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The fifteenth 'Road to the Don' film.

Takarazuka special performance.

Inside the Todo-gumi, the confrontation between the young head of the martial arts group and the young assistant head of the moderate group continued. Eventually, Young Head's Assistant's strategy targeting the second generation caused a divisive conflict ...

Sakai's Happiness is a humorous and bittersweet portrayal of an ordinary family dealing with the challenges of everyday life.

Two girls, Shinobu Suwa and Tenon Kai are suddenly entrusted with the ability of “Soul Guardian”.

Adaptation of Mayu Ohara's autobiography.

The silent scandal of a utility pole, secretly lighting the outskirts of the city. The story is set during the nostalgic time before cellular phones in Japan, and tells the love story of a human and a utility pole. Elemi the power pole becomes infatuated with electrician Mr.Takahashi. Pretending she is human, she decides to ring him. But this contact is forbidden in the law of power poles. Eventually, rumors spread all over town and Elemi is summoned to court.

After defeating Kingo (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) in the Russian roulette duel, Ootori (Hitoshi Ozawa) tracks down Tenchi-kai elite Akizuki (Koichi Miura). Pushing forward, he faces the wall of Kingo and Ginzo once again. Meanwhile, Akizuki, abandoned by Tenchi-kai and with nothing left to lose, attacks. The bloody battle begins—what will become of these warriors risking everything for their paths?

Hide, a nude photographer specializing in men, decides to marry Taku. The two vow to live together forever. However, when Hide's ex-boyfriend, Hisashi, comes to the wedding, a disturbing atmosphere begins to drift between the two...

Shizuru is encouraged by Kaoru and Takako, who she meets at a class reunion, to join the "Second Wives Club," a club for celebrities, but it turns out to be a gathering of stepmothers who enjoy swapping their stepsons.

A collection of shorts spun off from the movie "Night Time Picnic" that take place on the day before the movie's events. On the last day of high school, ten young people explore their feelings while participating in a "walking festival" in which 1000 people walk 80 km over the course of the day. This collection includes 9 episodes by 6 directors, including "Murishi" starring Mikako Tabe and "Unrequited Length" starring Rosa Kato.

Ai enters the Kaneko-gumi gambling arena to seek revenge.

Violinist Shion's parents were killed in front of him. Then, his sister Misa dies of an accident...

Suddenly Mickey says, ‘The era is comedy’, and the three start talking about what role they should each play as comedians (‘What should I do?’). [Contents. Mickey's talk is on top form again today. But Jumbo and Matsun look at him... (‘This is now, isn't it?’). (‘This is now, isn't it?’).

Tatsuya, a boy who refuses to attend school, is hired by a fat store manager to work at a pet shop. Tatsuya, who had a feeling that he couldn't finish it, decided to take charge of the store by himself. One day, a woman named Mitsuruko who came to see the rabbit came to the store. However, the rabbit she was looking for was stuck in the basket before she knew it, and the two buried the rabbit. From that day on, her life with her husband has been chilling, and her real uriko loves her Tatsuya, who becomes lustful for her.

A boy is chased by a robot through some ruins. There, he finds an Earth ruled by a computer called "Gaia," who has lost patience with humans who repeatedly cause war and environmental destruction. While desperately trying to escape, the boy discovers Atom, which had been put on display 200 years ago after it had finished its role.

DON'T STOP A.I. JAPAN TOUR is AI's third concert DVD, and fourth overall video release. It contains footage from the last show of her DON'T STOP A.I. JAPAN TOUR at Nippon Budokan, making this her second show there.

My mother’s older brother tragically perished in a mountain accident at the young age of thirty-eight. Growing up, I was always told that I was his reincarnation. Yet, in stark contrast to my brilliant uncle, I had lost my job, been abandoned by my lover, and was leading a completely self-destructive life. That is, until I finally came to a certain fateful decision...

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Sanjuro" (1962).

Mickey suddenly proposes a blind date. Both Jumbo and Matsun get excited about it... (‘It's time to do it...①’). The usual talk while doing impersonations. However, the content of the talk became even more messed up than usual... ("Kono yaro, bakayaro! Baka yaro!"). (The ‘I'll do it! I'll do it!’).

A home video release of a two-day live concert played by Malice Mizer on August 31 & September 1, 2000 at the Nippon Budōkan Hall in Tokyo, Japan — the band’s first performances with lead vocalist Klaha. Malice Mizer performs their fourth studio album, "Bara no Seidou" in its entirety using the gothic cathedral from the album’s cover as an enormous set piece alongside pyrotechnics and a choir of veiled nuns.

2002 release

The 46th installment of the hit yakuza action series, featuring the duo Takeuchi Riki and Sakakibara Toshihiko.

The fifth 'Yanmama Trucker' film.

Rika, who works at the Silver Welfare Volunteer Shirayuri Association office, has a boyfriend, Kaname, but recently they have been keeping their distance because he is too unreliable. One day, her co-worker Sachie, who is dating a man 40 years older than her, encourages her, saying, "Grandpas are nice. Why don't you find one for Rika at our place?" One day, when Rika is about to be attacked by Kaname, she is saved by Owada, who she was taking care of. Rika gradually begins to be attracted to Owada...

The story of Asaki (Eiji Okuda) and his younger brother Shinji (Sho Aikawa). The elder brother has established himself as an author of sports manga. The younger brother engages in vigorous bare-knuckle brawls with local yakuza and well-known brawlers. The distance between them grows little by little, and the younger brother struggles in the shadow of his elder brother's light. Strong enemies and incidents appear one after another.

Ever since that fatal incident in college, Kanako has sensed them. A sound behind her... an object moving at the corner of her vision. Birds. Cooing, taunting birds... But are they real, or just in her head? As she struggles to perform her duties teaching marine biology, the images of pigeons slowly begin to drive her to the edge of insanity, until even drugs and alcohol no longer offer her protection. And what if they aren't figments of her imagination? What if that strange rumor she heard at the crime scene was true? If it was, then the real nightmare is only beginning! Vengeance has wings and the sky is filled with terror in GUN-KYU!

Keiko is an elite elementary school student who has all the expectations of her parents. Her mother is proud of her for getting good grades. On the other hand, Keiko is also proud of her mother. A daughter who can study well and her mother. At first glance, the relationship between parent and child seems normal, but there is something strange about it...

A maiden work by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, and the origin to his later masterpieces “Passion” (2008), the 255 minute long “Intimacies” (2012), and the 317 minute long “Happy Hour” (2015). The unusual, usual life and the ever wandering souls of 5 young men and women, captured on 8mm film.

Heian era Japan. A gentleman discovers an abandoned baby and raises the boy as his adopted son, naming him Nijihito after the rainbow in the sky at the time he was found. The only clue to the boy’s origin is a special drum found with him. Nijihito proves to be a drumming prodigy, outshining his best friend Tatsuru. Although young Ibuki is secretly in love with Nijihito, he falls in love with a mysterious woman he sees playing the flute outside one night.

Harumi, who runs a barbershop in the shopping district, lost her husband six months ago, and now her sexual frustration is on the verge of exploding. She reopened the barbershop to change her mood and make a living, but the only people who came to visit were Higuchi, the greengrocer, and Takada, the okonomiyaki restaurant owner, who were after her body. However, their advances were in vain, and Harumi was suppressing the throbbing of her body, regretting that she had driven her husband to death in the pursuit of her own pleasure. One day, her younger sister Reina, who had run away and left home, came to stay with her...

Shinshun! Love stories (新春! LOVEストーリーズ) is a 2002 Japanese telefilm starring members of the all-girl J-pop group Morning Musume. Shinshun! Love stories is an anthology film based on three different romantic stories: The Dancing Girl of Izu, Haikara-san ga Tōru and Toki o Kakeru Shōjo. The film aired on Tokyo Broadcasting System on January 2, 2002. A limited edition DVD was released on October 26, 2005.

A samurai suffers to achieve enlightenment while being forced by a Zen Buddhist.

Born the son of a yakuza boss, Yūmi Izuhara grew up amidst constant brawls. Though he aspired to become a respectable gangster, his impetuous nature proved his undoing, leading him to commit murder detrimental to his group. Consumed by guilt and beginning to lose his way, Yūmi encountered Morita Kōkichi, a chivalrous man who lived by honour.

Takizawa joins a professional thief and carries out an assault.

Where have all the wives gone who were once driven to tears by their husbands' infidelity? With each passing year, women become stronger and more resilient, while men enter the 21st century still harboring the legacy of the Showa era! How can there be no problems in the married life of such men and women?! People at a crossroads in life are about to set sail for a second life! This entertaining drama depicts the sometimes sad and sometimes funny slapstick human drama unfolding on board a ship among a variety of troubled couples!

When Pikachu and friends decide to stop by a tropical island for some rest and relaxation, they got more than they had bargained for after Chatot discovers a Treasure Map! They follow the map to Wailord’s Tear, a mysterious place located in a sunken pirate ship. Will Pikachu and friends find the treasure? What mysteries and dangers are in store? Will our pals return safely? Find out in Pikachu’s Ocean Adventure!

Lovely NHK TV show featuring friends Masami Nagasawa and Asami Mizukawa travelling by bicycle through Hawaii. Beautiful nature views of the island on this cute program aired back in 2009. Masami does not look nature friendly at all, cleaning and carefully examining vegetables and fruit before having a bite. But she looks very cute with long hair. Asami looks like someone I would like to be friends with, she is fun and loud and not as afraid of trying new things as Masami. Hawaii seen like this looks like paradise, especially the sunshine from the top of the mountain.

The eleventh installment in the series of fantasy swordplay action movies starring Riki Takeuchi.

A young girl meets a strange Old Monk.

A 3 minute 3D-CGI rendered movie clip included with volume 6 of the Gunnm: Complete Edition manga reprint. It showcases Alita in a Third League motorball race with players from two of her races such as "Armor" Togo, Degchalev, and Valdicci, and depicts events from both of those races.

A behind-the-scenes look at Sion Sono’s 2005 film Noriko’s Dinner Table.

2009 release

Short film about youth in the 80s.

Sixth "The Story of Terror" film by Junji Inagawa.

Byakumaru, who achieved great sales as a supermarket manager in a rural town in the Kanto region, received a special bonus of 1 million yen and a three-day vacation. Byakumaru decides to use the bonus and vacation time to reunite with his older sister, who he lost in his childhood. His parents died in a traffic accident, and he grew up in a relative's home, but was later placed in different homes and his whereabouts were never known. As a result of the investigation by Koshinsho, there are four housewives from Shiromaru's area living in a certain housing complex in Tokyo, and one of them appears to be Shiromaru's older sister. Shiromaru heads to the housing complex with Ayaka, an employee of Koshinsho, but...

A young woman works as a waitress in a diner. Her relationship with her boyfriend is unfulfilling and to further complicate things she is obsessed with a large hemangioma, or benign vascular tumor, on her hip (one that we actually never see). One day after she encounters a mysterious man wearing a hood and playing a clarinet she discover a small shack built out of cardboard. She crawls into it and suddenly we are transported to this young woman's interior world, a place where she meets her own doppelgänger in the form of a large doll who bears the same birthmark on her hip.

2004 release

Original video.

Masaka Kubota plays high-school student Keita, who leads a secret life as a "network investigator" for a secret organization. In the introductory episode, Keita has moved to a new school in Tokyo but doesn't like it. His best friend from his previous school comes to Tokyo and they run away together. Passing through a construction site the pair are attacked by a robot, but are then saved by a man named Takimoto and his strange sidekick — a cell phone with arms and legs. This Buddy Keitai cell phone with "human intelligence capabilities" will go on sale in Japan in April.

Fuyuko (Tomoko Nakajima), begins the film nine months pregnant, but doesn't deliver until her third year, to the bafflement of all around her.

Christmas-themed omnibus TV movie: Hotdog Express; Documentarytic; 祭典の日

Katsuma is a truck driver with a good mood but an empty head and wallet. One day, his brother, Riichi, asks him to double his pay, and he gladly accepts. Katsuma drives the truck smoothly, but suddenly, a flirtatious woman, Reiko, jumps out from the back of the truck...

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