Bengal
Known for Acting
Bengal (Bengaru) was born as Haruo Yanagihara in Tokyo in 1951.
Born
August 17, 1951 (age 74)
Birthplace
Tokyo, Japan
Filmography
122 films, 28 shows
Known for Acting
Bengal (Bengaru) was born as Haruo Yanagihara in Tokyo in 1951.
Born
August 17, 1951 (age 74)
Birthplace
Tokyo, Japan
Filmography
122 films, 28 shows

Sato and Sato
2025 · 1h 54m
country: Japan
It’s easy to promise ‘for better or worse’ in a wedding vow, but how many marriages can truly weather every storm? Sachi decides to study for the bar exam with her boyfriend Tamotsu as an act of solidarity. However, Sachi ends up becoming a lawyer, while Tamotsu, who fails the exam repeatedly, is relegated to stay-at-home dad.

大川と小川の休日捜査
2024
country: Japan

Sensei's Pious Lie
2024
country: Japan
Misuzu Hara (Nao) works as a high school teacher and prefers to keep a distance from her students. In her past, she was raped by her best friend’s boyfriend Hayafuji after he found out she liked him. She didn't report the crime to the police and she didn't tell anyone else what happened. She still suffers from the trauma from what happened, but she continues to have a forceful relationship with Hayafuji who is now her best friend’s fiancee. One day, a rumor spreads that her student Yuki Niizuma is in a secret affair. Misuzu Hara, as his teacher, has a meeting with him to provide counseling.

Abudeka Is Back
2024 · 2h
country: Japan
Toshiki Takayama (Taka) and Oshita Yuji, who had retired as detectives and opened a private detective agency in New Zealand, returned to Yokohama for the first time in 8 years. One day, a Japanese lawyer living in Hong Kong is murdered. Taka, who felt suspicious about the incident, visits Liu Fei Long, a man who has a connection with the two in the past, but Taka is worried that Stella Lee, a business partner of Fei Long, who he met there, looks like his former lover. At the same time, a young woman named Ayaka Nagamine visited the pair at the "T&Y detective agency", asking for help in finding her mother. Natsuko, Ayaka’s mother, was an old acquaintance of Taka and Yuji. The pair started searching for Natsuko, but there was a series of murders in Yokohama. Eventually, these escalate, and a terrorist plot involving a bomb is afoot.

テレビ報道記者〜ニュースをつないだ女たち〜
2024
country: Japan

<BS松竹東急×浅草九劇>スペシャルドラマ「君しか見えないよ」
2023
country: Japan

Tsuyukusa
2022 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
Middle-aged Fumi lives a quiet seaside life, she spends her days working at a small local factory, spending time with her neighbor’s son, and attending her sober-lifestyle group. One night while driving home her car is struck by a small meteorite, the odds of which are 100 million to 1. Seeing this as a good omen, Fumi decides she should be open to new possibilities in her life, even perhaps romance…

99.9 Criminal Lawyer: The Movie
2021 · 2h
country: Japan
Hiroto Miyama works with rookie lawyer Honoka Kono on a team specializing in criminal cases for Madarame Law Firm. Atsuhiro Sada has recently become director. One day, the firm receives a request about a case that took place 15 years ago—concerning a poisonous wine incident.

Love Mooning
2021 · 1h 42m
country: Japan
Hiroshi, who runs a mental clinic, has never recovered from the shock of his wife’s suicide. One day, Ayako, a mysterious patient comes to his clinic….

First Love
2019 · 1h 48m
country: Japan
One night in Tokyo, Leo, a young boxer, meets his first love, Monica, an imprisoned sex worker. Caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme, they find themselves pursued by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, his nemesis, and a female assassin.

Life in Overtime
2018 · 2h 5m
country: Japan
After decades of single-minded dedication to his work, a worker with an elite career course at a major bank is transferred or rather relegated to a subsidiary company, where he finds himself at a loos as he reaches retirement age.

The Band from Nowhere
2018 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
Construction worker Kumada used to be a member of the popular band Uma no Hone 30 years ago. In a sudden turn of events, he moves into a low rent shared apartment. His roommate Yuka is an idol, but begins being friendly with when he says his job is related to music.

The Dog Bridegroom
2017 · 4h 5m
country: Japan
Ninomiya Azusa is a depressed elementary school teacher in Tokyo, who has problems both at work and in her personal life. One day, she suddenly hears a voice saying "If you go to Imore Island, you will get what you want.", so she decides to give it a try.

Tomato No Shizuku
2017 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
With their hair salon business now on track, longtime couple Sakura and Makoto mull over inviting Sakura's estranged father to their upcoming wedding.

Saraba Abunai Deka
2016 · 1h 58m
country: Japan

Mountain Days with Tom
2015 · 1h 57m
country: Japan
Hana, Toki and Toki’s daughter Toshi begin to live in the countryside. Hana’s nephew Akira, who just graduated from middle school, also lives with them. Doing farm work everyday, Hana and Toki get used to life in the countryside with help from couple Gen and Shiori. One day, Toshi and Akira decide to raise a cat to catch rats. A cat named Tom then begins to live with them.

0.5 mm
2014 · 3h 18m
country: Japan
Sawa Yamagishi worked as a nursing-care helper. The family for an old man asked Sawa to sleep with him, which led her to lose her job. Now, she has nowhere to go. Sawa finds elderly people in trouble and gets involved in their lives. Meeting them, Sawa's own wounds start to heal.

Delivery of Death
2014 · 1h 50m
country: Japan
Reporters Takehara and Tsumura Aki work for the magazine "Shukan Dodongo". Their chief editor tells them to monitor Okase Shohei who is an ex-bureaucrat and was recently released from prison. 7 years ago, Shohei was arrested for embezzling 1 billion yen. The investigation seven years ago was able to track down 700 million yen but unable to locate the remaining 300 million yen. Now, the chief editor is sure Shohei will go to wherever the remaining 300 million yen is hidden.

Fly, Dakota, Fly!
2013 · 1h 49m
country: Japan
In January 1946 a British military transport plane departs from Shanghai on its to Tokyo, Japan. During the flight the airplane makes an emergency landing on Sado Island. The residents on the island have heard stereotypes of the British soldiers and have mixed feelings about the their new "guest." Nevertheless, for the next 40 days the islanders take care of the crew members until the plane can take off once again. This includes Chiyoko Morimoto who is the daughter of the inn owner where some of the British crew members stay.

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
2013 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
Arrangement instructor Makiko Norita (Yukie Nakama) displays a dignified smile, but she also makes bitting remarks. Nevertheless, with her magic arrangement skills, arrangement instructor Makiko Norita makes people happy. Based on the book "Jinsei ga Tokimeku Katazuke no Maho" by Marie Kondo (published December 27, 2010 by Sunmark Publishing,Inc.). Marie Kondo is a cleaning consultant and developed popular "KonMari Method" for organizing and storing household items.

See You Tomorrow, Everyone
2013 · 2h
country: Japan
After Satoru Watarai graduated from elementary school, he dropped out of school and decided to live within his apartment complex, never to venture outside. Satoru Watari then meets his old friends as they are coming back from their middle school classes. Satoru has now gotten a job at a cake shop within the apartment complex and eventually gets engaged to one of his friends. Satoru, still lives within the apartment complex only, but, as time passes, more of his friends leave ..
The Little Girl in Me
The Little Girl in Me
2012 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
After Kensuke graduated from college, he began to work at a company. He didn't get along with his co-workers and six months later quit his job. Since that time he has stayed in his home for 5 years. One day, Kensuke learns about men who enjoy dressing up as women through the internet. At first he feels uncomfortable about them, but he becomes interested in those men. He begins to exchange emails with cross-dresser Karen who has a charismatic personality.

By Rule of Crow's Thumb
2012 · 2h 40m
country: Japan
Constantly on the run from a vicious loan shark, two small-time con artists, Take and Tetsu, plan their biggest and most complex con yet in order to get revenge and retire from a life of crime. However, things get complicated when they cross paths with Mahiro, a young woman that Take inadvertently orphaned during a job gone awry years ago. Seeing Mahiro down on her luck, Take tries to relieve his guilt by taking her on as a partner, while hiding his true identity. But as his plan unfolds, Take discovers that he isn't the only one with a secret.

39 settoudan
2012 · 1h 53m
country: Japan

Casting Blossoms to the Sky
2012 · 2h 40m
country: Japan
In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city decimated during a WWII air raid and by the 2004 Chūetsu earthquakes, to report on the disaster; there, she learns about the experiences of its inhabitants and stumbles upon a stage play written by an enigmatic student of her ex-boyfriend.

Step Up Love Story: Love Forever
2012 · 1h 1m
country: Japan
Yura and Makoto married without ever being intimate. The couple have a happy life together and they move to Makoto's hometown. There, Makoto meets Shiori, who graduated from the same school as Makoto. It turns out, Shiori, who is about to get married, has been thinking of Makoto for the last 10 years. Shiori acts upon her feelings by calling Makoto and then kissing Makoto, which Yura sees ...

Peak: The Rescuers
2011 · 2h 6m
country: Japan
Shimazaki Sanpo is an experienced mountain climber and rescue team volunteer. Sanpo loves the mountains and wants as many people as possible to experience everything they have to offer so much so that he never holds a grudge against anyone for causing an accident due to their own negligence. Even if a fellow rescuer dies, he's the kind of man who can look toward the corpse and say "You did your best." One spring, newcomer Shiina Kumi is assigned to the Nagano prefecture mountain rescue team where she experiences growth thanks to Sanpo's guidance and the seemingly harsh training methods of the team's captain, Noda. However, she becomes depressed when she's unable to translate her skills to a real-life situation. As her confidence wanes, multiple accidents occur simultaneously due to a mountain blizzard, forcing the entire team into action.

Oba: The Last Samurai
2011 · 2h 8m
country: Japan
In 1944, the American military lands on the shores of Saipan. Refusing to commit suicide with his superiors or be forced into camps for prisoners of war, Captain Oba Sakae leads a group of his men and other similarly minded local residents into the mountains. Even after hearing reports of the Japanese military's surrender, Oba dismisses the reports as propaganda and continues to launch guerilla attacks against the American soldiers, earning him the nickname "The Fox". Soon, even the American commander who's charged with the task of capturing Oba comes to admire his persistent enemy.

Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial
2010 · 1h 39m
country: Japan
Ultraman Zero, the rookie Ultraman from Tsuburaya Productions’ 2009 theatrical movie returns, and getting full-fledged. However, he is confronted with the empowered Kaiser Belial, back from the evil Ultraman Belial whom he and other Ultraman warriors battled so hard on the m-78 Planet. Can Ultraman Zero live to the expectations of his legendary father Ultra Seven? Check it out in the latest Tsuburaya Productions’ action packed movie.

The Lightning Tree
2010 · 2h 13m
country: Japan
Set during the Edo Period, a young man from a noble family meets a young woman under a special tree called "Raiou" (the tree was struck by lightning at one time with the broken part eventually sprouting out cherry blossoms). The young woman lived freely in the mountains after she was abducted as a young child. The couple soon fall in love under the Raiou tree, but become acutely aware of their different social positions & the ramifications it has on their relationship.

Flarella
2010 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
The experiences of a woman as she passes through several life stages.

Kazura
2010 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
Bald Moriyama wants a new image and buys a wig. It works: suddenly he has a career and a girlfriend. But, as Moriyama will soon learn, life gets complicated when you have to keep a secret.

Golden Slumber
2010 · 2h 19m
country: Japan
When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Minister's assassination, and on the run from corrupt cops. It's only the beginning of what quickly becomes the worst, weirdest day of his life. But he'll get by with a little help from his friends, who include a famous pop diva, a rockabilly deliveryman, a crippled old gangster, and the world's most cheerful serial killer.

Where Are You?
2009 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
A sixteen year old boy, Ryo, experiences the painful ordeal of his mother being hospitalized and then dying. The boy turns to crime, but doesn't find success. He then seeks out his remarried father, but the pain still exists.

The Code
2009 · 2h 4m
country: Japan
For 60 years, the group of detectives known as "Detective Office 5" has raised the bar for detective work. The agents of Detective Office 5 are a group of stellar detectives lead by the genius code breaker Detective 507. When an unknown client enlists 507 to crack his most difficult programming code yet, the detective embarks for Shanghai where he crosses paths with a sniper, an informant, the head of the Blue-Dragon Mafia, and beautiful singer on the run, Meilan. As 507 stumbles deeper into a twisted quagmire of intrigue he discovers the sad truth behind the mystery.

Happy Flight
2008 · 1h 43m
country: Japan
A variety of aviation professionals such as pilots, flight attendants, the ground crew, mechanics, dispatchers, controllers, and the bird patrol crew all support a single flight. They have only one mission: to secure the safety of the passengers.

Where The Legend Lives
2008 · 1h 58m
country: Japan
Kohei Miyazaki (Naoto Takenaka), a former railroad worker, has become obsessed with locating the ancient country of Yamatai. His obsession sprouted from a day when he discovered ancient ceramics while repairing railroad tracks. Now completely blind, Kohei relies on his wife (Sayuri Yoshinaga) to guide him through the country and read the maps in their pursuit of Yamatai.

Rakugo musume
2008 · 1h 49m
country: Japan
When a gal named Kasumi decides to become a traditional Japanese 'Rakugo' storyteller due to her uncle's invalidity, she is soon on her way to a career with college-level and amateur success. She becomes a student to one of the master's of the genre and is even asked to perform by a TV producer. The only snag is, the particular story has a curse dripping from its words.

The Glorious Team Batista
2008 · 2h
country: Japan
Toho university hospital has established an outstanding coronary surgery team under the leadership of a up and coming, star, U.S. trained surgeon that specializes in the highly risky "Batista" procedure to shrink the size of enlarged hearts. Normally this procedure has only a 60% success rate, but "Team Batista" has achieved a run of 26 straight successes....when suddenly 3 patients in a row die on the operating table. Very disturbed, the lead surgeon requests an independent investigation. The hospital turns to Dr. Taguchi who is a specialist in psychosomatic disorders who is shocked to at the assignment because she knows nothing in particular about surgery. Assured, however, that this very lack of insider specialized knowledge is in fact the "objectivity" required, she diligently begins to investigate in her own polite, but persistent manner.

Shabake
2007 · 1h 48m
country: Japan
Ichitaro is a young man with weak health who has the power to see ghosts. Since the age of five, he has become friends with them, and works with them to solve mysterious incidents.

Tokyo Rhapsody
2007 · 2h 10m
country: Japan
"Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as "Kayokyoku". Kayokyoku is a catch-all term to describe the music that defined two generations of post-war Japan. Although the term survives, it has a strong connotation with a simpler, pre-"Economic Bubble" era when Japanese people shared a common identity in the reconstruction of their nation.

HERO SP
2006 · 1h 58m
country: Japan
Five years have passed since Kuryu Kohei's transfer from Tokyo to Ishigaki, and then to Sapporo. He ends up in a small town of Nijigaura in Yamaguchi Prefecture. There, he investigates a murder case involving a local enterprise, Kamoi Group, and the people related to it. Everyone in town thinks he's innocent except Kuryu, whose unorthodox investigation methods perplex not only the townspeople, but his colleagues as well.

Star Reformer
2006 · 2h 11m
country: Japan
Satoshi Nomura, a top-level bureaucrat of a prefecture government, has passion for his career. One day, he is hired by the fixed-term personnel exchange training between public and private businesses. This personnel exchange training is part of some big prefecture project. This project is very big, so success of this personnel exchange training will probably determine his career. Nomura goes to a supermarket called "Mantendo".

Peanuts
2006 · 1h 55m
country: Japan
A hero called the legendary third baseman in the former prestigious grass baseball team "Peanuts", will start to rebuild the peanuts that have now turned into weak teams from the outset. Peanuts are going to fight against the team of strong teams, taking advantage of the redevelopment of the city where Captain Sagara lives.

Paradise: Carried Away
2006 · 1h 46m
country: Japan
Set in a rural fishing village in southern Japan, this is the story of Erika, a celebrated former anchorwoman now back in her hometown campaigning for a seat in the national party, and Yohei, an insecure fisherman-in-training. The two are worlds apart.

Madamada Abunai Deka
2005 · 1h 47m
country: Japan

The Motive
2004 · 2h 40m
country: Japan
Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens it is discovered that one of the victims isn't related to the family.

Nejirin bou
2004 · 1h 22m
country: Japan
A rookie taxi driver, who happened to walk into a barbershop in the downtown area, ends up telling a special boast story. It was a story about a driver who got caught up in a lovers' quarrel between a young woman he picked up on the job...

Tokyo Noir
2004 · 2h 7m
country: Japan
Three tales that center around sex and citizens of Tokyo: A repressed woman embraces her sexuality, ("Birthday"), an unexpected reunion disrupts a sex worker's routine ("Night Lovers"), and a sex blogger discovers connection in the depths of loneliness ("Girl's Life").

Damned Files 4
2004 · 1h 36m
country: Japan
This is the fourth volume of a series of one-episode horror dramas based on rumored haunted places, real-life stories, and accidents that occurred in various areas of Japan, and which have had a nationwide impact since being aired on Nagoya TV from July 2003.

Alive
2003 · 1h 59m
country: Japan
Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presented with an option: face another execution attempt or subject himself to their bizarre and dangerous experiments.

Cop Festival: New Beginning
2003 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
Fourth installment in Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 8 films.

Teacher's suitcase
2003 · 2h 35m
country: Japan
Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial encounter, the pair continue to meet occasionally to share food and drink sake, and as the seasons pass - from spring cherry blossom to autumnal mushrooms - Tsukiko and Sensei come to develop a hesitant intimacy which tilts awkwardly and poignantly into love.

Trick: The Movie
2002 · 1h 59m
country: Japan
Disaster befalls a village's inhabitants every 300 years. A popular self-styled magician named Naoko (Yukie Nakama) is summoned as a deity to rid the people of their anxiety. But there are many would-be deities there, each posing as a god. When a series of bizarre incidents occur, Naoko is cornered with a genius physicist (Hiroshi Abe) and Detective Yabe (Katsuhisa Namase). Do deities actually exist, or are they charlatans?

The Last Snow
2002 · 1h 51m
country: Japan
After his wife leaves him, middle-aged Yusaku contemplates suicide, but receives a call from old friend Kenichiro, whose wife is in a coma.

Ah, A Sharp Detective 2
2001 · 1h 20m
country: Unknown
Fight fiercely with a duo of hitmen to protect the witnesses of the trial!

Ah, A Sharp Detective
2001 · 1h 22m
country: Unknown
Kuroki is crazy about gambling and Shirakawa loves unrivalled women. The pair are investigating a bank robbery.

The King of Minami: Yakuza Finance
2001 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
#36 in the series, following "License for Cruelty." The CEO of a yakuza-backed finance company teams up with a shady consultant to convince debtors to sign away the deed to their property in order to declare bankruptcy and clear their debts.

Codename: Tomoko
2000 · 1h 38m
country: Japan
An action in which a former CIA female operative captures a revenge drama that unfolds against a huge secret organization.

Godzilla 2000: Millennium
1999 · 1h 47m
country: Japan
An independent group of researchers called the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN) actively track Godzilla as he makes landfall in Nemuro. Matters are further complicated when a giant meteor is discovered in the Ibaragi Prefecture. The mysterious rock begins to levitate as it's true intentions for the world and Godzilla are revealed.

One Summer's Day
1999 · 2h 3m
country: Japan
Absent-minded fifth-grader Yuta is sent to spend the summer with his grandfather, whom Yuta's parents think is becoming senile and could benefit from Yuta's companionship. At first, Yuta thinks Gramps is a bit addled, too, but as he gets to know the old man better, he finds that his grandfather sees things quite differently from others.

Karaoke
1999 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
Kodama learns that his old classmate Hayashi is getting married to an idol, and organizes a junior high school reunion.

Give It All
1998 · 2h
country: Japan
Etsuko – a typical Japanese high school student, who's unlucky in love, an academic failure, and plain bored with life. That's until one day, the view of a boat gliding gracefully in the sea inspires her to take up the oar. Since she's rejected by her school's all-male rowing team, she decides to form her own all-women team. Nothing will ever be the same again.

Abunai Deka Forever The Movie
1998 · 1h 45m
country: Japan
Taka and Yuji are searching for a mercenary for the international terrorist organization "The Network" when the head of its branch arrives in Yokohama to carry out Operation Heat Storm.
The New Metropolitan Police Branch 82
The New Metropolitan Police Branch 82
1998 · 1h 15m
country: Japan
Two mismatched policewomen are assigned to guard and observe a released prisoner who has connections with a women-only gang who are suspected of counterfeiting.

I Want to Hear the Wind's Song
1998 · 2h 41m
country: Japan
A heartwarming, based-on-true-story of how a hearing-impaired couple, Masahiro and Namiko, knew each other, got married and began participating in the Triathlon. The story is told in flashbacks as Namiko awaits childbirth.

Bonds
1998 · 2h 3m
country: Japan
Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father. His life begins to unravel when a journalist following him takes an interest in the wife of a boyhood chum, and the wife of another close friend takes an interest in Ise. A couple of murders later, Ise/Haga goes on the run and also sets out for revenge.

Sada
1998 · 2h 12m
country: Japan
On 17 May 1936–during a period of war, economic depression, public unease and growing militarism, a time of unrest and confusion when public opinion was, at best, unpredictable–Sada Abe killed and emasculated her lover. Condemned by the law, Sada finds herself lionised by the press and hailed as a 'saint' of love. Because hers was a crime of passion, the purity of her motivation elevates her from criminal to heroine.

School Ghost Story F
1997 · 1h 12m
country: Japan
A made-for-TV anthology horror film composed of three stories : Rei Video & Hoken-shitsu by Hideo Nakata and Haiko Kidan by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

The King of Minami: Conspiracy
1996 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
1996 TV Special, #17 in the series.

Gamera 2: Attack of Legion
1996 · 1h 39m
country: Japan
A strange meteor lands in Japan and unleashes hundreds of insect-like "Legion" creatures bent on colonizing the Earth. When the military fails to control the situation, Gamera shows up to deal with the ever-evolving space adversary. However the battle may result in Gamera losing his bond with both Asagi and humanity.

Closing Time
1996 · 1h 21m
country: Japan
A down-and-out scriptwriter spends his days and nights in the bars of Tokyo. When he is thrown out of a joint because it is closing time, there is always a willing lady to spend the rest of the night with. In the street he has countless semi-philosophical discussions with fellow drinkers, male and female, (shot in black-and-white, as prologue to the different chapters) but in the end it often comes down to one thing: the bottle of whisky that has to be finished. An encounter with a homeless young man with AIDS marks a turning point in the life of the writer.

Goodbye for Tomorrow
1995 · 2h 21m
country: Japan
People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to go to a small island in the Inland Sea that evening.

Teito Monogatari Gaiden
1995 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
In 1995, a mental hospital is erected near the Japanese Ministry of Finance, located adjacent to the grave of Taira no Masakado. A young male nurse by the name of Jin’ya Yanase is obsessed with the legend of Taira no Masakado and more importantly, the spirit of his evil subordinate Yasunori Kato. Slowly, he becomes possessed by Kato's spirit, who wants to use him as a new host to revive in the modern world. Keiko Tatsumiya (the heroine of the original story), is an old woman living homeless on the streets of Tokyo. When she senses the presence of Yasunori Kato, she must regain her resolve to face the demon-god and vanquish his spirit once and for all.

Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
1995 · 1h 51m
country: Japan
Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II

Broken Heart
1995 · 1h 43m
country: Japan
Eight love stories start and end in an amusement park. In the neon-lit amusement park, budding romances unfold, along with scenes of breakups. As the Ferris wheel slowly rotates, couples with varying moods sit inside: some on secret rendezvous, some hastily formed couples, and others; lovers with ulterior motives. This film depicts the love stories of eight couples in the amusement park.

Level
1994 · 1h 24m
country: Japan

Turning Point
1994 · 1h 58m
country: Japan
A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.

Gotoshi Co. Ltd. II
1994 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
The second 'Gotoshi' film.

Pachislot Story: I Won’t Let Them Rip Me Off
1994 · 1h 15m
country: Unknown
Grandad, Mum and three kids. Despite being the head of the household, I’m on a meagre wage and feel like an outcast. It’s my birthday today, yet nobody’s even remembered. The dried sardines on my dinner plate just glare at me… Then, a strange bloke turned up at my house, carrying a tattered sack and shouldering a neon-lit pachislot machine. He preached: ‘If you want family harmony, play the slot machines.’ After undergoing intensive training from him, I showered my family with the money I’d earned and was instantly promoted to the family’s breadwinner! But my joy was short-lived: my greedy family started frequenting the slot parlours, and our debts swelled to the point of bursting…!

Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki”
1993 · 2h 5m
country: Japan
A dying pianist composes one final song for his childhood friend.

The Tomb & the Divorce
1993 · 1h 47m
country: Japan
Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with bored housewife Atsuko. When Atsuko makes a male friend at her leather-working class, Yoshinori has a fit. This is on top of the myriad of odd clients that he must appease.

Samurai Kids
1993 · 1h 46m
country: Japan
With the help of a six-inch-tall ancient samurai warrior, a lonely young environmentalist finds self-confidence and new companionship in protecting Japan's beautiful naturality from human mismanagement.

Marriage
1993 · 2h 17m
country: Japan
An omnibus featuring the work of three different filmmakers.

We Are Not Alone
1993 · 1h 55m
country: Japan
Businessmen competing for international building contracts in this globe-trotting comedy-adventure.

Haruka, Nostalgia
1993 · 2h 45m
country: Japan
Ayase Shinsuke, a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up in. He meets a strange boy who calls himself by the author's real name.

Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
1992 · 1h 50m
country: Japan
A comedy about a young woman who has terminal cancer.

Suzume Iro Doki
1992 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
The TV movie is about a third-rate female lawyer who is an alcoholic, has a history of divorce, and only handles divorce settlements. She spends her days in a state of despondency, but when her estranged husband and daughter disappear, she embarks on a search, partly out of ambition.

The Rocking Horsemen
1992 · 2h 15m
country: Japan
It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called "The Rocking Horsemen." A warm and comic glimpse into high-school and small-town life in Japan in the 60's.

Shimanto River
1991 · 1h 51m
country: Japan
A young boy, Atsu, grows up along the banks of the Shimanto River in rural southern Shikoku. He comes to grips with the unfairness of life and the emotional pain involved in the loss of innocence. The film is based on an autobiographical novel written by Kyuzo Sasayama.

Dance till Tomorrow
1991 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
Live action adaption of Naoki Yamamoto's romantic comedy manga series.

Chizuko's Younger Sister
1991 · 2h 30m
country: Japan
The Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a freak accident the year prior. When the other daughter Mika is suddenly in a dangerous situation, Chizuko returns as a ghost to save her; reunited with her sister, Mika begins spending time with Chizuko again.

Savage City: Angel Whisper
1991 · 1h 38m
country: Japan
A corrupt cop teams up with an unlikely partner to protect the city from a gang of ruthless drug addicts.

Goodbye Mama
1991 · 1h 48m
country: Japan
A successful office lady, who has made herself sexually available to a doctor, has her routine disrupted when her former boyfriend's son appears in her life. She is not connected to the boy, but his father has been in an accident.

Thriller CRT
1991 · 1h 25m
country: Japan
A creepy anthology about a homicidal little girl, a woman being stalked, a dentist and a man struggling to keep his eyes open on the road.

Stranger
1991 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
After serving time for bank fraud, Kiriko now lives a quiet life as a taxi driver working night shifts... but her peace is shattered by a relentless stalker in a Land Cruiser.

Dotchi mo dotchi
1990 · 1h 47m
country: Japan

Boiling Point
1990 · 1h 36m
country: Japan
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.

Megumi no Sekai
1990 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
A unique combination of social problem and entertainment TV movie about a female journalist who is hurt to the core when the truth of an article is questioned.

Let's Go to the Hospital
1990 · 1h 58m
country: Japan
When a hard-driving copywriter (Hiroyuki Sanada) discovers his comely wife (Keiko Saito) is involved in a scintillating game of strip rock-paper-scissors with some guy clad only in a pair of boxer shorts and Mickey Mouse ears, he is less than happy. When the stranger tries to make a run for it, a fight ensues between the two men, and they accidentally tumble down several flights of a concrete stairwell. One hurried ambulance ride later, the copywriter finds himself in a private teaching hospital equipped with the latest gleaming gizmos. Meanwhile, a young internist (Hiroko Yakushimaru) girds herself for her first emergency room case -- the battered copywriter. After giving a curt bow and a nervous "Good Evening," she accidentally jams a syringe into his bloody wound. Soon the absurdity of their situation, along with their medical misery, binds the two men and their blundering nurse together.

The Legend of Zipang
1990 · 1h 59m
country: Japan
Jigoku Gokurakumaru is a samurai on the run. One bounty hunter hoping to collect the sizeable reward is Teppo Oyuri, a comely lass who is an ace shot with her pearl-laden pistol. Before she can set her sights on Gokurakumaru, he is attacked by a hoard of sword-wielding thugs also hoping to collect the reward. He dispatches them with bloody aplomb. Later, Gokurakumaru and Oyuri -- who has fallen for the master swordsman in spite of herself -- venture to Zipang, the Land of Gold, in search of a magical gold sword.

Beijing Watermelon
1989 · 2h 15m
country: Japan
Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi, and their two children, undergoes a dramatic change when he encounters Li, a poor college student from China.

The Discarnates
1988 · 1h 48m
country: Japan
A recently divorced writer is reunited with the ghosts of his parents who died when he was a boy. However, every time he sees them he loses more life energy. Now, he must choose between starting a new life or staying forever in the past.

Stay or go?
1988 · 1h 49m
country: Japan
Shohei Taguchi is a salaryman who works for a securities company and loves women like no other. One day, he plans to use the cash borrowed from the gangsters and snatch to repay his debt . However, Sayoko Mukai, who said that she used the money of the company for gambling , took over the money. Shohei and Sayoko plan a robbery and steal cash from the gallery, but another man steals it.

CAT'S EYE: Midnight Love Adventure
1988 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
Three sisters run a quiet café by day and become the elusive art thieves known as “Cat's Eye” by night. Targeting only paintings linked to their late father, once a renowned painter forced to produce forgeries, they execute elegant heists without harming anyone. As they retrieve each stolen piece, they edge closer to uncovering the truth behind their father's past.

Dangerous Cops Again
1988 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
Detectives Takayama and Oshita participate in a major drug bust which arouses suspicion that the government may be secretly involved.

The Yen Family
1988 · 1h 53m
country: Japan
Set in Japan during the bubble era, this unique home comedy cheerfully and humorously depicts the daily life of a strange family that works together to accumulate a small amount of money, while mixing irony and satire.

Memories of You
1988 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
A mother discovers that her 14-year-old daughter Yumi has leukemia and only six months to live. She decides to keep the information secret and pushes her past tutor Akira, now a university student, to reconnect with her.

Dangerous Cops
1987 · 1h 39m
country: Japan
When a doctor is found dead and the company's exclusive data on a cancer drug is missing, detective Takayama and Oshita are called to the Nakamitsu pharmaceutical laboratory. However, a bungled attempt to catch the murderer leave Takayama and Oshita reassigned to the lackluster task of patrolling public bathrooms to keep them out of trouble.

A Taxing Woman
1987 · 2h 8m
country: Japan
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his assets from the Japanese authorities. Itakura and Gondo soon find themselves engaged in a complicated, satirical battle of wits.

The Shogunate's Harem
1986 · 1h 55m
country: Japan
A new shogun is appointed to the throne when his brother dies. He find out that the former Shogun one of the women from his brothers harem became pregnant, but she escaped. The new Shogun would loose the throne if the child is a boy. Genshiro is doctor who, among other things, performs abortions, and is sheltering his love, another women who escaped from the harem. The new Shogun threatens to arrest the girl unless Genshiro hunts down the woman and aborts her child. Genshiro learns that the woman releases a "musky scent from her special area" when in ecstasy. Both Genshiro and his friend set out to find all the women of the former harem and have sex with them, by force if necessary.
Jokyōshi 'izu noodoriko' satsujin jiken
Jokyōshi 'izu noodoriko' satsujin jiken
1986
country: Japan
Teacher Shizuko and her literature club students are caught up in a murder case while on vacation in Izu. The victims are Kazumasa, who was in a relationship with Shizuko's friend Ritsuko, and his wife.

Apartment Wife: Serial Murders
1986 · 2h
country: Japan
Murders of housewives occur one after another in a suburban apartment complex. All of the victims have had an intimate relationship with a certain man, and behind him lies a woman with a past...

Kekkon Annai Mystery
1985 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
A 19-year-old girl Hiroko Terasawa working in a matching agency promises her client Masakazu Sekine that she'll pose as his fiancée for a remarkable cash reward. Hiroko moves to Sekine's mansion and prepares to attend the family's meeting. However, this only turns out to be a prelude of a bloody fight over the family's legacy.

Marukin marubi no kintamashii maki
1985 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
Koji Tadokoro, the manager of a hot bento shop, lives an ordinary life with his girlfriend Noriko Kinoshita, who works at a nearby supermarket and loves sex. Tonight they are having sex, as if they are going to try to break the Guinness World Record, when suddenly the window opens and Nakagawa, a middle school classmate, appears. Shimizu, who had become a film director, has died. The two go to the funeral, and on the way home they pass a man accompanied by a beautiful woman. That man is none other than his childhood friend, Kimio Kondo. Kimio is the epitome of a money man. He is a doctor working at a university hospital, and on the side, he writes new music lyrics and is popular with nurses and popular singers. The three are excited to see each other again after a long time, and plan a class reunion trip to Kimio's luxurious mansion...

Big Magnum Kuroiwa
1985 · 1h 42m
country: Japan
Kuroiwa, a high school teacher who carries a “Big Magnum 44” gun is sent to a school that is full of violence. Can Kuroiwa reform the students with the gun?

Capone Cries a Lot
1985 · 2h 10m
country: Japan
Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.

Ana
1984 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
A double suicide happens in Morioka in Iwate Prefecture. The two were employees of rival real estate companies. A prosecutor who senses a setup exposes the truth.

Tora-san's Song of Love
1983 · 1h 41m
country: Japan
Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to take his place, but gets into an argument with his brother-in-law's boss and returns to the road. He meets a young woman in Niigata who, unbeknownst to him, is a popular enka singer.

Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
1979 · 1h 10m
country: Japan
A meek salaryman who gets no respect at home and is belittled at work gets inspiration from Superman and somehow becomes a strangely suited, hugely endowed, masked sexual avenger.

Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie
1979 · 1h 26m
country: Japan

Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again
1979 · 1h 10m
country: Japan
Softcore porn collaboration between Nikkatsu director Shinya Yamamoto and gag manga artist Fujio Akatsuka, utilizing both creators' comedy techniques in an erotic setting.