Shigemitsu Ogi

Character (2021)

A kind man aspires to become a manga writer, but villains and evil deeds do not come easily to him, for he has little experience or natural inclination for them. Things take a surprise turn when he comes across a family who were described as idealized that ...

The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood (2021)

In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who get involved in misadventures while on set. ...

A Man in Love (2019)

Middle age divorced man in Tokyo falls in love with Hostess club girl and his assistant. ...

Double Mints (2017)

Mitsuo Ichikawa reconnects with his former schoolmate and mentor, only to discover he's a thug and a murderer. Instead of distancing themselves, they forge a new alliance. ...

Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 66: Kushiro-Obihiro Murder Route (2016)

The strangled dead body of Hiroshi Hatano, accounting section chief at the longstanding apparel company Edaka International, is discovered in his apartment in Tokyo. At the scene, Inspector Totsugawa and Detective Kamei find out that a mysterious email sta ...

Terminal Station Series - Umbrella of Goodwill (2015)

Masanao Ushio and other detectives from Shinjuku West PD discover the strangled dead body of a woman in an empty building in West Shinjuku in Tokyo. According to her husband Takeshi, the murdered Chieko Akiba was a top salesperson at the insurance company ...

Kazoku gokko (2015)

Different people and five different families are acting out various scenarios, scripts and what-ifs. First there is the four Suzuki family members, who are not, sitting around a table in isolation. Then there is the unveiling of a will and what happens whe ...

Kimi ga Inakucha Dame Nanda (2015)

A young writer's father returns after a long-time disappearance. ...

Have a Song on Your Lips (2015)

A young piano prodigy, Yuri Kashiwagi, returns to her hometown after several years and joins a middle school to mentor the choir group. ...

Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 36 (2014)

Columbo of Shinano - Dead Person's Echo (2013)

The first in a series of Japanese TV movies about a police detective who has adopted the dress and mannerisms of famous American TV detective Columbo, based on a series of novels by popular mystery author Yasuo Uchida. One day, Detective Takemura Iwao, al ...

Detective Conan: Shinichi Kudo and the Kyoto Shinsengumi Murder Case (2012)

Kudo Shinichi and Mori Ran are invited to the set of a jidaigeki in Kyoto. On their airplane ride to Kyoto, a murder mystery arises. As well, when they finally reach the set in Kyoto, they become involved in another murder mystery. Will Kudo Shinichi be ab ...

Paradise Kiss (2011)

Hyasaka Yukari only wants one thing: to enter the college that her mom wants. One day, she meets an extravagant group that loves fashion. They were searching for a model and Yukari fits their ideal model. From now Yukari will know the world of fashion and ...

Abacus and Sword (2010)

Set during the Meiji Restoration period of Edo era Japan, Naoyuki belongs to the 8th generation of the Inoyama family, a wealthy family known for finance & accounting. He is also a gifted mathematician and uses the abacus with extreme skills. Naoyuki works ...

Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose (2010)

After Detective Shunsaku Aoshima is promoted to section chief he has the daunting task of dealing with eight cases at the same time, which includes a murder case, bomb threat, and a bus hijacking. Complications also arise between Detective Aoshima and his ...

Bushido Sixteen (2010)

Kaori is an intense kendo fighter who has been training since she was young. Sanae is a girl who has only participated in kendo casually, but somehow manages to beat Kaori in the final tournament of junior high school. Although Sanae doesn't particularly c ...

Hi to Shio (2009)

Cellular Boyfriend (2009)

High school student Ayumi falls to her death shortly after telling her friends, Satomi and Yuka, that her 'boyfriend' wants to kill her. The girls investigate her suicide and quickly link her death to a popular cellphone dating simulation game called Keita ...

The Ninja Killer (2009)

Rain Fall (2009)

A hit man looks to protect the daughter of one of his victims against CIA assassins. ...

The Red Thread (2008)

Mei has been in love with Yuya all her life. They've grown up together. But when they reach their second year of middle school, Yuya suddenly professes his love for her older sister, Haruna. ...

Super Cub 2 (2008)

Direct to video sequel to Super Cub. ...

Super Cub (2008)

Bike runner Takeshi was doing bike race without police noticing him in public road. But one day, he is caught by motorcycle policeman during the race. His important bike is confiscated and his father cuts off financial help. Disappointed, Takeshi started w ...

Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 (2007)

A year has passed in postwar Tokyo, and struggling writer Chagawa enters the Akutagawa Prize competition in hopes of securing a better future for the boy in his care, while the Suzuki family unexpectedly take in a new relative who looks down on their humbl ...

Empire of Dirty Money (2007)

Gennosuke Nannushi (Hitoshi Ozawa) is a lone man who lands on the streets of Kabukicho to run a black-money business with his roots in the area. He starts a business with Kuro (Onimaru), a man he met on the street, but his game with Kawamoto (Shigemitsu Og ...

Babel (2006)

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families. ...

Returning the Favor (2006)

Kitahara Kazunori was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma in the fall of his second year in high school, and thereafter spent a year and 10 months battling the disease. Although he studied hard for the university examinations and was successfully admitted to hi ...

Always - Sunset on Third Street (2005)

In 1958 postwar Tokyo, the residents of a humble Third Street neighbourhood struggle, dream, and grow together as rapid modernisation transforms their lives beneath the shadow of the newly rising Tokyo Tower. ...

IKUSA (2005)

Adult video store clerk, Issa, feels like a total loser after losing his job and being dumped by his girlfriend. He is blessed by a stroke of luck when his invention, a curry package squeezing tool, suddenly gains immense popularity. Not only does his inve ...

The Suspect: Muroi Shinji (2005)

One day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is arrested to take responsibility for a botched murder case he headed. His faithful colleagues, including Arashiro (Toshio Kakei) and Okita (Miki Maya), only ...

Synesthesia (2005)

Shin is a professional voyeur who provides live camera feeds of everything from the street corner to the public toilet. He is also afflicted freakish phenomenon known as synesthesia - a glitch in his wiring puts his five senses in a blender and spits out s ...

Nibanme no kanojo (2004)

Free and Easy 15 (2004)

Hama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company faces a restructuring process. ...

Kaminari hashiru natsu (2003)

Japanese film directed by Masato Tanno. ...

The Battling Angel (2003)

Police struggle to uncover Klein, a powerful criminal organization. Asuka, a young detective, is assigned to contact and escort Hatsumi, a mistress of the drug lord Kimikuni, but they are ambushed, leaving Hatsumi brain-dead and Asuka near to death. Howeve ...

The Negotiator (2003)

After a convenience store robbery, three unidentified men hold a group of people hostage in a hospital. Inspector Ishida and Captain Tohno handle the negotiations while one of their colleagues, Lt. Ando, tries to find out why the men decided to take the ho ...

Bayside Shakedown 2 (2003)

The movie takes place again in the fictional Wangan Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department the once empty space within Wangan's jurisdiction has become a popular tourist attraction. When a string of murders of company execs begins taking place ...

Copycat Killer (2002)

The story of a criminal who abducts and kills women, and those who try to catch him. Nakai is cast as a cold-blooded, intelligent and evil guy who uses the media to announce and show his murders live to the public. ...

Doing Time (2002)

A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon their individuality. ...

Dark Water (2002)

A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak. ...

Shin Kyoto Meikyu Annai SP (2001)

Twenty-five years after Tajima, an unfairly treated office worker, filed a lawsuit for the company's collusion, he won the Supreme Court in reverse. Sugiura, who learned this from TV news, celebrates by himself. Twenty-five years ago, Sugiura, who was stil ...

Kyotaro Nishimura's Travel Mystery - Soya Honsen Murder Incident (2001)

While returning from a business trip to Hokkaido, Detective Kamei of the MPD greets a middle-aged traveler in the waiting room of Minami-Wakkanai Station but is ignored by him. On the limited express to Asahikawa, the same man happens to entrust Kamei with ...

Space Travelers (2000)

Three bank robbers, who declare themselves to be Space Travelers, take six persons as hostages when they are surrounded by the police. Among the hostages, there is a terrorist with a hidden bomb. In order to escape, the robbers ask the hostages to pretend ...

Zero Woman Returns (1999)

Rei, whose undercover role is so guarded that there is no written record of her identity, is well known for her accuracy in completing missions and her willingness to get naked if the situation calls for it. When she's instructed to bust Kayama, who has be ...

Messengers (1999)

Naomi Shimizu is a young career woman working for Enrico Dandolo, an Italian fashion house. That is until one day the company declares bankruptcy. Accustomed to living in luxury she tries to make a run for it with the last remaining company asset, a red Al ...

Hypnosis (1999)

Three apparently unrelated suicides occur on the same day in Tokyo. One involves a young athlete, one a groom at his wedding reception, and the third an elderly man celebrating his wife's birthday. A middle aged detective investigating one of the cases beg ...

Open House (1998)

A struggling model and a troubled divorcee face loneliness and desperation in Tokyo. ...

The Spiral (1998)

A young pathologist seeks answers to the mysterious death of a friend and soon comes into contact with the same cursed videotape that caused the death of the friend's wife and son, which is haunted by the curse of Sadako, a relentless spirit. ...

Akagi the Gambler II (1997)

Akagi appears again one year after the night where he first played mahjong. ...

In Tomoko's Case (1996)

Tomoko Tamura, a second-year high school student living in a detached house in Miyahara-chō, Omiya City, Saitama Prefecture (now Kita Ward, Saitama City), goes on an overnight hot spring trip to Izu with eight of her classmates, four boys and four girls, ...

KISS ME (1996)

A hard-boiled touch love story that depicts the momentary love between a hitman and a woman who had a dangerous escape together. ...

Lunatic (1996)

The sensual images depict the love and hatred between four men and women living together, creating a new kind of love story. One night, alcoholic writer Akimoto and live-in former actress Yumiko meet Koichi, a gay drug dealer pursued by the yakuza, and his ...

Akagi the Gambler (1995)

After a death-defying game of chicken one evening in 1958, Akagi nonchalantly enters a Yakuza Mahjong parlor to shake the cops' trail. Even unfamiliar with the rules of Mahjong, his gambling intuition is enough to save a small time gambler, Nangou, and gra ...

Kura (1995)

In spite of a longstanding tradition forbidding women from working in a sake brewery, Retsu, a young blind woman, challenges herself to overcome her disability in order to save her family's sake business. ...

A Quiet Life (1995)

A melodrama about the life of a mentally disabled young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to Australia on a business trip. ...

MARKS (1995)

Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later in a similar manner, he begins to suspect that something bigger is going on... ...

Tsutsumi honoo no gotoku (1994)

Kaori, who can find nothing in her daily life but sex with her male friend Taro, suddenly meets a middle-aged man named Kosuke. She hopes that Kosuke will quench her thirst, but is disappointed to learn that he has a woman named Naomi. Upon learning of Kao ...

Police Sukesaburoh-Tamagane 2 (1994)

Kabuki, a detective in Kabukicho, Shinjuku, and his partner, Kabuki, a T-back detective with a lot of sensuality, are chasing a pachinko chain sales of 120 million yen. Hoshi is a vicious group led by female boss Lena. I got both money and Lena, and it was ...

Police Sukesaburoh-Tamagane (1994)

Sukesaburo Tamaki, a superhuman detective who has no eyes on women, is the face of Kabukicho in Shinjuku. Not knowing that the 700 million yen robbery case occurred, he went to bed with Miss Soap. Kaoru Wakakusa, a new detective who loves T-backs who came ...

All Under the Moon (1993)

A Korean taxi-driver interacts both humorously and tragically with his customers and employers in '90s Tokyo. ...

Tokyo Babylon 1999 (1993)

Subaru is investigating the death of of a enemy, Kaneyama but before he died, he undertook a project, which was how to teach seven teenage girls how to use black magic to get revenge on people they don't like, but when one of the girls feels remorse, she i ...

Sometime, Somewhere (1992)

The story follows Mamoru Masaki, a resort developer, and Koai, a career woman at a rival company. The appearance of Masaki, who does not live in work and in love, gradually loosens up. ...

Nice Game (1988)

Feature movie starring the members of Japanese band Issei Fūbi Sepia ...

Actress (1987)

Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi. ...