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.

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

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

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

A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow ...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble o...