Seiichi Tanabe

A pleasing, winning, funny and often poignant film centered around a threesome of magnificent performances from Takahashi, Tanabe and the highly versatile Kataoka. (Midnight Eye)

In spring, a girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo. Once there, she is asked to reveal why she wanted to go there in the first place (imdb)

Ambitious yakuza Kenji befriends harmonica-playing bartender Chuji, who moonlights as a part-time drug-dealer for the opposing gang... (imdb)

In this prequel to Ring, a young Sadako becomes an actress in hopes of escaping her troubled past. But strange visions and terrifying powers begin to manifest... (imdb)

Aoi Miyazaki (EUREKA) plays Sachiko, a thirteen year-old girl living with her depressed mother (ryo, DISTANCE). The film starts by showing her mother's suicide attempt, a scene that pretty much sets the tone, both content-wise and stylistically. (DVDBeaver.com)

Wise and deliciously witty, Ryosuke Hashiguchi's film chronicles eight years of a marriage: the easy-going husband becomes a courtroom artist, while his high-strung wife nearly has a breakdown. (sensasian.com)

3 people suffering from psychiatric problems, and a doctor stranger than any of them. (imdb)

Director Kazuo Hara tells the tale of the eponymous Chika and four different relationships she has during the turbulent political climate of the 1970s. Four different actresses play the role of Chika in order to emphasise the different ways she is perceived by her husband, a teacher, a student and an aging gangster. (imdb)

A great variety of aviation professionals such as pilots, flight attendants, the ground crew, mechanics, dispatchers, controllers, and the bird patrol crew all support a single flight. They have only one mission: to secure the safety of the passengers! Today was supposed to be any other day on the job, departing on schedule and heading safely to Honolulu, but... (imdb)

A mellow drama following the moral decline of a housewife turned bank employee who embezzles a fortune from her customers and indulges in an affair with a younger man. Set in 1994, shortly after the burst of Japan's economic bubble. (imdb)

Neo Ultra Q is a 2013 Japanese television drama broadcast by WOWOW and produced by Tsuburaya Productions as an entry in the Ultra Series. It is billed as a second season to the 1966 drama Ultra Q, which began the Ultra Series. (wikipedia)

Ichigo Kurosaki is a High School student, living in Karakura town. He is able to see ghosts, as well as hollows. Later, he meets up with Rukia Kuchiki, a Death God or Soul Reaper (Shinigami in Japanese). Later, he finds out that he himself is a Soul Reaper as well. Ichigo Kurosaki, now with the power of a Soul Reaper, is able to protect Karakura town from hollows.

Aoi and Riku, who have been friends since they were five years old, are part of a band with other students at their university. Riku is known as being unflappable and "perfect". After a misfired performance on Aoi's birthday she has a tragic accident. She awakens to find herself re-living the past week. Riku reveals that he can turn back time, allowing him to perfect his apparent abilities.

Everything started when a high school couple, Chiyomi Horikiri and Susumu Minami had a mysterious and ominous fortune cookie at a Chinese restaurant:"If you stay close to him, he will become great and the two of you will be together for a long time. However, when the two of you drift apart, horrible things will happen". Just as the prophesy, on the very day when Susumu decided to leave Chiyomi, a magical curse struck Chiyomi. Believe it or not, it shrunk her into a size of merely 16 cm tall.

Three young half brothers, Ichitaro, Takeshi and Tsuguo, are moving from a traditional Japanese house near a river to the suburbs. With little experience living together as a happy family, their relationship gradually transforms over the course of a week when their cousin Sakeko arrives to help them prepare to move. (Hayashi Kanako, Pusan IFF)

Kazuo Murata is a detective who has lost his wife and eventually the meaning of his existence.

Aoki thinks the girl he's in love with likes another boy, who thinks Aoki has feelings for him. Why does first love always have to be so complicated? (imdb)

A dejected woman finds an unconscious man resembling her former dog and takes him in as a "pet", forming an unexpected bond as they overcome obstacles together, raising the question of whether such love can exist. (imdb)

Teacher Makino (Kouhei Matsushita) works in the health room at an elementary school as a pediatrician. He used to work at a university hospital, but, due to a new attempt to have doctors stationed at schools, he was sent to the elementary school. There is hidden story behind that. (AsianWiki.com)