Yôko Akino

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)

Kenji has a hard time being intimate with his girlfriend Noriko partially because he fears he has an STD. In order to get tested, Kenji is hired by his mother to spy on his father to see if he is still cheating on her. He is, and his father's girlfriend actually starts working for the family.

Otaki, a member of a small yakuza family, hunts down the people who murdered his boss.

Bored with school, 15-year-old Daisuke Kawashima embarks on a pilgrimage to visit the 7,000-year-old cedar tree on distant Yakushima Island. Through his journey, Daisuke meets a number of interesting people, including friendly truck driver Sumire and a mysterious mountaineer girl. (imdb)

A pair of black-robed thieves who robbed many wealthy merchants in Edo one after another. One of them is a young woman who is called "Aoi no Kozo" because she always takes off her skin to show the tattoo on her back. The target of the robbers was the Kogi, and in particular, the big stores that were under the control of Hotta Bizen. Itami Hanzo, a Doshin known as "Kamisori Hanzo" discovers when he tracks down the Aoi no Kozo! What is the truth?!

A young man tries to avenge his friend, who was deliberately killed in a car race.