Haruko Mabuchi

Midnight Diner

Set in a small restaurant in the corner of a shopping district. The unusual eatery is only open after midnight,...

Ayu no uta

The 24th NHK Asadora. Starring Senri Yamazaki as a woman who makes her life at a fishing port.

Amakarashan

The 57th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama. Story's settings include Kobe and Sasayama. It is a story about the conflic...

Graduation

Kinoshita Kaori (Nakayama Miho), a native of Nagano, was allowed to live alone in Tokyo for two years during he...

Kumo no Jutan

The 17th NHK Asadora. Starring Youko Asaji as a woman who wants to become a pilot.

Yôi don

A struggling Korean veteran comes to terms with the fact that he is actually a caterpillar. I just made this up.

Taiyō no Namida

The day before he leaves on a business trip to Europe, Shoji meets an old man named Ogawa while visiting his yo...

Sometimes Love is a Lie

A female surgeon desperately wants to have children but is unable to. Her pediatrician husband, meanwhile, thre...

Blue Singing

Tetsuo, the son of a bicycle shop owner, and his sister Hanako rescue Megumi Kuroki and Kiyotaka Sawada from a...

コメットさん

Yokohama BJ Blues

BJ is a relatively unknown blues singer who scraps some bars in Yokohama. He does not earn much with it and to...

A Wife Confesses

Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accus...

Tora-san, the Expert

Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman...

Pretty Woman

Elderly ladies rise to the challenge of staging a play and struggle to launch a theater company. Based on the a...

Hatsu sugata ushimatsu gōshi

Fukagawa's chef Ushimatsu of the restaurant Kawatake fell in love with a maid named Omame and changed dramatica...

家庭欄記者・鍋嶋六郎

Little Remi and Famous Dog Capi

Japanese animation adaptation of a 19th century French novel: A boy is given up by his foster parents to a trav...

The Trap

When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I want you to lo...

Preparation for the Festival

Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.

A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty River

The story opens with Yukiko and her business partner in Moscow searching for Russian items for their store in T...

Tomorrow

On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru I...

Women's House

After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's da...

The Last Day

Until Evening

Intellectual collegue professor Sasa becomes obsessed with beautiful Sugiko, a virgin. Eventually, luring her t...

Ruby Fruit

Maiko is a recently widowed young woman travelling to Bali to distract herself from the loss of her husband, Es...

Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You

A difficult request brought to the unlicensed genius surgeon Black Jack. It was supposed to be born as twins, b...

長七郎江戸日記スペシャル 怨霊見参！長七郎・弟と対決

The River of the Stranger

A rare film about the Zainichi and the relations between Japan and South Korea. It is the first feature film ev...

Festival of Dreams

Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You

A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz...

Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark

Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark

死体持参花嫁事件

The mysterious behavior and psychology of a woman who gave birth to and abandoned her lover's children twice an...

His Highness Surabaya

Hisaya Morishige is Kyutaro, a nuclear physicist and his twin brother, Eiji, a con man. Eiji finally hits on hi...

Watching the Detective

A young detective is assigned to stake out the apartment of an elderly woman. He sets up his video camera and m...