Shinobu Tsuruta

Tulips in October (2022)

Detective Ushio is called in to the murder of an elite heart surgeon, who was stabbed twice at a cluster of vending machines in a parking lot. ...

再雇用警察官4 (2022)

必殺仕事人2018 (2018)

Faces (2016)

Juzo Kimura is a wandering Ronin with a past. 15 years later, after winding up in Edo, he becomes a sword teacher to support his wife and daughter. But he has a dark side to him; at night, he becomes an assassin for hire. The fates of men living double liv ...

Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 38 (2015)

The King of Minami Returns: A 250 Dollar Promise (2015)

A man who borrowed money from Ginjiro commits suicide. He had been laid off by the unethical Naniwa Advertising Co. A new recruit is also suffering. ...

Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 37 - Mystery of Double Homicides from Tokyo to Hamamatsu (2015)

Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 36 (2014)

The Eternal Fountain (2012)

The Eternal Founntain was broadcast as the Saturday Drama Special on NHK. Laywer Akio Yamauchi takes over the court-appointed attorney for Yoji Kuramoto who confesses to murdering his wife. While following Kuramoto's action in Yamanaka and being sure of hi ...

Free and Easy 20: Final (2009)

The final instalment in the popular series featuring the duo of Hama-chan, a lifelong low-ranking employee and fishing enthusiast, and Suu-san, the chairman of the company where he works. ...

Genjuro's Deadly Sword: The Return of Shinigami (2009)

Genjuro's crime was assassination, his punishment was to survive a faked execution and lose his home, lose his identity, and emerge as Maboroshi Shinigami, the Phantom Assassin. When his wife is kidnapped and tortured to reveal his whereabouts and dragged ...

Free and Easy 18 (2007)

Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up during his inaugural speech as the company chairman. ...

Free and Easy 17 (2006)

Yumiko returns to work in Hama-chan's department. She had once left the company after getting married, but a dark shadow now seems to loom over her. ...

Free and Easy 16 (2005)

Hama-chan meets a friendly US soldier on a trip to Nagasaki with Su-san. Su-san returns to Tokyo and is informed that Hama-chan has gone missing. ...

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. ...

Snowland Revisited (2002)

Kunio Shibano was bankrupted. He visits a snowland spa area to commit suicide. But he meets Geisha Moeko, and she gives him power to face life one more time... ...

Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project (2001)

Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and Hama-chan envy his decision, and Hama-chan conspires to visit Takano, even though he has no vacation time l ...

The King of Minami: Yakuza in Debt (2000)

#31 in the King of Minami series. A washed-up yakuza named Fukunaga borrows money from Manda, unwittingly involving him in a sinister murder plot. ...

Free and Easy: Samurai Edition (1998)

A traveling ronin perceived as a fool impresses a samurai leader with his fishing skills and gains employment. ...

A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage (1998)

A widow who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins attending a technical college to gain new qualifications. She meets others looking for a new start in life, including a former salaryman with whom she begins a furtive romance ...

Free and Easy 10 (1998)

Su-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar surroundings on his first assignment at a new job. ...

The Central Quicksand (1998)

A tremor struck the Information Industry Bureau of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. The prosecution arrested a local contractor on suspicion of bribery, and then the brunt was directed to the Information Industry Bureau. The interviewee wa ...

Bonds (1998)

Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father. His life begins to unravel when a journalist following him takes an interest in the wife of a boyhood chum, ...

My Secret Cache (1997)

Sakiko, a young bank teller, has an unhealthy obsession with money. Thieves hold up the bank, kidnapping Sakiko in the process, but eventually crash their car, resulting in a suitcase stuffed with cash falling into a nearby river. For the remainder of the ...

The Rainbow Seeker (1996)

A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose owner lives to bring entertaining films to the residents of his small town. ...

A Class to Remember II (1996)

The story follows the teacher and students of the Ryubetsu Handicapped High School. ...

I Don't Have a License! (1994)

A popular movie star named Hiroshi Nanjo faces a huge problem in filming his new action flick when they find out he hasn't got a license to drive. He is sent to a driving school and... ...

Henshin Mou Hitori No Watashi (1993)

A suspense drama based on Miyuki Miyabe. In contrast to herself, she and two women lived a free-spirited life, forcing a restaurant owner to raise funds because of the Shinjuku incident. An office lady who impulsively jumps out of the company because she ...

Chronicle of the Town Magistrate (1992)

In a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an alley cat, bring order to the town of Horisoto, or is he, too a corrupt villain looking to gain wealth from the oppressed people? From the pen of famed samur ...

Kachô Shima Kôsaku (1992)

Based on the comic book by Kenshi Hirokane ...

Seven Days War 2 (1991)

Like a Beast (1990)

The second popular explosion! The man who aims at the top of the organization with indomitable fighting spirit has transformed into a ferocious beast! A powerful hero that shines like a comet! ...

Boiling Point (1990)

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge. ...

Defeat the Devil! (1990)

A one part drama/made for TV movie starring Rie Miyazawa ...

The Drifting Classroom (1987)

An entire Japanese international grade school—and all within—are mysteriously transported to a foreboding desert wasteland. As the story unfolds, the diminishing student body weathers this apocalyptic crisis while searching for clues about their surrou ...

Spectacle of Buds (1986)

A weak willed man teams up with a stripper after her stage show partner runs off with another dancer. He is obsessed with her unique inverted nipples and they soon develop a successful stage show around them. ...

Scent of a Spell (1985)

A young man saves a woman who is trying to commit suicide, gradually discovering more about her troubled past. ...

Taboo X Perversion (1985)

A young woman has feelings for her older cousin but he is obsessed with blonds. When a European temptress comes for a visit his fantasies come true. But he soon finds out that she likes it really kinky. ...

Office Wife's Cry (1985)

Natsuko is witnessed carrying on an affair with her boss, Misawa, by the unmarried Chieko. However, Chieko dies by falling and is found about ten days later in the shrubbery in front of the company. It is revealed that Chieko led a flashy private life and ...

People of Twilight (1984)

A woman runs a "mistress service" and interviews young women for "dates" with men. Various couples get together but someone is following and watching them. ...

Okita Soji: Swordsman of Fire (1984)

Afternoon of the Evil Spirits (1983)

An ancient evil spirit resurrects in the modern age and possesses a beautiful woman. ...

Nozoki (1983)

An old married couple with bedroom problems become upset over the sexual antics of their daughter and a visiting randy couple. But then the part-time lovers of the couple show up and complications ensue. ...

Sannen-me no Uwaki (1983)

A young couple with marital problems are beset by an office lady temptress, amorous paramours and the swingers next door. ...

The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor (1983)

A lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time he's running from loan sharks and his personal expectations. ...

Uno Koichiro no nurete manabu (1983)

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The Second Love (1983)

Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband's emotional conflicts with the wisdom of an adult. Kazumi's younger and more inexperienced husband Hideo is continually suspicious of her fidelity. ...

Red Scandal: Affair (1982)

While on an errand for her husband a young wife does a little impulsive shoplifting. But she is caught and soon finds herself blackmailed into working once a week at a high-class brothel. Her husband starts to suspect something so when he finds out where s ...

Room of Shame (1982)

After an accident a husband becomes impotent. To help solve the problem of having a sexy wife with an overabundance of desire he invites his three best friends to help out. ...

Seiko's Juicy Thighs: Public Bath Beauty (1982)

Top Stripper (1982)

A naive delivery boy becomes infatuated with a girl who works at a local strip joint. Despite his daily attendance and attempts to get her attention she remains indifferent until one day she invites him onstage. ...

Seiko no futomomo: Za chiagāru (1982)

An awkward girl tries out for a university cheerleading squad and ends up getting an extracurricular education in growing up. ...

I Are You, You Am Me (1982)

9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched, and the result is a touching and hilarious coming-of-age comedy as they attempt to survive the ...

Play it, Boogie-Woogie (1981)

A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. The film follows their subsequent chaotic relationships. ...

An Ocean to Cross (1980)

Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The film tells the tale of the four monks' youth and the life and times of the high priest Ganjin. ...

A Certain Seductive Summer (1979)

Saeko had an affair with Kuno, a photographer, but after the car they were driving in had an accident, she has withdrawn into a villa in Shonan. One day, she meets Shinji, who rides his motorcycle in front of her beach villa every day. ...

Poetry of Baseball Enthusiasts (1977)

Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga. ...

The Long Darkness (1972)

The relationship between Tetsuro, a university student from a disgraced, burdened family, and Shino, a waitress supporting her impoverished relatives. The couple decides to marry despite the significant emotional and social hardships each faces, viewing th ...

Love and Death (1971)

Yuji, a budding writer, meets and starts falling in love with his best friend's girlfriend, Natsuko. The attraction is mutual but due to the circumstances, they try to not act on their attraction. However, as time goes by, they realise that, perhaps, they ...