Kaizo Hayashi

弥勒

Kaizô Hayashi

Masatoshi Nagase, Kaho Tsuchimura

Through philosophical and science themed imagination, Emile questions everything from his teenage years to adult life.

Figaro Story

Kaizô Hayashi, Claire Denis

Masako, Jim Stark

An anthology film centering around the worldwide adventures of the Nissan Figaro.

麻將

Edward Yang

Chang Chen, Virginie Ledoyen

Winston Chen, a prominent businessman, goes missing after racking up $100 million in debts to the Taipei underworld. Two enforcers sent to find him, and they track down his son, Red Fish, the leader of a street gang.

映画監督って何だ！

Shunya Ito

Kinji Fukasaku, Yoshiho Fukuoka

Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association

夢みるように眠りたい

Kaizô Hayashi

Fujiko Fukamizu, Moe Kamura

An aging silent film actress hires a private eye and his wacky but helpful assistant to track down her missing daughter, Bellflower. The two follow a succession of bizarre, obscure clues, until they track down the location of the kidnappers and the daughter.

刑務所の中

Yôichi Sai

Tsutomu Yamazaki, Теруюки Кагава

A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon their individuality.

二十世紀少年読本

Kaizô Hayashi

Hiroshi Mikami, Moe Kamura

Two brothers, Jinta and Wataru, are raised in a travelling circus. After an accident, Jinta decides to leave the circus and travels the countryside working as a con-man. After a run-in with a local gang of yakuza, he is invited to join their ranks, where he makes the mistake of falling for a boss's mistress. Wataru stays with the circus and works hard to regain its former glory

我が人生最悪の時

Kaizô Hayashi

Masatoshi Nagase, Shiro Sano

Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter named Yang and agrees to track down his missing brother. Through a series of double-crosses Hama gets embroiled in a gang war and a revenge plot between the two brothers

Hakuchi: The Innocent

Makoto Tezuka

Tadanobu Asano, Miyako Koda

In a future where World War II never ended, Japan is decimated by nightly bombings. The only building left standing is known as the Media Station, a broadcasting center responsible for all of Japan's entertainment.

遙かな時代の階段を

Kaizô Hayashi

Masatoshi Nagase, Kiyotaka Nanbara

Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. But when Lily, a beautiful stripper from out of Hama's past, returns to town, the fuse is lit on a criminal powder keg set to blow the lid off the Yokohama underworld.

罠

Kaizô Hayashi

Masatoshi Nagase, Yui Natsukawa

When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I want you to look for me," Hama is drawn into a string of bizarre serial murders that have Yokohama's police baffled and the city terrified.

海ほおずき

Kaizô Hayashi

Juro Kara, Yoshio Harada

Haida, once a famous private detective, is now down and out and running out of reasons to live. One day, while engaging in a group volunteer project to clean up a river, he loses what's left of his will to live and lets the water carry him away. He ends up rescuing a drowning man who alters his view of life totally. Soon he gets a job investigating the mysterious disappearance of a student who sent her mother a cryptic letter, "Wait a bit, Mother. I'm sending my breath. It will arrive soon."

アジアンビート2 シンガポール篇 ラブ・フロム・テマセク

Kaizô Hayashi

Masatoshi Nagase, Zoe Tay

ブラックキス

Makoto Tezuka

Reika Hashimoto, Kaori Kawamura

Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre murder occurs in the hotel across the street. The body was mutilated and repositioned into a lurid work of art. After this, a string of murders start happening all around the two girls, as if some crazed serial killer was following them. At the scene of each crime, the perpetrator leaves a black lip print, and is subsequently dubbed "The Black Kiss.

ZIPANG

Kaizô Hayashi

Masahiro Takashima, Narumi Yasuda

Jigoku-gokuraku-maru is a samurai on the run. One bounty hunter hoping to collect the sizeable reward is Teppo Oyuri, a comely lass who is an ace shot with her pearl-laden pistol. Before she can set her sights on Jigoku-gokuraku-maru, he is attacked by a hoard of sword-wielding thugs also hoping to collect the reward. He dispatches them with bloody aplomb. Later, Jigoku-gokuraku- maru and Teppo Oyuri -- who has fallen for the master swordsman in spite of herself -- ventures to Zipingu -- the Land of Gold -- in search of a magical gold sword.

The Code: Angou

Kaizô Hayashi

Kikunosuke Onoe, Izumi Inamori

For 60 years, the group of detectives known as "Detective Office 5" has raised the bar for detective work. The agents of Detective Office 5 are a group of stellar detectives lead by the genius code breaker Detective 507. When an unknown client enlists 507 to crack his most difficult programming code yet, the detective embarks for Shanghai where he crosses paths with a sniper, an informant, the head of the Blue-Dragon Mafia, and beautiful singer on the run, Meilan. As 507 stumbles deeper into a twisted quagmire of intrigue he discovers the sad truth behind the mystery.