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A clumsy but cheerful fisheries student struggles to find her place at a research institute renowned for its tuna cultivation. The work isn't easy.

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song by Tsuzuko Sugawara.

A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.

A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nourishment for their bodies and their souls. The proprietor of Izakaya Moheji is Heiji. It is a place where regulars and strangers alike can find comfort and comfort food.

The psychic boom is back with the arrival in Japan of "HEROES," a drama series surpassing "24" in popularity! A real-life incident is fully filmed based on the testimonies of those involved!

Erika Sawajiri plays Kimiko, the main character of the story who has died. Although the title implies that it is a story of a “wicked woman,” the original novel was divided into 27 chapters, one for each “testimony” by someone who knew Kimiko at some point in her life, providing a range of perspectives on what kind of person Kimiko was. ~~ Adapted from 1978 novel series "Akujou ni Tsuite" by Ariyoshi Sawako.

1962 Japanese movie

A British comedy in Japanese clothes, with central character Ginji at once earnest farm boy and entrepreneurial savant, finding ingenious and entertaining solutions in a timeless tale of business and found family.

The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. It's a small god with a pointed head, a fat belly and a characteristic smile. When the casket in which the statuette was found is broken, the spirit of Billiken is free. After that he tries to fulfill the wishes of all those who had prayed to him, but it doesn't always works.

She's tantalizing. Spellbinding. Irresistible. And yet freelance photographer Uemura fights his attraction for the beautiful Mari with all his might. For not only is she the wife of the prominent head of a prestigious hospital, but all of those who've previously had affairs with this sensual succubus seem to have expired prematurely. It's a losing battle, however, and Uemura soon finds himself pulled into the arms of the voluptuous Mari and the jaws of a trap designed to suck men dry and spit out the husks. For it seems that Mari's husband, Ginjiro, is all too aware of who's been sleeping in his wife's bed, and the sexual predation that follows will pull Uemura into a world of bondage and depravity.

A remake of the 1957 classic "Man Who Raised a Storm" with Watari Tetsuya in the title role.

A headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his superiors, questions begin to arise as to his true identity and intentions.

Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.

Kyoko (Sakura Ando) works as an insurance agent. Due to a series of unfortunate events, she brings shame to her family and has to leave her hometown. Shuichi (Tasuku Emoto) killed his drunken father to save his mother. After he is released from prison, he begins to work at a small factory in Tokyo.

A Japanese girl and a French boy make strides in overcoming the cultural barriers that prevent them from fully expressing the love they have for one another.

A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her. In Tokyo, he hides under the identity of a worker while the young woman becomes a waitress in a restaurant.

The city of Yokohama has become a lawless district for biker gangs. One particular gang, the "Crazy Babies", has a 17-year-old leader called Hiromi Katayama that is famous throughout the entire Kanagawa alliance as being a strong fighter with a devout sense of morality. However, when a young rookie by the name of Toshi Ikeda wants in, he swears to Katayama that he wi...

An unreliable narrator recounts the love story of a loan shark, his wife, and their recently released from jail childhood friend.

Set during the Meiji period (1868-1912), Kaede is the former mistress of a wealthy merchant. When he dies, she is forced out on the street and forced to give up her young daughter to the merchant’s family.

An old widower who lives with his two daughter runs a tofu store,one day a distant relative comes to his home looking to heal his wounded heart after losing his family in the 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

The lives and loves of several people all intersect in the Golden Gai, a labyrinth of alleys and bars located in central Tokyo.

Murakami Naoki is the most intelligent student at his high school, but he can't stop obsessing over a girl named Mizuno Haruka. He finally asks her out, and to his surprise, she accepts. After several months of a loving yet obviously doomed romance, it comes time for them to take the entrance exams for Tokyo University. What will happen to their relationship if only one of them is accepted?

Summer, 1989. Eisuke begins to record a new radio drama in the school studio by himself. Then, an unknown girl who attends classes at night starts recording her own parts as a character without his permission. Eisuke decides to let her participate and keeps the radio drama going, relay-style, with a person whose name or face he doesn't know. Day and night, two strangers who never would have met otherwise record a story together on a cassette tape.

A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.

A television drama based on "Shirano Benjuro", a translation of the play "Cyrano de Bergerac" by Edmond Rostand .

Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action develops into a crime story.

Young Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football.

In order to be with the man she loves, Kim goes back to Japan from Korea. The man saved Kim from darkness, when she was little. But he was raised by Kim's mother under the dark world. Now, he is involved in the criminal world. To protect her love, Kim makes a dangerous plan to get the man from her mother.

One actress who was on the brink of quitting the stage happened to visit 'imprisoning work shop,' an actor training institute, during her on-site reporting. She found herself increasingly attracted to the abnormal place where actresses were imprisoned and did not refuse to have sex for acting.

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic.

There were man and women who were supposed to think each other from a place far away. On a winter day, they got on the train to meet. On the journey, he unexpectedly received a E-mail from her, and she was lost all the time.

Recently appointed dean at a film school, Kimuro Hajime develops a special concern for one of his students, Daisuke. The brash, headstrong young man is fixated on with the Second World War. He feels a sense of frustration at the irrational sacrifice of young people's lives during the war six decades earlier. Daisuke finds that he can vent his frustrations to Kimuro, who experienced the war firsthand. Kimuro's wife, Emiko, is also troubled by memories of the war. She lost a loved one in the war and has never gotten over it. And Kimuro himself also has something from the past that he has yet to face. He believes that the burden of his unresolved past will eventually be the death of him. When Daisuke's neurosis causes him to quit school, life changes for all three of them.

One day, after the ceasefire in the Vietnam War, Maroku Ohno rushed into an American military position. He had been wandering inland, unaware that the war had ended. He finally returned to Japan, only to find his hometown, Awaji Island, completely changed, and his former lover now married. So he began making a fortune in Tokyo with the intention of buying Awaji Island.

Two teenagers find themselves in the middle of a vengeful blackmail scheme in this crime drama.

Fifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman being attacked on the road, he quickly finds himself entangled in a conspiracy involving a corrupt chamberlain, a wily merchant, the survivors of a pirate gang, and a missing treasure trove.

At an Osaka electronics company, power struggles, corporate schemes, and personal agendas collide when the boss is away. As tensions rise around a meddling heiress and a collapsing business deal, one quiet employee steps up to set things right.

The soldiers no longer know why they are at war, and when it even started. Daily and dutifully they march to the river and shoot at the opposite village from 9 to 5 – orders are orders after all. They’ve done so for decades. When private Tsuyuki is transferred to the marching band, people keep asking him what use music is in times of war.

Isozoemon (Go Kato) was a ronin (masterless samurai) and broke, who lived in a Choya (cheap apartment) in Okazakijoka town with his sick wife, Sugie (Ai Kanzaki). He was also a good swordsman who had taught swordsmanship in Akita a long time ago. He takes such good care of his wife that he is called a wife-loving man. He got involved in a conflict for succession because he pretended to become an officer to please her wife.

Not a lot of people know that one of the most talented and ruthless Mahjong players in the city is a young high school boy. Kei is a teenager of few words, but his observation skills, unwavering will and experience in the game allows him to survive in a world full of powerful, rich and dangerous characters.

Kazuo "Gaira" Komizu's sexually charged, delirious, and extremely low budget movie, has two men and two women trapped in an elevator, indulging in their growing psychotic fantasies about what they would do to each other.

Ayumi and her husband, Ryoma, who meet by chance and run a grape farmer together. Every winter, Ryoma leaves his house and fields to his wife and goes to Tokyo to work. In the meantime, Ayumi lives with her mother-in-law, and even if she calls Ryoma occasionally, she always hangs up bluntly. Ryoma had a chance reunion with his childhood friend Chihiro in Tokyo. Ryoma floats to the reunion with Chihiro, who used to like him. On the other hand, Kusakabe, a younger man who was also attracted to Ayumi, appeared. Ayumi and Kusakabe suddenly approach each other, and at some point they cross the line...

It is a sport film about cycling.

Fumiko is a film director who hasn't been able to lay her mother's ashes to rest. At her friend Yume's suggestion, she decides to scatter the ashes into the ocean. They head off to her mother's hometown of Kamakura, but Yume gets arrested and taken into immigration detention. Yume was born to a refugee mother in Japan and grew up in the country but doesn't have residency status. Fumiko fights to get Yume released from the detention center. Then Yume discovers that she is pregnant, which raises the possibility of her release. But she has a miscarriage and her ray of hope vanishes.

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. When the company faces bankruptcy Kono wants to quit, but Rieko strings him along with the promise of a large cash investment, the proceeds of a real-estate deal. Her actual plan to raise the money is to kidnap a young woman and demand a ransom for her release. The trouble is, it never occurs to her to keep the victim alive before trying to extort the cash. And when things start to go wrong, Rieko responds by murdering another girl and attempting another ransom scam..

Japanese drama film.

In an isolated village in the Kazakhstan mountains, Erken, a boy of 12, lives with his mother, a beautiful and alluring single woman. One night, when the mother is visited by a hunter, Erken steals the latters horse and his gun to hold up a shop. Sought by the police, he is found by the hunter who gives him a choice: to go to prison or to go and live with him in the mountains. Thus begins a voyage of initiation, in the course of which the hunter tries to pass on his taste for and understanding of life.

Shin is a Japanese university student living a boring and meaningless life. One day, he spots a book titled Dangerous Ways to Walk the World, in which he finds a page written about hazards in New-York. Eager to get out, he jets off to New-York to find this inspiration.

Akio Tsukaro, dreaming of working for a beauty school's flag shop one day, stayed at Bunta Tadokoro without being involved in salon art, even though he graduated from beauty school. One day, Akio saw Michiko, a beautiful girl raining in Ginza. Since then, Akio has become unforgettable with the mascot that Michiko has taken away...

Aya, who had a happy day with her husband, sits in debt two years ago because of her father ‘s guarantee. Ayane, who has paid off her debt instead of her parents, can not repay the bloated interest, and instead of paying her back in return for her husband. In the meantime, the debtor, Takeda, is really against Ayane and says to go away together …

Toko returned from studying abroad out of concern for her boyfriend Manabu who lost his father. She goes to the home of their mutual friend Tasuku and sees Manabu there drawing a laurel tree in the garden. Manabu informs her he loves Tasuku and that love turned Tasuku into a tree.

A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a modern youth who is attracted to the evil path. Saburi Shin, a well-known actor who also demonstrated his skill as a director in a bold social work, embodies a person with a complicated dilemma in a shadowy manner, and is a dramatic work that plays a part in the lead role.

Transfer student Mizuki is bullied mercilessly by her classmate. Nevertheless, she is always able to maintain her composure. Kirie, who is also bullied, becomes interested in Mizuki and longs for her. The two become close.

The story is set in the Shimane Prefecture, which supposedly has the fewest lawyers in all of Japan. Nakama plays the role of the hard-working and righteous Yamazaki Mizuho, who travels around by bicycle to help her clients.

Miki works hard with coach Kazama to aim for the world championship, but suspected of doping, the judging committee sets out to investigate.