Tetsu Watanabe

This film tells the story of professor Uehida Hyakken-sama (1889-1971), in Gotemba, around the forties. He was a university professor until an air raid, when he left to become a writer and has to live in a hut. His mood has hardly changed, not by the change nor by time. Every year his students celebrate his birthday, issuing the question "Mahda kai?" (not yet?), just to hear Uehida-san's answer "Madada yo!" (No, not yet!), in a ritual of self affirmation, and desires of lasting forever. It's a very "japanese" film who portrays everyday life and customs in Japan. (imdb)

Nishi is a cop whose wife is slowly dying of Leukemia. One of his partners gets shot on the job and is confined to a wheel chair for the rest of his life and becomes suicidal (imdb)

Several yakuza from Tokyo are sent to Okinawa to help end a gang war. The war escalates and the Tokyo drifters decide to lay low at the beach. (imdb)

After helping a cat, a young girl finds herself involuntarily engaged to a cat prince in a magical world where her only hope of freedom lies with a dapper cat statuette come to life. (imdb)

Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano... (imdb)

Three men hoping to find a better life in Tokyo find their dreams of happiness turning into a waking nightmare in the final installment of maverick Japanese Director Takashi Miike's Black Society trilogy. (All Movie)

A grand old Japanese hotel is trying to get a prestigious contract as the site of a summit meeting of important foreign officials. Unfortunately, this hotel is quite popular with the Yakuza and is a favorite target of theirs for extortion. They employ a variety of schemes to con the hotel out of 'hush-money.' The hotel needs to rid itself of the Yakuza and finally begins to fight back by hiring Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer who is an expert at dealing with these criminals on their own terms. (imdb)

Five short stories, each covering the same time, the genres of the horror and the comedy.

Nami loved her husband, a policeman with an undercover assignment to get into a yakuza gang of drug-dealers. The ruse failed and he was shot to death and dumped into the sea. While Nami was mourning, the drug dealers broke into her home looking for confiscated amphetamines. They then raped her and broke her husband's funeral urn. Traumatized, Nami attempts suicide but is rescued by the mysterious and heavily tattooed yakuza, Muraki. (AllMovie)

A poetic story about a man rendered comatose by an accident and a bar maid, where the months pass, the seasons come and go, and the man sleeps on... (movies.yahoo.com)

At fifteen, Sumida (Shôta Sometani) is left alone to manage the family's languishing boat-rental business and fend off his drunk and penniless father's bouts of violence. Sumida sees his simple dream for an ordinary future rapidly evapo­rating before his eyes. Sharing similarly humble but fading dreams is his classmate Keiko Chazawa (Fumi Nikaidou), who also happens to have a major crush on him, even though Sumida seems deeply annoyed by her presence. (MUBI)

A renegade film crew becomes embroiled with a yakuza clan feud in this wild, perverse and blood-soaked orgy of outrageousness from cult director Sion Sono (Suicide Club). (tiff.net)

TV Movie drama starring Beat Takeshi (The Movie Database)

The Devil has a phone number, and if you call him on your mobile phone at midnight, he will grant your wish. In return however, he will control your life for the duration of the call. (imdb)

To bring down a global human trafficking ring, an Interpol agent recruits the help of a brutal criminal with inside knowledge of the yakuza. (Netflix)

An anthology-style program featuring strange tales which originally ran on Fuji TV, hosted by the famous comedian, Tamori.

Comic take on a growth niche market in Japan's notorious sex industry -- phone clubs where young women make dates with sweaty middle-aged men.

A cop is assigned to a case of escorting a criminal to Japan while dealing with relationship problems, and his enormous change in appearance as a result of being dumped.

Four strangers participate in a psychological experiment in a dark space with nothing else other than a table and four envelopes. They are paid 100.000 yen to sit in there for 10 minutes, but this won’t be as easy as it seems…

The female ninja butterfly was the daughter of a large store five years ago. The butterfly is in love with the Ronin Kurokawa Gennoshin, and one night he abandons everything and leaves the house to be with him, but he…

Chisato and Mahiro were banned from performing tasks because they violated the organization's rules. Needing money to make ends meet, they resumed their days as part-time workers. Suddenly two other assassins are after them.

The youthful staff of a call girl club that caters to the elderly, said club's mature female escorts, and the ladies' lonely male retiree clients.

A sensual coming-of-age drama direct — It depicts a precarious relationship between a homosexual woman and a man who was picked up by her and ends up living with her.