Cast: Shigeru Muroi

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Takako Matsu · Haru Kuroki · Hidetaka Yoshioka · Satoshi Tsumabuki

Plot Takeshi finds several notebooks by his late aunt Taki Nunomiya, who never married. Through the notebooks Takeshi learns of his aunt's life. Prior to World War II, in a little...

Direction Kichitaro Negishi

Cast Takako Matsu · Tadanobu Asano · Shigeru Muroi · Masatô Ibu

Plot This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the story...

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Michirô Endô · Shigeru Izumiya · Takanori Jinnai · Kou Machida

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Yosuke Nakajima · Tatsuya Mori · Shigeru Muroi · Genjiro Amato

Plot Hiroshi Kobayashi is on the run, both away from the police who want him for the murder of his girlfriend Naomi, and towards the yakuza Kimura, from whom he wants...

Direction Hideyuki Hirayama

Cast Mieko Harada · Mitsuko Baisho · Shigeru Muroi · Naomi Nishida

Plot Four down on their luck housewives murder their husbands and find whacky ways to hide the bodies!

Direction Kazuyuki Izutsu

Cast Shigeru Muroi · Kôhei Ôtomo · Isao Bitô · Ayumi Ito

Plot "Some people laugh, and some people cry, until their grand occasion to make their first appearance on stage." Out of 4,000 applicants, only 250 will make it to the preliminary...

Direction Izuru Narushima

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Ryô Yoshizawa · Lucas Sagae · Fadile Waked

Plot A moving story depicting people trying to create a "family" overcoming differences in circumstances.

Direction Jôji Iida

Cast Akira Emoto · Hisako Hara · Masao Imafuku · Ken'ichi Ishii

Plot A kotatsu comes alive and tries to eat people.

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Katsunobu Ito · Kumiko Akiyoshi · Isao Bitô · Kazuki Kosakai

Direction Shunsaku Kawake · Tôru Hayashi · Yûsuke Ishii

Cast Machiko Ono · Kippei Shiina · Shôhei Miura · Riisa Naka

Direction Kazuki Omori

Cast Yuki Saito · Hiro Komura · Mayumi Asaka · Yôko Asaji

Direction Masashi Yamamoto

Cast Akemi Edo · Michirô Endô · Nobutaka Kuwabara · Shigeru Muroi

Direction Hisashi Saito

Cast Masahiro Higashide · Nao · Shunsuke Daitô · Gô Rijû

Plot Kazuo Kudo returns to his hometown of Hakodate with his wife because of his autonomic ataxia. Kazuo, who is not able to work and has to attend the psychiatry regularly,...

Direction Yasushi Akimoto

Cast Keiko Matsuzaka · Yuta Yamazaki · Ken Ogata · Eriko Watanabe

Plot A successful office lady, who has made herself sexually available to a doctor, has her routine disrupted when her former boyfriend's son appears in her life. She is not connected...

Direction Anthony Garner · Morimasa Matsumoto

Cast Samantha Bond · Daisuke Ryû · Fumi Dan · Joanna McCallum

Plot TV Mini-Series 4 episodes. In 1903, a young Scotswoman goes to join her diplomat fiancé in Manchuria. She marries him, and finds herself in a war zone. Disenchanted with her...

Direction Yasuo Hasegawa · Tsutomu Kashima · Naoto Yamakawa

Cast Mitsuru Hirata · Hideko Hara · Rikako Murakami · Katsunobu Ito

Direction Jun Ichikawa

Cast Yasuko Tomita · Michiyo Oguso · Kazue Ito · Masahiro Takashima

Plot Suzume moved in Tokyo where she will live in aunt's house, basically a geisha house. She have no interest in any social activity, nor any friendship with classmates. She's not...

Direction Masaru Konuma

Cast Mina Asami · Ryoko Watanabe · Nami Matsukawa · Shigeru Muroi

Plot An inmate attempts to escape from prison and is confronted by the guard.

Direction Kazuki Omori

Cast Yûko Kotegawa · Junko Sakurada · Ryûji Takasaki · Masahiro Takashima

Direction Katayama Osam

Cast Masaki Aiba · Shihori Kanjiya · Nobuaki Kaneko · Naoto Takenaka

Plot TV Series (2011). 8 episodes. Ryu Sasakura is a bartending prodigy who won a European cocktail contest. He got into an argument with his instructor and was fired. In a...