Toshiyuki Nishida

Hama-chan joins a company excursion to Oita with the rest of his department including his new junior Daisuke. Beautiful Namiko, the organizer of ...

A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a ...

An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a ramen chef under ...

Shinya is in debt as a result of his gambling habit. He attempts to defraud an old woman with a bank transfer scam, but the woman reminds him of ...

Director Yukihiko Tsutsumi wrings laughs out of an unlikely topic — domestic violence — in this dark comedy about noodle-shop ...

Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up during his inaugural speech as the company chairman.

When middle-aged salary man Tsubakiyama suddenly dies, he leaves his family high and dry. But suddenly he’s given another chance: a few ...

Yumiko returns to work in Hama-chan’s department. She had once left the company after getting married, but a dark shadow now seems to loom ...

Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World” wafts through a hospice recreation room. Sitting at the grand piano is a young ...

Hama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company faces a restructuring process.

A James Brown fanatic gangster decided to disband his own gang and see his long lost daughter before entering prison. Hoping to change his mind, ...

Hama-chan’s supervisor is promoted after many frustrating years with his wayward, fishing-obsessed underling, and Hama-chan’s new ...

At the end of World War II, a secret human experiment was being conducted in Manchuria, which was in the sphere of influence of the Japanese ...

A Japanese film that tells the tale of the birth of VHS. It follows Kagatani Shizuo, an electronics employee who rallies his coworkers to save ...

Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san ...

Six well-known Japanese directors from various genres and one of the hottest actresses from Hong Kong, Kelly Chen, contributed to this omnibus ...

Hama-chan accompanies Su-san on a business trip to Okinawa in the middle of the recession, but Su-san remains in low spirits over business matters.

A traveling ronin perceived as a fool impresses a samurai leader with his fishing skills and gains employment.

Su-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar surroundings on his first assignment at a new job.

The show follows the early years of Japanese warlord hero Oda Nobunaga in the 16th century. As a young man Oda was not seen as the right heir to ...

Sequel to The Rainbow Seeker where Ryo meets Katsu on a small island in the south of Japan. There, he falls in love for a single mother.

Hama-chan’s sales department gets a new supervisor, a hard-working taskmaster that’s the very opposite of carefree, irresponsible Hama-chan. The ...

A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose owner lives to bring entertaining ...

The story follows the teacher and students of the Ryubetsu Handicapped High School.

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.

Hama-chan and Su-san meet a charming woman on a fishing trip, but forget to ask her name. Days later, Hama-chan sees her again at a ...

Approached by a friend about a matchmaking arrangement, Su-san goes to Hama-chan’s home seeking help. Hama-chan is away on a business trip, ...

Hama-chan and Su-san go fishing during a business trip, but Hama-chan has to give a lecture on Su-san’s behalf in a case of mistaken identity.

A cantankerous but loveable high school teacher teaches a night school in a poor neighborhood for adult students on the fringes of Japanese society.