Ryo Iwamatsu

AKA: Ryō Iwamatsu, Ryou Iwamatsu, いわまつ りょう
1.5576

1952-03-26

Kawatana, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan

Biography

Playwright, stage director, actor, and film director.

Crew Roles

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Screenplay
カモメよ、そこから銀座は見えるか？
Director
カモメよ、そこから銀座は見えるか？
Writer
Then Summer Came
Director
The Tomb & the Divorce
Director
Bakayarō! 2: I Want to Be Happy
Director
Then Summer Came
Screenplay
Tokyo Fair Weather
Screenplay
Crickets
Screenplay
Sunday's Dream
Writer
峠の我が家
Director
峠の我が家
Writer
Writer
Director
Writer
Director
Creator
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {116}

Yoshifumi Okayasu

2009-07-27 6.4

Dear Doctor

Osamu Ino is a great doctor who is beloved in his rural village. His knowledge and dedication make an equally strong impression on his reluctant medical intern, Keisuke Soma. But, Soma and the village ...
Genre :Drama

Goki

2004-05-29 6.3

Cutie Honey

When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation to save him. Meanwhile the same crime group has been responsible ...
Genre :Action

General Manager Maenishi

2005-05-21 7.2

In the Pool

A free-spirited psychiatrist exudes a magnetic attraction for patients with out-of-the-ordinary neuroses and odd conditions brought about by stress. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Genjiro Amuro

2021-07-22 6.3

Inubu: The Dog Club

Hanai Sota is 22-years-old and a university student in the veterinary department. Since he was little, he has always loved animals. His apartment is full of animals that needed help. One day, Hanai So ...
Genre :Drama, Family

Man at the Toilet

1995-09-23 6.533

Gonin

Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama

Shizuo Kugitani

2005-07-02 6.3

Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers

Suzume Katagura, a bored housewife, spends her days doing chores and taking care of her husband's pet turtle. One day, she sees a wanted ad for spies. Hoping for some excitement in her life, she decid ...
Genre :Comedy

Kunimatsu

2007-11-10 7.095

Adrift in Tokyo

A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo. ...
Genre :Comedy

1994-06-18 6

Turning Point

A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials. ...
Genre :Drama

Kamesaka

2009-05-23 6.9

Instant Swamp

A woman finds out her father is not her real one after her mother falls into a coma while searching for a mythical creature. She decides to meet her real father who happens to be an off-beat antique s ...
Genre :Comedy

Taxi driver

2001-03-31 0

Quartet for Two

Shotaro and Minako are arguing. Minako has confessed her infidelity to her husband and informs him of her intention to leave him. She has ceased to enjoy living with a submissive husband. Minako, who ...
Genre :Drama, Family

Nobuo

2010-05-01 5.7

Sawako Decides

After 5 years in Tokyo, 5 part-time jobs, 5 boyfriends, Sawako's life is going nowhere. When her father gets seriously ill, she has to take over his struggling factory. Gradually she becomes the decid ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

2015-09-19 0

The Man of the Political Economy

Matsunaga Yasuzaemon was a man called “Electricity Monster”. The post-war recovery and high economic growth serve as the basis for him to achieve the breakup and privatisation of the electricity busin ...
Genre :

Gynecologist

2001-09-09 6.143

Hush!

Naoya and Katsuhiro are boyfriends, new in their relationship. Things are uneven at first—Naoya is open and free while Katsuhiro is cautious and closeted—but nothing compares to the chaos that arrives ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

2011-12-03 6.5

Crossroads

Domestic drama focusing on a soon to be retired train driver and his wife. ...
Genre :Drama

2019-09-29 6

Aging Police / Resurrection Special

Genre :

2012-02-18 4.2

The Last Days of the World

The life of a student named Kanou is transformed when a tiny man informs him that Earth will soon be annihilated. Kanou decides to do just as he pleases with the time he has left, leading to strange a ...
Genre :Fantasy, Drama, Comedy, Science Fiction

Narazaki

2021-10-01 7.1

In the Wake

Baffling serial killings unfold in which the victims are tied up and left to starve. Tone was just released from prison after finishing his sentence for another crime, and he surfaces as a suspect but ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama

1999-10-21 0

Sunday's Dream

Kazuya goes to live with his mother Shinobu because his father, Yoshiki, who works in the same company, has fired him according to the company policy regarding redundancy. However, Shinobu soon gets r ...
Genre :Drama

Uchida

2022-08-19 7.7

Sabakan

Nagasaki in 1986. Hisada, who lives with her affectionate parents and her younger brother, although there are many quarrels between couples, is a fifth grader who loves Yuki Saito and Exogini. Hisada ...
Genre :Drama, Family

2013-04-18 5.35

Maruyama, the Middle Schooler

Katsuya Maruyama is a middle school student boy full of obscene thoughts. He then meets Tatsuo Shimoi, a single father who moves into the same apartment complex. Tatsuo Shimoi is a bit of an enigma: h ...
Genre :Comedy, Fantasy, Drama, Family

Detective Murano

2013-05-24 6.2

It's Me It's Me

Hitoshi Nagano, who works at an electronics store, picks up a cellphone left behind by a customer and goes about a scam. He calls the person's mother and pretends to be her son. He then gets the mothe ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction

Bokudo Ioroi

2022-02-04 4.6

What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?

A large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief, the giant corpse left behind begins to slowly rot and bloat. If it explodes, the nation will be destroyed ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Action, Romance

2006-07-01 5

Damejin

An off-beat comedy about 3 'damejin' (useless persons), who don't work and spend their lives doing nothing. They actually don't want to work. When they hear 'in India one can live without working' the ...
Genre :Comedy

2010-06-26 6

8000 Miles 2: Girls Rapper

With Saitama no rappa 2 (AKA 8000 Miles 2 – Girls Rapper), Yu Irie tells the story of amateur girl rappers who dream of a small big-time. The film opens with Saitama 1 B-boys, Ikku and Tom coming to t ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Music

Member of Main Station

1994-11-05 6

119

In Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for nearly twenty years. Each day passes eventlessly... until one day. The monotony of their daily lives is i ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Tokyo Shoji Employee

1988-11-26 5.7

Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You

A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz band and reignites his youthful passion for the music, giving him a chance to set things ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

2022-08-01 6.7

Convenience Story

Kato is an up-and-coming scriptwriter in the middle of a severe slump. He submits ideas for potential movies but makes no headway whatsoever, and spends his days downhearted and distressed. When he he ...
Genre :Thriller, Fantasy

Yuichi Okano

2013-11-16 5.7

Pecoross' Mother and Her Days

Laid-back baby boomer Yuichi (Ryo Iwamatsu) is a middle-aged manga artist and singer-songwriter when he isn't at his salaryman day job or watching out for his elderly mother. Suffering from increasing ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

2023-06-03 0

カモメよ、そこから銀座は見えるか？

Genre :

Gang Boss

2007-06-23 7

The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia

A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly": find a bug with the power to bring humans back from the dead, in order to report on the afterlife. With his ...
Genre :Comedy

Machida

2005-06-11 6

Into a Dream

Low-profile theater troop actor Mutsugoro Suzuki begins an oneiric journey back to his hometown, marked by his quest to find the one responsible of infecting him with a STD. ...
Genre :Drama

1993-01-29 0

Abnormal People: Three Legendary Rainbow Brothers

Original Video ...
Genre :

Editor on the phone (voice)

2007-04-14 6.969

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn between the inherited recklessness of his father ...
Genre :Drama

1992-12-19 3.333

The Hit-and-Run Family

Set in the 1990s, this film uses black humour to cast a sharp, satirical eye at the problems facing modern Japanese families. Hiroshi accidentally hits a young woman with his car and flees in panic. H ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Family

Director Takeuchi

1995-04-22 5

MARKS

Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later in a similar manner, he begins to suspect that some ...
Genre :Thriller, Mystery, Crime

Tajiri

2007-02-10 6

Invisible War

Kitahara Shuji, an ordinary business man turns into a spy for his town's war against a neighboring town in a Dystopian society. ...
Genre :

Policeman

1989-11-18 6.3

Beijing Watermelon

Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi, and their two children, undergoes a dramatic change when he encounters Li, a poor college student from ...
Genre :Drama

2011-06-18 5.3

A Man with Style

Miyata lost his wife early on and single-handedly raised their two children. One day he notices a change in his physical condition, and decides that it must be stomach cancer. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Film director

2013-09-28 6.7

The Apology King

Ryoro Kurojima (Sadao Abe) is the director of a Tokyo apology center. His job is to teach others how to apologize. Ryoro Kurojima solves problems by using his apology techniques on anything from simpl ...
Genre :Comedy

1992-10-20 4.7

Original Sin

Based on a novel by Bo Nishimura, the film is about an extramarital affair between the wife of an estate agent and a 22 year old man. ...
Genre :Drama

Shimura

1993-12-18 5.7

A Night in Nude

Jiro is a Tokyo man who offers a stand-in service where he'll do "anything". A woman claiming to be from Fukuoka wants to be shown around Tokyo and see the sights. What Jiro doesn't know is that this ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

2024-05-25 8

Wakamusha

Three young men live and work in a nearly-deserted Japanese city. The three wander the streets, ruminating on the pointlessness of life in the modern age, never quite living up to the deeds of a fall ...
Genre :Drama

Foreman

2005-04-02 4.667

Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims

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. ...
Genre :Action, Comedy, Fantasy

1998-04-04 0

Mind Game

Japanese film directed by Hiromasa Taguchi. ...
Genre :Thriller

2013-05-13 4.9

The Complex

Nursing student Asuka has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother. On the first night in her new room, she is awoken by a strange scratching sound coming from the apa ...
Genre :Horror

Muroto

1998-10-27 6.684

Samurai Fiction

A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword. ...
Genre :Action, Comedy

Chomei Okagaitokon

2009-08-01 8

Yamagata Scream

High school seniors Mikayo, Chuko and Kei are forced to join a historical research club to fulfill a graduation requirement. Their teacher, Mr. Kachi, plans a mandatory club trip to a small village ca ...
Genre :Comedy, Horror

Takanori Jinguji

2017-03-18 6.9

March Comes In Like a Lion

Rei Kiriyama is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi player when he was in middle school. He lives by himself in Tokyo, because his parents and younger sist ...
Genre :Drama

Akihiro Yamagata

2017-06-10 6.7

Memoirs of a Murderer

The movie begins in the year 1995 where there were 5 peculiar murder cases. The murderer would always get someone close to the victim to witness how he would strangle the victim from behind with a rop ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama, Mystery

2012-10-15 5.8

Lesson of the Evil: Prologue

Follows high school teacher Seiji Hasumi's background history and in the process depicts the horror inherent in daily life. ...
Genre :Horror, Thriller

Takanori Jinguji

2017-04-22 7.1

March Goes out Like a Lamb

The time spent between professional Shogi player Kiriyama and his three stories helps to heal his wounds. As he prepares to secure another win in an upcoming tournament, the father who left the three ...
Genre :Drama

Akihiro Kano

2017-07-16 7.1

Tokyo Ghoul

A Tokyo college student is attacked by a ghoul, a super-powered human who feeds on human flesh. He survives, but has become part ghoul and becomes a fugitive on the run. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Thriller

Joji Iwakura

2017-04-29 6.5

Laughing Lucky Cats

Hitomi Takagi (Fumika Shimizu) and Akako Honda (Rena Matsui) are members of comedy duo “Akako to Hitomi.” The created the comedy duo about 5 years ago, but they are still not very popular. Everyday, t ...
Genre :Comedy

old cat

2018-06-23 5.3

The Cat in Their Arms

A 33-year-old supermarket worker at a provincial city used to be an idol, but could not see a future as a singer. Sick of everything, she moved to a provincial town and met Yoshio, a pet cat she saw a ...
Genre :Drama

2018-08-20 0

Black Dahlia

Genre :Crime, Mystery

Takeo Kojima

2017-06-03 0

Joryu Tohaiden Aki

Aki was practically born and raised in a mahjong parlor. At the age of 15, she goes to Tokyo during winter and although she is knocked around by the harshness of the big city, she is determined to su ...
Genre :Drama

Akio Haruno

2017-10-29 0

Goodbye, Grandpa!

A 20 something girl Yoshiko is having sex with her boyfriend when a shocking telephone call arrives - grandpa has passed away. The lightning from clear sky doesnt derail only the life of Yoshiko but s ...
Genre :Family, Comedy, Drama

Banker

1993-02-20 0

Sky Cannot Be This Blue

Kantarou Kobayashi is an ordinary businessman who has multiple troubles on hand. He's been having an affair with a woman working in the same company, but she does lots of eccentric things. His wife ha ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Video Shop Owner

2009-09-26 6.946

Air Doll

A life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she goes for a walk around town and falls in love with Junichi. She starts to date Junichi and gets a job at ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy

2006-12-23 5

Faces of a Fig Tree

Comedy about a woman who finds a new life after she loses her busband. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Muryo Record Company CEO

2018-10-12 5.9

LOUDER! Can't Hear What You're Singin', Wimp!

Sin is a rock star. He has an amazingly loud voice with a range of four octaves. His secret is that he has created his voice through a method of vocal cord doping. His voice is now teetering on the ed ...
Genre :Comedy

Hajime Komuro

2022-05-13 7.431

Shin Ultraman

The Japanese government sets up a special task force to fight the giant creatures suddenly appearing across the country. Soon, the squad unexpectedly meets a giant silver humanoid who starts appearing ...
Genre :Action, Science Fiction

Tadakura Miyake

2014-09-29 6.833

The Vancouver Asahi

In pre-WWII Vancouver, second-generation Japanese immigrants had it tough. Daily, they faced discrimination, hatred and injustice at the hands of their Caucasian counterparts. But one thing made their ...
Genre :Drama

Supermarket Manager

2011-09-30 6.916

Guilty of Romance

In a Tokyo love hotel district, a woman is found dead in a derelict apartment. As police investigate, a romance novelist's wife lives a life that seems simply a daily repetition without romance. To br ...
Genre :Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Masao Nadamori

2012-11-10 6.647

Lesson of the Evil

Seiji Hasumi is a popular English teacher in a private high school. He is also a violent and sociopathic killer who concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among th ...
Genre :Thriller, Horror

2000-01-15 0

The Last Day

Genre :Drama

Kazuhiko Osako

2021-01-29 7.3

A Family

Taken in by the yakuza at a young age, Kenji swears allegiance to his old-school boss, pledging to adhere to the family code amid ever-changing times. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Yoshiaki Hachiya

2021-01-29 7.639

We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

Two people meet each other after missing the last train home, leading to a beautiful relationship over five years. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

President

2009-01-31 7.9

Love Exposure

The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while operating for the sake of sin as an "up-skirt" photographer. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cro ...
Genre :Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Sabu

2010-10-23 7

The Days of Morisaki Bookstore

After learning her boyfriend and colleague was already in a relationship and about to marry another colleague, Takako quits her job and falls into a slump. Her uncle, Satoru, offers her a job and room ...
Genre :Drama

2020-07-17 7.2

Step

Single father Kenichi has raised his daughter Miki alone for the past ten years, from when she attended nursery school until her graduation from elementary school. Kenichi is currently 30 years old. H ...
Genre :Drama, Family

(segment "カラダだけの男")

1991-09-14 0

Bakayarō! 4 You!

Genre :Comedy

Kanda

2004-01-30 6.282

Zebraman

A down-and-out schoolteacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old television superhero, Zebraman. ...
Genre :Comedy, Action

2021-05-12 7.4

Remain In Twilight

Six friends, who hanged out together during their high school days, gather again after 5 years for a friend's wedding. The six friends are: Kazuki Yoshio, Tetsuya Akashi, Taku Sogawa, Taisei Tajima, Y ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

2006-05-13 5.6

A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth

Four strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket, and a woman with a preternaturally precise sense of time) are brought together by chance when they inadvertently team up ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Crime

Hiroshi's Father

2015-06-06 6.69

Pieta in the Toilet

Hiroshi has given up on his dreams of becoming a painter and works part-time cleaning office windows. He learns that he has only 3 months left to live. During his last summer, high school student Mai ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

2021-08-27 7.1

Every Trick In The Book

Shinichi Tsuda, a Naoki Prize winning author, is working to publish his newest story. It revolves around Tsuyama, a driver for a call girl business in Toyama Prefecture, who comes across a mysterious ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

2017-12-23 8.5

吹く風は秋

Genre :TV Movie

Kobayashi Hiroshi

2022-12-31 10

Solitary Gourmet New Year’s Eve Special ~Crab Errand Sure is Tough~

Genre :TV Movie, Drama

2024-10-25 0

峠の我が家

Genre :Drama

1992-03-30 0

A Canned Crab

A comical episode from Fuji TV's Yonimo Kimyouna Monogatari. Suekichi runs a small liquor store. He finds that someone has stolen canned crab from his store. But he reports that a large amount of mone ...
Genre :Drama

President Miwa

2024-06-07 6

Tokyo Cowboy

Brash businessman Hideki (Arata Iura) convinces his Tokyo bosses he can turn a profitless Montana cattle ranch into a premiere-performing asset. However, when his Japanese Wagyu-beef expert fails him, ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

2011-10-08 0

Early Autumn

As summer gives way to autumn, Matsubara Tatsuhira (played by Yakusho Koji), who runs a wine specialty store in Nagano, feels a mix of emotions as he sends his daughter off to her wedding. Since his w ...
Genre :Drama

2003-10-04 0

TRUNK

TRUNK, also known as WebCINEMA TRUNK, is a three-part short film directed by Shinji Aoyama. Released online as part of an experimental web cinema project and a marketing campaign, it follows an office ...
Genre :

Hideo Tachibana

2014-10-18 6

Gu Gu the Cat

About a lady and her cat. The lady's cat dies and she loses all inspiration to continue living, and doing her work from home job. One day when forced to get out of her house for a while she finds and ...
Genre :Drama, Family

2010-04-21 0

Azamijô no lullaby

Genre :

斉藤学

2021-03-05 0

THE LIMIT

Unexpected pasts, hidden intentions and startling facts … The true nature of people become apparent when faced with confined spaces, limited time and constrained circumstances. A moment’s choice will ...
Genre :Drama

2021-04-24 5

How to be Likable in a Crisis

Makoto Kanzaki is a PR man at a university. He is swept up in a series of scandals and is driven into a corner as he tries to make temporary solutions. A satirical comedy about modern society depictin ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

2011-06-10 0

大人計画ウーマンリブｖｏｌ．１２「サッドソング・フォー・アグリードーター」

Genre :Drama, Family

熊本

2006-01-13 6.7

Time Limit Investigator

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, bec ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

2002-07-01 8.4

The Private Detective Mike

Mike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the ladies and a soft spot in his heart, especially for his kid sister Akane. Mike's so down on his luck he ...
Genre :Crime

Ebata Tatsuo

2008-01-08 8

Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow

Can a coward commit suicide? Meet Kita Yoshio, a very unlucky man who has chosen his close friend's death anniversary as his suicide date, which is 11 days away. The number 11 has been quite signific ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Zaizen

2014-04-19 6.6

The Long Goodbye

Tamotsu is suspected of murdering his actress wife Shizuka Harada. He flees to Taiwan and commits suicide. Tamotsu’s friend Banji Masuzawa works as a private detective, and has doubts about Tamotsu’s ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Shuhei Inoue

2015-01-18 8.7

A Fading Summer

A major newspaper has informally decided to employ a female university student. However, shock ripples within the newspaper because of a weekly magazine’s scoop that she is the daughter of the crimina ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Tokusaburo Sagami

2010-07-30 8

Atami's Police Investigators

The story begins with the disappearance of a school bus and four high school girls. Still unsolved three years later, the case gets revived when one of the girls reappears. Odagiri plays a sharp natio ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Mystery

2022-04-21 3.9

He's Expecting

When a successful ad executive who's got it all figured out becomes pregnant, he's forced to confront social inequities he'd never considered before. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

2020-09-26 0

劇場の灯を消すな！本多劇場編

Genre :

2023-04-14 0

Unification of Japan: Kanto Edition

After a Kyowakai member is killed, detectives Shima and Hayami investigate the case, which is connected to recent unsolved murders. Kyowakai also launches their own investigation to avenge their comra ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama

Araki Kohei

2024-02-18 6.5

The Great Passage: I'll Make a Dictionary

Kishibe Midori (Ikeda Elaiza), an editor for a popular fashion magazine, finds herself transferring to the lexicography division following the magazine's discontinuation. The place is filled with a gr ...
Genre :Drama

2011-04-13 7.2

CSI: Crime Scene Talks

Satoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Scientific Investigation Team. Reenactments, fingerprint and voice data collections, profiling.. ...
Genre :Drama

Komiyama Shigeru

2024-01-23 6.5

Mars: Zero's Revolution

Zero Mishima is a mysterious 19-year-old transfer student who incites dropout high school students to "destroy this world with me." Although he is a mysterious person, he is adept at controlling peopl ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

2016-09-29 6.5

Doctor-Y ~Gekai Kaji Hideki~

A "Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon" spinoff starring Masanobu Katsumura as surgeon Hideki Kaji, the "wizard of laparoscopy." ...
Genre :Drama

Professor Fukuda

2013-01-12 9.2

Neo Ultra Q

Ultra Q has returned, and continues investigations of monstrous appearances and strange ecological phenomenons. ...
Genre :Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

2022-07-18 7.2

Renovation Like Magic

Thirty-year-old Koume Shingyouji leaves her job at a major building firm to join family-run Marufuku Builders. There she teams up with Gennosuke, the Fukuyama family’s eldest son, and starts working o ...
Genre :Drama

Noda Tatsuo

2006-10-16 7.8

Nodame Cantabile

When a classically trained young conductor meets a free-spirited pianist at music school, their romance and their music have a hard time harmonizing. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

2022-02-06 8

Ningen Kowai

Rakugo has the image of a humorous story, but it is also a treasure trove of “scary stories”. Among them, this work boldly arranges a performance in which "human fear" stands out, and does it in an om ...
Genre :Mystery

Kyota

2023-08-09 8.3

A Town Without Seasons

It follows a group of people who are still living in temporary housing 12 years after a natural disaster called "Nani" destroyed their town. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Hajime Mayosato

2012-07-04 7

Tokkan

'Tokkan' tells a story of Suzumiya Miki, a newbie tax collector who learns the strictness and difficulties of working through her job. Miki is called ‘Guuko’ because she often freezes up in front of h ...
Genre :Drama

Osuke Omameda

2021-04-13 8

My Dear Exes

Omameda Towako recently become the president of the construction company "Shirokuma Housing". She has experienced three divorces and is currently living with her 15-year-old daughter, Uta. Although To ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Fumio Kita

2015-07-19 0

Napoleon's Village

Genre :Drama

2014-03-08 6.3

The Next Generation: Patlabor

In a world where giant robots are built and used for labor, a special police force of robots is created to handle crimes relating to these machines. ...
Genre :Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Principal

2016-07-17 7.7

Who Killed Daigoro Tokuyama?

One morning, students find their homeroom teacher Tokuyama Daigoro’s body on the floor of the classroom. A strange school life begins as the students work hard to hide the presence of their teacher's ...
Genre :Mystery, Comedy, Drama

Ohta Kisaburo

2011-11-19 0

Madame Butterfly

Like the opera, the story is set in Nagasaki in the early 1900s. It portrays the ups and downs of a young woman known as Butterfly, who lost her parents at a young age and has become an apprentice gei ...
Genre :Drama

Nadamori Masao

2020-10-15 6.6

‎Lesson of the Evil: Prologue

Follows high school teacher Seiji Hasumi's background history and in the process depicts the horror inherent in daily life. ...
Genre :Drama

Nari Katagiri

2017-10-11 0

Love and Hongkong

A new movie director attempts to make a documentary about a Japanese actress/model who is returning to her hometown of Hong Kong. He is seen struggling with his efforts to edit his film shoots while t ...
Genre :Drama

Masao Toyama

2009-10-09 8.096

Midnight Diner

Set in a small restaurant in the corner of a shopping district. The unusual eatery is only open after midnight, and its standard menu consists of just a single choice. However, the customers still com ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy