Tamao Nakamura

Professional Killers

A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that intro...

Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game

After participating to a previous show where they have to bet or be challenged to any kind of competitions, the...

Beppin-san

The 95th NHK Asadora is about Sumire, a girl born in the uptown of Kobe in the early Showa period. In the wake...

Three Sisters

The Story is about three daughters of a "Hatamoto" during the end of the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration.

Suzuran

In 1924, a time when both steam engine trains and early Showa Era's first train stations are just beginning. In...

The High School Heroes

Gosei School has a long history. The principal of the school is highly ambitious and he tries to achieve his go...

Zoku zoku jiken

Daisaburo Kikuchi (Tomisaburo Wakayama), a skilled lawyer full of humanity, thrillingly depicts the process of...

My Neighbors the Yamadas

The Yamadas are a typical middle class Japanese family in urban Tokyo and this film shows us a variety of episo...

Please Hire Me!

Ex-sword teacher Ihei Misawa is a skilled swordsman but because of his kind and judicious heart, he never fails...

Keishi-K

" Keishi-K " is a detective drama directed and starring Shintaro Katsu. This drama tells the story of Inspector...

Shin Heike Monogatari

Set at the end of the 12th century when several wars for control of Japan disrupted a long era of peace, this t...

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on retur...

The Trading Company

An economic drama depicting the struggle and collapse of a Japanese general trading company. The US branch pres...

Risou no Kekkon

Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura

Set in an alternate universe, the ancient capital of Kamakura is a vibrant town where fantastical creatures liv...

Ten Dark Women

Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woma...

At the Scene of Life

Set in a general hospital in Tokyo, this drama depicts a woman and a nurse who are about to retire from active...

Akimahende!

Nowadays, kids have their parents wrapped around their fingers. While they appear to despise their parents, the...

Tokugawa no Onnatachi

A drama about three different women living in the inner palace of Edo castle during the Tokugawa era.

Murder of the Inugami Clan

Inugami Sahei, who built up the wealth of the Inugami Clan, passes away, leaving a will with Furudate, his lega...

Ninja Kids!!!

The film stars Seishiro Kato as Rantaro who is sent to a ninja training school by his parents. During the summe...

Satan's Sword

The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written...

Tsubaki Sanjuro

"Tsubaki Sanjuro" is a remake of Sanjuro (1962) by Akira Kurosawa. Sanjuro returns with sharper, faster, subtle...

Turning Point

A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumi...

Oh, My Son!

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.

Momotaro Samurai

Shinjiro Katsuragi is a samurai informally known as Momotaro. Unlike the traditional samurai, Momotaro has no a...

The Blind Menace

This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi.

Devil's Flute

Famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent blend of int...

Buddha

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search o...

Solar Eclipse

When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and eve...

Conflagration

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion,...

The River with No Bridge

A widow and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku people are forced to...

Taira Clan Saga

Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba and the mo...

Satan's Sword: The Dragon God

The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue a...

Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter

Disguised as a beggar monk, Ryunosuke is harassed along the road by the rowdy members of a country dojo or fenc...

The Man Without a Map

A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective...