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No Smoking

A documentary about Haruomi Hosono, a musician respected around the world and the music composer of Cannes Palme d'Or winner Shoplifters. The footage traces his encounter with music in early childhood to his days in bands Happy End and YMO to his solo activities. It also includes in-depth coverage from recent years of his first overseas performances in London, New York and Los Angeles. In London, he was joined by Yukihiro Takahashi, and when Ryuichi Sakamoto made a surprise appearance onstage, the YMO members were reunited for the first time in five years, a must-see spectacle captured on film. Written by Nikkatsu

No Smoking

7.0 2019
Wounded Heroes

Kobe in the Showa era. Within the Hamasei-gumi, a branch of the Yamaga-gumi, there were two men known for charging ahead purely on emotion—the Okanaka brothers. The older brother, Hirokazu (Hitoshi Ozawa), and the younger, Ryuji (Yasukaze Motomiya), shared the same family crest, but if something rubbed them the wrong way, they wouldn’t hesitate to beat even their own allies half to death. One day, Ryuji causes trouble by wrecking a gambling den run by the Umeda-gumi, leaving him with no place left in Kansai. Hirokazu takes responsibility for the incident and leaves the yakuza world, becoming a civilian… but fate is far from done with the brothers.

Wounded Heroes

NR 2012
Ah Humanity!

“Ah humanity! reflects on the fragility and folly of humanity in the age of the Anthropocene. Taking the 3/11/11 disaster of Fukushima as its point of departure, it evokes an apocalyptic vision of modernity, and our predilection for historical amnesia and futuristic flights of fancy. Shot on a telephone through a handheld telescope, at once close to and far from its subject, the audio composition combines excerpts from Japanese genbaku film soundtracks, audio recordings from scientific seismic laboratories, and location sound.”—Ernst Karel, Verena Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Ah Humanity!

NR 2015
Yankee Helper

Maria (Yuka Kinoshita), who dropped out of junior high school with excellent grades, wore a special attack uniform today and was open to fights. Maria's lover, Yuta (Teruumi Yoshimoto), is a thug from the gangster Haga Kogyo. One day, executive Haga (Tomonori Kono) orders Yuta to take care of Matai (Daisuke Iijima), the head of the head family, who is now bedridden and has a stash of stimulants that are the source of funds. Yuta thinks that if he feeds on Maria's natural beauty, he will be able to hear information from Matai. New "Yankee" series to challenge! Nice to meet you there! !

Yankee Helper

NR 2011
MOON SAGA - Mysteries of Yoshitsune 2

The story begins from March in year 1184 2 months after the final scene in the first play. The Genpei War and troubles of the hero, Minamoto no Yoshitsune, acted by GACKT,was dramatised from a new perspective drawn with a color of entertainment and a fresh breath of aesthetics. It is set in the days after the Heian Era. The Mononoke, who were feared since ancient times, the Mononofu, who are humans who gained the Mononoke’s powers, and the humans, who are being ruled by the Mononofu. In this scenario, the Heike and the Genji families, along with the other Mononofu around them, possess various powers like telepathy and seeing the future.

MOON SAGA - Mysteries of Yoshitsune 2

NR 2014
Good Luck

Twelve year old Osamu Hirano is in love with his classmate Rio, but he doesn’t have courage to confess his love to her. One day he learns that she is going out with Shuichi and this makes him very depressed. Shuichi is also a classmate, but unlike Osamu, he is very smart and also good at sports. Meanwhile, Osamu’s 21 year old sister Yumi, who years ago ran away to the big city of Nagoya, suddenly turns up with her fiancé, Kenji Yamaoka, a 45 year old ethnologist. Unsurprisingly, her parents have problems with Yumi’s choice of husband, particularly since he is the same age as her father and appears to have major health problems to boot. Yumi’s sudden reappearance, after years of silence, and her insistence on marrying a man more than twice her age, predictably throws the family into turmoil. Both Yumi and Osamu have problems addressing love, the deeper they fall into it, the more difficulty they have expressing their true feelings.

Good Luck

4.0 2012
One Night of Stars / La Esmeralda

One Night of Stars The setting is in the middle of the Edo Period during the reign of Yoshimune Tokugawa. Kinosuke Amano is the second son of the Lord of the Mikazuki clan, based in a lush green village nestled among mountains in Kyushu. He is a free-spirited youth, who slips out of the castle every night and is enchanted by looking at the stars. One summer, on the night of Tanabata (“the Evening of the Seventh”), Kinosuke encounters Sen, a girl from Hotaru Village, and Genta, her friend from childhood. Together, they assemble a turret for observing the stars. From that day onward, Kinosuke, Sen and Genta are friends, transcending social barriers, as they spend long hours every night searching out the stars La Esmeralda A Latin show that unfolds with a boundless emerald sea in the backdrop, portraying passionate love and many dreams.

One Night of Stars / La Esmeralda

10.0 2015
Loan Shark Yukari

In the downtown area of Okinawa, Yukari (Saryu Usui), a woman who secretly lends money to women at night who can't borrow money from anywhere. Hunted for a crime she committed in Tokyo, she fled to the island of her lover Shun and demonstrated her courage and business acumen as the daughter of a techie, and became famous as a "woman of dark money" who lent money to women at night with mowgli, but it was a dangerous job to turn the local yakuza around. Yukari, whose love for Shun had cooled down during her life on the run, one day had a fateful encounter with Yoshitaka, the man who saved her from her predicament. However, he was one of the yakuza who pursued the "woman of the dark money", and there was also a danger of pursuing her from the mainland

Loan Shark Yukari

NR 2018
百日紅の下にて

Almost all of the dialogue and narration is extracted from the original story, and there are no particular deviations from the original storyline, but the images tend to be devoid of reality. For example, the scene in the ruins of the mansion where Saeki and Kindaichi talk to each other is somewhat fantastical, and Kindaichi's appearance is also unrealistic. In addition, Saeki and Yumi's sex life is represented by the 'dancing futon'. The behaviour of those attending the first anniversary of the death of Saeki and Yumi is unnaturally exaggerated.

百日紅の下にて

NR 2016
New Juvenile Battle Royale

Yoshioka (Tatsuya Nakazawa), imprisoned for killing a yakuza boss, and Kubota (Koki Tora), jailed for murdering his own father, are sent to a prison island where only death awaits. No sooner do they arrive than they are given a hellish “welcome” by the warden, Nakano (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi), before being thrown into a communal block filled with dangerous inmates. There, they learn of a brutal underground fighting arena— groin strikes, eye gouging, biting… anything goes. Can the two survive long enough to escape the island alive? A high-octane, brutally real battle movie, where pride and fists collide, is born.

New Juvenile Battle Royale

NR 2013
Third Generation Acting Boss 6

Receiving a request from a marriage broker operating in a run-down area, Hidari (Hideo Nakano) and Yamato (Yasukaze Motomiya) find themselves helping with a fake marriage. Many of this broker's cases involve the Goroza family, who are involved in human trafficking and insurance fraud, manipulating household registries. Amidst this, Yamato's fake bride, Shirayuki, is brutally murdered after having her organs harvested. Angered by this heinous act, Left and Yamato, without any directive from the third-generation leader of the Kurotetsu Alliance, Sakaki (Sho Aikawa), take on a rival gang. Thus begins a bloody purge driven solely by their unbacked "chains."

Third Generation Acting Boss 6

NR 2015
Violent Love

When Maki was 12 years old, her mother Toshie had a relationship with a man, Kenji Hashimoto. But Hashimoto's twisted desire made him extend his magic claws to his daughter Maki. Although Junjiang vowed to protect Maki to the death, he was unable to return to heaven, and thus ended his life. After growing up, Maki, after breaking up with the domestic violence ex-husband Shinozaki Satoru, she started to run a snack bar, sealed the past, and lived alone. Unexpectedly, one day, Hashimoto suddenly came to the snack bar as a guest...

Violent Love

NR 2015