Masahiro Shinoda

biography:
Masahiro Shinoda (篠田 正浩 Shinoda Masahiro, March 9, 1931 – March 25, 2025) was a Japanese film director, originally associated with the Shochiku Studio, who came to prominence as part of the Japanese New Wave in the 1960s.

He married the actress Shima Iwashita, who appears in several of his films, such as 1969's Double Suicide.

His 1986 film Gonza the Spearman was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution. He won the 1991 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for Childhood Days.

He retired from directing after the release of Spy Sorge in 2003, a biopic on the life of Richard Sorge.

Pусский

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iso_3166_1: RU

english_name: Russian

also_known_as:
篠田 正浩
Масахиро Синода

title: Funeral Parade of Roses

overview: In 1960s Tokyo, Gonda owns a bar in which the gay, cross-dresser, and trans scenes meet. Gonda is in a relationship with the madam of the bar, Leda. As the younger Eddie starts a passionate affair with Gonda, she ignites the jealousy of Leda, unaware of another kind of history between them.

original_title: 薔薇の葬列

title: Masahiro Shinoda on 'The Human Condition'

overview: In this video appreciation, created in 2009, we present filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda’s observations on THE HUMAN CONDITION and director Masaki Kobayashi.

title: Masaki Kobayashi on 'The Human Condition'

overview: In this 1993 video interview, filmed for the Directors Guild of Japan at Tokyo’s Haiyuza Theatre, director Masaki Kobayashi talks to fellow filmmaker and longtime Kobayashi admirer Masahiro Shinoda (DOUBLE SUICIDE) about THE HUMAN CONDITION.

title: Himiko

overview: The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history.

original_title: 卑弥呼

title: Pale Flower

overview: A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.

original_title: 乾いた花

title: Double Suicide

overview: Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, even foregoing other customers while Jihei schemes to somehow buy her freedom. His efforts yield ruinous consequences for his business and his family life, and Koharu is meanwhile purchased by another client.

original_title: 心中天網島

title: Double Suicide

title: Samurai Spy

overview: Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama defects from the shogun to a rival clan, however, the world of swordsmen is thrown into turmoil. After Sasuke is unwittingly drawn into the conflict, he tracks Tatewaki, while a mysterious, white-hooded figure seems to hunt them both. By tale’s end, no one is who they seemed to be, and the truth is far more personal than anyone suspected. Director Masahiro Shinoda’s Samurai Spy, filled with clan intrigue, ninja spies, and multiple double crosses, marks a bold stylistic departure from swordplay film convention.

original_title: 異聞猿飛佐助

title: Takeshi: Childhood Days

overview: A story of childhood life during wartime Japan. Takeshi, the intelligent son of a fisherman, is the schoolyard bully. When his cousin comes to stay with his family to avoid bombing raids, Takeshi at first treats him well, then begins bullying him too. Takeshi eventually loses his position of leadership.

original_title: 少年時代

title: Captive's Island

overview: Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters a strange and beautiful young woman.

original_title: 処刑の島

title: Silence

overview: Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.

original_title: 沈黙 SILENCE

title: Himiko

title: Assassination

overview: In 1863, when American warships approach Japan, an enigmatic ronin becomes an important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and the empire.

original_title: 暗殺

title: Silence

title: Gonza the Spearman

overview: The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokugawa Period, a time in which appearances are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojō for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to celebrate the birth of an heir to the lord of their clan. To see the sacred tea scrolls Gonza promises to marry the daughter of the family which possesses them, even though he is unofficially engaged to another. When studying the scrolls with Osai, the mother of the house, Bannojō sneaks into the house and steals their obis and runs through the town proclaiming the two as adulterers.

original_title: 鑓の権三

title: Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

overview: A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.

original_title: 桜の森の満開の下

title: Sharaku

overview: A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal. The film explores the eternal relationship between artist and producer, and describes the emanicipation of a man who refuses to let himself become the plaything of power and money.

original_title: 写楽

title: Youth in Fury

overview: Young people are caught up in the political revolt that culminates in student riots against the 1960 Japanese-American mutual security treaty. Nihilist Takuya, politically engaged but also confused––he decorates his walls with pictures of political figures ranging from FDR to Hitler to Castro––becomes involved with Yoko, whose politician father has recently committed suicide, brought on by threats to expose his corruption. Her family is left penniless by his death and, with the consent of their mother, her older sister has agreed to sleep with a conservative pundit for monetary favors.

original_title: 乾いた湖

title: Killers on Parade

overview: A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic competition.

original_title: 夕陽に赤い俺の顔

title: Demon Pond

overview: When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a nearby pond reside spirits who hold the fate of the town’s inhabitants, including lovers Akira and Yuri, in their hands.

title: A Flame at the Pier

overview: A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the Yokohama waterfront. The rebel Saburo works as an errand boy for a shipping company and vents his frustrations by plucking on the guitar.

title: The Petrified Forest

overview: Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother's struggle to rebuild their estranged relationship.

title: Ballad of Orin

overview: A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.

title: Owls' Castle

overview: As the great military commander Nobunaga Oda was consolidating his power across Japan, one of his actions was to wipe out a clan of assassins, killing every man, woman and child he found in the village. Years later, one of the survivors has hired a young but skilled assassin to avenge the deaths of his friends and family. His mission: to sneak into the most heavily guarded castle in Japan, and kill the supreme ruler of the country.

title: Sharaku

title: One Way Ticket to Love

overview: The backstage romances of an egotistical singer and his under-valued manager, a lovelorn bandman and a nude dancer.

title: The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan

overview: An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.

title: Love New and Old

overview: A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.

title: Moonlight Serenade

overview: After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his brother after World War II.

original_title: 瀬戸内ムーンライト・セレナーデ

title: Our Marriage

overview: When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.

title: Our Marriage

title: With Beauty and Sorrow

overview: When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel about it--reappears in her life, her pupil--and lesbian lover--hatches a plot to destroy the man and his family.

title: Pale Flower

title: Spy Sorge

overview: A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II and in the midst of the Japanese imperial ambitions in Eastern Asia. The spy becomes acquainted with a sympathetic communist who like he is attached to the ideals of freedom and rule of the masses. Sorge is able to feed the Soviet Union useful information regarding the Axis allies and their movements in Asia and beyond.

title: MacArthur's Children

overview: In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must come to terms with their nation's defeat and the sudden occupation of General MacArthur and his troops.

title: Island of the Evil Spirits

overview: Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful twin sisters and tragic events unfold.

title: The Dancer

overview: Based on a semi-autobiographical story by Ogai Mori, about a Japanese medical student who goes to Berlin to study in the 1880s and falls in love with a German ballet dancer.

title: Silence

title: Allusion: Reincarnation Story

overview: Musical film: Hiromi Go plays a warrior, a gigolo, and an officer spread across a thousand years of history

title: Epitaph to My Love

overview: Ishihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an accident, Chiee loses her memory. A romance movie whose original work by Ayako Sono was made into a melodrama by a combination of Shinoda Masahiro and Terayama Shuji.

title: Sapporo Winter Olympics

overview: A documentary about the 1972 Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo, Japan.

title: Spy Sorge

title: The Dancer

title: Ballad of Orin

title: Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

title: Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky

overview: A young tofu maker, Eikichi comes from Kyoto to open a tofu shop in a friendly neighborhood. He meets there a feisty local girl Ofumi who befriends him as he sets up his shop, Kyo-ya and in spite of the difficulties stemming from cultural differences between the two ancient capitals including the favored taste of tofu itself, they eventually marry and become the owner of a tofu shop on a more respectable street. Behind the rock-solid business of Kyo-ya, their son, Eitaro bears the brunt of other tofu shops' animosity toward Kyo-ya's refusal to comply with Edo's way of running business and starts to frequent a gambling hall run by the mysterious "Boss", which throws the family into a critical situation that threaten to pull them apart...

title: Double Suicide

title: Captive's Island

title: Glory on the Summit

overview: A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his relentless pressure in the mortal danger of mountain climbing.

original_title: 山の讃歌　燃ゆる若者たち

title: One Way Ticket to Love

title: Epitaph to My Love

title: Tokyo Twilight

overview: Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

title: Sharaku

title: Clouds at Sunset

overview: A Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start over. When a young maid falls for him, he talks her into sleeping with an older man for money.

title: A Flame at the Pier

title: Himiko

title: Spy Sorge

title: Spy Sorge

title: Owls' Castle

title: Funeral Parade of Roses

title: Himiko

title: Pale Flower

title: Double Suicide

title: Double Suicide

title: Samurai Spy

title: Takeshi: Childhood Days

title: Captive's Island

title: Silence

title: Himiko

title: Assassination

title: Silence

title: Gonza the Spearman

title: Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

title: Sharaku

title: Killers on Parade

title: Youth in Fury

title: Demon Pond

title: A Flame at the Pier

title: The Petrified Forest

title: Ballad of Orin

title: Owls' Castle

title: Sharaku

title: One Way Ticket to Love

title: The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan

title: Love New and Old

title: Our Marriage

title: Our Marriage

title: Moonlight Serenade

original_title: 瀬戸内ムーンライト・セレナーデ

title: With Beauty and Sorrow

title: Pale Flower

title: Spy Sorge

title: MacArthur's Children

title: Island of the Evil Spirits

title: The Dancer

title: Silence

title: Allusion: Reincarnation Story

title: Epitaph to My Love

title: Sapporo Winter Olympics

title: Spy Sorge

title: The Dancer

title: Ballad of Orin

title: Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

title: Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky

title: Double Suicide

title: Captive's Island

title: Glory on the Summit

original_title: 山の讃歌　燃ゆる若者たち

title: One Way Ticket to Love

title: Epitaph to My Love

title: Tokyo Twilight

title: Sharaku

title: Clouds at Sunset

title: A Flame at the Pier

title: Himiko

title: Spy Sorge

title: Spy Sorge

title: Owls' Castle


Laura Mañá

Ah, c'était ça la vie!

overview: A vision of youth in Western Europe in the 50s, literature, jazz, politics and wars intermingle in their dreams, ideals and their first loves.

character: Neus Razola

original_name: Ah, c'était ça la vie!

original_language: fr

Cuéntame cómo pasó

overview: Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.

character: Amelia

original_name: Cuéntame cómo pasó

original_language: es

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie

overview: French adaptations of the stories by Agatha Christie.

character: Dolorès

original_name: Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie

Crims

character: Paula

original_name: Crims

original_language: ca

Strangers

overview: Anthology series of stand alone episodes about Americans in Paris and the sometimes tragic and sometimes uplifting relationships, trysts and loves they find there.

character: Margarite

original_name: Strangers

origin_country: FR CA

original_language: en

Burning Body

job: Director

overview: When a police officer is murdered and set on fire, all eyes focus on two other agents: his girlfriend and her lover.

department: Directing

original_name: El cuerpo en llamas

Deutsch

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iso_3166_1: DE

english_name: German

English

iso_639_1: en

iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

Español

iso_639_1: es

iso_3166_1: MX

english_name: Spanish

title: The Tit and the Moon

overview: A child does not stand the idea of having a new brother and dreams about drinking milk from the breasts of his mother again. The child asks the moon to bring him a tit only for him.

character: Mare

original_title: La teta y la luna

title: The Sea Change

overview: Arrogant businessman Rupert Granger is used to getting everything he wants... everything except Alison. Rupert is determined to win her over, only Alison is not the kind who can be bought. He promises to change, but promises will not rescue him when a cancelled flight leaves him stranded at the airport in Spain. Now his only hope to win her back lies in Chas, an airline passenger stuck at the airport with him. Chas doesn't tolerate any nonsense, while Rupert complains about everything... but Chas is about to give Rupert the personality makeover of a lifetime, one to put Rupert Granger on the right track to winning Alison back.

character: Chiquita

original_title: The Sea Change

title: Turkish Passion

overview: A young woman’s passion forms the basis of this erotic Spanish drama adapted from a popular novel by Antonio Gala. The night before Desideria’s marriage, her girl friends give her some valuable advice on sex. The marriage takes place, and while it is generally happy, her husband Ramiro suffers from sexual dysfunction and Desideria is frustrated. The two end up on holiday in Istanbul with two friends. Desideria falls madly in love with the sensual ambiance of the ancient, teeming city. She begins a passionate affair with a handsome Turkish guide, Yaman. Upon her return home, she learns that she is pregnant. Ramiro agrees to support the child, but unfortunately it dies in infancy and the grieving Desideria flees for Istanbul to find her lover. She finds him and they renew their torrid affair. Later she learns some distressing things about Yaman, but this does not stop her from becoming his sexual slave and a call girl for wealthy carpet sellers.

character: Blanche

original_title: La pasión turca

title: Indescribable Pleasure

character: Imma

original_title: Un placer indescriptible

title: 13 Curses

overview: Jacobo is a young sculptor that returns to native city, Santiago of Compostela, to see his mother, locked up a psychiatric hospital for to kill to her husband, when he believed she dead years ago. To their arrival, visions of Mateo, his dead father eighteen years ago, begin to persecute to him, since his father died by shot gun, peculiarly, when thirteen peals sounded in the cathedral, fact what obsesses to Jacobo. After watching several times, Mateo convinces his son to make the work for the cathedral that his father couldn't finish in life, but what begins as a simple work becomes a madness spiral when Jacobo discovers the true intentions of the ghost of his father: to kill to his son to usurp his body to finish the statue, and after to return to the life.

character: Claudia

original_title: Trece campanadas

title: Freedomfighters

overview: At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's group faces the problems of fighting not only the nationalists, but also factions on the left seeking to impose a more traditional military structure.

character: Concha

original_title: Libertarias

title: Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt

overview: A terror is stalking the land: people are disappearing daily, their bodies appearing covered in savage gashes coupled with precise surgical cuts. The legend of the 'Werewolf of Allariz' spreads across the land like wildfire. When Barbara (Elsa Pataky) falls in love with travelling vendor Manuel Romasanta, she is at first besotted with him - but soon begins to be suspicious of him. What has happened to her sister, who - after being escorted by Romasanta to the city - seems to have disappeared forever.

character: Antonia

original_title: Romasanta

title: Deadly Deception

overview: After receiving numerous death threats, the millionaire father of a young woman hires a private detective.

character: Consuelo

original_title: Lolita al desnudo

title: Dark Desires: Vera

overview: At the end of the motor season, Mark Benton, which has just been voted the best driver of the year, rightfully celebrates his victory in the company of all his friends. During the evening, anxious not to see him back his wife Sally, he starts looking for him in the parking lot and down. There he discovers his wife struggling with two hooded men. Mark comes heroically, but is killed during the fight. Sally is thrilled: everything went as planned. Indeed, she had organized the ambush with her lover, Jack and Tom, the rival driver Mark. Later, at the funeral where she played the grieving widow, Sally met Vera, the twin sister of Mark, which she did not know until then the existence ...

original_title: Dark Desires: Vera

title: Les aparences enganyen

character: Lucecita

original_title: Les aparences enganyen

title: A Bottle of Wishes

overview: 4 young people are long time friends. They have a dinner together, which will turn into a mess when they play a game which consists in writing a vow on a little piece of paper to be put into a bottle: they love each other, but they are not able to transcend their loneliness and their selfishness.

character: Luisa

original_title: 75 centilitres de prière

title: Dobermann

overview: The charismatic criminal Dobermann, who got his first gun when he was christened, leads a gang of brutal robbers. After a complex and brutal bank robbery, they are being hunted by the Paris police. The hunt is led by the sadistic cop Christini, who only has one goal: to catch Dobermann at any cost.

character: Victoria

original_title: Dobermann

title: Les irresponsables

overview: Núria, Lila and Andrea are preparing to spend a weekend together, out of town, in a smart, luxurious house full of works of art that a friend of Núria's has left her. Their WhatsApp group is ablaze with good intentions, but the reality is that the three of them are too lazy...Everything changes when an innocent question pushes them to break free and let their impulses take over.

character: Cap de la Lila

original_title: Les irresponsables

title: Stand-by

overview: A woman remains in an airport after her husband announces he wants a divorce, just before they are to board a plane for Argentina. Unwilling to turn to her sister and emotionally traumatized she makes the airport her home, making money by working as a prostitute. She strikes up a friendship with a café worker Marco.....

character: Air Argentina flight attendant

original_title: Stand-by

title: Manila

overview: A petty criminal becomes embroiled in an intrigue between a prostitute and a bank executive.

character: Sara

original_title: Manila

title: Searching for Love

overview: When Ana married Felix, the leader of a rock band and son of a travel agent, she thought her life would be plenty of excitement and travels. Now, in her forties, she leads a monotonous life with her husband and her daughter, giving cooking lessons and taking French courses. But one day she receives an invitation to give a cooking course in Paris.

character: Professora escuela de cocina Paris

original_title: Entre vivir y soñar

title: Killing Words

overview: A mild-mannered psychopath plays mind-games with a woman he has tied to a chair in his basement.

original_title: Palabras encadenadas

title: Neither God, Nor Master or Husband

overview: In 1896, Virginia Bolten, a well known thirty years old anarchist, arrives in Buenos Aires where she meets her friend Matilda, along with other women working in the mill Volpon Genaro, under the harsh conditions of the time.

original_title: Ni dios, ni patrón, ni marido

title: To Die in San Hilario

overview: The inhabitants of San Hilario make their living from funerals. They are awaiting their first customer in a long time.

original_title: Morir en San Hilario

job: Writer

title: Compassionate Sex

overview: Dolores is a mature and kind woman whose husband abandons her because he can't stand her uncanny generosity. Desperate to get her husband back, she devotes her life to works of charity, which is to go to bed with the other men of the town. Dolores, now "Lolita", becomes so famous that all men seek out her help now. It is through her compassionate sex that she brings back the colour and the happiness to a town that was immersed in sadness. Written by HoMordomo.

department: Writing

original_title: Sexo por compasión

title: Compassionate Sex

title: Clara Campoamor, the Neglected Woman

overview: Spain, 1931. Under the Second Republic, women are eligible, but cannot vote. Victoria Kent and Clara Campoamor, the first women in the Spanish Parliament, intend to fight for women's rights, and Clara knows that the first step is to get the women's vote approved…

original_title: Clara Campoamor, la mujer olvidada

title: Concepción Arenal, la visitadora de cárceles

overview: TV Movie about Concepción Arenal in his role as visiting women's prisons. His struggle to change the conception that was on criminals and they had to be modern prisons.

title: Life Begins Today

overview: A group of seniors attends a workshop on sex. Olga, their teacher, try to make them see that their bodies are still alive giving them homework such as learning to look at themselves in the mirror or dedicate twenty minutes a day to some pleasant activity. The problem is that neither society nor their own relatives are always willing to accept that elderly people have their own sexuality.

title: Un novio para mi mujer

overview: Diego wants to separate from his wife, Lucía, but he doesn't know how to tell her. He is fed up with her neuroses and constant complaints about him, and he has long since lost the spark that made him fall in love. Unable to say it to her face, he turns to Cuervo Flores, a famous seducer "from before", who will try to make Lucía fall in love so that she will be the one to end her marriage.

title: Un novio para mi mujer

title: I Love You, Stupid

overview: Marcos' life turns upside down after he loses the same day his girlfriend and his job. Marcos' life turns wild after to meet Raquel.

title: Frederica Montseny, la dona que parla

overview: In the midst of the Spanish Civil War, the rise of anarcho-syndicalism brings Frederica Montseny into the Republic’s government. She reluctantly accepts the position to prevent the spread of fascism, becoming the first female minister in Spain — and in Europe. After the war, Montseny is forced into exile in France, where she faces an extradition trial that puts her firm convictions to the test.

title: Les irresponsables

title: Les irresponsables

title: Life Begins Today

title: The Tit and the Moon

title: The Sea Change

title: Turkish Passion

title: Indescribable Pleasure

title: 13 Curses

title: Freedomfighters

title: Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt

title: Deadly Deception

title: Dark Desires: Vera

title: Les aparences enganyen

title: A Bottle of Wishes

title: Dobermann

title: Les irresponsables

title: Stand-by

title: Manila

title: Searching for Love

title: Killing Words

title: Neither God, Nor Master or Husband

title: To Die in San Hilario

title: Compassionate Sex

title: Compassionate Sex

title: Clara Campoamor, the Neglected Woman

title: Life Begins Today

title: Un novio para mi mujer

title: Un novio para mi mujer

title: I Love You, Stupid

title: Frederica Montseny, la dona que parla

title: Les irresponsables

title: Les irresponsables

title: Life Begins Today


Joseph Cahill

Ticaret

overview: Paris, 1980s. The very first concept store in Europe dedicated to hip-hop, Ticaret was simultaneously a laboratory for a new style, a meeting place, and a factory of myths. The unlikely duo at its helm—Daniel Fourneuf, an electrician with a passion for dance and music, and Françoise Hautot, a fitting model and fashion designer—imported hip-hop clothing, accessories, and albums from the United States. Ticaret also boasted a makeshift recording studio in the basement, and in the back room, renowned graffiti artists screen-printed T-shirts with a style unique in France.

original_name: Ticaret

Český

iso_639_1: cs

iso_3166_1: CZ

english_name: Czech

Français

iso_639_1: fr

iso_3166_1: FR

english_name: French

title: Little Otik

overview: When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the root as her baby and starts to pretend that it is real.

original_title: Otesánek

original_language: cs

job: Producer

title: Frames

department: Production

original_title: Frames

job: Animation

title: Frames

department: Visual Effects

title: Frames

job: Screenplay

title: Frames

title: Little Otik

media_type: movie

title: Frames

title: Frames

title: Frames

title: Frames

Ticaret

media_type: tv

known_for_department: Directing


Taeko Tomioka

biography: Poet, novelist, and literary critic.

日本語

iso_639_1: ja

iso_3166_1: JP

english_name: Japanese

普通话

iso_639_1: zh

iso_3166_1: HK

english_name: Mandarin

Український

iso_639_1: uk

iso_3166_1: UA

english_name: Ukrainian

title: Double Suicide

overview: Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, even foregoing other customers while Jihei schemes to somehow buy her freedom. His efforts yield ruinous consequences for his business and his family life, and Koharu is meanwhile purchased by another client.

original_title: 心中天網島

original_language: ja

title: Sapporo Winter Olympics

overview: A documentary about the 1972 Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo, Japan.

original_title: 札幌オリンピック

title: Gonza the Spearman

overview: The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokugawa Period, a time in which appearances are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojō for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to celebrate the birth of an heir to the lord of their clan. To see the sacred tea scrolls Gonza promises to marry the daughter of the family which possesses them, even though he is unofficially engaged to another. When studying the scrolls with Osai, the mother of the house, Bannojō sneaks into the house and steals their obis and runs through the town proclaiming the two as adulterers.

original_title: 鑓の権三

title: Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

overview: A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.

original_title: 桜の森の満開の下

title: Himiko

overview: The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history.

original_title: 卑弥呼

place_of_birth: Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

title: Double Suicide

title: Sapporo Winter Olympics

title: Gonza the Spearman

title: Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

title: Himiko

known_for_department: Writing


Yoshihiro Fukagawa

Things You Can Know by Looking at Them

overview: Momoko Uchida lives in an expensive apartment in Tokyo. She is a manga writer. Momoko Uchida is in her second marriage and has a son attending a university. Her friend Mizuki Tomizawa is the same age her and lives in the same apartment building. One day, a newlywed couple, including wife Rumi Kamoi, move into the same apartment building. The newlywed husband is Momoko Uchida's ex-husband. They divorced 20 years ago.

original_name: 彼らを見ればわかること

Rainbow Chart

overview: Kureno Masora is a young doctor who was working happily at a large hospital in Tokyo. However, she found out that she has an illness and decided to continue working as a doctor, while hiding her illness at a clinic located in a small village called "Niji no Mura". Therefore, Masora gets to meet the interesting villagers and gradually learns about facing life enthusiastically.

original_name: にじいろカルテ

Chase

overview: Mikami, a journalist, and Mai, a rookie assistant director of a satellite broadcasting station, close in on the truth of the unsolved serial murders of five little girls which took place 27 years ago. At the time of the murders, DNA analysis dealt a decisive blow and a man was apprehended as the murderer. But there were several contradictory points surrounding this arrest. Mikami and Mai begin re-investigating the cases with doubts about his culpability. They are eventually faced with the chilling truth of false charges and enormous state power. However, they begin to expose the truth which was shrouded in darkness through true journalism.

original_name: チェイス

Fake Marriage

overview: 45-year-old Hiro Kamon works as a librarian because she loves books. Although she is worshiped as the "aloof beauty" and "ideal female" for her beautiful, gentle smile and amiability, she actually dislikes people. Hiro has been hurt countless times, and Chōji, the only guy she loved wholeheartedly in university, also fled in one night. She has become a person who no longer believes in love and has decided to live alone for life. But she ends up acting as a "fake married couple" with Chōji, whom she happens to meet again, for the sake of his mother, Teruno, who has been given a short time to live.

original_name: 偽装の夫婦

Japanese Style

overview: 30-year-old Kakioka Tetsuro returns home for the first time in 10 years to save his family’s traditional inn Niji no Ya after he hears that his father has been hospitalized. But he is lost for words when he sees that it has completely changed. The dignity and service of the inn, which boasts a 100-year heritage, has totally vanished. It has transformed into a haunt where employees who are not easy to deal with linger around. There is Terakado Lucy Kazuko, a flamenco dancer who says a stream of offensive things; Kageshima Shunsaku, a germaphobe manager who hates hot springs; Asatsuki Momoyo, the head waitress who is a single mother devoted to her son Ringoro; Ringoro, a boyish employee who loves his mother and unicycle; Uno Kanata, a chef who has a UNO addiction; and Umekoshi Hifuji, an old-timer who has clung on to the inn for 40 years.

original_name: ジャパニーズスタイル

Goodbye My Dear

overview: “Who is the last person you would like to see？” When junior high school teacher Sakuraba Ayako wakes up, she sees a man standing there. Calling himself a guide of this mysterious place that extends in front of them, he tells her that this is “goodbye’s other side”. As his words sink in, Ayako recalls that she has died. She lets slip that she had never thought she would die in this manner. Visitors to this other side can meet people of this world one last time within a 24-hour time period. Ayako immediately thinks of her son Yuta and husband Hirotaka. However, the guide says the ones she can meet are only those who still do not know about her death. Ayako goes to the house of her former teacher Ishibashi Nobuyoshi. She is greeted by his daughter Megumi, but Nobuyoshi passed away about two years ago…

original_name: さよならの向う側

The Kidnapping Day

overview: To secure his daughter’s heart surgery funds, Masamune Shinjo, urged by his wife, attempts to kidnap heiress Rin Nanase. When Rin loses memory, he pretends to be her father—only to become a murder suspect after her parents are killed. Forced to flee with the genius girl, he must unravel the truth behind the crimes.

original_name: 誘拐の日

Silent Truth

overview: When a detective returns to his hometown to investigate a murder case, he uncovers shocking connections to the primary suspect and the weapon.

original_name: 再会～Silent Truth～

name: Shirayuri Kyodai no Handsome na Shokutaku

overview: Shirayuri Rio lives on his own when suddenly his younger brother shows up, declaring that he's going to move in much to Rio's displeasure. Each episode is about them helping out people & each episode also contains a short cooking lesson.

original_name: 白百合兄弟のハンサムな食卓

People at Hopehills

overview: Dramatized masterpiece from touching family drama's specialist Kiyoshi Shigematsu. "Second Chance Chauffer (流星ワゴン)" "Tonbi (Black kite)"  The drama is produced by a great team starring by famous actors such as Ikki Sawamura, screen writing by Yoshikazu Okada and directed by Yoshihiro Fukagawa.  It shows "courage" and "pure heart" which adult need. This is an inspiring movie with lots of laughter and tears, and motivates you.

original_name: 希望ヶ丘の人びと

Please Marry My Wife

original_name: ボクの妻と結婚してください

Japanese Style

job: Creator

department: Creator

한국어/조선말

iso_639_1: ko

iso_3166_1: KR

english_name: Korean

Italiano

iso_639_1: it

iso_3166_1: IT

english_name: Italian

普通话

iso_3166_1: CN

also_known_as:
후카가와 요시히로
Yoshihiro Fukagawa

title: それでも夜明けは訪れて

overview: The pendant has disappeared, the shadow has disappeared. What will disappear next?  The protagonist feels less and less alive every day. Even though she is a virgin, the only way she can think of to confirm her own life is to try a pregnancy test. To put an end to her boredom and pessimism, she leaves a message on her dial Q2 and meets a man. What does she get in exchange for making a man with a voice fetish cum?  Despite the stylish pictures with a French taste, the story deepens from ennui to horror. The first half of the film, "the sense of alienation peculiar to a period when one is not young enough to be called a girl, but young enough to be called a woman", becomes "a scary story in the style of modern folklore" at the end.

original_title: それでも夜明けは訪れて

title: 「アイランドタイムズ」メイキング

overview: Making of Island Times

original_title: 「アイランドタイムズ」メイキング

job: Editor

title: GIANT CRYBABY

overview: Film by Yoshihiro Fukagawa, 1999.

department: Editing

original_title: ジャイアントナキムシ

title: GIANT CRYBABY

title: GIANT CRYBABY

title: An Encyclopedia of Unconventional Women

overview: This is an omnibus of six short films by six different directors, whose lead characters are unconventional women. They are "Hijoshi," females who live true to themselves and their desires.

original_title: 非女子図鑑

title: Four Women Living in That House

overview: A mother, daughter and two of their friends live in an old Western-style house in Suginami. As secrets are revealed, they face challenges together.

title: Love Like the Falling Petals

overview: Haruto Asakura falls in love with hairdresser Misaki Ariake and asks her out. Watching Misaki Ariake work hard to achieve what she wants, Haruto Asakura, who almost gave up his dream to become a photographer, begins to pursue his dream again, but Misaki Ariake is diagnosed with a disease that ages her 10x faster than normal.

title: Twilight: Saya in Sasara

overview: A drama about a struggling young widow with a baby whose dead husband returns to the world of the living to help her.

original_title: トワイライト ささらさや

title: Girl

overview: "Girls" follows four beautiful women and depicts the troubles found in their love lives and work place. Yukiko Takigawa (Karina) works at a big advertising firm and has a good looking boyfriend. Seiko Takeda is married and has no children. She works at a large real estate company. Yoko Kosaka is a single woman working at a historic stationary company. Takako Hirai is a single mother who works for a car manufacturer.

title: Into the White Night

overview: A pawn shop owner in Osaka is murdered, but due to a lack of conclusive evidence the police lists the man's death as a suicide. Detective Sasagaki, who investigated the case, can't forget the dark eyes of the main suspect's daughter Yukiho and the pawn shop owner's son Ryouji.  As time goes by, more mysterious deaths surround Yukiho & Ryouji. Detective Sasagaki still unable to let go of the pawn shop owner case discovers startling details about Yukiho and Ryouji ...

title: In His Chart

overview: There is a degree of realism when a professional in the field writes about his vocation and such is the case here. Adopted from a novel written by a doctor and set in Nagano, doctor Kuriharai is overwhelmed by the number and variety of patients he has to see due to a shortage of physicians where he practices. He aspires to work somewhere more convenient, specialize and see more of his wife, but faces a dilemma many other doctors experience.

title: Classmates

overview: A romance occurs via email, between Jun Shibahara, the ace in his swimming team, and an ill girl.

title: Twilight: Saya in Sasara

original_title: トワイライト ささらさや

title: Gymnasium Baby

overview: Jun, the ace in his swimming team, lost against his rival, Naoki, at the summer college tournament. But since then there is a special feeling between them...

title: Patisserie Coin De Rue

overview: A disillusioned Natsume arrives at Coin de Rue, a popular Tokyo pastry shop, begging for work. Aiming to become a high-calibre pastry chef, she is determined to overcome both her past and the challenges ahead.  Pastry critic Tomura is a frequent visitor to Coin de Rue. Moved by Natsume's persistence, he slowly begins to confront his own painful past aided, of course, by mouthfuls of tasty pastries.

title: The Chart of Love

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

title: Island Times

overview: Fifteen-year-old Masaharu lives on the small island of Aogashima, which has a population of 197. On the island, life is simple and facilities are spare. As there are no high schools on the island, Masaharu, in his final year of junior high, will be leaving for Tokyo after he graduates. He is the editor of Blue Island Times, the local newspaper he started with a friend, who has hit on hard times in Tokyo. One day, Yuki transfers from the city to his island school, and Masaharu is immediately smitten. As the two grow closer, Masaharu discovers his new friend's secret.

title: Island Times

title: Island Times

title: Teacher and Stray Cat

overview: Following the death of his wife professor Kyoichi leads a solitary life by the sea. A stray cat called Mii, who was being fed by his wife, not only continues to drop by, but also seems to be visiting the altar Kyoichi has set up for his deceased wife. While uncomfortable with the cat and its visits, he nonetheless takes up a search when Mii goes missing. The endeavour connects him with the town's folk and reveals that he is not alone.

title: The Letters

overview: The hero is the the younger brother of the criminal suffers discrimination and prejudice of the people surrounding him, he will draw carefully through the brother's letter exchanged in the movie, the path of his own his family.  ~~ Adapted from the novel “Letters” by Higashino Keiko.

title: Peeping Tom

overview: Two holes appear suddenly on the walls of a cheap apartment where a piddling fiction writer, Makiguri, lives. What he wrote fiercely after that was his own death.

title: Peeping Tom

title: 3 Beautiful Lies

original_title: 女性作家ミステリーズ 美しき三つの嘘

title: Prison Break

overview: One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cell in Akita Prison. He forces open the glass window and breaks out of jail. This crime even reaches the ears of Urata Susumu, the chief warden of Kosuge Prison in Tokyo. Urata had been in charge of those sentenced to life in the prison until last year. Although Sakuma is a dangerous person who had also broken out of jail in Aomori, he submits to Urata who is the only person who had treated him kindly in the past. However, three months after escaping from jail, Sakuma shows up at Urata’s house. He has come to complain about the inhumane Akita prison officers. But he is locked up again after Urata notifies the police during an unguarded moment. A year later, Sakuma is sent to Abashiri Prison and Urata is also ordered to transfer as the prison’s chief warden.

title: Sagrada Reset Part 1

overview: In the town of Sakurada, where about half of the residents have special abilities, high schooler Kei Asai is able to remember everything. His classmate Misora Haruki has the power to reset the world by three days. If they combine their powers, they can go back in time by three days and retain their memory.

title: Sagrada Reset Part 1

title: Sagrada Reset Part 2

title: Sagrada Reset Part 2

title: GTO Revival

overview: Onizuka, a former motorcycle gang member turned high-school teacher is assigned to a private academy full of troubled students. The issue at this high school revolves around an exposé-style influencer who has nearly 2 million followers who specializes in exposing and spreading rumors, causing controversies and uproar, regardless of whether the individuals involved are celebrities or ordinary people. Several teachers and students from the academy have been exposed so far, and due to being targeted so frequently, there are rumors circulating within the school that there might be a culprit impersonating the influencer. As a result, students live their school lives while constantly observing each other’s expressions, becoming increasingly suspicious and paranoid.

title: The Innocent Game

overview: Kiyoyoshi Kuga attends law school, aiming to work in the legal field as a lawyer. His childhood friend Mirei Orimoto also attends the same law school. One day, a leaflet is distributed by an anonymous person at their law school. The leaflet makes accusations about the past of Kiyoyoshi Kuga and Mirei Orimoto. Soon, unpleasant cases takes place around them. Kiyoyoshi Kuga talks to Kaoru Yuki, who is an extremely smart classmate and in charge of the mock trials. These three people chase after the truth, but they face an unexpected situation.

title: Wolf Girl

overview: When a new, smart and sweet Tokyo girl, Rumiko, starts at a rural elementary school, Akira finds himself smitten, like every other male pupil. Newcomer's popularity is contrasted with the less-tolerant treatment of scruffy Hideko, who, thanks to the arrival of a carnival freak-show in town, is nicknamed the Wolf Girl. Teachers and parents snootily consider the carny off-limits, but Akira is determined to find out whether Hideko really is a wolf girl.

title: 42-50Nirvana

overview: Yuji is a 50-year-old screenwriter.Kana is a 42-year-old actress.They got married two years ago.She lives with her husband's mother in a house in Tokyo. Recently, Kana has been feeling limited in her acting.Since she has never had a child, "I cannot play the role of a mother well," she says. Yuji were not positive about having a child, but at a family meeting they decided to start fertility treatment.

title: Don't Lose Heart

overview: Depicts the life of best-selling Japanese poet Toyo Shibata. Toyo Shibata first began writing poems at the age of 92 and published her first collection of poems "Kujikenaide" (″Don't lose heart″) in 2009, which sold over 1.5 million copies.

title: Don't Lose Heart

title: Gymnasium Baby

title: Classmates

title: Restaurant from the Sky

overview: Wataru, his woman Kotoe and daughter Shiori are ranchers and dairy farmers in Hokkaido in northern Japan. He is following in his father's footsteps. A visiting chef cooks an unforgettable meal with his ingredients, which prompts the family to open their own restaurant and reproduce the magic.

title: Movie box-ing

overview: "Movie Box-ing" is a Japanese film from 2003. It is an omnibus-style film consisting of three short stories: "Run-ing", "The Spinning Boy" and "The Policeman and the Summer Clothes"  "Run-ing": Four men and women, each with their own unique circumstances and backgrounds, find themselves running after hearing the gunshot of an assassin targeting a man who stole a bag from an organization. The story follows what happens when they reach the finish line.  "The Spinning Boy": Yoshio loves to spin around. Despite a class goal to make him stop spinning, he continues. One day, his father gets injured, and Yoshio declares, "I won't spin anymore."  "The Policeman and the Summer Clothes": On the eve of a summer festival, Shingo, a policeman in a small coastal town, is involved in a case. While his girlfriend, Chizuru, is job hunting in Tokyo, Shingo questions Mariko, a university entrance exam candidate, about breaking a shop window.

title: Looking Up at the Half-Moon

overview: Two 17 year old teens are hospitalized for different reasons. Ezaki suffers from Hepatitis A, while Akiba is due to a weak heart. The relationship between these two hospital patients soon blossoms into romance.

title: Patisserie Coin De Rue

title: Dear My Love

overview: Too shy to speak out the word of appreciation, too busy to show that you care... Many excuses lie between each and every couple, when they look back the distance created during the long years in which they took each other for granted... Love Letters sent from husbands to wives and from wives to husbands, quietly voice their unspoken appreciation for each other over the years that they have shared. The original idea comes from the postcard project "Love Letters at Sixty" which has brought a wave of sympathy to the precious emotions shared by many married couples.

title: The Legacy of Dr. Death: Black File

overview: A series of suspicious death cases take place. All the victims were terminal patients. Detective Hayato Inukai (Gou Ayano) and Detective Asuka Takachiho (Keiko Kitagawa) investigate the case. Through their investigation, they learn of a person known as "Dr. Death." He performs euthanasia by request. Meanwhile, Detective Hayato Inukai’s daughter Sayaka requests the help of Dr. Death. Sayaka suffers from a severe kidney disease.

title: Brighter Days

overview: Saho Takahashi, capable but a disillusioned nurse, has lost all motivation for her job working at Sumidaku Sakuraoka General Hospital. She seeks solace in the company of her bed-ridden patient, former Honorary Head Nurse, Sae Yukino. As she opens up about her despair, a sudden earthquake sends Saho into the depths of a strange, unfamiliar jungle.

title: The Way of The Prison Guard

overview: This mystery TV movie depicts hope and rebirth through the lives of inmates with different circumstances and the prison guards who strive to rehabilitate them.

title: Norio's Room

overview: A coming-of-age drama depicting the innocent love of a young man caught up in his girlfriend’s lies. Starring the talented young actors Sosuke Takaoka (Blue Spring) and Tsugumi (Moonlight Whispers). Directed by Yoshihiro Fukagawa (Bicycle and High Heels), a promising talent in the independent film scene, this marks his full-length theatrical debut.

title: それでも夜明けは訪れて

title: 「アイランドタイムズ」メイキング

original_title: 「アイランドタイムズ」メイキング

title: GIANT CRYBABY

title: GIANT CRYBABY

title: GIANT CRYBABY

title: An Encyclopedia of Unconventional Women

title: Four Women Living in That House

title: Love Like the Falling Petals

title: The Chart of Love

title: Into the White Night

title: Girl

title: Classmates

title: Twilight: Saya in Sasara

original_title: トワイライト ささらさや

title: In His Chart

title: Patisserie Coin De Rue

title: Gymnasium Baby

title: Twilight: Saya in Sasara

original_title: トワイライト ささらさや

title: Island Times

title: Island Times

title: Island Times

title: Teacher and Stray Cat

title: The Letters

title: Peeping Tom

title: Peeping Tom

title: 3 Beautiful Lies

original_title: 女性作家ミステリーズ 美しき三つの嘘

title: Prison Break

title: Sagrada Reset Part 1

title: Sagrada Reset Part 1

title: Sagrada Reset Part 2

title: Sagrada Reset Part 2

title: GTO Revival

title: The Innocent Game

title: Wolf Girl

title: 42-50Nirvana

title: Don't Lose Heart

title: Don't Lose Heart

title: Classmates

title: Gymnasium Baby

title: Restaurant from the Sky

title: Movie box-ing

title: Looking Up at the Half-Moon

title: Patisserie Coin De Rue

title: Dear My Love

title: The Legacy of Dr. Death: Black File

title: Brighter Days

title: The Way of The Prison Guard

title: Norio's Room

original_name: 白百合兄弟のハンサムな食卓

Please Marry My Wife

original_name: ボクの妻と結婚してください


Keisuke Toyoshima

Let's play with KONNO-SAN!

overview: The story follows the daily - and strange - happenings of the sailor-suit-wearing high school student, Konno Miyuki.

original_name: 紺野さんと遊ぼう

Da Rapper Bites and Becomes a Rapper

overview: Based on manga by Inka Teikoku about a world where people suddenly turned into RAP zombies due to unexplained "RAP viruses.

original_name: ラッパーに噛まれたらラッパーになる

Who Killed Daigoro Tokuyama?

overview: One morning, students find their homeroom teacher Tokuyama Daigoro’s body on the floor of the classroom. A strange school life begins as the students work hard to hide the presence of their teacher's corpse in their classroom. Other teachers from the Academy, their homeroom teacher's wife, his mistress, police, and reporters... One-by-one they visit the classroom and the students face the risk of being discovered. Is it possible to continue to hide it?! And who was it who killed him?!

original_name: 徳山大五郎を誰が殺したか？

Special Investigation Nine

overview: The #9 investigation team has been disbanded and members of the #9 investigation team have been scattered around. One year later, the Chief of the National Police Agency, Sojiro Kandagawa, orders the creation of a special investigation team to cover from the initial investigation until it is sent to the prosecutor's office. Sojiro Kandagawa appoints Sakutaro Munakata as the leader of the special investigation team. Former #9 investigation team members join the special investigation team.

original_name: 特捜9

Can't Write! ~A Life Without Scenario~

overview:
Keisuke Yoshimaru is a screenwriter, but instead of working, he is responsible for all household chores. On the other hand, Keisuke's wife, Nami, is a popular novel writer under the name "Ririko Kōsaka". Nami is the breadwinner with outstanding fame and income.

Keisuke is somehow satisfied with his current life, but, one day, the main writer of a prime-time drama suddenly drops out, and Keisuke was given the opportunity to write again. Although Keisuke starts writing with full of expectations, he begins to be swayed by various problems.

original_name: 書けないッ!? 〜脚本家 吉丸圭佑の筋書きのない生活〜

Youkai Sharehouse

overview: Mio Meguro is a timid person. She is afraid of being hated by others, and this causes her to refrain from saying what she really wants to say. She doesn't have any specific things she wants to do. She got a job and eventually dated a man from her workplace. Mio Meguro wanted to marry the man, but he turns out to be a bad guy. Because of him, she becomes penniless and unemployed. Her life descends into a bottomless pit. Mio Meguro then happens to get a sharehouse, where the mysterious creatures known as yōkai live. The yōkai try to solve her problems in radical ways.

original_name: 妖怪シェアハウス

×××HOLiC

overview: Yūko Ichihara is the sexy owner of a strange store which offers to make any wishes come true for a price. Kimihiro Watanuki has a special type of blood that attracts spirits and ghosts. He goes into the shop owned by Yūko Ichihara and asks her to get rid of the spirits. Yūko offers to do so if he works part-time at the store.

original_name: CLAMPドラマ　ホリック　×××HOLiC

job: Teleplay

original_name: CLAMPドラマ　ホリック　×××HOLiC

The Complex: Prologue

overview:
"The Complex-Prologue" is a spin-off of horror movie "The Complex".

A young boy named Minoru becomes involved in a mysterious phenomenon and horror experience.

original_name: クロユリ団地～序章～

The Ancient Dogoo Girl

overview:
The Ancient Dogoo Girl is a Japanese comedy tokusatsu series directed by Noboru Iguchi, director of The Machine Girl and RoboGeisha. The show airs on MBS every Wednesday night at 25:25 JST. The ending theme is Denki Groove's "Dareda!".

In October 2010, Dogoo Girl premiered its sequel The Ancient Dogoo Girls. The show adds five more Dogoo Girls portrayed by Misaki Momose, Rina Takeda, Manami Nomoto, Maria Yoshikawa, and Haruka Dan. The theme song for the sequel is "Bakuha Seyo! Dogoon V".

original_name: 古代少女ドグちゃん

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.

original_name: 怪奇大家族

Mushikago no Joumae

overview: A religious cult called Mushikago no Niwa that secretly developed hidden human potential existed in the past. However, one such person, whose potential was unleashed, rose in rebellion. After the cult was destroyed, the members dispersed and only the rumour of a vast fortune on the cult grounds is whispered in the underworld. Nanami is a go-between and trades information with people of the underworld. One day, he meets Kagoroku who happens to be there when he is in a tough spot in a secret deal. The two of them eventually team up to solve all sorts of issues. They get involved in a fight between the former Mushikago no Niwa members that went through human experiments and the people of the underworld over the assets and mystery of the cult.

original_name: 虫籠の錠前

The Big Chase: Tokyo SSBC Files

overview: A former detective and an elite ex-security officer join forces in a special police analysis unit, where their unlikely partnership helps tackle violent crimes and support investigations behind the scenes.

original_name: 大追跡～警視庁SSBC強行犯係～

I"s

overview: High schooler Ichitaka Seto is in love with classmate Iori Yoshizuki, but is too shy to tell her. Again and again, he plans to tell her his true feelings, but each time something – usually a misunderstanding of some kind – gets in the way. Things complicate further when Itsuki Akiba – whom Ichitaka was friends with in their childhood before she moved to the United States – returns, her crush on him still intact.

original_name: アイズ

The Great Horror Family

job: Original Concept

also_known_as:
丰岛圭介
豊島 圭介
丰岛 圭介

title: Tokyo Gore Police

overview: In a futuristic Tokyo where police have been privatized and bitter self-mutilation is so casual that advertising is often specially geared to the 'cutter' demographic, Ruka is on a mission to avenge her father's assassination. Ruka is a cop from a squad whose goal is to destroy homicidal mutant humans known as 'engineers', that possess the ability to transform any injury to a weapon in and of itself.

original_title: 東京残酷警察

title: Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Nagurikomi! 2

original_title: 怪談新耳袋 殴り込み!2

title: Ghosts vs. Aliens

overview: Horror, gag, entertainment by Keisuke Toyoshima of "Heller master Shimizu Takashi ×" "Kaidan New Ear Bag Nobuhiro" !! "Kaidanui watching me ..." and "My alien" are included.

original_title: 幽霊 vs 宇宙人 01

title: Ghosts vs. Aliens 02

overview: Horror, gag, and entertainment by Keisuke Toyoshima of "Heller master Shimizu Takashi ×" Kaidan New Ear Bag Nobuhiro "!" Hellstone catching out hell "and" Alien of the table "are included.

original_title: 幽霊 vs 宇宙人 02

title: Helldriver

overview: Still reeling from the events of a zombie apocalypse, a young woman, along with a group of allies, makes her way across a dystopian Japan in search of her mother, the Zombie Queen.

original_title: ヘルドライバー

title: 悲しいだけ

overview: My brother took my brother.  A woman, always frustrated, forces him to pick pockets and rob people just for the thrill of it. A man who resists but continues to be an accomplice with infinite tolerance. Is it the man or the woman who is desperate to keep his partner in line? It is the woman's brother who comes between the frustration and tolerance that seems to swell endlessly. But as he makes her apologise at the graveside of her parents, he also commits the sin of lying in order to keep his love alive.  There is very little expository dialogue. There is very little exposition in the film, but it is enough to convey the feelings and circumstances of each character. The structure, the script and the acting are the foundations of a film that succeeds in depicting the birth of a new love triangle in a cool and realistic way.

original_title: 悲しいだけ

job: Script

title: 悲しいだけ

department: Crew

title: 悲しいだけ

title: Stop the Bitch Campaign: Hell Version

overview: In Tokyo, prostitution in the name of "Enjo Kosai" is in fashion among some high school girls. A mysterious man Kuni lament such girls but cannot deny a strong desire for them. He punish the girls by having sex with them without paying them. He calls this operation "Stop the Bitch Campaign" for public justice. Working in a sex trade shop where abnormal people are satisfied with their lust. Aoi tries to find out the man who raped her desperately in the past. One day, Aoi meets Kuni.

original_title: 援助交際撲滅運動　地獄変

title: Tales of Terror: The Curse of Nobuhiro-san

overview: Nobuhiro is convinced that, in order to honor his mother's death by suicide, he needs to find the reincarnation of his mother and die with her, together, under the spell of love. A young model tries to discover the truth behind one of his paintings which depicts the horrific death of a woman and her lover.

original_title: 怪談新耳袋 ノブヒロさん

title: An Encyclopedia of Unconventional Women

overview: This is an omnibus of six short films by six different directors, whose lead characters are unconventional women. They are "Hijoshi," females who live true to themselves and their desires.

title: An Encyclopedia of Unconventional Women

title: Unholy Women

overview: Unholy Women (Kowai onna), is a composite of three unrelated half-hour horror movies. A compilation of 3 separate short horror films (Rattle Rattle, Hagane, The Inheritance) written and directed by Keita Amemiya, Takuji Suzuki, and Keisuke Toyoshima respectively.  The first segment, “Rattle Rattle”, tells the story of a young woman who is pursued by an evil other-worldly being. The second movie, “Steel”, concerns a young man who agrees to take the sister of his boss out on a blind date, drawing him into a world more frightening than he ever dreamed possible. The third and final episode, “The Inheritance”, is a supernatural tale of a woman and her young son, scarred by abuse and psychological trauma.

title: Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: The Movie

overview: 8 short stories comprise this anthology movie, based on the Tales of Terror TV series. The segments are, in order: The Night Watchman (directed by Akio Yoshida), Wisps of Smoke (Kosuke Suzuki), Gloves (Hirohisa Sasaki), The Weight (Kosuke Suzuki), Full-Length Mirror (Ryuta Miyake), Line of Sight (Keisuke Toyoshima), The Promise (Keita Amemiya) and Hisao (Shun'ichi Hirano).

title: Ten Nights of Dreams

overview: Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki's same-titled short story collection, Ten Nights of Dreams brings ten fantastical dream sequences to film with great visual and psychological panache. Representing the combined efforts of eleven directors, this outstanding anthology delves into the surreal subconscious with ten madly imaginative, reality-subverting visions that range from wonderfully wacky to nightmarishly unsettling.

title: future me

overview: Mari is 46 years old. She has a job and a family. One day as she routinely finishes her extremely busy schedule, a strange incident makes her travel 30 years back in time to meet her high school self. That particular day just happened to be the worst day of her life.

title: Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan Volume 3, Part 1

overview: Just because the gates to the spirit world are usually kept shut does not mean that they cannot suddenly open, that the dead cannot reach out for your throat, that its denizens cannot prowl in abandoned office buildings, or haunt high school video projects. The dark realm is with you, and within you, its emotions calling to yours in shades of horror, of fear, of terror.

title: Saibanchou! Koko wa choueki 4-nen de dousuka

original_title: 裁判長！ここは懲役4年でどうすか

title: Unholy Women

title: A Courtesan with Flowered Skin

overview: Japan around 1860: popular courtesan Asagiri will be freed soon from her service, yet she cannot imagine any other existence. Until one day at a local festival, Asagiri meets the young artisan Hanjiro by chance – an encounter that changes her destiny. With a strong performance by leading actress Yumi ADACHI and exquisite camerawork and production design, A COURTESAN WITH FLOWERED SKIN succeeds in recalling the golden age of Japanese erotic film.

title: Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan Volume 1

overview: "Shin Mimibukuro," which has greatly influenced numerous Japanese horror works such as "Ring" and "Ju-on," is finally being fully adapted into a complete visual format for the first time. The directors include Takashi Shimizu of "Ju-on," Hideo Nakata of "Ring 0," actor Shiro Sano, and Akio Yoshida, the veteran of TBS dramas such as "Kamaitachi no Yoru," all of whom are distinguished talents in the horror world. The cast is also spectacular, featuring a diverse array of talents such as Rina Uchiyama, Kaoru Okunuki, Nao Omori, Mako Ishino, Hitomi Miwa, Riko Kurita, Nobuto Okamoto, and Ikkei Watanabe.

original_title: 怪談新耳袋 第1シリーズ

title: Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan Volume 2

overview: An anthology series based on stories collected throughout Japan, mainly by writers Hirokatsu Kihara and Ichiro Nakayama.

title: Ten Nights of Dreams

title: Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Nagurikomi! 2

original_title: 怪談新耳袋 殴り込み!2

title: There Is No Lid on the Sea

overview: Mari is exhausted by life in the city and opens up a shop selling snow cones in the small town of Nishiizu where she grew up. The simple flavors of her cold desserts soothe the emotional wounds of her customers and Mari comes to terms with herself by spending time with a young woman with a scarred face.

title: Maniac Hero

overview: Nakatsu was laid off at his company and now works part-time at a convenience store. One day, Nakatsu forms a vigilante group to protect his town with Toshida, who has a mysterious physical ability, Kanari, who is a female high school student with excellent information gathering abilities, and Kusaki, who wields hammers under his sleeves.  As they punish evil doers, the group gains popular support and flourish.

title: Moriyamachu Driving School

overview: Kiyotaka Sato (Shuhei Nomura) is a university student. He is sociable, but he looks like he doesn't have interest in those around him. During his summer vacation, Kiyotaka Sato plans to get his driver's license to impress schoolmate Matsuda (Yukino Kishii).  At this time, a yakuza boss (Ken Mitsuishi) orders Todoroki (Kento Kaku) to get his driver’s license. Todoroki doesn't show his feelings outwardly.  Later, Todoroki drives a car without a driver’s license and he hits Kiyotaka Sato. To cover up the accident, Kiyotaka Sato is placed in a car and taken to away. He arrives at an unofficial driving school. The driving school is run by the Uehara family. There, Kiyotaka Sato and Todoroki learn that they graduated from the same high school. They spend their summer at the driving school.

title: Youkai Sharehouse: The False Prince on a White Horse

overview: Mio Meguro (Fuka Koshiba) continues her dream of becoming a writer, while living with yokai (folklore monsters) in a share house. She struggles in her job in the editorial department of a publishing company. She proposes plans at her company, but her plans are rejected. A popular AI dating app has become popular, but Mio Meguro isn't interested because of her work. One day, Mio Meguro meets genius mathematician AITO (Ayumu Mochizuki), who was raised in England. She falls in love with him, but her love causes problems for the share house and yokai.

original_title: 妖怪シェアハウス—白馬の王子様じゃないん怪—

title: Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Dai San Ya

overview: The hotel room where he stayed on a business trip, where no one was supposed to be but him.......13 scary stories including "Another One".

original_title: 怪談新耳袋 第3シリーズ

title: Tales of Terror: Make a Raid! West Japan Edition

overview: A spin-off project from the popular Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro (2003) series. Finally a documentary about visiting haunted places has arrived. In this western Japan version, various famous haunted places in western Japan are hit.

original_title: 怪談新耳袋 殴り込み! 西日本編

title: Tales of Terror: Make a Raid! East Japan Edition

overview: A spin-off project from the popular Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro (2003) series. Finally a documentary about visiting haunted places has arrived. In this east Japan version, various famous haunted places in east Japan are hit.

original_title: 怪談新耳袋 殴り込み! 東日本編

title: Four Roads to Hell

overview: Like a good ghost story? Then turn out the lights and prepare to feel a chill as Japan's masters of the macabre spin some of the creepiest spectral sagas to grace the screen. Four Roads To Hell is an anthology featuring short stories based on true accounts as collected from writers Hirokatsu Kihara and Ichiro Nakayama. This is part of the "Tales Of Terror From Japan" series.

title: Four Roads to Hell

title: Ougon No Toki - Kintaro Hattori Story

original_title: 黄金の刻〜服部金太郎物語〜

title: Ghosts vs. Aliens 02

original_title: 幽霊 vs 宇宙人 02

title: Ghosts vs. Aliens 03

overview: A two-part feature directed separately by Shimizu and his colleague Keisuke Toyoshima. Unrelated to each other, both have a common goal: to bring ghosts and aliens together in pure, referential and absurdistic delirium, including neo-Nazi specters, zombie yakuzas and nasty aliens.

original_title: 幽霊 vs 宇宙人 03

title: Ghosts vs. Aliens

original_title: 幽霊 vs 宇宙人 01

title: Ghosts vs. Aliens 02

original_title: 幽霊 vs 宇宙人 02

title: Ghosts vs. Aliens

original_title: 幽霊 vs 宇宙人 01

title: Reigen Ohatsu ~ Furueru Iwa ~

overview: Set in the late Edo period. Ohatsu, who is the signboard girl for a diner in Nihonbashi Torichō, awakens to a mysterious power – the spiritual ability to see and hear things that ordinary people cannot. Southern Edo magistrate Negishi Hizen-no-kami Yasumori approached her to request assistance in gathering strange tales for a collection called Mimibukuro, and introduces her to Furusawa Ukyonosuke, a trainee yoriki. Thus, the two of them encounter some bizarre events...

title: Stake Out

overview: The fourth chapter in the Love Cinema series, is a story of a cloistered and obsessive character who is confining and closed. When many suicides occur in an apartment building the police are by to question a female resident.

title: Only 4 you

title: New Tokyo Poltergeist

overview: Sequel to Tokyo Poltergeist (2023), the film that shocked Japan!

original_title: 新・三茶のポルターガイスト

title: My Sister Is a Female Teacher

overview: High school teacher Miyoko and her younger brother Seiichi are living together. However, with the death of their mother, both sister and younger brother came to love each other as a man and a woman.

title: Tales of Terror: Recollection

overview: After working their part-time jobs at a family restaurant, Shingo, Satoru and Yoshinori decide to visit a noted haunted spot. Convinced that they experienced something supernatural, they are returning home from the spot in a car when Yoshinori suddenly gets swallowed up by the backseat and simply vanishes. Shingo and Satoru are beside themselves until they find out from their boss and Yoshinori's supposed family members that their friend never existed.

original_title: 怪談新耳袋 絶叫編 うしろ 記憶

title: Vegetable Fairies: N.Y. Salad The Movie

overview: Set in a kitchen in New York, the movie tells the fairy-tale story of the fun games and innocent adventures that cute vegetable fairies have every night.

title: Softball Boys

overview: High school student Noguchi learns that there isn't a single male softball team in the nearby area. He figures if he starts up a softball team, they are sure thing to go to the national tournament. He then persuades his friend Onitsuka to help him start a softball club. Once Noguchi and Onitsuka rounds up enough players, they teams preps to win one all important game in the tournament.

title: Moriyamachu Driving School

title: Mishima: The Last Debate

overview: Restored footage of a famous debate between Yukio Mishima and students at Tokyo University in 1969, just one year before the author's death.

original_title: 三島由紀夫vs東大全共闘 50年目の真実

title: Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan Volume 3, Part 2

overview: A new season of the acclaimed series finishes with these twenty sensational shorts capturing the essence of psychological terror with chilling visuals.

title: #Iwilltellyouthetruth

overview: During a night shift, security guard Kiriyama watches a popular live streaming show titled '#Iwilltellyouthetruth' from the guardroom. The show is known for exposing the hidden truths behind sensational incidents and gossip, offering cash rewards and tips in return. The more shocking the revelation, the hotter the viewer reaction—and the greater the payout. In desperate need of money, Kiriyama decides to join the program and is eventually selected as a participant. However, what he faces is a truth far more immense and unimaginable than he ever anticipated. Truth always draws people in, but sometimes it can consume everything in its path. Depending on how people react, it may even reveal an entirely different face.

title: 怪談新耳袋スペシャル 絶叫編 うしろ 記憶

original_title: 怪談新耳袋スペシャル 絶叫編 うしろ 記憶

title: MGA MAGICAL 10 YEARS DOCUMENTARY FILM 〜THE ORIGIN〜

title: Thrilling Daily Life

overview: An omnibus comprised of 4 short movies depicting the thrilling events.

title: Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Oharai wa Kikanai-hen

overview: The directors include Toshiaki Hirano, the chief director of the TBS drama "Say Hello to Black Jack," Hirohisa Sasaki of "Screaming Lips," Ryuta Miyake of Fuji TV's "Scary True Stories," and Keisuke Toyoshima of "Ghost vs. Alien," gathering the young talents of horror films. The cast features Maki Horikita, Mai Kitajima, and Kei Horie, among others.

original_title: 怪談新耳袋 御祓いは効かない編

title: Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Hanayome-san-hen

overview: The directors include TBS drama stalwart Akio Yoshida, Toshiaki Hirano, the chief director of "Say Hello to Black Jack," Hirohisa Sasaki of "Screaming Lips," Kôsuke Suzuki of "Eko Eko Azarak," and Noboru Iguchi, whose new work "Love Larva" is a hot topic. These young talents of horror films have gathered to bring this project to life. The cast features Maki Sakai, Harumi Inoue, and Arthur Kuroda, among others.

title: Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Dai Yon Ya

overview: Aimi and her father move into an old, apartment building and learn quickly that things are not normal here. The landlord warns Aimi and her father of the curfew. First, all residents must cross the rope in front of the property by midnight. Second, no one can move out until a new tenant arrives. Those brave enough to break the rules are unmercifully killed by a mysterious force.

original_title: 怪談新耳袋 第4シリーズ

title: Girls College Terror

overview: Tales of terror spreading throughout Jaanese high school girls...are real! While singing karaoke with friends, Ai found a strange silent girl in the room.  The legendary female ghost of Ohatsutenjin would suck the energy of young males at night.

title: Tales Of Terror: Only the Two of Us

original_title: 怪談新耳袋 ふたりぼっち編

title: Tokyo Gore Police

title: Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Nagurikomi! 2

original_title: 怪談新耳袋 殴り込み!2

title: Ghosts vs. Aliens

original_title: 幽霊 vs 宇宙人 01

title: Ghosts vs. Aliens 02

original_title: 幽霊 vs 宇宙人 02

title: Helldriver

title: 悲しいだけ

title: 悲しいだけ

title: 悲しいだけ

title: Stop the Bitch Campaign: Hell Version

original_title: 援助交際撲滅運動　地獄変

original_title: 怪談新耳袋 ノブヒロさん

title: An Encyclopedia of Unconventional Women

title: An Encyclopedia of Unconventional Women

title: Unholy Women

title: Ten Nights of Dreams

title: future me

original_title: 裁判長！ここは懲役4年でどうすか

title: Unholy Women

title: A Courtesan with Flowered Skin

original_title: 怪談新耳袋 第1シリーズ

title: Ten Nights of Dreams

title: Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Nagurikomi! 2

original_title: 怪談新耳袋 殴り込み!2

title: There Is No Lid on the Sea

title: Maniac Hero

title: Moriyamachu Driving School

original_title: 妖怪シェアハウス—白馬の王子様じゃないん怪—

title: Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Dai San Ya

original_title: 怪談新耳袋 第3シリーズ

original_title: 怪談新耳袋 殴り込み! 西日本編

original_title: 怪談新耳袋 殴り込み! 東日本編

title: Four Roads to Hell

title: Four Roads to Hell

title: Ougon No Toki - Kintaro Hattori Story

original_title: 黄金の刻〜服部金太郎物語〜

title: Ghosts vs. Aliens 02

original_title: 幽霊 vs 宇宙人 02

title: Ghosts vs. Aliens 03

original_title: 幽霊 vs 宇宙人 03

title: Ghosts vs. Aliens

original_title: 幽霊 vs 宇宙人 01

title: Ghosts vs. Aliens 02

original_title: 幽霊 vs 宇宙人 02

title: Ghosts vs. Aliens

original_title: 幽霊 vs 宇宙人 01

title: Reigen Ohatsu ~ Furueru Iwa ~

title: Stake Out

title: Only 4 you

title: New Tokyo Poltergeist

original_title: 新・三茶のポルターガイスト

title: My Sister Is a Female Teacher

title: Tales of Terror: Recollection

original_title: 怪談新耳袋 絶叫編 うしろ 記憶

title: Vegetable Fairies: N.Y. Salad The Movie

title: Softball Boys

title: Moriyamachu Driving School

title: Mishima: The Last Debate

original_title: 三島由紀夫vs東大全共闘 50年目の真実

title: #Iwilltellyouthetruth

title: 怪談新耳袋スペシャル 絶叫編 うしろ 記憶

original_title: 怪談新耳袋スペシャル 絶叫編 うしろ 記憶

title: Thrilling Daily Life

original_title: 怪談新耳袋 御祓いは効かない編

title: Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Dai Yon Ya

original_title: 怪談新耳袋 第4シリーズ

title: Girls College Terror

title: Tales Of Terror: Only the Two of Us

original_title: 怪談新耳袋 ふたりぼっち編

Da Rapper Bites and Becomes a Rapper

original_name: ラッパーに噛まれたらラッパーになる

Who Killed Daigoro Tokuyama?

original_name: 徳山大五郎を誰が殺したか？

Can't Write! ~A Life Without Scenario~

original_name: 書けないッ!? 〜脚本家 吉丸圭佑の筋書きのない生活〜

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original_name: CLAMPドラマ　ホリック　×××HOLiC

original_name: CLAMPドラマ　ホリック　×××HOLiC

The Big Chase: Tokyo SSBC Files

original_name: 大追跡～警視庁SSBC強行犯係～