Cast: Hiroko Isayama

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Shima Iwashita · Hiroko Isayama · Kô Nishimura

Synopsis Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees tells the tale of a beautiful city woman and a bandit that has fallen in love with her. After kidnapping the object of his affection and bringing her to his mountain lair, the bandit asks...

Direction Shunya Ito

Cast Meiko Kaji · Fumio Watanabe · Kayoko Shiraishi · Hiroko Isayama

Direction Mipo Oh

Cast Gou Ayano · Chizuru Ikewaki · Masaki Suda · Kazuya Takahashi

Synopsis In a Japanese port town, Tatsuo, a traumatized man, spends his days drifting aimlessly and his nights drinking himself to oblivion. Whiling his hours away at a pachinko parlor, he meets Takuji, a young man on parole who impulsively invites...

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Sayuri Ichijo · Hiroko Isayama · Kazuko Shirakawa · Gô Awazu

Synopsis Set in a variety theater in the center of Osaka, a young strip-tease artist, Harumi (Hiroko Isayama), has had enough of the lesbian act she performs with Mari, and is eager to start up her own joint. Unfortunately, her yakuza...

Direction Shinji Aoyama

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Ken Mitsuishi · Yoichiro Saito · Hiroko Isayama

Direction Akio Yoshida

Cast Mei Kurokawa · Yoshihiko Hosoda · Hideki Sone · Ayaka Maeda

Synopsis Aimi and her father move into an old, apartment building and learn quickly that things are not normal here. The landlord warns Aimi and her father of the curfew. First, all residents must cross the rope in front of the...

Direction Kaneko Fuminori

Cast Masahiro Nakai · Yuko Takeuchi · Hara Sachie · Chosuke Ikariya

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Yoshio Harada · Jun Fubuki · Kirina Mano · Shuji Kashiwabara

Synopsis Kaido is a professional pickpocket who works the Tokyo subway with his young foster-daughter, Rei: She lets herself be groped while Kaido relieves the groper of his wallet. More often than not they're observed by a middle-aged cop, who generally...

Direction Yusuke Morii

Cast Haruka Ayase · Kana Osawa · Mikako Ichikawa · Kengo Kora

Synopsis The film is a road story about a lonely janitor who doesn’t communicate well and Haru, a teenage girl who is different, who travels on Route 29, which connects Hyogo-Himeji City to Tottori City.

Direction Toru Murakawa

Cast Ichirô Araki · Hiroko Isayama

Synopsis A girl falls for a pickpocketer who gets arrested, so she hooks up with his ex-girlfriend and his ex-cellmate.

Direction Chusei Sone

Cast Hitomi Sakae · Kunio Ôtsuka · Hitoshi Takagi · Noboru Mitani

Synopsis Mejika, a pretty Eurasian mestizo, is hired to teach Biology at a high school famous for her discipline. The unprejudiced attitudes of Mejika soon end up unsettling the management.

Direction Junya Sato

Cast Ken Takakura · Yoshio Harada · Ryo Ikebe · Ryoko Nakano

Synopsis A tough police detective is falsely accused of corruption, and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.

Direction Hitoshi Iwamoto · Masaki Nishiura · Hideki Takeuchi

Cast Takeshi Kaneshiro · Kyôko Fukada · Haruhiko Kato · Shin Yazawa

Synopsis TV series (1998). 1 season. 14 episodes. This story involves Masaki, a high school student who idolizes Keigo, a music producer. To obtain one of his concert tickets, she sells her body and contracts HIV. Masaki loves Keigo and Keigo...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Yusuke Okada · Hiroko Isayama · Kyû Sakamoto · Tatsuya Nakadai

Direction Kensaku Watanabe

Cast Hiroki Hasegawa · Haruka Ayase · Kaoru Kobayashi · Junko Abe

Synopsis A mid-life university professor who reluctantly decides to face up to his fear of water and his inability to swim.

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Setsuko Karasuma · Masahiko Tsugawa · Koichi Sato · Ichirô Araki

Synopsis The story of the rise and fall of a young courtesan.

Direction Keisuke Kuwata

Cast Taisihû Kase · Misa Shimizu · Kazuhiko Kanayama · Kôji Matoba

Direction Hidehiro Ito

Cast Sho Aikawa · Jun'ichirô Asano · Dankan · Hakuryu

Direction Shirô Moritani

Cast Ken Takakura · Sayuri Yoshinaga · Tomokazu Miura · Naoko Otani

Synopsis In 1954, Go Akuzu (Ken Takakura) travels to the Tsuruga Straits that separate Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido from the island of Honshu, to investigate the tragic loss of a passenger ship in the treacherous waters of the straits.

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Joji Ai · Hiroko Isayama · Kirin Kiki

Synopsis Set in 1937, this is the story of Asakichi, who is played by Shiuntaro Katsu, best known as being Zatoichi in 26 films. Asakichi has been disowned by his father for gambling, so he heads off to make his living...