Mitsuru Fukikoshi

Wakaba Mashita is an ordinary elementary school student living in rural Japan. One day, she saves her classmate Koki Kobayashi, who was being bullied. From then on, people who are involved with Wakaba are killed one after another. Who is the murderer? What is the purpose? When the murderer is found out, Wakaba realizes what true love is. (imdb)

Ito has a (absent) husband and three children. Life is difficult and food is expensive. Rice, which is a staple of their diet, is expensive and becoming more so by the week. Needing to feed themselves, the villagers pick up whatever labour they can. The women of the village are at their wits' end and take action. (imdb)

Trilogy about a cop who goes undercover and becomes a fully-fledged Yakuza, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Kôichi Iwaki, Sarutoki Minagawa, Riisa Naka, Nanao, Takashi Okamura, Ryôhei Suzuki, Karen Takizawa, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi

A film director, Tadashi Kobayashi, holds an audition for his new film project. Several unique actors and actresses apply for roles but most of them end up participating as extras.

65 million years ago, the knights of the Ryusoul Tribe were selected to participate in a war campaign against the dictating Druidon Tribe who sought to rule Earth. But the Druidon's war campaign was halted by the meteor that brought the age of the dinosaurs to an end, forcing them to flee into space. Meanwhile, the Kishiryu were placed in a deep sleep as a failsafe sh...

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)

A mysterious spear-wielding woman named Balsa arrives in the New Yogo Kingdom. After saving Prince Chagum from a thinly veiled assassination attempt, ordered by his own father, Balsa is tasked to protect him from his father. (imdb)

Story of two detectives and their relationship as father and son. (imdb)

Yuugo, who grew up in the city, finds himself in an unfamiliar environment at Ooejo Agricultural High School, surrounded by nature and animals. Yuugo is also the only one who doesn't know what type of career he wants to pursue. He goes through struggles everyday, but he begins to grow as a person. (imdb)

Reiji is a clumsy but excitable cop who is assigned to a dangerous Yakuza group as an undercover agent. His duty to his country and his determination to lose his virginity are two of his driving forces. His fears? Death and premature ejaculation. Could he survive the Yakuza alive and last in bed with his beloved Junna? The answers lie in The Mole Song, a surprising, fast-paced and highly entertaining picture from one of Japan's best directors.

A popular high school teacher concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body. (imdb)

Follows high school teacher Seiji Hasumi's background history and in the process depicts the horror inherent in daily life. (The Movie Database)

Following a tragic natural disaster, fourteen-year-old Sumida abandons his modest dream of a normal life when his abusive father plunges him into debt and despair. Driven to the edge, Sumida embarks on a dark mission to target dangerous criminals, while a classmate who loves him desperately tries to pull him back from the brink of total self-destruction.

Equal parts black humour and bloody dementia in this true crime portrait of a Japanese tropical fish dealer responsible for over forty murders. (imdb)

A man inadvertently kills his uncle. A woman witnesses this act. These two people fall in love and flee to Tokyo. A detective investigates their past. (imdb)

A running time of four and a half hours, a dozen main characters, a plot spanning nine years. This film from former "King of Pink" Zeze Takahisa tells the story of a revenge by proxy in truly epic scope. (Berlinale)

Natsuki takes care of her young autistic brother. She then meets her old childhood friend and falls in love, unfortunately he suffers from a serious illness. (trakt.tv)

Capt. Takayuki Koramoto (Hiroshi Tamaki) leads a Japanese submarine as it engages an American destroyer off the coast of Okinawa during the waning days of World War II. (AsianMediaWiki)

An odd death case that only targets persons whose last name is SATO is happening in Japan. Meanwhile, high school student SATO Tsubasa winds up in a parallel world during a fight with gangsters. Everything seems the same, but his friends, classmates are somehow different. Tsubasa cannot comprehend what is happening around him, but when he sees a girl getting killed in front of him by a persuer, he finds out that he is now in a world where the Lord of the land plays a fatal game of "tag". (AsianMediaWiki)

As the Grim Reaper in human form, Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days, and then decide either to 'execute' or 'pass over'...Today, again, in the rain, he waits. His subject, her death due in seven days, is Kazue Fujiki, 27. She works for a manufacturing company, in the complaints department. Exhausted after her day, she emerges from her office. It's time for the Reaper to go to work. (asiacue.com)

A family on a trip encounters a man threatening them with a gun on a desolate mountain trail. At a moment of maximum tension, a couple shows up out of nowhere, kill the man and disappears again. Shortly after a lunatic old lady comes and warns them of their impending death. The frightened family is headed for a showdown with Samurai Zombies resurrected from their graves.

This hit sequel to 2004's Umizaru may not measure up to its predecessor in terms of feel-good action movie thrills, but the end product makes for an entertaining, if occasionally underwhelming diversion for fans of the series. (lovehkfilm.com)

In 1922, the Polish Committee of Rescue of Children from the Far East in agreement with the government of Japan, relocates Polish orphans from Russian Siberia to Osaka, Japan, before they could have been relocated to Poland. They were children of people banished there by the government of the Russian Empire.

A promising pitcher gave up on his dream of playing pro ball because of an injury. Koji Ohara is given a second chance at baseball and becomes the Hanshin Tigers' secret weapon out of the pen. He is dubbed "Mr. Rookie" by the team's manager and wears a spandex tiger mask to hide his identity - he still has his ad exec job and family to think of. He soon becomes a media sensation, as he continues to win and the media try to find out his identity.

A family drama set in the late nineteenth century Japan, as the feudal Shogun period was giving way to the Meiji Restoration. (Empire Pictures)

Keisuke, an aspiring samurai-movie actor lands a major role in a new film, but must contend with a director who has nothing but scorn for him, but who continually fawns over the film's obnoxious ham of a star. Meanwhile, Keisuke has been dumped by his girlfriend, Eri, after she becomes heartbroken when he considers working full-time as a bar manager rather than pursuing his dream... (imdb)

Feudal lord Kanzen Inukai receives a precious sword from the Shogun, but it is stolen by the samurai Kazamatsuri... (imdb)

A strange meteor lands in Japan unleashing hundreds of insect-like "legion" creatures which find their way into Tokyo. When the military fails to control the situation, Gamera shows up to deal with the ever-evolving space adversary. (imdb)

While attending the wedding of a school friend, four teenage sisters investigate the murder of the bride on board a luxury liner.

A compilation of scenes from Sai Enterprise's Guinea Pig, Ginî piggu 2: Chiniku no hana, Ginî piggu 3: Senritsu! Shinanai otoko, and Ginî piggu 4: Pîtâ no akuma no joi-san. (imdb)

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Sai Enterprise's Ginî piggu 4: Pîtâ no akuma no joi-san.