Ichirō Ogura

Japanese crime film.

In a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe finds that he has a terminal cancer, he decides to...

Based on the story "Gokudō Socrates"

Japanese school girls die violently after seeing a man wearing a black hood.

Toru Tachibana is a police officer who works as a guard at a detention center. He and his colleague Nakano, who lives in a shared room in a bachelor...

Yama, a bloodthirsty demon full of hatred and anger. He who confronts it is selected to have a few supernatural powers. Maria, wages a supernatural...

Momojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own.

A young girl named Mitsuki receives a ticket for a bus tour from her uncle. The tour appears to be normal (expect that everyone appears to be quite...

Following the 2009 financial crash, Waseda University graduate Takeshi lost his job in Tokyo and retreated to his family home in Sendai. While he...

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...

Record shop clerk and aspiring DJ Tsutomu searches for his masculinity when challenged to a kendo duel.

Yoko Sakaki: 24 years old. Occupation: Ghost Negotiator. With her tomboyish attitude and severely bad mouth, she helps ghosts leave this world by...

Kazuya goes to live with his mother Shinobu because his father, Yoshiki, who works in the same company, has fired him according to the company policy...

The annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However, Yoshi's life is thrown into disarray days before the...

A laid-off designer returns to her home town after five years away.

Five young musicians, each harboring painful memories, are assembled to entertain American soldiers at an Enlisted Men's Club. Tensions emerge...

Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" wafts through a hospice recreation room. Sitting at the grand piano is a young girl, Chiori, with a...

A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho. He quickly becomes aware that her life is in...

Portrait of the Wind centers on Tamio Murase, a world-traveling photographer who came home to take over the family business after his father’s...

Recently appointed dean at a film school, Kimuro Hajime develops a special concern for one of his students, Daisuke. The brash, headstrong young man...

The story of a village woman given the grueling task of looking after (and fulfilling the sexual needs of) her quadruple amputee husband, a Japanese...

Kohei Miyazaki (Naoto Takenaka), a former railroad worker, has become obsessed with locating the ancient country of Yamatai. His obsession sprouted...

When a young girl discovers that her new middle school is the same one her sister mysteriously disappeared from eleven years before. She and her new...

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

Shohei Kazama (Kinya Kitaoji), who travels all over the country and works as a special police chief, is new to the Iwaki Tokiwa Police Station in...

Beppu Sumire is a wedding planner who works for True Love Bridal (TLB), a well-established wedding hall. Her late mother, Sakura, showered love on...

76-year-old Oda Momojiro (Fuji), who lost his beloved wife and was living a lonely life, reunites with Sakura (Yamaguchi Karin), with whom he worked...

A man, who once dreamed of becoming a punk rocker, is working as a low salaryman at a musical instrument parts company. He's secretly in love with...

A Japanese street racer looks to track down a legendary racer for revenge. His quest continues.

Nishioka, a musician who has lost his passion for music and is living a life of self-indulgence, is fired by his contracted music production company.

Ayumi Aizawa is a lonely young man without a family. He works at Forest Hyde Press Hotel as a cleaner. His deceased grandfather Kenzaburo worked at...

A story about Sayoko Kano, a junior high school student, who is believed to be a descendent of an Indian goddess. Sayoko is a kind of femme fatale,...

Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A...

Three sisters live together in a large house in the city of Kamakura. When their father – absent from the family home for the last 15 years...

The story is set in Bakumatsu and revolves around the Bunta Sugawara character, a yakuza (of course :) but instead of a modern yakuza/gangster, he's...

A former retainer to a noble family kills his wife's father when he tries to expose his past crimes. When he begins an affair with the daughter of...

In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo's underworld.

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new...

A travelling group of young people running a pirate radio station from a small truck encounter an eccentric elderly couple who are on the run from...

Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.

Hiroki Matsukata is a fish market worker and a fanatical Japanese festival rascal. He also falls in love with a stripper while delivering his...

When a powerful new Makamou attacks and defeats Hibiki, Asumu dives into Takeshi’s history and discovers a book that details the ancient Oni...

Follows the fluctuating fortunes of three ronin in feudal Japan who wander from castle to castle, selling their services to whichever lord will fill...

A young man working as a cameraman in Tokyo is visited for three days by his parents from the countryside.

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must...

Just when Hideki thinks he will lose his virginity, he gets hit by a car, and dies. God gives him a 2nd chance by placing his mind into the body of...

Sisters "Manamo" and "Minamo" live separately in Hiroshima and London since the divorce of their parents. The elder sister Manamo lives in Hiroshima...

Midori is a university student that finds part-time work at a hostess club, near the end of Japan's "Bubble Economy," in the late 80s. She agrees to...

Makoto Mioya, a highly successful Japanese author and publisher, has a life-threatening, near-death experience. Powerful spiritual beings with whom...

Young female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little sister, but their new life is complicated by hoodlum-like...

The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, exams, on field training, his commitment as a...

Onodera Yuriko sets off for Sweden where her husband, Major General Onodera Makoto, is stationed as a military attache in Stockholm during World War...

After World War II, a small aristocratic family in Japan has lost all of their money.

Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the 2nd World War.

An omnibus comedy in which an unique lawyer teaches about laws regarding sex crimes.

A sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine.

A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and...

Shinku is a compelling drama that focuses on the strange relationship that develops between two people who find their lives irrevocably changed as a...

Tsutomu Minagawa is set to retire; the organized business life, a perfectly normal family living in a two-story house with a garage, the once...

The story is about a Journalist who becomes infected with a Japanese demon. The demon incubates in the mans stomach before Violently tearing its way...

A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.

A scientific exploration in search of a new energy source unleashes a group of powerful demons who begin possessing human bodies and destroying...