Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

Whisper of the Heart

Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the li...

Ashura no Gotoku

Kuniko Mukōda's masterpiece, a poignant and subtle portrait of the jealousy and suspicion that secretly swirl b...

The Autumn in Tokyo

A unique drama that contrasts the lives of a family of elite salarymen in Tokyo and a family of landowners in T...

Bark at the Sun

The detectives of Nana-magari station investigate a wide variety of crimes in 70s Japan, ranging from the munda...

Fireflies in the North

Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato...

Meitantei Kindaichi Kōsuke

Mystery drama starring Akira Onodera, based on the novel by Seishi Yokomizo about Kosuke Kindaichi.

The Drumstick Detective

Ginji (Teruhiko Aoi), together with Yasugoro, a bathhouse owner, Toshiro, a ronin, Kojiro, a samurai retainer's...

The Insect Woman

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its m...

Intentions of Murder

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condit...

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance

Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, ag...

Eijanaika

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and...

Gateway to Glory

A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.

The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle...

丹後・宮津殺人岬

Outlaw: Black Dagger

A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the middle of actio...

The Girl I Abandoned

Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is engaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshio...

Female Ninja Magic

In Osaka during the Edo period, ruler Sanada Yukimura was in losing position, fearing Toyotomi's blood descende...

The Summit of Mt. Fuji

The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoons as far a...

A Trap

When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty,...

Memories of You

A mother discovers that her 14-year-old daughter Yumi has leukemia and only six months to live. She decides to...

Sea of ​​Wandering

Set in Osaka just after the end of the war, the story depicts an unconventional merchant who returns from evacu...

The Pirates of Buban

By going to the Philippines, Imamura comes to meet people living in an extreme poverty. He discovers very quick...

Band of Ninja

The son of an assassinated feudal lord, in the Muromachi period, attempts to avenge his father's death and meet...

Organized Violence II

秘められた関係

白馬岳殺意の峰

Onna Nezumi Kozo

The Falcon Fighters

In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Katō Tateo of...

The Black Cat

Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.

津軽竜飛岬・風の殺意

A Man Vanishes

A Man Vanishes examines the concept of Johatsu, tackling the phenomenon of people missing in Japan over the yea...

Broken Swords

The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange...

Where did Sharaku go?

Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has...

Family Crest: Die Like a Man

The story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake, continued their res...

しらべる女１

Cold Current

Set against the backdrop of a bitter power struggle between the faction of the chairman of the board and the fa...