Masao Komatsu

A comedy about a good-natured train conductor Shinsaku helping his old friend Miwako find her missing brother.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Mizuki’s husband Yusuke went missing for 3 years. He suddenly comes back home one day and asks Mizuki to go on a trip with him. Their trip...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eri Fukatsu

Sent to an institution for mentally handicapped children by his parents, he began creating artworks using torn strips of paper. After running away to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gannosuke Ashiya

The piano tuner Ota is still in mourning for the loss of his beloved wife. He would like to go on, but he can’t find the beach where his wife...

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Cast: Masayuki Shionoya

A police officer is recruited to a special agency and given a license to kill. He is given a dozen or so young policemen and a bar as a front....

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

A kindergarten teacher meets a novice magician and together they travel to another city to find love.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiroko Yakushimaru

Rivalry between a hoodlum group and gangster organization.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

When Chizuru joins as a teacher at Umega High School, she hears an amateur orchestra perform. Reminiscing her old days of playing the violin, she...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anne Watanabe

Comedy about a car salesman who invents a condom against premature ejaculation.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tonpei Hidari

Two former design school classmates, 21-year-old office worker Kyoko and illustrator Jiro, run into each other on the street and soon begin living...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kaoru Yumi

Hironobu goes through his boring days aimlessly. He finds a camera at a recycle shop which is owned by his grandfather. The camera is able to take...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mahiro Takasugi

Boyatetsu travels to the year 2020 in Tokyo from the year 1945. Tokyo is now plagued by a decreasing population and an increase in unemployment.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Takumi Saitoh

At a high school in the city of Yokohoma the baseball team trains to go to the top. There are struggles, hardships and successes and not all of it is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiki Saito

Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting in well with established gangs, he...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

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Cast: Ken Utsui

Upon the passing of the Sakanishi Clan’s boss, a fierce battle between his wife Hazuki and his disciple Terada breaks out. Will Hazuki be able...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Mita

A trio of high school boys get summer jobs at a seaside resort. Soon, however, they learn that the woman who runs it is in financial trouble. The...

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Cast: Masahiko Kondo

Comedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jō Shishido

Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Masaaki Daimon

Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objects to the idea. One day, someone leaves behind a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kaori Momoi

International thief Zivaco, who can assume any identity, eludes the authorities and battles rival thief WCWC for a rare gold samurai sword.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hitoshi Ueki

While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse’s gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Comedy of two brothers working at a local governmental office.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kinichi Hagimoto

A con man sets up a consulting firm where he poses as a doctor specializing in curing people of their sexual problems and hang-ups.

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Cast: Shingo Yamashiro

A musical- style comedy movie set in Hakata.

Genre: Music

Cast: Tetsuya Takeda

A fictionalised version of the Osaka-born female manzai duo Tonight, whose personal conflicts clash with their stand up routine.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Narumi

Based on the comic by Hiroyuki Yasuda

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sadawo Abe

A film depicting the story of Yokota Megumi who was abducted by North Korean agents in 1977.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Daijirô Harada

Let's Go, Grandma! plays like an exuberant, goofy update to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. Kinuyo Tanaka plays the titular Grandma, who, after selling...

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Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

The Tigers are much too busy to have a holiday; but one day a mysterious man appears in their dressing room and offers them a trip to anywhere in the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Kenji Sawada

The owner of an established photo studio, collapses from illness. His son Shinta, who was raised by his divorced wife, comes home. One day, an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ren Osugi

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Cast: Takagi Hitoshi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shido Nakamura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yutaka Matsushige

There is a man who divorced his wife. He moved to rural Hokkaido from Tokyo where he lived with his family without running water or electricity. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kunie Tanaka

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Cast: Show Aikawa

Momoko Watanabe—a student who, upon visiting a shrine in order to wish good luck on a friend of hers, witnesses a murder in the forest...and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Momoko Kikuchi

An alien with super powers fallen from the sky is befriended by some people who help him stop an evil group out to get him.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peter Fonda

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shôji Ishibashi

Mamoru Hirayama, the sales manager of Clover Shoji, a women's underwear manufacturer, was selected by President Usui to be the manager of the foreign...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiroshi Inuzuka

Koji, a jazz musician, takes a cigarette break in between sets at a Tokyo nightclub. He witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Linda, who is being...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

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Cast: Chosuke Ikariya

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Yamamoto

Goldfish born in Tenjinnuma, a famous goldfish production area, were auctioned off and sold to Yokota Gumi. The goldfish scooped by elementary school...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Masao Komatsu

This is a story of "Takechiyo," the previous name of Iemitsu Tokunaga, the third Shogun (General). Takechiyo got sick of daily run-of-the-mill tasks,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takanobu Hozumi

In pre-war Japan, a government censor tries to make the writer for a theater troupe alter his comedic script. As they work with and against each...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Koji Yakusho

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Cast: Yuki Saito

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Cast: Hitoshi Ueki