(悪い奴ほどよく眠る, Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru?) is a 1960 film directed by the Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. It was the first film to be produced under Kurosawa's own independent production company.The film stars Toshirō Mifune as a young ma...
Yumiko Oosawa (Sachiko Kokubu) is a pretty young designer whose life is turned upside down by a stalker in Ataru Oikawa's spare, ominous thriller. One day, a letter arrives on which the words "you were meant to marry me" are spelled out in newspaper ...
An aging couple, Tomi and Sukichi, travels from their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling, post-war Tokyo. Their reception is disappointing: too busy to entertain them, their children send them off to a health spa. After Tom...
Three stories are told, respectively set in Taipei, Shanghai, and Tokyo. The first two stories are about a Japanese person and a Taiwanese person. The last one is set in Shanghai with a story about a Japanese man and a Chinese woman. Some of the char...
Knowing that he has only a month to live, a pianist goes back to his beloved ocean. He meets a girl with a broken leg, and soon finds that she is the daughter of his dearest love who had died many years ago. They spend day after day together, as they...
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (セーラー服と機関銃, Sailor-fuku to kikanjû?) is a Japanese comedy/action film originally released in 1981. A satirical take on yakuza films, the storyline of the film involves a teenage schoolgirl (Izumi Hoshi) who ...
Satomi finds a newspaper foretelling his daughter's death. Three years later, with Satomi broken by her demise, another newspaper appears predicting doom. 影片讲述了一个家庭的未来被一家报社操纵的悲惨故事,报纸上所报道的有关这个家庭的不幸事件很快就会�...
A university professor. Ujo meets a very beautiful girl. Yui at a hospital where he is receiving treatment for alcohol dependency as an outpatient. Although the difference in their ages is more than 20 years. Yui takes a very strong liking to Ujo. Uj...
Takeshis' progresses through the nested storyline of the dual protagonists, Beat Takeshi and Mr. Kitano (both played by Kitano himself). Beat Takeshi, a prominent actor, meets a look-alike named Mr. Kitano, who is a struggling actor. After the meetin...
The story takes place in Kanjin-cho, an ordinary town in an ordinary place. People who are sufferings and having pains are living in this town. Kato is a simple man working at a convenience store as a part time worker. He harbors feelings for Miho wi...
Yoshioka, an experienced police detective, investigates the murder of an unknown woman dressed in a red dress. She was killed by being drowned on the Tokyo waterfront, in a pool of muddy water, but an autopsy reveals that her belly is full of seawate...
7 young men desperate for quick money arrive at a desolate seaside bar Dog Days to be auditioned for "hosts"-a highly popular occupation to entertain female patrons with smooth talk and shoothing smile while offering drinks the "host clubs". Although...
A seamless blend of real live actors and computer generated special effects are on display in Akiyama Takahiro's Hinokio, a story about one lonely boy and his desire to reach out and connect with humanity, albeit with a futuristic twist! Fearful and ...
Sachiko is the 17-year old daughter of radiotherapist Professor Oshima. After exposure to radiation in the hospital, she develops leukemia. As if that was not enough trouble for one lifetime, discovers that Oshima is not her real father, and that her...
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is situated in the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At 14.4 million km² (5.4 million sq mi), i...
Japan 's favorite leading man, Koji Yakusho (Doppelganger, Shall We Dance?) stars as a government censor in 1940 whose job it is to ensure the patriotism of the plays in the theater district. They must be ideologically sound, loyal to the Emperor, su...
Based on the same-titled manga on a newbie nurse, Misora Aoi and the problems she encounters in medical work. Aoi Misora is a third-year nurse at a prestigious hospital. After she is involved in trouble at the Emergency Center, she is transferred to ...
The eleventh instalment in the Tora-san series. Tora-san meets Lily, the nightclub singer, when he travels to Hokkaido. Like Tora-san, Lily is a vagabond who is known for her generosity and great- heartedness. The two of them become good friends inst...
From the story of fighting and war between women in the Kou Shiro, especially the 6th generation of the general,the first time it has been show in the drama serius,this time ,Fukada Kyouko will be acting as the lead actress, of course, there'll be al...
Conan, Ai, Ran and The Detective Boys are 6 out of the 50 chosen kids to try a new virtual reality game. Conan and his friends enter London in the 1800 century. But soon after all the kids head into the game, Noah's Ark (A highly developed AI program...
Kijou no Kuron" or "Japanese Tradition" is a satirical instructional film for how to woo a Japanese woman. A second short available online, "The Japanese Tradition - Sushi", is an instructional film for sushi etiquette. Both films star a pair of acto...
Years ago Gamera saved an entire village from an attack from a flock of Gyaos. A boy is saved with the village. Thirty years later the boy has grown up and owns a small restaurant in the Japanese coastal town of Iseshima. He has a son named Toru, who...
Hana & Alice have been best friends for the longest time. Hana develops a crush on “Miyamoto” a guy that rides the same train as her, but never notices her, or anyone else, because he is always reading his book. She later finds out that Miyamoto be...
The story takes reference to an event that occurred in Mizunashi during 1971, in which a lady called Yaeko Aonuma was killed in a train accident. 性格内向的高中生NANA和她的妹妹noriko在地铁站偶然遇见了noriko的朋友Takashi。Takashi在站台上拣到一个免费�...
ew horror film release from "Juon" director Takashi Shimizu. The year, 1970, eleven murders occur at a certain hotel in Gunma prefecture including the murder of a young girl. With his motives still unknown, the murderer himself then meets a mysteriou...
In the vast expanse of an unforgiving land, Kazami Tamiko, a widow who lives only with her young son, struggles to make a living by running a small dairy farm. Life is harsh, yet pleasurable when she finds a congenial companion, Tajima Kosaku. When K...
One of Yasujiro Ozu's early masterworks, it concerns an actor, Kihachi (Takeshi Sakomoto) leading a struggling theater troupe who returns to the provincial town where he fathered a child years before. He seeks out his son, now a young man, and the wo...
An enchanting look at the lives of a Japanese couple, based on the real-life diary extracts of the husband. He is a slightly offbeat photographer, a profession that grew out of his publishing a book of portraits of Yoko, his pretty wife, to whom he i...