Yasuhiro Arai

Paul Schrader'in Japon yazar-eylemci Yukio Mishima hakkındaki sıra dışı filmi, Japonca çekilmiş (Roy Schneider'in az miktardaki İngilizce dış sesine rağmen) zengin bir Amerikan sanat filmi, yani bir anomalidir. Mishima bir narsist, devrimci bir vatansever, samuray özentisi ve muhtemelen 20. yüzyılın en önemli Japon yazarıdır. Taksi Şoförü'ndeki Travis Bickle'nin yaratıcısının, kendini ruhen Mishima'ya yakın gördüğü aşikârdır ama film sadece bir saygı gösterisi değildir. Schrader, Mishima'nın takındığı pek çok maskeyi büyük bir zeka ve açıklıkla ortaya döker.

A small-time gofer gets his dream car while running hush money for his boss's counterfeit empire, picks up a jilted singer at the airport along the way, and ends up the last man standing in everyone's love life but his own.

A college student has an affair with a married, middle-aged teacher.

Rejected by the military and frowned upon by his fellow villagers, a young man nicknamed 'Genius' falls into a series of dangerous love affairs during World War II.

Ko, a motorbike enthusiast from the city wandering the Japanese countryside, falls for the carefree local Miyo and teaches her how to ride. When Miyo proves herself a biker prodigy, Ko begins to fear she's destined to crash.

High school student Mariko sings in the choir at the all-girls school she attends, and her biggest dream right now is to go to a music college. One day on her way home from school, she accidentally drops her bookbag into the sea. A man jumps into the water and recovers the bag for her, but all of her score sheets have been ruined. From that day on, Mariko’s new acquaintance becomes her bodyguard, walking her home everyday. But for some reason, he refuses to tell her his name.

Based on the popular comic, “Shonan Bakusozoku” illustrates the lives of high school bike fanatics.

A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist starts playing at a particular nightspot, a thug from the Yakuza adopts him as a special friend for no greater reason than he plays one of his favorite songs well. As the dangerous life of the gangster intertwines with that of the musician, it brings harm to the musician's girlfriend, who is raped. This changes the young saxophonist's attitude about his patron, but his Yakuza "friend" is still too embroiled in his own problems to worry about anything else.

A female projectionist is haunted by the image of a small boy while a killer prowls the city. The projectionist's relationship with her attractive and successful reporter friend drives the plot deeper into insanity.

First mainstream film directed by Genji Nakamura, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1974 short story of the same title.

A lone-wolf detective known as "The Shark" must navigate hostile territory within both the criminal underworld and his own corrupt department to hunt down a ruthless serial cop-killer in the streets of Shinjuku. Adaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark.

The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Takashi Kitajima.

While returning from a business trip to Hokkaido, Detective Kamei of the MPD greets a middle-aged traveler in the waiting room of Minami-Wakkanai Station but is ignored by him. On the limited express to Asahikawa, the same man happens to entrust Kamei with a floppy disk before dying. The floppy contains his investigative notes on a murder that happened two years ago...

Daimon Michiko, hastaneden hastaneye dolaşan şüpheli bir “doktor yerleştirme servisinin” parçası olan 37 yaşında serbest çalışan bir cerrahtır. Michiko gösterişli kıyafetleri ve eksantrik tavrıyla hiç de doktora benzemiyor. Ayrıca çalışma saatlerine de titizlikle uyuyor, tıp lisansı gerektirmeyen gereksiz işleri asla yapmıyor ve hastanelerdeki güç mücadelelerini hiç umursamıyordu. Ödül olarak fahiş meblağlar talep etmesine izin veren böylesine üst düzey bir beceriyi nasıl edindiğini kimse bilmiyor, ancak özel hayatı etrafındaki herkes için daha da büyük bir gizem.

The #9 investigation team has been disbanded and members of the #9 investigation team have been scattered around. One year later, the Chief of the National Police Agency, Sojiro Kandagawa, orders the creation of a special investigation team to cover from the initial investigation until it is sent to the prosecutor's office. Sojiro Kandagawa appoints Sakutaro Munakata as the leader of the special investigation team. Former #9 investigation team members join the special investigation team.

Rika Inaba is a beautiful and strong-headed director at the Teito Television Broadcasting Company. Ever since she was young, she had dreamed of becoming the best news reporter in the business, but on into her fifth year with the TV station, she finds to her dismay she's been transferred to a lighter fare, information program where she is assigned to report on the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. Meanwhile, Daisuke Sorai had just reached his long-sought goal of becoming an aerobatics pilot only to injure his leg, crushing his chances at ever becoming a member of the elite Blue Impulse flying team. He gets assigned to the force's public relations desk and subsequently finds himself attached to Rika in the role of attendant. Sorai and Rika differ on just about everything; their views, their mindset. But they share one thing: their childhood dreams have been shattered and they've hit a wall in life. From there, a mutual understanding begins to germinate, drawing them toward each other and toward the discovery of a new dream.

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.

Sosuke Shie, a former detective turned funeral director, and Kotaro Soyogi, an overworked elite employee who’s lost touch with himself. After the sudden death of Soyogi’s mother, their paths cross, and together they confront mortality in their own honest and unconventional ways.

The drama depicts an ordinary high school student growing up by becoming a yakuza head.