Cast: Sadao Abe

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Arata Iura · Erika Oda · Susumu Terajima · Takashi Naitô

Plot After people die, they spend a week with counselors, also dead, who help them pick one memory, the only memory they can take to eternity. They describe the memory to...

Direction Tetsuya Nakashima

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Ayaka Wilson · Satoshi Tsumabuki · Anna Tsuchiya

Plot Once upon a time, there used to be a hospital where strange people were taken. Onuki (who was regarded as the strangest person there and who was most disliked by...

Direction Tatsushi Ohmori

Cast Masami Nagasawa · Daiken Okudaira · Sho Gunji · Sadao Abe

Plot Shuhei’s erratic mother feels threatened when he starts to awaken to a world beyond her distorted control, sending the family hurtling towards tragedy.

Direction Kaneko Fuminori

Cast Kazunari Ninomiya · Kou Shibasaki · Maki Horikita · Hiroshi Tamaki

Direction Miwa Nishikawa

Cast Teruyuki Kagawa · Yusuke Iseya · Takako Matsu · Rena Tanaka

Plot A married couple finds themselves in a dire financial situation after they lose their restaurant in a fire. The couple determined to run a restaurant again turn to crime. The...

Direction Tetsuya Nakashima

Cast Kyôko Fukada · Anna Tsuchiya · Hiroyuki Miyasako · Sadao Abe

Plot Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo period in 18th Century France. A...

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Sho Aikawa · Dankan · Ren Osugi · Sadao Abe

Direction Kazuya Shiraishi

Cast Sadao Abe · Shimako Iwai · Kenshi Okada · Takanori Iwata

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Ryunosuke Kamiki · Chiaki Kuriyama · Etsushi Toyokawa · Hiroyuki Miyasako

Plot A young boy becomes an unlikely hero when he is chosen as the “Kirin Rider" and must lead Japan’s ancient Yokai spirits in their war against the evil monsters. Remake...

Direction Nobuo Mizuta

Cast Sadao Abe · Shin'ichi Tsutsumi · Kou Shibasaki · Shirô Itô

Direction Hisayasu Sato

Cast Misa Aika · Yumika Hayashi · Mika Kirihara · Sadao Abe

Direction Higuchinsky

Cast Eriko Hatsune · Fhi Fan · Hinako Saeki · Ren Osugi

Plot In a small town in Japan, Kirie comes upon her boyfriend's father silently videotaping a snail. He seems unaware of her presence and she thinks no more of it. Later,...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Kyôko Fukada · Shô Sakurai · Sadao Abe · Saki Fukuda

Plot Every week, toy-shop owner Gan and his cute assistant Ai battled the evil Doronbo gang. The gang led by femme fatale Doronjo and her assistants-pig-nosed muscleman Tonzra and rat-faced mecha...

Direction Nobuo Mizuta

Cast Sadao Abe · Mao Inoue · Masaki Okada · Machiko Ono

Plot “Dogeza” is the age-old Japanese practice of apologizing profusely and intensely, a staple of Japanese manners that requires one to kneel to the ground and bow down until one’s head...

Direction Shimako Sato

Cast Ryoko Shinohara · Koichi Sato · Kento Nagayama · Sadao Abe

Plot Single mother and tenacious detective Ryoko Shinohara returns for the final instalment of the ‘Unfair’ franchise.

Direction Katsuyuki Motohiro · Hideo Nakata · Takashi Shimizu · Takashi Yamazaki

Cast Tamori · Sadao Abe · Miki Nakatani · Yuko Takeuchi

Direction Yukihiko Tsutsumi · Kaneko Fuminori

Cast Tomoya Nagase · Ai Katô · Yôsuke Kubozuka · Ryûta Satô

Plot TV series (2000). 11 episodes. Living in an area known for its juvenile crime, 21-year-old Makoto is a friend of King, the leader of a youth gang called the G-Boys,...

Direction Kazuya Shiraishi

Cast Sadao Abe · Masaaki Akahori · Mukku Akazawa · Yû Aoi

Plot Tawako's boyfriend is not her kind, but she puts up with it in exchange for shelter. Her old boyfriend of almost a decade ago is long gone, and was also...

Direction Katsuro Onoue · Yuki Takafumi · Masae Ichiki · Tsuyoshi Inoue

Cast Kantarou Nakamura · Takeshi Kitano · Mirai Moriyama · Kanji Furutachi

Plot Told by Kokontei Shinsho V, Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story told the series of stories between Tokyo and the Olympics. The stories includes the story of how Kanakura Shizo (Nakamura Kankuro),...

Direction Kaneko Fuminori · Katayama Osam · Toshio Tsuboi

Cast Gen Hoshino · Aoi Yû · Junichi Okada · Tomoya Nagase

Plot The show revolves around Rakugo, a traditional Japanese comedy that can look back on a 400 year long history. It tells about a Yakuza who goes to a Rakugo performer...