Yoko Maki

Karen uluslar arası öğrenci değişim programıyla Tokyo'ya gelmiş ve eğitimine devam etmektedir. Ancak program gereği yeni geldiği şehirde sosyal hizmetler için çalışmak zorundadır ve O da hastabakıcılığı tercih eder. Amerikalı bir ailenin yatalak annesine bakmakla görevlendirilen genç kız ilk defa girdiği bu evde üst kattan gelen acayip sesler duyar. Olanı biteni araştırırken, bir anne ile oğlunun uzun yıllar önce bu evde öldürülmüş olduğunu öğrenir. Bu katliamdan sonraysa evin her yeni sahibinin başına benzer felaketler gelir. Karen kendini çok kısa zamanda bu dehşet çemberinin içinde bulur. Eğer intikam için dönen ruhlardan daha hızlı davranmazsa, aynı trajik sonla kendisi de karşılaşacaktır...

Sean Boswell, yaşadığı topluma yabancılaşmış bir sokak yarışçısıdır. Yarışlara katılmak, Sean için mutsuz ev ortamından geçici kaçış sağlar ve çevresinde yapay bir dünya oluşturur. Yakınları, onu Tokyo’da yaşayan babasının yanına gönderirler. Arkadaşı Twinkie sayesinde aradığı heyecan ve aksiyonu bulması uzun sürmeyecektir.

Momoko; kendisine hamile iken jinekoloğuna âşık olmuş ve talihsiz bir gangster olan babasını terk etmiş bir anneye sahiptir. Bunak bir büyük anne ve Japonya'nın ucuz pazarlarında ünlü markaların imitasyonlarını satarak para kazanmaya çalışan babası ile yaşamaktadır. Oldukça içine kapanık olan karakterimiz kendisini, Fransa'nın meşhur, bizlere Lale Devri'ni andırabilecek, 18.yy ihtişamında, Rokoko döneminde, gören bir genç kızdır. Momoko’nun çizdiği profil, bize bugün Japonya’daki kızların lolita tarzının bir vurgusu niteliğindedir. Her filminde bir şeyler söylemeyi seven Tetsuya Nakashima, bu filminde de bu moda anlayışını oldukça güzel bir şekilde vurguluyor...

Bu bir iş adamının hikayesi, para ve başarı hırsıyla gözleri kararmış kendini bile görmeden önüne gelen her şeyi ezip geçecek bir hırsla yaşamaktayken birdenbire onu vuran varoluşçu krizin öyküsü. Hayatının ne kadar anlamsız olduğunu en yakınındakilerin bile farkında olmadığının farkına varan adam için bu krizin başlamasına neden olan şey ise, gerçek oğlunun doğum esnasında değiştirilmiş olduğunun, 6 yıldır aslında bir başkasının çocuğunu büyüttüğünün farkına varmasıdır.

Özellikle gençlerin kontrolündeki şiddettin arttığı Japon toplumunda, gençlere göz dağı vermek için korkunç bir oyun tasarlanır. Dokuzuncu sınıfa giden 42 öğrenci, zorla bir adaya sürülür ve birbirlerini yok etmeleri sağlanır. Sadece biri geri dönecek ve bu oyunu ibret olması için çağına anlatacaktır...

2500 years ago, in India, Siddhartha was born as a prince of the Shakya clan, but he gives up his position as a prince to see the world. He meets a strange boy named Assaji, who can predict the future, a monk with only one eye and Depa. Siddhartha continues traveling. Siddhartha is overwhelmed by the sufferings he witnesses around him. Meanwhile, Prince Ruri of Kosara begins his attack on the Shakya clan. Second Buddha movie from Tezuka Productions.

Cannes Film Festivali’nde Belirli Bir Bakış bölümünde gösterilen film, “kaybeden” baba, yeni bir hayat kurmaya niyetlenen sorumluluk sahibi anne ve arada kalmış küçük oğullarını, bir fırtınada, babaannenin evinde bir araya getiriyor.

Rei yıllardır âşık olduğu kadının şiddet uygulayan eşinden kurtulmasına yardım eder. Ardından birlikte kaçan bu iki kadın arasındaki duygular alevlenir.

Kosuke is 31, and tired of his hometown where nothing happens. On a whim, he departs for New York with dreams of making it big. 6 months later, he straggles home... defeated, and saddled with debt. Awaiting him are his old friends, a caring sister, a disgruntled father ...and a bowl of noodles. Namely, "udon" noodles. The town is built around udon, sustained by udon, nationally famous for udon.

Bir grup doktor ve hemşire iflasın eşiğine gelmiş bir hastanede sıkıntı içinde çalışmaktadır. Dr. Uozumi ve ekibi, Dr. Akiba ve ekibiyle acil serviste nöbet değişimi yaptıkları sırada yanmış bir hastaya yanlış bir madde enjekte ederler ve hasta ölür. Dr. Uozumi kariyerlerini kurtarmak için raporu değiştirir ve olay örtbas olur. Bu arada acil servise durumu ağır olan bir hasta daha bırakılır. Hastanın kasları ve iç organları erimektedir. Dr. Akai iki meslektaşını bu duruma sebep olan virüsü incelemeye ikna eder. Böylece hastanede gece kalan nöbetçi personeli trajik sona doğru sürükleyen korkunç bir gece başlamış olur.

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

Ishigami comes home from work and discovers his wife dead. Just then, he receives a phone call from his wife and falls in utter confusion. Unexplainable things keep happening as Ishigami struggles to find his wife. Gradually, Ishigami realizes all his memories are gone and finds himself acting like someone else. What is his true identity?

Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the yakuza. He is partnered with Detective Shuichi Hioka and they investigate a missing person case involving a financial company employee. Conflicts between opposing yakuza groups become more serious.

Set one year after the drama series "Moteki." 31-year-old Yukiyo Fujimoto doesn't have money, dreams or a girlfriend. He has left his job at a staffing firm and is attempting to start a new life by working as a writer for a news site. Suddenly, Yukiyo experiences "moteki" - a period when a man becomes suddenly popular with woman. Cute magazine editor Miyuki, pure and naive office worker Rumiko, beautiful shop assistant Ai and beautiful, but tough co-worker named Motoko all become interested in Yukiyo. He tries to calm down, but is shaken by the interests of these women.

The members of a sci-fi club accidentally spill Coke on the remote controller of an air-conditioner during summer and suddenly a time machine appears in their sweating bath-like clubroom.

To get revenge on her ex-boyfriend and to help revive her late mother's tennis table club, a table tennis prodigy decides to take part in a mixed doubles table tennis tournament.

Set in the 1970's in the Kansai region of Japan.. Yong-Gil is Korean, but he moved to Japan and settled down. He runs a small restaurant named Yakiniku Dragon. He is married and has three daughters: oldest daughter Jung-Hwa, middle daughter Yi-Hwa and youngest daughter Mi-Hwa. Oldest daughter Jung-Hwa is dating Tetsuo, but they break up. Middle daughter Yi-Hwa loves Tetsuo and marries him, but Tetsuo still loves her older sister and they divorce. Youngest daughter Mi-Hwa wants to become a singer, but she is in love with a married man.

Feeling unhappy with his gun, Jigen is looking for the world’s best gunsmith. He finally finds out that Chiharu, who runs a watch shop, is the person he’s been seeking. Then, Jigen meets Oto, who comes to Chiharu’s shop looking for a gun. Jigen finds out about Oto's secrets and the mysterious organization that’s after her. After Oto is kidnapped, Jigen gets into a desperate battle to save her.

Koichiro Shimada is sent to a research facility in Kenya, Africa by a teaching hospital in Japan. He encounters a desperate situation and decides to work there as a doctor, treating patients hurt in battles. He struggles with nurses and colleagues at the hospital. Koichiro Shimada then encounters a boy soldier severely wounded mentally. This changes Koichiro Shimada’s fate.

Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.

Set within the fictional city of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada runs a "benriya" - a general problem solver for hire. His assistant is his former high school classmate Haruhiko Gyoten. A big crisis then occurs for them.

Lone wolf detective with an enormous personal grievance seeks to connect the mysterious death of his daughter to an urban legend of a villain who terrorizes Japan by insinuating himself into people's dreams and the collective psyche of the Japanese people.

Dark Tales of Japan is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Japanese film directors, which are told by a mysterious old lady in kimono on a late-night bus traveling on a long isolated mountain road.

Ryōmaden is the 49th NHK Taiga drama. It was shown on NHK from January 3 to November 28, 2010 spanning 48 episodes. The story centers on the life of 19th-century Japanese historical figures Iwasaki Yatarō and Sakamoto Ryōma. It has been announced that the series will be aired in several other countries, for example Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.

Shūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have reached the statute of limitations are destroyed. Getting bored of his job, he decides to find a hobby, because it seems important to him to have a hobby. So he decides to puzzle out the unsolved cases on his free time, helped by his coworker Mikazuki, who seems to have a crush on him.

Hana is a nine-year-old girl who lives in constant fear of her abusive family; Michiko is a sexy woman who has just done the unthinkable: broken out of the impenetrable Diamandra Penitentiary. After Hana is whisked away by Michiko, who claims to be her mother, the duo sets forth on a high octane ride towards freedom. In the streets of Brazil and aboard Michiko's motorcycle, Hana and Michiko will look for Hana's long lost father, try to learn to co-exist and get along together, and stay one step ahead of the police and afro-clad Atsuko.

Satoru Matsudo moves to Tokyo in hopes of becoming an actor. He has trouble breaking into the industry, but his luck begins to change when he finds an airplane ticket belonging to a talent agency CEO. Time passes, and Satoru makes a name for himself as an actor. He gets a call from America. Hoping it is a Hollywood offer, he instead hears about his estranged older brother.

The heroine Balsa is a skilled bodyguard and a masterful spear-wielder. One day she rescues Prince Chagum who has fallen into a river. The prince is carrying a mysterious spirit egg in his body, and is in danger of being assassinated by his father, the Mikado, who fears this will damage his imperial prestige. Balsa embarks upon a perilous journey when she accepts the queen’s plead to protect her son from her husband.

A newly recruited SP officer named Kaoru Inoue, who is the only SP officer known in the force to have sharp senses that enables him to conduct his duties by using this ESP sense to take down the threat before it appears to threaten the VIP and the civilians who are caught in the middle.

Live-action anthology Series adapting from Junji Ito's selected works.

An explosion take place in a street of Tokyo. Many people were killed or seriously injured. One casualty is Chihiro, the wife of Public Security chief inspector Kuraki Naotake. While trying to find why his wife was being implicated in the explosion case, Kuraki comes into contact with Public Security sergeant Akeboshi Miki and Metropolitan Police Department inspector Osugi Ryota who are also investigating this case.

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.

Shogo Higuchi is a detective whose wife was murdered by a serial killer. Hikari Tachibana is a voice profiler whose father was murdered. She has a special hearing ability which allows her to hear minutiae sounds that other people do not.

Tamako works for a company in the restaurant business. She experiences betrayal from Makoto, a chef she recently hired. Rumors then spread at work about her. Tamako decides enough is enough and quits her job. She decides to open a restaurant and run it from a woman's perspective. Tamako soon learns that Makoto has opened a luxurious restaurant across the street from her modest restaurant.

Musashi Miyamoto left his village and ended up fighting in the battle of Sekigahara with his friend Matahachi, but Musashi Miyamoto lost Matahachi. He goes back to the village to inform Matahachi's family about what happened. At the village, he is persecuted by people there. Musashi Miyamoto becomes worn down physically and mentally. At this time, Soho Takuan appears in front of Musashi Miyamoto. He then rebuilds his life with his sword. Musashi begins to travel for warrior training. He meets many masters of the sword and grows as a person.

A school is supposed to be the safe place for children, but unfortunately it is not any longer. It has so many problems that even most dedicated teachers would give up eventually. Kohei KAJI (Atsushi ITO) a young passionate teacher who's just started his career at a junior high school, but he is thrown into the chaos and desperation when one of his student dies at school. Tamako TSUMIKI (Miho KANNO) is a cool elite lawyer who seems to have some secret connection with that dead girl. Is that an accident? Or suicide? Together they start investigate what has been going on at the school and they have to face some terrifying facts that show how easily one could fall. This is a controversial theme that questions every one of us if we can change the world.

Tatsuya Fujiwara plays a talented detective who trades hardened criminals for troubled teenagers. Placed in an unruly public junior high school, he gets to work contending with the many problems it faces and uncovers some more serious ones. While the detective tries to operate in the hard-line way he knows best, he finds himself confronted by a skeptical and fiery teacher, played by award winning actress Yoko Maki.

Ordinary salaryman Hamasaki Mitsuo works for a company which installs vending machines. He complains about his marriage life while at the dentist office. Mitsuo isn't happy at all with his marriage with his wife, Hoshino Yuka, who has the complete opposite personality from him. He doesn't know if he loves Yuka or not. At this time, Mitsuo meets Kono Akari, his ex-girlfriend from his university days, who is now married to Uehara Ryo.

"Late blooming Sunflower -My life renewed-" is a story of 7 young adults living their ordinary days near the Shimanto river of Kochi prefecture, renowned as the last of the crystal clear streams. Somewhat nostalgic, somewhat new, they hold on to their dreams and insecurities. It's a true-to-life portrayal of the days in young adulthood.

A newspaper reporter (Masahiro Motoki) uncovers a secret "Okinawa pact" between the Japanese and U.S. government. A woman who is the deputy director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs becomes a key figure in the story.

Tokyo Friends is a Japanese television drama released on June 3, 2005. Unlike many other dramas, it was never aired on TV but released as a set of 3 DVDs. Volumes one and two contain the first 4 episodes while volume three contains the last episode. Each episode is approximately 70 minutes. The Tokyo Friends Premium Box was also released which includes all 5 episodes, a bonus DVD, and 12 postcards. Although this is a very typical Tokyo-story and was never aired on TV, it was quite successful probably because it was Ai Otsuka's debut as an actress.

One day, people were informed that a meteorite is approaching the Earth, and it caused the world to fall into chaos. As research progressed the distance between the meteorite and the earth is slowly getting closer… The story follows the perspective of 5 people as they spend their last 31 days on Earth. Those people are, a high school boy looking for an impulse, a high school girl who can’t express her feelings well, a teacher who tries to fulfill his promise to someone, a coffee shop owner who is pregnant, and a hikikomori boy who craves for the destruction of the earth. On the last day, before "goodbye", what is the last thing that they want to do?

The older sister who had set backs in Tokyo, and her younger sister who wants nothing more than to move there. The two sisters, who were born and raised in a teahouse called Juicchome Chaya halfway up Mt. Takao on the outskirts of Tokyo, seek for happiness while living in a beautiful natural setting and experiencing different love affairs in this pure and heartfelt story. But one thing they can't get around in their search for happiness is the family. First there's the father, a pigheaded guy with an artisan spirit who pushes his weight around as father, and then the mother who's a tricky customer in her own right. And it's not only the family, the whole village seems to be following the love complications of our two heroines with bated breath and spreading the word around.

What would you do if you knew that your time in life is ticking away by the minute? A mysterious "referee" appears in front of individuals in their dying moments while living their usual lives, and announces the exact amount of time they have left to live. Each individual must make a quick decision on how to best spend the time remaining before his or her time expires. --groink