Yoko Minamino

Kamen Rider Gotchard Final Episode: You and Me, We've Got CHEMY×STORY - Director's Cut Version (2024)

The Director's Cut version of Kamen Rider Gotchard's final episode, "This is My and Your CHEMY×STORY". It will features new scenes not seen in the original TV broadcast. ...

Kamen Rider THE WINTER MOVIE: Gotchard & Geats Strongest Chemy★Great Gotcha Operation (2023)

Ace, Houtaro, and their allies participate in a new edition of the Desire Grand Prix kickstarted by the rogue Chemy X Wizard, who has involved the Jyamato in its diabolical plans. This is the 14th entry of the Kamen Rider winter crossover movies with this ...

Nemesis the Movie: Mystery of Golden Spiral (2023)

Set two years after the drama series "Nemesis," Naoki Kazama 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. He is actually a lousy detective and relies on t ...

A Morning of Farewell (2021)

Sawako worked as an emergency physician at a university hospital. Due to to a situation, she returns to her father Tatsuro's home in Ishikawa Prefecture. She then begins to work at the local Mahoroba Clinic. She works with the clinic director Toru, Nurse M ...

Ooku Saishusho (2019)

Kume tries to protect her husband Tokugawa Yoshimune and their three children from the schemes of the inner palace of Edo Castle. ...

Detective Ushio vs. Case Writer Saeko: Survivors (2016)

The body of Kazuyoshi Kawagishi, a construction company worker, is discovered stabbed to death in Shinjuku Central Park in Tokyo. Detective Masanao Ushio of Shinjuku West PD begins an investigation and finds that the murdered Kawagishi was an honest person ...

SPEC: Zero (2013)

High school student Saya Toma lost her parents and younger brother in an airplane accident. Detective Akio Kondo came and told her "your family has a high possibility that they were killed by people who have spec." That was the first time she heard of "s ...

Omuraisu (2011)

Dumbeast (2009)

How hard is it to kill an idiot? Just ask Kudo Kankuro! The acclaimed screenwriter brings his 2004 Kunio Kishida-winning stage play Donju (a.k.a. Dumb Animal) to the big screen in all its wacky tragicomedic glory. The one and only Asano Tadanobu sports a s ...

The Deep Red (2005)

Shinku is a compelling drama that focuses on the strange relationship that develops between two people who find their lives irrevocably changed as a result of a horrible multiple homicide. The first person traumatized is the lone survivor of the terrible f ...

Shibuya Story (2005)

Biopic of yakuza Noboru Ando, based on his autobiography. ...

Ghost Shout (2004)

Yoko Sakaki: 24 years old. Occupation: Ghost Negotiator. With her tomboyish attitude and severely bad mouth, she helps ghosts leave this world by shouting at them. But, that work is almost done - she and her boyfriend Toshio are about to get married, and t ...

The Tunnel (2004)

A modern Japanese family loses their youngest son in a tragedy. The mother, Misako, plunges into depression and the oldest son Akira starts blaming himself for the death of his brother. ...

Damned Files 0 (2004)

Takashi and his wife Misako, who lost their beloved son in a trapeze accident, have never recovered from the shock, and have kept the urn in their bedroom because they do not want to leave their son's ashes. One day, the couple hears that they can see thei ...

Pretty Girls Detective Team: Wind from Asuka (2003)

Four girls, Aoi, Sumire, Kaede, and Tsukushi arrive in Asuka, Nara prefecture with the purpose of unraveling the mystery of an ancient mirror. As they explore the ancient city, they are confronted with various mysteries and gradually begin to unravel the s ...

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... ...

Love of a Thousand Years - Story of Genji (2001)

Set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins from the death of her husband, a Japanese noble, then moves on to her recruitment to train the Prince's young 'wives in waiting'. It is dotted throug ...

A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty River (2001)

The story opens with Yukiko and her business partner in Moscow searching for Russian items for their store in Tokyo. There they meet a Russian translator, Nicholai, played by Sergei Nakariakov - a trumpeter from Russia. Some months later after they have r ...

Run Ichiro Run (2001)

Various individuals named Ichiro undergo life-changing events while being inspired by the baseball player Ichiro. A heartwarming movie about the people who root for the baseball player Ichiro, and their struggles to make their own dreams come true. ...

The Stupid Teacher (2000)

Film director Mario Baba meets a mysterious gentleman, and realizes he is a important man from his boyhood. The two chase each other around, causing a lot of commotion. ...

Debt King Part V: Project Okinawa (1999)

Mizunuma is struggling to pay back his debts as always, and flies to Okinawa in an attempt to illegally sell a diamond that he confiscated from the yakuza to a jewelry broker. ...

Ooinaru kan bonno (1998)

Based on the comic by Hiroshi Motomiya ...

Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel (1998)

The second TV movie Obayashi Nobuhiko directed based on Akagawa Jiro's Mikeneko Holmes series. ...

The Face of 'Juku: Part 2 (1997)

At that time, Gozo Sone, the leader of the Kanto Sone family, was secretly planning to expand into Shinjuku. Sone sent Kuroda, a member of the Kansai Gyokudo, to Shinjuku and plotted to break up their territory. A series of disturbing violent incidents occ ...

Hissatsu shimatsunin (1997)

A former assassin is drawn into a conspiracy which leads him to return to his old ways, endangering his brother who suspects that something is afoot... ...

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 ...

Nemuri Kyōshirō 3: The Man with No Tomorrow (1996)

In the continuing adventures of Nemuri Kyoshiro, noted film actor Tamura Masakazu stars again as the red-haired ronin with foreign blood in his veins. The son of a foreign missionary and a samurai's daughter. His mother died when he was a child, and he was ...

Mitabi no kaikyô (1995)

Assassin's Target: Iemitsu (1995)

A vicious plot that would change the course of Japanese history is set in motion when assassins conspire to kill Iemitsu, the third shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty. Things heats up as Iemitsu plans a journey across Japan where assassins lie in wait. Working ...

In Blazing Love (1994)

An illustration of the tragic lives of geishas at a popular geisha house, Shinonomero. Shortly after being sold to a geisha house at age 5, Shizu is befriended by a fellow older geisha, Tsuru. After years of living and working together, Tsuru and Shizu man ...

Driving High! (1994)

Kaoru is a former racing driver who retired two years ago. She is invited by her brother Saburo to return to Team Alesis, which he owns, as a B driver. However, the mechanics don't think it's a good idea for Kaoru, a woman, to be driving, and their relatio ...

The Anthropology of a Fight Scene (1993)

A man must overcome many obstacles as he works his way through the dangerous crime world to the level of yakuza. ...

Hold Me and Kiss Me (1992)

Keiko's life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and resist the infection, she finds new friendship and companionship with a journalist named Miyuki and a man named Akira ...

The Rocking Horsemen (1992)

It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called "The Rocking Horsemen." A warm and comic glimpse into high-school and small-town life i ...

Midwinter Camellia (1992)

Yasuo Furuhata directs this romantic yakuza flick based on a book by popular romance novelist Tomiko Miyao. Set in 1932, the film centers on Peony (Yoko Minamino), a geisha who was forced into the business at a young age by her dissipated father. ...

The Unruly Ronin's Journey II (1992)

Formerly a covert spy under the shogunate, ronin Azami Onijuro and his carefree companion, ronin, journeyed along the Kiso Highway. As they approached the Echizen Domain, they encountered a woman named Osode. Recognizing Onijuro's formidable skills, she as ...

Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan (1992)

The life story of Japan's greatest leader, Tokugawa Ieyasu, whose shogunate ruled the nation for almost 300 years has never been told like this before. From the early days as a supporter of Imagawa Yoshimoto, then on to his days with Oda Nobunaga, leading ...

The Unruly Ronin's Journey (1991)

A ronin named Azami Onijuro travels the Nikko Highway, he is being followed by the bounty hunter Daihachi and Yukata Danzen. He is pursued by his past as a covert spy under Lord Matsudaira. Due to certain circumstances, Onijuro betrayed him and became a wa ...

Tales of the Bizarre: Vol. 3 (1991)

Fukuzawa Yukichi (1991)

Fukuzawa Yukichi opens a school for samurai, who aim to learn Dutch language, most common for overseas trading. But when he was in Yokohama he learned that English language is one way more global one. His struggle against patriarchal mindset leads his scho ...

The Pale Hand (1990)

Der Lindenbaum (1988)

A young woman, Asami, searches for the man who helps her quest to enter medical school. ...

There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl (1987)

Benio, a peppy tomboy, is surprised to learn that she has been secretly betrothed by her grandfather to a young officer named Shinobu Ijuin. Because of his family's noble status, Benio must first undergo rigorous training to learn how to be a proper bride ...

Sukeban Deka: The Movie (1987)

After the events of the TV series, the 18 year old Yoko Godai has abandoned her special agent Saki Asamiya name to return to her normal life, and is now studying for college entrance exams. However, she accidentally bumps into a young man named Kazuo Hagiw ...