Akira Emoto

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 ...

A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who ...

On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he’ll never gamble again. But, that night, Jirocho ...

Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend Yamazaki who he knew since college. Yamazaki ...

On the night of August 19, 1980, a bus was set on fire by the vagrant Hirofumi Maruyama at the Shinjuku West Exit Bus Terminal. In the burning ...

Paddington Bear is a series of British animated shorts based on the Paddington Bear book series by Michael Bond produced by FilmFair. This was ...

Based on a polemic novel by Amy Yamada, Bedtime Eyes is about the intense love relationship between a second rate Japanese jazz singer and a ...

Katsuyo plans her last gang robbery.

Nami is a nurse and the unwilling object of her patients’ lust. When she is hit by a car whilst fleeing from the home of her unfaithful ...

In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who wants to control the length of the ...

Taka and Yuji find evidence in a 15-year-old case, but the statute of limitations expires in four days and they’re hunting illicit gun ...

Furuchi and Hama are two unsuccessful repair agents and electronic engineers. One day Furichi finds a so-called Kotatsu heater. Soon after this ...

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Based on the non-fiction books by Takushi Ono (the NHK announcer, not the gymnast) and Yoshinari Tobe.

A carnivorous monster lives on the island of Sipang. A group of office ladies band together to fight it.

A violent detective who can handle assault and blackmail in a straight forward manner.

Professor Sarusawa and his psychic daughter Mai live together after the suicide of the Professor’s wife years earlier – which was ...

A successful office lady, who has made herself sexually available to a doctor, has her routine disrupted when her former boyfriend’s son ...

A college senior, Shuhei, is blackmailed by a professor into joining the school’s sumo team. He is aided by a group of misfits who must ...

An adult love story written and directed by Yasushi Akimoto of “Goodbye Mama” and shot on location in New York. Haruko and Natsuko ...

An insecure young Asian man meets an interesting sensual European woman who teaches him the secrets of love and life.

A man fed up with city life moves to a village in the mountains

A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in ...

A mysterious extraterrestrial being resembling Godzilla rapidly approaches Earth. The monster, dubbed SpaceGodzilla, lands to challenge the King ...

A tragedy strikes a young woman’s life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.

When Su-san invites his late friend’s daughter to come along on a fishing trip, she falls in love with Hama-chan’s fishing protégé.

Ikuko is a mature, reserved Kyoto woman married for many years to a respectable, now-middle-aged man. The only problem in their relationship has ...

The film opens with kidnappers of a corporate executive making an unusual ransom demand: that a wizened executive from another company haul large ...

Yoshihiko now lives with a couple of old friends, a married couple, Ryosuke and Aya. They share a past in several senses. It was Ryosuke who ...

At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.