Yûko Takeuchi

A mysterious video kills whomever views it, unless that viewer can solve its mystery. (imdb)

A top secret American forces strategic bomber known as Midnight Eagle suddenly vanishes in the Northern Alps. Its payload is a specialized nuclear warhead. If it were to explode, the entire nation of Japan would be hurled into an unprecedented calamity. Prime Minister Takafumi Watarase convenes an emergency meeting of the Security Council of Japan. An elite squad from the Self-Defense Force able to operate in severe mountains conditions is formed, and heads off to try and recover the fuselage... (Strand Releasing)

Mio's death leaves husband Takumi and 6 year old son Yuji fending for themselves. Taku occasionally suffers fainting spells, is disorganized, and fears that his health hindered Mio's happiness. Yuji overheard relatives speculate that his delivery compromised her health, and he blames himself for her death. Mio left him a picture book in which she departs for "The Archive Star" but re-appears during the rainy season the following year, and he eagerly awaits her return. (imdb.com)

Kae, a college student who dreams of becoming a teacher, discovers a notebook in the house she has just moved into. The notebook turns out to be the diary of a woman, Mano Ibuki, who had just started teaching in primary school. Kae becomes absorbed by the woman's pure heart, reading about her life and love. She falls for a painter, Ishitobi, while working at her part time job. As time passes, she finds out an unexpected sad truth. (movies.yahoo.com)

Ever since Tojo University Hospital established Team Batista-a group of doctors specializing in the Batista procedure, an alternative therapy to heart transplant-the team had scored one success after another. But suddenly three consecutive operations conducted by the team end up with the death of the patients. The hospital launches an in-house investigation and sends in Kohei Taguchi, perennial professor of neurological medicine and head of the Unspecific Complaints clinic. (AsianMediaWiki)

In the town of Aso a boy returns to his mother after he was missing for 58 years. Inspector Kawada from the welfare ministry is sent to the town to investigate these strange occurence. Soon, more and more dead people are resurrected and return to their loved ones. (imdb)

A year after the celebrated cracking of "The Glorious Team Batista" case, the talented medical staff at Tojo University Hospital once again finds itself embroiled in a web of intrigue and scandal. The scandal occurs this time in the ER when a mysterious letter arrives for Dr. Kimiko Taguichi.. The letter reads: "Chief Surgeon Hayami of the Emergency Center has a collusive relationship with a medical supplies maker. And the head nurse is in on it with him." An unimaginab (http://asianmediawiki.com/The_Triumphant_Return_of_General_Rouge)

When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Minister's assassination, and on the run from corrupt cops. It's only the beginning of what quickly becomes the worst, weirdest day of his life. But he'll get by with a little help from his friends, who include a famous pop diva, a rockabilly deliveryman, a crippled old gangster, and the world's most cheerful serial killer. (Los Angeles Film Festival)

A young lawyer is tasked with defending a client from a murder charge and has to rely on the testimony of a 500-year-old ghost.

Set in Sendai, Japan, 2 men live completely different lives. One is a star professional baseball player and the other burglarizes empty homes. Their fate connects with unseeable connections when Tadashi Imamura (Gaku Hamada) and a suicidal woman enter the home of the professional baseball player ... (asianwiki.com)

Negishi's new film "Sidecar ni Inu (Dog in a Sidecar)" -- a drama about the odd summertime friendship between a timid girl and her father's free-spirited lover, would seem to be a complete change of pace. The tone is lighter and gentler, with the story verging at times on manga-esque fantasy (though it is based on an Akutagawa Prize-winning novel by Yu Nagashima). (japan Times)

A story of six women from three different generations, each living their own journeys in their respective periods, spanning decades of dramatic changes in Japan from the 1930s to the present.

Early 20th century Japan. Kiyoaki Matsugae, a young aristocrat falls in love with a girl he grew up with; Satoko Ayakura, who is to be married to a prince of the royal family.

A non "elite" female detective, Reiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi), stationed at the Metropolitan Police Department has risen fast through the ranks due to her hard work. She becomes involved in a murder case named "Strawberry Night". (wiki.d-addicts.com)

Working long hours in the emergency room, nurse Kana Aoshima befriends musician and frequent hospital patient Shogo Amami. Shogo's therapy visits for his muteness and blindness happen to ... (imdb)

Takakura is a former detective. He receives a request from his ex-colleague, Nogami, to examine a missing family case that occurred 6 years earlier. Takakura follows Saki's memory. She is the only surviving family member from the case. Meanwhile, Takakura and his wife Yasuko recently moved into a new home. Their neighbor, Nishino, has a sick wife and a young teen daughter. One day, the daughter, Mio, tells him that the man is not her father and she doesn't know him at all. (imdb)

April 4, 1959 in the early morning Detective Fujisawa Rokuro of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) was walking his dog along the banks of Tokyo's Musashino district, and found the body of a young woman. Her handbag, an express delivery envelope, and other possession were stil with her, her identity was immediately confirmed as airline stewardess Ikuta Setsuko. (dramawiki)

Pays homage to the classic by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, with bold interpretations of the iconic characters, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson. MISS SHERLOCK is set in modern day Tokyo and both lead characters are Japanese women - Dr. Wato Tachibana, a surgeon recently returned from a volunteer doctors' mission in Syria and Sara Shelly Futaba, an investigation consultant to the police department who solves bizarre and difficult cases... (letterboxd)

Nana is the cutest girl. She is also smart and aware of her talents. She has paws and purrs. Her father Satoru cannot take of her anymore and must give her up. He searches for someone to take care of Nana and begins visiting people who may be good candidates. As Nana and her father take trips in their car Satoru meets old friends, meets new friends and his own story unfurls in the process. (imdb)

Taiga is a struggling second-generation actor who has developed a complex due to his father, a famous actor in his time. Taiga, only get to appear in variety shows, most of the time. One day when his friend bring him out for a skydiving, a big wind drag him away from the dropping point and he got stuck in a tree. A beautiful woman, Shiori, come to rescue him. Shiori is a cheerful woman who laughs away all worries she has. She's exactly the opposite of Taiga. (imdb)

A story set in a café situated along a small cape and run by an elderly woman named Etsuko and aided her nephew Koji (IMDB).

Takuminokami Asano is a lord who is ordered commit harakiri [suicide] due to a scheme by Kozukenosuke Kira. Having no time to mourn his lord's death, Kuranosuke Oishi decides to take revenge on Kozukenosuke Kira. He plans an attack with the help of accountant Chosuke Yato, but they don't have enough in their budget.

A seventy-year-old retired school headmaster informs his wife and daughters that he has Alzheimer's disease. They are all concerned, but react differently due to their individual situations. The family watches as the husband and father regresses due to the disease and loses his memory. Interestingly, there are sparkling moments of his life of which the man will not let go. (imdb)

A woman who's had a hard life is convicted of arson-murder and is sentenced to hang. Her childhood friends cannot believe she'd do this and rally round but, while imprisoned on Death Row, she refuses all aid. Why? Series tells her life story alternating between "now" and past incidents related to her childhood and school friends going right from childhood innocence to "today". (Personal synopsis)

Haru Satonaka is the captain of an ice-hockey team, a star athlete who stakes everything on hockey but can only consider love as a game. (tmdb)