Kyoko Hasegawa

Free-spirited wandering swordsman Yorozu Genkuro easily towers over everyone with his tall, lanky stature and all-mighty "Sword of Alexander". His larger-than-life sword is one of three sacred objects carved from orichalcum, an otherworldly metal that brings its owner superhuman powers. He who possess all three objects will rule the world, and Genkuro is on a quest to find the other two items. On the road, he rescues and befriends the lovely Princess Mai, who is on the run from the Tokugawa. (yesasia.com)

A young woman leaves her job and lover in Japan to start a new life in Thailand. (imdb)

A hit man looks to protect the daughter of one of his victims against CIA assassins. (imdb)

5 episodes in one single movie, every time new characters reveal their inner hidden true self. A good selection of Japanese directors. Most of the time, the characters meet each other, remember thing they thought lost forever, becoming friends and not least becoming aware of the power of seduction of the Other. Of course you have to be a fan of Japanese cinema in order to better perceive the selected short movies. (imdb)

In the year 1926, Machiko Hasegawa is a 6-year-old child and lives in Fukuoka. She is a bright girl, who enjoys playing outdoors. At home, she loves to draw. Her father is a handsome mining engineer and he loves his family more than anything else. When Machiko is 14-years-old her father passes away. The rest of her family decides to move to Tokyo. Her mother than makes a quick decision and sends 15-year-old Machiko to manga artist Tagawa as his student.

On a training journey in the Bayankala Mountain Range in the Qinghai Province of China, Ranma Saotome and his father Genma fell into the cursed springs at Jusenkyo. When someone falls into a cursed spring, they take the physical form of whatever drowned there hundreds or thousands of years ago whenever they come into contact with cold water. The curse will revert when exposed to hot water until their next cold water exposure. (Amazon)

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)

Note trailer is one for a song not in series but ideal as a trailer. Kyoichi Suzuki is an average college pupil in architecture. His apartment building has some unique residents who place (unusual) demands on him. All is fine tho till he meets the girl whose entrance is unusual to say least - climbing into his flat through a window, as from his flat she can spy on a childhood crush. After the initial meet she, Surumi Kataoka, continues to come & go from Kyoichi's room - & life. (me & unknown)

This time the five bizarre tales are the work compilation of famous manga artists including Oda Eiichiro. In the story "Gomu Gomu no Otoko", Monkey D. Luffy makes a special appearance. 1) Omote 2) Jishibarimono 3) Gomu Gomu no Otoko 4) Mushitachi no Ie 5) Jibun o Shinjita Otoko

***Replay ***Inochibi (Life Force) ***Ame no Houmonsha (The Visitor in the Rain) ***Okusanya-san (The Wife Seller) ***Imakiyo-san (Mr. Imakiyo)

This story about a young man who learns everything about the world of stocks trading starting with initial steps from a seasoned individual investor is a human drama with a “suspense” touch, and which the young man is involved in the battle with a bank with elaborateness and slickness before he knows it. The stock market is featured as its backdrop. (Asianwiki)

Kenji Sakuragi is a lawyer and former member of a motorcycle gang. He takes on the challenge of preparing a special class for a famous (ly) stupid school, Ryuzan, to enter the prestigious Todai University. (imdb)

Shuichi Tsujiyama (Takumi Saito) is a broke private investigator. While on a job assignment, he is about to catch a crucial moment by taking a picture, but Naomi Arai (Fumi Nikaido) misunderstands the situation. Shuichi Tsujiyama and Naomi Arai struggle physically. Because of this, Shuichi Tsujiyama misses his crucial photo opportunity. (Avistaz)

Set in the late 1960s decade of Japan and follows the rivalry between Manpyo Daisuke, a powerful banker, and his eldest son, Manpyo Teppei, the executive managing director of a steel firm. (imdb)

At the height of his career and powers, Japan's master fixer, who has guided politicians and business heads through some of Japan's biggest scandals, discovers that fixing his family is harder than fixing a country. (imdb)