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An independent group of researchers called the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN) actively track Godzilla as he makes landfall in Nemuro. Matters are further complicated when a giant meteor is discovered in the Ibaragi Prefecture. The mysterious rock begins to levitate as it's true intentions for the world and Godzilla are revealed.
Part one of a twelve part direct to video film series. Based on the comic by Tatsuo Nitta.
An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish older brother.
Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly at a marriage meeting.
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During a dark time in the Heian period, when evil forces threaten the kingdom, the emperor relies on the onmyōji to keep the supernatural forces in line. But as political events become highly charged, friction within the order leads to betrayal. Now, Seimei, a talented member of the clan, must face down his master, Dōson, in the hopes of restoring peace to the kingdom.
Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.
In the far-off future of 2001, a young boy from outer space lands on earth inside a flying peach. The boy (named Apple) is adopted by a Catholic priest, but soon disappears. Three schoolgirls decide to search for him, and soon find evidence that he is being held captive in a trendy dance club. What is the club owner doing with him, and will his adopted father ever see him again?
The Dairanger must save children who are transforming into playing cards by the powers of the Duke of Cards.
After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he owes them, but the plan hits a snag. Also, a pretty kindergarten teacher rents a room at Toraya.
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.
After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an honest worker with a steady job.
An employee of a bank goes missing following his retirement from the bank. Veteran detective Yobuno (Koji Yakusho), who is set to retire himself, is charged with the investigating the missing person case. Det. Yobuno quickly finds more mysterious as he delves into the case, but a woman named Keiko Fukumura (Eri Fukatsu) surfaces who may hold the key to case.
Kitagawa, a top salesman with an impressive record, is hiding a dark secret—he borrowed the 9 million yen of his record from loan sharks. One day, while being pursued by the yakuza, he escapes to a rooftop where he unexpectedly meets a mysterious elderly woman and an office worker. Soon, the rooftop transforms into a serene escape, as they find themselves playing nostalgic childhood games like "Kick the Can" and "Red Light, Green Light." But beneath the surface, all three of them are hiding a significant secret...
In the streets of ultra-modern Shinjuku, Sosuke, a young would-be detective, all of a sudden attacked by a monster robot and falls unconscious. Determined to unravel the mystery, Sosuke joins forces with four members to fight against the robot. Will they be successful?
Hiroshi Asami has been working at Tsuburaya Productions for nearly 20 years. He is a member of the special effects team who both creates and wears kaiju costumes, making him an expert on how they move. As a seasoned veteran of the Ultraman Series, Hiroshi is involved in the production of a new movie. However, when it is decided to replace the traditional kaiju costumes with CGI to make the film more internationally appealing, he is removed from the team and transferred to another department.
A yakuza family goes into show business.
Furuchi and Hama are a pair of unsuccessful repairmen and electronic engineers. Out in the fog late one night, Furichi finds a so-called Kotatsu space heater. Bringing their haul home to their apartment building chockfull of eccentrics leads to punk rock delinquency, murder, suicide by clock, and one cursed Kotatsu driving their electric bill into overdrive, not to mention craving human flesh.
The body of Shinsuke Maeda, a wealthy older man, is discovered in his garden. While at first glance it appears that he missed his step while exiting into the garden and hit his forehead on a flowerbed rock, it is established that a safe installed in the living room has been emptied. It seems that, the night before, Maeda left the hospital he was staying at of his own will and came home, and was robbed immediately after returning. His daughter Yumie Nagano insists that Chikako Inui, a woman her father had been seeing, must be the perpetrator. She says that Maeda was thinking of getting married to Chikako soon. However, Chikako finds Yumie and her husband suspicious. Troubled by debts incurred by opening their ramen store, they pestered Maeda and he pushed them away. She calmly points out that Maeda gave her a will in which he left all of the 50 million plus yen hidden in the safe to her, so she had no reason to steal from him.
When a team of detectives lose the trail of a murderer, they decide to keep an eye on the suspect’s ex-lover, who is trapped in an abusive marriage.
Akiko returns to her home village in Japan after seven years in South America, where she contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion. The town, thick with paranoia, is quick to ostracize the ailing Akiko. With only her best friend and her mom in her corner, Akiko suffers awful discrimination at school and at home.
A popular movie star named Hiroshi Nanjo faces a huge problem in filming his new action flick when they find out he hasn't got a license to drive. He is sent to a driving school and...
Ryōji Shuto, the only son of a top-tier cram school owner, is a man determined to take the shortest route to the top—not only aiming to become the boss of the Komashi gang, but also to rise to the pinnacle of the yakuza world. The first target Ryōji set his sights on was the Onimatsu Alliance, which had recently moved into the neighbourhood. Ryōji recklessly challenges the chairman, Kyōsuke Matsuguchi, to a one-on-one duel, only to be dismissed out of hand. Meanwhile, Matsuguchi, having set his sights on the Shuto Seminar, begins to blackmail Ryōji’s father, Rentaro, using the school’s management policies as leverage. Learning of his father’s predicament, Ryōji stages a grand charade that even draws in Matsuguchi’s wife, Kyoko!
The film depicts the fatal, forbidden love between Nadeko, who is bought by a shop selling her mother, and her son-in-law, Jisumaru.
#19 in the series, following "Con Man Elimination."
Misaki is a popular bar hostess whose policy is to 'live on presents'. She is haughty and wants nothing but the most expensive and exclusive. One night, she finds a rabbit and takes it home, setting off the story of an unimaginable tragedy. It is an 'animal panic horror' film with a new edge presenting an allegory of the worst in the modern materialistic world. This is the first full-length feature film for Yuichi Kanemaru, who has worked as assistant director to Kaneto Shindo, Yasuo Furuhata and Takashi Miike. And Tomoko Tabata's dynamic performance in her first horror movie is a definite highlight.
Part two of twelve.
Fight fiercely with a duo of hitmen to protect the witnesses of the trial!
Daijiro Akagi, a prodigal son who has been out of touch for three years, turns up at his father’s first anniversary memorial service and declares, ‘I’m going to buy Tsutenkaku and turn it into the Akagi family mausoleum.’ However, with no source of funds, he enlists the help of his younger brother, Kojiro—a man of cunning but little else—to raise the money. Their plan progresses steadily, but…
Kuroki is crazy about gambling and Shirakawa loves unrivalled women. The pair are investigating a bank robbery.
#58 in the series, following "The Pressure of Brands"
