Kenzō Kawarasaki

Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series

Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series

The Files of the Young Kindaichi

A young man who showed little promise while a high school student becomes a master detective, just like his gra...

Onihei Hankachō

Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates reformed criminals as...

Hi no kuni ni

The 18th NHK Asadora. Starring Keiko Suzuka about a woman who strives to become a landscape gardener.

Lost Paradise

Kuki Shoichiro is relieved of his position as general manager of Gendai Shobo and transferred to the research o...

Haikara-san

The 29th NHK Asadora. Starring Satomi Tezuka as a woman who starts a hotel in the Meiji era.

Empire of Passion

In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lo...

Father and Son Hawk

The life of Katsu Kaishū and his father.

Nemuri Kyōshirō 4: The Woman Who Loved Kyoshiro

Tamura Masakazu returns as Nemuri Kyoshiro for the fourth and final time. Gensai, an eccentric Ukiyoe artist, u...

G.I. Samurai

A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's...

Blue

An introverted schoolgirl falls in love and starts a relationship with one of her classmates. Set in a small se...

Himiko

The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history.

The Land of Hope

An old couple, their only son, the son's wife, a young man and his lover live peacefully in a village. Then, a...

Kakashi

The search for her vanished brother Tsuyoshi leads Kaoru to the lonesome village Kozukata in the Japanese back-...

The Ceremony

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the...

Whiteout

A group of terrorists has taken hold of the largest dam in Japan. They also capture the workers as hostages, an...

The Second Love

Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband's emotional conf...

Last Friends

Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Though they be...

Lifetime Insecurity

In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launches a plan to cut back o...

Hebi no Hito

Parasite Eve

A scientist realizes his dead wife is an organization of mitochondria bent on making a new species that will wi...

Saito Dosan: Rage of Power

During the age of warring clans (Sengoku Jidai), many samurai lords sought to unite the country under their ban...

The Shiinomi School

A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Through trial and error, they strug...

Riot in Gujo

Naoto Ogata plays Sadajiro, a young farmer fighting out the battle of the riot through to the end. Sadajiro's w...

Sensen fukoku

War between North Korea and Japan

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Gamble

Having lost everything to horse racing, Yûji accidentally gets 10 million yen. But this sum belongs to a Yakuza.

Cape Ashizuri

Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows the life of...

The Four Roughnecks

Gimme gimme gimme! Yusaku Matsuda and his gang are on the hunt for women, money and more money! Takeo Natsuki (...

Bitterness of Youth

A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry.

Our Highland Hotel

Ayumi Aizawa is a lonely young man without a family. He works at Forest Hyde Press Hotel as a cleaner. His dece...

Bullying is Costly

An office worker who releases his frustrations by maliciously bullying his good-natured boss has a bizarre expe...

Tora-san, His Tender Love

Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.

Women Can't Be Beaten

An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish old...

Debt King Part VI: Legendary Speculator in Naniwa

Naito is serving time for his aggressive fundraising in the securities world, but returns to Osaka after comple...

The Key

A college professor wants to bring the joys of sex to his frigid wife. He convinces his son in law to sleep wit...