Shichinosuke Nakamura

1870'lerin Japonya'sında Amerikan ordusundan Yüzbaşı Nathan Algren, Japon İmparatoru'nun davetlisi olarak ülkenin ilk ordusunu eğitmek üzere doğuya gelir. Modernleşme eğilimleri gösteren feodal kültür, samuray tarzını da devam ettirmektedir. Algren, bir kaza geçirip samurayların lideri tarafından kurtarılınca köklü samuray kültürüyle tanışır ve etkilenir. Bir samuray savaşçısı gibi hareket etmeyi öğrenince büyük bir kararın eşiğine gelecektir. İki taraf arasında kalmıştır ve onurunun doğru yolu göstermesini beklemektedir.

Bambu satarak geçimini sağlayan yaşlı bir adam bir gün, bir bambunun içinde parmak kadar bir kız bulur. Bu kız bir bambu kadar hızlı büyümektedir ve orman yaşlı adama bu kız için altınlar, hediyeler sunar. Yaşlı adam küçük kızın bir prenses olduğuna karar verir ve onun için bir malikane yaptırarak prensesliği öğretmeye çalışır. Küçük kıza Kaguya adı verilir. Kaguya büyüdüğünde saygın ailelerden beş genç ona evlenme teklifi eder. Kaguya onlardan, kendisi için hatırlanmaya değer birer evlilik hediyesi bulmalarını ister, ancak bu beş erkek de Kaguya'nın istediğini veremez. Derken bu kez, Japon İmparatoru Kaguya’ya evlenme teklifinde bulunur. Oysa Kaguya’nın istediği prenses olmak değil, köydeki biricik aşkı Sutemaru’ya kavuşabilmektir.

For his first film in fourteen years, animation director Isao Takahata embarked on a visually sumptuous adaptation of The Tale of the Bamboo-Cutter. A dream project for the director that would hopefully establish the recently formed Ghibli Studio 7, created to meet the demands of a new type of modern animation process. But, almost immediately, the epic production is faced with difficulties and falls dramatically behind schedule. In this compelling and insightful documentary, we follow Isao Takahata and his dedicated team of artists as they frantically strive against adversity to make their vision a reality and bring Studio Ghibli into a new era.

Yaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, while Kita is an actor addicted to various drugs.

High school student Asako moves all of her belongings to the refuse area of her apartment complex and stops attending school. Kazuyoshi, a precocious young boy, invites her to join him in an online chatroom venture where she assumes the identity of a married temptress named "Miyabi".

The Kabuki 'Lion Dance' features a father and a son who explore their relationships and power dynamics. A renowned kabuki actor and his two sons enact the lion and his cubs in this variation to the more traditional formation.

Kabuki performance of the story “Peony Lantern”.

He was the pride of his police department as the number one armed robbery buster... until he had his heart broken by the sudden flight of a fiancee from his life. Now "Detective Lovesick" finds his crime-fighting mojo and his chance at rising through the police hierarchy slipping away. Spending his days in a desperate search for the love of his life, Detective Lovesick is a man in love with himself and idolizes his drinking buddy, who is a romance psychologist. He loses himself to love easily, even at work, falling for every femme fatale he investigates and after a lot of hair pulling, ending each case with a marriage proposal. "Marry me or be under arrest." But will any woman accept such a proposal? Suspense, comedy and romance all converge in a libido-rich police drama unlike any you've ever seen.

Botan Dōrō is a Japanese ghost story that is both romantic and horrific; it is one of the most famous kaidan in Japan. The plot involves sex with the dead and the consequences of loving a ghost.