Acting
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.
Rei Suzumura, Zero the Silver Fanged Knight, is patrolling on his own when he encounters the white Horror Ring, who has created a commune where Horrors and humans live together in harmony, so long as one human a month allows themselves to be devoured by the Horrors. Rei, along with Makai Priest Cain and the knight-in-training Yuna are ordered by the Makai Senate to slay Ring and free the humans under his thrall by means of Yuna's mother the Makai Priestess Iyu.
Shigemitsu Kamio, a member of a Shibuya color-gang who is respected even by other chīmers (delinquents), carries the bitter secret of having killed his own father. One day, his childhood friend Ei-mei Sai suddenly appears before him. Acting on orders from Wang, the boss of the Chinese mafia, Ei-mei has come to lay the groundwork for their expansion into Shibuya…
A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.
Rei Suzumura continues to hunt Horrors in a certain city. One day, he meets a young woman in love with photography, Alice Hiromi. After witnessing Makai Knight ZERO in action, she develops an interest in Rei. Meanwhile, a carriage crosses a far away bridge. The carriage contains a coffin in which a man lies. That man is none other than the Dragon Knight, who used the power of Dragons to hunt Horrors.
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
In the year 2024, the Governer of Tokyo puts a group of young girls through torturous training, and the three that remain - dubbed the Zebra Mini-Skirt Police - are charged with the task of protecting his life…
While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.
After shooting a gangster in self-defense, Kim Hui Ro takes refuge at a hotel and takes the guest hostages. Realising his position, he invites the press inside and explains why he was driven to his crime.
Still reeling from the events of a zombie apocalypse, a young woman, along with a group of allies, makes her way across a dystopian Japan in search of her mother, the Zombie Queen.
In Tokyo, a Chinese exchange student gets involved in rigged pachinko schemes and meets a Chinese girl raised in Japan. When they're caught cheating by a former yakuza now running a pachinko parlor, a tense triangle forms as money, power, and personal ties collide.
A post-apocalyptic humankind in 2025 finds a hero in the form of Zebraman. But the Zebra Queen steals his powers, making him lose his ability to survive Zebra Time. But he wants his powers back.
Theatrical movie edit of the first three episodes of the miniseries ZERO: Black Blood.
Mitsuhiko, an assistant director, has an experience with a young call girl at a hotel one day. He enters into a "relationship" with the girl he meets there for 30,000 yen per intimate encounter, but gradually finds himself being manipulated by her.
Nami works in a bank and has a hidden interest. She went to play Pachinko after work and showed great genius. The pachinko company regards her as the queen of pachinko.
Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer from Tokyo, pays a visit to her town and the tree they shared time under some twenty years back after a TV commercial shoot. His remembrances of her, the tree, and the long unrequited love stir both of their hearts to fumbling action as they re-discover the love between them.
In 1987, frustrated junior high student Takashi hates his uncool father hanging around their suburban home all the time, and is pestered by the area’s wannabe gangsters. But he’s interested in the girl next door, the bounteously-breasted Megumi. One day, Takashi hears a rumor that porn actress Kyoko Yokushimaru is coming to town for an autograph session at the only video store in town where Takashi and his judo friends always hang out. Their ridiculous but serious adventure begins. What will Takashi find after all the surprises and chaos? Recalling youth classics like Stand By Me, this is the debut feature of Shin Adachi, Japan Academy Prize-winning screenwriter of 100 Yen Love.
Theatrical movie edit of the last three episodes of the miniseries ZERO: Black Blood.
Kabukicho, Shinjuku. Shoichi Sakurai meets a man who goes to a mahjong parlor from 9am to 5pm and realizes that there is something missing in his mahjong. Next, a soba restaurant owner from Karuizawa who lost his land because of mahjong appears before Sakurai. Sakurai teaches him mahjong when he asks for his help, but...
It isn't easy to find a dream to chase when you're young, but Mugiko has one: she can't wait to become an anime voice actress. Saving up for classes while she works part time in a manga store, she lives with her older, gambler brother after her father's death. When the mother she never knew turns up out of nowhere and moves in, it only causes irritation for the aspiring otaku. But when her mother just as quickly disappears, it leaves Mugiko (or "Sweet Pea") searching for answers, bringing her back to her mother's hometown to discover what happened to her mother's own dream.
