Hirofumi Arai

A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World War II. During their research into his life, they get conflicting accounts from his former comrades about his character and how he joined his squadron.

Kokuhaku, Kanae Minato'nun romanından uyarlanan bir filmdir. Yuko Moriguchi bir lisede sınıf öğretmenidir. Üç yaşındaki kızı Manami havuzda boğulmuş olarak bulunur. Kızının kaza sonucu ölmediğini, öldürüldüğünü anlar. Öldüren iki kişi de ders verdiği sınıftadır. İsimlerini vermeden Öğrenci A ve Öğrenci B'nin kızını nasıl ve ne şekilde öldürdüklerini sınıfta anlatır. Japonya'da 14 yaşının altındaki insanlar sebep olduğu ölümlerden sorumlu tutulmamaktadır. Bundan dolayı onları polise teslim etmemiş ama intikamını çok farklı yollardan almayı planlamıştır...

Top model Lilico, having recently undergone multiple cosmetic surgeries, begins to experience troubling side effects. As she desperately tries to retain her perfect image, Lilico descends into a world of nightmares and makes those around her miserable.

Günün birinde nereden geldikleri belli olmayan solucan görünümlü uzaylılar yeryüzüne iner. İnsanların burun ve kulaklarından bedenlerine sızarak taşıyıcı bir bedene yerleşirler. Artık insan görünümlü bu parazitler insan ırkının arasında yaşamaya başlamıştır. Sıradan bir lise öğrencisi olan Shinichi Izumi (Shota Sometani) bir gün bu yaratıkların saldırısına uğrar. Yaratık beynini ele geçiremez ancak sağ eline yerleşip kontrolü ele alır. Izumi bu parazitlerin dünya etrafında işlenen sayısız cinayetin sorumlusu olduğunu düşünmekte ve gerçeği bildiği için de kendini sorumlu hissetmektedir. Bu arada Ryoko Tamiya (Eri Fukatsu) Izumi'nin gittiği okulda öğretmen olarak göreve başlar. O da bir parazit tarafından ele geçirilmiştir ve Izumi'yi gözlemlemek üzere gelmiştir. Film 1988-1995 arasında Hitoshi Iwaaki tarafından çizilen "Kiseiju" adlı mangadan uyarlanmıştır. Manganın 24 bölümden oluşan "Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu" adlı animesi de mevcuttur.

İnsanoğlu, insan taklidi yapabilen, insan eti yiyen parazitlerin saldırısı altındadır. Genç bir lise öğrencisi olan Şiniçi İzumi ile parazitlerden birinin bağı vardır ve diğerlerini durdurmak için ondan yardım ister.

In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.

Slacker Ichiko gets into a fight with her younger sister and begins to live on her own, working the late shift at a 100 yen shop. On her way home, she passes a gym and meets boxer Kano who trains there in silence...

News about the disappearance of panties is still being covered every day. Kyosuke still wears Aiko Completo's panties to battle evil. Meanwhile, Aiko has mixed emotions and decides to get her panties back. Kyosuke suffers from the loss of Aiko's panties and disappears, but his biggest enemy yet is about to materialise.

Hayal gücüyle izleyiciyi kendisine hayran bırakan yönetmen Takashi Miike bu kez derebeyinin kapısına gidip avlusunda onurlu bir intihar töreni yapmak için izin isteyen gizemli bir samurayın hikayesini anlatıyor. Derebeyi samuraya korkunç bir şekilde ölmek için gizli dürtülerle kendisine benzer bir istekte bulunan Motome isimli çaresiz genç bir askerin hikayesini anlatarak gözdağı veriyor. Bu tehditten korkmayan samuray kendi hikayesini anlatmaya başlıyor. Hikayesi kimsenin tahmin etmediği bir şekilde sonlanıyor.

As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West. What started as an internal strife in Outrage has now become a nationwide war in Outrage Beyond.

Edo döneminin sonlarıdır. Dünya ve Amanto adı verilen uzaylılar arasında bir savaş patlak vermiştir. Savaş sırasında pek çok samuray hayatlarını kaybetmiş ve savaşı Amanto'lar kazanmıştır. Hükümet artık Amanto'ların kontrolü altındadır ve Edo'yu istedikleri gibi yönetmektedirler. Ayrıca hükümet kılıç kullanımını da yasaklamıştır. Böylelikle artık samuraylara ihtiyaç yoktur. Sakata Gintoki, bu dönemde yaşayan eski bir samuraydır. Kagura adındaki Yato klanından bir kıza, Shinpachi adındaki gözlüklü bir çocukla ve Sadaharu adındaki kocaman köpekleri ile birlikte, Yorozuya adında bir dükkan işletmektedir. Yorozuyada her türlü işi ücret karşılışında yapıp kiralarını ödemeye çalışırlar. Bu grubun başına gelen bazen komik, bazen hüzünlü ve bazen de macera ve aksiyon dolu olayları ele alır. Bazen de Gintokinin eski savaş yoldaşlarından olan ve 'Kihetai' denen bir terör örgütünün lideri olan Takasugi ile mücadele ederler.

A young girl named Kiki must leave her home for a year to begin training in witchcraft. She leaves on her broom, but first says goodbye to her friends and family. Kiki then begins her new life with her trusted cat Jiji.

Jam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse.

A room in a fancy downtown apartment. The evening orgy kicks off with eight men and women meeting for the first time, including an unemployed guy who pays the 20,000 yen party fee with money from his parents, and a female college student whose run-of-the-mill appearance hides a voracious sexual appetite.

Two 14-year-olds from troubled, abusive homes come together sharing misery and pain. In the aftermath of an earthquake, the classmates learn how to survive while relying on one another for emotional and physical support.

A psychologically thrilling portrait of the severe dysfunction behind a family clinging to decorum and pride.

Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater, and rock music, and develop their project into a school road block. This plan however catches the attention of television stations and newspapers, and soon even the cops became involved in this teenage adventure.

To exact revenge, the Liar Game office is revived. The target is only one person: Shin'ichi Akiyama. Because of new heroine Shinomiya, Shin'ichi, who kept refusing to take part in the game, finds himself in the game. Along with Akiyama, there's 19 other players competing for the prize of two billion yen. Omega, who revived the game, plays the game at the Liar Game office with Alice. Alice sets up the game, chooses the players, and sets the traps.

Prosecutor Kohei Kuryu takes charge of a case with a foreign embassy possessing the key to solve the case. Due to the extraterritoriality involving the case, the investigation has not gone anywhere. A crisis then ensues. Kohei Kuryu and his office attempt to extract the truth behind the wall of the Neustrian Embassy.

Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.

Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants desperately to abandon his post… but his once-enviable position of power has a strange way of making him feel powerless.

Tsuneo (Satoshi Tsumabuki) bir mahjong salonunda yarı zamanlı olarak çalışıp, üniversite okuyan bir gençtir. Salonda gece müşteriler arasında bir sohbet esnasında gizemli bir yaşlı kadından söz edildiğini duyar. Her gün bir bebek arabasıyla civarda dolaşan yaşlı kadın, bu işi on yıldır devam ettirdiği için müşterilerin de merakını cezbetmektedir. Tsuneo sabah işyerinden ayrıldığı sırada, gece bahsi geçen yaşlı kadına ait bebek arabasının bir yokuştan aşağı yuvarlandığına şahit olur. Araba bir bariyere çarpıp durunca yolun yukarısından seslenen yaşlı kadını da farkeder ve bebek arabasındaki örtüleri kaldırınca içinde genç bir kızın oturduğuna şahit olur. Genç kız önce bıçakla kendini savunmaya çalışır, çünkü yokuştan yuvarlanmadan önce birileri onları rahatsız etmiştir. Sonrasından yaşlı kadın ve kötürüm olduğu anlaşılan genç kıza (Joze (Kumiko)) evlerine kadar eşlik eden Tsuneo kahvaltıya davet edilince kabul eder ve genç kızın hazırladığı kahvaltıyı çok lezzetli bulur.

Based on the true story of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada who has spent over 40 years incarcerated on death row. Iwao Hakamada was arrested for the June 10, 1966 murder of a family in Shizuoka . Iwao Hakamada has always insisted on his innocence and many others also believe Iwao Hakamada has been falsely accused ...

A group of friends from high school days reunite for once more time before one of them dies from cancer.

Narrates the events and cases encountered by Kaoru Utsumi, a rookie detective, and Manabu Yukawa, a university associate professor, while the two pair up to solve many mysterious cases.

Two transfer students, Takashi Mitsuhashi and Shinji Itō, tired of their boring normal life and unpopularity, decide to take their arrival at a new school as an opportunity to reinvent their image, and become delinquents. The duo set out on various misadventures to become the greatest delinquents in all Japan!

Enomoto Kei is a security "otaku" working for a security firm, devoted to improving the securities system on a daily basis. He is not an easy person to familiarize oneself with, always collected and calm, unapproachable, a maniac in Physics, Science, Architecture and profound in other basic theoretical foundation. He is certain and proud of the fact that there is no key which he cannot unlock. One day, Kei is asked to help reveal a mystery behind a locked room murderer. While he lacks any interest in solving the mystery, he is inevitably intrigued by the term, "Closed Doors" and decides to take on the position. He works side by side with Aoto Junko and Serizawa Gou, who are lawyers working at a major law firm. Junko is pure and forward, acting upon her instincts while Serizawa is a prideful elitist who sees time as money, and therefore, will not take on any job that is unprofitable. Possessing a vast amount of knowledge and acute insightfulness, Kei is able to unlock the closed doors and unravel the secrets leading to the solution. Never before has there been a drama focused solely on closed doors.

In the fictional town of Mahoro on the outskirts of Tokyo is Tada Benriken, a small business which does odd jobs. Its owner is the solemn and level-headed Tada Keisuke, and his unexpected guest, the easygoing but vague Gyoten Haruhiko, a former junior high school classmate who showed up one day and started to sponge on him. The two of them get on like oil and water, and yet are somehow inseparable. They receive queer, dubious incoming odd job requests which they accept, and what comes into view are the friendship between them as well as the backgrounds of their clients.

Tsukuda Kohei was once a researcher with the Aerospace and Science Exploration Agency and now runs Tsukuda Industries, a small factory which was left by his father. Although his relationship with his teenage daughter Rina is somewhat strained, business at Tsukuda Industries has gradually started to improve. But Tsukuda puts too much effort into his dream of developing a rocket engine and business declines little by little. One day, a major client suddenly declares that it is dropping Tsukuda Industries. Then, Tsukuda Industries gets sued by a big rival company, Nakashima Industries, for patent infringement. Tsukuda Industries’ reputation is hurt and financing from banks is also in a desperate situation. In the midst of this, Teikoku Heavy Industries, one of Japan’s leading corporations, offers to buy a patent which Tsukuda Industries possesses for 2 billion yen

Ieji Hisashi, a salaryman who works for a securities company, has a fuzzy memory of the recent five years because of an accident at his job posting. His wife of five years, Megumi and their 4-year-old son seem to wear masks. He can neither tell their facial expressions nor their emotions. He also struggles about his love for them. On the other hand, Ieji feels an attachment to his ex-wife, whom he divorced five years ago, and their daughter. What sort of days did he have in those five years which are a blank to him? Ieji sets out on a journey to find his past self with a mysterious bunch of 10 keys that he has. He becomes aware that he was a cold, career-minded man before the accident, and the persona that is gradually revealed is beyond the imagination of his present kindhearted self.

Saburo is a high school student good in sports, but not very good with his studies. One day, Saburo travels back in time and arrives in the Sengoku period of 1549. There, Saburo meets Nobunaga Oda who looks and sounds just like Saburo. Nobunaga Oda is the son of a warlord and magistrate of the lower Owari Province. Nobunaga Oda though is physically weak and he asks Saburo to take his place. Then, Saburo as Nobunaga Oda attempts to unify the country of Japan.

Haru Satonaka is the captain of an ice-hockey team, a star athlete who stakes everything on hockey but can only consider love as a game. Aki Murase is a woman who has been waiting for her lover who went abroad two years ago. These two persons start a relationship while frankly admitting to each other that it is only a love game. …The result is the unfolding of a drama of people with their respective pasts and with their pride as individuals.

Ryota, a timid salaryman who has difficulties fitting in at home and work has his average life changed after his estranged father falls ill. Along with his wife Sae and their only child Moe, he travels to his father's country town, where he begins to uncover his father's mysterious past spent searching for a mythical creature.

The murder of a young girl shocks a small Japanese village, and the victim's mother is distraught when the classmates her daughter was playing with all claim not to remember the identity of the killer. In her anger, she puts a curse on them.

In a residential area, a man is murdered by another man, who broke into his apartment. Sergeant Kizaki, who is working near the area, hears a gunshot and runs towards the apartment. Detective Oomura already is at the scene of the crime.

Moriyama plays a temp worker who has never had any luck with women. One day, he suddenly starts getting invitations from several beautiful women, and he finds himself confused about how to deal with this new experience of having a "moteki" (a period when one is very popular and attractive to others).

A monster was created from an incident that took place 100 years ago. He possesses super physical ability and can live forever. He yearns for humans and listens to the radio. He picks up things thrown away by other people. The monster dreams of living as a human. One day, he meets a young woman Tsugaru. He falls in love with her.

Shuji is a young teacher whose confidence and honesty has made him popular with the students. He is engaged to Natsumi, also a teacher at the same high school. At the morning of the new semester, Shuji wakes up with a hangover and no memory of the night before, and a strange young woman in his bed. He feels terrible about possibility of having cheated on his fiancée, but when it turns out the girl is a student in his class Shuji is wrecked with guilt. Things go from bad to worse when the girl, Hikari, makes it clear that she's in love with him and wants to break him and Natsumi apart. Shuji's honest nature makes him want to come clean to everyone about what has happened, but before he has the chance, the secret is out. As his life starts crumbling around him, Shuji still decides to try and save Hikari from herself.

The drama is based on a novel by Sato Shogo called ‘Minoue Banashi‘. Its story revolves around a bookstore clerk named Michiru who unexpectedly wins the 200,000,000 Yen (2.5 million USD) lottery. Consequently, she starts to get involved in unpredicted betrayals and murder.

Wrongfully imprisoned for 15 years despite his innocence, Dan Saimon manages to get out of his imprisonment at the risk of his own life, and makes a thrilling return as a fresh new character. This is a drama about a man, who, through his elaborate maneuvers and various clever entrapments fulfills his passionate revenge against those who stripped away all his glories. He seeks for the light that he had been striving for.

Taiyo no Kisetsu is a Japanese drama TV miniseries which first aired on July 7, 2002. It starred Hideaki Takizawa and was directed by Nobuhiro Doi. The program was a remake of an earlier film of the same name, released in 1956.

Sasaki Shinichi looks at his childhood friend Tanaka Yukino in court. Yukino is sentenced to death. She went to her ex-boyfriend’s apartment and caused his wife and child to burn to death. Shinichi knows his childhood friend and perceives that she is innocent. He wants to save Yukino and meets people who knew her including her sister and former classmates. ~~Based on the novel "Innocent Days" by Kazumasa Hayami.

Yosuke is a middle aged businessman who has a wife and two kids; wife is a teacher, his son a job-hunting student, and his daughter has a good job. His family is looking forward to buying a new house as Yosuke is about to be promoted soon. But one day, he is forced to leave the company because of a gossip con set up by his colleague! He loses his job but he cannot tell that to his family. At the same time his wife and daughter are also facing problems at their work, both thinking to quit because dad’s job is secured. When they find out dad left the company, can they support him or...?

Detective Ryouta Udagawa searches for former colleague and rival Kazuhiko Soga who went missing after suddenly being dismissed from the police force. Kazuhiko Soga then became the prime suspect in a murder case. Ryouta Udagawa, already worried over the well being of Kazuhiko Soga, begins to have doubts about the murder case and the integrity of the police department itself.

Hiroshi is now 30-years-old and lethargic, but Pyonkichi, the frog imprinted on his shirt, is always energetic. Sometimes Hiroshi does not wear t-shirts with Pyonkichi, but Pyonkichi always encourages Hiroshi.