Inu-oh / Dog King (2021)
Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Music | Musical
A cursed dancer and a musician stun society with electrifying concerts in this animated rock opera.
Starring: Avu-chan, Mirai Moriyama, Tasuku Emoto, Kenjirô Tsuda, Yutaka Matsushige
Director: Masaaki Yuasa
Tsuyukusa (2022)
Drama | Romance
A woman who believes herself to have had an unusual stroke of luck forms a relationship with a man who failed to stop his wife from killing herself.
Starring: Satomi Kobayashi, Yutaka Matsushige, Kami Hiraiwa, Taiyô Saitô, Noriko Eguchi
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama
The Confidence Man JP: Hero / Konfidensu man JP eiyū-hen (2022)
Drama
Dako, Boku-chan, and Richard commit their next con on Malta Island.
Starring: Masami Nagasawa, Masahiro Higashide, Shinya Kote, Fumiyo Kohinata, Yutaka Matsushige, Kôji Seto
Director: Ryô Tanaka
What Happened to Our Nest Egg!? / I Don't Have Any Money Left in My Retirement Account / Rogo no Shikin ga Arimasen (2021)
Family
Atsuko and Akira are a husband and wife duo with a daughter and a son. Atsuko is in charge of the retirement finances. She saves from money given to her by her husband and also earns money herself by working part-time. She stretches every yen by leading a frugal life. yet, expenses come up. These include their daughter's upcoming wedding and the funeral expenses of the husband's father. Then, and at exactly the worst time, the couple finds itself unemployed.
Starring: Yûki Amami, Mitsuko Kusabue, Yutaka Matsushige, Yua Shinkawa, Toshiki Seto, Ryô Katô
Director: Tetsu Maeda
The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood (2021)
Drama
In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actor who get involved in misadventures while on set.
Starring: Tomorô Taguchi, Yutaka Matsushige, Ken Mitsuishi, Ken'ichi Endô, Gaku Hamada, Nanao
Director: Daigo Matsui
The Voice of Sin / The Voice in the Crime / Tsumi no Koe (2020)
Drama | Family
A newspaper reporter is working on an investigative piece regarding an unsolved mystery dating back thirty years. there was gangsterism and extortion at play. As part of his work the man comes across a riddle of a cassette tape. Alsmost at the same time a man in Kyoto comes across a cassette among his father's belongings. He hears himself.
Starring: Shun Oguri, Gen Hoshino, Yutaka Matsushige, Kanji Furutachi, Shôhei Uno, Yukiko Shinohara, Nanoka Hara
Director: Nobuhiro Doi
Samurai Shifters / Long Journey / Hikkoshi daimyô! (2019)
Comedy | History
The noble Katagiri Harunosuke is both a warrior and a scholar. He is a samurai in the employment of his lord or Daimyo and also a bookworm. His newest and somewhat surprising task is to lead the effort to relocate the lord of the land. He employs and receives assistant from Takamura and Oran to accomplish the task with care and sensitivity.
Starring: Gen Hoshino, Issey Takahashi, Mitsuki Takahata, Mitsuhiro Oikawa, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Gaku Hamada, Yutaka Matsushige, Masahiko Nishimura
Director: Isshin Inudô
This Old Road: Konomichi / Konomichi (2019)
Drama | Music
Hakushu Kitahara is a genius poet and lives his life with reckless abandon. He often drinks excessively and has affairs with married women. Meanwhile, Kosaku Yamada is a hard working musician. They are asked by Miekichi Suzuki, who runs a magazine on children literature, to write children's songs together. Even though these two men have totally different personalities and argue frequently, they are able to make lots of songs to cheer up the children. They are then ordered to write a war song to send children into the battlefield.
Starring: Nao Ohmori, Akira, Shihori Kanjiya, Wakana Matsumoto, Fujiko Kojima, Shingo Yanagisawa, Michiko Hada, Yutaka Matsushige
Director: Kiyoshi Sasabe
Love at Least / Ikiterudakede ai (2018)
Romance
Yasuko is a hikikomori and has hypersomnia which means she has trouble staying awake during the day. She lives with her boyfriend Tsunagi, who works in the editorial department at a magazine. Her frustration grows, because she can't control her emotions and her boyfriend seems indifferent to her. One day, Tsunagi's ex-girlfriend Ando appears. She schemes to break up the couple.
Starring: Shuri, Masaki Suda, Riisa Naka, Naomi Nishida, Yutaka Matsushige, Shizuka Ishibashi, Tetsushi Tanaka, Lisa Oda
Director: Kôsai Sekine
Killing for the Prosecution / Kensatsu gawa no zainin (2018)
Mystery
Mogami Takeshi works at the Tokyo prosecutor's office focusing on violent criminal cases. Okino Keiichiro admires him and is happy to be assigned to work with Mogami. When a money lender is killed for his dealings with the deceased one Matsukura Shigeo is considered a suspect. He has a past involving a schoolgirl and the prosecutors strive to make the case.
Starring: Takuya Kimura, Kazunari Ninomiya, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Takehiro Hira, Yutaka Matsushige, Kôji Ohkura, Norito Yashima, Takuma Otoo
Director: Masato Harada
Dynamite Graffiti / Suteki na dainamaito sukyandaru (2018)
Drama
When Akira Suei was little, his mother had an affair with a young man who lived next door. Akira's mother and the young man killed themselves by using dynamite. After Akira graduated from high school, he worked at a factory before quitting his job. He then went to Tokyo and began working in the erotic magazine industry. Akira eventually became the chief editor of a famous erotic magazine in the 1980's.
Starring: Tasuku Emoto, Atsuko Maeda, Tôko Miura, Kazunobu Mineta, Yutaka Matsushige
Director: Masanori Tominaga
Outrage Coda / Outrage: Final Chapter / Autoreiji Saishusho (2017)
Action | Crime | Drama
Five years after surviving the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo now works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a renowned fixer whose influence extends into Japan. A relatively minor incident causes tensions to rise between Chang Enterprises and the faraway powerful Hanabishi. The growing conflict gets out of hand and ignites a ferocious power struggle among the top echelons of the Hanabishi. When eventually Chang's life is endangered, devoted yakuza Otomo returns to Japan to settle things once and for all.
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Toshiyuki Nishida, Tatsuo Nadaka, Ken Mitsuishi, Hakuryû, Ikuji Nakamura, Sansei Shiomi, Yutaka Matsushige, Kanji Tsuda, Ren Osugi
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Monsterz (2014)
Drama | Sci-Fi
A battle between a man who can control people with a stare, and the only man he cannot control. When their fate cross, the survival battle begins. The two men with inevitable fate, who will survive ?
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takayuki Yamada, Satomi Ishihara, Tomorô Taguchi, Motoki Ochiai, Taiga, Masaki Miura, Mina Fujii, Yutaka Matsushige, Tae Kimura
Director: Hideo Nakata
Lost and Found / Hoshigaoka wadârando (2016)
Drama | Mystery
Atsuto was abandoned by his mother (Yoshino Kimura) when he was young. He now works in the lost and found department at the Hoshigaoka Station. He spends his days imagining about the owner of the lost item, how the item became lost and found. One day, Atsuto learns that his mother committed suicide. His life begins to move…
Starring: Tomoya Nakamura, Hirofumi Arai, Nozomi Sasaki, Masaki Suda, Anne Watanabe, Hayato Ichihara, Yoshino Kimura, Yutaka Matsushige
Director: Show Yanagisawa
Miss Hokusai / Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai (2015)
Animation | Biography | Drama
An adaptation of Hinako Sugiura’s cult manga, a beautiful story revolving around O-Ei, daughter of master painter Hokusai. The director of the exquisite "Colorful" created this portrayal of a family and an age, the era of the city of Edo during the early 19th century. And it also fulfills a major challenge with flying colors: to turn the pictures by the author of "The Great Wave of Kanagawa" into animated images.
Starring: Kumiko Asô, Gaku Hamada, Kengo Kôra, Yutaka Matsushige
Director: Keiichi Hara
Late Blooming Sunflower ~My Life, Renewal~ / Osozaki no Himawari ~Boku no Jinsei, Renewal~ (2012) (TV Mini-Series)
Drama
"Late blooming Sunflower –My life renewed-" is a story of 7 young adults living their ordinary days near the Shimanto river of Kochi prefecture, renowned as the last of the crystal clear streams. Somewhat nostalgic, somewhat new, they hold on to their dreams and insecurities. It's a true-to-life portrayal of the days in young adulthood. Kodaira Jotaro, the main character, played by Ikuta, is an easy going, slow starter who spends a rather relaxing time at a private college before graduating to work at a company as a contract employee. He leads a so-so life with moderate satisfaction and moderate uneasiness, like any other young man of the modern times. Later, his character and honest ways are acknowledged by the company and he is planned to become a full-time employee when suddenly things take a complete turn. He is not only laid off, but left behind by his girlfriend who he dated for over 7 years.
Starring: Tôma Ikuta, Yôko Maki, Kenta Kiritani, Yû Kashii, Tasuku Emoto, Fumino Kimura, Ryôko Kuninaka, Yutaka Matsushige
Creator: Atsuko Hashibe
Real: A Perfect Day for Plesiosaur / Real / Riaru: Kanzen naru kubinagaryû no hi (2013)
Drama | Sci-Fi
Koichi (Sato) and Atsumi (Ayase) are childhood friends who have become lovers. Despite this closeness when Atsumi attempts suicide Koichi is at a loss to understand the circumstances that drove her to do such a thing. Now she is in a coma and Koichi needs to find out the reason. Since Koichi is a neurosurgeon he has access to the latest studies and so he takes part in a medical procedure that will allow him to enter Atsumi's subconscious. Through 'sensing', a type of neurosurgical procedure allowing contact with the intentional aspect of a comatose patient's mind, Koichi tries to discover why Atsumi tried to kill herself, and to bring her back to consciousness. When he enters her mind she asks him to find a picture which she drew as a child. It is the key to a suppressed memory connected to a childhood trauma, an incident buried in their past which will bring their minds together and allow him to get close to truly knowing his love.
Starring: Takeru Satô, Haruka Ayase, Miki Nakatani, Jô Odagiri, Shôta Sometani, Keisuke Horibe, Yutaka Matsushige, Kyôko Koizumi
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Kodoku no gurume / Kodoku no Gourmet / Lonely Gourmet (TV Series 2012- )
Drama
The story follows a man named Inogashira Goro (played by Matsushige), who privately runs an imported dry goods business. In his spare time between work, he visits various shops and tastes their cuisine. One of the highlights of the manga is that the shops that appear in it are all real shops geared towards a general public. The drama will preserve the spirit of the manga, in which the solitary protagonist speaks very little and the focus is on his character as he eats various dishes.
Starring: Yutaka Matsushige, Tomoki Uekusa,Masayuki Kusumi
Creator: Yoshihiro Taguchi
Shinya shokudô (TV Series 2009- )
Drama
Set in a small restaurant in the corner of a shopping district. The unusual eatery is only open after midnight, and its standard menu consists of just a single choice. However, the customers still come for the amusing chatter and the proprietor's willingness to cook any dish that they request. This drama depicts the lives of the restaurant's patrons, including a yakuza, an unsuccessful actor, a group of office ladies, a newspaper delivery boy, and a stripper.
Starring: Kaoru Kobayashi, Yutaka Matsushige, Yûko Genkaku, Ken Mitsuishi, Narumi Yasuda
Creator: Yarô Abe
Shinya shokudô (TV Series 2009- )
Drama
Set in a small restaurant in the corner of a shopping district. The unusual eatery is only open after midnight, and its standard menu consists of just a single choice. However, the customers still come for the amusing chatter and the proprietor's willingness to cook any dish that they request. This drama depicts the lives of the restaurant's patrons, including a yakuza, an unsuccessful actor, a group of office ladies, a newspaper delivery boy, and a stripper.
Starring: Kaoru Kobayashi, Yutaka Matsushige, Yûko Genkaku, Ken Mitsuishi, Narumi Yasuda
Creator: Yarô Abe
