Nenji Kobayashi

biography: Toshiji Kobayashi (小林 稔侍, Kobayashi Toshiji, born on February 7, 1941), known by his stage name, Nenji Kobayashi (alternative reading of 稔侍), is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 23rd Japan Academy Prize for Poppoya.

Dear Students!

overview:
Seito Shokun! is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yoko Shoji. It is serialized in Kodansha's Shōjo Friend from 1977 to 1984. The individual chapters were published into 24 tankōbon by Kodansha between February 1978 and June 1985. Seito Shokun! received the won the second Kodansha Manga Award in 1978 for the shōjo category.

Kodansha made a one-shot spin-off of the series in September, 1983 and re-released the manga into 12 kanzenban volumes between December 12, 1995 and March 12, 1996.

The sequel to the manga, Seito Shokun! Kyoshi-hen had its first tankōbon published on April 13, 2004.

The manga was adapted into an original video animation by Ashi Productions. Directed by Mitsuo Kusakabe, it was broadcast on Fuji TV on February 23, 1986.

The manga was adapted into a Japanese television drama of the same name. Directed by Karaki Marehiro and Tamura Naoki, the drama's 10 episodes was broadcast on TV Asahi between April 20, 2007 and June 22, 2007.

original_name: 生徒諸君！

Furuhata Ninzaburo

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

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

original_name: 古畑任三郎

マリッジ

original_name: マリッジ

軽井沢駐在犬日誌

original_name: 軽井沢駐在犬日誌

真実を追う男

original_name: 真実を追う男

高村薫サスペンス 去りゆく日に

original_name: 高村薫サスペンス 去りゆく日に

Papa for One Summer

overview: A high school student’s mother passes away leaving her alone with her grief. The girl, Marimo, discovers the name of a father she never knew. Marimo sets off to meet him, but is completely shocked when she finds someone very different from the father she envisioned. Her father, Shinpei, a 38-year-old would-be private detective, is shocked too, and doesn’t believe her until he sees the paperwork. With Marimo muttering “The worst father in the world” and Shinpei lamenting the loss of his freedom, these two are about to learn how difficult and rewarding a father/daughter relationship can be.

character: Daigoro Konari

original_name: ひと夏のパパへ

HOTEL

character: Mochida Kenichi

original_name: HOTEL

Yellow Taped Newswoman

character: Kenkichi Isomura

original_name: 出入禁止の女 ～事件記者 クロガネ～

西村京太郎トラベルサスペンス 寝台特急八分停車

original_name: 西村京太郎トラベルサスペンス 寝台特急八分停車

西村京太郎サスペンス 寝台特急「はやぶさ」の女

original_name: 西村京太郎サスペンス 寝台特急「はやぶさ」の女

横山秀夫サスペンス「真相」

original_name: 横山秀夫サスペンス「真相」

Older brother

overview: The series tells about the life of construction foreman Eiji and his sister. Both have a love interest: she has a boyfriend, and he has a young girl. The sister is thinking about marriage, and the brother has too strict principles to recklessly rush into the abyss of passion.

character: Bunkichi

original_name: あにき

SMAP×SMAP

overview:
SMAP×SMAP was an ongoing weekly Japanese variety show on Kansai TV and Fuji TV starring the members of SMAP. The show began on April 15, 1996 and it aired from 22:00 to 22:54 every Monday. The show's usual ratings were higher than 20%, which is considered high since most variety shows range from 10-20%.

Each episode begins a variety of skits, comedic performances, and/or games.  These are followed by Bistro SMAP, in which the SMAP members compete against each other to impress celebrity judges with their gourmet cooking.  Last is a musical performance by SMAP which may include celebrity guests, as well.

character: Skit Guest

original_name: SMAP×SMAP

The Story of Bodyguard Shuhei Fujisawa

overview: 13th year of the Genroku era. Matahachiro Aoe, a samurai of the Shonai clan from Dewa Province, accidentally learned that a group of conspirators led by the main vassal of Tango Otomi were planning to poison the Lord. Matahachiro decided to consult with the father of his fiancée Yuki, Kizaemon Hiranuma, an employee of the security department, and told him everything. However, when Matahachiro was about to leave for home, Hiranuma attacked him from behind and Matahachiro defended himself by killing his future father-in-law in front of Yuki. Matahachiro escapes to Edo and provides bodyguard services to earn a living. He is pursued by assassins who are sent by conspirators from his former clan. And soon he also becomes involved in the conflict between Asano and Kira, which arose due to a blade wound in a pine corridor in Edo Castle...

character: Matahachiro Aoe

original_name: 藤沢周平の用心棒日月抄

鉄道警察官・清村公三郎

original_name: 鉄道警察官・清村公三郎

Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon

overview: Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from hospital to hospital. The harsh environment at the hospitals led many doctors to retire from their positions, forcing hospitals to make use of said program to fill the empty spots at least temporary. However, Michiko doesn’t look like a doctor at all with her flashy clothes and eccentric attitude. In the first episode she raises objections to a certain operation which is planned to be done by the head of a hospital who hasn’t performed an operation for a very long time. This causes Michiko to incur odium at the hospital, however, everyone becomes frozen when Michiko points out the outdated skills of the director. She also holds a scrupulous compliance when it comes to her working hours, never does any unnecessary chores that don’t require a medical license, and couldn’t care less about the power struggles within the hospitals. Nobody knows how she acquired such a top-level skill that allows her to claim exorbitant sums as reward, but her private life is an even greater mystery to everyone around her. Tanaka plays a rookie surgeon, Uchida an anesthetist, Kishibe the head of the placement service, and Ito the head of the surgical department of this institution.

character: Tsuyosi Teshigawara（勅使河原 毅）

original_name: ドクターX ～外科医・大門未知子～

日丸教授の事件ノート

original_name: 日丸教授の事件ノート

さよなら李香蘭

original_name: さよなら李香蘭

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

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

original_name: 二百三高地 愛は死にますか

Papa to Nat-chan

overview: Papa to Nat-chan is a drama about a young girl who matures from a high school student into a wife.  Goro Shimura lost his wife nine years ago. Since then, he has lived with Natsumi. This comedy depicts Goro's struggles and Natsumi's journey to marriage.

original_name: パパとなっちゃん

Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi

overview: Through the lives of people aging in a seaside retirement home, the drama depicts the aging process that comes to everyone.

original_name: これから～海辺の旅人たち～

The Woman of S.R.I.

overview: Mariko is a forensic scientist working at the Kyoto PD Crime Lab. Her credo is “science never lies” and she delves into the truth of the case with her colleagues with their specialized skills and knowledge in forensic medicine, physics, chemistry etc. Mariko’s steadfast belief in science makes her stand against conventional institutional ethics of the police department, diehard detectives averse to scientific investigation and sometimes even with her own colleagues, but she stays faithful to her belief in science and continues to pursue the truth.

character: Shunsuke Koba

original_name: 科捜研の女

name: Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu

overview: After the end of the reign of the second Shogun Hidetada, the country was still in turmoil. Meanwhile, Iemitsu, who took the place of the third shogun, is carrying out a number of political reforms. However, Yui Shosetsu, plans to overthrow the Tokugawa family...

original_name: 風雲江戸城 怒涛の将軍徳川家光

大空港警察副署長　日暮征次郎走る!

original_name: 大空港警察副署長　日暮征次郎走る!

Pro Hunter

character: 木戸吾郎

original_name: プロハンター

いなか刑事 伊原泰三の退職捜査日誌

original_name: いなか刑事 伊原泰三の退職捜査日誌

走れ！事件記者 娘に捧げる最後のスクープ

original_name: 走れ！事件記者 娘に捧げる最後のスクープ

Mission To Kill

overview: Continuation of the popular series of films about the assassins in Edo. This show marks the return of the jidaigeki series "Hissatsu Shigotonin," which has had several seasons between the 1970s and the 1990s. The franchise came back in 2007 with a one-shot special, but this is its first full season since 1992. Makoto Fujita returns as the protagonist Nakamura Mondo, one of the "shigotonin," a team of hired assassins.

original_name: 必殺仕事人2009

A Dangerous Woman

overview: Following on the heels of "Stalker," this title continues the same theme, focusing on a young woman, Suzu, infatuated with her older sister's husband, Takeshi. As a neuro-psychiatrist, Takeshi has the expertise to diagnose her mental instability, but trying to care for her may only draw him further into her clutches. Looking into the mysteries of her childhood may be his only hope of curing her obsessive behavior before Suzu's violent tendencies threaten those around her.

original_name: 略奪愛・アブない女

仮面の女

original_name: 仮面の女

Stalker

overview: The wife and child of a businessman find themselves in danger when the man unwisely becomes entangled in an affair with a young woman who begins to stalk him and the family he loves.

original_name: ストーカー・誘う女

Summer Department Store Story

overview: Within the hectic environment of a modern department store, new employees struggle to learn their jobs and maintain balance in their personal lives and relationships. Their laughter, tears, and anger reveal the depth of human drama that is played out in everyday settings.

original_name: 夏！デパート物語

炎の警備隊長・五十嵐杜夫

original_name: 炎の警備隊長・五十嵐杜夫

Hanekonma

overview: Rin Tachibana, nicknamed Hanekonma, grew up in Soma, Fukushima. Together with her parents, her sister and brother, and her grandparents, the story revolves around the Tachibana family and Rin's life throughout many years.

character: Kojiro Tachibana

original_name: はね駒

Nogaremono Orin

overview: It is the Edo period during the ninth Shogun Ieshige's reign. Orin's father was falsely accused of attempting to assassinate the former Shogun Yoshimune and in accordance with her father's wishes, Orin joins the secret assassination group Tegusari-nin, headed by Uemura Doestsu. In the organization, Orin fights through many dangers. But one day, she realizes she is being used by Doetsu in order to advance his ambition.

character: Mikawado Seneimon

original_name: 逃亡者おりん

name: Zeimuchou Sakan Madogiwa Tarou no Jikenbo Special

overview: Madogiwa Tarou was supposedly demoted when sent to work in a local tax office but is actually a secret investigator.

original_name: 税務調査官・窓際太郎の事件簿 スペシャル

The Castle of Sand

overview:
On December 11, 1960 an elderly man is found bludgeoned to death near the Kamata Station in Tokyo. Detective Yoshimura Hiroshi is a rookie detective that has only one clue to go on - the name "Kameda." Detective Yoshimura also has a dark side himself from his miserable experience in the war. Now, Detective Yoshimura places himself in the criminal's dark mind to track down the killer.

Based on the 1961 novel "Suna no utsuwa" by Seicho Matsumoto it was also made as a feature film The Castle of Sand (1974).

original_name: 松本清張ドラマスペシャル 砂の器

name: Onna Keiji Mizuki: Kyoto Rakusai Sho Monogatari

character: Narumi Toshiro

original_name: 女刑事みずき〜京都洛西署物語〜

Deutsch

iso_639_1: de

iso_3166_1: DE

english_name: German

Français

iso_639_1: fr

iso_3166_1: FR

english_name: French

title: The Bear Storm

overview: An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the Taishō era. About 15 families who moved in search of agricultural land to the land of the pioneers in Hokkaido led a peaceful life. One day, one of the pioneers, Mikio Shimakawa's wife Yura, and her child Taichi are attacked and killed by a bear that cannot hibernate. To resolve the situation, Shimakawa goes against all odds and turns to Ginshiro, the most hated hunter in the village, for help. While Shimakawa was away from the village, Yura and his friends were holding a funeral, the bear attacked again...

title: 47 Ronin

overview: Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal followers (now Ronin, masterless Samurai) dedicate their lives to avenging his death.

title: Love and Honor

overview: A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband's honor.

title: 森村誠一女のサスペンス「マリッジ」

original_title: 森村誠一女のサスペンス「マリッジ」

title: 樅ノ木は残った

title: The Twilight Samurai

overview: Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?

title: Woman His Prey

title: The Ballad of Narayama

overview: In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.

title: Crazy Thunder Road

overview: When Ken, the leader of the once-notorious biker gang of Tokyo, falls in love with a barmaid, he quickly loses his rebellious ideals. The rest of the gang feels betrayed, especially the reputedly troubled kid Jin who revolts against his former friend.

title: Captain Ultra: The Movie

overview: In the latter half of the 21st century, Captain Ultra and the crew of his ship the Mighty Spiegel oppose the Vandel aliens.  Re-edited from episodes 2 and 5 of the TV series and released theatrically as part of the Toei Manga Matsuri.

title: Railroad Man

overview: A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a hotel, but he is emotionally unable to part with his career as a railroader. His life takes a turn when he meets a young woman with an interest in trains who resembles his daughter.

title: Night Guy

overview: Tokyo at night. It has another face, different from the daytime.  Gorgeous neon lights and dressed-up women decorate the city at night. And then, there are men who live off of these women. This movie depicts the conflict of sex and desire between a procurer, called a "night arranger," and women who live in the neon city seeking money and pleasure.

title: Gang's Upward Strategy

title: The Political Game

overview: This is James Miki's first directorial work, and he is also the original writer and scriptwriter. Noritaka Sakamoto was in charge of photography, and Kentaro Haneda was in charge of music direction. It depicts how an honest candidate aiming for a clean election campaign gradually collapses in the face of various realities. Kiyokawa, the mayor of Higurashi City, died at his lover's house. Yoshihiko announces that he will conduct a clean election campaign, but his sponsors and backers are reluctant.

title: Truckster Goes to Hokkaido

overview: Momojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own.

original_title: トラック野郎　望郷一番星

title: Virus

overview: Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.

title: Girl in College

original_title: マル秘女子大生　妊娠中絶

title: The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor

overview: A lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time he's running from loan sharks and his personal expectations.

title: Japan's Don

overview: A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.

title: Tracked

overview: When a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain whether he will ever escape the shadow of his heinous crimes--or the detectives hot on his trail.

title: Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers

overview: After the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its allure. Even the gambling den of the Ryūzaki family was always deserted. Ryūzaki, the boss, declared his retirement in response to the changing times. It was thought that Igarashi, who valued righteousness and principles and had the respect of others, would become the second-in-command. However, he was an annoying presence to Ryūzaki...

title: Japan Organized Crime Boss

overview: Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is taken in a crossfire between a big yakuza group from Osaka at war with the Tokyo alliance for the control of the city. He tries to keep to the old yakuza code but he is no match for the new thugs who live and fight without honor.

title: Flower Season

overview: Kitamori Yuki was particular about her promise to her mother-in-law Hana. The promise is that, as the daughter-in-law of Koichi, the eldest son of the Kitamori family, Hana entrusts everything to Yuki, but wants her entire family to come see her on her birthday. At that time, her second son Keisuke's daughter Megumi, who is her private taxi driver, made a mistake, and she was overwhelmed and approached Yuki for advice. Eventually, her mother Kayo of Megumi learned about this, but a period was quietly struck by her women coming to a conclusion that should be the food for Megumi's growth.

title: Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha

overview: A gripping and entertaining historical drama that follows the actions of the thief Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi during the Edo period.

original_title: 鼠小僧次郎吉 必殺の白刃

title: Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences

overview: Attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre.

original_title: 狼やくざ　葬いは俺が出す

title: Onihei Crime Files Special: Bandits

overview: An old thief, Kuhei Sagiwara, used to visit his hometown at the foot of the Kurikara Pass in Kaga Province. Hiding from the rain, he overheard a secret conversation between three men, just like him, hiding from the rain. These three conspired to kill Heizo Hasegawa, the head of the arson and robbery police squad, and the head of these three is the outrageous villain, thief and murderer Jingoro Amikiri...

original_title: 鬼平犯科帳 スペシャル 兇賊

title: The Silent Sword: Loyalty and Honor

overview: Keinosuke (Masakazu Tamura) is a ronin (wandering samurai) who lives on the streets although he is a nobleman. There’s just one woman in this world that he loves, Shiho (Emi Wakui) but when he meets her again, she is already someone else’s wife. Her husband is a key person in the Chushingura incident. Love reignites between Keinosuke and Shiho but they get caught up in the spiral of fate of the Chushingura incident...

title: Demon

overview: Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a small coastal fishing town where he's become an honest fisherman.

title: Nerves for Victory

overview: A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading to a fight to the death with his own brother.

title: Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad

overview: Anthology film.  "What's Wrong with Eating?"  Numayama Kazuki is always complaining about his wife's, Atsugi Shizuka, body shape. Because of that Shizuka tries her best to restrict her diet and please Kazuki.  "It's So Far Away!"  Karuma Sae is an office lady who works in the city center but lives with her family in a house far away from her work. Because she is always rushing to catch the last train, she can never enjoy a decent date with her boyfriend, Oishi Mamoru. Her father is also always interfering in her life, so she can't appreciate the city life and isn't happy.  "Get Ready to Drive!"  Masuko is a new taxi driver in Tokyo who is very stressed from dealing with the behavior of some passengers. One night he drives a very beautiful drunk hostess home.  "What Is English?"  Kosaka Shigeru, a businessman, was transferred to a Chicago branch factory. He tried hard to learn English, practicing day and night, but couldn't improve as much as he expected.

original_title: バカヤロー！ 私、怒ってます

title: The Yoshida School

overview: Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history released, superimposed cast, a group image of real politicians centered on Shigeru Yoshida and political history after the war.

title: Gate of Youth 2

overview: Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.

title: Secret Club 000

title: It All Began When I Met You

overview: Six love stories following the love lives of ten different people.

title: Turkish March: Castle of Dreams

overview: In the notorious soapland district of Ogoto—Alice, a seasoned sex worker scarred by abuse and betrayal, is ready for a new start as she marries Honjo, a driver she once served. Despite her painful past, which includes being exploited by her stepfather and betrayed by her mother, Alice has found a semblance of family among her peers in the industry. She’s particularly close to Maya, a top earner in their shared apartment building, and maintains a complicated relationship with Dera, an intellectual companion of Maya’s.  When Alice and Maya are mugged, they discover that the assailant is Tamae—Alice’s own younger sister. As the web of relationships further entangles with characters like the man Ikuno who originally introduced Alice to this harsh world, and others whose lives spiral out of control, the story builds to a series of shocking events. These include violent confrontations, explosive accidents, and tragic mishaps that leave the characters emotionally and physically shattered.

title: Prison Boss

overview: Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.

title: Tsubaki Sanjuro

overview: "Tsubaki Sanjuro" is a remake of Sanjuro (1962) by Akira Kurosawa. Sanjuro returns with sharper, faster, subtler sword, talking and perception. He uses them to settle the trouble and uses them good!

title: Akuma no hitojichi

overview: An office lady, heartbroken after a failed romance with her boss, visits her favorite villa to try and heal her wounds, attempting suicide. Suddenly, bank robbers, escaping their pursuers, break into the villa. She is assaulted by one of the three men, but her hatred for him eventually transforms into love, and she experiences the ultimate physical pleasure.

title: Café Lumière

overview: In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregnant by a man she does not want to marry and has found a kindred spirit in a used bookstore owner who aids her research.

title: Zeccho shimai ochiru

overview: Mika, who used to be a call girl, is being pursued by a man that brokers prostitution. Her mother Yoshimi and older sister Mayumi also sold their bodies. But now, Mayumi will marry Soejima, a trading company man. Mika is happy to have a respectable relative and starts a part-time job at a pachinko parlor...

title: Lullaby of Death

overview: Also known as: For My Daughter's 7th Birthday.  Many years following her mother’s suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them, for revenge. All intertwined with the investigation of journalists into local murders, the manipulations of a palmist known as the “blue moth”, and political corruption.

title: Essential Information for a College Girl

overview: The erotic adventures and troubles of several female college students.

original_title: 女子大生の基礎知識　ＡＮＯ・ＡＮＯ

title: Momoe's Lips: Love Beast

overview: This year's Record Award was decided to go to popular singer Natsu Akemi. Yoshioka, the president of the production company, was using money, politicians, and women to secure his support. The remaining worry is Yoko Itsuki, who is about to marry her rival, popular actor Taura. So, in order to get rid of Yoko, he hires Mari Kusunoki, a trick girl who exposes star scandals. Set in the entertainment industry, where stars compete fiercely, the film depicts the secret actions of a "trick girl" who uncovers a scandal involving a popular singer.

title: Karate Warriors

overview: Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.

title: MARKS

overview: Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later in a similar manner, he begins to suspect that something bigger is going on...

title: The Hoodlum Brothers

title: Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast

overview: During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland Sea town. He vies with the school’s reigning bully, who takes a romantic interest in his older stepsister. When they learn she’s going to be sold to a brothel to pay off her father’s debts, they form an uneasy alliance to free her.

title: Tokyo Family

overview: An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.

title: Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza

overview: With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s eponymous novel. Three-time Seijun Suzuki collaborator Goro Tanada wrote a gangsterized adaptation of Ozaki’s story for Uchida at a time when the yakuza had eclipsed the samurai genre as Toei's main cash crop. Protagonist Hishakaku murders a man in a quarrel over a barmaid and goes to jail. In his temporary absence, his girlfriend Otoyo, a former geisha, falls for Hishakaku’s brother, inciting a dangerous love triangle that, in typical yakuza fashion, ends tragically.

original_title: 人生劇場 飛車角と吉良常

title: About Her Brother

overview: Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she discovers Tetsuro is terminally ill. Tetsuro’s impending death marks the beginning of love and toleration.

title: Winter's Flower

overview: Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself to the police, he asked his trusted man to take care of her. While in prison, Kanno kept sending letters to Youko, disguising as an uncle in Brazil. 15 years later, Kanno is released. He is determined to live legitimately, however the Yakuza has not forgotten his wicked deed!

title: The Firefly

overview: Shūji Yamaoka was a suicide pilot during the war who somehow survived Japan's surrender. After decades of working as a fisherman in Kumamoto, a provincial seaside city in southern Kyushu, Yamaoka remains reluctant to discuss his wartime experiences with anyone, much less an intrusive reporter looking for a feature story. Then a series of events shake Yamaoka to the core, forcing him to re-evaluate his past.

title: Moment of Demon

overview: Filled with guilt over his forbidden desires, a young man leaves home and his studies. He finds a new smaller place to stay, a low-paying but satisfying job and a girlfriend. Then his mother, unable to fight her forbidden desires, shows up.

title: Eijanaika

overview: The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminates in a revelrous march on the Tokyo Imperial Palace,  which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society.

title: The Drifting Classroom

overview: An entire Japanese international grade school—and all within—are mysteriously transported to a foreboding desert wasteland. As the story unfolds, the diminishing student body weathers this apocalyptic crisis while searching for clues about their surroundings, and dealing with psychological breakdown and dangerous exterior forces.

title: 実録・小野田少尉 遅すぎた帰還

overview: Army Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda (Nakamura Shido) has been fighting guerrilla warfare in the jungles of Lubang Island in the Philippines with his subordinates Corporal Shimada (Yanagiba Toshiro) and Private First Class Kozuka (Nishijima Hidetoshi) since the end of the Pacific War, without knowing the war had ended. Eventually, the two men die, unable to fulfil their duty to their homeland, and Onoda is left alone, but when a rescue team is sent out from the home country, he does not obey the order to return, believing it to be a diversion by the enemy, as the form of the return order is different.  However, an encounter with adventurer Norio Suzuki (Masato Sakai), who has come from Japan to look for Onoda, leads to Onoda's return to his homeland in March 1974, 30 years after the end of the war, after completing his intelligence work on Lubang Island.

original_title: 実録・小野田少尉 遅すぎた帰還

title: ホリデイ～江戸の休日～

title: Giwaku

title: The Little House

overview: Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which the old lady has recorded her memories. This is how he learns the truth about her youth working as a housemaid and nanny for the Hirai family in a little house in Tokyo with a red gabled roof.

title: The Ando Gang Documentary Film

overview: This biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his arrest after the shooting of businessman Hideki Yokoi.

title: Nuclear Gypsies

overview: Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area whose inhabitants are mainly from Okinawa. Upon her return, Barbara faces problems beyond her control. Her brother and two friends take one of their teachers hostage to extort money to go on a school trip. Miyazato, the man who loves Barbara is there, but not Aiko, her best friend. Miyazato, a yakuza and manager in a nuclear power plant has forced Aiko into prostitution for the workers of the plant. Barbara plans to help her escape from this hell. Aiko has been sent to Mihama. Without even thinking for a moment, Barbara decided to go see her friend.

original_title: 生きてるうちが花なのよ死んだらそれまでよ党宣言

title: Home Sweet Home

overview: "Home Sweet Home" deals with a family who, unable to cope with their aging grandfather's worsening dementia, abandon him at a group home for the elderly. When, racked by guilt, they return to retrieve him, they discover to their surprise. . .

title: Choji Snack Bar

overview: Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and serving the lively residents of his small hometown.

title: A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen

overview: Bored with school, 15-year-old Daisuke Kawashima embarks on a pilgrimage to visit the 7,000-year-old cedar tree on distant Yakushima Island. Through his journey, Daisuke meets a number of interesting people, including friendly truck driver Sumire and a mysterious mountaineer girl.

title: Prison Walls of Abashiri 3

overview: Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must rejoin the Asahi gang family in order to pay back a past debt. Trouble brews when the rival gang that was responsible for sending him to prison learns of his return. Left with no alternative to their constant harassment and threats, Tachibana decides to take them on.

title: Water Moon

overview: As the monk Ryuun, whose past and origin make him prone to internal and external fits, leaves the temple towards Tokyo, he gets to catch a glimpse of enlightenment resonating with the blind Kanoko.

title: The Longest Tunnel

overview: After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this project Akutsu becomes involved with Tae Makimura leading to his estrangement from his wife.

title: The Revolt

overview: When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold into a life of prostitution, his commander, Col. Miyagi, tries to honor his dying wish to rescue his sister. Upon finding Kaoru at a party working as a geisha and later rescuing her from committing suicide, Col. Miyagi allows her to move in with him. Over time, the two grow close, but in spite of Kaoru's growing feelings for him, Col. Miyagi is unable to bring himself to return her love. On the night of his deployment to war, Col. Miyagi finally admits his feelings for Kaoru, but will they ever be able to enjoy a peaceful life together now that a very violent and bloody military revolt is under way...

title: Nuns That Bite

overview: A woman on the run is raped, rescued, then raped again. Escaping, she heads for the hills and finds safe haven at a convent. After becoming a postulant (trainee nun), she catches her fellow sisters engaging in lesbianism, fighting over nothing, hurling snakes at each other, and engaging in mild flesh eating.

original_title: 女獄門帖　引き裂かれた尼僧

title: Lonely Heart

overview: Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his psyche, or is she real?

title: The Armed Organization

overview: Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsuruta as a yakuza supervising a dockworker's union. He finds himself between a rock and a hard place, at odds with both the dockworkers' leader (Tomisaburo Wakayama) and sadistic, unprincipled bosses (Fumio Watanabe and Tetsuro Tamba).

title: The Private Police

overview: After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kamikaze pilot, and the two ruffians gather hooligans to join their group. In Ginza, the Togawa gang have taken over Sakurada's territory. After several fights Kijima and Ôba gain control of the territory by chasing out the notorious Togawa Group in the name of Sakurada. But Kijima is arrested for assaulting an American soldier. A few years pass. Kijima has served his prison term and the sears of war have been erased from Ginza. Ôba is now president of a company specializing in collection of bad debts, cheque frauds and everything that means money. People call their organization the “Private Police,” and Kijima begins to work for Ôba. Now the Takegami gang waits a chance to seize the Ginza territory.

title: Nagasaki: Memories of My Son

overview: Nobuko works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On August 9, 1948, her son appears in front of her again. Since that time, Koji appears in front of her and they reminiscence about pleasant times. These happy, but bizarre moments seem eternal.

title: Amateur Singing Contest

overview: Traditional Japanese pop singer Reiko (Muroi) decides to enter a well-known TV program for amateur singers along with a confused teenager (Ôtomo) and a 40-year-old father of four (Bito).

title: Saraba Abunai Deka

title: Free and Easy 9

overview: Hama-chan’s sales department gets a new supervisor, a hard-working taskmaster that’s the very opposite of carefree, irresponsible Hama-chan. The veteran employee decides to find his boss, a divorced father, a new wife. The supervisor loves a bar hostess “mama-san,” but is unable to confess his true feelings until Hama-chan comes to his rescue.

title: Love Lost in Tears

overview: Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by "Namida koi" by Aki Yashiro.

original_title: 夜の歌謡シリーズ　なみだ恋

title: Early Spring Story

overview: A Japanese high school student passionate about photography discovers love while confronting the past choices of her deceased mother.

title: King of the Night Life

title: A Homance

overview: A homeless man suffering from memory loss is unbeatable in a fight. He becomes involved with the Yakuza.  It is based on a manga by Carib Marley.

title: A Brief Message from the Heart

overview: A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.

original_title: 日本一短い「母」への手紙

title: What a Wonderful Family! 2

overview: Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new problems. Ignoring his family’s worry that he is too old to drive, Shuzo takes his old schoolmate for a spin after carousing. Soon, a new disturbance arises for the Hirata family. Veteran director Yamada Yoji continues his comedy about the “perfect“ Japanese family turned upside down in chaos, laughters and understanding. This time, with an additional taste of death.

title: Maiko monogatari

title: Doberman Cop

overview: Joji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grisly murder of an Okinawa woman. As he probes deeper into the sleazy world of flesh-peddling, talent agency corruption and mob influence, Kano uncovers the shocking truth.

title: Hokuriku Proxy War

overview: A Yakuza group from Osaka with dreams of national dominance moves into the snowy Hokuriku region, sparking a bloody turf war with local gangs.

title: Impossibility Defense

overview: At a certain park, there is a mysterious man, who has red eyes and a black suit, that people can go to and request him to kill someone. His assassinations can never be blamed on him because he takes no illegal action. His strength is in the power of suggestion and the arrangement of events. He accepts these requests, all the while privately mocking the foolishness of those whose unwise wishes he grants.

title: Suspicion

overview: A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who perishes. Riding alongside him and surviving unhurt is his second wife, Kumako. It soon comes to light that Kumako’s husband was insured for 300 million yen and she is arrested on suspicion of murdering her husband for the insurance money. The newspapers denounce her as an evil woman, while the public is in no doubt about Kumako’s crime. Ritsuko Sahara is chosen as her defence attorney but the pair clash over almost everything...

title: Curse of the Dog God

overview: A trio of young scientists investigate a source of uranium at the base of a sacred mountain, and after running over a dog, find themselves cursed by the locals.

title: The Domain: Flower and Dragon

title: Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder

overview: A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of violence.

original_title: 狼やくざ　殺しは俺がやる

title: Yakuza Graveyard

overview: A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice.

original_title: やくざの墓場　くちなしの花

title: Under the Flag of the Rising Sun

overview: A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been destroyed, and the ministry that distributes benefits continues to deny her a pension. Twenty-six years after the war, she seeks out four survivors of her husband's garrison. Each tells a dramatically different story about her husband's conduct, but she is determined to learn the truth.

title: Street Mobster

overview: After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza factions. He gathers his crew and takes them on.

title: Yakuza Skirmishes

overview: In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively with prostitutes, politicians and the police.

title: Quarreling with Yakuza

overview: Set loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most powerful gang in Tokyo's glittering Shibuya ward.

original_title: やくざと抗争　実録安藤組

title: Shin Jidan Koshonin Ura File

overview: "Elite" members of an insurance company are gathered together to form a unit to investigate an accident and whether the company needs to pay out on the insurance policy or not.

original_title: 新・示談交渉人　裏ファイル

title: Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers

overview: The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s released he finds everything completely changed and his gang has swept him aside for being too violent. He tries to start a new life with his two ”brothers” but can’t seem to escape old affiliations

title: Bakayarō! 2: I Want to Be Happy

original_title: バカヤロー！2 幸せになりたい。

title: What a Wonderful Family!

overview: A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present. She replies that she wants a divorce. The wife's divorce announcement sends the entire family into chaos.

title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

overview: As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.

title: New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss

overview: The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The next stage of this continuing drama is the Kanmon Channel where the Owada and the Kyoei groups are battling for territorial rights and drug smuggling. The Owada sends their man, Tetsu, and his friend Shuji to kill the Kyoei boss. With the promise of fame and riches, Shuji takes the fall and goes to jail for 7 years. But when he's released, he discovers that he and Tetsu have been all but forgotten by the Owada. Feeling betrayed, Shuji takes matters into his own hands and becomes an unsuspecting pawn in an internal conflict and an assassination attempt on the Owada boss. And now angered, Shuji seeks revenge...

original_title: 新仁義なき戦い 組長の首

title: New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss

overview: The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constantly bullied by the upper organization and “bleed in vain” in gang wars.

original_title: 新仁義なき戦い 組長最後の日

title: Shogun's Samurai

overview: Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and birthmark which undermine his respect. Iemitsu and his brother Tadanaga become bitter rivals for the shogunate, and the land is split into factions, eventually erupting into warfare. Iemitsu's mentor, his fencing instructor Yagyu, is fixated upon securing Iemitsu the shogunate and ends up betraying everyone, even his own family, in pursuit of the goal.

title: Gate of Youth

overview: The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. Ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of his life. Shinsuke's father a group leader at the mine, dies while bravely using dynamite to rescue a group of trapped Korean miners. Several older men attempt to help he and his mother cope, including a friendly Harley-riding yakuza boss. This movie has it all, drama, romance, sex, yakuza and violence! It is based on a story by Hiroyuki Itsuki that was originally serialized in the magazine Shukan Gendai in 1969-70.

title: Asabuki Riyako, Female Attorney: The Little Accomplice

overview: Attorney Asabuki Riyako goes to Ginza with her husband Kunio, where she almost has her handbag taken by a young boy. The youth had been involved in a murder case six years earlier. Yabuhara, the chief counsel at the firm Asabuki works at, was in charge of the case.

original_title: 女弁護士 朝吹里矢子～小さな共犯者

title: Kamikaze Cop, No Epitaph to Us

overview: Detective Hayata's friend is killed by criminals. In order to find the murder, Hayata infiltrate a gang, with the aim of getting closer to the big bosses responsible for the murder

original_title: やくざ刑事　俺たちに墓はない

title: Secret Information

overview: A gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and spent eight years in prison. Now released, he wants to find out who squealed on him.

title: Virgin Road

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: The Classroom of Terror

overview: Yusaku Matsuda plays an ex-boxer who killed an opponent during a fight. He is brought into a school to deal with a gang of disruptive students led by Hiroshi Tachi.

title: Nogare no machi

overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Kenzo Kitakata.

title: Hoshi Meguri no Machi

overview: An old widower who lives with his two daughter runs a tofu store,one day a distant relative comes to his home looking to heal his wounded heart after losing his family in the 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

title: The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze

overview: The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight schools. However, the flight schools have extremely demanding, harsh training, and once they finally become pilots, they must become suicide bombers and give their lives for their homeland.

title: Gambler's World

title: Japanese Godfather: Conclusion

overview: The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.

title: Detective Tokunosuke Jinbo 10

original_title: 駅弁刑事・神保徳之助10

title: Detective Tokunosuke Jinbo 11 ~ Friendship Through Train Trip ~

original_title: 駅弁刑事・神保徳之助11　～わたらせ鉄道 友情編～

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: The Story of a Man Among Men

overview: During the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss with the help and respect of his sworn brothers.

title: Asabuki Riyako, Female Lawyer: The Young Eyewitness

overview: Attorney Asabuki Riyako goes to wine store in Ginza and meets a friend from college, Matsuura Ayano. Matsuura is the CEO of a wine company. The next morning, Asabuki learns from the news that Matsuura's father has died in one of the rooms at the inn.

original_title: 女弁護士朝吹里矢子・幼い目撃者

title: The Gambler's Counterattack

overview: Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has broken up, and only a few people still respect him. So he becomes a consultant to another gang who are about to be clobbered by a much larger gang moving in from out of town. Aiba proves a crafty tactician, and does very well at playing gangs off against each other in order to save the smaller gang. His advice is not always taken by those he tries to help, but he is generally proved right.

title: Organized Violence

overview: A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.

title: Clock Store's Girl

overview: The story is about the emotional and spiritual exchange between an elderly watchmaker and a cheerful and kind young woman who lost her mother in the tsunami of the Great Tohoku Earthquake. The woman asks the watchmaker to repair a wristwatch, which is a precious memento left her by late mother.

title: The Seburi Story

overview: The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the community's members who especially experience difficulties as modern Japan encroaches on their world. The setting is World War II, and conflicts have already arisen when the military police come to take Seburi men away into the army. Still following their own customs that can be harsh at times, and are particularly cruel to women (women must give birth alone and unaided, a woman's adultery is punished by burying her up to her neck in the earth and then leaving her for days), the Seburi are mainly treated with fear and animosity by the non-Seburi townspeople of the region. Along with the hardships arising from cultural clashes, nature's own vagaries present other challenges to the Seburi -- who still lived in tents until the 1950s. Winter avalanches and snowstorms cause as much havoc as the tensions engendered by the slow encroachment of the modern world.

title: Farewell to the Land

overview: Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two young sons, whose names he has had tattooed on his back in penance, and locked in a sibling rivalry with his traditional but urbane younger brother who lives in Tokyo, Yukio has become an amphetamine-addicted loner at odds with his family, friends and colleagues.

title: A Kamikaze Cop

overview: An undercover cop befriends a yakuza underling who through his contacts helps him infiltrate two rival Yakuza gangs. He pits the two rival gangs against each other in hopes that they will cross each other out.

title: Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo

overview: Hidejirō is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tries to take over the company and kills their boss, Hidejirō must choose between his promise of non-violence and his yakuza code of revenge...

title: His Motorbike, Her Island

overview: Ko, a motorbike enthusiast from the city wandering the Japanese countryside, falls for the carefree local Miyo and teaches her how to ride. When Miyo proves herself a biker prodigy, Ko begins to fear she's destined to crash.

original_title: 彼のオートバイ、彼女の島

title: Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

overview: After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.

original_title: 女囚さそり 第41雑居房

title: Desperate Pursuit

overview: In the desert of Egypt, Kurata, the CEO of the Japanese corporation Tokokaihatsu, is killed by a sniper.  After the news reaches Japan, the CEO's lawyer, Yamamoto, receives a visit from two men that attempt to steal the deceased CEO's will.  This is witnessed by two detectives, Tsuzuki and Ōnuki, but they fail to catch the perps.  Yamamoto hands the detectives a set of keys before he stops breathing.  Tsuzuki and Ōnuki now have to investigate Kurata's murder...

title: A Desirable Marriage

overview: A human drama on the state of marriage today, following the battle between a mother and daughter over her marriage and humorous depictions of the people around them. When Mieko's husband passes away, she hopes to arrange a good marriage for her daughter Non, but things don't go as planned when Non reveals there's already a love interest in her life.

title: Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion

overview: After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cahoots with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire for revenge knows no bounds.

title: Crimson Night Dream

title: The Hidden Blade

overview: Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest friend.

title: Hanayome

overview: Chiyo, a 59 year old mother of 4, had lost her husband seven years ago. She will soon lose her home so she is offered by her eldest son, Ryoichi to live with him and his family. But her children are disappointed to hear that Chiyo has decided to become a live-in housekeeper. Then her eldest daughter Setsuko announced that Chiyo has had an offer of marriage. It is from the widower Kurosaki who had been a friend to Chiyo's deceased husband. Kurosaki runs a small company and has no children but has enough life savings. However, second daughter Tomoe, and youngest child, Yoko, are opposed to it. The siblings begin to argue. Meanwhile, Kurosaki tells his sister Namiko that he has decided to remarry. She is furious because he refuses to tell her anything about Chiyo. Thus, she takes it upon herself to find out about Chiyo and soon has a confrontation with her. Around that time, Kurosaki’s company is about to go bankrupt...

title: Game of Chance

overview: Bungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling. Deciding to quit his vices, he works menial jobs, drifting from city to city. However, not completely losing his gambling tastes, he became a hunted man and must escape to Tokyo after he was found cheating at dice. Bungo and his son Kenichi comes upon the Kizaki Family in Asakusa, where more troubles are awaiting them...

title: Tora-san, Wish You Were Here

overview: The 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the series. The adult Mitsuo, Tora-san’s nephew, who runs into Izumi, his first love, whom he had once promised to marry. The familiar faces of Kurumaya Cafe, which Tora-san’s family ran in Shibamata, also return. Catching up with old friends, it is always their dearest memories of Tora-san which everyone shares on such occasions…

original_title: 男はつらいよ お帰り 寅さん

title: The Island Closest to Heaven

overview: A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that her late father had told her about.

title: Festival Champ

overview: Hiroki Matsukata is a fish market worker and a fanatical Japanese festival rascal. He also falls in love with a stripper while delivering his colleague's love letter to her but forgetting to mention it's from another man.

original_title: お祭り野郎 魚河岸の兄弟分

title: Military Comfort Woman

overview: Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army during WW2.

title: Code Between Brothers: All New

overview: When the boss of the Nakano Family decides to retire and makes a loyal follower the new boss instead of his own son, it causes strife in the family. Sides are taken and lines are drawn. Meanwhile, a rival family with a land dispute with the Nakano starts pulling strings behind the scenes...

title: Dr. Hikojiro

overview: One day, Hikojiro receives an emergency call from inn proprietress Shino Ogawa to examine Tadahiko Mori, a guest complaining of stomach pain. Mori, who owns an art gallery in Tokyo, has come to Kyoto on a trip with his only daughter, high school student Nanami. Hikojiro gives him his business card, telling him to contact him if the pain comes back. However, the next day, Mori is found dead...!

original_title: ドクター彦次郎１～塀の中から来た名医！

title: Glorious Fights

overview: A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He fiercely battles violent elements in southern Japan like there is no tomorrow.

title: Jugyo Sankan no Onna

overview: One spring, Tasaka, an elementary school teacher, receives a new class of first graders. While taking the children's attendance, Tasaka is surprised to see a call girl he once had an encounter with standing among the parents in the back of the classroom. According to the school's files, her name is Yukako Sawada, and her child Eisaku has no legal father. The next day, Eisaku gives Tasaka a letter from Yukako asking to meet at the hotel where they first met, and Tasaka sets out with an uneasy feeling...

title: Kyotaro Nishimura Special: Murder on the ‘Traveling Go’ around Japan.

overview: Hiroshi Hamano, a professor at a medical university, is found dead. Going by the results of the autopsy, it appears he committed suicide by jumping off a roof, but going by eyewitness testimony and physical evidence at the scene, Detective Kamei suspects murder. A ticket for a train trip around Japan is found in the professor's pocket. However, nobody then could have known the shocking truth hidden behind the tour the dead man was supposed to attend...

original_title: 西村京太郎スペシャル　日本一周「旅号」殺人事件

title: New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion

overview: Once again we focus on Nami Matsushima. This time she has a sister who goes missing and after getting too caught up in doing something about it, our innocent heroine is given a fifteen year sentence for a murder she didn't commit. She's sent to an all women prison where she's not exactly welcome. Her fellow inmates torture, humiliate and try to kill her; but the Scorpion prevails long enough to get some justice.

title: Makeup

title: Station

overview: A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.

title: Uzumasa Limelight

overview: Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, veteran "kirareyaku" (whose job it is to be felled with a sword by a film's star) actor Kamiyama is tasked with teaching sword action techniques to fledgling actress Satsuki. A few years later, the now-retired Kamiyama is visited by Satsuki, who has become a popular star.

title: Message from Space

overview: The peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders from his mother rather than the Emperor. King Kaiba sends out eight Liabe holy seeds, each to be received by a chosen one to defend the Gavanas. Each recipient, ranging from hardened General Garuda to Gavana Prince Hans to young Terrans Meia, Kido, and Aaron all have different reactions to being chosen.

title: Labyrinth of Cinema

overview: When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time to the world inside the screen.

original_title: 海辺の映画館－キネマの玉手箱

title: The Stupid Teacher

overview: Film director Mario Baba meets a mysterious gentleman, and realizes he is a important man from his boyhood. The two chase each other around, causing a lot of commotion.

title: Love Beast: Attack!

overview: A high school girl gets molested by her mother’s current lover. He is a sleazy detective working on the yakuza drug trade. The girl runs away from home but returns five years later with a newspaper article describing her mother’s apparent suicide. Within the corruption of a decaying shipping port she is determined to find the truth behind her mother’s death and what happened to her younger sister who had stayed behind.

title: Umi e, See You

overview: Team DANKAI are set to compete in the Paris-Dakar Rally, an off-road endurance race spanning thousands of miles and multiple continents. Prior to the event, DANKAI leader Mizuki is ordered by their sponsor to add popular celebrity Ryuichi Yoshii to the roster for publicity. This exacerbates DANKAI's resentments and baggage. Needing a steady hand to mediate dispute and navigate their support vehicle, Mizuki recruits legendary retired mechanic/driver Eiji Honma to the team. Soon Honma discovers his ex-wife Kei is also participating in the rally, alongside her current husband, the bullfighter Antonio Vázquez. Honma's truck also comes to include stowaway passenger Yuko Takei, Yoshii's pop star girlfriend who is trying to salvage their relationship.

title: A True Story of the Private Ginza Police

overview: Japan, 1946, just after the end of World War II. As the US occupation army patrols the dilapidated streets of Tokyo, a desperate and ambitious group of war veterans and gamblers struggle to take control of the Ginza district's underworld with the help of a deranged soldier.

title: Pretty Devil Yoko

overview: Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl discovers partying in Tokyo is a ton of fun. Yakuza-to-be is an acquaintance who tries to rape her, and the typically bland but very-good-here the first boyfriend.

title: Abashiri Prison: Challenge to the Evil

title: Yanagase Blues

overview: Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.

title: The Audition

overview: Four girls and their manager aiming for stardom!

title: Violent Panic: The Big Crash

overview: Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a woman that loves him, his dead partner's brother, a corrupt cop, a motorcycle gang and every police officer in the Kanto region.

title: Stay or go?

overview: Shohei Taguchi is a salaryman who works for a securities company and loves women like no other. One day, he plans to use the cash borrowed from the gangsters and snatch to repay his debt . However, Sayoko Mukai, who said that she used the money of the company for gambling , took over the money. Shohei and Sayoko plan a robbery and steal cash from the gallery, but another man steals it.

title: Delinquent Street

title: Another Battle/Conspiracy

overview: Katsunori Takahashi and Ken Watanabe star in a modern yakuza tale in the classic Japanese film series, Battles Without Honor and Humanity, directed by Hajime Hashimoto.

title: Night Train

overview: A woman faces betrayal, which tests her love.

title: The Motive

overview: Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens it is discovered that one of the victims isn't related to the family.

title: A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage

overview: A widow who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins attending a technical college to gain new qualifications. She meets others looking for a new start in life, including a former salaryman with whom she begins a furtive romance...

title: The detective whose path was crossed by a snake

overview: Starring Ken Takakura, this TV special depicts a detective (Akira Hayasaka) who lives in a harsh life with pride and conviction.  Minoru Akiba, Chief of the Investigation Division 1 of the Metropolitan Police Department, is a veteran detective who has passed through the shrine in numerous incidents. His wife was killed by a criminal he caught 13 years ago as revenge. There is a report that his former subordinate, Constable Murasawa, was stabbed to death under Akiba... Suzuki Kyoka plays his daughter.

title: It's a Flickering Life

overview: The story centers on a man who loves movies, having once worked at movie studio in pursuit of his dreams, surrounded by great directors and famous actors. In this tale of love and friendship spanning a lifetime, the "god of cinema" that Go has worshipped since he was young will transcend time, and work a miracle in the lives of one family.

title: Megumi no Sekai

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

title: Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate

overview: An undercover cop insinuates himself into a yakuza family. Managing to avert an assassination attack on the boss he is assigned to kill a rival boss.

original_title: やくざ刑事　マリファナ密売組織

title: Paper Lantern

overview:
A new wave Yakuza film in which Takanori Jinnai plays a young Yakuza suffering from stomach cancer who has very little left to live.
 This film is based on the posthumous manuscript of Shoji Kaneko, the legendary director who died of cancer after completing work on the hit "Ryuji".

title: The Navy

overview: A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to fight for his country. He convinces his best friend Shinji to join him. As it turns out, however, Takao's poor health prevents him from entering the navy while his friend is chosen instead. As time goes by, Takao becomes a painter and changes his mind about the meaningfulness of war and fighting, while his friend goes the opposite path. Meanwhile Takao's sister falls in love with Shinji.

title: Shōwa Gokudōshi

title: Chūshingura Urabanashi: Nakazō Kyōran

overview: Nakazo is forced by his foster mother, Shun, to practice dance intensively. He is bullied in the Kabuki world, and worries about his future as an actor.

title: Color

title: Gang Warfare

original_title: ギャング対ギャング　赤と黒のブルース

title: Oda Nobunaga

overview: The show follows the early years of Japanese warlord hero Oda Nobunaga in the 16th century. As a young man Oda was not seen as the right heir to the Oda clan, but through a masterful political marriage arranged by his father, Oda Nobunaga not only gained influence, he also became the Daimyo who joined the three imperial counties to unite Japan.

original_title: 織田信長 天下を取ったバカ

title: Rogue Of The Night

title: Thugs of Shinjuku

overview: Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting in well with established gangs, he forms a rag-tag gang called “the Shinjuku Brothers.” The members of their gang are thugs who only wish they were traditional yakuza. When they turn up at the funeral for a gangster, they are not welcomed, but a senior boss intervenes to keep things calm. The boss of bosses invites them to join a respected local council of warlords. Katsumata is suspicious of why such powerful men would extend an invitation to lowlife like himself.

title: Patience Has An End

overview: Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.

title: Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters

overview: After helping a pregnant girl escape from their reform school and facing the resulting punishment, a clique of delinquent girls eventually reunites a year later in Tokyo to face different challenges in the form of yakuza and…  street vendors.

title: A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life

overview: A reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from prison the plan for his revenge unravels.

title: Toire no kamisama

overview: Kana Uemura's song "Toilet no Kamisama" turned into a 2-hour drama special on TBS. The song, which is nearly 10 minutes in length, tells of Uemura's relationship with her grandmother, from her childhood to her grandmother's death.

title: Tokyo Taxi

overview: One day, taxi driver Koji Usami is tasked with driving 85-year-old Sumire Takano from Shibamata, Tokyo to a senior care facility in Hayama, Kanagawa. Sumire asks Koji to make some detours. Gradually opening up to her, Sumire begins to tell the story of her grand past...

title: Insurance Investigator Shigarami Taro's Case Files ~Sanuki Murder Case~

overview: Taro Shiraga (played by Ninomi Kobayashi), nicknamed “Shigarami Taro”, works in the insurance company’s contract management division. Officially, his role is to entertain insurance saleswomen and encourage them to improve their sales performance. Behind the scenes, however, he is a shrewd investigator of insurance pay-outs. Whenever an incident occurs, his “eyes” at the scene are sharp and discerning. Yet this hidden side of him remains unknown to his colleagues and family. One day, Taro is instructed to go to Matsue under the pretence of entertaining saleswomen from the Matsue branch. In reality, it is an assignment to investigate an insurance claim.

original_title: 保険調査員 しがらみ太郎の事件簿「出雲・松江殺人事件」

title: The Bullet Train

overview: A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race to find the bombers so the train crew can learn how to defuse the bomb.

title: Abunai Deka Forever The Movie

overview: Taka and Yuji are searching for a mercenary for the international terrorist organization "The Network" when the head of its branch arrives in Yokohama to carry out Operation Heat Storm.

original_title: あぶない刑事フォーエヴァー THE MOVIE

title: Fear of Sex

title: The Wicked

overview: A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves throws him into a spiral of destruction.

title: Tokyo Bordello

overview: A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo.  The owner of the brothel has hopes to make her a great new addition which will attract the richest of customers. But after several months of training, she tries to flee Yoshiwara when the time has come for her to take her first customer...

title: Shin Jidan Koshonin Ura File 3

overview: The Marutoku unit reopens a controversial past accident while probing a fresh insurance claim. As links emerge between victims and insiders, chief MINEKO Ōga and rookie IPPEI chase the truth behind staged crashes and fraud.

original_title: 新・示談交渉人 裏ファイル3

title: Big Bad Wolf

title: The Bear Storm

title: 47 Ronin

title: Love and Honor

title: 森村誠一女のサスペンス「マリッジ」

original_title: 森村誠一女のサスペンス「マリッジ」

title: 樅ノ木は残った

title: The Twilight Samurai

title: Woman His Prey

title: The Ballad of Narayama

title: Crazy Thunder Road

title: Captain Ultra: The Movie

title: Railroad Man

title: Night Guy

title: Gang's Upward Strategy

title: The Political Game

title: Truckster Goes to Hokkaido

original_title: トラック野郎　望郷一番星

title: Virus

title: Girl in College

original_title: マル秘女子大生　妊娠中絶

title: The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor

title: Japan's Don

title: Tracked

title: Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers

title: Japan Organized Crime Boss

original_title: 鼠小僧次郎吉 必殺の白刃

title: Flower Season

title: Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences

original_title: 狼やくざ　葬いは俺が出す

title: Onihei Crime Files Special: Bandits

original_title: 鬼平犯科帳 スペシャル 兇賊

title: The Silent Sword: Loyalty and Honor

title: Demon

title: Nerves for Victory

title: Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad

original_title: バカヤロー！ 私、怒ってます

title: The Yoshida School

title: Gate of Youth 2

title: Secret Club 000

title: It All Began When I Met You

title: Turkish March: Castle of Dreams

title: Prison Boss

title: Tsubaki Sanjuro

title: Akuma no hitojichi

title: Café Lumière

title: Zeccho shimai ochiru

title: Lullaby of Death

original_title: 女子大生の基礎知識　ＡＮＯ・ＡＮＯ

title: Momoe's Lips: Love Beast

title: Karate Warriors

title: MARKS

title: The Hoodlum Brothers

title: Tokyo Family

original_title: 人生劇場 飛車角と吉良常

title: About Her Brother

title: The Firefly

title: Moment of Demon

title: Winter's Flower

title: Eijanaika

title: The Drifting Classroom

title: 実録・小野田少尉 遅すぎた帰還

original_title: 実録・小野田少尉 遅すぎた帰還

title: ホリデイ～江戸の休日～

title: Giwaku

title: The Little House

title: The Ando Gang Documentary Film

title: Nuclear Gypsies

original_title: 生きてるうちが花なのよ死んだらそれまでよ党宣言

title: Home Sweet Home

title: Choji Snack Bar

title: A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen

title: Prison Walls of Abashiri 3

title: Water Moon

title: The Longest Tunnel

title: The Revolt

title: Nuns That Bite

original_title: 女獄門帖　引き裂かれた尼僧

title: Lonely Heart

title: The Armed Organization

title: The Private Police

title: Nagasaki: Memories of My Son

title: Amateur Singing Contest

title: Saraba Abunai Deka

title: Free and Easy 9

title: Love Lost in Tears

original_title: 夜の歌謡シリーズ　なみだ恋

title: Early Spring Story

title: King of the Night Life

title: A Homance

title: A Brief Message from the Heart

original_title: 日本一短い「母」への手紙

title: What a Wonderful Family! 2

title: Maiko monogatari

title: Doberman Cop

title: Hokuriku Proxy War

title: Impossibility Defense

title: Suspicion

title: Curse of the Dog God

title: The Domain: Flower and Dragon

title: Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder

original_title: 狼やくざ　殺しは俺がやる

title: Yakuza Graveyard

original_title: やくざの墓場　くちなしの花

title: Under the Flag of the Rising Sun

title: Street Mobster

title: Yakuza Skirmishes

title: Quarreling with Yakuza

original_title: やくざと抗争　実録安藤組

title: Shin Jidan Koshonin Ura File

original_title: 新・示談交渉人　裏ファイル

title: Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers

title: Bakayarō! 2: I Want to Be Happy

original_title: バカヤロー！2 幸せになりたい。

title: What a Wonderful Family!

original_title: 新仁義なき戦い 組長最後の日

original_title: 新仁義なき戦い 組長の首

title: Shogun's Samurai

title: Gate of Youth

original_title: 女弁護士 朝吹里矢子～小さな共犯者

title: Kamikaze Cop, No Epitaph to Us

original_title: やくざ刑事　俺たちに墓はない

title: Secret Information

title: Virgin Road

original_title: 税務調査官・窓際太郎の事件簿30

title: The Classroom of Terror

title: Nogare no machi

title: Hoshi Meguri no Machi

title: The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze

title: Gambler's World

title: Japanese Godfather: Conclusion

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: Detective Tokunosuke Jinbo 10

original_title: 駅弁刑事・神保徳之助10

original_title: 駅弁刑事・神保徳之助11　～わたらせ鉄道 友情編～

title: The Story of a Man Among Men

original_title: 女弁護士朝吹里矢子・幼い目撃者

title: The Gambler's Counterattack

title: Organized Violence

title: Clock Store's Girl

title: The Seburi Story

title: Farewell to the Land

title: A Kamikaze Cop

title: His Motorbike, Her Island

original_title: 彼のオートバイ、彼女の島

title: Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

original_title: 女囚さそり 第41雑居房

title: Desperate Pursuit

title: A Desirable Marriage

title: Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion

title: Crimson Night Dream

title: The Hidden Blade

title: Hanayome

title: Game of Chance

title: Tora-san, Wish You Were Here

original_title: 男はつらいよ お帰り 寅さん

title: Festival Champ

original_title: お祭り野郎 魚河岸の兄弟分

title: The Island Closest to Heaven

title: Military Comfort Woman

title: Code Between Brothers: All New

title: Dr. Hikojiro

original_title: ドクター彦次郎１～塀の中から来た名医！

title: Glorious Fights

title: Jugyo Sankan no Onna

original_title: 西村京太郎スペシャル　日本一周「旅号」殺人事件

title: Makeup

title: New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion

title: Station

title: Uzumasa Limelight

title: Message from Space

title: Labyrinth of Cinema

original_title: 海辺の映画館－キネマの玉手箱

title: The Stupid Teacher

title: Love Beast: Attack!

title: Umi e, See You

title: Pretty Devil Yoko

title: Abashiri Prison: Challenge to the Evil

title: Yanagase Blues

title: The Audition

title: Violent Panic: The Big Crash

title: Stay or go?

title: Delinquent Street

title: Another Battle/Conspiracy

title: Night Train

title: The Motive

title: A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage

title: It's a Flickering Life

title: Megumi no Sekai

title: Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate

original_title: やくざ刑事　マリファナ密売組織

title: Paper Lantern

title: The Navy

title: Shōwa Gokudōshi

title: Chūshingura Urabanashi: Nakazō Kyōran

title: Color

title: Gang Warfare

original_title: ギャング対ギャング　赤と黒のブルース

title: Oda Nobunaga

original_title: 織田信長 天下を取ったバカ

title: Rogue Of The Night

title: Thugs of Shinjuku

title: Patience Has An End

title: Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters

title: A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life

title: Toire no kamisama

title: Tokyo Taxi

original_title: 保険調査員 しがらみ太郎の事件簿「出雲・松江殺人事件」

title: The Bullet Train

title: Abunai Deka Forever The Movie

original_title: あぶない刑事フォーエヴァー THE MOVIE

title: Fear of Sex

title: The Wicked

title: Tokyo Bordello

title: Shin Jidan Koshonin Ura File 3

original_title: 新・示談交渉人 裏ファイル3

title: Big Bad Wolf

高村薫サスペンス 去りゆく日に

original_name: 高村薫サスペンス 去りゆく日に

Yellow Taped Newswoman

original_name: 出入禁止の女 ～事件記者 クロガネ～

西村京太郎トラベルサスペンス 寝台特急八分停車

original_name: 西村京太郎トラベルサスペンス 寝台特急八分停車

西村京太郎サスペンス 寝台特急「はやぶさ」の女

original_name: 西村京太郎サスペンス 寝台特急「はやぶさ」の女

横山秀夫サスペンス「真相」

original_name: 横山秀夫サスペンス「真相」

Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon

original_name: ドクターX ～外科医・大門未知子～

original_name: 二百三高地 愛は死にますか

Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi

original_name: これから～海辺の旅人たち～

original_name: 風雲江戸城 怒涛の将軍徳川家光

大空港警察副署長　日暮征次郎走る!

original_name: 大空港警察副署長　日暮征次郎走る!

いなか刑事 伊原泰三の退職捜査日誌

original_name: いなか刑事 伊原泰三の退職捜査日誌

走れ！事件記者 娘に捧げる最後のスクープ

original_name: 走れ！事件記者 娘に捧げる最後のスクープ

炎の警備隊長・五十嵐杜夫

original_name: 炎の警備隊長・五十嵐杜夫

original_name: 税務調査官・窓際太郎の事件簿 スペシャル

The Castle of Sand

original_name: 松本清張ドラマスペシャル 砂の器

original_name: 女刑事みずき〜京都洛西署物語〜


Ichiro Yamamoto

English

iso_639_1: en

iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

日本語

iso_639_1: ja

iso_3166_1: JP

english_name: Japanese

普通话

iso_639_1: zh

iso_3166_1: HK

english_name: Mandarin

Český

iso_639_1: cs

iso_3166_1: CZ

english_name: Czech

Український

iso_639_1: uk

iso_3166_1: UA

english_name: Ukrainian

also_known_as:
山本 一郎
Ichirô Yamamoto
Ichirou Yamamoto

job: Producer

title: The Twilight Samurai

overview: Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?

department: Production

original_title: たそがれ清兵衛

original_language: ja

title: Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog

overview: A Labrador retriever named Quill begins specialized training as a guide dog from an early age, then the canine is paired with a blind man who is initially reluctant to rely on his new partner.

original_title: クイール

job: Director

title: ANOHITO -THE ONE-

overview: Four young soldiers raise the orphaned son of their commanding officer. As they each decide to go working in munitions factories, it is up to four women to take care of the boy as they wait for the men to return.

department: Directing

original_title: あのひと

title: Café Lumière

overview: In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregnant by a man she does not want to marry and has found a kindred spirit in a used bookstore owner who aids her research.

original_title: 珈琲時光

title: About Her Brother

overview: Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she discovers Tetsuro is terminally ill. Tetsuro’s impending death marks the beginning of love and toleration.

original_title: おとうと

job: Screenplay

title: Love and Honor

overview: A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband's honor.

department: Writing

original_title: 武士の一分

title: Love and Honor

job: Line Producer

title: Taboo

overview: Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.

original_title: 御法度

title: The Hidden Blade

overview: Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest friend.

original_title: 隠し剣 鬼の爪

job: Co-Producer

title: Omotenashi

overview: Cultures meet and values are learnt through the renovation of an inn.

original_title: おもてなし

title: The Twilight Samurai

media_type: movie

title: Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog

title: ANOHITO -THE ONE-

title: Café Lumière

title: About Her Brother

title: Love and Honor

title: Love and Honor

title: Taboo

title: The Hidden Blade

title: Omotenashi


Darrin Navarro

biography: Darrin Navarro, ACE, began his film career in the late 1980s, working as an assistant editor on low-budget exploitation films for independent producers such as Roger Corman and Fred Olen Ray before finding work at the major studios on pictures like Sam Raimi’s Darkman (1990) and Peter Bogdanovich’s The Thing Called Love (1993). In 1995, he assisted on William Friedkin’s Jade, which began a nearly three-decade relationship with the Oscar-winning filmmaker, eventually editing Friedkin’s late-career masterworks, Bug (2005), Killer Joe (2011), and The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023). Navarro has also collaborated extensively with the director, Azazel Jacobs, including on Terri (2010), and The Lovers (2017); and with James Ponsoldt on The Spectacular Now (2012) and The End of the Tour (2015). His credits for television include episodes of I Love Dick, Ballers, Mozart in the Jungle, Outer Banks, Euphoria, and Cape Fear.

On Becoming a God in Central Florida

job: Editor

overview: In the early 1990s, a recently widowed, impoverished Orlando water park employee schemes and cons her way up the ranks of the multi-billion dollar pyramid scheme which ruined her financially in the first place.

department: Editing

original_name: On Becoming a God in Central Florida

original_language: en

Euphoria

overview: A group of high school students navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, trauma, and social media.

original_name: Euphoria

Cape Fear

overview: When convicted murderer Max Cady is released from prison, he begins infiltrating the family of the married attorneys who helped put him behind bars.

original_name: Cape Fear

title: Bug

overview: In Oklahoma, Agnes, a lonely waitress living in an isolated and dilapidated roadside motel, meets Peter, a quiet and mysterious man with whom she establishes a peculiar relationship.

original_title: Bug

title: 30 Days of Night: Dark Days

overview: After surviving the incidents in Barrow, Alaska, Stella Olemaun relocates to Los Angeles, where she intentionally attracts the attention of the local vampire population in order to avenge the death of her husband, Eben.

original_title: 30 Days of Night: Dark Days

title: Terri

overview: Terri, a pajama-clad, disaffected high school student learns how to engage the world with the help of Mr. Fitzgerald, his assistant principal.

original_title: Terri

job: Assistant Editor

title: Darkman

overview: Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love.

original_title: Darkman

title: The Spectacular Now

overview: Sutter, a popular party animal, unexpectedly meets the introverted Aimee after waking up on a stranger's lawn. As Sutter deals with the problems in his life and Aimee plans for her future beyond school, an unexpected romance blossoms between them.

original_title: The Spectacular Now

title: Viko

overview: Former Yugoslavia. 1997. 17 year old VIKO shares a squalid, cramped apartment with his family, all struggling for survival. His only joy is with his girlfriend LILA, and their dream of escaping to London. When his older brother, IVAN, finally offers him some black market work, that dream suddenly seems within reach. Enlisted as a driver for his brother, Viko hopes to make his money and go. But instead, Viko is drawn into a web of sex-trafficking, when he is forced to stand in for a 'disappeared' member of the gang. Overnight, he is brought into the belly of an organization he might never escape. And into a role from which he may never recover. The story of a boy's induction into a sex-trafficking ring, VIKO explores the devastating effect of violence on victim and perpetrator alike.

original_title: Viko

title: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

overview: Barney Greenwald, a skeptical lawyer, reluctantly defends an officer of the navy who took control of the Caine from its captain, Lt. Philip Francis Queeg, while caught in a violent sea storm. As the court-martial proceeds, however, Greenwald increasingly questions if it was truly a mutiny or rather the courageous acts of a group of sailors who could not trust their unstable leader.

original_title: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

title: Senior Skip Day

overview: The senior class plans to have a skip-day party at the principal's house until Adam Harris leaks the secret, so he decides to save the celebration by hosting it at his house.

original_title: Senior Skip Day

title: The End of the Tour

overview: The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'

original_title: The End of the Tour

title: Please, Alfonso

overview: He loves her. She loves him. But does she feel the same?

original_title: Please, Alfonso

title: The Hunted

overview: In the wilderness of British Columbia, two hunters are tracked and viciously murdered by Aaron Hallam. A former Special Operations instructor is approached and asked to apprehend Hallam—his former student—who has 'gone rogue' after suffering severe battle stress from his time in Kosovo.

original_title: The Hunted

title: Colewell

overview: In tiny Colewell, Pennsylvania, the residents gather at the post office for mail and gossip, while the days pass quiet and serene. That is until news comes that the office is to close, and beloved clerk Nora is left to fight for her job and reflect on the choices she has made that kept her in Colewell for so many years.

original_title: Colewell

title: All I Want For Christmas

overview: Siblings Ethan and Hallie O'Fallon plot to get their divorced parents back together in time for Christmas.

original_title: All I Want For Christmas

title: Summering

overview: Four best friends, on the brink of starting middle school, realize their lives are about to change forever. So on the last weekend of summer, they set out to make the most of it. Nothing could prepare them, though, for the startling discovery they make while revisiting one of their favorite haunts.

original_title: Summering

title: Approaching the Unknown

overview: Captain William Stanaforth is on a one-way solo mission to take the first steps in colonising Mars. Like all pioneers throughout history, Stanaforth will face insurmountable odds and life and death decisions as he rockets bravely through space.

original_title: Approaching the Unknown

title: Tallulah

overview: Desperate to be rid of her toddler, a dissatisfied Beverly Hills housewife hires a stranger to babysit and ends up getting much more than she bargained for.

original_title: Tallulah

title: 12 Angry Men

overview: During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result of their preconceptions and prejudices.

original_title: 12 Angry Men

title: The Lovers

overview: The separation of a long married couple goes awry when they fall for each other again.

original_title: The Lovers

title: The Painter's Voice

overview: Paintings conservators at the Getty Center reveal details of their craft as they restore two large paintings by French master Jean-Baptiste Oudry.

original_title: The Painter's Voice

title: The Painter's Voice

title: Killer Joe

overview: A cop who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer in exchange for a tumble with the young man's virginal sister.

original_title: Killer Joe

job: Executive Producer

title: French Exit

overview: “My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.

title: Momma's Man

overview: An adult decides to escape the pressures of life and return to his old bedroom at his parents' house.

title: After the Rain

overview: A young man at the end of his life tries to find hope and meaning through the relationships he will leave behind.

title: Rules of Engagement

overview: A Marine Colonel is brought to court-martial after ordering his men to fire on demonstrators surrounding the American embassy in Yemen.

title: Grace

overview: In the wake of a horrific car accident that kills her husband, Michael, expectant mother Madeline Matheson discovers that her daughter, Grace, has died in the womb. Ignoring her doctor's warnings that the fetus must be removed from her body, a grief-stricken Matheson demands to carry the child to term -- even if it endangers her own life to do so. Curiously, little Grace emerges undead -- and with a craving for human blood.

title: The Dish & the Spoon

overview: Two wounded souls commiserate through drinking and aimless wandering while acting out the roles of the happy relationships that elude them in reality.

title: White Wedding

overview: Amidst a racially tense Southern wedding, a biracial bride has the chance to confront her estranged Black father after accidentally hiring his wedding band to perform.

title: Sarajin

overview: An immigrant fishing family is forced to decide whether to stay or leave Alaska behind after the snow crabs disappear.

title: Bug

title: 30 Days of Night: Dark Days

title: Terri

title: Darkman

title: The Spectacular Now

title: Viko

title: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

title: Senior Skip Day

title: The End of the Tour

title: Please, Alfonso

title: The Hunted

title: Colewell

title: All I Want For Christmas

title: Summering

title: Approaching the Unknown

title: Tallulah

title: 12 Angry Men

title: The Lovers

title: The Painter's Voice

title: The Painter's Voice

title: Killer Joe

title: French Exit

title: Momma's Man

title: After the Rain

title: Rules of Engagement

title: Grace

title: The Dish & the Spoon

title: White Wedding

title: Sarajin