Ken Nakamoto

友情 -Friendship-

Seiji Izumi

Mika Mifune, Toshirō Yanagiba

Fourteen-year old student Ayumi has leukemia and starts losing hair. She becomes depressed but receives overwhelming support from her classmates when they all shave their heads for her.

ライアの祈り

Hiroyuki Kurokawa

Anju Suzuki, Takashi Ukaji

Goro is an archeologist, fascinated with the national treasure Gassho clay figure and remains from the Jomon period. He meets a woman, Momoko who is timid with love. Momoko often has memories from ancient times and landscapes of the heart in her dreams. She tells Goro about her dream and their relationship deepens.

Barrabrava

Masaya Iseda

Shosuke Tanihara, Liz Solari

After vicious infighting, two brothers are expelled of their beloved team’s gang. Alone, without money or political protection, they start a war that puts their brotherhood to the test.

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles

Zhang Yimou

Ken Takakura, Shinobu Terajima

Takada, a Japanese fisherman has been estranged from his son for many years, but when the son is diagnosed with terminal cancer his daughter-in-law, Rie, summons him to the hospital. Through a series of obstacles and relationships, he is brought unexpectedly closer to both an understanding of himself and of his son.

松本清張ドラマスペシャル: 顔

Masaya Iseda

Shosuke Tanihara, Natsuki Harada

Based on a short story by Seichi Matsumoto from 1956 and remake from the 1957 movie of the same name, the story is about an actor who has the opportunity to become a success but 9 years earlier, he had killed a woman with whom he was involved and there was an eyewitness to the murder.

Free and Easy 5

Tomio Kuriyama

Toshiyuki Nishida, Rentaro Mikuni

Hama-chan shows up to work with his son on his back when his wife goes to her class reunion and his mother throws her back out.

鉄道員

Yasuo Furuhata

Ken Takakura, Ryoko Hirosue

A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a hotel, but he is emotionally unable to part with his career as a railroader. His life takes a turn when he meets a young woman with an interest in trains who resembles his daughter.

釣りバカ日誌

Tomio Kuriyama

Toshiyuki Nishida, Eri Ishida

Densuke Hamazaki is an office worker at Suzuki Construction and gets transferred to the main Tokyo office. After settling in to his surrounding along with his wife Eri, Densuke befriends an elderly man named Ichinosuke Suzuki. Ichinosuke is a lonely and old man who learns to enjoy life again through his friendship with Densuke. Meanwhile, Densuke is completely unaware that Ichinosuke is the boss of his construction company. The two men become friends through their shared passion for fishing.

釣りバカ日誌16 浜崎は今日もダメだった♪♪

Yûzô Asahara

Miyoko Asada, Jeremy Deschner

Hama-chan meets a friendly US soldier on a trip to Nagasaki with Su-san. Su-san returns to Tokyo and is informed that Hama-chan has gone missing.

釣りバカ日誌18 ハマちゃんスーさん瀬戸の約束

Yûzô Asahara

Toshiyuki Nishida, Miyoko Asada

Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up during his inaugural speech as the company chairman.

MAN-HOLE

Takayuki Suzui

Ken Yasuda, Asumi Miwa

ロケーション

Azuma Morisaki

Toshiyuki Nishida, Michiyo Ookusu

The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book The Location (Za Rokēshon), an illustrated 229-page document about the cameraman’s experiences with pink cast and crew on the sets of several films produced in the late 1970's.

男はつらいよ 花も嵐も寅次郎

Yoji Yamada

Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho

Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist Saburō, and attempts to play matchmaker between the two when they all return to Tokyo.

殿、利息でござる！

Yoshihiro Nakamura

Sadao Abe, Eita

Residents in a town have a hard time due to the land tax and forced labor. 9 people, including Juzaburo Kokutaya (Sadao Abe), worry about the future of their town. They then set up a plan to save the town. The plan is to lend large amounts of money to han (historical term for the estate of a warrior) and distribute the interest annually to the residents, but if they're caught they will lose their lives.

男はつらいよ　寅次郎真実一路

Yoji Yamada

Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho

Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife asks Tora-san to help find him, he falls in love with her, and secretly hopes the husband will not be found.

釣りバカ日誌9

Tomio Kuriyama

Toshiyuki Nishida, Miyoko Asada

Hama-chan’s sales department gets a new supervisor, a hard-working taskmaster that’s the very opposite of carefree, irresponsible Hama-chan. The veteran employee decides to find his boss, a divorced father, a new wife. The supervisor loves a bar hostess “mama-san,” but is unable to confess his true feelings until Hama-chan comes to his rescue.