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An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty four hours bears no relation to the circumstances of their encounter.
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his assets from the Japanese authorities. Itakura and Gondo soon find themselves engaged in a complicated, satirical battle of wits.
"Bankruptcy fighter" Akiko Tachibana is back, this time defending a friend's business from shady loan sharks.
A widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for his help and increasingly starts to rely on him.
A bounty on the neck of Hitoshi Kamibayashi. A conspiracy swirling underworld! Someone put a prize on Jin's neck and scattered photos of Jin in the underworld around Shibuya. Sunagawa, who saw the situation seriously, advises Hitoshi and Yoshiro to be careful. Yoshiro searches for a mastermind aiming at Hitoshi's neck and finds out that it is the work of Kuroki, the leader of the tent group. The Tenmankai was also known as a war hawk in the Musashinokai, which manages the area around Shibuya. Kuroki's ambition to assassinate Jin re-engages his former minions, who were trying to return to Katagi, into the world of Shura.
A free-spirited girl living in a Japanese province spends her time working in a brothel and running with her dog. When her routine is shattered she gets on a path of hate and self discovery.
In this installment of the Zero Woman series, Rei, the number-one assassin of the Tokyo Police Department's secret Zero Division, has been assigned to take out a notorious gangster responsible for dozens of murders. At the same time, she must protect the gangster's mistress from the hitmen who want to keep her from telling the police what she knows. At first, both women are upset about the arrangement, but they eventually come to appreciate each other.
The Kanto Ichienkai was devoted to the conflict with Hokuriku. At that time, Jin and his brother Tsuda appear in front of Jin in the former sand group. Tsuda was in a position to steal the money of the Hokuriku Union and be chased. Hitoshi and Yoshiro saved Tsuda's crisis, but it was Takechi, a brother of former Sunagawa group leader Sunagawa, who followed Tsuda. Twelve years ago, Takechi boarded an enemy territory alone in order to protect the sand group, which was still a weak organization, and was banished from Kanto due to that. What is the true meaning of Takechi's appearance over 12 years ?!
Kunihiko Date, a young criminal genius, puts a perfect crime plan into action to take revenge on the men who once drove his father to ruin.
A woman has a brief, intense affair with a younger man while awaiting her trial for the murder of her husband's mistress.
Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil painter. When a series of hardships befall her family, she finds herself unable to confide in her husband, and the pain she carries within begins to weigh heavily on her sanity...
Documentary with behind-the-scenes footage on the set of Abbas Kiarostomi's 2012 film "Like Someone in Love" with narration by the director.
Kaori, the principal of Tanimoto Gakuen, a major player in the beauty industry, is aiming to expand into Shinjuku in order to make further progress. However, she is overtaken by the president of the Beauty Association and others. Then, a mysterious man, Segiyama, appears before her. He tells Kaori that he will take back the rights to the salon in Shinjuku in exchange for campaign expenses.
Hitoshi and Yoshiro were called by Sunagawa and were referred to a man. Hamura is the second man in the Daido group. Hamura and Hitoshi used to have a nostalgic relationship with each other. A gunshot suddenly hits the two who bloom in the old story! Hamura suddenly pulls out his pistol and protects him, and is shot and injured. Jin, who vows revenge, searches for the man who attacked them. Eventually, the identity of the man was known. It was a man named Yoshikawa who was excommunicated by the road group. Hitoshi chases Yoshikawa, but Yoshiro has some suspicions.
Set against the backdrop of a bitter power struggle between the faction of the chairman of the board and the faction of the vice-chairman of the board of a large bank, this business mystery explores the lust, suffering and vindictiveness of one of the branch managers caught in the middle of the struggle. The term “cold current” refers to a current in which those who, once in it, find themselves will never emerge.
The 48th film in the popular yakuza action series starring Takeuchi Riki and Sakakibara Toshihiko.
41st movie in the series
Omnibus film that tells five stories from a radio station and its listeners.
Burn all your heart fire. Two samurai in the wilderness. A small group belonging to the Ichienkai, the Kagawa group. Shuichi Kagawa, the son of the group leader, is released after a long sentence. He officially inherited the traces of the Kagawa group. Yoshiro is surprised to meet Shuichi, who has been in prison for a long time as a thought criminal. He was a junior who fought the student activism with Yoshiro. Around that time, there was information that Hitman, a well-known person in Kansai, had infiltrated the neighborhood. Jin instructs Kumosuke to look around. However?!
The 47th film in the popular yakuza action series starring Takeuchi Riki and Sakakibara Toshihiko.
Police detective Amachi fights against those who banished him from his job-both cops and criminals.
A visit to the employment office, practicing dance steps, making music with friends: several women’s everyday lives are captured in long shots and with a superb sense of place. A film like a summer's day, bright, friendly, with the occasional chill.
The young Jin Kambayashi, still a cadet for the Suna clan, tries to shoot the second head of the rival Kurokawa clan, but accidentally shoots Giro Yazaki, a young man who has nothing to do with the yakuza, in the leg. Giro, an activist with dashed dreams of revolution, resonates with Jin's simple, straightforward way of life and volunteers to become a yakuza. Meanwhile, Onimaru, a lieutenant of the Kurokawa clan, has murdered the second head of the clan and is about to pin the crime on the Suna clan.
Shoichi Sakurai, who started his own trading company and is obsessed with business, is approached with a mineral resource deal. However, it is a trap set by a politician who wants Sakurai to play as a substitute. Falling right into the trap, Sakurai is forced to participate in an underground mahjong match held at a certain country's embassy...
Toru, a high schooler, decides to leave his grandmother's home in the mountains and moves in with his aunt. There he meets three sisters at his welcome party. On his way to his new home, he is struck by one of the sisters' beauty. A boy who spent his life quietly like a plant starts to take action on his own.
