Eiji Okuda

現代仁侠伝

Yasuo Furuhata

Eiji Okuda, Keiko Takahashi

白い野望

Masanobu Deme

Masao Kusakari, Yukiyo Toake

A story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a series of high risk surgical procedures.

汚い奴

Rokuro Mochizuki

Ryûji Harada, Tatsuo Yamada

Based on the manga by Satosumi Takaguchi.

おしん

Eiichi Yamamoto

Ayako Kobayashi, Pinko Izumi

Oshin comes from a family of poor rice farmers. Her father and brother must work in the fields and her grandmother and mother, who is expecting another child, barely have enough to eat. In order to make ends meet for her family, 7-year-old Oshin gives up school and decides to become a servant in the household of a wealthy family, where she faces trials and tribulation beyond her worst fears.

Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins

Keishi Ōtomo

Takeru Satoh, Emi Takei

In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.

Deep River

Kei Kumai

Kumiko Akiyoshi, Eiji Okuda

A group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India.

The Sea and Poison

Kei Kumai

Eiji Okuda, Ken Watanabe

Two interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity during the war: the vivisections of a downed American air crew.

でらしね

Shun Nakahara

Eiji Okuda, Asuka Kurosawa

A mysterious street-painter, Jouji, wanders aimlessly, homeless. Together with his homeless pals, he makes his living by selling his paintings on the street. His paintings, dynamically exploding on pieces of cardboard, catch the eyes of Kyoko, an art dealer. He can feel alive only if he keeps painting, but unable to find something to fill his void inside, he tries to drown himself in alcohol. Drawn to Jouji, Kyoko commissions him to paint for her. The two travel to a secluded mountain-side, and there Jouji becomes inspired both by the natural surroundings and Kyoko herself.

悪党

Masaki Nishiura

Hideaki Takizawa, Kie Kitano

A Long Walk

Eiji Okuda

Ken Ogata, Hana Sugiura

A lonely retired girl's High School Principal who's lost his wife to alcoholism moves to an old apartment in a country town. There he forms a relationship with a neglected little neighborhood girl.

a e i o u

Momoko Ando

Alan Shirahama, Akari Kinoshita

Momoko Ando's submission as part of the Uta Monogatari Cinema Fighters Project 2018

るにん

Eiji Okuda

Keiko Matsuzaka, Jinpachi Nezu

In 1838, the prisoners on Hachijo Island represent the furthest extreme of Japanese society. Instead of execution, they have been forced to eke out a dismal existence on the island, without help or support of any kind from those back on the main four islands.

洗骨

Gori

Ayame Misaki, Eiji Okuda

A visibly pregnant Yuko returns home to find her family still grappling with the recent passing of her mother, Emiko, while her father becomes increasingly withdrawn and her older brother hopelessly combative.

極道記者２　馬券転生篇

Rokuro Mochizuki

Eiji Okuda, Chikako Aoyama

The continuing adventures of Matsuzaki (Eiji Okuda), a racing tipster for a sports paper. In this sequel to 1993's The Wicked Reporter, Matsuzaki befriends a mysterious old bettor at the track named Tokudaiji (Kei Sato). The man turns out to be a well-connected millionaire and invites Matsuzaki to his home... While the sequel covers the familiar territory of gambling and gangsters, Mochizuki also attempts to tactfully approach such subjects as gender dysphoria, transvestism, and infidelity.

The Sea Is Watching

Kei Kumai

Misa Shimizu, Nagiko Tôno

O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the warnings of her fellow workers, particularly Kikuno and the brothel's owner, O-Shin falls in love with the samurai.

ペンギンズ・メモリー幸福物語

Shunji Kimura

Koichi Sato, 鶴ひろみ

Mike is a penguin soldier who returns home after being injured during combat. Estranged from his family and friends, he leaves his hometown and starts to roam adrift through the country.