Atsuko Asano

陽暉楼

Hideo Gosha

Ken Ogata, Kimiko Ikegami

Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, it was home to over 200 geisha, however behind the fabulous facade, there were many battles - between family members, men and women, and with the Yakuza. Momokawa was sold to Yokiro at age 12, and despite being the top geisha, her many complicated relationships provide unending challenges throughout her glamorous but turbulent life.

高校大パニック

Gakuryû Ishii, Yukihiro Sawada

Shigeru Yamamoto, Miyoko Akaza

A parable about the inefficiency and anachronism of the Japanese educational system, which places an unusually large amount of importance on cramming for university entrance examinations, Panic High School is about the suicide of a high school student and its ensuing fallout at his school. When one of his classmates becomes frustrated with the math teacher's lack of sensitivity to the suicide, the student steals a rifle, returns to school, aerates the teacher's chest and then holds members of his class captive. This leads to an aggressive standoff with the police and lots of shots of his parents crying and bowing in shame, totally mortified.

Heaven and Earth

Haruki Kadokawa

Takaaki Enoki, Masahiko Tsugawa

Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. The two samurai leaders pursue one another across the countryside, engaging in massive battles of cavalry and infantry. Younger and less brutal, Kagetora must find the strength to be as brutal as his opponent, but at what cost?

みをつくし料理帖

Haruki Kadokawa

Honoka Matsumoto, Nao

When Mio was young, she lost her parents in a great flood and also became separated from her best friend Noe. Afterwards, Mio found her talent in cooking and eventually became a cook. Meanwhile, Noe has become an oiran (high-ranking courtesan).

薄化粧

Hideo Gosha

Ken Ogata, Atsuko Asano

When a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain whether he will ever escape the shadow of his heinous crimes--or the detectives hot on his trail.

ゴキブリたちの黄昏

Hiroaki Yoshida

Kaoru Kobayashi, Ichirôta Miyakawa

The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed and plenty of leftovers to munch on. In the midst of these high living times, Naomi and Ichiro plan to get married and start a family. But when a hard-bitten stranger roach named Hans appears with news of war with the humans across the lawn, it foretells disruption-not only of Naomi and Ichiro's relationship, but of the hive's entire way of life.

スローなブギにしてくれ

Toshiya Fujita

Atsuko Asano, Masato Furuoya

A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. The film follows their subsequent chaotic relationships.

姉妹坂

Nobuhiko Ōbayashi

Misako Konno, Yasuko Tomita

Four sisters with no consanguinity are living together since childhood. When facing misfortune and grievances in lives, they give support and encouragement to each other, even sacrifice oneself to help others.

さらば映画の友よ　インディアンサマー

Masato Harada

Takuzō Kawatani, Naohiko Shigeta

Set at the height of the Japanese student rebellion in 1968, the film tells the story of the friendship between two very different men—a fortyish film maniac who spends nearly all his time at the movies and a 19-year-old going through the final rites of passage from adolescence to adulthood.

またまたあぶない刑事

Haruo Ichikura

Kyohei Shibata, Hiroshi Tachi

Detectives Takayama and Oshita participate in a major drug bust which arouses suspicion that the government may be secretly involved.

さらば あぶない刑事

Tōru Murakawa

Hiroshi Tachi, Kyohei Shibata

あぶない刑事

Yasuharu Hasebe

Kyohei Shibata, Hiroshi Tachi

When a doctor is found dead and the company's exclusive data on a cancer drug is missing, detective Takayama and Oshita are called to the Nakamitsu pharmaceutical laboratory. However, a bungled attempt to catch the murderer leave Takayama and Oshita reassigned to the lackluster task of patrolling public bathrooms to keep them out of trouble.

あぶない刑事リターンズ

Tōru Murakawa

Kyohei Shibata, Hiroshi Tachi

Akanbo shôjo

Yudai Yamaguchi

Atsuko Asano, Etsuko Ikuta

A beautiful girl, Yōko, gets lost one night during an air raid and is taken in by an orphanage. Eventually, she is reunited with her own family and goes home to live with them. But there, an unexpected fate awaits her as she is subjected to horrific brutality from these people who are tortured by a past mistake.

あぶない刑事フォーエヴァー THE MOVIE

Yusuke Narita

Kyohei Shibata, Hiroshi Tachi

もっともあぶない刑事

Tōru Murakawa

Kyohei Shibata, Hiroshi Tachi

Taka and Yuji find evidence in a 15-year-old case, but the statute of limitations expires in four days and they're hunting illicit gun manufacturers.