Cast: Osahide Takahashi

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Masumi Harukawa · Hisashi Igawa · Saburo Ishikura

Synopsis The true story about a dog's loyalty to its master, even after his death.

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Sachiko Murase · Choichiro Kawarazaki · Orie Satoh

Synopsis Yoshida returned to feature filmmaking after a hiatus of thirteen years with this brave and moving film about the struggle to maintain dignity in the face of old age and approaching death. The Human Promise reaffirms Yoshida's ability to deal...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Ohshirô Maeda · Koki Maeda · Hiroshi Abe · Jô Odagiri

Synopsis In his latest film the Japanese master Hirokazu Koreeda takes a close look at the world of childhood to tell the story of Koichi, a child who lives with his mother and grandparents in Kagoshima, in the South of the...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Noriko Kurosawa · Toshiyuki Hosokawa · Osahide Takahashi · Kôji Moritsugu

Synopsis A young woman undergoes psychiatric treatment after she no longer hears music and develops sexual hang-ups. Based on a novel by Yukio Mishima.

Direction Jūzō Itami

Cast Nobuko Miyamoto · Masahiko Tsugawa · Yuji Miyake · Aki Takejô

Direction Michio Yamamoto

Cast Midori Fujita · Osahide Takahashi · Sanae Emi · Shin Kishida

Synopsis A doctor investigates the murders of several women at a lakeside resort. His investigation leads him to believe that a vampire is responsible for the murders. He sets out to track the vampire down.

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Fumie Kashiyama · Ryoma Ikegami · Osahide Takahashi · Eiji Kakutani

Synopsis Based on the life of senryu poet Akira Tsura (1909-1938) - who consistently condemned war and capitalism.

Direction Yasuaki Uegaki

Cast Akiko Nakamura · Osahide Takahashi · Natsumi Asano · Jirô Karasawa

Synopsis An interesting late Roman Porno scripted by top writer Haruhiko Arai (Distant Thunder, Vibrator, It's Only Talk). The film takes place in a small town during a typhoon. A woman living alone is visited by her ex-husband. At the same...

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Kaori Momoi · Toshiyuki Nagashima · Hajime Hana · Nobuko Otowa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Gen Kimura · Ichirô Izawa · Tokubei Hanazawa

Synopsis A samurai is hired by a girl to assassinate a local officer who has his people terrified.

Direction Yôsuke Okuda

Cast Shinsuke Kato · Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Osahide Takahashi

Synopsis A neighbor dies when potted flowers fall from a balcony of an apartment complex. A man whose father suffers from dementia begins to question if it really was an accident.

Direction Minoru Kanaya · Kiyosumi Kuzakawa

Cast Jô Shishido · Tatsuya Azuma · Miyuki Tanigawa · Osahide Takahashi

Synopsis Captain Joe, reformed interstellar marauder Ken and the rest of the crew of the Backus-3 set off to destroy an alien race's super-weapon, face off with Ken's vengeful ex-lover Rita and confront the sinister leader of the marauding Star Wolves.

Direction Yoshinari Nishikôri

Cast Shun Sugata · Akira · Denden · Shô Aoyagi

Synopsis In 16th century Japan, a young man has to choose between becoming a master steel maker like his father and grandfather before him, or becoming a samurai so that he can help protect his village from attacks by the various...

Direction Minoru Kanaya · Kiyosumi Kuzakawa

Cast Tatsuya Azuma · Miyuki Tanigawa · Jô Shishido · Osahide Takahashi

Synopsis An alien is pursued as a traitor by his own race because he refuses to kill humans.

Direction Koji Hagiuda

Cast Akiko Aitsuki · Guadalcanal Taka · Atsushi Ito · Reiko Kataoka

Synopsis he story of a man who returns to his hometown in order to attend the second wedding of his mother only to also run into his old squeeze. The encounter escalates and subsequently the woman asks her visiting old lover...

Direction Seijirô Kôyama

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Naoto Ogata · Masao Hayashi · Ryuzo Hayashi

Direction Eiji Okuda

Cast Sakura Ando · Tasuku Emoto · Mitsuru Hirata · Ena Koshino

Synopsis Kyoko (Sakura Ando) works as an insurance agent. To regain her family's happiness, she becomes involved in a relationship with her boss. Because of that relationship, she is blamed by her family and has to leave her hometown. Shuichi (Tasuku...

Direction Norio Tsuruta · Eisuke Naitô · Toshikazu Nishigaya · Hajime Takezono

Cast Kaho · Julia Kawakami · Moriwaki Eriko · Kikui Aki

Synopsis The Kumagawa Hospital which is located in the outskirts of town. Ogami Runa joined as a nursing staff 2 weeks ago. One night, with the lights all turned low, her fellow colleague, Suzuki Ayako is terrified out of her wits...

Direction Kazuki Omori

Cast Yuki Saito · Noriko Watanabe · Rikako Murakami · Naoko Amihama

Synopsis Early days of the Japanese television broadcasting, through the eyes of an ingenue who is trained as a contract actress.

Direction Akira Ogata

Cast Ryo Kase · Erika Toda · Yûko Tanaka · Satoru Matsuo

Synopsis Putting down unwanted animals is a daily job for Makita Hiroshi and his fellow doctors, Hataeda Aki and Shiga Satoshi. All three do what's requested of them, suffering from pangs of conscience. The situation will change with the arrival of...