Kumiko Akiyoshi

Shuichi Kushimori is a 17 year old high school student who lives happily with his mother and sister. One day, without warning, his estranged stepfather, Sone, returns home from a long absence. Sone quickly falls into a cycle of drinking and starts abusing his ex-wife and stepdaughter. When he begins making sexual advances towards Shuichi's sister, Shuichi is compelled to take matters into his own hands. (Noble Entertainment)

Desert Moon focuses on a successful internet entrepreneur Nagai (Hiroshi Mikami), whose wife Akira (Maho Toyota) and young daughter Kaai (Yukiko Ikari) left him because he neglected them for his business. A young hustler Keechie (Shuji Kashiwabara), who has emotion problems concerning his own father, becomes involved in the family's drama. (Wikipedia)

Schoolgirls are having their fortunes told by a mysterious boy dressed in black--he can predict how their love lives will pan out. But knowing too much about the future can also be destructive... (HKFlix)

During a military training exercise in snowy mountains, things go awry.

A young storyteller falls for a high school student.

Three Japanese tourists - a soldier, a divorced woman, and a salaryman - make a pilgrimage to the Ganges River in India, each in hopes of finding some spiritual release or meaning in life. (imdb)

The film serves as a tribute to those that lost their lives during the air raid on the Toyokawa Naval Arsenal on August 7, 1945. (ADC)

A young boy learns he is part of a powerful race of psionic humans who must fight the normal humans determined to keep them from Earth.

The main character blames himself for the deaths of his two sons in a boating accident and leaves his wife and parents behind. He takes on a mistress, to the shame of his family, and he pops stimulants to keep up with his work schedule as a truck driver. Growing increasingly irritable and irrational, he goes through various conflicts with his brother, his colleagues, his boss, and his wife. (mubi.com)

It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko Akiyoshi as his love interest .

Starring in his third release in 1982 Hiroyuki Sanada plays a fighting hero one more time. In this story, he is Aki Hoshino, a pre-med student at Tozai University who becomes inspired to rip off millions (in yen) that the school collected as "special fees" from parents wanting to assure their offsprings' acceptance into the hallowed institution.

Miyako, a working girl, checks into a psychiatric clinic, gradually revealing her rare situation to Kazuhiko. (The Movie Database)

It is early summer and a boyfriend and girlfriend commit suicide in a field of flowers. He survives. The girlfriend has a younger sister whose name is Natsuko who cannot understand why her sister killed herself. She leaves school and her hometown, moves to Tokyo and meets the man to find answers. He works as a scout for a television station by day and at a denim store at night. He has moved on. Natsuko is angry. (imdb)

Centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer from Tokyo, pays a visit to her town and the tree they shared time under some twenty years back after a TV commercial shoot. His remembrances of her, the tree, and the long unrequited love stir both of their hearts to fumbling action as they re-discover the love between them.

When Ryoko was in Europa to study music, her lover died in traffic accident. Ryoko believed that she had psychic power that killed her boyfriend. Ryoko returned to Japan, and was sent to a mental hospital. When she recovered, her brother-in-law Koji decided to look after her. (imdb)

A man meets a girl in the city. He falls in love with the chick. She claims she has fallen head over heels for him. She moves in with him. Returning home one day there is a man in their room. The man is lying down. He tells them he is an insurance salesman and he has stomachache. He has made himself at home. The three become room-mates. (imdb)

Neri (Kumiko Akiyoshi) and Akio are brothers and sisters. After the death of their parents, Akio made a living as a removal man, using the family truck to help local students move to new apartments. Neri spent time away from home, living with her boyfriend, Kozou. When things between the young couple turn sour, Neri decides to come home. (nikkatsu.com)

Student residents of a girls-only university dormitory commit petty crimes like stealing items from stores in groups. They are found out by a store employee one day and only two of them successfully run away. One girl is a virgin. The other is not. They cannot return to their residence as their friends are arrested and their identity is revealed. With nowhere to go they roam the town. A guy wants to help them. (imdb)

Some of the greatest battles during the Age of Civil Wars were fought between the Uesugi and Takeda clans. Leading up to them was the incredible life of Uesugi Kenshin, who rose from a son out of favor with his...

Set in a rural village outside of Tokyo, 'Brother And Sister' is a dark drama of obsessive family relationships marked by both violence and tenderness. Mon, the eldest daughter of an authoritarian father who has come into hard times, moves to Tokyo to earn a living. When she returns home pregnant, her brother Inokichi's rage sends her back to the city where she takes up the life of a streetwalker. (Mydramalist)

Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.

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