Tatsuo Yamada

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

Shoichi Yomi bravely fights in an attempt to end an underworld battle in Hiroshima and as a result becomes a vegetable. Ten years later, Yomi comes to his senses and visits his former sworn brother, Eto, in Shinjuku. The devious Tagami, Yomi's old enemy, is well acquainted with the Okumura gang which controlled Shinjuku. Learning of Yomi recovery, Tagami plots to line his own pockets by maneuvering the Okumura gang and a Taiwanese gang, between which a fight is about to erupt...

Director Rokuro Mochizuki's film is straightforward in its depiction of drugs, violence, and prostitution in this cockeyed noir adapted from Yukio Yamanouchi's novel. (filmmonthly.com)

A failed cellist connects with his inner undertaker and his rural hometown in this tonally eccentric, lushly scored, movingly funny drama. Crushed at the breakup of his Tokyo orchestra, Daigo retreats to his picturesque northern Japan hometown, with adoring wife Mika in tow, to find his true calling. (psfilmfest.org)

Junior high student Harada Takumi is a pitching prodigy, but his attitude and arrogance alienates him from schoolmates and even his own family..Takumi finally finds a friend..in classmate Nagakura Go, a catcher who greatly admires Takumi's pitching. Together they form a "battery" and join the school baseball team, but [they] have a falling out after a loss, bringing the team to a standstill. At this time, Takumi's brother becomes..ill, and his only hope is for Takumi to win the big game for him. (crunchyroll)

Middle-aged Minako is a milk woman in Nagasaki, living and uncomplicated and unhurried life delivering milk daily around the city. In their youth she and Keita were in love, but separated after his father and her mother died together causing a scandal. She never married, but Keita did and is now a city official with a terminally ill wife, Yoko. Before she dies Yoko tries to reunite the former lovers, but this disturbs and angers Minako. (ftvdb.bfi.org.uk)

A young man takes over a biker gang when the old boss leaves.

Is it reality or insanity? Are the birds taking over this marine biology teachers mind? The daily conflicts of the sounds lurking in the shadows are beginning to take their toll. (imdb)

GASP is a popular alternative band. Conflict arises when the lead singer To-Y is offered a pop idol contract that stipulates he leave the rest of the band behind. (imdb)

When a woman whose job is to professionally date men disappears suddenly a TV crew who wanted to film a documentary about women like her begin searching for her. Coincidentally, a salaryman who saw the disappeared woman and wants to meet her again is found and joins the crew. Together they follow the clues. She has an amulet, which looks like a small bag, which she always hangs from her neck. It contains a piece of the Berlin wall.

Kono Takeshi has given up work as an electrician to run a gift shop business with his partner/mistress Rieko, who's a couple of years older than him. When the company faces bankruptcy Kono wants to quit, but Rieko strings him along with the promise of a large cash investment, the proceeds of a real-estate deal. Her actual plan to raise the money is to kidnap a young woman and demand a ransom for her release. The trouble is, that it never occurs to her to keep the victim alive before trying ...

The legendary sleeping lion is back in the modern era! Skyline GTR (BNR32) VS GTR (KPGC10) With Keiichi Tsuchiya of the "Megalopolis Expressway Trial" series.

Third video release by Pantsu No Ana, a subset of "BOMB" magazine. Rie is a young lady who attends Yamanote Jogakuin. He studied abroad in London at the age of five and returned to Honmoku for the first time in ten years. One day, Hiroshi, the son of a kimono dealer who fell in love with Rie for some reason, finds out that she was a childhood friend and feels fateful. However, Yakuza's father Kurioka, thinks that she will be a tr...

Ai is a call girl whose job involved a lot of risk. Every time she goes through a door, she has no idea what type of man is on the other side. Some are sweet, some are violent and some are just full-on crazy! One day she meets Mr.Mamiya, a strange and captivating artist who gradually will initiate her into SM pleasures. (Third Window Films)