The fairy tale follows a young man named Gusukō in the Tōhoku forests of northeastern Japan in the 1920s. After an onslaught of droughts and ...

Genre: Animation,Drama,Fantasy

Actors:Akira Emoto, Hayashiya Shōzō IX, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Ryūzō Hayashi, Shioli Kutsuna, Shun Oguri, Tamiyo Kusakari

A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in similar circumstances a suspect is ...

Genre: Crime,Drama

Actors:Akira Emoto, Asuka Kurosawa, Go Ayano, Hana Sugisaki, Koichi Sato, Nijiro Murakami, Reiko Kataoka, Shima Onishi, Shizuka Ishibashi, Toshie Negishi

Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare intensely for a prestigious high school’s ...

Genre: Crime,Mystery

Actors:Akira Emoto, Arisa Makino, Etsushi Toyokawa, Fukumi Kuroda, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Kaoru Sugita, Koji Yakusho, Shingo Tsurumi, Shohei Murata, Yūko Mano

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 ...

Genre: Drama,Romance

Actors:Akira Emoto, Bang-ho Cho, Eri Ishida, Hitomi Takahashi, Ittoku Kishibe, Keiichirô Ishioka, Keiko Hida, Miyoko Akaza, Naoko Ohtani, Yū Fujiki

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 ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Akira Emoto, Junkichi Orimoto, Kazue Tsunogae, Masahiko Tsugawa, Midori Kiuchi, Mitsuko Kusabue, Miyoko Asada, Nozomi Tsuchiya, Sakura Ando, Toshio Sakata

A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near ...

Genre: Comedy,Drama,Music,Romance

Actors:Akira Emoto, Eri Watanabe, Hideko Hara, Hiromasa Taguchi, Hiroshi Miyasaka, Koji Yakusho, Naoto Takenaka, Reiko Kusamura, Tamiyo Kusakari, Yuu Tokui

After failing his university entrance exam, Yuki Hirano sets his eyes on the role of a forestry trainee. Setting off for training he doubts his ...

Genre: Comedy,Drama

Actors:Akira Emoto, Hideaki Ito, Ken Mitsuishi, Makita Sports, Masami Nagasawa, Masashi Arifuku, Naomi Nishida, Shota Sometani, Yoshimasa Kondo, Yûka

This movie is a political/espionage thriller, based on a real kidnapping incident of Korean politician, Kim Dae-Jung.

Genre: Action,Drama,Thriller

Actors:Akira Emoto, Choi Il-hwa, Hiroshi Ohguchi, Kim Kap-soo, Koichi Sato, Kyōko Enami, Michitaka Tsutsui, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yang Eun-yong, Yoshio Harada

The story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very different men – one the happy-go-lucky yakuza ...

Genre: Comedy,Crime

Actors:Akira Emoto, Etsuko Shihomi, Hideo Murota, Jūkei Fujioka, Jun Kunimura, Keizo Kanie, Koichi Iwaki, Rino Katase, Sō Yamamura, Yumeji Tsukioka

A teenager is transported to a parallel world where everyone who shares his family name is being hunted down by the dictatorial government.

Genre: Horror,Mystery,Science Fiction

Actors:Akira Emoto, Mitsuki Tanimura, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Rio Matsumoto, Shunsuke Daitoh, Takuya Ishida

In an attempt to spur citizens into taking more productive roles in society, the Japanese government issues death messages, or ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Akira Emoto, Gekidan Hitori, Kazuma Sano, Riko Narumi, Sansei Shiomi, Shota Matsuda, Takashi Sasano, Takashi Tsukamoto, Takayuki Yamada, Yuta Kanai

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

Genre: Drama

Actors:Akira Emoto, Gohki Kashiyama, Kikuko Hashimoto, Makiko Esumi, Midori Kiuchi, Mutsuko Sakura, Naomi Watanabe, Ren Osugi, Tadanobu Asano, Takashi Naito

A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, they plan to entice men that happen ...

Genre: Comedy,Crime,Drama

Actors:Akira Emoto, Ayumi Ito, Daijirō Harada, Eimei Esumi, Ippei Kanie, Katsumi Kiba, Mansaku Ikeuchi, Naomasa Musaka, Shinobu Ôtake

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order he was duty bound ...

Genre: History,War

Actors:Akira Emoto, Bandō Mitsugorō X, Eisaku Yoshida, Hiroshi Abe, Hiroshi Tamaki, Koji Yakusho, Nobuko Miyamoto, Rena Tanaka, Teruyuki Kagawa, Toshiro Yanagiba

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 ...

Genre: Drama,History,Romance

Actors:Akira Emoto, Jun Murakami, Keisuke Koide, Kengo Kora, Masaki Okada, Saburo Tokito, Shugo Oshinari, Soko Wada, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Yu Aoi

A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a ...

Genre: Drama,Romance

Actors:Akira Emoto, Hideji Ōtaki, Hiroyuki Sanada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Koichi Sato, Maki Carrousel, Mariko Kaga, Rei Okamoto, Tsunehiko Watase, Tsutomu Yamazaki

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 ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Akira Emoto, Bengal, Hana Kino, Haruhiko Saitô, Masako Motai, Ryo Iwamatsu, Ryo Okubo, Takashi Sasano, Yasufumi Hayashi, Yugi Ogata

An evil criminal organisation called Sigma kidnap prominment business leaders to harvest their DNA and only Karate-Robo Zaborgar can save them.

Genre: Action,Science Fiction

Actors:Akira Emoto, Asami, Cay Izumi, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Mami Yamasaki, Naoto Takenaka, Yasuhisa Furuhara, Yuya Ishikawa, Yuya Miyashita

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 ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Akira Emoto, Anna Nakagawa, Daijirō Harada, Eisaku Shindō, Koichi Sato, Takahiro Tamura, Toshiyuki Nishida, Tsunehiko Watase, Yoshiko Mita

While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank ...

Genre: Comedy,Drama,Music

Actors:Akira Emoto, Asuka Kurosawa, Eita Nagayama, Gori, Ko Shibasaki, Mikako Ichikawa, Miki Nakatani, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yūsuke Iseya

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 ...

Genre: Action,Comedy,Mystery

Actors:Akira Emoto, Bengal, Gaku Hamada, Gekidan Hitori, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Masato Sakai, Nao Omori, Shihori Kanjiya, Yuko Takeuchi

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost ...

Genre: Crime,Drama

Actors:Akira Emoto, Etsuko Ichihara, Fujio Tokita, Ken Kobayashi, Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baisho, Sabu Kawahara, Show Aikawa

On April 5, 2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The bride, however, was suffering from late-stage ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Akira Emoto, Eita Nagayama, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Kanji Tsuda, Nana Eikura, Ren Osugi, Ryuki Nishimoto, Satomi Tezuka

Kiira seems like an ordinary young girl, who likes to talk with her friends and to dress up. Her ultimate goal is to become the world’s ...

Genre: Drama,Romance

Actors:Akira Emoto, Choi Jin-hyuk, Ekin Cheng Yee-Kin, Mirei Kiritani, Natsume Mito, Nene Otsuka, Seiichi Tanabe, Shota Totsuka, Summer Meng

An old swordsman, his former comrade and a young braggart are hired by prostitutes to track down bandits who mutilated one of the women.

Genre: Action,Crime,Drama,Western

Actors:Akira Emoto, Eiko Koike, Jun Kunimura, Ken Watanabe, Kenichi Takitoh, Koichi Sato, Shioli Kutsuna, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Yuya Yagira

When it rains it pours. Kenji divorced his wife, lost his job and his old squeeze Naoko is getting married back home in the north of Japan, ...

Genre: Drama,Romance

Actors:Akira Emoto, Kumi Takiuchi, Tasuku Emoto

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

Genre: Crime,Drama,Mystery

Actors:Akira Emoto, Akira Nagoya, Kaori Momoi, Kensaku Morita, Kyoko Maya, Noboru Nakaya, Shima Iwashita, Takao Itō, Takeshi Kaga, Taketoshi Naitō

Rintaro directs a tale of three children who visit a land of wonder. This is the first “3D anime” that Madhouse has produced. Oh, and ...

Genre: Adventure,Animation,Family

Actors:Akira Emoto, Ei Morisako, George Takahashi, Hideyuki Tanaka, Ichiro Nagai, Rena Tanaka, Shunji Fujimura, Yûji Tanaka, Yuko Minaguchi

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

Genre: Action,Adventure,Science Fiction

Actors:Akira Emoto, Akira Nakao, Jun Hashizume, Keiko Imamura, Kenji Sahara, Koichi Ueda, Megumi Odaka, Towako Yoshikawa, Yousuke Saito, Zenkichi Yoneyama

Set in Japan during the bubble era, this unique home comedy cheerfully and humorously depicts the daily life of a strange family that works ...

Genre: Comedy,Drama,Family

Actors:Akiko Kazami, Akira Emoto, Hiromi Iwasaki, Hiroyuki Konishi, Kaori Momoi, Michiko Shimizu, Midori Kiuchi, Mitsunori Isaki, Shin Nakano, Takeshi Kaga