Ruriko Asaoka

Oishi Kuranosuke, a chamberlain of the Ako-Asano Clan loses his master to Seppuku. The Asano Lord was forced to commit suicide because of his provoked attack on Lord Kira during the reception for the envoys. In the aftermath, Oishi disbands the clan publicly and at the same time recruits a crew of 47 samurai. They patiently prepare their plans for a year and a half and then storm the fortress of Lord Kira in a mission that-succeed or fail- will ultimately end in their deaths. (asianwiki)

In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of characters gather, including a gang set on stealing shogunate gold that's soon to come over the pass (imdb)

A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place. (imdb)

This is the story between single mother housekeeper and mathematics professor,who has a brain damage. (imdb)

The true story of an ordinary twenty-three year old who crossed the Pacific in a small yacht, a feat which no Japanese had ever accomplished. (imdb)

Shizuo Matsutani, a bank clerk, is engaged to Yumika, daughter of a rich shopowner, Denzô Hashimoto. But when he discovers that his mother, the beautiful Shizuka, is having an affair with said, he delays his wedding because of it. He has even begun to despise Denzô, who he thinks wants to destroy the relationship he has with his mother...

As a cargo ship is preparing to leave on a long voyage mysterious and sinister events start to occur.

A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. (imdb)

Tora san, a drifter, falls for Lily, a kind nightclub singer who shares his lifestyle.

Dissatisfied by his life, despite his fame, a man abruptly leaves everything to deliver a car to a remote village. Escaping is not so easy, as his girlfriend and reporters are not far behind.

When her rich husband dies, a woman begins a complicated affair with her father in law.

A group of elderly women living in the wilderness plot revenge on the men who threw them out of town as part of a superstitious ritual.

Jimmy Wang Yu stars in his first major modern-day role, in the same year he revolutionized martial arts cinema in One-Armed Swordsman. Here he has both his arms, and he's going to need them to survive the homicidal desires of Japanese gold smugglers. To spice things up even further, there's femme fatales, damsels-in-distress, and even killer strippers. From the first bomb to the final corpse (crushed by gold bars), this is a camp classic of amazing proportions. (hkcinemagic.com)

Three ronin put themselves for hire against a powerful Shogunate. Ninjas, blood, and boobs ensue.

Tora-san meets an old girlfriend on his travels. When she returns home with him, his family attempts to arrange a marriage between the two. After a misunderstanding occurs, the woman leaves, and the family is left regretting that they interfered.

Lily, the lounge singer with whom Tora-san fell in love in film 11 (Tora-san's Forget Me Not, 1973) and film 15 (Tora-san's Rise and Fall, 1975) sends Tora-san a letter informing him that she is terminally ill. Tora-san rushes to Okinawa--taking his first plane trip in the process--to be at her side and nurse her to health.

Featuring ATSUMI Kiyoshi as the lovable loser KURUMA Torajiro, the 48-film Tora-san series holds the Guinness World Record for the longest running film series starring the same actor. In a typical story-line from the series, Tora-san visits a different part of Japan where he meets a beautiful young woman, and tells her if she ever needs help, she should come visit him in his small hometown of Shibamata.

The tragic tale of a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of war.

The lives of three movie actresses unfold, transform and get exposed. Each of them owes their choice of profession to a respective traumatic event. (imdb)

Shinji (Akira Kobayashi), a wandering street musician, gets involved with a mob boss, Akitsu (Nobuo Kaneko), after saving one of his henchmen in a bar fight. Akitsu gives Shinji a job to evict an offshore fishery, but things take an unexpected twist when Shinji finds out the owner's wife is Akitsu's actual sister. As Shinji protects the Akitsu family, Akitsu's daughter takes a romantic interest in him.... (imdb)

A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches for answers to his troubled past, knowing that his inevitable doomed fate is more or less sealed. (imdb)

After mastering the art of French cuisine, young Jiro (Akira Kobayashi) returns to Japan and opens a restaurant in the busy streets of Ginza. His dashing looks, iconoclastic culinary skills, and charismatic character attracts not only women, but unwanted trouble. Things get personal when he finds out that a scandalous political figure is trying to take over his girlfriend's business.

When one billion yen goes AWOL, "Joe the Ace" (Shishido) spies an opportunity to get rich quick, but things soon go wrong as it turns out he isn't the only one who'll stop at nothing to get his hands on the missing cash. (Arrow Video)

Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past. (imdb)

A guitar-playing drifter arrives in Niigata, Japan and gets mixed up in a revenge plot of a gangster.

A wealthy Japanese sugar factory manager in Hawaii finds his wife sinking into depression and madness.

Michi is a woman who wants it all and to hell with anything else (me)

Carrying a bag full of samples, Mitsuo makes rounds to various shoe stores in remote cities. While staying at budget hotels, his thoughts turn to Tora-san.