Yutaka Matsushige

Due to the economic recession, the orchestra is shut down. The members hear later that the orchestra will be reformed. Only some of the members, ...

This erotically charged drama traces the intersecting stories of a group of employees and visitors at a notorious “love hotel” in ...

A somber paranormal thriller that offers an original, exciting variation of the tale of two men with supernatural abilities, locked in a duel to ...

Relatives gather from afar in wintery Ashibetsu upon the death of patriarch Mitsuo. A mysterious woman named Nobuko suddenly shows up. Her ...

Yukichi Matsumoto’s 2013 stage adaptation of Shuji Terayama’s “Lemmings”. Two cooks share a room, one of which talks with ...

Neurosurgeon Koichi uses an experimental technique to enter the brain of his beloved Atsumi, who is in a coma after attempting suicide. In his ...

As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi ...

Yusaku Hayakawa dreams of becoming a detective, but works as a trainer for police dogs. When Yusaku gets an albino shepherd named Shiro, he forms ...

A 7 years girl is found dead in the local park’s toilet. Kaga Kyouichiro, who was asked to find the girl, and his cousin Matsumiya Shuhei who’s ...

Four short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers.

A young girl tries to maintain a long-distance relationship with an aspiring fisherman.

Dr Toma, a skilled surgeon, starts work at a regional hospital in Japan. After performing an operation to remove a patient’s liver cancer, ...

Osamu Ino is a great doctor who is beloved in his rural village. His knowledge and dedication make an equally strong impression on his reluctant ...

Keinosuke (Masakazu Tamura) is a ronin (wandering samurai) who lives on the streets although he is a nobleman. There’s just one woman in this ...

The drama is based on a true story of Yamaguchi Hayato (25), a young man who learns he has a rare illness known as CIDP, which affects the ...

Taro is a 12-year-old into baseball and radio, especially “Music Express,” a song-request show. Sound quaint? But it is 1977 and a ...

Erika Ichinose, a clinical psychologist, is recruited by the National Police Agency in an attempt to stay one step ahead of a bomb terrorist.

Surrounded by violence for as long as he can remember, Ryoudo Numata has steeled himself into a tremendously tough man, growing to become the ...

A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of “Black Book Monthly”: find a bug with the power to bring ...

The movie revolves around Mitsuba, who studies traditional art of rakugo. Rakugo is a form of comical story telling, sometimes referred to as ...

Former yakuza underling Kazuma Kiryū has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration and is trying to piece his life ...

A tattoo changes a woman. A tattoo changes a man. Tattoo is everything … Asami, a woman who breaks into an affair with a man who has a wife ...

The body of a 59-year-old male is found on the banks of a river. The stepson, Kazuo, confesses to his involvement but also implicates his ...

Takashi, an unemployed young man, is entrusted with a “catch ball shop” by a stranger he meets in the park. While accepting ...

Katayama is on the way home to his wife and little daughter when he comes across a gang of punks beating up an innocent man. Katamaya decides to ...

Tamako is 20 years old, lives at home with her mother (Kishimoto Kayoko) and teenaged brother, and simply refuses to grow up. Ever since her ...

This work is a spin-off drama from the film ” Negotiator: Mashita Masayoshi ,” which was released in May 2005 as a spin- off project ...

Suzume Katagura, a bored housewife, spends her days doing chores and taking care of her husband’s pet turtle. One day, she sees a wanted ad ...