Gô Ayano

Otokojuku is a private boys school where true men are made..Momotaro, proficient in both academics and martial arts becomes friends with an underachieving weakling named Hidemaro. Together, they survive their Otokojuku days and become close with their classmates. Omito Date, former leader of the first-year students, plans his revenge against his former school. He is now leader of an evil army from rival Kanto Gogakuren school and fully intends on taking over... (asiacue.com)

Genji and his victorious G.P.S. alliance find themselves facing down a new challenge by the students of Hosen Academy, feared by everyone as 'The Army of Killers.' The two schools, in fact, have a history of bad blood between them. And the simmering embers of hatred are about to flare up again, burning away any last remnants of the truce they had so rigorously observed until now. (Pusan International Film Festival)

Top model Lilico undergoes multiple cosmetic surgeries to her entire body. She's looked upon as an icon for beauty. As her multiple surgeries begins to take its toll, Lilico makes the lives of those around her miserable as she tries to deal with career and personal problems. (AsianWiki)

A widower sends daily reminders to the petty criminal who killed his wife in a traffic accident that on the anniversary of her death, he will kill him. (imdb)

Tomoko maintains a relationship with an even-tempered older married man named Shingo at the same time she's seeing an emotional younger man named Ryota. (Eigapedia)

Yuji Akahoshi works for a television show. He receives a call from an old high school friend, Risako. She tells him that her co-worker at a cosmetics company was stabbed to death and then doused in flames. Yuji decides to interview workers at the company and others that knew the victim, Noriko Miki, for his TV show. Yuji soon discovers that another co-worker, Miki Shirono, disappeared the same night of the murder. Yuji attempts to unravel the mystery of Miki Shirono. (asianwiki.com)

Set in the 1980's, Yonosuke Yokomichi is a college student, with a warm heart, from the port city of Nagasaki. His girlfriend Shoko Yosano is the daughter of a company president. (asianwiki.com)

Two troubled souls living on the fringes of a port town fall in love, but their trials are far from over. (imdb)

Interpol Inspector Zenigata begins a world-wide hunt for the infamous thief Arsene Lupin III. (imdb)

Set in the near future in Tokyo, Japan. The evil terrorist organization Galactor has declared war on the world. The group possesses more advanced technology than governments and occupies over half of the planet. Dr. Kozaburo Nambu of the International Science Organization gathers together 5 superhero ninja agents, known collectively as Gatchaman, to stop Galactor. (imdb)

Tatsuhiko joins a scouting agency, recruiting girls for the hostess clubs and brothels in Shinjuku's Kabukicho district, as a turf war breaks out against a competing agency. He crosses paths with the troubled women who enter the city's seedy underbelly. As the conflict heats up, so does the rivalry between Tatsuhiko and Hideyoshi, who appear to have some history between them.

Nanami is an apathetic, part-time teacher in Tokyo, bullied by her students for having a quiet voice. She spends time on a social network and meets a young man. They are soon engaged, but Nanami has too few guests for the wedding. She meets Amuro, a jack-of-all-trades who pads her guest list with actors. Her marriage quickly falls apart and she starts working more part-time jobs. Amuro offers her a housekeeping job in an old mansion, but she soon realizes the job isn't what it seems.

A grisly unsolved murder links three seemingly unrelated stories in three different Japanese cities. (imdb)

1989 is the 64 Shouwa year in the Japanese calendar, thus the unsolved girl kidnapping-murder case is called "64(rokuyon)" that got up in this year in Criminal Investigation Department in the Prefectural Police Department. And 14 years were over as the prefecture's police to be unsolved greatest stain, and statute of limitations approached it. (imdb)

In 2002, Yoshinobu Mikami, an ex-detective who was assigned as the investigator of the "Rokuyon" case 14years ago, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department against his will. As a newly assigned Public Relations Officer, he was troubled with the relation between the reporters, new case has occurred. And that new case traced "Rokuyon" case exactly. (letterboxd)

Due to Professor Kita's suggestion, student Nishinosono Moe and Associate Professor Saikawa Sohei head to Professor Kita's research institute. There, various experiments have been conducted in a low temperature research room. During the night a murder takes place. Two graduate students are found dead in the low temperature research room. (mydramalist.com)

A high school student discovers he is an Ajin, a demi-human being. He ends up a fugitive on the run because of his powers. (imdb)

Kengo Yatabe's mother dies and his father is in a coma. He, like his father, was good at kendo. Those days are long gone and he now lofts around as a security guard and generally wastes time. Meeting the young Tooru Kengo is inspired and decides to shape up. (imdb)

Based on the manga series "Shinjuku Swan Kabukicho Skauto Sabaibaru" by Ken Wakui (first published 2005 in Weekly Young Magazine). Tatsuhiko Shiratori (Gou Ayano) works as a scout, recruiting girls to work in the adult entertainment business. He movies to Yokohama from Shinjuku, Tokyo. He comes into conflict with Masaki Taki (Tadanobu Asano) who is the CEO of a scout company. (imdb)

Adaptation of the novel by Raymond Chandler.

In search of employment and a permanent position and having committed murder the ronin Kake Junoshin tells the Kurokaze ('black wave') Han clan that a religious cult is aiming for their destruction. This gets him in, but he is soon disproved and arrested. Given the death sentence and awaiting death he has to be quick on his feet and figure out a way to get himself out of the hole. Then the resurrection occurs.

In this story of a good cop going rogue, we travel with Yoichi Moroboshi from his university student days to his becoming an ambitious detective on the beat who is using his brawn rather than brain to get what he wants and to where he wants to go. The lines between good and illegitimate are blurred as the detective gets closer to his assignments. (imdb)

Truth and illusion blurs when a homeless amnesiac awakens from an experimental medical procedure with the ability to see people's innermost traumas. (imdb)

A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in similar circumstances a suspect is identified leading to the accused running away and going into hiding. Another year on and another man falls into suspicion. (imdb)

Sasaki-san is a superlative cook who is on auto-control and can make wondrous meals with nary a thought anymore. In a literal case of the last wish on earth, he receives a special request to cook a specific dish. The catch is he needs to discover the recipe of famed chef Yamagata who was in occupied Manchuria in China in the 1930s.

The story is about a film director, Kutani, who lives in the dying pink film industry, and an aspiring screenwriter, Iseki, and their loved one, Shoko, whose dream of a film she has clung to begins to crumble, and their lives intersect.

Detective Yuji Kudo drives his car to see his mother, who is hospitalized with a serious health condition. Yuji then accidentally hits a man with his car and that man dies. At the hospital, Yuji tries to cover up the death of the man. (imdb)

A young girl named Sumire disappeared 5 years ago after being assaulted by a suspicious photographer Midorikawa in the forest, leaving behind only a severed right arm. Her brother Fumizuki and childhood friend Keisuke are both looking for her.

Kamei mixes humor, drama, and, on this occasion, bits of horror to visualize the physical transformation in yôkai that the three main actresses undergo. Mihiro Iwasaki is a model extremely preoccupied with how others look at and think of her. Then, her nails start growing disproportionately until they become killing weapons. Michiko Yamane is an unsociable university student and part-time worker in her early twenties only crazy for a hobby. At night she becomes a rokurokubi.

A dedicated journalist who doggedly pursues the truth about a government corruption scandal even as powerful enemies seek to neutralize her reporting. (imdb)

A new detective in the Mobile Investigative Unit (known as "MIU") of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department who does not trust other people works with an inexperienced detective and attempts to solve cases within 24 hours. (imdb)

A team of swindlers gets wind of prime real estate worth 10 billion yen and will stop at nothing to pull off their most ambitious scam yet. (imdb)

A romantic home comedy about 30-year-olds with an immature view on marriage that focuses on themes related to married couples and families in general. (imdb)

Satomi Oka is worried about his final choir competition but is accosted by a shadowy gangster, Kyouji Narita, who demands karaoke sessions with him.

Inaba Rika, whose childhood dream was to become a journalist, is instead the director of an informative television program. (imdb)

Follow Kounotori Sakura, a gynecologist who works at the General Medical Center and is also a talented jazz pianist. (imdb)

This historical biopic follows the life of Japanese heroine Yae Niijima. As Yae dedicates her life to helping others, she becomes a role model for modern women everywhere. (imdb)