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Travelling to his hometown, a stressed, middle-aged businessman dials an old classmate from a public phone, and reconnects with lost fragments of his youth.

Mixed up by desire, love and hatred, a disturbed young man begins tailing and eventually tries to save his neighbor, a housewife who has turned to prostitution despite her comfortable lifestyle.

Arisa (16) is reunited with art student Masaki (20) after three years. She lives with her mother Saeko (39) and maid Aya (22). Masaki and Arisa are half-siblings, and his mother was a mistress. Saeko, who had taken care of him, commissioned him to paint a portrait. That night, he witnesses Saeko and Aya embracing passionately. Masaki struggles to make progress on the portrait, and Arisa gently comforts him. Saeko, displeased with the two of them, begins to provoke Masaki. Masaki recalls the humiliating days of the past when Saeko repeatedly assaulted him. Still unable to paint, Masaki confides his past to Arisa. Arisa then confesses that she herself had masturbated while watching Masaki being violated. Their suppressed love overflows, and the two embrace. Driven by desire, Saeko forces the submissive Aya to confront Masaki. He resisted but seeing Aya writhing in agony, he gradually lost control and began to desire her. While secretly watching, Arisa indulged in self-gratification.

It is 1980. Sadatomo is at a secondary school in a small town. His parents barely take any notice of him. The strict teacher Kobayashi has hung up a 'humanity index' in the classroom, divided into the categories 'delinquents', 'scum' and 'people'. In each category he has hung name-cards of pupils. One day Kobayashi finds out that Sadatomo and his friends have stolen some things from a shop for fun. Their fathers are informed and as punishment, the children have to write a 'self-critical' essay of no less than thirty pages. For the first time, Sadatomo is beaten by his father. Shocked, he writes a piece entitled 'I am an onion', in which the teacher thinks he can detect a first sign of humanity. That is the start of a confusing situation in which it gets hard to distinguish lies, truth, justified self-criticism and opportunist wheeler dealing, even for the boys.

Hanako is a mother, who was not enthusiastic when her husband took in two foster children some years ago. He died not long afterward, leaving her alone to care for the youngsters, Koya and Torataro, a task that she rose to with a passion. As the two boys graduate from high school, Hanako has become not only a devoted parent but the neighborhood's most reliable mother in the Osaka style: strong, responsible, irreverent. After the two boys leave school they also leave home, though Torataro continues to work in the family factory. Koya secures employment at a restaurant, where he is forced to put up with the bullying of an older colleague. Unable to take it any more, he runs away, and Hanako and Torataro look for him. They eventually find him pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician.

Sisters "Manamo" and "Minamo" live separately in Hiroshima and London since the divorce of their parents. The elder sister Manamo lives in Hiroshima with her mother, she is a high school student, but moonlights at a Japanese cabaret-club. After her mother remarries and moves to Yamaguchi Prefecture, Manamo lives by herself in Hiroshima. One day, her younger sister Minamo returns from London to visit Manamo. It is ten years since they have lived together, and they argue every day.

The first installment in the series of fantasy swordplay action movies starring Riki Takeuchi. Muramasa, a mystical blade imbued with the grudges of those persecuted by the Tokugawa Shogunate, reawakens in the modern era. Yagyu Kengo, descendant of the Yagyu Clan and "sealmaster," faces off against the Shimazu Clan, who seek to exploit Muramasa's power for their own gain.

A warring Yakuza awakens to Christianity and becomes an evangelist. The film is modelled on the real-life "Mission Barabbas," a Christian evangelistic group of ex-Yakuza.

Yoichiro Nozaki, a high-achieving office worker, collapses from an aneurysm. The doctor advises immediate surgery, but the outcome is uncertain. Even if successful, he might lose all his memories. Resigning from his job and leaving the surgery consent form blank, Nozaki falls into a deep depression. Seeking a change, Nozaki decides to go on a trip. On the morning of his departure, he meets Torigoe at their designated meeting spot. Torigoe suggests avoiding the expressway and instead taking National Routes to Kagoshima. And so, the journey of two men, both grappling with a sense of loss, begins.

Bruce Lee in G.O.D. is a "docudrama" about the filming of Game of Death. The first 40 minutes of the film is a dramitisation of events before Lee dropped filming for GOD to do Enter the Dragon, with interviews with people associated with the film. The remainder of the movie is an alternate cut of the found Game of Death footage. It uses archive footage from the original film and recreated scenes with stand-ins and the plotline of Bruce's screen notes to bring us what some would call a more complete version of Lee's Game of Death.

3D animated short based on Kirby: Right Back at Ya! which features the never-before-seen monster named Lobzilla. as King Dedede tries to ruin Kirby's latest media endeavor

Although they are still teenagers, the Zenigata Sisters are detectives, and have a grandfather in the Inspector General. They possess an uncanny knack for solving crimes, but no one knows that they are investigators. The Zenigata Sisters have been busy solving crimes around the nation, and are faced with a case surrounding their own family. Unless three crimes are solved, the perpetrator threatens to escalate his crimes. It is then that Rui, Mai and Rei begin receiving mail on their cell phones from the police department. The trap set by the perpetrator has the sisters stumped. Will they be able to solve the crime in time?

Chihiro, a brilliant surgeon with a flawless façade, secretly spirals into addiction and hallucinations. When the new staff member Wataru arrives, Chihiro becomes increasingly drawn to him—blurring the line between reality and fantasy. Meanwhile, the scheming administrator Shiomi also desires Wataru and begins manipulating the fragile connection between the two. In a hospital consumed by lust, jealousy, and power, Chihiro must confront his fractured mind and decide whether he can face genuine love—or be swallowed by his own illusions.

The summer vacations begin and Mariko, second grade at senior high school, is fed up with the provincial of her hometown. Then, Yamada, who has feelings for Mariko, arrives with a watermelon, but He rubs Mariko in gloomy mood the wrong way

Hiroshi Hamano, a professor at a medical university, is found dead. Going by the results of the autopsy, it appears he committed suicide by jumping off a roof, but going by eyewitness testimony and physical evidence at the scene, Detective Kamei suspects murder. A ticket for a train trip around Japan is found in the professor's pocket. However, nobody then could have known the shocking truth hidden behind the tour the dead man was supposed to attend...

At a crucial point in his business life, executive Gondo learns that his son has been kidnapped and that the ransom demanded is near the amount Gondo has raised for a critical business deal. Gondo is prepared to pay the ransom - that is, until he learns that the kidnappers have mistakenly abducted not Gondo's son, but the child of Gondo's chauffeur. Now Gondo must decide whether the other man's child is equally worth saving.

2006 release

The sixth film in the 'Drift' series.

A lonely schoolboy discovers a block of wood carved into the shape of a human head. Seeking companionship he and the puppet-doll become best playmates. Soon things begin to change and the situation goes from innocent to downright sinister.

A young girl, wandering a long distance, suddenly finds herself in a deserted new town. There, a man claiming to be her probation officer approaches her and offers her a ride. The man is the caretaker of an apartment complex, and his daily routine involves approaching women with the intention of assaulting them. The man and the girl discover a deep sense of emptiness shared within each other…

In Portuguese, SAUDADE means nostalgia, grief, or longing. Thinking wistfully of one's distant home or of loved ones far away, or yearning for a youth that can never be recaptured. Sorrow, agony, bitterness, love, beauty, radiance. Sometimes a sharp pain within one's heart. Sometimes one should aim at the light that will lead one into the future. In the outskirts of this world, surrounded by strangers, a lone man feels SAUDADE. These mindscapes blend with elements of poetic scenery, and singing and dancing to a variety of music, to display the charm of Sena Jun: the noble-mindedness of proud solitude, tender kindness, and sometimes a brief glimpse of forlorn fragility, in contrast to which her vigorous strength and dynamism overflows even more vividly.

Kaori is pursuing her career as a journalist for a magazine with great enthusiasm. But as a result of an article she wrote, she is sent to work for a community magazine at Fukuoka. An anonymous letter arrives, which puts her in contact with an old and forgotten theater, the 'Minato Theater' in nearby Shimonoseki.

In the early morning of January 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck, and Tadao Furuichi (Hidekazu Akai), who was running a camera store in Kobe City, lost his friends, his house, and his property. Tadao is busy volunteering for the reconstruction of the town, and one day he comes across his own golf bag that survived the earthquake. Feeling a miracle, Tadao decides to challenge the professional golf test before he turns 60.

Seijuro and Teppei, who have lost everything in life, are approached by Jinrai, a former fixer of Japan’s underworld. Out of loyalty to Seijuro’s late father, who was once his right-hand man, Jinrai hands them 20 million yen. With this money, Seijuro and Teppei make the biggest gamble of their lives.

Jun Matsuda's first self-produced image video.

A mentally unstable young woman named Yoshie implores a gifted plastic surgeon (Yukiko Okamoto) to make her beautiful in this disturbing Japanese psychodrama directed by Katsuya Matsumura. Although the operation is successful, Yoshie becomes even more preoccupied with beauty -- and soon draws the doctor into a horrifying world of emotional agony and masochism. The film's supporting cast includes Asuka Kurosawa, Kota Kusano and Miki Asakura.

As the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks approaches, peeptvshow.net begins broadcasting hidden camera footage of women and couples in their apartments at night. An aimless teenage girl comes across the site's admin in Shibuya.

Set one year after the events of the original series, Densha Otoko has now become very popular and Akihabara, has become overrun with normal people getting in on the otaku craze. With Densha's popularity on the rise a corporation offers ten million yen to anyone who can find his real identity. Meanwhile, Tsuyoshi tries to keep his and Saori's identities from being discovered.

An erotic drama depicting a married woman who becomes addicted to adultery. Akie's husband is having an affair, but she tolerates it because she feels guilty about not being able to have children. However, feeling lonely because her husband doesn't pay attention to her, Akie has a one-time affair with a man who works in the scrap metal business, and becomes addicted to the affair...

A secretive assassin collective is formed with a single purpose: to eradicate absolute evil from the world. Their final target, however, turns out to be their own leader. As loyalties collapse, a brutal showdown erupts—killer against killer in a fight to the death.

Set during Japan's Taisho Era (1912-1926), "Bluestockings" tells the tale story of a love triangle between wealthy businessman Yuichiro (Etsushi Toyokawa), his wife Akiko (Kyoko Hasegawa), and Kiyoko (Yoshino Kimura).

When teenager Mikan and her eccentric mom switch bodies, the rest of the family tries to adjust while attempting to reverse this peculiar phenomenon.

Miwa is informed that her time is limited due to heart disease. Submitting a letter of resignation to her workplace, she says good‐bye to her boyfriend Shinji, afraid of becoming a burden to him. Throwing off Shinji's hand, Miwa sets off on a lonely journey. The one who comforts the broken‐hearted Shinji is his colleague, Kyoko. Soon, the two fall for each other and become lovers. Learning of their relationship, Miwa goes mad with jealousy. She tries to trap Shinji with whatever means she can. Becoming a stalker, Miwa persistently corners Shinji and Kyoko. How far will she go?

A Japanese-American college student travels to her grandfather's beloved homeland to see and experience the "real Japan" she has so often read and heard about. Yet when she arrives she discovers that the Japan of her dreams is so much more different from what she expected and struggles to adapt to her newfound life there.

Set in Kyoto, 1990. Mizuho Oshima is a high school girl who hates her alcoholic mom, adores her father, and has a crush on school swim team member Sho Sugimoto. Her father lives with another women, but Mizuho hopes to reunite her family. Her mother then takes up with an Amerian soldier named Charlie and they become an item. This crushes Mizuho's hopes of reuniting her family. Mizuho then seduces her mother's lover ...

Private detective Hotaru Midorikawa protects women from marriage scammers by using herself as a decoy to defeat them one after another. One day, she has to help her junior colleague Kiyomi...

Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer from Tokyo, pays a visit to her town and the tree they shared time under some twenty years back after a TV commercial shoot. His remembrances of her, the tree, and the long unrequited love stir both of their hearts to fumbling action as they re-discover the love between them.

When an alluring young woman joins an erotic writing class, she begins a game of sexual cat and mouse with a naïve college student. As they venture into more and more unpredictable territory in the bedroom, he begins to think she might be using him as a test subject for her fiction more than anything else.

Release of the 2002 SMAP tour, Drink! Smap! Tour filmed at Tokyo Stadium

Hayato Akaboshi quits racing cars and settles in a village when he accidentally kills another driver. He works at a garage and turns its fortunes around, making the owner of another garage jealous.

An entry in the Sailor Ninja tokusatsu series and the second part of the Sailor Ninja Time and Space Battle Record duology

The female instructor Mariko gives yoga classes at a high-class club in Tokyo. She has a crush on Rika whom she gives private lessons to. When she notices bruises on Rika's body, Mariko learns that the young woman is involved in a highly abusive S&M relationship. On order to gain the affections of her student, Mariko decides to take revenge against the men in Rika's life.

Asuka, an insurance company investigator, begins investigating an embezzlement case at the Welfare Policy Corporation. Asuka immediately goes to meet Asami, the whistleblower who uncovered the case, but a mysterious man attacks her.

Yōko and her husband, Teruhisa, run a café—yet lately his attentions have drifted to a young school girl named Haruko, leaving Yōko feeling abandoned. Beneath her composed exterior, a simmering lust has been growing: memories of Teruhisa as the passionate first lover she once knew, and a secret craving for something more depraved. Haunted by Yōko disappearance, Teruhisa retraces their past, until his search leads him into Shinjuku—to a “peep room.” There, through a peephole, he catches sight of his wife swaying in nothing but her slutty lingerie, every move an erotic confession of the desire she’s kept hidden. Yōko surrenders to the pulsing rhythm of hidden lust. Each sway of her hips is an invitation—slipping into the abyss of pleasure. Teruhisa realizes there was once something she tried to say on the night they first made love. Now, driven by a mixture of longing and guilt, he must hear the truth of her yearning before she plunges irrevocably into the depths of her darkest desire.

The Making of Hazard

One day, the leader of the Aoi Gang is assassinated by a mysterious hitman. Consumed by rage, his wife Ryuko resolves to carry on her late husband's will and rises to seek revenge..

In 2008, the overwhelmingly popular SHINKANSEN has turned Tokyo and Osaka into whirls of excitement. With a live band playing the music on stage, “GOEMON ROCK” is filled with songs, dances, laughter and tears in the detonating sound of rock music. It is a must-see performance that makes every bit of the stage simply explosive.

The art of the geisha dates back seventh century Japan, in which women served as both entertainers and attendants to men in small private performances. While the geisha is often thought of as a romantic relic of Japan's history, the truth is that women still practice the geisha art today, though it has changed with the passage of time and due to the often mistaken perceptions of the West. Documentary filmmaker Miyuki Sohara examines the role of the geisha in 21st Century Japan in Hannari: Geisha Modern, which captures performances from a handful of contemporary geisha that attest to the skills as a dancer and vocalist that are demanded by their repertoire. While focusing on several modern performers (some of whom use the internet to market themselves), the film also features interviews with a handful of veteran geisha who explain the subtle but significant ways in which the nature of the performance and its place in Japanese culture has evolved.

Near the slopes of Mount Fuji, there is a so-called suicide forest, an infamous place where people who are tired of living have their last breath of air. The four different stories of this film all revolve around this place.

Four different worlds are connected through the "Baumkuchen Seeds of Happiness." The World of the Kawanobe's - Three brothers, Taro (Mame Yamada), Jiro (Hiroshi Yamamoto), and Hiroto (Shoichi Honda) who is a so-called NEET (short for "Not in Employment, Education, or Training) make up the Kawanobe household. The World of a Bar - Two men (Mame Yamada and Hiroshi Yamamoto) sits in a bar and discusses the Kawanobe brothers' love story. The World of Yumi - Yumi is reading a novel about the characters in the bar. The World of a Novelist - Novelist Masatoshi (Shoichi Honda) is writing a novel about Yumi. In their own worlds, in their own way, each character will find a way to arrive at their happiness.

Water Boys was a major sliver screen hit in 2001 that took the Japanese public by storm in depicting high school boys who pour all the passion of their youth into becoming synchronized swimmers. The year 2003 saw the start of a new TV series of the same name that maintained the overall atmosphere of the film while making new developments, and becoming a summer hit with the amazing synchronized swimming feats it depicted. And then in the summer of 2004 a second season of the series with fun and a sense of pathos opened, this time with a new town as the setting and depicting the passion, friendship and love of 32 boys who are absolutely nuts about synchronized swimming.The fascinating synchronized swimming scenes are more powerful than ever. In addition to the scenes of a public performance in the last installment, the show has loads of excitement and thrills throughout.

In the early hours of August 5th, 1928, a baby was born into the family of the gang leader, Gizo Ato (played by Ryuutaro Hara) from the Ato family in Honjo City, Akita Prefecture. This child would grow up to succeed as the second-generation leader of the Joto Kansan family, eventually unifying and ruling the Tohoku tekiya (street vendor) industry. The story of the Tohoku's supreme leader, Giei Ato (played by Mikio Osawa), begins with a life full of turmoil...

Making of New York RH Avenue & Collage of Our Life, starring actor and idol Ryoko Hirosue.

In modern-day Kanazawa, writer Tokuda Shūsei returns to his hometown and is quietly drawn to Okine, the daughter of a fading inn. Inspired by four of Shūsei’s works, director Shinji Aoyama (Desert Moon) transforms the inner world of a Meiji-era novelist into a meditative film that drifts between memory and the present, culminating in a luminous live performance that dissolves the boundary between art and life.

A story of a rat family who have to leave their home because humans start a construction site. Now the rats are searching for a place to stay.

2002 release

A filmmaker, Kobessov, awakens from an anxiety nightmare: during the preview of his newest film, the projectionist mixes up the reels and begins to show a bad karate film by accident. Although Kobessov objects to the mix-up, the public is ecstatic and refuses to allow the projectionist to interrupt the screening to show Kobessov's film.