Directing
Born 1952.
A famous businessman's links with organized crime are looked into by the Zero Division of the Tokyo Police, with the investigation being headed by a highly trained, extremely violent and very beautiful female officer. When not having shoot-outs with the crime syndicate thugs trying to kill her, she spends most of her time in her apartment, wearing lingerie and taking showers. A sub-plot involves the businessman's S&M-obsessed daughter.
One is a designer and company president, the other an athlete and model. Although on different paths in life and from different backgrounds, in high school these two were once good friends. This movie tells the story of their friendship.
Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which six of the students endure while marooned in their school.
A call-girl named Yumi and Tetsuro, a married man with a debt to the yakuza, have a violent rendezvous in a cheap love hotel. Years later, haunted by the memory of that night, they reconnect and begin a strange love affair. Determined to finish what they started, they return to the scene of their first macabre passion.
Tokiko Enomoto finds out that her husband Kazuya, who mostly lives at an apartment near his work while she and their children live at home, has been having an affair with a live-in mistress, Ryōko, at his apartment. Tokiko tells her two sons, Tarō and Jirō, that she has decided to divorce their father. The children are shocked but understand their mother's position. Kazuya realizes the damage he has done and tries to remedy the situation.
A disabled child of separated parents gets caught up in police espionage due to his uncanny ability to remember license plate numbers.
A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon their individuality.
Three high-school students tangle with indulgent yakuza and lackadaisical police as they set out in search of the class bully, who has been kidnapped.
A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among them are two cousins who love each other and who get into a quarrel with other villagers.
The screenplay is Haruhiko Arai of "Tragedy of W" and "Revolver". The man is a detective who doesn't take on anything other than background checks for marriage and looking for cats. One day, a request for a job that belongs to him comes in. It is from Masako, a married woman who suspects her husband of having an affair.
Ichiro Karikura is the second generation of a prestigious pharmaceutical company. On his father's deathbed, he is informed that he is a descendant of the "Emperor Caligula"...
Yuichiro is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs over him like a pall as he wanders Japan's S&M clubs. But his younger brother claims to be able to sense their sister with his "antenna".
Ami, a girl who works as a flower arranger, also works as a professional assassin
The love that occurs 24 hours after a man and woman in their 20s meet against the backdrop of the bubble period.
A man (Kazama) whose lover was stolen by his best friend; a woman (Henmi) who fell in love with a man who didn’t return her feelings; and a woman (Ishibashi) who wants to be alone but can’t. The lives of these three people, each standing at a crossroads, gently intertwine in a town overlooking the sea. Since the original work is a collection of haiku by Madoka Mayuzumi, the screenplay connecting these stories was created from scratch. Despite its unique production and distribution model—intended as a promotional video for Meiji Life Insurance to distribute to its customers.
A documentary featuring actor Akira Emoto, film scholar Chika Kinoshita, Somai biographer Tatsuya Kimura and Sailor Suit assistant director Koji Enokido discussing the making of the film, its director and its legacy.
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A hard-boiled story about a young man who wakes up to the ferocity within himself, swaying between violence and love as he walks a devastating path.
Kiriko is a curator at the Hakone Open-Air Museum. She gets caught up in a computer virus incident and fights for her life. This drama was produced by Fuji Television to promote its affiliated museums. At the time, it was notable for being directed by the cutting-edge director Koji Enomoto.
