Kaoru Mizuki

An American actor in Tokyo struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese 'rental family' agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. As he immerses himself in his clients' worlds, he begins to form genuine bonds that blur the lines between performance and reality.

Set in Kamakura and Busan. The Shibuyas who live in Kamakura lost their grandmother and parents in an accident. On the 23rd anniversary of the death, Tsuko suddenly reveals her plan of moving to Busan to Yoko and Ushio, so the three siblings find themselves at the crossroads of their lives.

A novelist receives a letter from a female university student named Kubo about strange sounds that emanate from a room in her apartment. They begin to investigate incidents involving former residents, and eventually discover the shocking truths lurking inside the building.

Kanna Seto lost her childhood friend Haruta in a car accident when she was a freshman in high school. Carrying the emotional pain from that incident throughout her life, Kanna is still wounded as an adult. Kanna then meets Roku Akazawa, who also carries a painful experience from his past. When Roku was an elementary school student, a girl who was with him got into an accident and died. Because of that incident, Roku carries a heavy sense of guilt. When they meet, time, frozen since that day, begins to tick again.

The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she was playing. The murder is never solved. Emili's mother, Asako, is torn by grief and puts a curse on the four girls when they claim not to remember the killer's face. Each of the girls, in their own way, will do penance for their silence.

A man with family troubles suddenly loses his job and finds a light of hope through a magnificent 1,000 year old community festival that he reluctantly joins.

Shonosuke Furukehashi (Hiroshi Tamaki) is a young samurai and the second son of Sozaemon (Bunchin Katsura) of Togane Domain, Kazusa Province. Sozaemon serves as an attendant, but one day, he is suddenly suspected of accepting bribes. Forged documents written in handwriting startlingly identical to his offer incontrovertible evidence. Framed for accepting bribes he knows nothing about, Sozaemon commits ritual suicide for his “crime”. Shonosuke’s elder brother Katsunosuke (Satoshi Hashimoto), an assistant instructor at the domain’s training hall, is placed under house arrest. Because of that, Shonosuke leaves for Edo alone in order to clear the name of his beloved father.

When the cast and crew of a paranormal TV reality program decide to shoot in the house of the original Saeki hauntings, a series of strange events unfold at the location.

A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since the crimes are in the same vicinity, by the same method. However, as evidence points towards the detective, a ghost in red follows him, and he begins questioning his identity. His realization of what seems to be reality results in something far larger and more sinister.

Yokubo from director Tetsuo Shinohara is based off of the award-winning love story by Mariko Koike. A young man searching for physical comfort and dumb lust, and the world-weary woman drowning in a sea of men that works with him. This is a fantastic new film from a remarkably skilled cast about "the beauty of sensualism."

The story of Teke Teke, the ghost woman with no legs, continues. Conflict arises between a group of high school classmates, and Teke Teke starts hunting them down one by one.

The upper torso of a female, claws her way around Japan searching for her lower half. The person's lower half was severed in a train accident in Hokkaido. Anyone that hears of this story will see Teke-Teke's upper half walking aimlessly around the countryside within three days.

One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and kill the killer and it escalates!

When a powerful new Makamou attacks and defeats Hibiki, Asumu dives into Takeshi’s history and discovers a book that details the ancient Oni and a boy sharing his name. As he reads on, he learns of the tensions between humans and Oni as they struggle to stop the Orochi Makamou, but will he discover the key to defeating the new Orochi in the present?

The lives of a young cop, a sanitation worker and a brooding pharmacist violently intersect on a bus that's hijacked by a suicidal political flunky, then cross paths again months later.

When the Imagin and Kohana take a trip to visit Ryotaro and Airi, they are attacked by the legendary Ghost Train, and onboard are two Imagin and the evil Kamen Rider Yuuki, who is none other than Ryotaro! But when all hope seems lost, a blue DenLiner appears, delivering someone claiming to be Kamen Rider New Den-O! Just who is he, and can he help everyone save Ryotaro and save time once again?

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A two-part feature directed separately by Shimizu and his colleague Keisuke Toyoshima. Unrelated to each other, both have a common goal: to bring ghosts and aliens together in pure, referential and absurdistic delirium, including neo-Nazi specters, zombie yakuzas and nasty aliens.

Seven families are aboard a bus towards a field camp for their vacation. At this camp, it becomes clear that this is not a common trip. The parents are of the kind that abused their children or were visited by children's services, and at the camp they are offered to sell their children for a large sum of money, because there were customers that needed healthy internal organs.

Aki, who loves freedom, mets Masaya, an aspiring watchmaker. The two have opposite personalities and initially clash. The two reach better terms when Masaya is able to see Akis inner pain. Eventually, Masaya uncovers Akis sad past which was supposed to be held secret from everyone.

Hamaguchi Mika has been appointed to a matter that there are rumors that "Hanako-san are living" in the school. Mika doesn't know anything. Meanwhile, if you are walking, which finished the first lesson, suddenly, she sees the toilet that was written as "off limits". Mika does not know the rumor in the toilet, where Mika sees something that is eye sight surprising.

In this film, the charismatic figure of the horror world, Yô Takahashi, who laid the foundation of Japanese horror as the screenwriter for "Ring" and "Don't Look Up," finally makes his directorial debut in the horror genre. Joining him are Yudai Yamaguchi, known for "Battlefield Baseball," Kei Horie, who gained immense popularity as Gao Yellow in "Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger" and received acclaim overseas for his directorial debut "Growing Growing," and Toru Moriyama, a stalwart of TBS dramas. Together, these talented directors from the horror world ensure a film that is no less impressive than its predecessors!

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Fifteen-year-old Masaharu lives on the small island of Aogashima, which has a population of 197. On the island, life is simple and facilities are spare. As there are no high schools on the island, Masaharu, in his final year of junior high, will be leaving for Tokyo after he graduates. He is the editor of Blue Island Times, the local newspaper he started with a friend, who has hit on hard times in Tokyo. One day, Yuki transfers from the city to his island school, and Masaharu is immediately smitten. As the two grow closer, Masaharu discovers his new friend's secret.

Kenji Shimamura has trouble being intimate with his girlfriend Noriko after a lifetime of watching his parents bicker over his father’s infidelity. After he spurns her advances, causing her to storm off in an offended rage, he decides it’s time to seek psychological help. Unfortunately that costs money and the best way to earn some quick cash in his family is to spy on his dad for his mother. He quickly discovers his dad has a young girlfriend named Yukari. Figuring the best way to deal with this gracefully is to come clean with Yukari he tells her all about their family and the real estate business his parents run together. Unfortunately, however, his plan backfires. Instead of being scared off Yukari applies for a job at the family business and befriends Kenji’s mother, setting up a chain of events that makes things awkward for everyone involved.

A young girl wanders into a wing of her elementary school that has been abandoned for years and is rumored to be haunted. When she doesn't come back, a group of her classmates go looking for her, only to find that they, too, are trapped inside. They must somehow find their way to safety, and quickly, because the rumors of ghosts are turning out to be true.

A young girl wanders into a wing of her elementary school that has been abandoned for years and is rumored to be haunted. When she doesn't come back, a group of her classmates go looking for her, only to find that they, too, are trapped inside. They must somehow find their way to safety, and quickly, because the rumors of ghosts are turning out to be true.

It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually in a small apartment.

Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Though they believe their service will help to benefit their loved ones back home, they are unprepared for the hardships of war. Through their shared trials and sacrifices, they grow closer as friends, and hope to return together to better days. This movie was released in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of WWII.

An anthology film based on the works of manga artist Yoshiharu Tsuge. The main character in all four segments is a fledgling cartoonist named Tsube . In the first segment, Tsube encounters a dotty old man named Ri after renting a tumble-down cottage in the country. The following day, Ri, his equally weird wife, and his two squalid children move into his house. Soon the wife is stealing the cucumbers in his garden while the two kids devour all the food in the house.

Adaptation of the traditional Japanese ghost story The Peony Lantern.

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Iwatsuki Reiko, a writer for a weekly magazine goes on a trip to Amakusa, Kyushu with Yukitake Asami, the president of a company. Yukitake informs Iwatsuki that she has many enemies.

Takahashi Meiko (Mano Azusa) used to work at a large newspaper company. However, she is now an ordinary housewife. She receives a call from Sasame (Kanda Masaki), a former colleague who is now working at another company asking her for her help. She is informed that a murder has taken place when she arrives and goes to the scene of the crime. She learns that the victim was her son’s intermediate school teacher.

A woman was raped in her school years and broke up with her lover because of it. Later, when she became a high school music teacher, she had forbidden liaisons with her colleagues and students at her apartment. However, the hollow in her heart cannot be filled with just carnal desire. A turning point comes when one day she encounters her old lover by chance.

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The story of the gambler,who is unable to pay his loan.His wife and daughter are kidnapped and subjected to many days of torture and sexual degradation.

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Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and serving the lively residents of his small hometown.

Koichi and Mariko are a married couple. Both husband and wife have their own careers. Koichi is a civil servant who returns home on time, while Mariko returns home late at night, leaving their love life cold.

A woman marries the fiancé of her late sister but begins to have doubts when he starts to get overly friendly with a former classmate.

Due to a past trauma an elegant wife cannot enjoy her husband attentions in bed. Undeterred he hires a B&D master to give him a few pointers on how to reignite her repressed erotic desires.

A woman runs a “mistress service” and interviews young women for “dates” with men. Various couples get together but someone is following and watching them.

A schoolgirl is desperate to lose her virginity after witnessing a fellow student and her attractive gym teacher having a heated moment in a storage room. She pursues and engages with an older man and the cute boy next door. Will she find what she's looking for?

A broken hearted young woman meets a divorced older man tired of love.

A building manager spots a hooded jogger as he brazenly assaults a woman and drags her off. He follows and watches as the poor woman gets raped. After the rapist has left the manager hesitates and approaches the prone woman… and takes his turn. The next day the manager is on the lookout for the jogger, waiting for another chance.

After coming back from a trip a young newlywed wife discovers that her husband has packed up and left. Dark secrets are revealed when she tries to find him.

A wealthy man has relationships with a married woman, an office lady and a high school girl. Two of them are friends, two are sisters and one leaves him frustrated.

When the elderly owner of a luxury inn passes it is left to the staff instead of his two daughters. The staff make plans to sell the inn to a gang of yakuza. But the gang sees profit in the daughters as well and brutally conditions them for sale.

In accordance with ancient rituals a landlady who runs a hot spring spa, known for its fertility, needs to conceive or she will be forced to leave. Meanwhile the owner of the spa is happy to indulge in the erotic attentions of the many geishas working there who have hopes to replace her if she fails in her duty.

Ding dong. Who’s that! Why its the new maid. She cooks and cleans and gives extra special sexual service to members of the household. But the poor girl can’t seem to get any satisfaction.

While on an errand for her husband a young wife does a little impulsive shoplifting. But she is caught and soon finds herself blackmailed into working once a week at a high-class brothel. Her husband starts to suspect something so when he finds out where she works during the day they both find it adds excitement to their marriage.

A man who lost his wife and a woman whose husband died have a fateful meeting in connection with a double suicide and fall madly in love.

Based on the life of Japanese serial killer and thief Kiyotaka Katsuta.

It struck suddenly, "Please, stop!" She screamed in anguish, but the figures closed in with a frenzied, unnatural intensity. And then, a surprising truth came to light...

Without knowing their names a man and woman have sex. Afterwards they introduce themselves and begin an affair. The woman feels empty without a man. The man is married with a child but he needs more than what his wife can provide.

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One day, a man who is sexually impotent (only with his wife) ends up switching places with a sex counselor who looks exactly like him. Depicts a "love story" between husbands and wives with a lot of twists and turns.

Hitomi has ended her "affair" with a man and taken the first step towards a new life. She then starts a new relationship, but it turns into a love triangle. Furthermore, she knows it will be difficult to step in between a man and a woman who are passionately expressing their true feelings to each other, so she steps aside. Hitomi discovers a new form of love and grows up in a new way...