Set in Osaka's Shinsekai, the film depicts the lives of Ayumu Tobita (Hidekazu Akai), who makes a living as a shogi gambler (shinken-shi), and Ryuzo Kayama (Masaya Kato) who aims to become a professional player.

Kokko is a third grade elementary school student. Even though she has a family who loves her, Kokko ...

Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-m...

Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears....

Business is a game! A theatrical version of the TV drama that became a social phenomenon starring Te...

Shoji Segawa was a quiet and inconspicuous boy, but, for the first time, he is recognized by people ...

Depressed and in debt, Santoshi tells his young daughter that he is going to find an infamous serial...

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...

Asami and Rina are two sisters who are both professional shogi players in the same B League. Both ar...

In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from Korea...

Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as "The...

Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggl...

The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. ...

The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneduc...

At midnight, in a residential area of Osaka, a middle aged man is murdered. The person who killed th...

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor...

Luca lost her family in the Great East Japan Earthquake causing her not to be able to speak. However...

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and ...

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every y...

Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society...

National Audit Bureau member Hajime Matsudaira (Shinichi Tsutsumi), Tadako Torii (Haruka Ayase) & As...