Shô Igarashi

長州ファイブ

Shô Igarashi

Ryuhei Matsuda, Tetsuo Yamashita

Fictionalised account of the story of the he Chōshū Five (長州五傑 Chōshū Goketsu) who travelled to and studied in Britain in 1863 while Japan was still under sakoku (鎖国 "locked country").

Sawada

Shô Igarashi

A biographical film of Pulitzer Prize war photographer, K. Sawada.

Hanjiro

Shô Igarashi

Takaaki Enoki, Miho Shiraishi

Japanese history explodes across the screen in the life story of Hitokiri Nakamura Hanjiro, one of the great heroes of the Meiji Restoration. From his earliest beginnings as a country samurai raising sweet potatoes whose exceptional sword skills impressed Saigo...

地雷を踏んだらサヨウナラ

Shô Igarashi

Tadanobu Asano, Michiko Hada

A biographical film of war photographer, Taizo Ichinose.

Gantz

Shinsuke Sato

Kazunari Ninomiya, Kanata Hongo

After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth.

HAZAN

Shô Igarashi

Takaaki Enoki, Kaho Minami

Biopic of ceramic artist Hazan Itaya (1872-1963).

十字架

Shô Igarashi

Keisuke Koide, Yasuko Tomita

Shunsuke Fujii was a bullied middle school student. He took his own life. A letter left behind referred to his classmate Yu Sanada as a friend. Sayuri Nakagawa was a girl that Shunsuke liked. Her birthday is the same day as the day Shunsuke commited suicide. Shunsuke's father can not forgive Shunsuke’s classmates and his mother's life has been destroyed by his death. They have spent 20 years of their life carrying their own cross since Shunsuke Fujii's death.

みすゞ

Shô Igarashi

Misato Tanaka, Susumu Terajima

Tells the life story of Teru Kaneko, who was born and raised in a small coastal town. While working as a clerk in a book shop, Teru starts writing her own verses to get away from the worries of a disgraceful marriage. Under the pseudonym Misuzu, her works arrive to an important editor in Tokyo.

ちちり

Shô Igarashi, Shoji Kubota

Akiko Yasu

An omnibus film based on a single script by five individualistic directors (Hosono Tatsuoki, Igarashi Takumi, Sato Toshiki, Imaoka Shinji, and Kubota Shoji), featuring actors who participated in the acting workshop "Workshop@FAITH," and spinning five different short stories. Yoshiko, an aspiring novelist, has been submitting her works to various literary awards, but has been struggling to get any traction. Then one day, Yoshiko's boyfriend proposes to her and they decide to get married.

二宮金次郎

Shô Igarashi

Masashi Goda, Misato Tanaka

Ninomiya Kinjirou is a biopic follows the life of the eponymous character, an 18th century peasant boy who worked to rescue over 600 poor villages and hamlets from financial ruin by developing new economic policies.