bar. Fatalistically accepting his dalliances with flames old and new, she perseveres not so much in hope of a more substantial relationship, but rather out of fear of losing him. There are other men out there waiting for her -- kinder, more considerate and eagerly available. But for Yuko, there is only the non-committal, yet torridly magnetic Yutaka. Why him? Not even Yuko seems to know the answer.

character: Taro

original_title: さよならみどりちゃん

title: Arch Angels

overview: Every high school has its misfits, its square pegs, its rebels. St. Michael's Academy, nestled on an impossibly pretty and strangely remote Japanese island, is no exception. In fact, given the atmosphere of strictness, propriety and even subtle menace looming over the elite, aristocratic, Catholic boarding school, it's no wonder Fumio, Kazune and Yuzuko quickly bond over their dislike of the place. With rumors of rich girls being kidnapped in the region, and even more so, their legal guardians, including the school's enigmatic headmaster, Mr. Lawrence, and Fumio's brother are suspicious and on alert. Then an accidental and inexplicable unleashing of magic power infuses the girls with spectacular abilities. When the truth about the kidnappings is revealed, they're going to need them.

character: Shunsuke Wakatsuki

original_title: 笑う大天使（ミカエル)

title: Drift 5

overview: Fifth release from the straight-to-video series "Drift," this time featuring the GT-# against the GST-t Skyline! It's drift vs. grip in an all-out battle for speed.

original_title: ドリフト5

title: Waters

overview: Seven young Tokyoites get scammed into working as hosts for "Dog Days" bar. Will they be able to overcome their individual differences and keep the club open?

original_title: ウォーターズ

title: The Days of Morisaki Bookstore

character: Hideaki

title: Prince Shōtoku

overview: In the late 6th century, the leaders of the Yamato Dynasty had no clear plan for the creation of a unified state. Battles still raged among various warrior clans. Prince Shotoku, second son of Emperor Yomei, strived to create a new nation out of this chaos. NHK captures this great man from a time in history rarely depicted on screen, in a story of epic proportions.

character: Prince Kume

original_title: 聖徳太子

title: Apartment 1303

title: Goth

title: The Scary Folklore: Ura no Sho

title: A Day on the Planet

title: The Right Way of Playing with a Girl

title: Scary True Stories: Grudge

original_title: ほんとうにあった怖い話 怨霊

title: Gakkou no Kaidan

title: Fly, Daddy, Fly

title: Piledriver

title: The Days of Morisaki Bookstore

original_title: 劇場版　仮面ライダー響鬼と７人の戦鬼

title: Sayonara Midori-chan

title: Arch Angels

title: Drift 5

title: Waters

title: The Days of Morisaki Bookstore

title: Prince Shōtoku

ジャッジ~島の裁判官 奮闘記~

original_name: ジャッジ~島の裁判官 奮闘記~

Local Riders Fierce Fight File

original_name: ご当地ライダー 激闘ファイル


Atsushi Doi

Alice in Borderland

job: Visual Effects Supervisor

overview: With his two friends, a video-game-obsessed young man finds himself in a strange version of Tokyo where they must compete in dangerous games to win.

department: Visual Effects

original_name: 今際の国のアリス

title: Resident Evil Damnation: The DNA of Damnation

overview: The DNA of Damnation is a documentary short on the making of the 2012 film, Resident Evil: Damnation.

character: Self

job: Visual Effects

title: Cursed

overview: Employees at a convenience store must get to the bottom of supernatural goings-on occurring within their workplace.

original_title: 「超」怖い話A（アー）闇の鴉

job: CGI Director

title: Resident Evil: Degeneration

overview: Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield must battle a rogue warrior seeking revenge after unleashing the deadly G-Virus, whilst a mutated monster goes on a rampage.

original_title: バイオハザード：ディジェネレーション

job: CG Artist

title: Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims

overview: Yaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, while Kita is an actor addicted to various drugs.

original_title: 真夜中の弥次さん喜多さん

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.

original_title: デスノート

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?

original_title: デスノート the Last name

title: I Am a Hero

overview: A man witnesses a fatal traffic accident on his way home from work, and the victim is clearly killed on impact. A moment later, when the corpse stands up and walks away, it could be a hallucination or something far more extraordinary.

original_title: アイアムアヒーロー

title: Cursed

original_title: 「超」怖い話A（アー）闇の鴉

title: Resident Evil: Degeneration

original_title: バイオハザード：ディジェネレーション

title: Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims

original_title: 真夜中の弥次さん喜多さん

title: Death Note: The Last Name

title: Death Note

title: I Am a Hero

media_type: tv

known_for_department: Visual Effects


Nobuo Kawakami

also_known_as:
Kishiro Kawakami
河上喜史朗
河上のぶを
河上喜史郎

title: Tōkyō dodonpa musume

overview: Motomu Ida movie

original_title: 東京ドドンパ娘

title: Striving to Live

overview: Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in trouble because he had a bonus of 10,000 yen more.

original_title: 生きとし生けるもの

title: Angel and the Outlaw

overview: 1962 Japanese movie

original_title: 天使と野郎ども

title: Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi

original_title: 男と男の生きる街

title: Love Eternal

overview: A deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an executive member of a drug trafficking syndicate, Kano is pretty high up in the food chain, but "status" bears no value to him. All he cares for is Ayako, the boss' mistress. After one last job, they intend to run off together to Hong Kong, but their plans are hindered when an uninvited yakuza stirs up a vicious shootout. In the midst of it all, Ayako is kidnapped.

original_title: 骨まで愛して

title: Stolen Desire

overview: A rambunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows.

character: Policeman

original_title: 盗まれた欲情

title: Hana no saigetsu

original_title: 花の才月

title: I Hate But Love

overview: A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote village. When his controlling manager, the woman he loves, follows, the two must reconcile while dodging reporters.

original_title: 憎いあンちくしょう

title: Foundry Town

overview: Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.

character: Detective

original_title: キューポラのある街

title: The Frozen Plains

original_title: 大氷原

title: Joe of Aces: Give and Take

overview: Against the bosses of the underworld that dominate Yokohama, Kobe, and Hong Kong, ace Joe, who plays an invincible gunman, shows off his transcendent gunplay! The third installment of the business series.

original_title: 助っ人稼業

title: Shūmatsu-ya hanjō-ki

original_title: 週末屋繁昌記

title: 零戦黒雲一家

original_title: 零戦黒雲一家

title: Wind and waves of the South

overview: Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish school... But he failed. Mother died. The woman who replaced her brought with her affection, comfort, and warmth of mother's hands. It seemed that joy settled in their house again. But one day a storm caught the fishermen at sea. Father did not return... Father's friends, fishermen, tried to help the widow, who was left with two children. But the money was still not enough. And then Kazuo decided to become a fisherman. After all, he was now the eldest in the family...

character: Yazō

original_title: 母ぁちゃん、海が知ってるよ

title: Facing to the Clouds

overview: A rookie newspaper journalist, Takema Sakaki, has a strong sense of justice. In the Diet Building he gets acquainted with a library worker, Reiko Nakafuji. Reiko's father was a member of the Diet who was assassinated six years ago. Through Reiko, Takema joins Tsūkai-kai, a group of young people who respect her late father's political ideas. With the assistance of Tsukai-kai, Takema eventually uncovers the political scandal related to postwar compensation which led to the murder of Reiko's father.

original_title: 雲に向かって起つ

title: Badge of the Night

overview: A noir action whodunit with Kobayashi his usual jaunty self as the smart aleck private eye whose missing person search soon becomes a murder case. Nightclub-managing, drug-dealing gangster Uchida is the prime suspect in the case until he commits suicide. Kobayashi then discovers evidence that points to the doctor sibling of an innocent girl. The climax in a rural snowy locale is suspenseful and well-staged.

original_title: 夜の勲章

title: The Rambler Goes North

overview: In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, from a horse to fringes, guitar and even a trusty bullwhip.

original_title: 北帰行より　渡り鳥北へ帰る

title: A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

overview: Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.

original_title: 幕末太陽傳

title: The Rambler Rides Again

overview: In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where he helps protect an Ainu village from unscrupulous land developers.

original_title: 大草原の渡り鳥

title: Such is Life

overview: Japanese drama film.

original_title: 人生とんぼ返り

title: Modern Children

overview: After their father dies, his children try to get by on a house boat.

original_title: 現代っ子

title: Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains

original_title: 早射ち無頼　大平原の男

title: Solo Traveler

overview: 12th in the Joe of Aces series.

original_title: ひとり旅

title: The Wild Reporter

overview: Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then commit suicide, though Toshio was able to save the lives of their two children. Just transferred from Shimizu to Tokyo, Toshio hopes to produce a program that will expose the drug trade in Tokyo. One day, Toshio stops into a noodle shop where he is mistaken for a drug dealer and passed a bagful of drugs. The real dealer arrives in time to follow Toshio home. That night Toshio is attacked by the dealer, who turns out to be Kenji, one of the children Toshio had saved. Kenji can't bring himself to kill Toshio, so he runs away and goes into hiding from the mafia. While continuing to investigate the drug trade, Toshio searches for Kenji to get Kenji's testimony for his program.

original_title: 清水の暴れん坊

title: Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku

overview: "Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father's ties to the yakuza underworld. A star vehicle for the popular singer/actor Yūjirō Ishihara.

original_title: 明日は明日の風が吹く

title: Prince of Wolves

overview: As the post-war turmoil continued, Take, the boss of the waifs, stole the money of US soldiers and lived with friends. They were like children of wolves. By chance, they were found by and became a members of a yakuza family. Five years later, Take dominated the port town as a young boss.

original_title: 狼の王子

title: I'll End in Hell

overview: Joji Dan tries to find the heir of a prosperous Japanese millionaire who died in Mexico. However, the bandits want to take over the inheritance and Joji has to use his skills as a fast and accurate shooter!

original_title: 俺は地獄へ行く

title: Ai to shi no katami

original_title: 愛と死のかたみ

title: Night of Bloody Hell

original_title: 地獄の夜は真紅だぜ

title: Tales of Ginza

overview: In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the man who painted her own portrait fifteen years prior.

original_title: 銀座二十四帖

title: Bōkyō no umi

original_title: 望郷の海

title: Whirlwind Call the Storm - Ginza Hoodlum's Diary

overview: A kidnapping occurred over a seven-million-dollar diamond that was sewn into his stomach. Takuya Nikaido, the hero of Kamideki, challenges the underground organization of fear. The final work of Asahi Kobayashi's "Ginza Whirlpool Child (Mitsugai)" series.

original_title: 風が呼んでる旋風児 銀座無頼帖

title: The Flame of Devotion

overview: The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of war.

character: Yasuko's father

original_title: 執炎

title: Shashō monogatari tabi wa michidzure

original_title: 車掌物語　旅は道づれ

title: The Human Cyclone

overview: The first in the Ginza Whirlwind Child series. A poignant action giant depicting the activities of Mait Guy Akira, who calls people to Ginza Boring Man, popular and longing everywhere, and who is on the side of justice of the divine ghost.

original_title: 二階堂卓也　銀座無頼帖　銀座旋風児

title: The Scarred Angel

overview: A musical film based on the original work of Saigo Teruhiko. After leaving the juvenile detention center and returning to his hometown of Ibusuki, Hachiro begins to investigate the cause of his older sister Sumiko's suicide. While Hachiro was in juvenile detention, Sumiko committed suicide, but there are too many mysteries surrounding this suicide...

original_title: 傷だらけの天使

title: Loss of Innocence

overview: A young journalist is writing an article on what happens to girls who are raped. He uncovers the story of a young girl who committed suicide when recognized by her former fiancee after she had become a prostitute. Other stories are interwoven, and the journalist finally comes to the conclusion, which he publishes, that "keeping your virginity until your wedding day will never be a source of regret for either men or women."

original_title: 処女喪失

title: Wakai futari

title: Dai shusse monogatari

title: Immortal Guy

overview: Kosuke Suzuki was presumed dead after boss Toseikai Setouchi lynched him and threw him into the sea off the coast of Kobe. However, three months later, Kosuke suddenly appears in Kagoshima and reunites with his partner, the vagrant Kumagoro. However, Kosuke's relief does not last long, he learns from Kumagoro that Toseikai are acting ruthlessly here too.

title: JA750 Gōki Yukuefumei

overview: 1958 Newspaper Association Sweepstakes Winning Broadcast Drama Movie.  A heartwarming and moving story that bloomed behind the competition between two newspaper reporters, one young and the other old, who followed the whereabouts of the distressed aircraft. It is an adaptation of the prize-winning broadcast drama recruited by the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Week in 1958. The original author was Tsuneyuki Mori.

title: The Reckless One

overview: Kosuke Suzuki returns to Hakata's hometown after learning that his best friend Takehara has disappeared. Kosuke is persistently hindered by Hasebe from Omura Sangyo. Kosuke's partner Kumagoro investigates and finds out that Hasebe, who killed the head of the Muraoka clan, made Takehara disappear in order to keep him silent. The third film in the series.

title: I'll Kill the Women

overview: A unique action-packed drama that tells the story of a Yakuza man who craves blood like crazy, unaware that he has fallen into a trap set by his younger brother.

title: 東京午前三時

overview: Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo gozen sanji" by Frank Nagai.

title: Our Town

overview: In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his lover had died of an illness, leaving a baby girl, Hatsue. Hatsue grows up beautifully and falls in love with Shintaro. But Takichi objects to their relationship...

title: Sararīman monogatari - Taiki bansai

original_title: サラリーマン物語　大器晩成

title: The Man From the Sea

title: Endless Desire

overview: Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during the war. A grimly humorous tale of twisted relationships as one by one each of the group is eliminated.

title: Intimidation

overview: Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama.

title: Fight of the Gamblers

overview: Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his misdeeds. At home, when his mother, the boss of a construction gang, bids for and gets the job of building the Town Hall, other gangs set out to disrupt her business and try to kill her.

title: The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart

overview: Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new life together. But their love is ill-fated. Mami's family will not accept her choice, while leading an honest life seems like an unattainable goal for Jiro. Can there be anything else but a tragic ending?

title: Bad Girl

overview: Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights at a rundown bar, sharing drinks and cigarettes with the lowlife drunks. She has nowhere to turn and no one to talk to, until she is reunited with her childhood friend, Saburo, who brings warmth to her heart.

title: The Song of Love

overview: Heartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician father.

title: Outlaw: Goro the Assassin

overview: On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai. The deed costs them time in prison, but Goro had no shred of regret. When Goro is released 2 years later, Masahiko is dying in prison hospital and entrusts his last wish; "find my sister and take care of her." Goro leaves as a free man with a mission, but soon finds that he might have been better off in jail.

title: Kakedashi keiji

title: A Turning to Hell

overview: Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the part of a key. From a newspaper he learns that the dead man is an official who has been detained as a suspect in a bribery case involving 150,000,000 yen and that another suspect named Matsunaga is still in custody. Maki realizes that if he can obtain the other two-thirds of the key, he will be a multi-millionaire.

title: The Rambler in the Sunset

overview: The young rambler, Shinji Taki, with his guitar arrives a hot spa town at the foot of Mount Aizu Bandai. Of course he solves the problems in the town while encountering the sinister rival, Masa "the pistol guy".

title: Pigs and Battleships

overview: In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.

title: Lost in the Sun

title: The Heart

overview: In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past.

title: Retaliation

overview: Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrated. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with another gang who promise him a prominent position if he helps them deal with a rival family. But bonds are made to be broken, and pledges of loyalty soon give way to competition, betrayal and — naturally — retaliation.

title: Woman Gambler

overview: Mourning the death of her boyfriend, Yukiko wanders aimlessly from one city to another. During her mourning, she becomes addicted to gambling. One day, a man that resembles her deceased lover asks for help. He's being pursued by a dangerous gang of yakuza.

original_title: 賭場の牝猫　素肌の壷振り

title: Gambling Kitten

overview: Arikawa runs a transport company.  But this is only a front for his gambling house.  Yuriko is a regular on the scene, and she is fascinated by the dice and the one who throws them.  A year before, Yuriko's father died in mysterious circumstances; she decides to go in search of the truth.

title: Farewell to Southern Tosa

overview: Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.

title: Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2

overview: Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), but finds that Yumeko is fatally ill. Although Yukiko was taking care of her, she is pressed for money. Goro wants to help and knows that there is only one way to come up with fast money.

title: The Symbol of a Man

overview: A Japanese intelligence officer faces personal crises in the years preceding the Manchurian conflict.

title: The Dragon Crest

overview: A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.

title: The School Cap

overview: A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the wearing of an old school cap by a senior. It is a symbol of courage and bravery and is handed down to a new senior each year.

title: The Eagle and the Hawk

overview: In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew of a rusty cargo ship Kaiyo Maru. One is a troublemaker with bad attitudes, Senkichi Nomura, who pursues an enemy in order to take revenge for his father's death. The other is Keizo Sasaki, a buff, eagle-eyed man on board for a certain mission.

title: The Sleeping Beast Within

overview: A newspaper reporter's search for his girlfriend's missing father lead him into heart of the criminal underworld of Yokohama's Chinatown.

title: Bad Girl Mako

overview: Patronized by a gang ruling the city, Mako delinquently plays around a night club every night with her bad company. One night, a guy Hideo gets closer to her for one-night stand, and they consequently fall in love. However, Hideo is killed by the gang. Mako swears vengeance on her beloved's murderer.

title: Taking the Castle

overview: The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was at a near. Only one man was brave enough to stand in Ieyasu's way - A lone wolf samurai by the name of Kagekatsu Uesugi. Inspired by Uesugi's courage to revolt, a young samurai warrior, Touzou Kuruma decides to join the fight. Their target: the Tamonyama Castle.

title: Haunted Samurai

overview: When his sister commits suicide as a result of his actions, Rokuheita, an enforcer for the Yagyu ninja clan, considers his choices and eventually deserts the organization. Hunted by an army of bizarre shadow warriors, the target turns on his pursuers when he finds something worth fighting for.

title: I Am Waiting

overview: A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.

title: Outlaw: Goro the Assassin

title: The Guitarist and the Rancher

overview: Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from turning an honest ranch into a gambling resort.

title: Rambling in the Sea

overview: Seventh in the nine-film series, "The Wandering Guitarist".

title: The Shadow of Fear

overview: In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation. The detective on the case soon hears rumors about the murder.

title: Hijo tehai

title: Student Double Suicide

title: おヤエの家つき女中

title: Shiroi natsu

overview: Hey, please, hold me... A thrilling physical farewell gift that a pure-hearted adult received while trembling!! Set in a simple rural town's post office, this youthfully bright and humorous story depicts the intricacies of life experienced by a rookie young postal worker.  Depicting the subtle intricacies of life experienced by a young protagonist in a simple post office setting. This bright and humorous story evokes a heartfelt sense of empathy.

title: The Plateau Man

overview: Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.

title: Kaze to Ki to Sora to

overview: A nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of waves with her outspoken personality and behavior in this charming coming-of-age blockbuster.

title: Gazing at Love and Death

overview: A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the hospital. There it transpired that the only way to save her life was to sacrifice an eye and part of her face. The operation seems a success. Later, however, her other eye becomes affected. She feels she must let the boy go, and yet she depends so much upon his devotion.

title: The Cards Will Tell

title: Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu

title: Joshiryōsai

title: The Return of the Filthy Seven

title: Bet on a Seaside Romance

title: The Day of Youth

overview: At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wishes to prepare himself for a better life away from gang activities despite the wishes of his father who wants him to assist strengthen the gang against the Kawano group. Takema's classmate, Akiko, is the daughter of Eiko who operates a restaurant, and through her he obtains a lodging in the house of Shiu, a dancing mistress. The students enjoy their life, but most have their troubles. Sakamoto works as a laborer on the docks to help pay for his schooling, and Akiko worries over the relationship between her mother and Sakurai, a corrupt politician, suspected to be involved in graft over jet aircraft.

title: The Stars and I Decided...

overview: The brother of an up-and-coming kendoka is mysteriously murdered while working on a new model of motorboat.

title: Acacia no Ame ga Yamu Toki

overview: Hideo Ishizaki, who was painting on the shore of the lake, saves a woman named Keiko.

title: Blood Shed

overview: Ginjiro  was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he affiliates himself with the worst of the worst. Swearing his allegiance to the notorious Kuroiwa crime syndicate, the yakuza family known for its thirst for blood, Ginjiro equips for battle. When a rival family raids their gambling parlor, he slashes a masked henchman. Unbeknown to him, his victim was no henchman.

original_title: 日本任侠伝 血祭り喧嘩状

title: Ningen ni kakeruna

title: Wakai hyou no mure

overview: A blockbuster youth action film that explodes with the charm of Maiko Guy and Akira, based on the serialized novel in Nikkan Sports by Yoshirō Akinaga, now adapted for the screen. Due to the passage of time since the film's release, some scenes may be marred by visual and audio distortions. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.

title: Tokyo Mighty Guy

overview: Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and dashing good looks bring in the women as well as unwanted trouble, while an explosive political scandal builds around his girlfriend’s business...

title: Wind of Youth

overview: A romantic Nikkatsu youth film about three female friends.

title: Ore wa toppu-yada: kao no nai bijo

original_title: 俺はトップ屋だ 顔のない美女

title: The Bride is Fifteen

overview: Hanayome wa Jūgo-sai, directed by Mio Ezaki and distributed by Nikkatsu, stars Masako Izumi and Ken Yamauchi. The high-key pink background and casual photographic portrait embody Nikkatsu’s 1960s youth-film aesthetic. Clean, hopeful, and pop-oriented. The large white title, handwritten for a softer impression, injects playful energy that contrasts with the strict vertical text blocks. As Japan’s youth culture blossomed after the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, posters like this captured the spirit of romance and rebellion marketed to teenage audiences. The vivid color palette and carefree composition signal a stylistic shift from postwar black-and-white melodrama to the vibrant optimism of modern Technicolor cinema.

title: Ningen Gari

overview: A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out.

title: Love and Desire in the Night Mist

overview: A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.

title: Shin yūkyōden

overview: In this town, Kagosuke and Ryukichi of the Okamoto family, who are deeply committed to the yakuza way, are straightforward and justice-loving hot-blooded men. However, their slight clumsiness is a flaw, but they are extremely strong in fights, and there's no one who can match them. They are head over heels for Osen-san. They are both desperately unwilling to yield even if the other is a brother.

title: 美男お小姓　人斬り彦齋

title: Drunken Ghost

overview: A man meets the spirit of a murdered gangster after he spills alcohol over his grave.

title: The Famous Wanderer

title: Invasion of Kanto Government

overview: A passionate man, driven by his boss's will, who fell to an assassin's blade, dedicates himself to rebuilding the gang. This thrilling, entertaining masterpiece by Eiki weaves together love and longing into its intense portrayal.

title: Season of Tears

overview: Kyoichi Kageyama, a TV station reporter, is always getting into trouble. But when he gets his hands on a TV that shows the “news of the next day,” his reporting becomes a string of scoops, his love life blossoms, and everything starts going his way, until the news from tomorrow reports his aunt getting robbed and murdered!

title: The Seasons of Love

overview: A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by his wife, one daughter is forced to marry an older man against her will, while the other has retreated into smug moral superiority.

title: My Second Brother

overview: The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a best-selling book based on the diary of a ten-year-old zainichi (ethnic Korean Japanese) girl, it was one of the first films to deal with the subject of zainichi identity and struggles in Japan.

title: Yakuza sensei

title: Hana no unga

title: Tōkyō dodonpa musume

title: Striving to Live

title: Angel and the Outlaw

title: Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi

title: Love Eternal

title: Stolen Desire

title: Hana no saigetsu

title: I Hate But Love

title: Foundry Town

title: The Frozen Plains

title: Joe of Aces: Give and Take

title: Shūmatsu-ya hanjō-ki

title: 零戦黒雲一家

title: Wind and waves of the South

original_title: 母ぁちゃん、海が知ってるよ

title: Facing to the Clouds

title: Badge of the Night

title: The Rambler Goes North

original_title: 北帰行より　渡り鳥北へ帰る

title: A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

title: The Rambler Rides Again

title: Such is Life

title: Modern Children

title: Solo Traveler

title: The Wild Reporter

title: Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku

title: Prince of Wolves

title: I'll End in Hell

title: Ai to shi no katami

title: Night of Bloody Hell

title: Tales of Ginza

title: Bōkyō no umi

original_title: 風が呼んでる旋風児 銀座無頼帖

title: The Flame of Devotion

title: Shashō monogatari tabi wa michidzure

title: The Human Cyclone

original_title: 二階堂卓也　銀座無頼帖　銀座旋風児

title: The Scarred Angel

title: Loss of Innocence

title: Wakai futari

title: Dai shusse monogatari

title: Immortal Guy

title: JA750 Gōki Yukuefumei

title: The Reckless One

title: I'll Kill the Women

title: 東京午前三時

title: Our Town

title: Sararīman monogatari - Taiki bansai

original_title: サラリーマン物語　大器晩成

title: The Man From the Sea

title: Endless Desire

title: Intimidation

title: Fight of the Gamblers

title: The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart

title: Bad Girl

title: The Song of Love

title: Outlaw: Goro the Assassin

title: Kakedashi keiji

title: A Turning to Hell

title: The Rambler in the Sunset

title: Pigs and Battleships

title: Lost in the Sun

title: The Heart

title: Retaliation

title: Woman Gambler

original_title: 賭場の牝猫　素肌の壷振り

title: Gambling Kitten

title: Farewell to Southern Tosa

title: Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2

title: The Symbol of a Man

title: The Dragon Crest

title: The School Cap

title: The Eagle and the Hawk

title: The Sleeping Beast Within

title: Bad Girl Mako

title: Taking the Castle

title: Haunted Samurai

title: I Am Waiting

title: Outlaw: Goro the Assassin

title: The Guitarist and the Rancher

title: Rambling in the Sea

title: The Shadow of Fear

title: Hijo tehai

title: Student Double Suicide

title: おヤエの家つき女中

title: Shiroi natsu

title: The Plateau Man

title: Kaze to Ki to Sora to

title: Gazing at Love and Death

title: The Cards Will Tell

title: Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu

title: Joshiryōsai

title: The Return of the Filthy Seven

title: Bet on a Seaside Romance

title: The Day of Youth

title: The Stars and I Decided...

title: Acacia no Ame ga Yamu Toki

title: Blood Shed

original_title: 日本任侠伝 血祭り喧嘩状

title: Ningen ni kakeruna

title: Wakai hyou no mure

title: Tokyo Mighty Guy

title: Wind of Youth

title: Ore wa toppu-yada: kao no nai bijo

original_title: 俺はトップ屋だ 顔のない美女

title: The Bride is Fifteen

title: Ningen Gari

title: Love and Desire in the Night Mist

title: Shin yūkyōden

title: 美男お小姓　人斬り彦齋

title: Drunken Ghost

title: The Famous Wanderer

title: Invasion of Kanto Government

title: Season of Tears

title: The Seasons of Love

title: My Second Brother

title: Yakuza sensei

title: Hana no unga


Yuji Kato

Slovenčina

iso_639_1: sk

iso_3166_1: SK

english_name: Slovak

job: Writer

title: Typhoon Club

overview: Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which six of the students endure while marooned in their school.

department: Writing

original_title: 台風クラブ

title: Many Happy Returns

overview: A young man named Kazuo Takayama runs across a religious group whose founder cures an old woman in a wheelchair, restoring her power to walk by a simple touch. Kazuo grows more interested in this new religion and tries to get more followers.

original_title: 教祖誕生

title: Typhoon Club

title: Many Happy Returns

known_for_department: Writing


Tomiko Ishii

臨床心理士

character: Mitsuko

original_name: 臨床心理士

Kaseifu wa mita!

overview: The legendary suspense series that got one of the highest audience ratings. The main character, Akiko Ishizaki, is a housekeeper dispatched to an upstream family. Her pleasure was to peek into the hidden secrets and misfortunes of an ideal home that seemed to be happy at first glance...

original_name: 家政婦は見た！

Wives Make the World Go Round

overview: Tachibana Makoto, a manager of an omusubi cafe. One day, she meets Sanshiro, a secretary at a paper shredder company, and half a year later, they already decide to get married. But when Makoto meets Sanshiro's family, a battle begins between her and her mother-in-law. The daughter-in-law, who is a "workaholic" career woman and wife, and her mother-in-law, who is a "model full-time housewife," begin to fight against each other on their values and pride!

original_name: 地獄の沙汰もヨメ次第

Onihei Hankachō

overview: Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates reformed criminals as informants to solve difficult crimes.

original_name: 鬼平犯科帳

Bayside Shakedown

overview: A rookie detective learns that life in law enforcement may not be as glamorous as he thought it would be.

character: 真行寺のおばちゃん

original_name: 踊る大捜査線

Kagerou no Tsuji

overview: Sakazaki Iwane is a ronin who spends idle days in Edo. Until a few months ago, he was a promising son and successor to a powerful family in Bungo. He has came back to Edo, where he lived for a while for swordplay training with his two best friends, after a tragedy in the three's home domain—both of the two friends died, one of them killed by Iwane by command of the domain lord's chief retainer. Iwane left his home for Edo, leaving behind his fiancée, a sister of the friend he killed. Eventually, Iwane detects the conspiracy behind the deaths of the two friends and struggles to reform his domain.

character: Hatsune

original_name: 陽炎の辻〜居眠り磐音 江戸双紙〜

The Great Horror Family

overview: The Great Horror Family is a 2004 Japanese horror comedy television series directed by Kenji Murakami, Takashi Shimizu, Keisuke Toyoshima and Yūdai Yamaguchi, which aired on TV Tokyo affiliated stations.

character: Kiwa Imawano

original_name: 怪奇大家族

Mikon Rokushimai

overview: The story of the second daughter of the heroine who took over the ruins of the house in Nariyuki, sisters who do not go to the bride for each reason, and the father who has six daughters. The six sisters bring in troublesome things that involve the family every time, and in a development that does not get bored, the worries and joys of the large family over marriage are drawn brightly and comically.

character: Senju Kaneko

original_name: みこん六姉妹

時間ですよ

character: 久子

original_name: 時間ですよ

character: 初

松本清張シリーズ・中央流沙

character: 染香

original_name: 松本清張シリーズ・中央流沙

Français

iso_639_1: fr

iso_3166_1: FR

english_name: French

title: Shin nitōhei monogatari medetaku gaisen no maki

overview: Second "Pfc. Story" sequel and the ninth and final sequel to "Story of Second Class Private", the only one in both series not directed by Seiichi Fukuda.

original_title: 新二等兵物語　めでたく凱旋の巻

title: Kanbi no ware koso wa ittō shain

overview: 1962 Japanese movie

original_title: 寛美の我こそは一等社員

title: Travels of Lord Mito

overview: In the 9th year of Genroku, Mitsukuni Mito Komon of Hitachi Province set out on a pilgrimage to various countries with his reluctant vassals, Sukesaburo and Kakunosuke, under the name of Koemon, a retired peasant.

character: Tombi

original_title: 水戸黄門漫遊記

title: The Big Chase

original_title: 夜の手配師　すけ千人斬り

title: Typhoon Club

character: Katsue Yagisawa

title: Buchō no aijin: Pinku no sutokkingu

character: Umeko Ishizuka

original_title: 部長の愛人　ピンクのストッキング

title: Troops of Darkness

overview: A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind.

original_title: 悪の親衛隊

title: Supermarket Woman

overview: A struggling Japanese neighborhood supermarket manager chances upon an old classmate, who has plenty of ideas for revitalizing his business.

character: Auntie

original_title: スーパーの女

title: The Brat!

overview:
Daisuke Bamba (Hiroki Konno) has a complex about his physical traits. He wants to become a director, but doesn't know what to shoot. Daisuke Bamba soon turns 32-years-old.
 25-year-old actress Momoko Kinoshita (Sayaka Tashiro) is superstitous. When she was a middle school student, she saw a movie and, since that time, has wanted to become an actress. She has only played brief extras so far in her career. These two people then meet on a shooting set.

original_title: くそガキの告白

title: Nami kage

overview: Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.

original_title: 波影

title: Secret Love

original_title: 五泊六日

title: It's a Psychic, Everybody Gather!!

original_title: 超能力だよ全員集合！！

title: 命との対決

original_title: 命との対決

title: Return of the Outlaw

overview: Second film of the Gokudo series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama

original_title: 帰って来た極道

title: Battle Anthem

overview: The story of Japan's victory in the battle of Tsushima Strait.

original_title: 日本海大海戦 海ゆかば

title: Tōkyō sanosa musume

original_title: 東京さのさ娘

title: Gate of Flesh

overview: In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in a world of chaos. But when a renegade ex-soldier stumbles into their midst, lusts and loyalties clash, with tragic results. With Gate of Flesh, visionary director Seijun Suzuki delivers a whirlwind of social critique and pulp drama, shot through with brilliant colors and raw emotions.

character: Oroku

original_title: 肉体の門

title: Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 2 - The Dish Mansion at Hell’s Banchô

overview: Second film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

original_title: 怪奇十三夜 第二回 番町皿屋敷

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.

character: Haruko Haraguchi

original_title: Shall we ダンス?

title: The Cursed Plate: Dish Mansion at Hell's Banchō

overview: Strange events plague the Aoyama family's residence, led by samurai Aoyama Harima. Three months earlier, Harima was asked to show a family heirloom, a red Goryeo dish, to his uncle and a senior official. The dish was found broken, and Harima's attendant, Okiku, was blamed and punished. After Okiku's death, Harima, tormented by guilt, contemplates suicide but is stopped by another attendant, Oyuki. The dish must be presented to an imperial envoy, and mysterious deaths among the servants suggest supernatural involvement. As Harima seeks the truth behind the tragic events, he must confront vengeful spirits and uncover the mystery with Okiku's restless spirit aiding him in this tale of love, intrigue, and revenge.

original_title: 魔界番町皿屋敷

title: Wandering Ginza Butterfly

overview: Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison. Upon her release three years later, she’s a shamed woman confined to living in the shadowy world of sex clubs and street gangs. She returns to the city to live with her uncle, a billiard-hall owner, and after befriending pimp and ne’er-do-well Ryuji (Tsunehiko Watase), she gets a job working at a hostess club in the chic Ginza neighborhood, where the expensive shops and neon lights conceal a dark world of crime and sexual slavery. But when a rival gang attempts to muscle in on the club, Nami becomes enmeshed in a violent struggle that forces her to wield a skilled pool cue to defend her uncle’s business, and eventually a short sword to wreak bloody vengeance upon her enemies.

character: Kyôko

title: A Scream from Nowhere

overview: In 1930, the chance meeting of a novelist and one of his fans opens the door to a series of mysterious events culminating in the death of a wealthy industrialist who may have been leading a double life.

title: The King of Minami: Con Man's Fate

overview: #16 in the series, after "Futures Trading Hell."

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王 劇場版VIII 詐欺師の運命

title: Village of Doom

overview: Rejected by the military and frowned upon by his fellow villagers, a young man nicknamed 'Genius' falls into a series of dangerous love affairs during World War II.

title: The Forced Marriage with Children

overview: Kumazou, a "cleaner" for hire, encounters a woman attempting to commit suicide with her two young siblings one night. Kumazou gives them all the money he has and saves them from jumping off a bridge. The next morning, he wakes up to find that the woman and her sons have invaded his home and settled in…

original_title: 傑作時代劇 しぶとい連中

title: Story of a Prostitute

overview: Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.

title: Private Lessons II

overview: Ken, an insecure young man from Japan, meets Sophie, an interesting and sensual woman who teaches him the secrets of love and life.

title: An Innocent Witch

overview: Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of her innocence and illusions.

title: Poetry of Baseball Enthusiasts

overview: Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga.

title: A Country Boss

overview: A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage.

title: Miyamoto Musashi

overview: In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Kojiro. Part II builds toward that great duel on Ganryu Island, with considerable focus on Musashi's planning & forethought as to how to gain an advantage.

title: Sweet Revenge

overview: Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead with him to take her brother's case. They live in Kitakyushu which, though a city, she contends that the local lawyers are not up to the job. Otsuka contemptuously brushes her off. A year passes. Masao has suicided in jail, his appeal having failed due to the lack of interest and competence of the local defence lawyer. Kiriko returns to Tokyo, planning revenge on Otsuka for refusing the case and causing her brother's death.

title: Red-Hot Youth

overview: In 1976, the Beauty Pair burst onto the women's professional wrestling scene like a comet. This tag team, consisting of Jackie Sato and Maki Ueda, made their record debut with "Kakemeguru Seishun" (Running Youth), and their innovative style of singing in the ring before matches made them explosively popular, especially among junior and senior high school girls.

original_title: ビューティ・ペア　真赤な青春

title: Ishimatsu the Yakuza: Something's Fishy

overview: Matsukichi, a worker at a fish market, tries to settle the business between the two competitors on his turf.

title: The Pledge

overview: When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict between the Kitakyushu and Wakamatsu begins.

title: Appassionata

overview: This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first woman to be awarded the Order of Culture. The title refers to the masterpiece bijinga ("picture of a beautiful woman") that Uemura painted at the age of 61. The main character, Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Tsuya, who loves painting more than anything and is hopeless at housework, attends art school and at age 15 receives the name Shōsui (from the characters for "pine" and "green") from her teacher. The crown prince of England purchases one of her works, propelling her to fame overnight. The novel portrays the remainder of her stormy life, during which she is impregnated by her teacher and raises a fatherless child; through it all she devotes herself to her painting, undaunted.

title: Hunting Rifle

overview: Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks on an affair with her cousin's husband, but a crisis threatens when she discovers that her ex-husband is about to remarry.

title: By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him

overview: Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense, and only the tough but suave Dr. Amamiya (Ando) can stop them, as long as he gets rid of his silly peace-loving ideals.

title: Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger

overview: Tetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and obligations each has toward their yakuza boss and brothers. A railroad line brings changing times to a community. Because Tetsu can't stand by and allow a bunch of yakuza men to molest women, it forces him to battle it out with a knife wielding rival, the unfortunate incident leads to his boss losing face and him having to leave the family to protect it. But the rival family won't stop until they destroy Tetsu who will risk life and love for his brothers.

title: Gamera: Guardian of the Universe

overview: A ship runs aground on a mysterious atoll leading to an investigation by insurance representative Kusanagi, who discovers an ancient bead that he gives to his daughter Asagi. Meanwhile, ornithologist Nagamine investigates reports of a new species of large bird named Gyaos. As the Gyaos begin to attack, an ancient guardian with a bond to Asagi emerges.

title: It's a Summer Vacation Everyday

overview: The Rinkaiji family, by all appearances, is a well-to-do Japanese family. The father, Nariyuki, works in an elite corporation, which gives his wife Yoshiko status in their suburban neighborhood. But the daughter Sugina, who herself has secretly stopped going to school because she is being bullied. One day, they discover that Nariyuki has quit his job. As Nariyuki decides to find a new job along with Sugina, Yoshiko, a firm believer in a life based on the company, soon finds her world falling apart.

title: Tora-san's Song of Love

overview: Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to take his place, but gets into an argument with his brother-in-law's boss and returns to the road. He meets a young woman in Niigata who, unbeknownst to him, is a popular enka singer.

original_title: 男はつらいよ 旅と女と寅次郎

title: Gambling Den's Master Clan

title: I, the Executioner

overview: Police detectives investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a teenage boy who committed suicide.

title: The Viper Brothers and the Young General

overview: The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends in need as his naivety prevents him from seeing their true nature.

title: Travel Chronicles of Yaji and Kita

title: Tomodachi

overview: Shinta is a sixth grader in Kawasaki City a troublemaker that dreams to become a soccer player. Yoshiko, a classmate who moved to Kawasaki from Iwate Prefecture two years ago, is a gloomy girl who suffers from asthma due to the polluted air in Kawasaki and is ostracized by her class.  Shinta is placed next to Yoshiko in class and their stories will take a turn.

title: Zokuzoku bantōhan to detchidon

title: Women of the Night - Woman of Seniority

overview: A tragic love story about the heiress of the Kitakyushu Tagawa family who becomes a hostess in Osaka.

title: Marukin marubi no kintamashii maki

overview: Koji Tadokoro, the manager of a hot bento shop, lives an ordinary life with his girlfriend Noriko Kinoshita, who works at a nearby supermarket and loves sex. Tonight they are having sex, as if they are going to try to break the Guinness World Record, when suddenly the window opens and Nakagawa, a middle school classmate, appears. Shimizu, who had become a film director, has died. The two go to the funeral, and on the way home they pass a man accompanied by a beautiful woman. That man is none other than his childhood friend, Kimio Kondo. Kimio is the epitome of a money man. He is a doctor working at a university hospital, and on the side, he writes new music lyrics and is popular with nurses and popular singers. The three are excited to see each other again after a long time, and plan a class reunion trip to Kimio's luxurious mansion...

title: The Witty Samurai

overview: The story of a timid samurai attempting to rid his name of the stigma attached to it.

title: The Gion Tempest

overview: The story follows Keiko, a dancer in the "Maiko Odori" theater in Kyoto, who tries to climb the social ladder in a world driven by money and self-interest. She becomes involved with wealthy men to pursue her ambitions but faces betrayal, exploitation, and is even accused of embezzlement. As she struggles to survive, her close friend dies from a heart condition, and her plan to marry a rich man fails. In the end, Keiko realizes the harshness of reality and decides to keep dancing despite the sorrow.

title: The Unruly Ronin's Journey II

overview: Formerly a covert spy under the shogunate, ronin Azami Onijuro and his carefree companion, ronin, journeyed along the Kiso Highway. As they approached the Echizen Domain, they encountered a woman named Osode. Recognizing Onijuro's formidable skills, she asked for his help as she was on her way to Owari. Osode, the daughter of the second-ranking retainer of the Katsuyama Domain, carried a blood-sealed letter that served as evidence of a conspiracy involving the assassination of the domain lord by the Deputy Chief and the lord's younger brother. Onijuro's group becomes a target and is chased after by the chief retainer's top enforcer.

title: Kanto Street Peddlers

overview: Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run by an elderly boss (Kanjuro Arashi). They come into conflict with an unholy alliance of evil Yakuza bosses (Watanabe, Amatsu and Kawazu).

title: Fear of Sex

title: Chaka: The Lonely Hitman

overview: Shima (Riki Takeuchi), the right-hand man of his yakuza boss and renowned hitman, suffers from kidney disease. Interned in the hospital, he meets Junko, a nurse. When Shima is shot, she goes home and heals him. Gradually a relationship is formed between them and Junko gets pregnant. But Shima cannot escape the obligations of his clan and the disgust of Junko...

title: Velvet Hustler

overview: A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always manages to stay one step ahead of the law. In his exile, he comes under suspicion for a murder and meets the girlfriend of the murdered man. They develop a strange bond while unbeknown to Goro, another hitman is after him for the job he did in Tokyo.

title: Kage no tsume

overview: After accidentally hitting and killing a man on a rainy highway, a married couple takes in the victim’s widow and disabled mother out of guilt. What begins as an uneasy act of compassion gradually turns into a tense and psychologically charged living arrangement. As suspicions, jealousy, and hidden desires surface, the relationship between the two women spirals toward obsession, betrayal, and tragedy.

title: Ninjō misui

original_title: 新二等兵物語　めでたく凱旋の巻

title: Kanbi no ware koso wa ittō shain

title: Travels of Lord Mito

title: The Big Chase

original_title: 夜の手配師　すけ千人斬り

title: Typhoon Club

title: Buchō no aijin: Pinku no sutokkingu

original_title: 部長の愛人　ピンクのストッキング

title: Troops of Darkness

title: Supermarket Woman

title: The Brat!

title: Nami kage

title: Secret Love

title: It's a Psychic, Everybody Gather!!

title: 命との対決

title: Return of the Outlaw

title: Battle Anthem

title: Tōkyō sanosa musume

title: Gate of Flesh

original_title: 怪奇十三夜 第二回 番町皿屋敷

title: Shall We Dance?

title: Wandering Ginza Butterfly

title: A Scream from Nowhere

title: The King of Minami: Con Man's Fate

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王 劇場版VIII 詐欺師の運命

title: Village of Doom

title: The Forced Marriage with Children

original_title: 傑作時代劇 しぶとい連中

title: Story of a Prostitute

title: Private Lessons II

title: An Innocent Witch

title: Poetry of Baseball Enthusiasts

title: A Country Boss

title: Miyamoto Musashi

title: Sweet Revenge

title: Red-Hot Youth

original_title: ビューティ・ペア　真赤な青春

title: Ishimatsu the Yakuza: Something's Fishy

title: The Pledge

title: Appassionata

title: Hunting Rifle

title: By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him

title: Gamera: Guardian of the Universe

title: It's a Summer Vacation Everyday

title: Tora-san's Song of Love

original_title: 男はつらいよ 旅と女と寅次郎

title: Gambling Den's Master Clan

title: I, the Executioner

title: Travel Chronicles of Yaji and Kita

title: Tomodachi

title: Zokuzoku bantōhan to detchidon

title: Women of the Night - Woman of Seniority

title: Marukin marubi no kintamashii maki

title: The Witty Samurai

title: The Gion Tempest

title: The Unruly Ronin's Journey II

title: Kanto Street Peddlers

title: Fear of Sex

title: Chaka: The Lonely Hitman

title: Velvet Hustler

title: Kage no tsume

title: Ninjō misui

Kagerou no Tsuji

original_name: 陽炎の辻〜居眠り磐音 江戸双紙〜

松本清張シリーズ・中央流沙

original_name: 松本清張シリーズ・中央流沙


Kaori Kobayashi

title: Turning Point

overview: A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.

original_title: 女ざかり

title: Typhoon Club

overview: Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which six of the students endure while marooned in their school.

character: Junko Yagisawa

original_title: 台風クラブ

title: Natsu no pēji

overview: Three young country boys are beginning to drift apart as friends. In the summer, they set off to have an adventure in the mountains.

character: Miho

original_title: 夏のページ

title: Arashi Tatsunari

overview: Can a woman love two men at the same time? Set against the backdrop of Kyoto's rich history, this story depicts a woman's difficult choice for love. Ayako, played by Yukiyo Toake, is an international conference coordinator. Torn between her childhood sweetheart (played by Kenji Sawada) and her English professor (played by Noboru Nakaya), Ayako will seek answers to love, marriage, and choice.

character: Miyo Shinjo

original_title: 嵐立つなり

title: The Rocking Horsemen

overview: It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called "The Rocking Horsemen." A warm and comic glimpse into high-school and small-town life in Japan in the 60's.

character: Teacher Momoko

original_title: 青春デンデケデケデケ

title: Fushin no Toki

overview: Suspense TV movie adaptation of an original story by Sawako Ariyoshi, starring Yukiyo Toake.

original_title: 不信のとき

title: Dogra Magra

overview: A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious doctors who relate his condition with his biological identity.

character: Chiseko Kure

original_title: ドグラ・マグラ

title: Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw

overview: A Japanese teenager bicycles aimlessly through the countryside after killing his mother.

original_title: 17歳の風景　少年は何を見たのか

title: It's Easier Than Kissing

overview: After the death of her mother a young woman wants to meet her real father

character: Mom

original_title: キスより簡単

title: Hadashi no seishun

overview: Youth movie.

original_title: はだしの青春

title: The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe

overview: Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.

character: Geisha

original_title: 淀川長治物語神戸篇 サイナラ

title: Investigation of a Typical Love

overview: The screenplay is Haruhiko Arai of "Tragedy of W" and "Revolver". The man is a detective who doesn't take on anything other than background checks for marriage and looking for cats. One day, a request for a job that belongs to him comes in. It is from Masako, a married woman who suspects her husband of having an affair.

character: Masako

original_title: ありふれた愛に関する調査

title: Goodbye for Tomorrow

overview: People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to go to a small island in the Inland Sea that evening.

character: Atsuko Nagao

original_title: あした

title: Ōoku: Hyakka ryōran

original_title: 大奥　百花繚乱

title: Dangan Runner

overview: A would-be bank robber forgets his mask on his first big heist, and then botches an attempt to shoplift a replacement mask from a nearby convenience store. The store's clerk, a washed-up rock star, chases the thief and literally runs into a Yakuza to whom he owes money.  Thus begins an all-night, three-way pursuit through the streets of Tokyo.

original_title: 弾丸ランナー

title: Shimotsukare Girl

overview: Aiko, born and raised in Tochigi, meets Rie, a visitor from Tokyo, at Shin-Tochigi Station. Rie fell asleep on the train and is unable to return home, so Aiko takes pity on her and the two of them head to a pub. The next day, Aiko and her childhood friend Tetsuo take Rie on a tour of the city...

original_title: しもつかれガール

title: Switching – Goodbye Me

overview: After his parent's divorce, Kazuo Saito moves with his mother from Onomichi and must leave his girlfriend behind. At his new school, Kazuo is surprised to reunite with his childhood friend Kazumi.

character: Traveling entertainer

original_title: 転校生 -さよなら あなた-

title: Turning Point

title: Typhoon Club

title: Natsu no pēji

title: Arashi Tatsunari

title: The Rocking Horsemen

title: Fushin no Toki

title: Dogra Magra

original_title: 17歳の風景　少年は何を見たのか

title: It's Easier Than Kissing

title: Hadashi no seishun

original_title: 淀川長治物語神戸篇 サイナラ

title: Investigation of a Typical Love

original_title: ありふれた愛に関する調査

title: Goodbye for Tomorrow

title: Ōoku: Hyakka ryōran

title: Dangan Runner

title: Shimotsukare Girl

title: Switching – Goodbye Me

original_title: 転校生 -さよなら あなた-