Eiji Okada

Böceklerle ilgili araştırmalar yapan bir etimoloğun yolu çöle düşer. Çölde büyük kum tepeleri ve çukurları vardır. Adamımız bir geceliğine köylüler tarafından çukurdaki bir evde misafir edilir. Evdeki yalnız, genç kadın basit bir hayat yaşamakta ve geceleri nemlenen kumu kürekle kovalara doldurup, yukarıya yollamaktadır. Ertesi gün adamımız çukurdaki evi terkedip işine koyulmak ister, ancak aşağıya inmekte kullandığı ip merdiven ortada yoktur... Etimolog birkaç panik ataktan sonra, çukurdan dışarı çıkmak için kafayı çalıştırmaya başlar... * Bu basit yüzeyin altında, bir çeşit sisyphos masalıdır bu film. Hayat, aile, varoluş, konformizm düşündürdükçe düşündürür insanı * Japon edebiyatının usta yazarı Kobo Abe'nin -Kafka, Sartre, Camus, Beckett gibi yazarların eserleriyle kıyaslanan ve dünya çapında tanınmasını sağlayan- muhteşem romanından uyarlanan eşsiz sinema eseri * bittiği an sakat kalmayan var mı merak ediyorum

Yıl 1959. Hiroşima’ya atılan bombanın ardından barışla ilgili çekilen bir filmde oynayan Emmanuelle Riva , Hiroşima’da kalan son iki gecesini Eiji Okada ile geçirir. İkisinin mutlu birer evlilikleri olmasına rağmen birbirlerine aşık olurlar. Eiji, Emmanuelle’nin kısa zaman içinde ülkesi olan Fransa'ya döneceğini öğrenince, Hiroşima’da onunla kalması için uğraşır. Bu esnada Emanuelle, İkinci Dünya Savaşı’nda Alman bir asker olan ilk aşkını hatırlar.

İlgi çekici, iyi oyunculuklarla öne çıkan, Amerikan yapımı bir Japon gangster filmi. Robert Mitchum, yakuza tarafından kaçırılan Amerikalı bir kızı kurtarmak üzere Japonya’ya giden özel dedektif rolünde, efsanevi Japon yıldız Ken Takakura ona yardım eden eski bir gangster. Kishi Keiko ise Mitchum’un İkinci Dünya Savaşı sonunda Japonya’da görevliyken bir aşk yaşadığı ve şimdi tekrar karşılaştığı kadın. Paul Schrader’in, kardeşi Leonard’ın bir hikâyesinden sinemaya uyarladığı Yakuza, Japon tür sineması geleneklerinin Amerikan seyircisine tanıtımı açısından kayda değer bir girişim. Halâ geçmişin değerleri ile yaşayan ve kapitalist Japonya’da var olmaya çalışan modası geçmis¸ bir yakuza olan Ken karakteri (kardeşi ona “yalnız kurt” diyor), eski ritüel ve geleneklerle çağdas¸ değerleri, ilgi çeken bir biçimde karşılaştırma imkanı sunuyor.

Remake of Akira Kurosawa's films "Sanshiro Sugata and "Sanshiro Sugata Part II". A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His teacher, Shogoro Yano, is a devout man who has aroused the enmity of the local practitioners of jujitsu, the older and more accepted of the two sports. Sugata uses his newly learned prowess to gain a measure of respect from others; however, Shogoro insists that the sport has a spiritual side, a lesson Sugata has yet to learn. Eventually, in hand-to-hand combat with the father of a young woman he loves, he comes to understand the true meaning of judo.

Bir kaza sonucu yüzü tanınamayacak ve hatta korkulacak kadar yanan karakterin toplum içerisine çıkabilmesi için özel bir maske geliştirilir. Ancak bu maske karakterin kişiliğinde hareketlenmelere neden olacaktır * Yüz ruha açılan bir kapı. Yüz kapandığında ruh da kapanıyor. İçeri kimse giremez oluyor. Ruh çürümeye terk ediliyor, bozulup harabeye dönüşüyor.

Japonya karışık bir dönemdedir. Yuki'nin babası öğretmen olarak bi köy veya kasabaya gelir o kasaba veya köyün yerel çetesi tarafında babası katledilir, annesi ise tecavüze uğrar annesi bu yerel çetenin bir elemanını öldürür ve böylece hapishaneye düşer orada intikamını almak için önüne gelen erkekle yatar intikamını bu doğan çocuğun almasını sağlamaktır amacı intikam gözünü kör etmiştir yani bi bakıma aynı zamanda böylece bir kız çocuğu doğurur bu kız çocuğunu doğurduktan bi süre sonra ölür kız hapisten çıkar ve budist bi rahip tarafından yetiştirilir her türlü dövüş tekniğini öğrenerek tabii sonra ailesini katillerinin peşine düşer filmin konusu budur. Salt intikam duygularını dayanan bir film çünkü intikam için doğmuştur Yuki ve bunu başarmalıdır.

An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war threatens a tense peace. Despite his knowledge, once he's there, MacWhite sees only a dichotomy between the U.S. and Communism. He can't accept that anti-American sentiment might be a longing for self-determination and nationalism. So, he breaks from his friend Deong, a local opposition leader, ignores a foreman's advice about slowing the building of a road, and tries to muscle ahead. What price must the country and his friends pay for him to get some sense?

A working class young man, Tetsuo, who distrusts all rich people, falls in love with a girl, Chika, from an affluent family. He has a difficult time, but love survives despite the problems.

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica.

In 17th-century Japan, two Portuguese Jesuit priests seek their mentor, who is rumoured to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.

Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.

A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.

Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to complete his assignment.

A man and a woman drift ashore after a typhoon. The man, dead, is an escaped perpetrator, and the woman, alive, is a hairdresser Masako. A detective in charge of an embezzlement case is tracking the whereabouts of disappeared money and suspects Masako. One year later, a real estate company president dies a suspicious death in front of Masako at her beauty salon. Was it an accidents or murder?

Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave Tokyo, despite his wishes, and the two live separately. Feeling lonely and neglected by her husband, she immerses herself in the depraved life of the city and continues to have a loveless relationship with a doctor, Katsumori. One day, Narumi arrives in Tokyo and learns of Noriko's affair, but he cannot divorce her for the sake of their child, so he devotes himself to his work.

The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromising father) are opposed to women (victims of men) as embodiment of salvation.

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a figure of speech — (essentially “last minute” or “eleventh hour”) — that refers to a situation of peril. The film boasts a script co-written by Uchida and Akira Kurosawa’s frequent screenwriter, Shinobu Hashimoto, and stars Kurosawa’s frequent star Takashi Shimura.

The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. As they near the red planet, they encounter a mysterious UFO that coats the ship's hull with unusual spores. Taking one of the specimens back to earth, it soon develops and grows into a giant chicken-lizard-alien monster that tramples Japan.

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel crosses an earthquake fault and Kitagawa is beleaguered not only by cave-ins and flooding, but by strife between management and the workers's union. Adding to Kitagawa's stress is the knowledge that as his attention is pulled inexorably toward the tunnel construction, his youngest daughter is dying from leukemia.

Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are especially fans of Nakadai will appreciate how the actor comically rants about here. His home life is almost disastrous, with a ditzy (but attractive) wife, three young children, a loud school nearby that’s controlled by a corrupt businessman he loathes, and frequent visits from layabout friends. And the grey-furred, green-eyed cat!

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world when her grandmother dies.

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

When a former artisan is tricked into putting his sister up as collateral for a loan by a gangster boss in a crooked gambling casino it sets in motion the story of Ooka Echizen, the famed magistrate of Edo during the reign of Shogun Tsuneyoshi. In a world where humans bow down to dogs and are beheaded for harming them, it's a wonder people can survive at all. Nakamura Kinnosuke is a former samurai who has left the fold to live freely and must put his life on the line to save the girl he loves, and rescue her from the yakuza who duped her brother. When the truth comes out about his background, he is forced to take on the role of Edo Magistrate, a decision that brings him unimaginable heartache and danger!

Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil painter. When a series of hardships befall her family, she finds herself unable to confide in her husband, and the pain she carries within begins to weigh heavily on her sanity...

Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates reformed criminals as informants to solve difficult crimes.

TV series starring Ikko Furuya, based on the Kosuke Kindaichi mystery novel series by Seishi Yokomizo.