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3.5Chiho has prohibited her husband, Takahashi, from smoking while she is trying to become pregnant. Takahashi hasn’t told his wife he was laid off, and has a paid sexual encounter with a high-school student, attracted by the pungent odor of her cigarettes, Peace Regulars.
Diary of a Beloved Wife: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
2006
5.7Dan Mitsu stars as Kana, a female employee at a publishing company who strikes up a sexual relationship with a younger co-worker. He soon discovers that Kana's fetishes extend to sadomasochistic tendencies, involving a mysterious man only known as "Sensei". This discovery will push his relationship with Kana to a new, dangerous level that he may not be ready for.
Be My Slave
2012
NRThe hit series “Super Scary Stories,” which has been made into a film many times in Takeshobo's original horror collection, is now available as a TV drama. The series has recorded unprecedented viewer ratings for a late-night horror drama due to its overly realistic setting.
「Chō」Kowai Hanashi TV Kanzen-ban Episode 3
2006
NRThe hit series “Super Scary Stories,” which has been made into a film many times in Takeshobo's original horror collection, is now available as a TV drama. The series has recorded unprecedented viewer ratings for a late-night horror drama due to its overly realistic setting.
「Chō」Kowai Hanashi TV Kanzen-ban Episode 2
2006
NRIntrovert Jiro Shiba (Jiro Sato) who came out of his shell a bit with the help of a cute puppy faces a crisis, when he loses his pet due to being accused of exploiting it for economic purposes...
Mameshiba Ichiro 3D
2012
3.6Fugitive Jack is doing everything in his power to evade both the police and gangsters. Assuming he’s in the clear, he moves in with Keiko, a pornstar whose early life in an abusive family still haunts her.
Tokyo Elegy
1999
Film credits
Behind the camera
3.5Chiho has prohibited her husband, Takahashi, from smoking while she is trying to become pregnant. Takahashi hasn’t told his wife he was laid off, and has a paid sexual encounter with a high-school student, attracted by the pungent odor of her cigarettes, Peace Regulars.
Diary of a Beloved Wife: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
2006
5.7Dan Mitsu stars as Kana, a female employee at a publishing company who strikes up a sexual relationship with a younger co-worker. He soon discovers that Kana's fetishes extend to sadomasochistic tendencies, involving a mysterious man only known as "Sensei". This discovery will push his relationship with Kana to a new, dangerous level that he may not be ready for.
Be My Slave
2012
NRThe hit series “Super Scary Stories,” which has been made into a film many times in Takeshobo's original horror collection, is now available as a TV drama. The series has recorded unprecedented viewer ratings for a late-night horror drama due to its overly realistic setting.
「Chō」Kowai Hanashi TV Kanzen-ban Episode 3
2006
NRThe hit series “Super Scary Stories,” which has been made into a film many times in Takeshobo's original horror collection, is now available as a TV drama. The series has recorded unprecedented viewer ratings for a late-night horror drama due to its overly realistic setting.
「Chō」Kowai Hanashi TV Kanzen-ban Episode 2
2006
NRIntrovert Jiro Shiba (Jiro Sato) who came out of his shell a bit with the help of a cute puppy faces a crisis, when he loses his pet due to being accused of exploiting it for economic purposes...
Mameshiba Ichiro 3D
2012
5.4Yashima is a woman who works as a plumber. She is also uncomfortable with her own sexuality. One day she visits a home for a job and meets Kyu. Yashima senses Kyu's eyes watching her. They become intimate, but a dark secret is soon revealed.
Albino
2016
5.4Yashima is a woman who works as a plumber. She is also uncomfortable with her own sexuality. One day she visits a home for a job and meets Kyu. Yashima senses Kyu's eyes watching her. They become intimate, but a dark secret is soon revealed.
Albino
2016
6.5Tamotsu Inukai is a married middle-aged man with a wife, daughter and son. Mr. Inukai has a strong dislike for dogs, but while he is working on the island his family takes in a Samoyed dog to fill in the father's absence, the family decides to raise the dog. At first Mr. Inukai opposes the family taking the dog in, but he can't persuade his family to abandon the dog. When Mr. Inukai arrives back in Tokyo, he now has to has to live with the Samoyed dog. Can he?
Mr. Inukai Keeps a Dog
2011
5.8No synopsis available yet.
Cat Taxi
2010
2.0No synopsis available yet.
Dan Oniroku: Crimson Sisters
2002
7.8A woman, born in a cowshed, grows up working a dairy farm. Suffering under the gaze of her male coworkers, she longs for the attention of the newspaper delivery boy.
MiLK
2010
7.2Set in a rural fishing village in southern Japan, this is the story of Erika, a celebrated former anchorwoman now back in her hometown campaigning for a seat in the national party, and Yohei, an insecure fisherman-in-training. The two are worlds apart.
Paradise: Carried Away
2006
7.2Set in a rural fishing village in southern Japan, this is the story of Erika, a celebrated former anchorwoman now back in her hometown campaigning for a seat in the national party, and Yohei, an insecure fisherman-in-training. The two are worlds apart.
Paradise: Carried Away
2006
1.0A seedy public bathhouse. Atsuko sits at the counter. She's a woman who can only get wet in water. A woman who seeks the melting pleasure of a humid world. Atsuko was always dripping wet at the counter. The customers in the men's bath were aroused by Atsuko's expression and body.
Maguma no Gotoku
2004
6.5Jiro (Jiro Sato) is a 32-year-old man who doesn't have a job. He lives at his parents' house and doesn't go outside or socialise with people. After the death of his father, Jiro's mother runs away and leaves behind a 6 month dog named Ichiro and some clues for Jiro. To find his mother, Jiro has to venture out into the world.
Mameshiba Cubbish Puppy
2009
6.0Middle-aged man Ken Kamoshida is a fortune teller and his life revolves around superstitions. Since he and his wife separated, Ken Kamoshida's life has been messy. One day, he comes across 2 black kittens which represents a symbol for misfortune. He has difficulty in raising the kittens, but he uses the kittens to help read the fortunes of others. In the process, he discovers what's really important to him.
Chat Noir Lucy
2012
NRThree months after her disappearance, Yuko is found alive with no memory of what happened. When she returns home, her husband insists she is not the same woman. As an inheritance dispute fuels their conflict, unsettling details draw in those around them, and conflicting motives collide. The mystery deepens as the truth shifts again and again, leading the story toward an unpredictable conclusion.
Utsusemi no mori
2021
6.3Mashiro works for a law firm in Kagurazaka. It takes 2 hours for him to commute one way. Kyoko works at the counter in a real-estate agency in Yurakucho. It takes 2 1/2 hours for her to commute one way. They meet each other in a 'double-suicide room' in Nishi-Shinjuku on a pre-arranged day. They are in love and planning to die together.
Double Suicide Elegy
2005
2.2Yuki hasn't stepped out of her one-room apartment for five years now and the place is piling high with garbage and clutter. Keiji has a "hidden" camera set in her room connected to the internet 24 hours a day. He drops by to sleep with her in front of the camera, and to pay her for what he earns through Yuki's members-only website. All Yuki does is eat, sleep and watch TV. Then one day a counselor, sent by her mother, enters the room and tells her that watching TV all day will ruin her. He strikes up a deal with Yuki to make her take one step out of her room.
Kill Ugly TV
2007
2.2Yuki hasn't stepped out of her one-room apartment for five years now and the place is piling high with garbage and clutter. Keiji has a "hidden" camera set in her room connected to the internet 24 hours a day. He drops by to sleep with her in front of the camera, and to pay her for what he earns through Yuki's members-only website. All Yuki does is eat, sleep and watch TV. Then one day a counselor, sent by her mother, enters the room and tells her that watching TV all day will ruin her. He strikes up a deal with Yuki to make her take one step out of her room.
Kill Ugly TV
2007
3.3Mio is a woman who owns a funeral parlor in a small port town. After losing her husband, her libido suddenly awakens. A typhoon rips through the town. Not only does she provide funeral services for the grieving parties but also attends to their needs after the funeral.
Hectopascal: Sensual Call Girl
2009
5.0Kamei mixes humour, drama and, in this occasion, bits of horror to visualize the physical transformation in yôkai that the three main actresses undergo. Mihiro Iwasaki (Anri Ban) is a model extremely preoccupied by how others look at and think of her. Then, her nails start growing disproportionately until they become killing weapons. Michiko Yamane (Mariko Miyamitsu) is an unsociable university student and part-time worker in her early twenties only crazy for a hobby. At night she becomes a rokurokubi (female yokai with an extremely long and flexible neck). Finally, Mana Saeki (Haruki Ichikawa) is a last year junior high school student with a very bad character and very distrustful of all her friends, who metamorphoses into a nopperabo (yokai without face).
Woman Transformation
2007
5.0Kamei mixes humour, drama and, in this occasion, bits of horror to visualize the physical transformation in yôkai that the three main actresses undergo. Mihiro Iwasaki (Anri Ban) is a model extremely preoccupied by how others look at and think of her. Then, her nails start growing disproportionately until they become killing weapons. Michiko Yamane (Mariko Miyamitsu) is an unsociable university student and part-time worker in her early twenties only crazy for a hobby. At night she becomes a rokurokubi (female yokai with an extremely long and flexible neck). Finally, Mana Saeki (Haruki Ichikawa) is a last year junior high school student with a very bad character and very distrustful of all her friends, who metamorphoses into a nopperabo (yokai without face).
Woman Transformation
2007
NR4th installment in the "Mameshiba" series, adapted from the TV show. Jiro, who had successfully overcome his shut-in lifestyle but sought a life free from his mother's watchful eye, runs away from home with his beloved Mameshiba dog, Ichiro, and experiences various events in a seaside town.
Yôjû mameshiba the Movie: Bôkyô hen
2014
3.0A strange crossword puzzle starts circulating amongst Chiri's friends, and they soon begin getting murdered one by one in horrifying ways. At night, Chiri can seemingly view their deaths in her dreams, causing her to lose sleep. Depressed and confused, she wanders into an old orphanage where she spent her childhood and uncovers a long-forgotten link to her past that may help her unravel the mysterious and tragic events occurring around her.
The Last Coffin
2003
3.0A strange crossword puzzle starts circulating amongst Chiri's friends, and they soon begin getting murdered one by one in horrifying ways. At night, Chiri can seemingly view their deaths in her dreams, causing her to lose sleep. Depressed and confused, she wanders into an old orphanage where she spent her childhood and uncovers a long-forgotten link to her past that may help her unravel the mysterious and tragic events occurring around her.
The Last Coffin
2003
NRNo synopsis available yet.
QUESTION クエスチョン
2004
NRThe first volume of the action horror drama starring popular idol Minako Komukai.
Onmyō Girl: One
2005
NRNo synopsis available yet.
壇蜜と僕たち 〜映画「私の奴隷になりなさい」より〜
2012
6.0An unemployed middle-aged man, Shiba Jiro, who has been living at home for 38 years on his parents' back, breaks away from his NEET lifestyle through his mother's strategy. He works at a pet store and lives alone in an apartment with his partner, Ichiro Mameshiba, a dog.
Mameshiba Ichirô fûten no shibajirô
2013
8.0A little girl who is tortured by her parents follow the footstep of a serilal killer to run away from her reality.
Innocent Prayer
2016
NRAn anthology featuring short horror films directed by Toru Kamei and Minami Nagasaki. It includes "Possession", the story of Yuki who starts experiencing terrifying encounters with a female ghost after witnessing a suicide scene on her way to work, and "Bound Spirit", which portrays the horror faced by an office worker haunted by the spirit of her ex-boyfriend, who died by suicide years ago.
Hyōi
2005
NRAn omnibus film featuring short horror stories directed by Toru Kamei and Minami Nagasaki. It includes "The Devouring House", where a couple who buys a cheap, second-hand property begins experiencing strange phenomena, ultimately leading to the disappearance of the entire family. The second story "Psychic Vision" follows four men and women who meet through a suicide pact website and face terrifying experiences.
Kuu Ie
2005
NRThe hit series “Super Scary Stories,” which has been made into a film many times in Takeshobo's original horror collection, is now available as a TV drama. The series has recorded unprecedented viewer ratings for a late-night horror drama due to its overly realistic setting.
「Chō」Kowai Hanashi TV Kanzen-ban Episode 1
2006
NRHorrifying fragments of horror cut out of the darkness, a collection of gruesome J-horror short stories by five up-and-coming directors! Crazy women wander around the edge of the abyss.... An omnibus horror film about the darkness and nightmares of women.
Feast of Darkness
2016
4.2No synopsis available yet.
QUESTION
2004
