Narimi Arimori

Paradise of Solitude (2024)

Renowned novelist Yo Tsushima is struggling with a severe creative slump as the deadline for his next serialized work looms. One day, he unexpectedly comes across a letter bearing the words, "Please find my love," written by a young woman named Ayame Susa. ...

Hijacked Youth – Dare To Stop Us 2 (2024)

Nagoya, 1983: Legendary filmmaker Koji WAKAMATSU decides to open a cinema – not least to show his own films. The Cinema Skhole quickly turns into a hot spot for local cinephiles. Junichi INOUE tells an empathetic and almost true story about motion pictur ...

Knuckle Girl (2023)

Following the story of Ran, who confronts a mysterious organization by participating in a no-rules deathmatch after discovering her missing younger sister Yuzuki is involved in a crime. With danger at every corner, Ran must trade in her boxing gloves for b ...

Single8 (2023)

Summer 1978. High schooler Kurita is inspired by Star Wars, and films a spaceship scene on a 8mm camera together with his friend Ozawa. When the class is discussing a project for their school festival, Kurita's suggestion to make an SF movie ends up winnin ...

Tenjō no Hana (2022)

Tatsuji Miyoshi regards Sakutaro Hagiwara as his teacher. Feelings run deeper since he loves Sakutaro's youngest sister, Keiko, but she rejects him. A decade later and as the Pacific War rages, Tatsuji finds out that Keiko is recently widowed and he divorc ...

The Land Beyond the Starry Sky (2021)

When Akio Mori is almost hit by a truck, his friend Makoto Ozaki does everything he can to save him. Since then, Akio has been having the strangest and most recurring dream of a beautiful girl appearing before him. He has been having this dream for two mon ...

Nebagiba New World (2021)

A former boxing gym owner and his younger brother rise up to help a boy and his teacher's daughter from a vicious religious group that preys on good people. ...

Don't Forget the Kids (2020)

Yukina, who works as a call girl in the burbs just north of Tokyo, was sexually abused by her stepfather. Her younger stepbrother Minoru was also abused, but meanwhile he harbors feelings for her. He gets suspicious about her line of work after finding her ...

The Dog Bridegroom (2017)

Ninomiya Azusa is a depressed elementary school teacher in Tokyo, who has problems both at work and in her personal life. One day, she suddenly hears a voice saying "If you go to Imore Island, you will get what you want.", so she decides to give it a try. ...

What I Long For (2013)

High school student Juri leaps to her death. Afterwards, Juri wanders to her house, school and street. She feels loneliness as nobody else is able to see her. She talks to those that she comes across including her mother and classmates, but nobody responds ...

TAP: Perfect Education (2013)

In Okinawa, a down-and-out middle-aged yakuza underling named Shidara kidnaps and confines a high school girl named Yui, the daughter of a fellow yakuza's mistress. ...

The Tang of Lemon (2012)

Twenty-year-old Kaori, an aspiring accessory designer, spends her days troubled by her mother's violence and excessive meddling. Meanwhile, forty-year-old secretary Kaori, whose daughter is a shut-in, can't stop shoplifting and having casual sex. ...

Villain (2012)

Life Improvement Club (2008)

Arata Furuta plays a disgruntled saleryman fed up with being stepped on at home and at work, decides to get revenge on those who do bad things by killing them, only to gain a group of followers. ...

The Man in White Part 2: Requiem for the Lion (2003)

A rowdy, young yakuza takes revenge against a gang of thousands for the death of his boss. ...

The Man in White (2003)

After his father figure - a yakuza boss, is murdered, Azusa Moribe goes on a killing spree to exact revenge. ...

Graveyard of Honor (2002)

A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems. ...

Let's Get Happy (1998)

A comedy about the uproar in a yakuza office, before the dissolution ceremony the next day. The day before the dissolution of the Yamamuro group, it is reported that the leader of the hostile organization was assassinated by someone. ...

I Want to Hear the Wind's Song (1998)

A heartwarming, based-on-true-story of how a hearing-impaired couple, Masahiro and Namiko, knew each other, got married and began participating in the Triathlon. The story is told in flashbacks as Namiko awaits childbirth. ...

Blue Fake (1998)

Ayaka and Echika are asked to locate a woman who makes harassing phone calls to a popular DJ, but... ...

Benkei (1997)

At the end of the Heian period, Musashibo Benkei, a warrior monk who hated the Heike clan, was humiliated by his fellow monks and left the mountain monastery. Soon, Benkei competes with the Heike warriors on the Gojo Bridge in Kyoto and takes away their sw ...

She's Rain (1993)

A youth drama depicting love stories between high school boys and girls that unfold on the Hankyu Railway Line and the streets of Kobe. ...

Minamoto Yoshitsune (1990)

One evening, when the monk Saito Musashibo Benkei was luring for his sword number 1000 at Gojo bridge, Shanao (later Yoshitsune), a young man of small and fragile stature passed by. He wore a nice sword and played the flute. ...

1750 Days of Turbulence (1990)

After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years. ...

Days with Harasu (1989)

The movie depicts the interaction between a childless middle-aged couple and a small dog. ...

Festival of Dreams (1989)

Four Days of Snow and Blood (1989)

Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents before the coup was suppr ...

Bats & Terry (1987)

A story of two mates, Pitcher and catcher on a pro-baseball team, devoted to their game, bikes, girls and having a good time. When they meet a girl who is still mourning the death of her boyfriend in a bike accident, they try to help—though her beauty me ...

Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy (1986)

During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and his family help the friend's daughter, who becomes romantically involved with an aspiring artist. ...

Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies (1986)

Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and she is given a part as a bit player. After the studio's top leading lady is embroiled in a scandal, Koharu is suddenly thrust into the limelight wh ...

The Land Beyond the Starry Sky (1986)

After a traffic accident, Akio has the same recurring dream of girl standing under a starry sky. One day, he sees her at a train station platform, but afterwards he returns home and discovers he has been pulled into a parallel world, where he died in the t ...

Sotsugyou -GRADUATION- (1985)

Momoko Watanabe—a student who, upon visiting a shrine in order to wish good luck on a friend of hers, witnesses a murder in the forest...and she knows the culprit! Unfortunately, she doesn't have it in her to tell anybody about it, and to make matters wo ...