Yoriko Dôguchi

Part atmospheric crime film and part philosophical meditation, this film follows a detective who is tracking a series of identical murders, committed under the same bizarre circumstances. (Cowboy Booking International)

A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food.

A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action. (imdb)

Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from. Meanwhile, a police detective is investigating a string of brutal murders, where he also runs across the name "Tomie." How are two connected? (imdb)

Who is the mysterious "Friend" and how does he tie into Kenji's youth? Why are there disappearances and deaths tied into Ochanomizu University? Their memories hold the keys to the puzzle, but time and age have clouded their minds. The strange occurrences and the reach of the "Friend" conspiracy grow by the day. It will all culminate on New Year's Eve 2000. Will Kenji and the others be able to put together the puzzle and save the world? (robojapan.blogspot.com)

Jealous of his wifes love for another man, a teacher from her high school, a man brutally kills his wife and young son. Searching for the son who has missed a lot of school, the teacher enters their house, only to find the dead ghost of his mother, and consequently has a heart attack and becomes a ghost himself. The story goes on to tell of the new tenants of the house and what they experience, and an investigation by two police officers into why so many people are dissapearing. (imdb)

Traveling blind masseurs Tokuichi and Fukuichi are on the go from season to season, offering their services at hot spring mountain resorts and spas. Though unable to see, Tokuichi is extremely sensitive, able to deduce intimate details about people from sounds, scents, and touch. Arriving at his latest inn, Tokuichi takes an interest in two mysterious clients - Tokyo beauty Michiho who slowly steals his heart, and Omura, also from Tokyo, who is accompanied by his bored, mischievous nephew.. (http://community.livejournal.com/smapxsmap/246363.html)

A girl from the country arrives at a university looking for her boyfriend. She befriends a student and together they take part in Professor Hirayama's seminar on shyness.

A drama centered on a young woman who heads to her father's home in Okinawa to try and cope with her boyfriend's death. (imdb)

A quiet killer is looking for a room. The real state agent, shy and expressionless, guides him through Tokyo, towards the ruins the decadent economy has left behind, in hopes of finding The Room. (imdb)

At the end of the second world war the Japanese buried one of their projects to make a super armored soldier. Almost fifty years later it wakes up and begins to kill. (imdb)

Two petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members, fortunately they are rescued by a kindly Kindergarten teacher. (imdb)

Hapless gangsters are hired by the yakuza to tail his daughter. Once the identity of the boy she's dating has been unveiled, the boss offers a reward for his capture. (imdb)

The third in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself film series.

Kosaku wins a trip to Hawaii, while Yuji receives a briefcase full of cash when a gangster seemingly drops dead in front of him. The briefcase is stolen by a girl Yuji tries to woo, while the original owner returns from the dead to reclaim it with a yakuza boss, who he was suppose to give it to, breathing down his neck.

Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a young man named Aoyagi who is trying to rally his neighbourhood into chasing all the yakuza elements out of town...the results of this however may lead to worse of scenarios taking place for the whole city.

Yoshi, aged 24, awakes after 10 years in a coma, goes on to start a new life and rebuild his family. (imdb)

Set shortly after Japan's defeat in WWII, the story follows a young man named Risuke who has contracted tuberculosis. He travels to the countryside to a unique nursing facility to receive treatment for his disease. (imdb)

In a secret room, four people were tied around their necks by a rope and stood on an unstable support, the rope was connected with a combination lock, can they successfully save themselves?

A haunted melody, a used record one must possess. At any cost. Adapted from Junji Ito's short story Used Record.

While attending the wedding of a school friend, four teenage sisters investigate the murder of the bride on board a luxury liner.

Film director Mario Baba meets a mysterious gentleman and realizes he is an important man from his boyhood. The two chase each other around, causing a lot of commotion.