Seibei Iguchi is a low-ranking samurai of the Unasaka clan in Shonai Province of northeast Japan. His wife died of tuberculosis, a frequent cause of demise in those early years of hunger and malnutrition. With two daughters, Kayano and Ito, and an ag...
¥ 260,000,000 is stolen from armored vehicle. The criminals escape into a crowded shopping mall and take over 50 hostages. Reiko Usagi (Ryoko Yonekura) and the SIT members are called in to break the stand-off. When Reiko goes into the shopping ma...
To combat rising crime and terrorist activities in Japan, the Japanese National Police Agency authorizes the formation of a secret motorcycle unit known as the Wild 7. The motley group consists of reformed convicts - ranging from simple thugs to form...
Iratsume, a young woman from a noble house, becomes obsessed with the new religion and spends much of her time hand-copying the sutras, trying to understand the teachings of the Buddha. On the eve of each equinox and solstice she begins to see a radi...
Makiko Norita (Nakama Yukie), a consultant that will fix your problems and help clean up your life. Her personality is welcoming and warm, and is further accented by her upbeat catchphrase, "Let's clean up your life!".
The Yagyu family's elder son sends an old and cheap looking pot to his young brother, ignoring that the pot contains a map showing where it was hidden a treasure of a million ryo. He tries to recover it but his brother's wife has sold it to some junk...
A lemon could be a symbol of love. It could save you or destroy you. This is 20-year journey of Japan's fall from grace, and the irreversible effect it had on its people. A story of 20-year-old Kaori and a 40-year-old Kaori's lonely souls wandering i...
TSY: Time Slip Yankee is a comedy time travelling movie which shares a lot in common with other titles in the same genre.
It’s fair to say it doesn’t have much of an original script. The story has been done countless times in movi...
Ryotaro Nogami is a young man with a lot of bad luck. One day, he finds a strange pass and things got stranger from a mysterious girl and a large time-traveling train to being possessed by an entity called an Imagin, beings from an alternate future w...
In the nights of Tokyo, mysterious deaths involving the 'Reborn Dead' occur. People that are disappearing at night suddenly reappear during the day as a corpse. Not only that, but as the corpses are sent to the morgue to be autopsied, they disapp...
In a world separate from the humans is a place called Chou Shinkai. In this world lives super beings called Hikaribito. However, among such people are those who commit crimes. Such people are known as Kageribito. The ruler of Chou Shinkai is the S...
Korean foreign exchange student Kim Yong-Dong (Seung-Ri) studies in Hong Kong and works part-time at a hotel. A murder then takes place in the hotel and Kim Yong-Dong is the prime suspect. Hajime Kindaichi (Ryosuke Yamada) works to uncover the truth.
The warriors who have been warped by the rampaging power of Justice have been summoned into the world of Xanadu. It is up to Dark Fact, a former villain, and principal Lappi to re-educate these students.
Dae-gil, a young man with natural born talents in gambling, makes a dazzling debut as a gambler and gets reunited with his first love, Mi-na. However, Dae-gil soon becomes the scapegoat of betrayal and conspiracy and is forced to be on the run. Da...
Sakamichi Onoda is an otaku, an anime obsessive, who has just entered high school and plans to join the anime club. In middle school, Onoda did not have any friends with whom he could talk about anime, games, Akihabara, and other otaku things and ...
A Hunter is one who travels the world doing all sorts of dangerous tasks. From capturing criminals to searching deep within uncharted lands for any lost treasures. Gon is a young boy whose father disappeared long ago, being a Hunter. He believes i...
In a small town in Japan, a series of seemingly random explosion cases occur. Ichiro Suzuki knowns as “Brain Man” is fingered as an accomplice. Midorikawa works on the explosion case.
A series of mysterious murders to which the only clue is an animal bite mark… There is a reason behind his killings. Sang-gil (SONG Kang-ho) is a homicide detective who is perpetually passed over for promotion. One typically dismissive day he&...
Naoko Yamada (Yukie Nakama), a female magician, and Jiro Ueda (Hiroshi Abe), a genius physicist, are back again to solve the mystery of supernatural happenings.
In a village where people are cured, a battle royale is held to find the successor for s...
Murakami Naoki is the most intelligent student at his high school, but he can't stop obsessing over a girl named Mizuno Haruka. He finally ask her out, and to his surprise, she accepts. After several months of a loving yet obviously doomed romance, i...
Yuri (Ayaka Komatsu) leaves home due to her mother and her man. To support her younger sister, Yuri works as a prostitute. One day, she leaves her sick sister at home to go out, but her sister dies. Yuri is struck with guilt and grief. Later, Yuri he...
Takeshi finds several notebooks by his late aunt Taki Nunomiya, who never married. Through the notebooks Takeshi learns of his aunt's life. Prior to World War II, in a little house with a red triangular roof in Tokyo, Taki works as a housemaid. The f...
Bingo (Satoshi Tsumabuki) has stolen away the girlfriend (Eri Fukatsu) of his crime syndicate boss (Toshiyuki Nishida), and now he faces an ultimatum: find him a legendary assassin named Della Togashi, or die. But time is running out and Della’...
A group of university college students, Thomas (Glenn Erland Tosterud), Johanna (Johanna Mørck) and their cameraman Kalle (Tomas Alf Larsen), set out to make a documentary about a suspected bear poacher, Hans (Otto Jespersen). At the...
Yokai are major figures of Japanese folklore, spirits that occupy virtually everything in the world around us. Some, such as the turtle-like Kappa, are relatively well known, but there are hundreds of others, maybe even thousands. They are the spirit...
Suzuki Tetsuya (Higashiyama Noriyuki), a Japanese trading company employee, lives with his daughter Sakura (Ashida Mana). He is a widower. In the not too distant future, Suzuki plans to marry Lien (Nguyen Lan Phuong), a Vietnamese whom he met through...
Mizushima (Masahiro Motoki) is a top-notch make-up artist who has come to work in Shanghai, along with him is his manager and lover Miho (Naomi Nishida). One evening Mizushima is wandering around alone, when suddenly he is knocked over by a bashed-up...
In the year 1716 a mysterious epidemic stickens men in the country of Japan, dropping the population of men to 1/4th of its prior state. With the drastic reduction of men, the gender roles have become reversed in Japan. Woman become the dominant memb...
Naomi is an ordinary high school student who goes to an international school. One day, she loses her memory for the past 4 years. But gradually she begins to search for her identity, and even when her memory returns, she keeps on looking for her real...
The father of a young girl who's scheduled to be married into wealth, hires the charismatic detective Mike Hama to bring her back after she refuses to leave a health spa she's attending. Seems like a simple enough job for the gumshoe -- that is until...
Fuki who lives with her grandfather Shoei in Taketomi Island, Okinawa, dreams of becoming a photographer. In her childhood, her mother Masami left Fuki to live in Tokyo. Although Masami has not come back, Fuki receives birthday cards from Masami...
In 1922, 18-year-old Salvador Dalí (Robert Pattinson) arrives at university in Madrid. The Residencia de Estudiantes, or Students' Residence, is a modern environment which encourages Spain's brightest young minds. Salvador,...
In her past, Isako Sawada (Ryoko Yonekura) ran a restaurant. She then met Nobuhiro who is 31 years older than her and an executive of a corporation. They eventually married. Nobuhiro owns a large mansion and his money is managed by housekeeper S...
After his wife's death, renowned saxophonist Akira (Masakazu Tamura) decides to give up music. When his wife was alive, he was intent on pursuing his dreams and had little time for family. Now he lives a quiet life, devoting his time to his daughter....
Manabu Yukawa (Masaharu Fukuyama) is a physicist. He is nicknamed "Galileo" for being a genius and blessed with analytical abilities that even the police look up to. Yukawa's partner is a female rookie cop, Kaoru Utsumi (Kou Shibasaki). The two set o...
Doctor Kota Sezaki (Shota Matsuda) works on a clinic ship, which sails around the Seto Inland Sea. He's talented as a doctor, but possesses a weakness to fall easily in love with women. When he lands at an island, Kota falls in love with a woman from...
The drama's full title is "Code Blue: Doctor Heli Kinkyu Kyumei." The concept is based on Japan's proposal for an emergency medical service using helicopters to quickly reach those in need. A special bill was passed in June 2007 that should foster wi...
Momoko Sakura is an elementary school who likes popular idol Momoe Yamaguchi and mangas. She is often called "Chibi Maruko-chan" due to her young age and small size. She lives together with her parents, her grandparents and her elder sister in a litt...
Kentaro SUGATA (Junpei MIZOBATA) used to be one of the most hopeful trainee to be a professional Shogi (Japanese chess) player, but fails at the final test. Now he has become a "Shinkenshi," a gambler who plays Shogi for money, and boasts his 182 win...
Michiko Daimon (Ryoko Yonekura) goes to a university hospital with her letter of introduction. Michiko Daimon is a freelancer surgeon and is placed at the university hospital by a doctor placement agency. Due to the hospital's harsh working condition...
Shioriko Shinokawa runs an old book shop in Kamakura. Shioriko is pretty, but she can't get along with strangers. She does possess vast knowledge about old books. When Shioriko talks about those old books, she becomes louder and more passionate. Shio...
A story about a woman from China who forges her way to Japan by pretending to be someone's wife. When the man is to marry his fiance, he finds out that he is married (someone forged their way into the registry). Now Nakai Kiichi tries to do what he c...
Arisa (Ryoko Yonekura) is fascinated by humans. So much so that she leaves the magic world. But the broom she uses is faulty and she winds up in Japan. There she meets Joji Matsui (Taizo Harada) who works at an advertising agency. Joji has been assig...
Based on Ryo Ryumon's manga, "Bloody Monday" centers around high school student Fujimaru Takagi (Haruma Miura). Fujimaru Takagi is a white hat computer hacker who must clear his father's name by solving the "Bloody Monday" mystery involving Russian t...
Toyotomi Hideyoshi is on the verge of unifying the realm, and all that remains is the Odawara Castle protected by the \"Lion of Sagami\" Ujiyasu Houjou. Hideyoshi's personally trained generals—Ishida Mitsunari, Katou Kiyomasa, and Fukushima ...
2009 Release SHIGI is currently a third-year student at a private college in Tokyo. While she was in the 6th grade, she started doing live street performances with her guitar. Since then, she has played over 200 shows, including some at venues such a...
Based on the popular Japanese comic of the same name about an average girl's high flying romance and friendship with F4 or four handsome heirs. High school sweethearts Tsukasa and Tsukusi are finally getting married. Tsukasa gives his fiancee a preci...
The film is set in the late 1930s, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. In the first scene, Lieutenant Kurokawa scourges, rapes and disembowels Chinese people during the war. Later, he returns home as a war hero, but with a horribly mu...
TV star Izumi Vakakusa suffers from a terrible disease, which destroys her body. Only one thing can save her by unusual method, developed by Dr. Meredith, associated with a change of the brain in a beautiful body of her daughter Sakura. Sakura finds ...
One year later, class 3-B takes a field trip, but they are gassed, fitted with electronic collars, and sent to a "briefing room" on a remote island. Kitano explains that the class has been chosen to participate in the annual Battle Royale as a result...
After a series of earthquakes causes the largest typhoon in history a former rescue worker gets trapped in a mall with his daughter. He sends out the distress code “252” (survivors in need of assistance) which is picked up by the res...
Takezo (Musashi) abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojir...