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A Documentary in 10 parts covering the film making of Kurosawa around the theme of making the perfect movie or as he says: A Beautiful Movie.

When Utopia More discovers an ancient record that holds the key to unlocking the secrets of the universe, she becomes the target of the ruthless Gypsy Doc of the Pirate Guild. Utopia finds herself saved by the easy-going yet legendary space pirate, Cobra, whose custom made Psychogun makes him a force to be reckoned with. Together, the two of them attempt to stop Gypsy Doc (along with Cobra's revived arch-nemesis, Crystal Boy) and his efforts to steal the record and use its secrets to rule the universe.

Suzu lives with Furuta, her fiance, but one day she leaves home without saying a word. She moves into the apartment of her friend Abe, but he has gone abroad and Yoko now lives in his apartment. Suzu and Yoko, who have known each other since childhood and have both always loved Furuta, thus find themselves sharing the same home.

Ōtani Ryūzō (Ryu Daisuke), head of the Ōtani-gumi within the Tōdō-gumi, is stripped of his position due to the scheming of Serizawa Daijirō (Kawano Taro), head of the Serizawa-gumi. With Serizawa taking over as the new wakagashira, the Tōdō-gumi rapidly transforms into an economic yakuza group. They begin extorting indiscriminately under the guise of “regional revitalization association fees.” Even the store run by the wife of Mikasa Yūji (Musashi Ken)—who is still serving time—falls victim to this ruthless scheme. Osaka’s Minami district is thrown into chaos by Serizawa’s insatiable ambition. And so begins a new yakuza war, fought in the name of old-school ninkyōdō and honor!

A Japanese teenager embarks on a quest to find the Canadian lover of her grandmother.

2000 Japanese movie

Shogo is a street musician who doesn't sell well. However, he dreams of one day making a major debut, and continues to sing around town today while earning money through part-time appearances in gay AVs. Shogo has a girlfriend named Yusuke who he lives with, and Yusuke supports Shogo's dreams. One day, Shogo met Kohei for the first time in a while at a class reunion. During high school, Shogo and Kohei, who had the goal of becoming a top-class architect, often talked about their dreams. The two were best friends, but in reality, Shogo was secretly in love with Kohei. After reuniting with Kohei, Shogo regains the dream he had almost lost and is working hard to create music again. However, Shogo receives word that Kohei has fallen ill with acute leukemia.

Seigo Yoshioka (Kenji Sakaguchi) is a teacher that became mute after a kendo accident. He feels lost after the accident and eventually decides to teach again on a small island where his mother was born. The children there on the island quickly name him "Kikansha Sensei" (Teacher Locomotive) after learning he is mute. The parents on the island are mostly hostile to Seigo Yoshioka, believing he is incapable of teaching their children. But with Seigo Yoshioka's determination and kindness, a strong bond develops between the students and the mute teacher, which then changes the parents' opinions of Seigo Yoshioka. Suddenly, tragedy then strikes ...

There is a magical academy that is located on a floating island in the sky. This is about the students of one of the academy's classes, who's only chance not to fail the semester is to win a competition where they must show off their magic skills.

Saeko is a normal schoolgirl who just happen to witness two rockets collide in the sky one day. Finally, this is something out of the ordinary. She attends school, but it is dull. Life is boring. The teacher has other things on his mind. Her father stinks. Her father's factory is going broke. Perhaps she can save it. That would be something different.

Akemi works part time to support herself and her lazy husband. One day she meets an old friend and the friend's husband. She becomes aggravated during their conversation when the couple suggest that Akemi's husband's irresponsible behavior is justifiable. As her frustration increases, she meets a woman who encourages her to experiment sexually, which in turn leads Akemi to a labyrinth world of sex and swapping.

The Takagaki-gumi, having grown in size, changed its name to the Kyōō-kai, with Morita Kōkichi appointed as its first chairman. Amidst this, a succession dispute erupted within the Takamasa-kai. Kumauchi, dissatisfied with the chosen successor, found himself in opposition to the Takamasa-kai. Sensing his feelings, his sworn brother Morita resolved to confront the Takamasa-kai.

Student film and first feature by director Kiyotaka Taguchi. A giant monster invades Japan sending everyone into a panic. The military efforts are useless until a giant robot appears to save humanity. Blends tokusatsu practical FX with CG for an impressive debut.

#46 in the series

180 kilometers down wind of Chernobyl, the village of Budische was evacuated except for 55 older residents who refused to leave and one young man, Alexei who wanted to stay with his parents. This is a simple story of life in Budische 14 years later, as told in voiceover by Alexei. The Belarus village is built around a common spring from which everyone draws water, toting it back to their homes, and to which the women walk to do their laundry outside.

An entry in the Sailor Ninja tokusatsu series and the first part of the Sailor Ninja vs Vampire Clan duology

Fourth instalment of The Molester Teacher series.

A filmed performance of the long-running stage musical Endless SHOCK: a driven performer chases Broadway dreams as rivalries, accidents, and the credo “Show must go on” test his troupe and himself.

Ayami, who works in the marketing department of an advertising agency, is about to turn 30 and is beginning to think that she would rather live her life for work than marriage. Just then, she meets Kurasawa, who works at the same company, and they soon find themselves drawn to each other.

Chiyo brings a video camera to school for a class project. But when Tomo gets a hold of it, heaps of trouble happen all over campus.

Making of Island Times

Marino is your average young Japanese lady. She likes hanging out with her friends, brushing her teeth and doting over her Marronnier doll. The doll, however, has been created by an evil genius that kidnaps women, uses a machine to turn them into wax and sculpts the wax into dolls in the deceased's likeness. But it doesn't end there. The mad doll-maker's assistant, Numai, is even freakier. He stalks Marino, kidnaps her (and her friends), fails to seduce her, gets rebuffed, laughs like a maniac and tries to melt them into wax! But that's before his other doll 'creations' come to life and attack him…

Straight to video sequel

The nineteenth 'Road to the Don' film.

A drama depicting a perverted relationship between a high school female teacher and her student who has been skipping school.

Abandoned by his father as a boy, Yuta grows up as the foster son of a restaurant owner and takes over the restaurant at the owner's death. Cheery, always smiling, always helpful, Yuta is known as Yama-chan, the friend everyone turns to. When Yuta discovers he had a hitherto unknown baby brother, he sets out to track him down. But the baby brother, Yusuke, has grown up to be half of a successful comedy team, the Kinjo Brothers, and Yusuke's professional "brother" has just written a best-selling book about their adventures growing up together. Yuta's appearance on the scene threatens to reveal that the book is a complete fiction and to set all three "brothers" into conflict with each other.

Film about Sakamoto Ryōma. The focus is on Oryo, the maid who became Ryoma’s wife and lived with him for one year before his death.

After Ami and her stepbrother Hiroshi share a night together, the phone rings with devastating news: their parents have died. A year later, Ami lives with Hiroshi and his wife, Mariko. On the surface, the couple appears happy, but tension simmers between Ami and Mariko. One day, Mariko lashes out at Ami for constantly intruding into their bedroom uninvited. Losing her composure, Ami blurts out her the secret of her history with Hiroshi.

The story is about a 5-year-old girl who lived in just after World War II when people were struggle for survival.

Tomboy Yui (Mao Inoue) brings her 3 male friends along with her to see a live performance of local Okinawan rap group, “Workaholic”. Upon witnessing the crowd reaction, the boys decide to start a rap group of their own to impress chicks—while Toru (Hayato Ichihara) has the added motivation of impressing his older, more sophisticated love interest Nagisa (Ayumi Ito). With only 2 weeks to learn how to play instruments and prepare for their first show, the performance is predictably humiliating. In order to save pride they decide to give it another shot, but this time they ditch the instruments for a sampler and stay truer to themselves. Will Toru be able to capture Nagisa’s heart? Will Yui ever confess her love to Toru or will she just keep practicing her advanced pro wrestling techniques on him instead?

A man with his cat finds himself in a bizarre situation involving a television. A stop motion animation from the creator of Kotatsu Neko.

Five passengers stare at a middle-aged man weeping on a train - a young man with a broken heart, an office worker exhausted from work, a new station attendant, a salaryman who cannot cry, and a lost high school girl.

Based on four early novellas by Noble Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata, this omnibus of four short films are by emerging directors from the second graduating class of the new Graduate School of Film and New Media at Japan’s top art school, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Tokyo Geidai), where famed directors Takeshi Kitano and Kiyoshi Kurosawa teach.

The tale of hardship, love, determination and life of Mineko, a young maiko (apprentice geisha) in the Gion district of Kyoto.

It's 'Don Woman 3'... Are you ready to see?

Rikka Nikaidou is a cute and innocent girl sees two persons vanish into thin hair...

The fourth 'Yakuza Emblem' film.

Miyuki receives an invitation from her friend Hikune Youhei to the themed inn called "Ruins", located in a virtual ghost town haunted by the legend of a vampire. However, what Kindaichi had originally dismissed as spooky rumours with no basis became horribly real when their fellow guests staying at the inn are found dead one by one, with their bodies drained of blood and wounds in their necks that resembled vampire bites

When a devoted detective probes the suspicious death of her father, she uncovers massive corruption and finds herself in grave danger.

Miki, a food consultant, comes from a family that runs an okonomiyaki restaurant. After losing her parents in an unfortunate accident and just as she was about to close the shop, it is revealed that her father had become a guarantor for someone else's debt. Miki decides to protect the restaurant with her sisters.

The story of three pairs of characters involved one way or the other with the yakuza and a rigged boxing match and fleeing the thugs one way or the other. Filmed as a showcase of the Japanese boy band V6, Hard Luck Hero has food, drink, cars, kickboxing, debt, shooting, theft, blackmail and music.

A bored office worker sees a giant egg when she closes her eyes, and when it hatches, each blink unleashes escalating real-world horrors.

Final of the trilogy of yakuza don

This gender-swapped take on the horrific murder case of Junko Furuta shows how Jun Furuta's father tracks down the juveniles who murdered his son to find out why his son had to die and to exact his revenge.

Editor Kurata Mari is the new charge of popular female writer Konno Yoshiko. Kako had originally been a pupil of the great writer Shunsaku Okochi. However, according to the editor-in-chief, Obara, Kako was simply a partner for Okochi's perverted play. However, Okochi suddenly disappeared, and when Obara selected Kako to fill the hole in the serialisation, she became more popular than expected. Mari begins to visit Kako's house on a daily basis, and one day begins to feel a strange discomfort in the chair Kako sits in...

The fourth installment in the series of fantasy swordplay action movies starring Riki Takeuchi. A seal master from another country, Seirai, comes to Kengo Yagyu's father, Muneyoshi. She claims to be pursuing Dokai, who has stolen Muramasa's "Crow," the power of darkness.

Ultraman Hikari visits Planet Arb, where a prophecy warns of its coming destruction. Guided by Ultraman King and armed with the Knight Brace, he faces the monster Bogarl. Consumed by rage, Hikari transforms into Hunter Knight Tsurugi and begins his path of vengeance, one that will eventually lead him to Earth.

This recording features the performances held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Medium Hall from December 29, 2004, to January 2, 2005. A re-run of the earlier Remarkable 1st Match Fudomine with some changes. Plus, the graduation of Seigaku’s first regular cast.

Oda presents horror stories that he himself experienced, narrated by himself and recreated in video. The film also features exorcism scenes that have never been shown in Japan before, as well as secret psychic photos that were sealed away because they were too dangerous!

What happens when young people meet amidst the warmth, soft breezes and gentle waves of Okinawa? This is a romantic love story about a young college student on break from Tokyo who meets a handsome dive employee on the beach. --groink

A haiku club comprised of five unlikely students aim to win the national high school haiku tournament.

#37 in the series, following "Yakuza Finance."

A housewife was killed by a falling fire extinguisher, which a boy of seven years dropped from the top floor of an apartment. The offender, however, was not accused because he was too young. Ten years later, a series of murders occur, which target young girls only. It is the boy accused of killing the housewife who comes up in the couse of investigation, while the son of the murdered mother is the witness of a new murder. When the two families of the offender and of the victim meet again, two opposite morals conflict with each other – one is to crack down on the sin beyond the law and another is to disapprove the retaliation.