Tetsuya Takeda

Base on the novel "Going Home" by Pete Hamill, the screenplay was written by director, Yôji Yamada. This film is about an ex-convict who has been release from prison and made an enounter with a young couple. They decided to travel together. On the way home, the convict recollects the past with the young couple and hopes that his wife will forgive him.

Tora-san returns from his travels throughout Japan to his family's home in Tokyo to find his uncle recovering from an illness. After a family fight erupts, he returns to the road and becomes friends with Tomekichi. When the pair come to Tokyo, they both fall in love with stage dancers.

The 49th NHK Taiga drama is Ryoma den, set back in the Bakumatsu period. The story focuses on the life of Sakamoto Ryoma, who lived from 1835 to 1867. He was an important leader in the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa Bakufu, eventually bringing about the Meiji Restoration. He was also one of the founders of modern day Japanese navy through incorporation of western technology, which proved to be a force to be reckoned with during the revolution. (wiki.d-addicts.com)

Based on the true story of a young boy who travelled to Thailand to become Japan's first elephant trainer.

In Edo period Japan, yokai monster Tofu Kozo always balances a tofu on a tray or he will vanish into the air. One day, he is accidentally transported to the present modern day. (imdb)

One relatively peaceful post-war day in Japan, a barber and good family man, is unexpectedly arrested by the Prefectural Police, declared a suspected war criminal, and subsequently sued for murder by the American occupation forces.

A father and daughter in Japan climb to the top of a ridge to watch the moonrise. As they wail, an old man tells them his story. An adaptation of Tetsuya Takeda's story about the relationship between a Japanese child and an American soldier.

To pursue dream, Kazumi (Wakui Emi) quits job going to NY to study jewelry design, ignoring objections of well-meaning dad (Takeda Tetsuya). In remaking herself, swaps to contacts. She drops them but mysterious man helps prevent them from being trodden on, he walks away before she can thank him. Years pass, and Kazumi is on way home after letter fm bro saying father critically ill. She has some run-ins with a sloppily-dressed man, freelancer, Kaoru, he agrees to act as her fiancée. (imdb)

Karate expert Katayama (Takeda) investigates the robbery of a bank in Hokkaido, where an apple seed left at the scene holds the answer to the robbers' whereabouts.

A martial arts master/detective investigates a series of murders and helps a deaf bathhouse attendant, Hisako.

A cop, Katayama, gains the trust of a mother and daughter whose father, Nishina, is missing after being accused of killing a gang boss.

The continued adventures of the karate cop.

The final karate cop adventure.