Buddy Matsumae

There is you, there is me, there is the film. The establishment of Hiroyuki Oki’s Matsumae-Kun’s film is an inversion of the relationship between reality and image, as opposed to a documentary or a story film.…

Teruo Ishii Movie Soul

A documentary about director Teruo Ishii, a genius who died in 2005 at the age of 81, leaving behind numerous masterpieces such as blockbuster works such as the "Abashiri Bangaichi" .

Be a Light to the World

9.0

Kite, a childhood friend who reunited with the main character, Rei, was the music producer and sound writer for the Brutal orchestra band Vampillia. After seeing their performance at the live house, Ray aims to become…

Hinatazaka46 Documentary Film 2nd

9.2

20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End

7.6

In 1969, Kenji, an elementary school kid and his friends built a secret base during their summer holidays. They fantasized that they had to fight villains who were out to conquer the world and wrote them in the Book…

Gekijoban Kimi to Sekai ga Owaru Hi ni Final

7.5

Utopia was a tower of hope, but it was a tower of despair created by human desires. In Utopia, they were researching the only way to save this world: a vaccine against the monster called Golem. One girl with special…

Kageboshi Torimonocho

A movie commemorating the appearance of Arashi Kanjuro's 300 films.

Journey into Sato Tadao

Sato Tadao is a giant of film criticism with over 150 published works to his name. Not being an elite, he was ultimately the first film critic to be selected as a Person of Cultural Merit. In the 1980s, he made it…

Godzilla Minus One

8.5

Post-war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb. (Source: IMDb)

Nemesis: The Mystery of the Golden Spiral

7.1

Set two years after the drama series "Nemesis," Kazama Naoki works for Nemesis Detective Agency and is regarded as a brilliant detective. He is able to solve the most difficult of cases, but he has a secret. His secret…

Nakajima Sayoko

Sayoko Nakajima is a former actress that enjoyed a brief but memorable career in pinku-eiga and AV from 1988 to 1990. (Source: TMDb)

Higuchi Shinji

Higuchi Shinji, born in Tokyo, is a Japanese director and former special effects director. Higuchi has done much to overhaul the visual effects landscape of Japanese films, starting with the critically acclaimed Gamera trilogy in the 90s. He encouraged the melding of CGI with traditional “suitmation”…

Sato Hisayasu

Hisayasu Sato is a Japanese exploitation film director. He has worked prolifically in the pinku eiga genre. He is known for his "sledgehammer" filmmaking style, and using his exploitation career to tackle serious subjects like obsession, alienation, perversion and voyeurism. He is famous for his "guerilla…

Nakamura Tsuruzo III

Born the 15th of October 1884. First son of the rakugo storyteller Katsura Eiga. He started his career as a disciple of the zamoto Nakamura Kanzaburô XIII. He made his debut on stage in March 1896 at the Meijiza, where he received the name of Nakamura Kamematsu I. He became a disciple of Ichikawa Ennosuke…

Arai Haruhiko

Haruhiko Arai is a Japanese screenwriter. He is also a publisher and an editor of the Eiga Geijutsu magazine. He is also a professor of Japan Institute of the Moving Image. He won the Mainichi Film Award for best screenplay for the film "W's Tragedy" in 1984. His published but unfilmed scenario, "Divine…

Miyagawa Tomoyuki

Miyagawa Tomoyuki is an executive officer and head of the Programming and Production Department at Nippon Eiga Hoso Kabushiki Gaisha (Japan Movie Broadcasting Corporation). He is from Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the Department of Arts at Nihon University. After working at Tohoku Shinsha, he transferred…

Matsumoto Hana

Matsumoto Hana is a Japanese actress and film director. She was recruited at the age of eight and started her professional activities soon after, appearing in movies and television series. In addition to her work as an actress, she also started directing home projects during her second year of high…

Tomomatsu Naoyuki

Tomomatsu was interested in manga and film from high school and started working as an office assistant to manga artist Shungicu Uchida. In 1992, he wrote his first screenplay for Shintōhō Eiga's pink film, The Pregnant Woman. His first film as a director was the independently produced Summer Color…

Susumu Hani

Tokyo native Susumu Hani was one of the earlier directors involved in what later became known as "Nuberu Bagu" ('nouvelle vogue' or 'new wave') cinema of Japan. He unusually begun work outside the Japanese studio system and was employed by Iwanami Eiga, the film unit of a publishing company, before…

Koyama Seijiro

Born in Gifu Prefecture, Koyama attended Nihon University but quit midway to join the independent production company Kindai Eiga Kyokai, where he worked as an assistant director under such directors as Shindo Kaneto, Yoshimura Kozaburo, and Imai Tadashi. He made his directorial debut in 1971 with the…