The House of the Lost on the Cape / Misaki no Mayoiga (2021)
Animation | Drama | Family | Fantasy
A 17-year old girl experiencing a sense of yearning and comfort in the traditional Japanese house "Mayoiga".
Starring: Mana Ashida, Takuya Tasso, Shinobu Ôtake, Sari Awano, Sally Amaki
Director: Shin'ya Kawatsura
Hell Dogs / Heru doggusu (2022)
Action | Crime | Drama
A traumatized former officer hell-bent on revenge receives an order to go undercover within the Yakuza by befriending their most frenetic member.
Starring: Jun'ichi Okada, Kentarô Sakaguchi, Mayu Matsuoka, Miyavi, Kazuki Kitamura, Shinobu Ôtake
Director: Masato Harada
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko / Nikuko Of The Fishing Harbor / Gyokou no Nikuko-chan (2021)
Animation | Comedy | Drama
The story of a mother and daughter and their lives aboard a boat in a fishing town.
Starring: Shinobu Ôtake, Cocomi, Natsuki Hanae, Hiro Shimono, Ikuji Nakamura, Riho Yoshioka
Director: Ayumu Watanabe
Flea-picking Samurai / Nomitori samurai (2018)
Comedy | Drama
Kobayashi Hironoshin is a samurai in the fiefdom of Nagaoka. Unfortunately for him and the area's fleas he displeases the local lord who orders him to immediately become busy ridding the local feline of any and all fleas. That is the bad news. The good news is it is all euphemism for some other occupation. That is good news, right?
Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Shinobu Terajima, Etsushi Toyokawa, Takumi Saitoh, Morio Kazama, Shinobu Ôtake, Atsuko Maeda, Bunshi Katsura Vi
Director: Yasuo Tsuruhashi
Black Widow Business / Gosaigyô no Onna (2016)
Comedy | Mystery | Thriller
Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and eventually marries her. Not longer after their marriage, Kozo Nakase suddenly collapses and dies. Kozo Nakase leaves everything to Sayako. The rest of his family are left out of his will including his daughter Tomomi. Tomomi hires a private investigator, Honda, to find out more about Sayoko. Meanwhile, Sayoko works with Toru Kashiwagi. Toru Kashiwagi is the director of the matchingmaking service. When older wealthy men register for the service, Sayoko charms the men until they eventually leave everything to her. Sayoko and Toru Kashiwagi always split the spoils 50/50. After Kozo Nakase's death, Sayoko begins attending the matchmaking meetings again. Kiharu Funayama becomes her next target, but Sayoko sincerely falls for Kiharu.
Starring: Shinobu Ôtake, Etsushi Toyokawa, Machiko Ono, Masatoshi Nagase, Tsurube Shôfukutei, Masahiko Tsugawa, Shunsuke Kazama, Kyoko Hasegawa, Asami Mizukawa, Kimiko Yo
Director: Yasuo Tsuruhashi
The Incident / Jiken (1978)
Drama
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old shipyard worker, is arrested and charged with the murder. At Ueda's trial, a complex story unfolds. "The Incident" is a study in unrestrained passion and jealousy.
Starring: Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinobu Ôtake, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Tsunehiko Watase
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura
The Railroader / Railroad Man / Poppoya (1999)
Drama
A solitary middle-aged station manager is haunted by troubling memories of his past when he learns the line his station is on will be decommissioned for lack of profitability. He is visited by a young woman, who mysteriously appears to cheer him up.
Starring: Ken Takakura, Shinobu Ôtake, Ryôko Hirosue, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Masanobu Andô, Ken Shimura, Tomoko Naraoka, Yoshiko Tanaka, Nenji Kobayashi
Director: Yasuo Furuhata
A Night in Nude: Salvation / Nûdo no yoru: Ai wa oshiminaku ubau (2010)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Jiro (Naoto Takenaka) is a man who can do anything for you for a price. Part odd jobs man and part private eye he takes on tasks as simple as clearing out storage lockers to tracking down lost items. That's what he's asked to do by a beautiful young woman (Hiroko Sato) who shows up at his warehouse living space one afternoon. This young woman asks Jiro to help her track down a lost Rolex watch that she says was accidentally thrown out of a helicopter while she was scattering the ashes of her late father. Jiro knows the story isn't true, but he needs the money so he and the young woman begin poking around miles of woodland in the proverbial search for a needle in a haystack. Miraculously Jiro finds the wrist watch, but it looks to be caked in rotting meat. Needy but not stupid Jiro hands the watch over to a sympathetic police woman he knows for analysis. Little does Jiro know that the discovery of this Rolex will lead to another case, one filled with violence, sex and danger, one that will lead him directly into the heart of darkness.
Starring: Naoto Takenaka, Hiroko Satô, Machiko Kochi, Harumi Inoue, Jô Shishido, Shinobu Ôtake
Director: Takashi Ishii
Welcome to the Quiet Room / Quiet room ni yôkoso (2007)
Drama
Asuka Sakura wakes up in the mental asylums quiet room, with no recollection of how she got there.
Starring: Yuki Uchida, Kankurô Kudô, Yû Aoi, Ryô, Yûko Nakamura, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Shinobu Ôtake
Director: Suzuki Matsuo
