Koki Mitani

All About Suomi (2024)

The wife of a tycoon, Suomi, suddenly disappears. Upon learning of her disappearance, assembled at the mansion where her husband lives are five men who have loved her. But they each describe their version of "Suomi" very differently, both in appearance and ...

Warai no daigaku (2023)

VAMP SHOW (2022)

Promise of Death (2021)

Detective Suguro is enjoying a stay at a luxurious hotel in Wakayama. Also staying at the hotel is an unusual family led by rich widow Mrs. Hondo. She acts like a tyrant around her children, who are afraid of her and are at her beck and call. Unfortunately ...

Daichi (Social Distancing Version) (2020)

Recording of the play Daichi (Social Distancing Version) performed on July 11, 2020, at the PARCO Theater in Tokyo's Shibuya City. ...

Hit Me Anyone One More Time (2019)

Keisuke Kuroda wakes up in a hospital bed unable to remember who he is. While sneaking out of the hospital, he sees a glimpse of the news and realizes that he is the Prime Minister of Japan. His approval rating was the lowest in the history of modern Japan ...

Fuunjitachi ~ Rangaku Kakumei-hen (2018)

Maeno Ryotaku (Kataoka Ainosuke) is a doctor of Buzen Province, Nakatsu domain. Aspiring to learn Western knowledge, he comes across a Dutch-language translation of the German medical text Anatomische Tabellen while studying in Nagasaki. After returning fr ...

Galaxy Turnpike (2015)

Set in the year 2265. There is a small restaurant along the main road Galaxy Kaido, which connects Earth and the space colony Uzushio. ...

Murder on the Orient Express (2015)

The Japanese adaption of Agatha Christie's famous whodunit "Murder on the Orient Express". ...

Jekyll & Hyde & Tears & Liquor (2014)

An adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" tells the story of Dr. Jekyll, who wants to invent a drug to separate good and evil in human. ...

Airport 2013 (2014)

When there's a transfer flight delay, a put-upon ground staff worker at a small town airport has to deal with a family that has plenty of problems of their own. Shot in a single take, "Airport" focuses on familial and romantic relationships and the secrets ...

The Kiyosu Conference (2013)

After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and Tsuneoki Ikeda meet to decide on a successor. The conference would become Japan's first group made political deci ...

A Flawless Concierge (2011)

A comedy about a concierge at a plush hotel who deals with a series of unusual guests. ...

三谷幸喜「short cut」 (2011)

After 10 years of marriage, a couple finds itself walking on a small path in the mountains. Allowing them to discover one another. ...

A Ghost of a Chance (2011)

Defence lawyer Emi is assigned to a particularly unusual case: a man is suspected of murdering his wealthy wife, and his only alibi is a 421-year old ghost, Rokubei. At first Emi is hesitant, but when she pursues her lead she is visited by the ghost hersel ...

Furuhata Chugakusei (2008)

Young Furuhata, a 3rd-year junior high student from Tokyo, transferred to a school in the countryside due to family circumstances. He doesn't fit in at first, but he eventually gains a reputation as a detective and opens his own detective agency. One day, ...

The Magic Hour (2008)

A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a mysterious hitman — an assassin the hustler has no idea how to contact. Instead, he hires an actor to play the rol ...

The Fearless Otojiro's Company (2007)

In 1897, actor, director, producer and theatre company leader Kawakami Otojiro set off on a tour of the USA with his wife Sadayakko and theatre company members, but in a foreign country where he could not speak the language, he had to struggle against a su ...

Suite Dreams (2006)

New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment and a special dinner planned and yet there is trouble everywhere. An Animal is on the loose, a politician to protect, ...

Furuhata Ninzaburo Final: Last Dance (2006)

Kyoko Kagami is a pen name for a pair of twin writers. After one sister kills the other, their technical advisor Furuhata investigates. His investigation is complicated by his feelings for the surviving sister. ...

Furuhata Ninzaburo Final: A Fair Murderer (2006)

Ichiro Suzuki, a baseball player obsessed with fair play, murders a man who was blackmailing his brother who is none other than Furuhata's faithful friend Mukojima. ...

Furuhata Ninzaburo The Resurrection Of Death (2006)

Furuhata investigates a series of bizarre, seemingly random accidental deaths. He zeroes in on the suspected murderer, but loses faith in his instincts when the suspect is himself killed. However, in the end, he ends up solving three murders and catching t ...

University of Laughs (2004)

In pre-war Japan, a government censor tries to make the writer for a theater troupe alter his comedic script. As they work with and against each other, the script ends up developing in unexpected ways. ...

All By His Excellency's Work (2004)

An employee at a Japanese embassy in a South American country is kidnapped but Furuhata, who is there on holiday, begins suspecting that the man was killed by none other than the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary himself. ...

Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover (2002)

Film about Sakamoto Ryōma. The focus is on Oryo, the maid who became Ryoma's wife and lived with him for one year before his death. ...

Vamp Show (2001)

Five merry men who travel and live all over the country. They all love to sing and for some reason they are all nocturnal. Their hobbies are raiding and blood donor cars. What they don't like is crosses, and what they love is - choo-choo-choo!!! ? ...

All About Our House (2001)

Two newlyweds decide to build their dream home, and hire an old friend named Yanagisawa to design it. Unfortunately, Yanagisawa isn't licensed to build homes, so they call in the wife's father, a retired carpenter, to help out. When Yanagisawa's contempora ...

The Terror of Dr. Kuroiwa (1999)

Furuhata comes out of retirement to investigate a series of bizarre serial killings which would look like deaths by natural causes except for the notes found inside the victims' anuses. ...

Furuhata Ninzaburo vs SMAP (1999)

Furuhata is called in to investigate a murder committed by the well-known Japanese boy band SMAP. ...

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997)

A love story written by an ordinary housewife is going to be broadcast as a radio drama and almost everyone among the crew insists on changing various parts of the play to their liking. ...

Warai no Daigaku (1997)

The Disappearance of Furuhata Ninzaburo (1996)

Famous detective Furuhata Ninzaburo has disappeared, so a TV crew decide to make a documentary about his career interviewing his associates and the killers he caught. ...

A Brief Parting (1996)

The head of a flower arrangement clan murders her overbearing teacher and rival during a flamenco recital. The one thing Furuhata, who was in the audience, can't quite figure out is how the killer found her victim in the dark auditorium. ...

The Laughing Kangaroo (1995)

A love triangle turns deadly during an awards ceremony in Australia. Unfortunately for the killers, however, Furuhata and Shintaro are on a well-deserved holiday in the same hotel. ...

The Gentle 12 (1991)

The film opens as a jury is about to acquit a defendant -- a bar hostess who pushed her ex-husband path of an oncoming truck, supposedly in self-defense. Just as everyone seems to be in agreement over the woman's innocence, one juror voices second thoughts ...

After All, I Love Cats the Three Onda Sisters’ Great Kyoto Troubles (1990)

1990 Original Video ...

90 Years Old – So What? (2024)

Aiko Satō, who has won many literary awards, retired from her life as a writer and had no guests. She spent a gloomy time, but then a middle-aged editor named Tachibana came with a commission for a story. The story begins with a series of essays that are ...

72nd NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen (2021)

What Happened to Our Nest Egg!? (2021)

Atsuko and Akira are a husband and wife duo with a daughter and a son. Atsuko is in charge of the retirement finances. She saves from money given to her by her husband and also earns money herself by working part-time. She stretches every yen by leading a ...

A Flawless Concierge (2011)

A comedy about a concierge at a plush hotel who deals with a series of unusual guests. ...

Tales of the Bizarre 20th Anniversary Spring Special: Popular Episode Competition (2010)

Murder of the Inugami Clan (2006)

Inugami Sahei, who built up the wealth of the Inugami Clan, passes away, leaving a will with Furudate, his legal adviser, for his daughters Matsuko, Takeko and Umeko, all of whom have different mothers, and for their sons, as well as for Nonomiya Tamayo, t ...

Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover (2002)

Film about Sakamoto Ryōma. The focus is on Oryo, the maid who became Ryoma's wife and lived with him for one year before his death. ...

Round About Midnight (1999)

While on a cigarette break in between sets, Koji, a jazz musician, witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Linda, who is being pursued by the killers. Mistakenly identified as prime suspects, they have to solve the crime but time is running out: Koji has ...