Junichi Inoue

A human drama about the strange fate of the three brothers, played by Masatoshi Nagase, Joe Odagiri, and Nobuaki Kaneko, set in Nagoya.

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Yuri, who works for a company that specializes in collecting information for television programs, visits Akiruno city in Tokyo, where Itsukaichi-cho and Akikawa-shi merged at the request of the station, and it is now only fifteen years after the merger Start to find out how it changed. Yuri who started interviewing reluctantly, but continues to meet calm land pattern and people, and gradually begins to be interested.

When heads of state gather at the G8 summit in Japan, Guilala -- the intergalactic monster that had been banished from the earth in The X from Outer Space -- returns to ravage the Japanese countryside and threaten the world leaders. Military strikes prove futile against the beast, but a reporter learns that one rural community possesses a strange ritual that might influence the creature. Minoru Kawasaki directs this campy satire.

Toshio runs a small company, but at home, he is a selfish man who subjects his wife, Kyoka, to violence. He summons his subordinate, Masumoto, to their home to help with a move. Kyoka feels a certain affinity for Masumoto, sensing a resemblance between his timid nature and her own. Amidst this, a new female employee named Riko causes trouble, forcing Toshio to leave the house. Left with some unexpected free time, the two begin to talk, and Kyoka finds herself drawn to Masumoto—a man who is the polar opposite of her husband—but...

One of Japan's favorite sword stars, Fujita Makoto, returns as the legendary Tange Sazen, the one-eyed, one-armed samurai who is a champion for the common people. Unflappable, except with the ladies, he fights evil in Shogun Yoshimune's Edo. The kokezaru no tsubo (earless monkey jar) has gone missing with a secret hidden inside that could change the course of history. All of Edo's top swordsmen, including Yagyu Genzaburo and Ooka Echizen are involved as villains pursue their evil quest! Superb swordplay highlights this exciting all-star extravaganza!

Drama about the difficult relationship between a former wrestler, his wife and their adopted children.

A young boy learns he is part of a powerful race of psionic humans who must fight the normal humans determined to keep them from Earth.

A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo. The owner of the brothel has hopes to make her a great new addition which will attract the richest of customers. But after several months of training, she tries to flee Yoshiwara when the time has come for her to take her first customer...

The Moon Mask Rider is a tokusatsu movie produced by Purumie International/Herald Enterprises and distributed by Nippon Herald Pictures, was released theatrically on March 14, 1981. Considered Japan's answer to the American box-office fiasco, The Legend of the Lone Ranger (released the same year), this updated version of the Moonlight Mask legend bombed at the Japanese box-office. Daisuke Kuwahara (who, like Klinton Spilsbury , disappeared from doing films) plays George Owara (Moon Mask Rider's new alter-ego), and the rest of the cast made up of veteran action starlets: Sue Shihomi, Daijiro Harada and Takayuki Godai.

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The Story of the three Japanese castaways Otokichi, Kyukichi and Iwakichi. After their ship the Hojunmaru was damaged, they drifted to America and landed on the US-Westcoast in 1834. They had the wish to return to Japan, a long journey was awaiting them.

A doctor who died at a young age due to the metastasis of a malignant tumor to the lungs after cutting his right leg below the knee due to osteosarcoma. The title "Asuka" is the name of the eldest daughter, and "Unseen child" is the child whose wife was pregnant at the time of her death.

On a future Earth ruled by Emperor Darius, the crew members of the Nautilus Submarine fight bravely to win freedom from oppression.