Acting
A married woman and her lover murder her husband and dump his body into a well, but his ghost returns to haunt them as the local gossip intensifies.
A part-time employee in a mahjong parlour runs across a young woman, who is unable to walk, in baby carriage. He becomes friends with the woman and begins to feel enamoured with her.
A homeless man suffering from memory loss is unbeatable in a fight. He becomes involved with the Yakuza. It is based on a manga by Carib Marley.
A young Japanese boy's life is changed when his sister returns to the small island, full of eccentric characters, where he lives.
A cantankerous but loveable high school teacher teaches a night school in a poor neighborhood for adult students on the fringes of Japanese society.
Osaka Love & Soul (TV film) Drama 2010, 75 min
A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly": find a bug with the power to bring humans back from the dead, in order to report on the afterlife. With his trusty companion Endo in tow, he sets off on a quest for the elusive insect and along the way meets the mysterious Sayoko, a former dominatrix and habitual wrist-cutter who delights in rubbing wasabi into her wounds.
For some reason, Ryohei, an elementary school student, becomes interested in garbage trucks and starts helping an uncle who works there. Ryohei's classmates and family members, who had initially ridiculed him, are impressed by Ryohei's single-minded demeanor and begin to help him without realizing it.
