Shinobu Tsuruta

A lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time he's running from loan sharks and his personal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuya Uchida

9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Satomi Kobayashi

A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose owner lives to bring entertaining films...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

Hama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company faces a restructuring process.

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Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rie Miyazawa

Sakiko, a young bank teller, has an unhealthy obsession with money. Thieves hold up the bank, kidnapping Sakiko in the process, but eventually crash...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Naomi Nishida

A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. The film follows their subsequent...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Atsuko Asano

A young man returns home from the bar only to find a woman who was about to kill herself. Taking her home and protecting her, he learns that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuki Kazamatsuri

Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Midori Kinouchi

Hama-chan meets a friendly US soldier on a trip to Nagasaki with Su-san. Su-san returns to Tokyo and is informed that Hama-chan has gone missing.

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Cast: Miyoko Asada

Su-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar surroundings on his first assignment at a new job.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

Yuji, a budding writer, meets and starts falling in love with his best friend’s girlfriend, Natsuko. The attraction is mutual but due to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Komaki Kurihara

Based on the comic book by Kenshi Hirokane

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshihiko Tahara

Kunio Shibano was bankrupted. He visits a snowland spa area to commit suicide. But he meets Geisha Moeko, and she gives him power to face life one...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Eiji Okuda

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

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Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Natsuko is witnessed carrying on an affair with her boss, Misawa, by the unmarried Chieko. However, Chieko dies by falling and is found about ten...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Aki Mizusawa

Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The...

Genre: History

Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

A woman runs a “mistress service” and interviews young women for “dates” with men. Various couples get together but someone...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yasuko Haru

A man who borrowed money from Ginjiro commits suicide. He had been laid off by the unethical Naniwa Advertising Co. A new recruit is also suffering.

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Cast: Chihara Junia

While on an errand for her husband a young wife does a little impulsive shoplifting. But she is caught and soon finds herself blackmailed into...

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Cast: Yūki Mizuhara

After an accident a husband becomes impotent. To help solve the problem of having a sexy wife with an overabundance of desire he invites his three...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuki Kazamatsuri

Saeko had an affair with Kuno, a photographer, but since the car they were riding in had an accident, she had withdrawn into a villa in Shonan. One...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shino Ikenami

The Eternal Founntain was broadcast as the Saturday Drama Special on NHK. Laywer Akio Yamauchi takes over the court-appointed attorney for Yoji...

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Cast: Akira Terao

Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up during his inaugural speech as the company chairman.

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Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

A traveling ronin perceived as a fool impresses a samurai leader with his fishing skills and gains employment.

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Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

A suspense drama based on Miyuki Miyabe. In contrast to herself, she and two women lived a free-spirited life, forcing a restaurant owner to raise...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazue Itô

A tremor struck the Information Industry Bureau of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. The prosecution arrested a local contractor on...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband's emotional conflicts with the wisdom of an adult....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reiko Ōhara

The second popular explosion! The man who aims at the top of the organization with indomitable fighting spirit has transformed into a ferocious...

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Cast: Koujiro Shimizu

A young woman has feelings for her older cousin but he is obsessed with blonds. When a European temptress comes for a visit his fantasies come true....

Genre: Horror

Cast: Chiaki Minami

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Cast: Mayumi Terashima

A young couple with marital problems are beset by an office lady temptress, amorous paramours and the swingers next door.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Arisa Hayashi

A weak willed man teams up with a stripper after her stage show partner runs off with another dancer. He is obsessed with her unique inverted nipples...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoko Kon

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yûrei Yanagi

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Norikazu Myoga

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Cast: Kaori Okamoto

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Hiroaki Murakami

An old married couple with bedroom problems become upset over the sexual antics of their daughter and a visiting randy couple. But then the part-time...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mai Inoue

An awkward girl tries out for a university cheerleading squad and ends up getting an extracurricular education in growing up.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mayumi Terashima

A one part drama/made for TV movie starring Rie Miyazawa

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Rie Miyazawa

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Cast: Noriyuki Higashiyama

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Cast: Hideki Takahashi

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Cast: Tsurutaro Kataoka

In a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an alley cat, bring order to the town of Horisoto, or...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Watanabe

Yumiko returns to work in Hama-chan's department. She had once left the company after getting married, but a dark shadow now seems to loom over her.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

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Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

Juzo Kimura is a wandering Ronin with a past. 15 years later, after winding up in Edo, he becomes a sword teacher to support his wife and daughter....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Matsudaira

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takaya Kamikawa

A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Komaki Kurihara

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Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

#31 in the King of Minami series. A washed-up yakuza named Fukunaga borrows money from Manda, unwittingly involving him in a sinister murder plot.

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Cast: Riki Takeuchi

A naive delivery boy becomes infatuated with a girl who works at a local strip joint. Despite his daily attendance and attempts to get her attention...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaori Okamoto

A popular movie star named Hiroshi Nanjo faces a huge problem in filming his new action flick when they find out he hasn't got a license to drive. He...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiroshi Tachi