Cast: Etsushi Toyokawa

Direction Hideyuki Hirayama

Cast Etsushi Toyokawa · Megumi Seki · Chizuru Ikewaki · Jun Murakami

Direction Shunji Iwai

Cast Miho Nakayama · Etsushi Toyokawa · Miki Sakai

Plot Hiroko Watanabe's fiancé Itsuki died two years earlier in a mountain climbing accident. While looking through his high school yearbook, Hiroko in a fit of grief decides to write a...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Etsushi Toyokawa · Akira Emoto · Shinobu Otake · Naomasa Musaka

Plot Towards the end of the war, one hundred middle-aged soldiers were sent to the frontline according to lots drawn by their superior officer. On the night of the lottery, a...

Direction Ryuichi Hiroki

Cast Shinobu Terajima · Etsushi Toyokawa · Akira Emoto · Matsuoka Shunsuke

Plot Yuko is 35 years old, single, out of work, and on medication from her psychiatrist to combat her manic depression. Living in Kamata Town, Yuko divides her time between a...

Direction Katsuhide Motoki

Cast Rena Tanaka · Ryo Kase · Etsushi Toyokawa · Mayuko Fukuda

Plot It tells the story of a 14-year-old Akari who finds a Golden Retriever puppy in her backyard. Her mother approves of her keeping the puppy on the condition that she...

Direction Satoko Yokohama

Cast Ren Komai · Daimaô Kosaka · Mei Kurokawa · Ayumu Nakajima

Plot SOMA Ito (KOMAI Ren) is a high school student in Hirosaki City, Aomori. Her hobby is playing the Tsugaru shamisen, a three-string instrument that is popular in her home prefecture....

Direction Yukihiko Tsutsumi

Cast Naoto Takenaka · Teruyuki Kagawa · Renji Ishibashi · Gregory Pekar

Direction Yukihiko Tsutsumi

Cast Toshiaki Karasawa · Etsushi Toyokawa · Takako Tokiwa · Teruyuki Kagawa

Plot 20th Century Boys centers around normal, average guy Kenji [Casshern’s Toshiaki Karasawa], who has turned into a mere shadow of his rebellious, determined childhood self. He runs a failing convenience...

Direction Yukihiko Tsutsumi

Cast Toshiaki Karasawa · Etsushi Toyokawa · Takako Tokiwa · Muneyoshi Abiko

Direction Shunji Iwai

Cast Etsushi Toyokawa · Tomoko Yamaguchi · Tomorô Taguchi

Plot Moemi is not overly pleased when Yukio brings home a couple of turtles to keep her company. Although Yukio works at home as a writer, Moemi feels neglected and desired...

Direction SABU

Cast Yuya Tegoshi · Hanae Kan · Miki Nakatani · Etsushi Toyokawa

Plot Shuji is struggling to grow up in a small seaside town that is being redeveloped to become a major resort. He starts going to church with his cynical older brother...

Direction Bernard Rose

Cast Takeru Satō · Nana Komatsu · Mirai Moriyama · Shôta Sometani

Plot The American imperialists are at the door and intruding on Japan. To assess and train his troops the lord of the land announces a marathon through the land crisscrossing shores,...

Direction Lee Sang-il

Cast Yasuko Matsuyuki · Etsushi Toyokawa · Yû Aoi · Shizuyo Yamazaki

Plot In 1965 the planned closing of a coal mine in Iwaki (northeastern Japan) will put 2,000 people out of work with devastating effects on the community. The mining company plans...

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Kaho Minami · Takeshi Wakamatsu · Etsushi Toyokawa · Jin Akiyama

Plot Every Monday at 6 pm a young woman is murdered in the subway. The psychiatrist Setsuko Suma is called in to assist the police. The trail leads to another psychiatrist...

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 Shinji Higuchi

Cast Tsuyoshi Kusanagi · Kou Shibasaki · Etsushi Toyokawa · Mao Daichi

Plot In the aftermath of a major earthquake under Suraga Bay, Misaki (a young girl) and Toshiro (a pilot of a deep sea submarine) are rescued from a ruined city street...

Direction Frank Cappello

Cast Russell Crowe · Helen Slater · Etsushi Toyokawa · Michael Lerner

Plot When F.B.I. Agent Zack Grant's partner is killed during a blown-up operation, he attempts to find the person responsible. Mafiaso Frank Serlano believes Zack is responsible for his only sons...

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Miki Nakatani · Etsushi Toyokawa · Hidetoshi Nishijima · Yumi Adachi

Plot A prize-winning writer, Leiko (Miki Nakatani), moves to a quiet sub-urban house to finish up her new novel with a help from the editor. That night while sleeping, she sees...

Direction Junji Sakamoto

Cast Claude Maki · Kazuma Suzuki · Miki Sakajô · Etsushi Toyokawa

Direction Noboru Iguchi · Ken Iizuka · Shin'ichi Kudô · Lee Sang-il

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Kiko Mizuhara · Machiko Ono · Masaya Kato

Plot An anthology of several short films by several directors where each has taken inspiration from a favourite song of his by the Japanese punk rock band. The segments include Be...