Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal...

Friendship and violence

The tenth 'Don's Road' film.

A melodrama about the life of a mentally disabled young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to...

2000 horror original video.

A bureaucrat in the Ministry of Health and Welfare is murdered. The wealthy detective Ippei Yasuda's line of investigation reveals Takeshi Tsumeyu, a...

Two boys with a get rich quick scheme end up in prison, but when they meet a famed treasure hunter named Blake West with a plan to break out they...

In 2004, singer-songwriter Matsumoto Tetsuya wrote an autobiography that included a section about his relationship with his troubled mother....

Pinku film released in 1996

Former yakuza gang boss Noboru Ando reminisces about old partner in crime Kei Hanagata.

With the help of the real-life pachislot gambling group "Capone," the film depicts the friendship between a man who gambles and a man who lives in...

After being excommunicated from the yakuza, Ginya Yabuki returns from the shadows as leader of his own crime syndicate known as the Tokyo Mafia.

A lone-wolf detective known as "The Shark" must navigate hostile territory within both the criminal underworld and his own corrupt department to hunt...

A film adaptation of Toshio Kamata's "Rape." A suspense thriller depicting the paranoid delusional psychology of fans. Masayuki Danmasa originally...

Story of the last assistant doctor in Okinawa.

The third film in the series Professional golfer Oribe Kinjiro.

The fourth film in the series Professional golfer Oribe Kinjiro.

The f ifth film in the series Professional golfer Oribe Kinjiro.

Yabuki's old friend returns as a deadly enemy. Blood brothers are driven to bitter hatred as betrayal rips mafia loyalties apart! Only the strong...

Former hitman Ginya Yabuki (Riki Takeuchi) left the mafia and split somewhat contentiously with his longtime former partner. Years later, that same...

Tobikantaro has just been released from prison and is greeted by his younger brother Kakuji. Together, they have 23 convictions and are the most...

In Tokyo, a Chinese exchange student gets involved in rigged pachinko schemes and meets a Chinese girl raised in Japan. When they're caught cheating...

Kotone (Tomoka Kurotani) is the wife of Mitsuru Kiba (Kazushige Nagashima), boss of the Kiba gang in the Saikyo Alliance. She hides a girl named...

After a car crash, a comedy duo wake to discover themselves in an army infirmary. At first they think they are in jail, then slowly realize that it...

Based on the manga of the same name by Buronson (Yoshiyuki Okamura). The story of a young man who volunteers to join the air force for selfish...

A woman bears a 13 year grudge with her father over the traditional dance he was performing that caused him to be absent from her mother's death,...

A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't...

At the turn of the 20th Century amongst tension between China and Japan, a Japanese swindler in Shanghai plans to profit by selling weapons. He...

Toshiko does not have long to live. She wants to make the most of her time while she can and takes a sojourn to where her true hometown for which she...

Released after 4 years in prison, a family captain is shocked by how drastically his organization and private life has changed, and he won't sit by.

Released after 4 years in prison, a family captain is shocked by how drastically his organization and private life has changed, and he won't sit by.

Tokiko Haebaru, a 76-year-old grandmother living in Nago, Okinawa, embarks on a marathon across Japan.

How many did I kill? I remember about fourteen, but beyond that, I've no idea. Unbound by past or future, this man lived utterly in the present. His...

Satoru, who attends an acting school, is reunited one day with his childhood friend Sayaka, who aspires to be a musical theatre star. After their...

Kon Ichikawa's war film depicts the 60-hour period from the departure of the battleship Yamato, the pride of the Japanese Navy, until its sinking by...

Office worker Hiroko plans to murder a former classmate who is blackmailing her using her past. She plans and puts her perfect crime into action, but...

Yukiko Miki, the only daughter of the Yamako-gumi, a yakuza group in Kansai, begs her father to let her start a company, and with three henchmen who...

Hishataro, a man with thirteen prior convictions, hit a massive long-shot winner at the racetrack—only to be swindled out of the fortune by...

Can a coward commit suicide? Meet Kita Yoshio, a very unlucky man who has chosen his close friend's death anniversary as his suicide date, which is...

An unconscious young man is found inside the closet of a missing billionaire. Amnesiac, he is given the name Yukio and kept close to Naomi—the...

a 3-part TV drama series featuring Reiko Takashima

This comedy-romance is about the arranged marriage between an ex-cabin attendant suffering from the pain of lost love, and an elite employee of a...

Kentaro lives in the suburbs with his two little brothers. They are poor, but they are happy. The factory Kentaro works for, though, goes bankrupt on...