Shigeru Muroi

Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese...

Genre: Action

Cast: Takanori Jinnai

Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Yoko Honna

Shangri-La follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly commits suicide and decide to help him out of his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Show Aikawa

Hiroshi Kobayashi is on the run from police who would arrest him for the murder of his girlfriend Naomi. At the same time, he wants revenge on the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yōsuke Nakajima

"Genji Monogatari" focuses on the love and hate relationships surrounding Genji Hakaru. Lady Fujitsubo is Genji's first love. Ryokuzono Miyasutokoro...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Toma Ikuta

A boy and girl struggle to understand their place in 1980s Japan, retiring to copulate and probe each other for answers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shigeru Muroi

Young women disappear one after another in drizzling rain. They all hear the “cursed song” of the Cage Song before they vanish into thin...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Eiji Wentz

A man ran into a woman on a street. She was not attractive, but was a perfect girl for him. After missing the chance to talk to her, he contemplates...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kassei Kumamoto

This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Mugiko, an 18-year-old attempts to escape her unhappiness with village life by going to Tokyo to live and work in the geisha house run by her aunt....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yasuko Tomita

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mitsuru Hirata

When pregnant lunchbox factory worker Yayoi has finally taken all the abuse she can handle, she strangles her brutish husband and disposes of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Harada

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Tsurutaro Kataoka

A young woman who escaped from prison is eventually captured and brought back. The evil warden decides to make her a pet project and tries to break...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mina Asami

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Cast: Masakazu Tamura

The story of a young man who has felt since childhood utterly alien from others around him. Since that time he has learned to put on a face to hide...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toma Ikuta

Furuchi and Hama are two unsuccessful repair agents and electronic engineers. One day Furichi finds a so-called Kotatsu heater. Soon after this...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pappara Kawai

This new version of Nagasaki's Yami utsu shinzô (1982) is neither a remake nor a sequel. It is both those things, and at the same time it is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Naito

Traditional Japanese pop singer Reiko (Muroi) decides to enter a well-known TV program for amateur singers along with a confused teenager...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shigeru Muroi

A student travels back to Kobe for the summer. Once there, he meets his friend Rat, hangs on the usual place, listening to the Beach Boys and meets a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shigeru Muroi

One night, as pub owner Sotaro is caring for his sick wife, Shizuko, she asks him to promise that if she dies, he will never remarry. Thinking she is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Takako Matsu

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Yuma Nakahara is the CEO of an IT company and he is a workaholic. He is focused only on expanding his company. He receives a phone call from his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yutaka Takenouchi

In a small town, high school students in their final year try to balance their studies while also playing together in a rock band.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kanako Fukaura

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....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yoshiki Arizono

When Su-san invites his late friend's daughter to come along on a fishing trip, she falls in love with Hama-chan's fishing protégé.

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Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

When a research crew in deep space discovers the desolate ship "Green Planet" that warps into their area, they encounter Buzz, the commander and sole...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Kenyu Horiuchi

Based on the comic by Mamora Goda.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Show Aikawa

Sachiko lost her parents at an early age and lived together with her only sister Nobuko who worked for a newspaper. Out of the blue, she is told that...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Keiko Kitagawa

Two young men are hungry, so they decide to rob a bakery. Adaptation of a short story by Haruki Murakami.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bang-ho Cho

The newly divorsed singer Kumi is not too enthusiastic about life as a single mother. She drops her son to her ex-husband, leaving her band and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kumiko Ota

Nobuko Sawaguchi is a surly, unattractive housekeeper in her mid-thirties. However, in actuality, she is a beautiful woman, but she hides this fact...

Genre: Family

Cast: Ryoko Yonekura

Four female flight attendants embark on some salacious misadventures: A few go to a company singles party to cavort with some pilots, while the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tomoko Ai

When 22-year-old Ikuko gets fired from her editing internship right before her college graduation instead of getting hired, she turns to her...

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Cast: Yuki Saito

This is Yamakawa's first feature film in 16mm. A group of university students who grew up in an era of rapid economic growth yearn for "another side"...

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Cast: Shigeru Muroi

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Matsuzaka

In four chapters, the film anatomises the chaotic life of a radio agony uncle.who is having simultaneous affairs with a sado-masochistic call-girl...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaori Mizushima

Kono Takeshi has given up work as an electrician to run a gift-shop business with his partner/mistress Rieko, who's a couple of years older than him....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tamaki

Welcome aboard the fantasy train in the stars! "Fantasy Railroad in the Stars" is a fantastic journey of a boy, Giovanni, in a dreamscape created...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shigeru Muroi

Film director Shunichi Nagasaki reflects on a near-fatal motorcycle accident that occurred while shooting his commercial feature debut The Lonely...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Shunichi Nagasaki

Japanese adaptation of Agatha Christie's A Murder is Announced.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ikki Sawamura

In August, 1918, Matsuura Ito lives in a coastal village of Toyama with her husband and three children. During the summer, there wasn't much fish to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mao Inoue

Kumi lives a hippie-like life in Tokyo's outskirts. One night while drunk she stumbles into an abandoned industrial site, except in addition to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kumiko Ota

Twenty-year-old Kaori, an aspiring accessory designer, spends her days troubled by her mother's violence and excessive meddling. Meanwhile,...

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Cast: Hanae Kan

Naoko Tanaka is a 26-year-old office lady (OL). Her job is typical, but her workplace has fierce fights among different cliques. Other OLs are...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mei Nagano

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masahiro Higashide

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cunning Takeyama

The film is set in Edo period. As an orphan child Mio starts working at a restaurant in Osaka where she learns how to cook. When she turns 18, she...

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Cast: Keiko Kitagawa

The protagonist is a woman (Hiroko Yakushimaru) who is a sales manager at the Japanese branch of a famous French shoe brand. The protagonist is...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Hiroko Yakushimaru

The seven secretaries who consist of the "Shadow Army" enjoy peaceful days. They receive a new request from Koichi Ogata, who runs a ramen restaurant...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fumino Kimura

Anthology film. "What's Wrong with Eating?" Numayama Kazuki is always complaining about his wife's, Atsugi Shizuka, body shape. Because of that...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Haruko Sagara

One day a young Brazilian man living in Japan crashes his car into the side of the house of a happy family. They take him in after realizing he had...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

A martial arts master/detective investigates a series of murders and helps a deaf bathhouse attendant, Hisako.

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuya Takeda

Genre: Crime

Cast: Fumino Kimura

Hitomi, a former orphan who is trying to leave behind her delinquent ways, one day agrees to tutor a wealthy young boy who has just become an orphan...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Kyoko Koizumi

1990 Original Video

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Cast: Masako Motai

An adult love story written and directed by Yasushi Akimoto of "Goodbye Mama" and shot on location in New York. Haruko and Natsuko are sisters who...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayumi Ishida

A young man wakes up one morning to find that his head has transformed into a large cabbage. He quickly becomes a source of bemusement, desire and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Katsuro Onoue

A man suicides causing ruin for his family, reasons are unknown, but his son will decide to take revenge after a succesion of events.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shinnosuke Abe

It is the Spring of 1814. The restaurant “Tsuru-ka” is gaining much popularity after its chef, Mio, won the prestigious cooking...

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Cast: Keiko Kitagawa