Michio Kida

"Düşler" farklı hikayelerin anlatıldığı, birbirinden bağımsız sekiz kısa filmden oluşuyor. "Sunshine Through The Rain", ailesi tarafından dışarı çıkması yasaklanan bir çocuğun, toplum tarafından kutsal sayılan bir günde yaşadıklarını anlatıyor. "The Peach Orchard", insanoğlunun doğaya müdahelesinin yol açtığı sonuçları vurgularken, "The Blizzard"la bir dağda mahsur kalan insanların dramını perdeye yansıtıyor. "The Tunnel", ölümlerinden sorumlu olduğu ölü askerleri bir tünel çıkışında gören adamın dramını anlatıyor... "Crows", ünlü ressam Vincent Van Gogh'un yaşadığı bölgeye ve sanatına dair bir çalışma.. Güneşli bir yaz gününde yaşananları "Village of the Watermills" ile anlatan Kurosawa, son iki bölümde ("Mount Fuji in Red" ve "The Weeping Demon") nükleer tehlikenin insanlık üzerindeki etkilerini araştırıyor..

Akademi Ödüllü Akira Kurosawa (The Seven Samurai, Ran) kariyerinin en samimi draması'(Los Angeles Times) nı sunuyor. Görsel olarak muhteşem, dokunaklı ve enfes bir destan. Nagasaki'yi çevreleyen göz kamaştırıcı kırsal alanlarda yaşanan bu hikaye, bir zamanlar savaşla parçalanmış bir Japon Ailesinin Amerikalı kuzenleriyle (Richard Gere) karşılaşmaları sonrası kendi iç hesaplaşmaları. Nagasaki ailesinin yaşlı reisi Sachiko Murase uzun yıllar boyunca 2.Dünya Savaşı'ndan kalan korkularıyla yaşamıştır. Daha önce görmediği erkek kardeşinin ortaya çıkmasıyla, Amerika'ya karşı duyduğu hisler ve peşini bırakmayan geçmişiyle yüzleşmek zorunda kalır. Kardeşini ve ailesini görmeye gitmeyi reddetmesine rağmen oğlu Clark (Gere)'ın ziyarete gelişiyle Sachiko ve ailesi şaşırtıcı ve duygusal günler geçirirler. Bir affediş öyküsü olan Rapsody In August, 'görsel olarak görkemli' (The New York Times), 'zorlayıcı' (Boxoffice) ve 'dokunaklı ve muhteşem' (Time)!

Seven raccoons with supernatural powers sneak into a freight train, disguise themselves as humans, and head to Tokyo with the intention to create a band. They become superstars "Checkers" but their true identity will be revealed very soon.

A beautiful day Rokurou, a student, was to masturbate when a beautiful girl knocks on his door: You need a girl? And so begins the story. Rokurou did not know what it was that this beautiful girl was from a millionaire family.

After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an honest worker with a steady job.

The first of six "Otora-san" features.

From a true incident that happened in 1960's Japan. This drama is contemporary in setting but medieval in its characters and emotions as it focuses on a tangled web of murder and deceit encountered by a beautiful woman, Kayo after her abusive husband is murdered.

Set in Japan during the bubble era, this unique home comedy cheerfully and humorously depicts the daily life of a strange family that works together to accumulate a small amount of money, while mixing irony and satire.

Comedy based on a popular manga.

Untaro Tatsumura, a pioneer of the salaryman class, had retired from active duty and was living a leisurely life in Ito with his wife, while serving as an advisor to seven companies. However, when he announced that he intended to donate his estate to social welfare causes, the Tatsumura household was thrown into an uproar.

When the 'Lowly Ronin' helps an orphaned teenage girl avoid being turned into a prostitute, she then claims he is her father and they start a farm as father and daughter until fate steps in and he must draw his sword.

A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.

Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.

The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his granddaughter who brings him a letter from his disinherited and recently dead son. This brings back memories of his life with his wife and family following the attack on Pearl Harbor, in particular of his son who had gone off to join the war for the Americans.

Yumi worked at a small snack bar called Bacchus, tucked away in a corner of the city. Before long, she had gathered her own entourage—three men named Takeshi, Ken, and Toru. Convinced that the true essence of youth lay in taking risks, Yumi’s boyfriend, Takeshi, dreamed of taking the helm of a yacht and sailing off to unknown lands. Ken, a factory worker from a small-town workshop, fantasized about creating a guerrilla radio station that played nothing but the new rock sounds—the shared language of youth. Meanwhile, Toru, a college student who proudly styled himself as a revolutionary. The trio began saving money as if to make their dreams tangible. They entered an endurance contest but they were eliminated. With a goal of raising 3 million yen by the following summer, their prospects looked bleak. In the days that followed, each arrived at the same conclusion: they could exploit Yumi’s exceptional beauty and striking sexy physique by launching an alluring honey-trap scheme.

Comedy movie

Won Jury's Special Award at the Turin International Film Festival of Young Cinema 1993

A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these. Katsugoro Iseya was a timber dealer who had come in as a client. His target was the constructions magistrate Hanno, and the Tatsumiya who sipped on the benefits. Hanemon who had a stong code towards killing, where he would only kill those who do no good to be in the world, accepts this request. Baian Fujieda, a needle doctor would carry out the killing. However, the professional killer Baian fails to bring down Tatsumiya. Hanemon then looks to another shikakenin, the ronin Sanai Nishimura for the role. Although Sanai's ability with the sword is good, he lives poorly in a tenement, and accepts this commission on the condition that it is kept a secret from his wife and child. Here, they close in on Hanno and Tatsumiya again...

Advancements in science and the unchanging human psyche have given rise to new forms of terrifying crimes as the Science Research Institute (SRI) investigates various strange phenomena in Japan.