Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and never returning, deadbeat gambler Masato dies of stomach cancer. At his funeral, a motley crew of fellow mahjong players, pachinko parlor employees and former drinking buddies gather to pay their respects and tell stories, revealing aspects of Masato’s life that complicate his sons’ resentment towards him.
The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...
Rei Kiriyama is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi pla...
A Tokyo college student is attacked by a ghoul, a super-powered human who feeds on human flesh. He s...
Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural J...
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitor...
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...
One day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Juk...
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
The four turtles travel back in time to the days of the legendary and deadly samurai in ancient Japa...
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are ...
A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what trul...
The seven secretaries who consist of the "Shadow Army" enjoy peaceful days. They receive a new reque...