Sadawo Abe

The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Eriko Hatsune

Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kyoko Fukada

A scientist taints his mother's scientific experiment with his own drug that transforms pain into a pleasurable experience. Unfortunately for the...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Misa Aika

A young boy with a troubled home life becomes "chosen," and he stumbles into the middle of a great war of yōkai (a class of mythological creatures),...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki

Kimihiko Onizuka is a salaryman infatuated with maiko (apprentice geisha) and whose greatest goal in life is to play a party game called "yakyuken"...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sadawo Abe

In the year 1716 a mysterious epidemic stickens men in the country of Japan, dropping the population of men to 1/4th of its prior state. With the...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Kazunari Ninomiya

Abandoned by his father as a boy, Yuta grows up as the foster son of a restaurant owner and takes over the restaurant at the owner's death. Cheery,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sadawo Abe

After detective Natsumi Yukihira brings an end to the police hospital terrorist case, Natsumi is transferred to the Nishimonbetsu Police Station in...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

A mother is accused of murdering her daughter but when she tells her tale, things don't seem to make sense. Her husband says they have no daughter,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

There still stands a famous apartment building where such prominent manga artists as Tezuka Osamu, Shotaro Ishinomori and Fujio Akatsuka once lived,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Offshore, shrouded in fog, there is a mysterious island that is said to be the home of a family of monsters. It is strictly forbidden to approach it....

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Akinori Kimura (Sadao Abe) and his wife Mieko (Miho Kanno) opens an apple orchard in their hometown of Hirosaki in Aomori Prefecture. Due to Meiko's...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Ryoro Kurojima (Sadao Abe) is the director of a Tokyo apology center. His job is to teach others how to apologize. Ryoro Kurojima solves problems by...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

"Blazing Famiglia" centers around a family of former teenage gangsters. Tetsu Hino (Yoshimi Tokui) was once the leader of the most feared motorcycle...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

There once was a hospital where patients and even doctors & nurses were all weird. Above all, Onuki, a patient who built up his company all by...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Sasaki has had a difficult period, going through a divorce and losing his job. To take a break and start anew, Sasaki decides to visit Iriomote...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Nijima, a white-collar worker, finds the man responsible for his young daughter's murder. He tortures and interrogates the man, who maintains his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

In 1944, the American military lands on the shores of Saipan. Refusing to commit suicide with his superiors or be forced into camps for prisoners of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Natsumi Yukihira (Ryoko Shinohara) receives secret documents of an organization that controls the country from the shadows. Because of this,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Takeharu Takami (Ryuhei Matsuda) is a bank teller, but he becomes allergic to money. He decides not to use money at all. Takeharu decides to move to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki's same-titled short story collection, Ten Nights of Dreams brings ten fantastical dream sequences to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Yaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, while Kita is an actor addicted to various drugs.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Alien pods come to Earth and, naturally, start taking over Human Hosts. One such pod only manages to take over one human's, Shin Izumi, right arm....

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Alien pods come to Earth and, naturally, start taking over Human Hosts. One such pod only manages to take over one human's, Shin Izumi, right arm....

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

When a devoted detective probes the suspicious death of her father, she uncovers massive corruption and finds herself in grave danger.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

After losing their restaurant in a fire, a husband and wife come up with a strange plan to rebuild their shattered finances: marrying the husband off...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Residents in a town have a hard time due to the land tax and forced labor. 9 people, including Juzaburo Kokutaya (Sadao Abe), worry about the future...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

A young boy named Taichi Ogawara finds a fox cub on the side of the road and takes it home as a pet. He discovers it is blind, deaf, and mute....

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

An unstable young woman pines for the ex-boyfriend who nearly beat her to death – and who has mysteriously disappeared.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Sin is a rock star. He has an amazingly loud voice with a range of four octaves. His secret is that he has created his voice through a method of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Based on the comic by Hiroyuki Yasuda

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

After terminally ill Bussan finally passes away he misses hanging out with his still living friends and decides to return to Kisarazu. In his ghost...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

When Bussan learns he has less than a year to live, he decides to continue his life as usual. He spends his time with his friends, a band called...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

After years of trying, Kyoko and her husband Takehiro are finally pregnant. But their joy at the prospect of becoming parents ends suddenly when they...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

A new female detective joins the special investigations team and dives into some of their hardest cases in this follow-up to the series 'Unfair.' The...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Detective Ryoko Kozuki receives a demotion after having an affair with a superior. She succeeds in arresting a rapist in an undercover operation that...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Gan and his girlfriend Ai are mild-mannered toy shop owners by day but, when evil lurks, they transform into superheroes Yatterman 1 & 2. With the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Eiko Akimori is a 23-year-old woman who lives alone in an apartment. One day, Eiko is made to buy a big stone ring that brings happiness from a catch...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Home-design sales representative Tomohiro lives with his wife and their son. As his job involves houses, it is his motto to take great care of the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Shuhei is leading a tough life. His alcoholic mother Akiko can only hook up with bad guys and order Shuhei to go get money from his disapproving...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Due to the effect of the prolonged great depression, finally even the police have to introduce a part-time job system for its employees. Although his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Taishi lives with his father Kazushi. His mother left home when Taishi was very young and he barely has any memories of her. He believes that his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

The back-story of Unicorn Ryuji from 'Kamikaze Girls'

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Prosecutor Komazuki Nao from the Yokohama District Public Prosecutors Office’s Minato Mirai branch and lawyer Tsutaya Madoka (Matsu Takako)...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

A gothic lolita merges with a teddy bear to fight zombies and save the world.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

A new female detective joins the special investigations team and dives into some of their hardest cases in this follow-up to the series 'Unfair.'...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Akira Mochizuki survived a kidnapping as a child. Now, she's a detective, and there are signs that the kidnapper may be back again after 20 years.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Masaya is a university student, but he attends a school that's not his ideal school. His days are generally gloomy. One day, he receives a letter...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2007 Fall Special" presents five tales. 1. Mirai Dousoukai - starring Ishihara Satomi. 2....

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Sequel to the Pinku TV Movie 'Love Hotel Night'

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Sou Makimoto works in the "send-off" department at the city hall. The department's main responsibility is to hold funerals for people who die alone...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Twenty-four-year-old country bumpkin Aiko is a new teacher who has arrived at a new town and a new primary school. When nervous she blurts out her...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

A boy genius named "Kadokawa" invents the ultimate anesthetic for SM play. Kadokawa's madness is turned into reality by his childhood friends Oyamada...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Commemorating the 70th anniversary of TV broadcasting in Japan, and the 60th anniversary of the Taiga drama, this special depicts the struggles of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

The story takes place when the Shin-Okubo district of Tokyo was still known as Okubomura, where the yakuza are running a real estate business called...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Japan, 1590. Wandering samurai band together to take on the lord of Skull Castle in this “Bird” version of the dynamic show performed in...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

The World of Tsudaman

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Fourth installment in Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 8 films.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

In 1924 Yuri killed 57 people as a spy before going underground as the madam of a small brothel. There, she encounters an orphan whose family was...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

This special takes place three years after the end of the original series. Makoto is homeless as a result of his mom selling out their shop and soon...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

The smallest protagonist in film history - a human cell! There are a staggering 37 trillion cells in the human body. Red blood cells that carry...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Set in the mid-19th century, this period action film centers on 11 prisoners who are ordered to defend a fortress from the government’s army so...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara