Soichiro Kitamura

Aitai Toki ni Anata wa Inai

overview: Miyoko and Yusuke love each other. But Yusuke is told to work in Hokkaido where is far from Tokyo for a year. They cannot meet often. There appear another woman and man in front of each of them. They almost lose confidence to keep their relationship but finally they make sure of their love.

character: Miyoko's father

original_name: 逢いたい時にあなたはいない…

original_language: ja

恋愛結婚の法則

original_name: 恋愛結婚の法則

Gachi Baka!

overview: Former pro boxer Gondo Tetta has come to Kaki-no-ki-zaka High School as a beginning teacher. The school hopes to restore finances by improving the students' abilities and strengthening its baseball team. Tetta goes head-to-head with his class full of failing students who have no ability whatsoever in sports and studies. Everyday, he passionately encourages his students who have no drive at all. School is not just a place to study. It's a place to learn how to live! If it means helping out his students, Tetta won't hesitate to snap at the parents and school. Gondo Tetta's slightly dangerous class is about to begin. --TBS

character: Tsujidou Kenichiro

original_name: ガチバカ!

智子と知子

original_name: 智子と知子

Keigo Higashino 3-week drama SP series

character: 一ヶ原高顕

original_name: 東野圭吾3週連続スペシャル

Princess Hiro

character: Sanetou Saga

original_name: 流転の王妃・最後の皇弟

Shimokita Sundays

overview: This drama portrays the nostalgia of "the good old days" and youthful hopes and dreams. Yuika Satonaka (Ueto) is a freshman in university who came to live in Tokyo to continue her studies. Although she had a brand new start before her eyes, she was somehow at a loss. Nothing seemed to interest her and her hopes and dreams were distant. One day at the school orientation, her eyes are glued to a sudden performance of a group of unsuccessful actors, "Shimokita Sundays". Their unique play made her laugh... something she had forgotten for a long time. Yuika takes a chance to visit Shimokita and goes to see their play only to find how unpopular and how very few audiences they had. But still, their performance touches Yuika’s soul... great enough to make her try out for their audition.

character: Tomio Satonaka

original_name: 下北サンデーズ

Scum of Lawyers

overview:
Bengoshi no Kuzu is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Hideo Iura about Takeda Masami, a new lawyer and fellow lawyer Kuzu Motohito, who Takeda is teamed up with, and how they deal with different court cases. It was serialized in Big Comic Original. Bengoshi no Kuzu received the Shogakukan Manga Award for seinen/general category in 2007.

The manga was adapted into a 12-episode TV drama, which was broadcast on Tokyo Broadcasting System between April 13, 2006 and June 29, 2006.

character: Makoto Shiraishi

original_name: 弁護士のくず

Emergency Room 24 Hours

overview:
Dr. Shindo seems cold, but is a competent surgeon. He is also an ER doctor capable of accurate decisions and treatment, who always tries to see things from the patient’s side. Although once retired from his profession, he one day discovers someone in need of help, who he treats and rushes to the Kohoku Medical University Emergency Center. This incident encourages him to once again work as an ER doctor. Confrontation erupts between female doctor Tamaki, and Shindo, now a just-arrived ER doctor.

While this human drama depicts the relationships among doctors and nurses, it appeals emotionally to viewers on the subject of life.

original_name: 救命病棟24時

Red Confusion

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

character: Sachiko's grandfather

original_name: 赤い疑惑

Minami's Girlfriend

overview: Everything started when a high school couple, Chiyomi and Minami had a mysterious and ominous fortune cookie at a Chinese restaurant… “If you stay close to him, he will become great and the two of you will be together for a long time. However, when the two of you drift apart, horrible thing will happen”. Just as the prophesy, on the very day when Minami decided to leave Chiyomi, a magical curse struck Chiyomi. Believe it or not, it shrunk her into a size of merely 16 cm tall! What would happen when a tender boyfriend and a miniaturized girlfriend secretly starts living together?

character: Senji Horikiri

original_name: 南くんの恋人

Beginner

character: Kazuyasu Sakita（崎田 和康）

original_name: ビギナー

Bayside Shakedown

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

character: Soichiro Kanda

original_name: 踊る大捜査線

Bengoshi Ichinose Rinko

overview: Veteran lawyer Ichinose Rinko and new lawyer Umeki Kohei lead a difficult case to victory as they approach the murder of the vocalist of a popular rock band and the mystery of a homeless suspect.

original_name: 弁護士 一之瀬凛子

Transparent

overview: A young, good-hearted doctor Kenichi suffers from a rare syndrome whereby his feelings cannot be hidden such people are known as "satorare" and their well-being come under special government protection. As all the young doctor's thoughts/feelings are always heard by hospital colleagues, this creates much inconvenience to them and they try to drive him away. In steps a beautiful female doctor who tries to shield him from the cruel reality of his uniqueness.

character: Yamaoka Yotaka

original_name: サトラレ

Nanase Once More

overview: A suspense story about a girl with an ability to read people's mind. Together with her psychic friends, Nanase, the telepath, tries to save others from danger and fight those who threaten her power. The drama deals with friendship and social tendency to exclude strangers.

character: Masuda

original_name: 七瀬ふたたび

name: Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series

character: Makihei Araki

original_name: 古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ

Pro Hunter

original_name: プロハンター

Silent Court

overview: In Tokyo, an old person, who lived alone, is found dead. Detectives from the Police Station investigate the case. According to the victim's neighbors, a woman sometimes came in and out of the victim's home. That woman is Miki Yamamoto. She does housework for her customers. The detectives from Police Station visit Miki’s house. What is the truth behind the cases?

original_name: 沈黙法廷

Steel Frame

overview: Sharply revealing the issue of Japanese construction industry where bid-rigging was a common practice among the giants. After working diligently for three years at a construction site, Heita unwillingly transfers to a sales department where he becomes a part of the illegal collusion -- to limit open competition and obtain high-price public works within the colluding parties. He is torn from conducting unlawful action to save his company, yet deep inside wishing to abide by the law to follow his justice. What will his answer be?

original_name: 鉄の骨

Oshin

overview: Oshin is a Japanese serialized morning television drama, which aired on broadcaster NHK from April 4, 1983 to March 31, 1984. The series follows the life of Shin Tanokura during the Meiji period up to the early 1980s. Shin was called "Oshin", which is an archaic Japanese cognomen.

character: Fukutaro

original_name: おしん

Midnight Ghost Tour

original_name: 霊感バスガイド事件簿

日本語

iso_639_1: ja

iso_3166_1: JP

english_name: Japanese

also_known_as:
北村 総一朗
北村 総一郎
Китамура, Соитиро
Соитиро Китамура
سويتشيرو كيتامورا
北村总一朗

title: Kamaitachi no Yoru

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

original_title: かまいたちの夜

title: Outrage

overview: When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a brutal quest for revenge.

character: Mr. Chairman Kan'nai

original_title: アウトレイジ

title: 再会

original_title: 再会

title: Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose

overview: After Detective Shunsaku Aoshima is promoted to section chief he has the daunting task of dealing with eight cases at the same time, which includes a murder case, bomb threat, and a bus hijacking. Complications also arise between Detective Aoshima and his juniors.

original_title: 踊る大捜査線 THE MOVIE 3 ヤツらを解放せよ！

title: Bayside Shakedown

overview: Aoshima, a police detective working in the Bayside Precinct, is continually frustrated by the hierarchy and red tape that plague the system. His friend Muroi is climbing the ladder of the police bureaucracy. Muroi has made a pact with Aoshima that while Aoshima looks after the streets, Muroi would make life easier for the cops on the beat. One day in Bayside, a series of events turns the small station upside down.

original_title: 踊る大捜査線 THE MOVIE

title: Beyond Outrage

overview: As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West. What started as an internal strife in Outrage has now become a nationwide war in Outrage Beyond.

character: Kannai

original_title: アウトレイジ ビヨンド

title: Blood Tears of Shura

overview: 2007 Original Video.

original_title: 修羅の血涙

title: Bayside Shakedown the Final: The New Hope

overview: Set 2 years after prior film "Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose," a major case occurs that has the potential to take down the entire police organization. For the next 3 days, Shunsaku Aoshima and his colleagues struggle to unravel the case...

character: Police Chief Kana

original_title: 踊る大捜査線 THE FINAL 新たなる希望

title: Bayside Shakedown 2

overview: The movie takes place again in the fictional Wangan Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department the once empty space within Wangan's jurisdiction has become a popular tourist attraction. When a string of murders of company execs begins taking place, Aoshima jumps at the opportunity to pursue something other than his current case, which he finds less than inspiring. However the powers that be have other ideas, and Wangan again plays host to a special investigation team from headquarters. Aoshima's friend Superintendent Shinji Muroi, assigned by headquarters to assist Okita, is again powerless to help the local officers as decisions are made by the higher ups.

character: Chief Soichiro Kanda

original_title: 踊る大捜査線 THE MOVIE 2 レインボーブリッジを封鎖せよ！

title: Fried levanilla with rib steak from Tsudanuma in Nakano

original_title: 孤独のグルメお正月スペシャル～井之頭五郎の長い一日～

title: Remembrance

overview: The Yamaoki family moved from Kyoto to Tosa around the turn of the '50s;  local school teacher Hirao becomes involved with Yasuko, sister to Sumio.

character: Pack Horse

original_title: 郷愁

title: The Suspect: Muroi Shinji

overview: One day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is arrested to take responsibility for a botched murder case he headed. His faithful colleagues, including Arashiro (Toshio Kakei) and Okita (Miki Maya), only exacerbate the situation when they try to help clear his name. Is Muroi guilty as charged or merely taking the fall? What is the truth behind the murder? Two lawyers, one determined to get Muroi, the other resolved to save him, a feud between two police departments, political power plays and legal trappings, all combine to orchestrate Muroi’s downfall.

character: 神田署長

title: Psychic: Traveler to the Unknown

overview: Hikaru, an ordinary man, discovers a way to unleash the supernatural powers hidden inside his soul, allowing him to cure others with his newfound “ki” healing power.

title: Dansen

overview: Based on crime fiction novel written by Seicho Matsumoto.

title: Lost & Found at Tokyo Station

overview: A woman is murdered on a train and the station employees help to solve the mystery.

title: Murder in the Kairotei

overview: A woman (Takako Tokiwa) risks her life to exact revenge for her murdered lover.

title: Housewife Meiko Murder Mystery - Death of a Teacher

overview: Takahashi Meiko (Mano Azusa) used to work at a large newspaper company. However, she is now an ordinary housewife. She receives a call from Sasame (Kanda Masaki), a former colleague who is now working at another company asking her for her help. She is informed that a murder has taken place when she arrives and goes to the scene of the crime. She learns that the victim was her son’s intermediate school teacher.

original_title: ママさん記者明衣子の事件　息子が担任教師を殺した!?

title: Tax Inspector Madogiwa Taro: Case File 30

overview: A man is murdered after stealing documents from the Olympic Department of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

original_title: 税務調査官・窓際太郎の事件簿30

title: Tax Inspector Madogiwa Taro: Case File 31

original_title: 税務調査官・窓際太郎の事件簿31

title: Tax Inspector Madogiwa Taro: Case File 29

original_title: 税務調査官・窓際太郎の事件簿29

title: Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso

overview: At the end of World War II, a secret human experiment was being conducted in Manchuria, which was in the sphere of influence of the Japanese military. One man's face was to be transformed into that of a completely different person through plastic surgery. Shortly after operation, Japanese military facility where the man was staying was involved in a battle and collapsed, and he disappeared.  In 1948, a letter of warning from the Twenty Faces was posted on the wall of the Japanese Museum. The notice read, “All national treasures will be taken away. The police, aware of the warning letter, rush to the Japanese Museum...

original_title: 明智小五郎対怪人二十面相

title: Nagaiki Kyousou

title: A Case of Murder by the Atami Station Taxi Stand

original_title: 駅前タクシー湯けむり事件案内

title: Estate Inheritance

overview: The unexpected death of Fujishima Motoharu, president of a medium-sized firm, triggers a fierce battle over his estate inheritance among family members.

title: Lifetime Insecurity

overview: In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launches a plan to cut back on his labor force. Fifty employees are segregated into a special assignment division and given an ultimatum: meet a sales goal of 1.5 billion yen within three months or be fired. Spiteful of their unjust treatment, two men, Shinoda and Takigawa, take up the battle against the ruthless Yokoyama.

title: Ebarake no hitobito

overview: The Ebara family, a typical middle-class family living in downtown Tokyo. When her mother-in-law sold a mountain, a large amount of 70 million yen came in, and with that as a down payment, she got her longing detached house. A slapstick drama for each family is unfolded on the stage of a dream home.

title: Shin Kyoto Meikyu Annai SP

overview: Twenty-five years after Tajima, an unfairly treated office worker, filed a lawsuit for the company's collusion, he won the Supreme Court in reverse. Sugiura, who learned this from TV news, celebrates by himself. Twenty-five years ago, Sugiura, who was still a national newspaper reporter, had the history of interviewing Tajima and his wife Midori first and writing an article.

original_title: 京都迷宮案内 スペシャル

title: A Bird of Africa

overview: A group of kids find interest in birdwatching.

title: Star

title: Ronin on a Mission

overview: Mori Kojiro, a member of the Akō Ronin, fails to identify Kira Kozukenosuke before their attack and is publicly banished by Ōishi Kuranosuke. Ōishi later apologizes privately, revealing that Kira has a decoy and assigning Mori a secret mission to kill the real Kira if necessary. Devastated, Mori finds solace with Okame, a local bar owner. After the ronin avenge their master, Mori, believing their mission complete, plans to leave his samurai life for Okame. However, Terazaka Kichiemon reveals that Kira was not killed but fled, and the decapitated man was a decoy. Mori decides to complete his mission and hunt down the real Kira.

original_title: 忠臣蔵異聞　生きていた吉良上野介

title: Sea of Whitetail

overview: Tatsuoka, a surgeon with an incurable disease. His once peaceful home was about to collapse due to the domestic violence of his eldest son Taishi. There are only a few lives left in Tatsuoka. what should i do now Tatsuoka decides to go to his hometown of Okushiri Island, where it is cold, with ambition and his own way of life to retrain his son.

title: 係長青島俊作 事件は取調室で起きている！

original_title: 係長青島俊作 事件は取調室で起きている！

title: Bayside Shakedown Extra Edition Bayside Policewoman Story Early Summer Traffic Safety Special

original_title: 踊る大捜査線 番外編 湾岸署婦警物語 初夏の交通安全スペシャル

title: Conflagration

overview: Global South guerrillas hijack the Japanese oil tanker Arabian Light, threatening to blow it up in Tokyo Bay, unless the Cabinet complies with an economically devastating ultimatum.

title: Kamaitachi no Yoru

title: Outrage

title: 再会

title: Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose

original_title: 踊る大捜査線 THE MOVIE 3 ヤツらを解放せよ！

title: Bayside Shakedown

title: Beyond Outrage

title: Blood Tears of Shura

original_title: 踊る大捜査線 THE FINAL 新たなる希望

title: Bayside Shakedown 2

original_title: 踊る大捜査線 THE MOVIE 2 レインボーブリッジを封鎖せよ！

original_title: 孤独のグルメお正月スペシャル～井之頭五郎の長い一日～

title: Remembrance

title: The Suspect: Muroi Shinji

title: Psychic: Traveler to the Unknown

title: Dansen

title: Murder in the Kairotei

title: Lost & Found at Tokyo Station

original_title: ママさん記者明衣子の事件　息子が担任教師を殺した!?

original_title: 税務調査官・窓際太郎の事件簿30

original_title: 税務調査官・窓際太郎の事件簿31

original_title: 税務調査官・窓際太郎の事件簿29

title: Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso

original_title: 明智小五郎対怪人二十面相

title: Nagaiki Kyousou

original_title: 駅前タクシー湯けむり事件案内

title: Estate Inheritance

title: Lifetime Insecurity

title: Ebarake no hitobito

title: Shin Kyoto Meikyu Annai SP

original_title: 京都迷宮案内 スペシャル

title: A Bird of Africa

title: Star

title: Ronin on a Mission

original_title: 忠臣蔵異聞　生きていた吉良上野介

title: Sea of Whitetail

title: 係長青島俊作 事件は取調室で起きている！

original_title: 係長青島俊作 事件は取調室で起きている！

original_title: 踊る大捜査線 番外編 湾岸署婦警物語 初夏の交通安全スペシャル

title: Conflagration

Aitai Toki ni Anata wa Inai

original_name: 逢いたい時にあなたはいない…

Keigo Higashino 3-week drama SP series

original_name: 東野圭吾3週連続スペシャル

original_name: 古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ


Brad Peyton

biography: Brad Peyton (born May 27, 1978) is a Canadian director. He is best known for his collaborations with Dwayne Johnson, including the films Journey 2 the Mysterious Island (2012), San Andreas (2015), and Rampage (2018).

Raw

overview: A regularly scheduled, live, year-round program featuring some of the biggest WWE Superstars.

character: Self

original_name: Raw

original_language: en

Albedo

job: Executive Producer

overview: 150 years in the future, detective Vivien Coleman is sent to the edge of the solar system to investigate a scientist’s mysterious death on board an isolated space station. She soon finds herself trapped and cut off from Earth, along with the station’s small crew of brilliant scientists — all murder suspects and all harboring their own secrets.

department: Production

original_name: Albedo

Daybreak

overview: Living his best life in post-apocalyptic LA, a slacker strives to find the girl of his dreams while outwitting mindless ghouls and cliquish gangs.

original_name: Daybreak

job: Writer

department: Writing

job: Director

department: Directing

Dr. Dimensionpants!

overview: Kyle Lipton, who, for all his life was just like the other kids - playful, happy, and without a care in the world until one day and inter-dimensional portal opened up and dropped a pair of glowing pants onto his lap.

original_name: Dr. Dimensionpants!

Frontier

overview: In 18th-century North America, ruthless trappers and entrepreneurs fight to wrest control of the fur trade from the mighty Hudson's Bay Company.

original_name: Frontier

What It's Like Being Alone

job: Creator

overview: A wondrous and fiendishly humorous stop-motion animation series about freak orphans who are desperately trying to get adopted.

department: Creator

original_name: What It's Like Being Alone

English

iso_639_1: en

iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

Italiano

iso_639_1: it

iso_3166_1: IT

english_name: Italian

Pусский

iso_639_1: ru

iso_3166_1: RU

english_name: Russian

עִבְרִית

iso_639_1: he

iso_3166_1: IL

english_name: Hebrew

Український

iso_639_1: uk

iso_3166_1: UA

english_name: Ukrainian

한국어/조선말

iso_639_1: ko

iso_3166_1: KR

english_name: Korean

فارسی

iso_639_1: fa

iso_3166_1: IR

english_name: Persian

普通话

iso_639_1: zh

iso_3166_1: TW

english_name: Mandarin

iso_3166_1: CN

العربية

iso_639_1: ar

iso_3166_1: SA

english_name: Arabic

普通话

iso_3166_1: HK

Deutsch

Brad Peyton

biography: Brad Peyton (* 27. Mai 1978) ist ein kanadischer Regisseur. Er ist vor allem für seine Zusammenarbeit mit Dwayne Johnson bekannt, darunter die Filme Journey 2 – Die geheimnisvolle Insel (2012), San Andreas (2015) und Rampage (2018).

iso_639_1: de

iso_3166_1: DE

english_name: German

Latviešu

iso_639_1: lv

iso_3166_1: LV

english_name: Latvian

title: Vocation

overview: Vocation is a documentary on artists who knew from a very early age they wanted to be an artist. A decision that for them was instinctual and some may even say it is 'a calling' based on faith and perhaps even fate alone. Artists Andy Jones, Deepa Mehta, Marie Brassard, Christopher Pratt, Brad Peyton and Bif Naked are committed to creating work in theatre, literature, music, film and performance based on an innate desire to succeed while working in the precarious profession of art.

original_title: Vocation

title: Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

overview: The ongoing war between the canine and feline species is put on hold when they join forces to thwart a rogue cat spy with her own sinister plans for conquest.

title: Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

overview: Sean Anderson partners with his mom's boyfriend on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.

original_title: Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

title: Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl

overview: A darkly twisted comedy about a lonely dead girl who tries to bring herself back to life in order to make new friends.

title: Incarnate

overview: An exorcist comes up against an evil from his past when he uses his skills to enter the mind of a nine year old boy.

title: Pirate's Passage

overview: Set in 1952 Grey Rocks – a centuries old town that was famous 250 years ago as a favored port of pirates – Pirate’s Passage follows the story of 12-year-old Jim. Fraught by the death of his father and forced to endure schoolyard bullying each day, Jim manages to carry on, buoyed by his optimistic imagination and fueled by his sense of adventure. The sudden arrival of Captain Johnson, whose small sailboat has been thrown off course by a storm, changes Jim’s life.  The Captain quickly becomes a mentor and friend to Jim, giving him extraordinary lessons in self-reliance and determination. Soon, Jim develops a liberating self-assurance that so deeply touches the Captain that he allows Jim to see evidence that the Captain may be more than meets the eye. Is Captain Johnson the same Charles Johnson who was a pirate there two hundred years ago? The lad goes with him on a literal journey into the past to find out and emerges able to navigate the course of his life.

title: Pirate's Passage

title: San Andreas

overview: In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter.

title: Incarnate

title: Rampage

overview: Primatologist Davis Okoye shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth.  But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of enormous size.  To make matters worse, it’s soon discovered there are other similarly altered animals.  As these newly created alpha predators tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but to save the fearsome creature that was once his friend.

title: Rampage

title: Full

overview: Jamie is a young man who suffers from both anorexia and bulimia. His memories of being teased for being over-weight coupled with people's treatment of his sudden weight loss lead him to question his decisions for the first time. We are allowed into his reality and given insight into his perspective as he holds everyone at a distance while he examines the details of his disillusioned world. And this allows him to see just how paper thin the reality he has been living in truly is. "Full" is not about overcoming an eating disorder; it is about understanding an eating disorder, and how a young man comes to understand it.

title: Full

title: Atlas

overview: A brilliant counterterrorism analyst with a deep distrust of AI discovers it might be her only hope when a mission to capture a renegade robot goes awry.

title: Atlas

title: Sweet Girl

overview: A man vows to bring justice to those responsible for his wife's death while protecting the only family he has left, his daughter.

title: Universe's Most Wanted

overview: A small town gets a big surprise when a spaceship carrying the universe’s most wanted and dangerous criminals crashlands in a backyard. Soon the sheriff’s son becomes a hero when he finds himself helping an intergalactic peacekeeper to prevent the ragtag group of alien prisoners from escaping and taking over the world.

title: Bakugan

overview: A bunch of more-than-ordinary playing cards drop from the sky, landing all over Earth. A group of friends who pick up the cards -- Dan, Bruno, Marucho, Julie, Shun and Alice -- team up to become the Bakugan Battle Brawlers.

title: Bakugan

title: Bakugan

title: The Kellys

overview: Molly, the wife of disgraced NYC cop Jack Kelly, is taken hostage by terrorists inside an old armory building. Subsequently, Kelly will have to join forces with the people he fears most to save her: His family.

title: The Kellys

place_of_birth: Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

title: Vocation

title: Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

title: Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl

title: Incarnate

title: Pirate's Passage

title: Pirate's Passage

title: San Andreas

title: Incarnate

title: Rampage

title: Rampage

title: Full

title: Full

title: Atlas

title: Atlas

title: Sweet Girl

title: Universe's Most Wanted

title: Bakugan

title: Bakugan

title: Bakugan

title: The Kellys

title: The Kellys


Hani Mituhashi

Český

iso_639_1: cs

iso_3166_1: CZ

english_name: Czech

also_known_as:
Junichi Kikuchi
菊地純一

job: Editor

title: Bondage: Whip and Rope

overview: Ryoichi, a fugitive, stays at Cape Hotel. Two women were at the hotel. That night, a woman's sudden scream is heard. Looking out, he sees a naked woman bound with ropes, tied to a wheelchair, passing right before his eyes. SM bondage lesbian scenes unfold in the hotel night.

department: Editing

original_title: 紧缚：鞭和绳

title: Kôkô kyôshi: Shisshin!

overview: A female teacher Kumi Yamamoto was raped by a man who attempted suicide. During Kumi's class, a woman in a miniskirt suddenly entered the classroom and shouted, "Is Yuichi Kobayashi's son here?" Yuichi Kobayashi was the name of the man who raped her. The woman in the miniskirt was Maria, a debt collector, and she had come to find out where Yuichi was, calling for his son, Kotaro. Kumi learns that Yuichi is on the run from his debts. Yuichi tries to have sex with Kumi again, but she vehemently rejects him. The next day, as Kumi is comforting Kotaro, the biology teacher, Saiki, enters the classroom and makes advances on her. Kumi calls Yuichi and demands sex from him. Meanwhile, Kotaro succumbs to Maria's temptation and becomes addicted to sex.

original_title: 高校教師 失神！

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.

original_title: Shall we ダンス?

title: Seifuku kyōjidai

overview: Women who belong to date clubs that cater to the needs of high-ranking customers in various uniforms, and the men who seek them...

original_title: 制服狂時代

title: Shimai ryôjoku!

overview: Kumiko Hayakawa and Keiko, whose parents had died three years earlier, lived together, cuddled up to each other. One day, when they arrived at a corner of a multi-tenant building, Keiko disappeared to buy sanitary products, and Kumiko got on the elevator alone. At that moment, three men entered the elevator as it was closing. A strange atmosphere prevailed. An unbelievable scene unfolded...

original_title: 姉妹　凌辱！

title: Pulse

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

original_title: 回路

title: Séance

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

original_title: 降霊

title: Nerawareta hôkago: Zekkyô!

overview: This is a world of unprecedented aberration! A young woman screams in a park at night. Fresh blood spills out onto the hand of a man holding a knife.... It is the last day of school. Kishimoto jokingly tells Mariko that she should be careful with the newspaper of last night's murder in her hand and leaves. Yuri comes in, sees Kishimoto in the background, and says, “There was a murder last night. I tried to talk to him near the park where the murder took place, but he ignored me...” Yuri works as an accountant at the same school.

original_title: 狙われた放課後　絶叫！

title: Close Your Eyes and Hold Me

overview: Tenderly played Japanese love triangle between a man, his girlfriend and a transvestite hooker

original_title: 目を閉じて抱いて

title: Entrails of a Beautiful Woman

overview: A nurse starts to investigate why a woman who came to her office committed suicide. She discovers that a Yakuza gang is using an unusual drug to sexually enslave women. But she gets caught and when she is injected with the drug rather gruesome side effects appear, much to the surprise of the gang.

original_title: 美女のはらわた

title: The Crazy Family

overview: Shortly after moving to the suburbs, the Kobayashis start to come undone. Convinced a family curse is at the root of their erratic behavior, the man of the house takes it upon himself to course-correct before it takes the last of their sanity.

original_title: 逆噴射家族

title: Hard Petting

overview: A female barber is hired by one-handed man for a little shave. But she soon finds out that he has a kinky  obsession that awakens her own.

original_title: ハード・ペッティング

title: Sumo Do, Sumo Don't

overview: A college senior, Shuhei, is blackmailed by a professor into joining the school's sumo team. He is aided by a group of misfits who must team together to defeat their rivals or face disgrace and the disbandment of the sumo club.

original_title: シコふんじゃった。

title: Danchi tsuma: Nyuu taun bôkô-ma

overview: An apartment wife is taken by a pervert and trained to be obedient.

original_title: 団地妻　ニュータウン暴行魔

title: Kôkô kyôshi: bôkei

overview: A high school teacher runs afoul of a vindictive female student and is terrorized by a stalking rapist. But despite her fright she finds her body passionately responding with each new attack.

original_title: 高校教師　暴刑

title: Aido ningyō: Ikasete

overview: A broken hearted young woman meets a divorced older man tired of love.

original_title: 愛奴人形　いかせて

title: Namadori kaikin tour: Mushirareta bikini

overview: Three fun loving sisters, Mai, Eri and Ami enjoy the tropical paradise of Saipan with the local beach boys!

original_title: 生撮り解禁ツアー むしられたビキニ

title: Gappie, Wear a Tie this Summer

overview: It is a youth group of third-class university students struggling to get a job at a first-class company.

original_title: ギャッピー ぼくらはこの夏ネクタイをする!

title: Tattoo

overview: An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.

original_title: 刺青 あり

title: Days of Lust: Ecstasy

overview: Two people who have suffered the loss of a loved one meet by chance at a train station and lose themselves in a melancholy affair.

original_title: 愛欲の日々　エクスタシー

title: Human Scramble: Delinquent

overview: Based on the comic written by Masao Yajima and illustrated by Kenshi Hirokane.

original_title: 人間交差点 不良

title: Wild Life

overview: An ex-boxer working for a game parlor owner gets caught up in a complex blackmail operation he doesn't understand. Before long he's caught between two yakuza bosses and a mysterious thief who motivation is unknown. Add in the boss' daughter who has a crush on him and watch him struggle to make sense of it all and come out alive.

title: Apartment Wife: Body Hell

overview: A bored and frustrated wife meets an old lover who knows how to satisfy her pent-up passions. Unfortunately she finds out that he runs a call girl business.

title: Chikan to rikon tsuma

overview: His young wife was assaulted by a man, and they continued their loving relationship after that, so they avoided a criminal case, but a divorce by agreement was reached in the family court. However, in her hidden side, her husband was also a molester. This is a story that exposes these crazy sexual lives and depicts the madness of sexual desire between men and women.

title: Za yobai

overview: Since ancient times, in peaceful fishing villages facing the ocean, village elders still followed the tradition of requiring virgins to marry. In this country where radio wave culture has completely permeated... even now. This is a semi-documentary Nikkatsu that obscenely and abnormally captures this lewd ritual and a world where innocent sexual habits such as night crawling are openly practiced.

title: Furin no wana: Kantsû

title: Sukebe shimai

overview: Although the two sisters are flesh and blood, they are women after all. This is a film that depicts the woman's conflict between love and sexuality with a flame of unfathomable tenacity, and depicts the ferocity of her human instincts as a sensitive image.

title: OL kankin (hakuchū no reipu)

overview: A taxi driver kidnaps a fare and imprisons her in his apartment.

title: Masochist

overview: Misa was accused of shoplifting and was stripped naked and searched. Her girlfriend, a nurse, met Yamaguchi, a doctor. Yamaguchi has deep wounds in his heart, and Misa watches over him. However, after a failed surgical operation, Yamaguchi transforms into a sadist and begins abusing Misa. She awakens to the world of masochists and realizes the joy of servitude.

title: Gorotsuki

overview: This coming-of-age drama comically depicts two young men who yearn to become members of the yakuza underworld, focusing on the apprenticeship of a rookie yakuza

original_title: 悪友(ごろつき)（1992）

title: Love Ghost

overview: Teenager Midori's family moves back to the city where she lived as a child and is relieved to discover that her old friend Ryusuke still lives there. Her terrifying nightmares begin intersecting with her everyday life. Do her nightly dreams about an anonymous fortune-teller have anything to do with the tragedies plaguing her high school?

title: Labyrinth of Leg Fetishism

overview: Another psychodrama, this time revolving around an SM club.

title: Sexy Oral: Uwakina Kuchibiru

overview: A woman rejects her clingy female lover and pursues a female co-worker. The spurned lover plots revenge and the co-worker has a kinky secret.

original_title: セクシー・オーラル 浮気な唇

title: Danchizuma: Sarakin Jigoku

overview: A young wife, not satisfied with her ordinary married life with her husband, decides to take on an adventure with a young man. She is supposed to enjoy a fleeting adventure, but she discovers for the first time the joy of sex that her husband can never experience, and completely forgives her body and mind. The fate of a woman who falls into the sweet "trap" of a devilish man who owes her a large sum of money, and whose life continues to escalate as he tries to collect her loan money...

title: Hishoku rîsuzuma

title: Marushû shojo tarento

title: Touch a Dream

title: Love Beast: Steamy Disgrace

overview: Married couple Fujijiro and Taeko live at the foot of Mt. Fuji with their 3-year-old daughter Natsuko. One day, Taeko is assaulted and later gives birth to Kanako. Unable to bear village rumors, Taeko commits suicide. 20 years later, Natsuko goes a quest to find the missing Kanako after seeing her picture in a gravure magazine...

title: Dokyumento: SEX joshi daigaku

overview: Currently in the spotlight of the media, a sexual clinic in Nishi-Shinjuku, Tokyo called "SEX Women's University" (president: Ikuro Nishikawa, chief professor: Happy Funatsu) is visited with a camera, and patients (male and female) suffering from sex are shown. This is a series of secret shots of the patient's sexual sensitivity enhancement treatment, featuring a young woman, a middle-aged couple, and a young couple. The SEX treatment by the director, the chief professor, and a beautiful nurse is a sight to behold.

original_title: ドキュメント　ＳＥＸ女子大学

title: The Night the Angel Turned Away

title: I Am an S+M Writer

overview: Kurosaki is an erotic novelist who uses his editor and a hired model to act out scenarios in his living room to use for inspiration in his writing. His wife Shizuko calls him a pervert but on the inside, she feels physically neglected. She tries to make him jealous, while also going after what she desires with someone else.

title: Diary of Beloved Wife: Naive

overview: Yoko is an ordinary housewife living in an ordinary apartment block. She has no real complaints as she goes about her tedious days, although her husband, Shinichi, is rather predictable in bed. They have one son, Junichi, and Yoko feels at a loss regarding his recently-acquired adolescent interest in sex and his secret stash of erotic magazines. Junichi is about to write his junior high school entrance exams, so he’s heading off to cram school camp for New Year’s. Before going, he makes a surprising suggestion, “Why don’t you guys go somewhere for New Year’s?” Yoko and Shinichi are suddenly faced with the prospect of New Year’s apart from their son. How will this couple, who’ve already lived half of their lives, change their behavior when it’s just the two of them?

original_title: 童心 〜重松清「愛妻日記」より〜

title: Door

overview: Yasuko, a housewife, lives in an urban high-rise apartment with her husband Satoru and her son Takuto.  Annoyed by spam calls and door-to-door salesmen, Yasuko slams the door on a salesman’s hand when he tries to squeeze a flyer through the apartment's chained front door. He leaves, but the next day, her nightmare starts.

title: The Human Chair

overview: After seeing her husband off to work, the young author identified only as Yoshiko sets off to read the large collection of letters she received from other young authors. These are often letters containing samples of their work for critique. One large envelope contains a letter. The letter-writer does not provide his name. The letter is a confession of crimes. The letter-writer has no family or friends, and claims to be "ugly beyond description". He is a chair maker and loves his work and all the chairs he creates, even going so far as to claim some sort of intangible connection to his work.

title: Love of Sawako

overview: Sawako, working in a bank, tired of the usual everyday life, once she met the chef of French cuisine Yukio Goto and spent the night with him. Sawako pretends to be the daughter of an upscale hotel owner and has an affair with Yukio.

original_title: さわこの恋 上手な嘘の恋愛講座

title: The Frame

overview: Japanese director Satoshi Isaka spins this taunt thriller about an ultra-ambitious reporter who soon finds herself on the receiving end of tabloid dirt. Popular television actress Hitomi Kuroki stars as Yuko, an ice-queen TV news editor who is approached by a mysterious man from the PTT Ministry. The man offers her proof, on videotape, that a major university is bribing a particular government official to overlook a massive media merger. The secret transaction has already resulted in the death of one investigator. Yuko promptly broadcasts the damning footage, and high-ranking bureaucrat Aso (Takanori Jinnai) is forced out of office.

title: A newlywed is brutally raped

overview: A young wife sold to a gambling-crazy husband is attacked by the terrible beast lust of beasts! Mieko, who works together and waits for her husband Satoru to return, is raped at home by a sneaking man. Mieko, who was...

title: Perverted Rope Torture

overview: Kazuo, a struggling writer, begins writing novels about SM and lesbianism to make a living. However, as he continues to interview his wife, Yoshiko, their desires quickly escalate. Eventually, he chooses a woman named Kyoko as his sacrifice, but Kyoko, who at first glance seems normal, is actually...

title: Honban roshutsu gurui

title: Osaka Hamlet

overview: A film about family life in Osaka. Following the death of their father, three boys struggle to find their own identity with the help of their outgoing mother and weak-willed uncle.

title: MIND GAME

overview: A university hospital therapist and his researcher girlfriend treat a withdrawn youth with multiple personalities. As therapy peels back trauma, a violent alter-ego emerges, dragging both clinicians into a tightening psychological trap.

title: Fancy Dance

overview: Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline, he learns to adjust. Then his girlfriend shows up, enticing him to return to his rock 'n' roll roots.

title: Captured Mother and Daughter: She Beast

overview: After watching her friend fall from a building a depressed high school girl runs away from home. When she is picked up by a nice guy on a phone date she realizes too late that he has plans to use her for his own ends.

title: The Hit-and-Run Family

overview: Set in the 1990s, this film uses black humour to cast a sharp, satirical eye at the problems facing modern Japanese families. Hiroshi accidentally hits a young woman with his car and flees in panic. He confesses to his wife, Yoko, who persuades him to keep quiet as his arrest would mean the end for their already troubled family.  Their daughter is having an affair with a married man, their son is being bullied and refusing to go to school and their grandfather is becoming more difficult. Yoko urges the family to move the car into the living room in order to destroy the evidence by taking it apart. Hiroshi finally decides to do the honest thing but a series of bizarre incidents then ensues...

title: French Dressing

overview: Japanese schoolboy is saved from an attempted suicide by his teacher only to be raped by that teacher before starting a menage a tois which includes one of the teacher's girl students.

title: Side Job

overview: Based on the novel "Kanojo no Jinsei wa Machigai ja Nai" (literal translation: Her life is not at fault) by Director Hiroki, it is a powerful story of survivors, who are all trying to find their own silver linings in life.

original_title: 彼女の人生は間違いじゃない

title: Wolf Girl and Black Prince

overview: Erika Shinohara is a first year of high school student. While talking to friends, she makes up a story about her "boyfriend." In reality, Erika Shinohara doesn't have a boyfriend. Erika's friends soon begin to doubt her story and Erika is also running out of lies. Erika then sees a pretty boy on the street and takes his picture discreetly. She later shows his picture to her friends as her boyfriend. The boy in the picture is Kyouya Sata and happens to attend the same school as Erika. She tells Kyouya about her situation and asks him to be her pretend boyfriend. Even though Kyouya has a pretty appearance, he has a dark side.

title: Strobe Edge

overview: Ninako Kinoshita has never been in love until an encounter with the school's most popular boy, Ren Ichinose, leads the two to befriending each other. Ren's patient and kind personality is a far cry from his unapproachable idol status at school, and soon Ninako falls in love with him. However, she must cope with the fact that he already has a long-time girlfriend.

title: Kabukicho Love Hotel

overview: This erotically charged drama traces the intersecting stories of a group of employees and visitors at a notorious "love hotel" in Tokyo's red-light district.

title: Zen

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

title: Policeman and Me

overview: Kako, a 16-year-old high school girl, goes to a mixer pretending to be 22. While there, she meets Kouta who at first has a very intimidating aura. But once he saves her from an awkward situation, she wants to know more about him as does he. That is until he finds out she isn't 22. The next day Kako runs into him again, but this time he's working as a police officer. Kako still wants to get closer to Kouta, but he isn't interested or is he?

title: Nobody's Perfect

overview: "Daijobu 3 Kumi" depicts the interactions between new teacher Shinnosuke Akao, who was born without arms and legs, and the 28 students in his 5th grade class, told from the vantage point of school board member Yusaku Shiraishi

title: Her Granddaughter

overview: Tsugumi Dozono works at a large electronics company in Tokyo. She likes to spend long vacations at her grandmother’s house in the countryside. When her grandmother dies, Tsugumi Dozono decides to live in the house full-time, and to work from there as well. However, one day she encounters a middle-aged man in the house, who tells Tsugumi that her grandmother gave him a key to the annex house when he was her student. The two share the property, although Tsugumi still does not know the exact relationship that her grandmother had with this man.

title: The Egoists

overview: Kazu attacks a bar in Kabukicho, a Tokyo red-light district, and flees to his hometown with abducts Machiko, a pole dancer he's been stuck on. They begin living together, but their happiness is short lived as their pasts torment them both.

title: April Bride

overview: On April 5, 2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The bride, however, was suffering from late-stage breast cancer and had been given only a month to live. A young woman is diagnosed with breast cancer but keeps the information from her boyfriend. When he finds out, he decides to plan a wedding even though she only has one month to live. Based on the true story of Chie Nagashima, a women afflicted with breast cancer and her husband Taro Akasu.

title: The Lightning Tree

overview: Set during the Edo Period, a young man from a noble family meets a young woman under a special tree called "Raiou" (the tree was struck by lightning at one time with the broken part eventually sprouting out cherry blossoms). The young woman lived freely in the mountains after she was abducted as a young child. The couple soon fall in love under the Raiou tree, but become acutely aware of their different social positions & the ramifications it has on their relationship.

title: M

overview: Mixed up by desire, love and hatred, a disturbed young man begins tailing and eventually tries to save his neighbor, a housewife who has turned to prostitution despite her comfortable lifestyle.

title: It's Only Talk

overview: Based on an award winning novel, It's Only Talk is about the life of Yuko, a 35-year old woman. She is single and unemployed, and suffers from manic depression. The movie begins with Yuko moving to Kamata Town.

title: L'amant

overview: When three older men buy a 17-year-old schoolgirl named Chikako for a year's-worth of sexual services -- her motivation, aside from money, is never explained -- the relationships among the men (whom she calls A. B and C) keep shifting in ways that redefine power and sex.

title: Crying 100 Times - Every Raindrop Falls

overview: Shuichi had a motorcycle accident 4 years ago. Because of the accident, he lost the last year of his memory. One day, at a friend's wedding, Shuichi has a fateful meeting with Yoshimi. They enjoy happy times together and Shuichi thinks about marrying Yoshimi. Then Yoshimi becomes sick. A sad truth is hidden in the lost memory of Shuichi.

title: Girlfriend: Someone Please Stop the World

overview: Despite the fact that Kyoko's a girl herself, approaching women on the streets and asking them to pose nude for her proves to be quite a chore. At first she accosts every pretty girl that walks by, until Miho catches her eye. Feeling that she has that certain something special, Kyoko insists that Miho pose for her. Her own life floating rudderless after the separation of her parents, Miho accepts, half entertaining the idea to get back at her father, who has gone on to form a new family and who hasn't been in touch with her in years.  The two girls walk around town, Kyoko snapping pictures and listening to Miho's stories. Gradually the two young women begin to sense a mutual attraction. When the time comes to get down to the nitty gritty of the nude shots, the girls' defences come down along with their clothes.

title: River

overview: Hikari's boyfriend is one of those killed in the Akihabara massacre incident. Suffering from the shock of her loss and unable to accept this reality, she cuts herself off from the outside world. She eventually manages to muster enough courage to visit Akihabara, the scene of the incident. There, she encounters many people who are still coming to terms with the aftermath of the incident and are still suffering from the aftereffects.

title: Yellow Elephant

overview: Married couple Aiko Tsumari and Ayumu Muko live a happy and peaceful life. Aiko is bit naive, while Ayumu works as a not so popular novelist. One day, a letter arrives for Ayumu. Because of this letter, the couple become estranged...

title: Barber's Sorrow

title: Shin-Karajishi Kabushiki-Kaisha

overview: Remake of Chusei Sone's 1983 comedy about a yakuza family trying their luck in show business.

title: Snake Hole

overview: Due to a past trauma an elegant wife cannot enjoy her husband attentions in bed. Undeterred he hires a B&D master to give him a few pointers on how to reignite her repressed erotic desires.

title: I Just Didn't Do It

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

original_title: それでもボクはやってない

title: The Terminal Trust

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

title: Raped with Eyes: Daydream

overview: Kazu is a man who indulges in daydream fantasies of sexual dalliances with women. As his fantasies become increasingly violent and even homicidal, neither he nor the film's audience is sure whether these are really harmless, if perverse, fantasies or if they are really happening.

title: Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist

overview: Two petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members, fortunately they are rescued by a kindly Kindergarten teacher.

original_title: 勝手にしやがれ！！　強奪計画

title: Nozokiya

title: Yomigaeri

overview: When dead people starts returning to the small Japanese town of Aso, government official Kawada is dispatched to uncover the “truth”.

title: Life Back Then

overview: Kyohei Nagashima (Masaki Okada) has shut away the world. During his high school days he was the target of bullying and experienced horrifying moments. Now as a young adult Kyohei takes a new job. He works for a company that specializes in cleaning out the homes of recently deceased individuals. With his new job Kyohei meets co-worker Yuki (Nana Eikura). Yuki has also experienced a traumatizing event as a teen and has also shut herself away from the world. These two young people form a bond as they go through the homes of the recently departed people. They gradually open up to each other and in the process to the world. Yet, their fragile psyches may or may not be ready for such changes ...

title: Bumpkin Soup

overview: Country girl Akiko visits a Tokyo college in search of her hometown sweetheart. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus–blasé intellectuals, horny co-eds, a psych professor in search of the theory of shame, and of course her beloved Yoshioka, who has become an elusive campus nobody.

title: River of First Love

overview: 8-year old boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother, surrounded by nature. His mother, Satsuki, has a weak constitution and lost her husband years ago. She takes care of her son lovingly but sometimes strictly, on her own. Shimpei's childhood sweetheart, Sayuri, is deaf, but somehow they can understand each other and they always spend time together.

title: A Heartful of Love

overview: Hiroshi, a 30 year-old businessman, has traveled back in time 20 years. He encounters Kazumi, a young woman who was gravely ill. Hiroshi regarded this as an opportunity to help the young woman from his past, the memory of whom he had always cherished.

title: Chaos

overview: A kidnapping for ransom seemingly goes off without a hitch, but as one thread left unsolved suddenly reveals many more mysteries, the whole operation threatens to descend into chaos.

title: Shin Virgin Boys Story: Hong Kong Virgin Boy

overview: The Virgin Boy's Story enters a new era and back on the big screen as the Titular Boy Kenji just wants to be a Hong Kong Movie star but finds himself caught in a Triad conflict instead!

original_title: 新・童貞物語　ホンコンバージンボーイ

title: The Woman with the Red Hat

overview: In 1923 a Japanese comes to Munich and immediately falls in love with a street artist with a red hat, without knowing her past is. She turns to the Japanese, for the first time she thinks she has found her really great love- exotic stranger attracts her. They say a lot, but they do not understand each other - but they can show their love. Nevertheless, the relationship is doomed to failure from the beginning. Disappointment, death and loss.

title: Locomotive Teacher

overview: Seigo Yoshioka (Kenji Sakaguchi) is a teacher that became mute after a kendo accident. He feels lost after the accident and eventually decides to teach again on a small island where his mother was born. The children there on the island quickly name him "Kikansha Sensei" (Teacher Locomotive) after learning he is mute. The parents on the island are mostly hostile to Seigo Yoshioka, believing he is incapable of teaching their children. But with Seigo Yoshioka's determination and kindness, a strong bond develops between the students and the mute teacher, which then changes the parents' opinions of Seigo Yoshioka. Suddenly, tragedy then strikes ...

title: Milk White

overview: Takayuki is an elementary school teacher in Tokyo. He is seized with Behçet's syndrome, and will gradually lose his sight. He resigns from his job and leaves his girlfriend, Yoko (Yuriko Ishida) to return to his hometown, Nagasaki, where his mother lives. Takayuki spends his days strolling around Nagasaki, to imprint familiar scenes on his memory. Yoko visits him and insists on staying. Takayuki has major concerns for her future, and his own life. He drives her away, for her own good. After days of affliction, the two reunite. The story leads to an emotive conclusion, the end of his spiritual journey.

title: Her Island, My Island

overview: A young woman returns to the island where she grew up.

title: Dearest

overview: The posthumous wish of Eiji's wife is for her ashes to be scattered in the ocean near her hometown. Eiji also learns that his wife letter for him at the post office before she died.

title: Itsuki Mariko: Kyonyû shigoku

overview: Mariko. The son of a wealthy family failed his university entrance exam and is currently retaking the exam. However, he doesn't go to cram school at all, and instead hangs out with his friends instead of studying. He has no money to spare, so his parents bought him a computer, and he is absorbed in online communication at night. He meets a girl named Rain through the online communication. The man becomes fascinated by her innocent and cute writing, and eventually he falls in love with the girl on the computer...

title: Hunting Young Wives: Tormenting Their Erogenous Zones

overview: Harumi and Sayuri came to Japan from the Philippines to work. Although they are not sisters, Sayuri adores Harumi like an older sister. When Harumi's visa expired, she wanted to stay in Japan, which she loves, so she decided to enter into a fake marriage with Muraoka's help. Sayuri was against the marriage...

original_title: 若奥様狩り　性感帯をなぶれ！

title: Harimao

overview: A movie about Yutaka Tani, also known as " Malay Tiger Harimao, " who was active on the Malay Peninsula during the Pacific War

title: Give It All

overview: Etsuko – a typical Japanese high school student, who's unlucky in love, an academic failure, and plain bored with life. That's until one day, the view of a boat gliding gracefully in the sea inspires her to take up the oar. Since she's rejected by her school's all-male rowing team, she decides to form her own all-women team. Nothing will ever be the same again.

original_title: がんばっていきまっしょい

title: Hibi

overview: Hibi tells about mother who does pottery and lives rather simple life, growing her children up. She does remarkable job in pottery, finding a new way to make natural pottery in her own tunnel kiln. Then, her son gets leukemia. And entire family has to fight hard to find a donor who has matching bone marrow.

title: Box: The Hakamada Case

overview: Based on the true story of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada who has spent over 40 years incarcerated on death row. Iwao Hakamada was arrested for the June 10, 1966 murder of a family in Shizuoka . Iwao Hakamada has always insisted on his innocence and many others also believe Iwao Hakamada has been falsely accused ...

original_title: BOX 袴田事件 命とは

title: Rain of Light

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

title: Abnormal Family

overview: The film tells a story about a woman and her relationship with the family of her husband's, in particular her husband's younger brother and father-in-law. Her husband, on the other hand, has an affair with a dominatrix and is obsessed in S&M games.

title: Closed Ward

title: The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

overview: In 2012, Atsuya and his 2 childhood friends do something bad and run into an old general store. They decide to stay there until the morning. Late into the night, Atsuya sees a letter in the mailbox. The letter is addressed to the Namiya General Store and the letter was written by someone to consult about worries. Incredibly, the letter was written 32 years ago. The mailbox is somehow connected to the year 1980. Atsuya and his friends decide to write a reply and place their letter in the mailbox.

title: Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet

overview: In the sequel to 1990's classic Neo Chinpira, Junko (Sho Aikawa) attempts to take out Kazama and then goes on the run. However, he quickly begins to feel homesick, and returns home to find that almost everything has changed. Noriko is now a bar mama with a lavish lifestyle, Yumeko is nowhere to be found, and his boss (Toru Minegishi) seems to have sinister plans involving Junko and his uncle (Jo Shishido).

original_title: ネオ チンピラ 続 鉄砲玉ぴゅ～

title: High School Jingi

overview: Based on the comic book series by Shuushi Mizuho. First of a series that included two theatrically released films and two direct-to-video films.

title: Wolf: Running Is Sex

overview: A serial rapist's violent daily routine is disrupted when a disaffected young woman who shares his primal lifestyle begins living with him.

title: Empire of Kids

overview: Following a stint in reform school, Ryu (Shinsuke Shimada) returns to his home, the Minami area of Osaka, accompanied by his new friend Ko (Takeshi Masu). He's greeted by his friends, Chabo (Ryusuke Matsumoto) and Ken (Bang-ho Cho).  They seek to forge their own path through a multitude of rival gangs in Kita and Minami, including the Hokushin Alliance, backed by the yakuza, the Hope Association, and various other minor factions, including Zainichi Korean groups. What follows is a wild, fast-paced story of violence, revenge, betrayal, and discrimination, that never loses its sense of humor.

title: Charisma

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

title: Talking the Pictures

overview: Set at a movie theater in a small village around 100 years ago. Silent films are play at the movie theater. A young man aspires to become a benshi, a performer that provides live narration to silent films.

title: Guzoo: The Thing Forsaken by God

overview: Upon visiting a secluded summer home, four high school girls are soon targeted by a horrific creature in the basement with a knowing housekeeper trying to keep the unspeakable heap secret and at bay using a flute.

original_title: ＧＵＺＯＯ　神に見捨てられしもの

title: High School Girl's Diary

overview: A high school girl is recruited by a photographer to be a model for a photo book. Thinking that she can make lots of money she agrees. He starts innocently enough but slowly convinces her to pose for more explicit shots.

title: A New Love in Tokyo

overview: A look at the lives of two prostitutes in Tokyo: Rei, who works as an S&M dominatrix, and Ayumi, in the more straightforward profession of call girl. In addition to their working life, the film also looks at their private lives. Rei is acting in an amateur theatre company along with the receptionist from Ayumi's escort service, while Ayumi is living with her student-boyfriend as he struggles to finally get accepted to college.

title: Sekkusumeido: Osouji no Atode

overview: Ding dong. Who’s that! Why its the new maid. She cooks and cleans and gives extra special sexual service to members of the household. But the poor girl can’t seem to get any satisfaction.

original_title: セックス・メイド　お掃除のあとで

title: Kandagawa Pervert Wars

overview: Two sexually energized young women who live in a high-rise apartment building happen one day to spy from their window a mother and son making love in the apartment across from theirs. They decide to stage a rescue attempt to free him and in the process one of the young women ends up falling in love with the son despite having a boyfriend and enjoying sex with her female companion. Of course, the mother they are warring against has her own plans when she feels her privacy invaded.

title: So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex

overview: Rachi has aspirations of becoming a punk rocker. But his tendency towards self-sabotage and a budding sexual addiction makes matters increasingly difficult for him and his band mates to make it big.

title: 252: Signal of Life

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

title: Disgraced! Uniform Virgin

title: Genuine Masturbation: Finger Play

overview: This is a story about a mysterious woman who lures men, puts them to sleep with sleeping pills, and uses their bodies to masturbate.

title: Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape

overview: Hapless gangsters are hired by the yakuza to tail his daughter. Once the identity of the boy she's dating has been unveiled, the boss offers a reward for his capture.

original_title: 勝手にしやがれ！！　脱出計画

title: Seraphim Night

overview: Directed by Banmei Takahashi of "New Love in Tokyo." A drama centered around identity, with a half Korean/Japanese man and a hermaphroditic woman.

title: Natsumi's Firefly

overview: Natsumi wants to become a photographer. She takes a bike which her late father left behind and goes to a forest to find a firefly she saw with her father. In the forest, Natsumi meets old mother Yasu and old son Jizo. They run a general store. Natsumi learns how to live in nature from them. She has happy summer days there. One day, Jizo tells her that he became estranged from his son in the past.

title: Arirang Rhapsody

overview: The protagonists of the film are the Zainichi Korean women living in Kawasaki. They were tossed about by the war, and after many trips to and fro across the sea in search of a place to live, they finally arrived in Kawasaki, where they have lived modestly and vigorously.

title: Gibojiri: Musuko ga shitai yoru

overview: Yoshino and Takashi have both remarried and have children. Since Yoshino came to live with them, Takashi's son, Shunichi, has neglected school and has been peeking into Yoshino's bedroom and bathroom. Even when he embraces his girlfriend, Hiyori, all he can think about is Yoshino. Filled with desire, he embraces Yoshino. Surprised, Yoshino runs out of the house. Then, by chance, she meets Furuta, with whom she had an affair in the past. He is transferred to Beijing. Furuta asks her to come with him and attacks her...

title: Bondage: Whip and High Heels

overview: Ryoichi, a serious office worker, runs a shoe shine shop on a street corner on his days off. He is a pervert who becomes aroused when he sees high heels. One day, as he was polishing his high heels, the woman suddenly lifted her skirt. She had astutely seen through Ryoichi's sadistic tastes. Invited into the apartment, Ryoichi was greeted by a dizzying world of SM.

title: Wakaokusama no namashitagi: Ikasete

overview: Two sisters who used to work as call girls at a hotel. The older sister has retired and is now living happily as the wife of a police officer. The younger sister is still actively working as a call girl at a hotel. When the younger sister notices that a police investigation has befallen her, she runs away, and the older sister chases after her, and the two end up heading to their hometown on a road trip.

original_title: 若奥様の生下着　いかせて！

title: Last Dance: Divorce Ceremony

overview: Where have all the wives gone who were once driven to tears by their husbands' infidelity? With each passing year, women become stronger and more resilient, while men enter the 21st century still harboring the legacy of the Showa era! How can there be no problems in the married life of such men and women?! People at a crossroads in life are about to set sail for a second life! This entertaining drama depicts the sometimes sad and sometimes funny slapstick human drama unfolding on board a ship among a variety of troubled couples!

original_title: Ｌａｓｔ　Ｄａｎｃｅ　－離婚式－

title: Iyarashii zengi: Sugoku kanjiru

overview: Men are rotten. Women wander. Lost souls reconnect.

original_title: いやらしい前戯 すごく感じる

title: Do-sukebe oyako

overview: Pink film directed by Kunihiko Matsuoka.

title: Onna kyōshi o hagu

overview: A lonely high school teacher accidentally discovers another teacher having sex with a student in an empty classroom. The excitement of watching the two of them ignites erotic sensations deep inside her. But she is caught watching…

title: Hitomi Kobayashi's Beast Love

title: Groper Train: Unrepentant Fingertips, Professional Baseball Edition

overview: The only way to the big game...is the train.

original_title: 痴漢電車 懲りない指先 プロ野球篇

title: Yusuri: The Blackmailer

overview: Follows a blackmailer who exploits the weaknesses of powerful villains and strips them of their wealth.

title: Mother's Trees

overview: Mitsu Tamura (Kyoka Suzuki) is the mother of 7 sons. Her sons are sent to the battlefield and 6 of her sons die on the battlefield. To mend her broken heart, she talks to 7 paulownia trees which she planted whenever one of her sons left for the battlefield.

title: Dosukebe na oyako: Midara na sei-seikatsu

overview: Pink film distributed by Shintoho Pictures.

original_title: どすけべ父娘 淫らな性生活

title: Day Dream

overview: Loosely based on a 1926 short story by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, the film opens as an artist and a young woman are in a dentist's waiting room. Though he is attracted to the woman, he says nothing to her. They are later in the same examining room. When he is given an anesthetic, he begins to imagine a series of scenes in which the woman undergoes various forms of sexual abuse, including rape and torture. When the artist recovers from the anesthetic, he finds clues showing that he may not have been hallucinating.

title: Emperor of Evil

overview: This film, directed by Banmei Takahashi, is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Atsushi Mizoguchi. It depicts the love-hate relationship between an older brother who tries to live an honest life and a younger brother who tries to return to the world of crime. Shigetoku, the younger brother who made a name for himself in the yakuza group "Toryu-kai" alongside his older brother Atsuhiko, is arrested after a conflict with a rival organization. Eight years later, Shigetoku returns to Atsuhiko, who has gone straight, but Shigetoku shows resentment towards Atsuhiko's lifestyle.

title: Girl Rope Doll

overview: Ayako finds a love letter written by her friend Fumiko to her brother Shirou, and gives it to him after rewriting it in a radical way. Meanwhile, Shirou asks Ayako how she feels about Akira.

title: Bondage: Whip and Rope

title: Kôkô kyôshi: Shisshin!

title: Shall We Dance?

title: Seifuku kyōjidai

title: Shimai ryôjoku!

title: Pulse

title: Séance

title: Nerawareta hôkago: Zekkyô!

title: Close Your Eyes and Hold Me

title: Entrails of a Beautiful Woman

title: The Crazy Family

title: Hard Petting

title: Sumo Do, Sumo Don't

title: Danchi tsuma: Nyuu taun bôkô-ma

original_title: 団地妻　ニュータウン暴行魔

title: Kôkô kyôshi: bôkei

title: Aido ningyō: Ikasete

original_title: 生撮り解禁ツアー むしられたビキニ

title: Gappie, Wear a Tie this Summer

original_title: ギャッピー ぼくらはこの夏ネクタイをする!

title: Tattoo

title: Days of Lust: Ecstasy

original_title: 愛欲の日々　エクスタシー

title: Human Scramble: Delinquent

title: Wild Life

title: Apartment Wife: Body Hell

title: Chikan to rikon tsuma

title: Furin no wana: Kantsû

title: Za yobai

title: Sukebe shimai

title: OL kankin (hakuchū no reipu)

title: Masochist

title: Gorotsuki

original_title: 悪友(ごろつき)（1992）

title: Love Ghost

title: Labyrinth of Leg Fetishism

title: Sexy Oral: Uwakina Kuchibiru

original_title: セクシー・オーラル 浮気な唇

title: Danchizuma: Sarakin Jigoku

title: Hishoku rîsuzuma

title: Marushû shojo tarento

title: Touch a Dream

title: Love Beast: Steamy Disgrace

title: Dokyumento: SEX joshi daigaku

original_title: ドキュメント　ＳＥＸ女子大学

title: The Night the Angel Turned Away

title: I Am an S+M Writer

title: Diary of Beloved Wife: Naive

original_title: 童心 〜重松清「愛妻日記」より〜

title: Door

title: The Human Chair

title: Love of Sawako

original_title: さわこの恋 上手な嘘の恋愛講座

title: The Frame

title: A newlywed is brutally raped

title: Perverted Rope Torture

title: Honban roshutsu gurui

title: Osaka Hamlet

title: MIND GAME

title: Fancy Dance

title: Captured Mother and Daughter: She Beast

title: The Hit-and-Run Family

title: French Dressing

title: Zen

title: Wolf Girl and Black Prince

title: Side Job

original_title: 彼女の人生は間違いじゃない

title: Strobe Edge

title: River

title: Policeman and Me

title: Crying 100 Times - Every Raindrop Falls

title: Kabukicho Love Hotel

title: Her Granddaughter

title: Nobody's Perfect

title: The Egoists

title: The Lightning Tree

title: Yellow Elephant

title: April Bride

title: L'amant

title: It's Only Talk

title: M

title: Barber's Sorrow

title: Shin-Karajishi Kabushiki-Kaisha

title: Snake Hole

title: The Terminal Trust

title: I Just Didn't Do It

original_title: それでもボクはやってない

title: Raped with Eyes: Daydream

original_title: 勝手にしやがれ！！　強奪計画

title: Nozokiya

title: A Heartful of Love

title: Life Back Then

title: Yomigaeri

title: Bumpkin Soup

title: River of First Love

title: Chaos

original_title: 新・童貞物語　ホンコンバージンボーイ

title: The Woman with the Red Hat

title: Locomotive Teacher

title: Milk White

title: Her Island, My Island

title: Dearest

title: Itsuki Mariko: Kyonyû shigoku

original_title: 若奥様狩り　性感帯をなぶれ！

title: Harimao

title: Give It All

original_title: がんばっていきまっしょい

title: Hibi

title: Box: The Hakamada Case

original_title: BOX 袴田事件 命とは

title: Rain of Light

title: Abnormal Family

title: Closed Ward

title: Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet

original_title: ネオ チンピラ 続 鉄砲玉ぴゅ～

title: High School Jingi

title: Wolf: Running Is Sex

title: Empire of Kids

title: Charisma

title: Talking the Pictures

title: Guzoo: The Thing Forsaken by God

original_title: ＧＵＺＯＯ　神に見捨てられしもの

title: High School Girl's Diary

title: A New Love in Tokyo

title: Sekkusumeido: Osouji no Atode

original_title: セックス・メイド　お掃除のあとで

title: Kandagawa Pervert Wars

title: So Long, My Partner: Rock Is Sex

title: 252: Signal of Life

title: Disgraced! Uniform Virgin

title: Genuine Masturbation: Finger Play

original_title: 勝手にしやがれ！！　脱出計画

title: Seraphim Night

title: Natsumi's Firefly

title: Arirang Rhapsody

title: Gibojiri: Musuko ga shitai yoru

title: Bondage: Whip and High Heels

title: Wakaokusama no namashitagi: Ikasete

original_title: 若奥様の生下着　いかせて！

title: Last Dance: Divorce Ceremony

original_title: Ｌａｓｔ　Ｄａｎｃｅ　－離婚式－

title: Iyarashii zengi: Sugoku kanjiru

original_title: いやらしい前戯 すごく感じる

title: Do-sukebe oyako

title: Onna kyōshi o hagu

title: Hitomi Kobayashi's Beast Love

original_title: 痴漢電車 懲りない指先 プロ野球篇

title: Yusuri: The Blackmailer

title: Mother's Trees

original_title: どすけべ父娘 淫らな性生活

title: Day Dream

title: Emperor of Evil

title: Girl Rope Doll


Akiko Kitamura

古い番組が集まる

character: 配音

original_name: 古い番組が集まる

title: The Second Love

overview: Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband's emotional conflicts with the wisdom of an adult. Kazumi's younger and more inexperienced husband Hideo is continually suspicious of her fidelity.

original_title: セカンド・ラブ

title: Pulse

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

character: (uncredited)

title: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

overview: Kazuko Yoshiyama is a third-year junior-high-school student. One day, while cleaning the lab, she smells lavender and faints. From then on, she has the power to travel through time.

character: Sadako Horikawa

original_title: 時をかける少女

title: P. P. Rider

overview: Three high-school students tangle with indulgent yakuza and lackadaisical police as they set out in search of the class bully, who has been kidnapped.

character: Tomoko

original_title: ションベン・ライダー

title: Mitsugetsu

overview: Tetsuaki's struggling to write a novel while his mother fades; Mitsuko's engagement has been forced upon her unwillingly; the two individuals run away to share their grief.

character: Hiroko Nakayama

original_title: 蜜月

title: Keiko

overview: Keiko is a 23-year-old lonely virgin who lives in a tiny room, and hopes to meet someone in the cafe she frequents. After a bad affair with one of the other diners, she vows to give up men. She then begins a happy lesbian relationship with her co-worker Kazuyo. However she is under constant pressure from her father to marry.

character: Kazuyo

original_title: Keiko

title: Flames of Blood

overview: The story follows the chance meeting between Senkichi, a wandering gambler on the run, and Orin, a blind musician who offers him kindness and shelter. As their lives become intertwined, they attempt to find a sense of peace and domesticity while caught in the crossfire of the violent Bakumatsu revolution.

original_title: 炎のごとく

title: In the Cellar

overview: The mysterious relationship between a breast-sick sister who lives in a warehouse and the younger brother who longs for her.

original_title: 蔵の中

title: Aiko 16-sai

overview: Aiko 16 years old is a novel by Akemi Hotta, set in Nagoya this story depicts the school life of Aiko Mita, a high school student who belongs to the Japanese archery club.

character: Ikuyo Yano

original_title: アイコ十六歳

title: Pink Tush Girl: Proposal Strategy

overview: Two high school girls graduate and one of them goes off to a rural town to join an underground dance troupe. The other decides to visit and she stays with a troubled family.

character: Sadako Yamamoto

original_title: 桃尻娘 プロポーズ大作戦

title: Four Sisters

overview: Four sisters with no consanguinity are living together since childhood. When facing misfortune and grievances in lives, they give support and encouragement to each other, even sacrifice oneself to help others.

character: Mayo Yuzuki

original_title: 姉妹坂

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.

original_title: 台風クラブ

job: Choreographer

title: Idomeneo, König von Kreta - Mozart bei den Opernfestspielen Aix-en-Provence

department: Crew

original_language: de

place_of_birth: Japan

title: The Second Love

media_type: movie

title: Pulse

title: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

title: P. P. Rider

title: Mitsugetsu

title: Keiko

title: Flames of Blood

title: In the Cellar

title: Aiko 16-sai

title: Pink Tush Girl: Proposal Strategy

original_title: 桃尻娘 プロポーズ大作戦

title: Four Sisters

title: Typhoon Club


Drake Doremus

biography: Drake Doremus (born March 29, 1983) is a film director and screenwriter best known for directing the films Like Crazy (2011) which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Douchebag (2010) which was in Dramatic competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, and Spooner (2009). He also taught at the Orange County High School of the Arts for a couple semesters.

The Beauty Inside

overview: Alex wakes up every day as a different person. He is always the same person on the inside, but on the outside he is somebody else. When he meets Leah and falls in love everything changes for him. He knows he will see her again, but she will never see him.

original_name: The Beauty Inside

twitter_id: drakedoremus

title: Kingdom Come

overview: The documentary, Kingdom Come follows a first-time director (Daniel Gillies) as he tries to raise a million dollars to finance his first film, Broken Kingdom. This emotionally-charged journey is interwoven with over 30 rare interviews from acclaimed indie darlings including Mark Ruffalo, Illeana Douglas, Don Cheadle, Kevin Smith, Edward Burns, Tim Roth, Morgan Spurlock, Selma Blair, Robert Townsend, Bill Pullman and many more.

original_title: Kingdom Come

title: Love, Antosha

overview: From a prolific career in film and television, Anton Yelchin left an indelible legacy as an actor. Through his journals and other writings, his photography, the original music he wrote, and interviews with his family, friends, and colleagues, this film looks not just at Anton's impressive career, but at a broader portrait of the man.

original_title: Love, Antosha

title: Like Crazy

overview: A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.

original_title: Like Crazy

title: Like Crazy

title: Douchebag

overview: On the verge of getting married, Sam Nussbaum insists he escort his younger brother, Tom, on a wild goose chase of a journey to find Tom's fifth grade girlfriend.

original_title: Douchebag

title: Spooner

overview: Facing eviction from his parent's home on his 30th birthday, a socially awkward guy meets the girl of his dreams and creates his own rules for growing up.

original_title: Spooner

title: Breathe In

overview: When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters their lives forever.

original_title: Breathe In

job: Screenplay

title: Breathe In

job: Producer

title: Newness

overview: In contemporary Los Angeles, two millennials navigating a social media–driven hookup culture begin a relationship that pushes both emotional and physical boundaries.

original_title: Newness

title: Moonpie

overview: A burn-out elementary school principal and a bi-polar third grade teacher see their troubled worlds come together in a developing relationship that feels almost - well, perfect.

original_title: Moonpie

title: Equals

overview: A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated.

original_title: Equals

title: Moonpie

title: Spooner

job: Story

title: Equals

title: Newness

title: Zoe

overview: Two colleagues at a revolutionary research lab design technology to improve and perfect romantic relationships. As their work progresses, their discoveries become more profound.

original_title: Zoe

title: The Search

original_title: The Search

original_language: it

title: Aurora

overview: Aurora follows a widower who, 25 years after his wife’s death, continues to live alone in Iceland. When a young man comes into his life with a mysterious connection to his past the two develop an uneasy relationship, causing them to question their identities and their past lives.

original_title: Aurora

title: Zoe

title: Zoe

title: Endings, Beginnings

overview: An artist dumps her longtime boyfriend, but her attempt to take a break from dating ends when she quickly finds herself in two passionate romances.

original_title: Endings, Beginnings

title: Endings, Beginnings

title: Endings, Beginnings

title: Love, Antosha

title: Douchebag

title: Next Life

overview: Ivy finds herself confronted with parallel universes in which her life unspools in very different ways set against the modern London jazz scene.

title: Next Life

title: Next Life

title: Kingdom Come

title: Love, Antosha

title: Like Crazy

title: Like Crazy

title: Douchebag

title: Spooner

title: Breathe In

title: Breathe In

title: Newness

title: Moonpie

title: Equals

title: Moonpie

title: Spooner

title: Equals

title: Newness

title: Zoe

title: The Search

title: Aurora

title: Zoe

title: Zoe

title: Endings, Beginnings

title: Endings, Beginnings

title: Endings, Beginnings

title: Love, Antosha

title: Douchebag

title: Next Life

title: Next Life

title: Next Life


Jack Paar

biography: Jack Harold Paar (May 1, 1918 – January 27, 2004) was an American talk show host, writer, radio and television comedian, and film actor. He was the second host of The Tonight Show from 1957 to 1962. Time magazine's obituary of Paar reported wryly, "His fans would remember him as the fellow who split talk show history into two eras: Before Paar and Below Paar."

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

overview: The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet", which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show.

original_name: The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

overview:
Tonight Starring Jack Paar is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under The Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during late-night.

During most of its run it was broadcast from Studio 6B inside the RCA Building. The same studio would also host early episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Its theme song was an instrumental version of "Everything's Coming Up Roses", and the closing theme was "So Until I See You" by Al Lerner.

character: Host

original_name: Tonight Starring Jack Paar

The Bob Hope Show

overview: The Bob Hope Show hosted by Bob Hope, debuted on April 9, 1950. During the 1952-1953 season, NBC rotated with other variety shows in a Sunday night block known as "The Colgate Comedy Hour" (Sept. 1950 to Dec. 1955). Also known as, "The Chevy Show with Bob Hope." When the first special debuted in October of 1950 it was the most expensive television program made up to that point - costing an astronomical $1,500 a minute to produce. Bob Hope had his own television show and radio show at the same time. For the next three seasons, The Bob Hope Show was broadcast once a month on Tuesday nights, giving Milton Berle a week off. Bob ended his radio show in April, 1956. Bob Hope also had another show by a similar name, "The Bob Hope Show (All Star Revue)". In addition, he performed in "Specials" for many years. It is the longest running variety program in television's history with a record of 45 years of televised entertainment.

original_name: The Bob Hope Show

The Jack Benny Program

overview: Laugh along with funnyman Jack Benny as he brings his underplayed humor to TV along with regular performers from his radio show days.

character: Jack Paar

original_name: The Jack Benny Program

The Ed Sullivan Show

overview:
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows.

In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

original_name: The Ed Sullivan Show

What's My Line?

overview: Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.

character: Self - Mystery Guest

original_name: What's My Line?

The Dick Cavett Show

overview: The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.

character: Self - Guest

original_name: The Dick Cavett Show

The Merv Griffin Show

original_name: The Merv Griffin Show

Startime

overview: Startime, an anthology of drama, comedy and variety, was one of the first American television shows broadcast in color.

original_name: Startime

character: Self – Host

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english_name: Greek

title: Love Nest

overview: Jim and Connie's postwar New York building troubles keep Jim from working on his novel. Ex-WAC from Jim's army days Roberta moves in, further upsetting Connie but pleasing Jim's friend Ed. Tenant Charley, who marries tenant Eadie, loans money to Jim to help him keep the building, money which this Casanova obtains from rich widows.

character: Ed Forbes

original_title: Love Nest

title: Jack Paar: 'As I Was Saying...'

overview: A PBS American Masters documentary exploring the life and career of Jack Paar, the charismatic host of The Tonight Show on NBC from 1957 to 1962.

original_title: Jack Paar: 'As I Was Saying...'

title: Walk Softly, Stranger

overview: Fugitive Chris Hale starts over in a small Midwestern town in Ohio, where he befriends Elaine Corelli, a kind-hearted heiress left disabled after a skiing accident. As love blossoms, Hale vows to change his ways, but escaping his past may mean one last job.

character: Ray Healy

original_title: Walk Softly, Stranger

title: Easy Living

overview: A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.

character: Scoop Spooner

original_title: Easy Living

title: Down Among the Sheltering Palms

overview: War-weary Captain Willoby and his men are the occupation force on an island of lovely women...and are forbidden to fraternize.

character: Lt. Mike Sloan

original_title: Down Among the Sheltering Palms

title: Groucho & Cavett

overview: Discover the enduring friendship between television personality Dick Cavett and his mentor iconic comedian Groucho Marx. Their relationship is chronicled through interviews with Cavett, archival footage and interviews with George Burns and others.

character: Self (archive footage)

original_title: Groucho & Cavett

title: Public Speaking

overview: Martin Scorsese’s portrait of writer and social commentator Fran Lebowitz, celebrated for her sharp wit and observations on modern life. Filmed at New York’s Waverly Inn and intercut with archival footage and interviews, the documentary captures Lebowitz’s distinctive worldview through her spontaneous monologues and public appearances.

original_title: Public Speaking

title: Footlight Varieties

overview: A compilation of scenes and acts from various comedy and musical shorts over the years.

character: Himself - Host

original_title: Footlight Varieties

title: Variety Time

overview: Jack Parr hosts a variety program of comedic sketches.

character: Master of Ceremonies

original_title: Variety Time

title: Jack Paar: Smart Television

overview: PBS documentary examining the work of Jack Paar.

original_title: Jack Paar: Smart Television

title: Sid & Judy

overview: Explore the dramatic career and personal struggles of the talented and tragically short-lived entertainer Judy Garland through rare concert footage, never-heard-before voice recordings and personal photos.

original_title: Sid & Judy

title: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic

overview: Angela Lansbury hosts a celebration and anniversary tribute to the Wizard of Oz which includes the premiere of the restored, uncut print of the classic.

title: Bob Hope's World of Comedy

overview: Bob's favorite memories and funniest moments on TV  The biggest Stars! ... The biggest laughs!  On DVD for the first time, this special 90 minute collection proves that laughter is the universal language with a sidesplitting salute to slapstick, satire, sketch comedy and zingers. Featuring Bob's funniest moments on television, this tribute includes a virtual who's who of legendary entertainers like Bing Crosby, Jackie Gleason, Roy Rogers, Ingrid Bergman, Bob Newhart, Lucille Ball, Ann-Margret, Jack Benny, Angie Dickinson, Steve Allen, Johnny Carson, Danny Thomas, Don Rickles, Milton Berle, Redd Foxx, Dorothy Lamour, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, Dyan Cannon, Debbie Reynolds, Lassie and more.

original_title: Bob Hope's World of Comedy

title: Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

overview: Combining unprecedented access to Davis' vast personal archives with original interviews, this documentary reveals a startling portrait of one of Hollywood's most gifted and enigmatic stars.

original_title: Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

title: 50 Years of NBC Late Night

overview: Conan O'Brien hosts a special celebrating 50 Years of Late Night television on NBC.

original_title: 50 Years of NBC Late Night

place_of_birth: Canton, Ohio, USA

title: Love Nest

title: Jack Paar: 'As I Was Saying...'

title: Walk Softly, Stranger

title: Easy Living

title: Down Among the Sheltering Palms

title: Groucho & Cavett

title: Public Speaking

title: Footlight Varieties

title: Variety Time

title: Jack Paar: Smart Television

title: Sid & Judy

title: Bob Hope's World of Comedy

title: Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

title: 50 Years of NBC Late Night