Stars: Miyuki Kojima, Takeo Chii, Ryôko Tateishi, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Tomoko Nakajima
One of the spin-offs of "From the North" tells the life story of "Natsu".
Stars: Gô Katô, Kaoru Kobayashi, Kaoru Yachigusa, Aoi Miyazaki, Haru Kuroki
Mitsuya is a not very successful businessman. But his talent in writing is enough to attract the attention of one of the publishers...
Stars: Tomisaburô Wakayama, Yoshi Katô, Teruo Matsuyama, Kôji Sekiyama, Tamaki Katsura
A mountain man hunts a beautiful, but cunning urban woman, and does everything to satisfy her every kind of desire...
Stars: Shun Sugata, Ciarán Hinds, Yoshihiro Takayama, Yôsuke Kubozuka, Tadanobu Asano
In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan to find their master, who is rumored to have apostatized while promoting Catholic Christianity.
Stars: Hiroyuki Nagato, Kaori Momoi, Daigo Kusano, Taiji Tonoyama, Moeko Ezawa
On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film describes the daily life of people one day before that fateful event, their feelings of happiness and sadness. For them, tomorrow never comes...
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Reiko Kasahara, Kyôichi Satô, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Shinzô Hotta
"Matsu", known as "Scorpion" among the inmates, is locked up in the worst part of the prison on the charge of attacking the warden and disturbing the public order. Having only one day to visit someone, he attacks the prison chief again. This causes more brutal punishments and...
Stars: Rokkô Toura, Taiji Tonoyama, Moeko Ezawa, Hôsei Komatsu, Kumeko Urabe
For 50 years, the blind musician has been traveling all over Japan and becoming famous...
Stars: Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi, Riki Takeuchi, Shô Aikawa, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Manzô Shinra
Two contract killers meet in the middle of a similar job and discover that they were childhood friends.
Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Hideyo Amamoto, Masumi Okada, Akira Nagoya, Kyôko Koizumi
Toru Hayashi lives alone with his mother. Young salaryman whose life is staggeringly banal, he is what we can call a man stuck, until a pretty young woman moves into the apartment upstairs. Rumi Kato, charming and smart, quickly sympathizes with Toru - One day, she confesses that she is a professional robber and asks him to join her.
Stars: Gô Ayano, Shôhei Hino, Eita Okuno, Taijirô Tamura, Chizuru Ikewaki
Two troubled souls who are in love with each other live on the outskirts of a port city, but...
Stars: Hideyo Amamoto, Hiroyuki Nagato, Michitarô Mizushima, Shintarô Katsu, Renji Ishibashi
A group of masterless samurai living in Edos red light district must fend off a militia bent on wiping out local prostitutes.
Stars: Yoshi Katô, Tetsurô Tanba, Ryôhei Uchida, Junko Miyashita, Hiroko Isayama
The second live-action film about the adventures of three independent samurai: Jubei, Shining and Moonlight, who dedicate their lives to hunting shadows.
Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Naoto Takenaka, Kyûsaku Shimada, Ken'ichi Takitô
A samurai who has lived a successful life and gained great fame returns to his hometown. An urban businessman has some ideas to profit from his presence and intends to deceive him...
Stars: Mako Ishino, Mitsuru Hirata, Ryô Ikebe, Hôsei Komatsu, Ryôko Tateishi
Eiji, also known as Choji, quits the shipyard to start Izakaya Choji (snack bar) with his wife Shigeko on the outskirts of Hakodate.
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Ichirô Nakatani, Sachio Sakai, Hideyo Amamoto, Naoya Kusakawa
During the military phase of the Meiji Restoration in 1868, the senator joined a local militia loyal to the Tokugawa Shogunate to fight the imperial forces. But the senator's friendship with a pickpocket changes its direction with the wind and...
Stars: Hiroko Isayama, Gô Awazu, Ichirô Araki, Hajime Tanimoto
The story of Shiroi yubi no tawamure begins when a girl falls in love with a pickpocket. This pickpocket is arrested by the agents. The girl decides to have a relationship with this pickpocket's ex-girlfriend and also his cellmate and...
Stars: Kaoru Kobayashi, Kumiko Asô, Hiroki Hasegawa, Haruka Ayase, Fusako Urabe
A middle-aged university professor reluctantly decides to face his fear of water and his inability to swim...
Stars: Kaori Momoi, Hiroko Isayama, Hatsuo Yamaya, Chôei Takahashi, Maki Kawamura
The story of Sweet Scent of Eros is about two useless people named Koichi and Akira. After settling in a new neighborhood, these two people consider a common lifestyle. They share everything with each other during any activity such as having sex or eating and...
