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Biopic of yakuza Noboru Ando, based on his autobiography.

Echizen and the Seigaku regulars took a day off of their normal routines and went hiking on a mountain, where a tennis resort awaits their arrival. Expecting to do some special training, the team reaches the destination only to find their precious tennis courts taken over by a group of college tennis players. However, Ryoma is more than happy to teach them a thing or two about how to play “real” tennis.

A handsome, successful man gets into a car accident and suffers from "temporary visual impairment". He then falls in love with a woman who appears to be beautiful. But when his vision returns, he realizes that she is ugly.

Too shy to speak out the word of appreciation, too busy to show that you care... Many excuses lie between each and every couple, when they look back the distance created during the long years in which they took each other for granted... Love Letters sent from husbands to wives and from wives to husbands, quietly voice their unspoken appreciation for each other over the years that they have shared. The original idea comes from the postcard project "Love Letters at Sixty" which has brought a wave of sympathy to the precious emotions shared by many married couples.

Seeking the "woman of his dreams", Kikunosuke visits Hokkaido and meets Masumi, the only daughter of the Zippi Ranch that raises great racing horses, Okamura, her grandfather, and Yamada, a stable hand who is secretly in love with Masumi. Zippi Ranch is targeted for acquisition by Sengoku Farms, which has constantly acquired small ranches. Naoto, the son of Sengoku, grew up with Masumi and raped her in the past. With the horrible experience, Masumi has become fastidious about sex. Began working at Zippi Ranch, Kikunosuke spends a night with a hostess, Ayumi, whom he met at a club Naoto owns. Sleeping with numerous customers to support the club, Ayumi has been sexually frigid, but Kikunosuke gives her an orgasm with his technique, Kinuta. The sex master, Kikunosuke, stands up to rescue a troubled woman mentally and physically.

This film is about the journey that the artist Yoshitomo Nara took along with Hideki Toyoshima and graf AtoZ team, and the others who contributed to the creation of his exhibit AtoZ in Nara's hometown of Hirosaki, Japan. This personal documentary allows one to get a glimpse of the artist's nature, creation process, where Nara came from and where he stands now, plus valuable images of the never-to-be-seen-again fictitious town A to Z and allows one to relive it once again.

We usually spend our time at school without thinking about it. In the closed space of school, students create a world of fear and horror. From “Magical i-Land”, one of the largest community sites in Japan! Following the first and second installments, which were extremely popular and well-received, the third installment has finally been released. This time, it is an authentic school horror story!

Tamayo takes care of her sick husband, Shinzo, at her villa. She then attempts and succeeds in killing him. Ichiro, an insurance company investigator, comes to visit. Hanako is involved in an accident on her way back from mountain climbing. Actually, Ichiro came to extort moeny from Shinzo, but Hanako also seems to have come with a purpose. The two become suspicious because they can't see Shinzo. Tamayo tries to cover up the incident by murdering both of them, but... A new type of dense erotic story that combines a well-crafted story and sensual sex scenes by veteran director Akira Fukamachi, depicting a love-hate drama about insurance money. It is a mystery pink work that is worth watching. Yoko Satomi, Minami Aiyama, and newcomer Naoto Masaki all give good performances with the right people in the right places.

In “S10” (2003), two female office workers wearing uniforms covered in zippers, zip together their arms and various other parts of their bodies. At this point we have entered the realm of a modern-day Shan Hai Jing inhabited by "exaggerated" creatures, a realm that is at the same time a metaphorical expression of a new concept of "subject" that is in the process of evolving organically from the individual to the other, and to the group. If we are all interconnected, just how far does the territory of the "individual" extend?

Sophie Ngan is the police chief, and she sends three of her female officers under cover. All three of them fall in love with their targets.

Alan Tam plays as many as four roles in the film: a guy always in baseball cap, a man resembling the legendary Wong Fei Hung, a sloppy middle-aged man with a big belly, and even an eighty-year-old lady! Hacken Lee is an up-and-coming office manager named Kit who is about to marry his flight attendant girlfriend. However, her family members - all played by Alan Tam - are pretty strict when it comes to choosing the right husband for her!

A story of an island country named Horai that was finally about to be integrated under one political administration. Domon DATE, an innocent man confined in a prison island. After 10 years of imprisonment, he kept his sanity by dreaming of retaliating against those who framed him up. He breaks the prison with the help of a man incarcerated in the deepest corner of the prison island. The man identified himself as Saji. His steady road to revenge was obstructed by a woman named Mikoto, the once fiancée of his. Can Domon get his revenge? Who is the man who identified himself as Saji? What are the hidden thoughts of Mikoto?

Sexual dysfunction isn’t something you should be ashamed of… It might just need a little coaching to fix. Enter the Orgasm Counselors, an elite group of scientifically trained, sexual educators who operate out of a Skype-like video conferencing center in Tokyo. Can’t keep your jizz in long enough to consummate that budding romance? No problem; after one remote video session with the Orgasm Counselor you’ll be bonking like a pro. Chise Matoba directs this spiritual cousin to her hit film Maid in Japan.

A tragic love story is about deal with the devil. Dong-a is a boy who is longing for eternal love. Yu-rie is a call girl whose name comes from an alaska native. Donga works at the Heaven gas station, across from the Papa motel where Yu-rie works as a call girl. Donga loves Yu-rie so passionately, that he sells his soul to the Devil in return for 10 years of love with Yu-rie. When the devil returns at the end of ten years to claim Donga’s soul, Donga decides to kill the devil.

War between North Korea and Japan

The story continues after the marriage of Yam and Joei when the couple has a beautiful daughter and Yam becomes a strict father who guards his daughter from suitors.

***Sainou-dama A talentless young musician receives a spam email advertising "Talent Balls"--three lollipops which when eaten will awaken your hidden talents and turn you into a savant. However, what awakens within him turns out to be far from what he expects. ***Virtual Memory A women is understress at her job and goes to a store that offers her a machine that allows her to live other peoples memories. What happens when she starts selling hers? ***Funsadan Kyouiku A new teacher finds that her pay is based off her popularity with the students, so she starts to create problems for herself to solve. ***Gozen 2-ji no Chime A writer gets a call at his front gate every day at 2 am, but no one believes him. And then a murder happens and none of the cameras pick the criminal up. ***Kaisou Densha An old man revisiting memories on the subway.

Canadian filmmaker Veronica Addison, who makes documentaries on family issues around the world, closely follows a very large family in Japan. Although they appear cheerful on the surface, the family has many problems...

Based on Saibara Rieko's manga, Ike-chan to Boku (a.k.a. Good Bye My Secret Friend) tells the heartfelt story of a young boy named Toshio and his imaginary friend Ike-chan. Toshio's floating blob of a friend has two big eyes and a mouth, and changes colors and sizes depending on the mood. When Toshio is sad, she turns small. When Toshio makes friend with a girl, she turns bright red from anger. Ike-chan stays by Toshio's side as he grows older, but the day he finds his first love, Ike-chan disappears from his life. Child actor Fukasawa Arashi (Helen the Baby Fox) takes the leading role in this affecting fable about childhood, friendship, and growing up from director Ohoka Toshihiko. Popular actress Aoi Yu voices Ike-chan.

Komaki is a thirty-something woman that has had it with her perpetually unemployed aspiring writer husband. Following the divorce, she moves back to her Tokyo-area hometown of Kyojima along with her young daughter, Non-chan. However, she has a difficult time making ends meet in big city Tokyo. Her solution? Take a chance and try opening her very own bento (lunch box) shop.

A high-tech terrorist plagues the ocean... To counter the subversive activities of the USR, a shadowy terrorist group menacing the seas, the leading nations of the world join forces to form the Peace Keeping Navy (PKN). Its inauguration ceremony, however, quickly turns into disaster as Admiral Red, charismatic leader of the USR, launches a surprise attack on the PKN. With fi erce fi repower, Red lets his intentions be known that he will destroy anything that gets in the way of his twisted vision of an ideal future... Dive into this exciting deep-sea military action-adventure thriller, as Captain Hayami and the crew of the 707 try to outwit Admiral Red's gargantuan nuclear submarine!

Female android Anne contacts a man on the Internet and has sex with him. Men who do not know her true identity are at the mercy of her transcendental skills, and are unable to have sex with ordinary women...

Pod decides to change jobs after losing his finger at a sardine packing plant. His new job as a security guard comes with an unexpected perk in the form of a lanky maid who carries a mysterious white book.

Doraemon's 25th Anniversary is an Doraemon short film that was released in 2004 together with Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey.

Usagi just wants to spend time with Mamoru, but Professor Tomoe and Death Lamia have other plans. They send their Death Nightmares to give Usagi an evil dream about the terror to come. With help from Count Dracul, they try to steal the Sailor Senshi's Star Seeds to create the perfect artificial life - the Homunculus. One after another, things get worse as more tragedies occur. Can the Sailor Senshi battle Tomoe, the Samael Sword, and the mysterious Death Vulcan?

A heartbreaking love story of a man who falls in love with a woman who, due to certain circumstances, has an affair lasting only one month.

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…

Side story of the MapleStory anime.

A failing musician, Hajime decides to settle for a local DJ. He marries Miki, one of his fans, but it turns out that once in a while, she "sheds" her skin after they make love - freaking Hajime out.

Direct-to-video special mostly comprised of stock footage from the 1966 series Ultraman. The main cast reprised their roles for newly-shot footage : in the summer of 2006, 40 years after Ultraman left Earth, the old members of the SSSP reunite after receiving a mysterious invitation letter. Together, they reminiscence about the numerous situations they faced.

A young girl with leukemia travels a pilgrimage by skateboard.

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Lower Depths" (1957).

After being murdered by a masked killer, Rain, Snow and Romeo find Roy, a conman, and ask him to find the killer for them.

NURSE SISTERS is a drama about relationships and commitment that stars the oh-so-hot Sasaki Sisters (yes! They are real-life sisters!)

A month after Wai Ming broke up with Ken, she finds nude pictures of her on his website. To get back at him, she teams up with his new girlfriend.

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...

A crucial government paper, a revenge motive, a beggar with expert kung fu skills, a group of orphans and a Japanese villain.

A girl who suddenly loses her home ends up moving in with a male classmate (who is actually a cross-dressing internet idol) and tries to escape poverty.

Tokyo’s Valentine Call is a special kind of phone club. Older salarymen pay to wait for calls from teenage girls, discreet meetings are arranged, and handfuls of yen are exchanged for a quick session of enjo kosai, or paid sex with a high school girl. Plenty of girls are doing it—some to make money for fancy, fashionable clothes and accessories, others to set a trap to rob and brutalize the old perverts. But the Valentine Call staff, horny young Ogisu and the vaguely sinister, makeup-coated Mr. Kuni, have a nasty plan of their own. Listening in on the enjo kosai calls, they conspire to trick the girls into giving them free sex. Mr. Kuni even has a twisted concept behind this scheme. He calls it enboku, his campaign to humiliate the teenage girls, drive them away from prostitution and purify Japan.

Four girlfriends plot to determine whether the cute metrosexual man their friend plans to marry is really straight.

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

Adaptation of the game "Terrors 2" from the WonderSwan Color.

A furious catfight between Yumiko and Country Orchid Woman.

A school anti-gang officer and his assistant strive to rescue four troubled girls from a life of crime, steering them toward redemption and a brighter future.

Yuri, who works at the ticket window at a ferry terminal, is one-eyed. One day, she is held at knifepoint and locked away in captivity by an enigmatic man named Kwon, who has missed a ferry. At the very moment Yuri learns that Kwon has supernatural powers. As Kwon and Yuri become closer to each other, Yuri's friend, Akiyama, accidentally finds the secret of Yuri's supernatural power. Yuri has the ability to go back in time. As the price for her supernatural ability, Yuri becomes blind in one eye. In the meantime, Kwon gets shot by mysterious men. Yuri, who has started feeling affection for Kwon, tries to save him using her special power again.

A Yakuza war breaks out to control the Tohoku region.

Joon-woo is a passionate fireman who always pursues danger. Hyun believes rational judgement is the only way to save people in danger. The first day at their work place, Joon-woo jumps into the fire to save stranded people in the building in spite of an evacuation order and Hyun tries to stop him. They came to fight. Meanwhile, Ye-rin loves Joon-woo more than he loves himself...

2005 release

Three WWII veterans, reunited by family circumstances, quickly find their life savings threatened by a private corporation; they band together to fight back.

Twelve-year-old Ma Tianshan, raised in a desert frontier army farm, returns one scorching summer to confront a buried family secret: Is his ruthless foster-father Ma Hongguang truly his parent? The return of Shanghai youth Kong Xiaoxue, rumored to have borne a child with the outcast herdsman Li Dalin, upends Tianshan’s world.

14-year-old Takuya lives in a rural town near mountains and rivers. His 29-year-old uncle Koji works as a graphic designer in urban Tokyo. Koji's father dies and Takuya is arrested for attempted robbery-the two young men must now face a crucial crossing in their lives. The concluding chapter to director Higashi Yoichi's "boy and river" trilogy, the film highlights contemporary themes like family, adolescence, and the healing properties of nature. The wild but beautiful Kuma River stars as a threatening symbol for the boy's rite of passage. Supernatural beings reign in the mountains above the village.

The Kuroda clan is said to be in possession of a secret scroll. Legend has it that whoever can decode the scroll will rule the country. Using her body, Kasumi's mission to snatch it from them. And snatch it she does. Soon, the Kuroda clan are hot on her tail. She's eventually saved by Miyamoto, a sympathetic and exceptional swordsman. And when Hattori Hanzo puts a hit out on Kasumi, she's going to need those sword skills and all the help she can get totake on the formidable Oni clan assassins!

Based on various horror and ghost tales set in universities, the film centers around some students who encounter paranormal events in their university. They must fight against their fears and scary things that are haunting their university.

Manzo is a fisherman in a small seaside community who lives and works alone, but longs for a relationship and maybe a wife. When a sign is posted advertising a matchmaking party with city women, all the men gussy themselves up and videotape themselves for the dating service. Manzo borrows a camcorder and tries his luck, but his rehearsed speech doesn't go as planned. When showing the videotape to the prospective dates, he discovers something unusual: There is a woman and her son living in one of his closets. Instead of kicking them out, he encourages them to stay and develops a relationship with them that makes the other fishermen jealous.

Recaps of Aura Battler Dunbine originally released with the Aura Battle Dunbine: The Tale of Neo Byston Well OVA. Divided in three parts, The Beginning - The Progress - The Destruction. Contains additional footage.

Keita Sakura, who is thinking of her classmate Honoka (Akari Asahina), but is dating Honoka's junior Aya (Kekei). One day, Keita sees Honoka walking with a man and tries to cut off her thoughts. In fact, the man was a member of the Miscon's executive committee at the university, and he had suggested that he participate in Miscon, but Honoka recommends Aya instead of himself. Aya wins the Miscon while the faint thoughts of Honoka, Keita and Aya are mixed. Keita and Honoka, who share their joy and get their misunderstandings, finally confirm each other's feelings.