Yûki Amami

An animated adventure centered on a 5-year-old boy and his relationship with a goldfish princess who longs to become human.

When Chris Murdoch falls obsessively in love with a Japanese girl attending University in Seattle (Kaori Ozaki) he murders Japanese men who have shown her kindness under the pretext of revenge for the attack on Pearl Harbor during WWII. However the ruse involves the FBI in the case, and Agent Sara Daniels. However, the investigation is hampered when Yoko Sugimura of the Tokyo Police arrives to take Kaori back to her influential father. (imdb)

Junior high student Harada Takumi is a pitching prodigy, but his attitude and arrogance alienates him from schoolmates and even his own family..Takumi finally finds a friend..in classmate Nagakura Go, a catcher who greatly admires Takumi's pitching. Together they form a "battery" and join the school baseball team, but [they] have a falling out after a loss, bringing the team to a standstill. At this time, Takumi's brother becomes..ill, and his only hope is for Takumi to win the big game for him. (crunchyroll)

The Sasaki household is unusual. Shotaro is a full-time house husband and his wife Minako is a busy career woman. It is unusual in another way as well. Minako is carrying on an affair and the [others] find out about it. Everyone is angry with everyone else and Minako leaves. But this solves nothing. Everything is eventually solved by a Brahms two-piano piece that Minako and her daughter have been practicing. They decide to go on with their recital and there, in the audience, are father and son. (pacificfilms.org)

Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving, he meets, and begins to fall for, Miki, a papermaker and part of a large and unusual family. When he learns of an ancient legend that the family carries the curse of the Inugami, or Dog God, he brushes it off as silly superstition. After a series of mysterious deaths, however, the townspeople begin to grow restless, and Akira must confront the truth about Miki and her family. (imdb)

Masatoshi Nagase plays a photographer hired to secretly follow a mysterious woman (Rie Miyazawa). Observing and shooting photos of her day in and day out from an apartment across from hers, he slowly becomes obsessed with her, and even attempts to get information about her from his client (Koji Yakusho). One day, he snaps a strange photo of the woman at a car wreck. Soon after, he hears about a serial murder case... (YesAsia)

Kaiji Ito moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with society at large, Kaiji spends his days gambling, vandalizing cars and drinking booze. Two years later and his life no better, a debt collector named Endo arrives to collect money, offering two choices to Kaiji: spend 10 year paying off his loan or board a gambling boat for one night to repay his debt and possibly make a whole lot more. (film.com)

Mayo, the Black Angel in this film, has orders from cross-dressing Mama (Shingo Tsurumi from "Freeze Me") to kill a powerful Yakuza syndicate leader, but doesn't get the job done because one of his bodyguards is the same man who saved her from a rape years prior, whom she has feelings for. (imdb)

Based on the ancient Japanese Tale of Genji. This film is set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins from the death of her husband, a Japanese noble, then moves on to her recruitment to train the Prince's young 'wives in waiting'. It is dotted throughout and actually composed mainly of one of the fictional stories she wrote, the tale of Genji. Genji is a rich playboy who falls in love and has a son to his stepmother.

Hikari Tomonaga (Suzu Hirose) enrolls at Fukui Chuo High School, and joins its cheer dance club for the sole reason of cheering on a boy she has known from their junior high days. However, the club's coach, female teacher Kaoru Saotome (Yuki Amami), is a harsh and no-nonsense task master who suddenly declares: "Our aim is to become U.S. champions! No fringes or boyfriends allowed!" ... (imdb)

The director Nagasaki transports us to the remote barren wilderness of Hokkaido, the most northerly of the four main islands that make up Japan, in a powerful and compelling three and a half hour DV-shot epic based on an original novel by Natsuo Kirino that ostensibly deals with the search of a young mother for her missing five-year-old daughter... (The Movie Database)

Based on The Little Broomstick by Mary Stewart, a strange flower grants a girl magic powers. (imdb)

Fukada plays Sayoko, a tough, 19-year-old with ambition, energy and nowhere to direct it. Her father clearly favors her blind 16-year-old sister. Junior college is unstimulating. She is fired from her part time job in a dress shop because she is too diligent at catching shoplifters and slaps them around a bit when she does. Even her boyfriend opts out for a more docile girl, but Sayoko doesn't think she is tough enough. --JDorama.com

A woman has thrown herself away for rescuing a country. A man has picked up a sword to protect a woman. Time in the 17th century, and place in the Iberian Peninsula. The master thief of the era Goemon ISHIKAWA (Arata FURUTA) has been rampaging in the Mediterranean Sea as a protector of a female pirate named Anne the Tornado (Yuki AMAMI). One day, it turns out that Anne is the heir-to-the-throne of a small country.

In a forest, a man was murdered and his wife raped. The eyewitnesses make their statements, but they are very contradictory. Who is telling the truth and who is lying?

Maya Akutsu, a new teacher who strives for perfection and punishes students in unorthodox manners. A 12-year-old Kazumi has been able to withstand her strange punishments so far but the other 23 students begin to fold under the pressure. (imdb)

This series revolves around a group of peculiar detectives in a new division created to fight against an increase in atrocious crimes. Osawa Eriko is a beautiful career woman who has just returned from training in the U.S. and is appointed as the "boss" of this division. But despite her intelligence and capabilities, she can never understand a man's heart, so she remains unable to find a husband. (imdb)