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Daikichi learns that his recently deceased grandfather has an illegitimate daughter with an unknown mother. The girl's name is Rin and she is just 6 years old. Everybody in Daikichi's family looks at the girl as an embarrassment and wants no part of her. Disgusted by his family's attitude, Daikichi decides to raise Rin by himself, even though he has no experience raising a child and is still single.
The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over. But she's hiding a troubling secret. Life's joys are found in the little details, and no matter what may be weighing you down, everyone loves a good pastry.
Tatsuhiko relocates from Shinjuku to Yokohama, where he comes into conflict with Masaki Taki, CEO of the local scout company.
Haru is a rather cool fifth-grade elementary school student who shares the same tastes as her mother’s younger sister Yuko (Kaho) and can tell Yuko what she really feels. On the first day of the summer vacation, Haru is kidnapped. The culprit is her free-spirited father Takashi who disappeared from home two months ago.
Constantly on the run from a vicious loan shark, two small-time con artists, Take and Tetsu, plan their biggest and most complex con yet in order to get revenge and retire from a life of crime. However, things get complicated when they cross paths with Mahiro, a young woman that Take inadvertently orphaned during a job gone awry years ago. Seeing Mahiro down on her luck, Take tries to relieve his guilt by taking her on as a partner, while hiding his true identity. But as his plan unfolds, Take discovers that he isn't the only one with a secret.
A famous chef who is tasked with tracking down a 70-year-old missing recipe.
The story revolves around a pachinko parlor worker named Shiori (Aoi) and her aspiring musician boyfriend, Tetsu. The two of them travel from Kyushu to Tokyo together and struggle to stay afloat while Tetsu chases his dream. Tetsu’s younger brother eventually shows up and the two brothers form a duo and start to play some shows together. Later, Shiori gets recruited as a gravure idol while Tetsu gets involved with a local yakuza and cheats on Shiori with another woman. Tetsu continues loving Shiori, but big city life gradually tears them apart.
A seemingly unremarkable man called “Mouse” is caught by the police. In exchange for his freedom, he goes undercover, infiltrates a drug ring, and arranges a fake deal, but an unexpected turn of events occurs.
A high-class restaurant "Hanakawado" with tradition and formality. After her father's death, Sakura, the daughter of the heir of the store, stood on the board herself and ran the store. The news arrives to Sakura, who was wielding a kitchen knife as usual. Shuji, who had been out for three years and was my father's first apprentice, Hanakawado's flower board, was found! The two of them did not say it in words, but they were in love with each other. Sakura leaves the shop to the current flower board, Table, and asks Shuji about it. Reunited for the first time in three years, the two gradually develop a love for each other. However, Sakura is Shuji ...
A rampage at a university, the students Yuka and Mai are frozen with fear. At gunpoint, the two perpetrators try to force them to decide which of them must die next. In a moment of distraction, Mai tries to escape but is badly injured by a shot in the back. After the killers have moved on, a student, Hayashi Yuka, comes to the rescue. But even as they try to save Mai together, the killers return. Hayashi is driven to an act of desperation that leaves him with deep wounds.
Riko, who will begin university in Tokyo in spring, journeys there from Hiroshima in February with her father to find a place for her to live. On their travels, they meet various colorful characters. The father remembers his late wife, and raising his daughter alone. Their fun time together is tinged with the knowledge that it is about to end. Rakugo performer Kyotaro Yanagiya appears in his first leading film role, and rising star Anna Ishii plays the sensitive Riko. The eccentric supporting cast includes Romi Park, Akihiro Kakuta, Keiko Yanagawa, Kei Ishibashi, LaSalle Ishii, and Momiji Yamamura.
What happens when an innocent 18-year-old girl has to work in the adult video industry? Find out the hilarious results in Rinko Eighteen, based on the comic by Matsumoto Taka. In her first starring role, gravure model Tashiro Sayaka stars as Rinko, an aspiring doctor who returns home to find out that her father is bankrupt and has divorced her mother. With nowhere to go, Rinko signs up for the first job she finds, which turns out to be a production assistant at an adult video production company. Naturally, nothing can possibly prepare her for the work waiting for her at her new job…
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Sakura Suzukawa is a popular beauty who works in the hall of 'Big Paradise'. She had a boyfriend named Goro Nanao, who worked for a listed pachislot maker and was assigned to set up pachislot machines and develop new machines. After living together for a year, Sakura begins to pressure Goro into getting married. Goro, who is in trouble, receives information about the back slot 'God Seven' from the manager, Nishigaki! It costs 1,500 yen to spin one game, but it's a super explosive shop with 175,000 yen per big shot. At first, Goro is reluctant, but when he earns as much as four million dollars in one night, he gradually becomes unable to escape his charm. Sakura and the manager of Big Paradise are involved, and the situation is changing moment by moment.
Naomi Kawase describes Sakura Ando, the lead character in her film, as "a mysterious creature" who is "like a fairy. SEED is the story of the journey this girl takes from the enchanted nature of Nara to the chaos of Tokyo, and the encounters she has along the way. A boy offers her the gift of an apple, which she in turn gives to a homeless man, who proffers a soft piece of chiffon fabric in return. Moving like a tree that sways in the wind, the girl embodies a spirit that secretly runs through places and living things. The eleventh film commissioned by Miu Miu Women's Tales was directed by the multiple Cannes award-winning Japanese director Naomi Kawase.
When her boyfriend leaves Chiba for Tokyo, Rin must take his place as leader of the motorcycle gang and fight their rivals.
Shō is a troubled girl stuck in a miserable life: an alcoholic father and a no-good boyfriend. When she runs into trouble with members of Yokosuka Blood, the gang she was forced into, her unexpected saviour is none other than Ikki—the former leader of their rival gang, Yokosuka Jet. As Shō tries to escape the gang life, she’s caught by her own team and brutally beaten…
Young Komori was a virgin. In order to offer her virginity to her first love, she kept her virginity for 25 years. His first love was a girl he met by chance when he was in the first grade of junior high school. But without being able to express her feelings, she moved. Komori travels to Tokyo to find the girl and asks a detective. The detective, who reluctantly accepts Komori's request, discovers that Aiko, a familiar soap lady, is Komori's first love as he investigates.
