Hitoshi Ueki

The Kobayashi family finally get the chance to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment in favour of the suburban house of their dreams. But all is not well: the house is infested by termites and the family starts cracking up... (imdb)

This film is Beat Takeshi's first starring role. (The Movie Database)

A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.

"Nippon Musekinin Jidai" is the first in a series of classical comedy movies from Japan starring Hitoshi Ueki and the "60s-boyband" the Crazy Cats. A charming movie with lots of gags, musical evergreens and a wonderful Hitoshi Ueki who passed away in 2007 and is still admired by a lot of people in Japan. (KG)

This story about a young man who learns everything about the world of stocks trading starting with initial steps from a seasoned individual investor is a human drama with a “suspense” touch, and which the young man is involved in the battle with a bank with elaborateness and slickness before he knows it. The stock market is featured as its backdrop. (Asianwiki)

One of Japan’s most popular historical characters, former Vice-Shogun Tokugawa Mitsukuni, whose travels around the nation are legendary has made it to the silver screen in a dynamic and exciting tale featuring megastar Toshiro Mifune as an expert swordsman drawn into the action to fight injustice. The Elder Lord travels about disguised as a retired merchant with his two trusty bodyguards Sukesaburo and Kakunoshin by his side and secret agent Yashichi close by.

People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to go to a small island in the Inland Sea that evening.

Toma (Tuyoshi Kato) is a son of a doctor in Takane, Yoshitomo Monzen. He was ordered by the sick federal lord and travel to Edo. It was said that Tsurunosuke, the man supposed to be the next federal lord, got a heavy disease, and the order aimed to make sure if it is true or not. On his way to Edo, Toma gave a hand to Kiku (Mayumi Okamura) who had a stomachache. However, she seemed to be in big trouble, and there were many Hanshi (officers) on the roads. (imdb)