Minori Terada

A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle

A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant... (imdb)

Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a "red lion's mane", a poor servant returns to his... (imdb)

This Transient Life tells the story of the siblings Masao and Yuri who live in a huge estate near Lake Biwa north of Kyoto. Masao refuses to go to university and is infatuated with Buddhist sculptures. Iwashita, a student who lodges at the house, and Ogino, a young priest and former classmate of Masao, are both in love with Masao's beautiful sister Yuri, who rejects all proposals from her parents to marry her off. (midnighteye.com)

A decadent Count in 1920's Japan becomes obsessed with the works of the Marquis de Sade. he creates a theatre to show plays adapted from the notorious writers novels, and recruits a variety of theives, prostitutes and low lives to act out his fantasies onstage for the delight of his rich and decadent friends. In search of new sensations, the nobleman orders one of the actors, on pain of death, to make love to the noblemans wife while he watches. (mondomacabrodvd.com)

During World War II, a Japanese soldier finds himself assigned to a kamikaze mission against a U.S. battleship. (imdb)

In this somewhat confusing action-adventure story aimed at a teen audience, a group of young men and women take on a gang who has kidnapped one of their friends. (nytimes.com)

When Tetsuro Muraki's business dealings go sour loan sharks come after him for his debts.

A widow who has raised her autistic son decides to return to school.

Nami loved her husband, a policeman with an undercover assignment to get into a yakuza gang of drug-dealers. The ruse failed and he was shot to death and dumped into the sea. While Nami was mourning, the drug dealers broke into her home looking for confiscated amphetamines. They then raped her and broke her husband's funeral urn. Traumatized, Nami attempts suicide but is rescued by the mysterious and heavily tattooed yakuza, Muraki. (AllMovie)

A satirical take on yakuza films, the storyline of the film involves a teenage delinquent schoolgirl named Izumi Hoshi who inherits her father's clan. (Wikipedia)

Heinosuke Gosho's darkest and most acclaimed film of the '60s, An Innocent Witch recounts the life of a young woman who is sold be her family into a brothel in a rural fishing village. (huluplus)

A quirky and perplexing police thriller centered around two murderess who thrive on slicing up schoolgirls. calculated serial psycho Yasunaga (Toyokawa) and Chinatsu (Aso), his sweet female sidekick, find themselves being questioned as witnesses to a murder (Amazon)

Nemuri arrives at a small village, a fight is posed then postponed, there's a place called the Devil's Fortress and people are being kept locked there and tortured by the villainy occupants, then at some point the villainy occupants are introduced to us by name and a shadowy connection to the Shogun is implied. (imdb)

It is about a private eye trying to solve the murders of three sisters on an island near Hiroshima. (imdb)

The housewife and other part-time private detective Noriko Yamada old tricks again uncovering mysterious business cases corrupt. But this time will solve adopting the style of "Beatrix Kiddo" (character played Unma Thurman in Kill Bill). (filmaffinity)

The widow of a murdered yakuza boss serves jail time for attacking the man she believes killed her husband. After her release, as she is shadowed by a hitman, she returns to thoughts of revenge. (imdb)

Haruka is new at her school and is in turn bullied and harassed by the students with one exception. Haruka's only friend is Mitsusru who makes attending class and life more tolerable. Things go from bad to disaster when Haruka's house burns to the ground resulting in the death of her parents and injury to her sister. Haruka is out for justice and blood. (imdb)

Koki Hirota was the only civilian hanged as a Class A war criminal by the Tokyo Tribunal after World War II. His execution remains controversial and this drama makes the case that he always worked for peace. He did not defend himself against the capital charge because he failed to stop the aggression of the Imperial Army.

Erika Ichinose, a clinical psychologist, is recruited by the National Police Agency in an attempt to stay one step ahead of a bomb terrorist. (mydramalist)

AKA Renegade Ninjas; This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyeasu. In the beginning the film shows Yukimura fighting to defend the Osaka Castle. He used very unconventional methods, wich were not approved by the other defenders. When the Osaka campaign was lost, Sanada is shown dedicating all his efforts to assassinate the shogun Ieyeasu. (letterboxd)

After a number of stressful affairs, a court lady becomes a nun in order to pursue a life without desire. (imdb)

Centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer from Tokyo, pays a visit to her town and the tree they shared time under some twenty years back after a TV commercial shoot. His remembrances of her, the tree, and the long unrequited love stir both of their hearts to fumbling action as they re-discover the love between them.

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)

Takuro Yamazaki teaches people "true work". He is a business commander and corporate warrior YAMAZAKI with combat ability. When a rival company Business Commander appears, he fights with his fighting ability! !! 　We have succeeded in visualizing the original comic of Jun Tomizawa, which is full of special effects, without damaging the image. In particular, Issey Ogata, who starred in the movie, can only be thought of by this person! The role of the business commander YAMAZAKI.

A sensual coming-of-age drama direct — It depicts a precarious relationship between a homosexual woman and a man who was picked up by her and ends up living with her.

Karate expert Katayama (Takeda) investigates the robbery of a bank in Hokkaido, where an apple seed left at the scene holds the answer to the robbers' whereabouts.

Sawako, working in a bank, tired of the usual everyday life, once she met the chef of French cuisine Yukio Goto, and spent the night with him. Sawako pretends to be the daughter of an upscale hotel owner and has an affair with Yukio.

A woman who, disguised as a beggar, turns out to be a formidable assassin, is charged by a warden to infiltrate a women's prison, to run the one that took his eye with a wooden spoon carved from a knife - a woman named Nami Matsushima, known within the walls under the nickname of Scorpion.

When yakuza member Okamoto begins to search for Nami, a woman he saw in an underground porn video, he finds himself on a path to his own destruction. Action film based on a manga by Takashi Ishii. Okamoto is a low-level Yakuza making a decent living through the distribution of illegal porn tapes, he is devoted to his brother Moritani but is disillusioned with his life and meandering through his everyday duties with little interest in anything.