Kuranosuke Sasaki

Based on a true story that has become an internet phenomenon in Japan, Train Man is about an otaku (Japanese for geek) who saves a young woman from a drunken assailant on a commuter train, and instantly falls in love with her. (Imaginasian)

Set on the backdrop of 1979 a group of troublemaking teenagers led by Mamachari (Hayato Ichihara) decide to prank Chuzai-san (Kuranosuke Sasaki) the local police officer who caught Mamachari's friend Saijo (Takuya Ishida) for speeding on his scooter, Chuzai-san gets them suspended from school which only causes the teenagers to retaliate, They discover that Chuzai-san is married to an attractive woman named Kanako (Kumiko Aso) only making their pranks worse. (asianmediawiki.com)

When the older brother of junior high school student Saori is arrested for murder she is separated from her family for her own protection. She ends up living with a police detective named Katsuura and his family. Katsuura has to get information from her without making her already-troubled mental state any worse. Meanwhile, his own daughter finds parallels between herself and Saori. (eiga.wikia.com)

Picking up the story 15 years after the events of the first film, Chapter 2 introduces viewers to a Japan that has completely fallen under the fascist spell of masked cult leader "Friend" after he stepped in to save the world from the virus he unleashed. Most of the resistance fighters including Kenji..have been missing or imprisoned since the bloody New Year's Eve showdown, and are now branded as terrorists (katzforums.com)

A drama centered on a young woman who heads to her father's home in Okinawa to try and cope with her boyfriend's death. (imdb)

The adventures of a volunteer with an alpine search and rescue team in the Japanese Alps. (Wikipedia)

When wishy-washy Kimura goes AWOL during a business trip and is photographed with a mysterious woman, a host of competing interests race to hunt him down.

Based on Kiyuchi Kazuhiro's popular manga series which ran in Weekly Young Jump from 1983, the story revolves around the lives of two rough-and-tumble high school friends Kato Hiroshi and Nakama Toru, who seemed to make a habit of getting into trouble and starting up fights. In keeping with the spirit of the manga, Toru and Hiroshi sport slicked back 50's style perms and adopted exaggerated swaggers that made them comical and yet also oddly cool. (wiki.d-addicts.com)

Budori lives in the woods with his family, until an endless winter separates him from everyone. All alone, the young cat sets out to save his homeland from the punishing cold. (Google)

Two nerdy brothers living together in downtown Tokyo and laboring in menial nine-to-five jobs decided to kick-start their flat-lining love lives by inviting both girls they know to a "curry party" in director Yoshimitsu Morita's romantic urban comedy. (KG)

Following the discovery of a dead student on school grounds, the students, the parents, the teachers, the administrators, the police, and the media become entangled in a complex web of lies as they each seek to answer: was it suicide, or was it murder?

The students, weary of the apathy of the adults around them, decide to hold their own trial to uncover the truth behind the death of a student on school grounds.

He is Kikuji Murao (Etsushi Toyokawa), a former best-selling novelist who has had a decade-long dry spell that has reduced him to university teaching and magazine hackery. After divorcing his wife (Reiko Takashima) and leaving behind his teenage daughter (Shihori Kanjiya), he meets Fuyuka Irie (Shinobu Terajima), a housewife and mother of three who is a longtime fan. (The Movie Database)

The time spent between professional Janggi player Kiriyama and his three stories helps to heal his wounds. As he prepares to secure another win in an upcoming tournament, the father who left the three sisters appears and disturbs the peace. (The Movie Database)

Matsumoto Mao is suppose to become the new medical examiner and visit the USA at the age of 10. While there she is to study advanced placement 3rd year Forensics. she has an IQ of over 150. Suddenly she becomes like an ordinary person confusing everybody, except Kyoko. A rush of bodies come in for autopsy. A middle aged man who apparently fell for a scaffolding at a construction site comes in. Mao begins the autopsy without a speck of the days exhaustion showing. (imdb)

Tokuro Akamatsu runs a transport company. One day, a truck owned by Tokuro Akamatsu is involved in an accident. A tire came off the truck and killed passengers in another car. At first, Tokuro Akamatsu doubts that poor maintenance was the cause and he soon discovers a defect in the truck. Tokuro Akamatsu demands a reexamination by car manufacturer Hopu. The company moves slowly in their reexamination which causes Tokuro Akamatsu to investigate the issue by himself. He uncovers... (imdb)

Masaatsu Naito (Kuranosuke Sasaki) successfully completes Sankin-kotai (required ritual to visit the shogun). On his way home, he hears that an insurrection by peasants has taken place in his hometown of Yunagaya. Masaatsu Naito knows that it is a counterattack by Matsudaira. He returns to Yunagaya, but finds that his castle is gone. (imdb)

During the reign of the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Yunagaya Domain in the Tohoku region is a small han. But at the han, there is a gold mine. Suddenly, Masaatsu Naito of Yunagaya Domain receives an order to perform Sankin-kotai within 5 days. Sankin-kotai is a custom that requires the daimyo to visit the shogun in Edo. Unfortunately, the time needed to visit the shogun in Edo for Masaatsu Naito is 8 days. Masaatsu Naito also learns he received the order because a high... (imdb)

A mother and her three children find their fate thrown into chaos by an incident that happened one night. The family members each go their separate ways but reunite after 15 years and struggle to restore their family bonds. ( "One Night" Film Partners)

College student working in a small town trattoria in Japan aims to be a chef and goes to Tokyo to polish his skills... (imdb)

Post war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb. (imdb)

The live-action (NOT the anime) adaptation of the manga, is about a man who kills his daughter’s yakuza boyfriend, Nobuto, when he overhears him plot against her. As a crime writer, he knows enough to get himself further into trouble. (thereviewgeek.com)