Cast: Bengaru

Direction Jūzō Itami

Cast Nobuko Miyamoto · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Masahiko Tsugawa · Shinsuke Ashida

Synopsis Ryoko Itakura is a government tax agent who has just landed a big promotion. Her first assignment is to catch wheeler-dealer Hideki Gondo. She has a tough job, since in Japan tax evasion is an art and Gondo is, in...

Direction Yōjirō Takita

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Hiroko Yakushimaru · Yasuo Daichi · Tsuyoshi Ihara

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Hitomi Kuroki · Tsurutaro Kataoka · Norihei Miki · Kippei Shiina

Synopsis The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis.

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Yûta Hiraoka · Takahiro Miura · Kana Kurashina · Akiyoshi Nakao

Synopsis Set 10 years after "Kids Return." Shinji and Masaru have graduated from high school with different paths in their lives. Shinji attempted to become boxer and Masaru a yakuza. They both tried to rise to the top of their respective...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Hiroshi Katsuno · Hikari Ishida · Yôji Matsuda · Toshinori Omi

Synopsis Ayase Shinsuke (Hiroshi Katsuno), a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up in. He meets a strange boy who calls himself by the author’s real name.

Direction Katsuhide Motoki

Cast Tôri Matsuzaka · Fumino Kimura · Kyôko Yoshine · Tasuku Emoto

Synopsis Iwane, Kinpei and Shinnosuke are childhood friends. They also trained at the same dojo, hung out together and dreamt together. Iwane, Jinpei and Shinnosuke also become relatives through marriage. Her husband exacts revenge and kills her when news spreads that...

Direction Shoji Kubota

Cast Naoki Kawano · Yuri Nakamura · Kôta Kusano · Ryûnosuke Kawai

Direction Masato Ishioka · Naoto Kumazawa

Cast Bengaru · Ken'ichi Endô · Fumina Hara · Toru Minegishi

Synopsis In this excursion into Tokyo's dark side, a sexually repressed woman finds liberation by turning tricks at night; a sex worker is taken by surprise when her ex drops by; and a sex blogger finds strange kinship with a loner.

Direction Akiyoshi Kimata

Cast Ai Hashimoto · Renji Ishibashi · Kazushige Nagashima · Tatsuomi Hamada

Synopsis A family in ruins recovers through their encounter with a "Zasikiwarashi", the japanese spirit.

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

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

Synopsis 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 Rocking Horsemen." A warm and comic glimpse into high-school and...

Direction Masaki Nishiura · Ryô Tanaka

Cast Shun Oguri · Satomi Ishihara · Saki Aibu · Arata Iura

Synopsis TV series (2012). 1 season. 11 episodes.

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

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

Synopsis 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 a shipwreck. They are instructed to go to a small...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Morio Kazama · Tsurutaro Kataoka · Kumiko Akiyoshi · Yûko Natori

Synopsis Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada's ex-wife. Recovering from the shock, Harada indulges in melancholy, mainly on his failure as a husband and father, and goes to...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Kenichi Hagiwara · Yûko Tanaka · Kenji Sawada · Akira Emoto

Synopsis It stars Kenichi Hagiwara as a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.

Direction Yukihiko Tsutsumi

Cast Hiroshi Abe · Renji Ishibashi · Naoto Takenaka · Bengaru

Synopsis Disaster befalls a village's inhabitants every 300 years. A popular self-styled magician named Naoko (Yukie Nakama) is summoned as a deity to rid the people of their anxiety. But there are many would-be deities there, each posing as a god....

Direction Naoko Komuro · Yûma Suzuki

Cast Masaki Suda · Nagano Mei · Ryota Katayose · Rina Kawaei

Synopsis 10 days away from graduation, homeroom teacher Hiiragi, stands in front of his students and tells them they have now become his hostages. He says that no one can leave unless someone can tell him the reason behind a past...

Direction Hideyuki Hirayama

Cast Shôfukutei Tsurube · Gou Ayano · Nana Komatsu · Ryôta Bandô

Synopsis Three patients of different backgrounds, illnesses and stages are being treated at a psychiatric clinic in Nagano Prefecture. Their cases range from the criminal to merely asocial. That should be that, but soon matters take a darker turn when a...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Hikari Ishida · Tomoko Nakajima · Toshinori Omi · Tomoka Shibayama

Synopsis Futari (Two of Us) is about two sisters, one of them the perfect child, the other clumsy and slow. One day, the perfect sister dies, and comes back as a ghost to guide her little sister.

Direction Kaizô Hayashi

Cast Masahiro Takashima · Narumi Yasuda · Mikijiro Hira · Haruko Wanibuchi

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Tomokazu Miura · Bengaru · Atsuko Sudô · Mai Hosho

Synopsis A story of two men, one recently bereaved, the other with a wife in a coma. From the popular song.