Cast: Kôen Kondô

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Takuya Kimura · Rei Dan · Takashi Sasano · Nenji Kobayashi

Synopsis Shinnojo, a low level samurai, lives with his pretty, dutiful and loyal wife Kayo. He has come to find his position in a castle as a food-taster for a feudal lord to be boring and pointless, and talks about opening...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Takako Matsu · Hidetaka Yoshioka · Yukiyoshi Ozawa

Synopsis Nagase Masatoshi stars as a samurai, whose adherence to his code of honor is tested by the forces around him. It is mid-nineteenth century Japan, and the way of the samurai is fading, as Western influences and corruption are slowly...

Direction Joji Matsuoka · Nobuhiro Yamashita

Cast Kaoru Kobayashi · Jô Odagiri · Mansaku Fuwa · Reiko Kataoka

Synopsis An anthology of human relationship stories connected by the only open in the wee hours diner the characters frequent. Resolutions are often facilitated by the owner/chef.

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Tadanobu Asano · Mitsugorô Bandô · Rei Dan

Synopsis Based on childhood days of Teruyo Nogami.

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Takayuki Yamada · Yusuke Iseya · Goro Inagaki

Synopsis In Thirteen Assassins (13 Assassins) (2010), a group of samurai is secretly assembled to eliminate a sadistic lord whose cruelty threatens Japan's stability. Set in the feudal era, the mission is led by a seasoned warrior who recruits twelve others,...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Ryo Kase · Yû Aoi · Sayuri Yoshinaga · Yuriko Ishida

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Sho Aikawa · Kyoka Suzuki · Atsuro Watabe · Yui Ichikawa

Synopsis Being a failure as a teacher and a familyman, Shinichi tries to escape everyday live by dressing up as "Zebraman", the superhero. Although the TV series whas canceled after only 6 episodes, this cannot stop him from acting out his...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Yû Aoi · Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Yui Natsukawa

Synopsis In this sequel to the first It's A Wonderful Family, the characters who are still based on those in Tokyo Family (which itself was based on Tokyo Story), are a couple of years older with the father, grandfather and husband...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Yû Aoi · Yui Natsukawa · Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Synopsis The three grown children of a couple approaching their 50th wedding anniversary are shocked when their mother demands a divorce.

Direction Kosuke Suzuki · Keiichiro Shiraki

Cast Shun Oguri · Hidetoshi Nishijima · Yuriko Ishida · Hidekazu Mashima

Synopsis The Special Investigation Unit is a secret force of specialists in various fields. The unit is under the direct control of the head of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Security Bureau. Its members include investigator Inami Akira who sustained serious...

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

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

Synopsis 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), who is an Olympic-level marathon runner, became the first Japanese...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kenji Sawada · Masaki Suda · Mei Nagano · Nobuko Miyamoto

Synopsis In this tale of love and friendship spanning a lifetime, the "god of cinema" that Go has worshipped since he was young will transcend time, and work a miracle in the lives of one family.

Direction Hajime Hashimoto

Cast Yo Oizumi · Ryuhei Matsuda · Tamae Andô · Magy

Direction Tetsuo Shinohara

Cast Ryuhei Matsuda · Kayoko Kishimoto · Hiroyuki Ikeuchi · Yoichiro Saito

Synopsis One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and kill the killer ..... and it escalates!

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Takashi Miike · Sho Aikawa · Kyoka Suzuki · Atsuro Watabe

Synopsis A documentary of the film "Zebraman" directed by Takashi Miike.

Direction Joji Matsuoka

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Ayumi Ito · Akira Emoto · Hirofumi Arai

Synopsis Based on a true story, the film depicts the life of Kuro, a dog who had lived in a high school in Nagano prefecture since 1960.

Direction Ryûichi Inomata · Makoto Naganuma · Naoko Komuro

Cast Haruka Ayase · Mirai Uchida · Ryoko Hirosue · Tsubasa Honda

Synopsis TV Miniserie (2017). 10 episodes. Isayama Nami, in order to start over her life and to find happiness, married the man she fell in love with at first sight during a blind date and moved to a quiet high-end residential...

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Gou Ayano · Masahiro Higashide · Keiko Kitagawa

Synopsis In search of employment and a permanent position and having committed murder the ronin Kake Junoshin tells the Kurokaze ('black wave') Han clan that a religious cult is aiming for their destruction. This gets him in, but he is soon...

Direction Takuji Suzuki · Shinobu Yaguchi

Cast Yoji Tanaka · Ren Furusawa · Daisuke Kojima · Kôen Kondô