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悪の華 (1997)
Character: N/A
Kenichiro Tsushima was swept up in a drug scandal and effectively erased from the entertainment industry. Having changed his name and set up his own talent agency, he stops at nothing to bring down the stars of major agencies. Yoko, who is commissioned by him to work as a ghostwriter, finds herself drawn to him despite sensing something dangerous about him.
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銃声 Last Drop of Blood (2003)
Character: N/A
After serving a jail sentence, a former leading yakuza (Takaaki Ishibashi) has gone straight. He has married and is now holding a regular job. However, he is continually harrassed by a police inspector who cannot forgive his past. Meanwhile a major gang war erupts. With his former gang in danger of being exterminated, will his loyalties draw him back in?
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ジゴロ・コップ 六本木・赤坂 美少年倶楽部 (1991)
Character: N/A
A police officer is recruited to a special agency and given a license to kill. He is given a dozen or so young policemen and a bar as a front. Meanwhile, girls are disappearing and the friend of one girl is searching for her. It turns out the girls are being kidnapped and sold into bizarre kinky sex games to rich industrialists by a megalomaniacal corporation. One of the young deputies becomes involved and finds a friend of his (the boyfriend of the searching woman) is involved.
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天平の甍 (1980)
Character: Sailor
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.
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ゲンセンカン主人 (1993)
Character: Mr Lee
An anthology film based on the works of manga artist Yoshiharu Tsuge. The main character in all four segments is a fledgling cartoonist named Tsube . In the first segment, Tsube encounters a dotty old man named Ri after renting a tumble-down cottage in the country. The following day, Ri, his equally weird wife, and his two squalid children move into his house. Soon the wife is stealing the cucumbers in his garden while the two kids devour all the food in the house.
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日本名作怪談劇場 怪談 奥州安達ヶ原 (1979)
Character: N/A
Fleeing the Ōnin War, Tomone and her daughter Shiori are saved by Ukyō Fujiki. While taking shelter in a house, they are attacked by a greedy servant, Shichibee, but Shiori defends her mother, injuring him. A year later, Tomone and Ukyō reunite and fall in love, but Shichibee, now a bandit leader, returns and brutally murders Tomone and Shiori in Ukyō’s absence.
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夢で逢いましょう (1996)
Character: Manager
Young and beautiful germophobe Ritsuko moves into a picture perfect neighborhood with her parents, being monitored by a research team who want to cure her of her debilitating phobias. Will her new neighbors be able to cure her of her irrational view of the outside world, or will coming face to face with this fairy-tale setting only drive her further inside of her subconsciousness?
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楢山節考 (1983)
Character: Amaya
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.
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四月の魚 (1986)
Character: Manager
A Francophile filmmaker in a creative rut tries to pass off a free-spirited young actress as his movie-star wife in order to fool a chief from the South Seas.
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ヘッドフォン・ララバイ (1983)
Character: N/A
The story of friendship, love and sportsmanship among high-school students.
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尻を撫でまわしつづけた男 痴漢日記 (1995)
Character: N/A
A manga artist stumbles into the sleazy world of perverts who stalk trains looking for women to molest. He discovers quickly that he is very much one of them and even finds love along the way. The first in the alarmingly long-running Molester Diary series.
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星くず兄弟の伝説 (1985)
Character: Mifuku
A shady music mogul brings together two wannabe stars—punk rock rebel Kan and new-wave crooner Shingo—and transforms them into the Stardust Brothers, a girl-friendly, silver-jumpsuited, synth-pop sensation. Along with their #1 fan, who herself dreams of a music career, the duo rockets to stardom.
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山田ババアに花束を (1990)
Character: Inoue
Yamada is the old mistress of a prestigious all-girl high school, who finds a natural enemy in Kamizaki, an outgoing first-year student. However, during Yamada's blind date, their bodies are inexplicably switched
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ワンダフルライフ (1999)
Character: Security Guard
On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity.
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新幹線大爆破 (1975)
Character: Superintendent
A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race to find the bombers so the train crew can learn how to defuse the bomb.
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かあちゃん (2001)
Character: Izakaya Owner
Okatsu is a widow raising five children - adults but still mama-dependent - in mid-eighteenth century Edo, Japan. Her frugality attracts unflattering comment even amid national tough times (the region is in famine) What Okatsu tells no one is that she saves so that a friend can start his own business once he's released from prison.
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おとうと (2010)
Character: Jiro
Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she discovers Tetsuro is terminally ill. Tetsuro’s impending death marks the beginning of love and toleration.
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転々 (2007)
Character: Plaster Mask
A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.
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遠くの空に消えた (2007)
Character: N/A
A vast wheat field, a straight road that has no end, a sky without a single building in sight – this is a town in the country where time comfortably passes by. But this former paradise is now being stirred up by a fight amongst its people over constructing an airport. This is a tale of three young people exploring youth and friendship as they reach out into the sky.
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