Chieko Baisho

Sıradan bir genç kız olan Sophie şeytani bir cadı tarafından büyüyle doksan yaşında bir kadına dönüşür. Sophie artık fazlasıyla yaşlanmış ve çevresi tarafından tanınmaz bir görünüme bürünmüştür. Bu yüzden büyük bir umutsuzluğa kapılan ve yaşadığı yeri terk etmek zorunda kalan Sophie, Howl isimli yürüyen bir şatoda yaşayan bir büyücünün yanına yerleşir. Bu şatoda yaşayan cinlerden biri de Sophie ile aynı kaderi paylaşmaktadır. Aynı amaç etrafında buluşan ikili kendilerine yapılan kara büyünün etkisini yok etmeye çalışacaklardır. Bu sırada şatonun dışında patlak veren savaş ülkenin birlik ve beraberliğini tehdit etmektedir. İkili artık hem kendileri için hem de ülkeleri için canları pahasına savaşmak zorunda kalacaktır.

Lise öğrencisi Hodaka Morishima, izole bir adada bulunan evini terk edip Tokyo'ya yerleşir ama çok geçmeden buna pişman olur. Günlerini herkesten soyutlanarak geçiren Hodaka, nihayet gizemli bir dergide yazarlık yapmaya başlar. İşine başladıktan sonra, hava günden güne giderek daha yağışlı bir hal alır. Kalabalık ve yoğun şehrin bir köşesinde, Hodaka, küçük kardeşi ile birlikte yaşayan, ancak neşeli ve azimli bir yaşam süren Hina Amano adında genç bir kadınla tanışır. Hina'nın bir yeteneği bulunmaktadır: Yağmuru durdurma ve gökyüzünü temizleme gücü.

Satın aldığı yeni arabasıyla hayal ettiği Hokkaido'yu gezen Kinya, tek başına seyahat eden Akemi ile tanıştıktan sonra yolculuğa beraber devam ederlerken, tesadüfen orta yaşlı bir adam olan Yusaku ile tanışır ve seyahate üçü birlikte devam etmeye başlarlar. Kinya, Yusaku'ya nereye gideceğini sorduğunda sadece “Yubari” yanıtını alır. Daha sonra Yusaku'nun cinayet işlediğini ve 6 yıl kaldığı cezaevinden yeni çıktığını öğrenince Kinya ve Akemi şaşkına dönerler. Üstelik Yusaku, cezaevinden salıverildiği gün karısına bir mektup yazdığını onlara açıklar… * Japon Akademi En İyi Film Ödülü başta olmak üzere toplam 8 dalda ödül almıştır.

One day, taxi driver Koji Usami is tasked with driving 85-year-old Sumire Takano from Shibamata, Tokyo to a senior care facility in Hayama, Kanagawa. Sumire asks Koji to make some detours. Gradually opening up to her, Sumire begins to tell the story of her grand past...

In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a young Filipino laborer face choices of life and death.

A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.

Tezuka Osamu's most famous work "Jungle Emperor Leo" has been made into an animated version a number of times. In this theater version, Tezuka Osamu was able for the first time to depict the theme that "All life is equal" through Leo's self-sacrifice.

Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which the old lady has recorded her memories. This is how he learns the truth about her youth working as a housemaid and nanny for the Hirai family in a little house in Tokyo with a red gabled roof.

When Unico, a young unicorn, is banished from his family by a pantheon of manipulative gods, his powers of joy and happiness are tested as he explores the lands with his friends Beezle and Katy.

Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata.

A drama centered on women, adapted from the novel of the same name by Ineko Sata.

The 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the series. The adult Mitsuo, Tora-san’s nephew, who runs into Izumi, his first love, whom he had once promised to marry. The familiar faces of Kurumaya Cafe, which Tora-san’s family ran in Shibamata, also return. Catching up with old friends, it is always their dearest memories of Tora-san which everyone shares on such occasions…

When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her two daughters with the support of Shigeru's sister Hisako and Shigeru's ex-student Yamazaki, but her husband does not return. WWII breaks out and casts dark shadows on the entire country, but Kayo still tries to keep her cheerful determination, and sustain the family with her love. This is an emotional drama of a mother and an eternal message for peace.

Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly at a marriage meeting.

A young surgeon and a nurse working at a hospital fall in love, but numerous trials stand in their way.

Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter of the clan's chief counselor who married the low-ranking Ihei to avoid becoming the clan lord's mistress. Into the mix comes Oba Gunjuro (Tetsurō Tamba), a mysterious ronin who will do anything for money. This leads to a fitting climax as the forces of hate and love converge while the couple attempt to break through the border!

Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the son of a kimono wholesaler. Her husband just tried to play with her like a sweet candy, but Taka fell in love with him. One day, the father-in-law suddenly dies, and the Kawashima-ya family fortune is rapidly changing. However, the depravity of Kichisaburo does not subside...

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.

A blind master swordsman attempts to lead a quiet life with his wife but he is provoked back into battle.

Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and she is given a part as a bit player. After the studio's top leading lady is embroiled in a scandal, Koharu is suddenly thrust into the limelight when she replaces her in a film and gains instant fame and fortune. But the going is not always easy, and she soon seeks help from unexpected quarters.

The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival of a man who ignites flames of romance in the heart of the mother and shows her boy the importance of grit and kindness, but then he leaves with the autumn wind.

Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.

Leo, a young Japanese college student, travels to Hawaii and eventually falls in love with Maray, an older Japanese-Caucasion woman.

In 1924, a time when both steam engine trains and early Showa Era's first train stations are just beginning. In the waiting room of Asumoe Station, a small country station, a passenger finds an abandoned baby and rushes to tell the station master, Tokiwa Jiro. The news quickly spreads and soon friends of Tokiwa's along with other townsfolk are saying that this baby must be a gift, it is Tokiwa's recently departed beloved wife reborn as a baby.

The story follows the Nakamori family in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, where half of the year is buried by deep snow.

The series tells about the life of construction foreman Eiji and his sister. Both have a love interest: she has a boyfriend, and he has a young girl. The sister is thinking about marriage, and the brother has too strict principles to recklessly rush into the abyss of passion.