Cast: Kôen Okumura

Direction Takashi Koizumi

Cast Akira Terao · Yoshiko Miyazaki · Shiro Mifune · Fumi Dan

Plot Ihei Misawa and his wife Tayo, stranded by rains at a country inn, bring a great deal of happiness to the other residents of the inn by means of Ihei's...

Direction Rokuro Sugimura

Cast Tetsuya Takeda · Wakako Sakai · Yoshi Tamano · Midori Sono

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Ryo Amamiya · Aiko Asano · Tadanobu Asano · Toshiki Ayata

Plot It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara Yasufumi Hayashi) hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called "The...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Miki Fujitani · Tomorô Taguchi · Miyoko Akaza · Hitoshi Ômae

Plot People from all walks of life (a high-school student, a middle-aged businessman, a yakuza chief, etc.) all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in...

Direction Katsumi Nishikawa

Cast Tsunehiko Watase · Yoshie Ichige · Pinko Izumi · Shingo Tsurumi

Plot Set in Sapporo during the oil crisis of the early '70s, the film centers on the Hokkaitei soba stand run by a stoic patriarch and his perky wife. One New...

Direction Kazuho Mitsuta · Toshitsugu Suzuki · Samaji Nonagase · Hajime Tsuburaya

Cast Kôji Moritsugu · Yuriko Hishimi · Sandayû Dokumamushi · Shôji Nakayama

Plot An alien superhero from M-78 protects Earth from extraterrestrial threats in this popular classic follow-up to the original "Ultraman" TV series.

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Reiko Ohara · Kaoru Kobayashi · Reiko Nakamura · Kenzo Kawarazaki

Plot Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband’s emotional conflicts with the wisdom of an adult. Kazumi’s younger and more inexperienced husband Hideo...

Direction Akio Jissoji

Cast Janet Hatta · Shin Kishida · Minori Terada · Chisako Hara

Plot After a number of stressful affairs, a court lady becomes a nun in order to pursue a life without desire.

Direction Toshinori Nishimae · Noboru Sugiyama · Kazuhisa Imai

Cast Yumi Adachi · Yûichi Haba · Gamon Kaai · Kenji Kohashi

Plot Maya, a useless high school girl who's passionate about acting, accidentally meets Tsukikage Chikusa, a famous but retired actress who's looking for her successor to play the main role in...

Direction Mitsunori Hattori · Akio Jissoji · Shusuke Kaneko · Tsugumi Kitaura

Cast Yoshihiko Hakamada · Kumiko Endô · Masao Kusakari · Kazuyuki Aijima

Direction Hitoshi Yazaki

Cast Cho Bang-ho · Kiyomi Ito · Kôen Okumura · Yoshiko Yura

Plot Set in Tokyo, Ice (Yoshiko Yura) brings her amnesiac older brother Haruo (Bang-ho Cho) home from the hospital to care for him. He is reluctant to go, until Ice tells...

Direction Takao Okawara

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Masatoshi Nagase · Miki Sakai · Katsutoshi Atarashi

Plot The director of a large Tokyo trading company is kidnapped and held for ransom. A young but experienced detective is put on the case while being at the center of...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Tanie Kitabayashi · Toru Kazama · Hiroshi Nishikawa · Katsuyasu Uchida

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Ryo Amamiya · Yuri Nakae · Narimi Arimori · Kyusaku Shimada

Plot A heartwarming, based-on-true-story of how a hearing-impaired couple, Masahiro and Namiko, knew each other, got married and began participating in the Triathlon. The story is told in flashbacks as Namiko...

Direction Takashi Ishii

Cast Shinobu Otake · Masatoshi Nagase · Hideo Murota · Naoto Takenaka

Plot Based on a novel by Bo Nishimura, the film is about an extramarital affair between the wife of an estate agent and a 22 year old man.

Direction Yōjirō Takita

Cast Takeshi Kaga · Kaori Momoi · Hiromi Iwasaki · Mitsunori Isaki

Plot Comedy about a family and their obsession for making money.

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Kumiko Akiyoshi · Takuro Atsuki · Yosuke Katsuno · Akira Emoto

Direction Naoto Yamakawa

Cast Yoshiki Arizono · Makoto Ayukawa · Yoshio Harada · Toshiyuki Hosokawa

Plot All the protagonists move about in a Tokyo Bar that has an entire wall taken up with a black-and-white reproduction of a photo of Monument Valley. The action starts as...

Direction Makoto Wada

Cast Kyôko Koizumi · Hiroyuki Sanada · Kumi Mizuno · Masumi Okada

Plot 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...

Direction Kazuyoshi Kumakiri

Cast Marie Kawaguchi · Masaki Miura · Satoshi Morishita · Kôen Okumura

Plot In a rural village, a boy named Zoroku suddenly becomes infected with an unknown disease that causes him to rot away slowly.