Asao Koike – MRQE

Yomigaeru kinrô

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to dominate the corporation that employs him by day.

Yokiro

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, it was home to over 200 geisha, however behind the fabulous facade, there were many battles – between family members, men and women, and with the Yakuza. Momokawa was sold to Yokiro at age 12, and despite being the top geisha, her many complicated relationships provide unending challenges throughout her glamorous but turbulent life.

Sekai meisaku dôwa: Hakuchô no mizûmi

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The hero, Prince Siegfried, is out riding one day with his friends when he spies amidst swans on a lake a particularly eye-catching one with a crown on its head, the familiar Princess …

Hishu monogatari

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.

Goyôkiba: Oni no Hanzô yawahada koban

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with Heisuke Takei a friend from his youth, offers protection to a forward-thinking physician Genan Sugino who has defamed his ruler, discovers a pleasure ring of young wives and a blind music teacher, and cuckolds a corrupt official under his very nose.

Shin Zatôichi monogatari: Oreta tsue

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After accidentally causing the death of an old lady, Zatoichi tries to do right by buying the ladys daughters freedom from a brothel – but this causes more problems than solves them.

Gendai yakuza: hito-kiri yota

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza factions. He gathers his crew and takes them on.

Dobutsu takarajima

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A Japanese adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, featuring animals as the majority of the cast. By chance Jim comes upon a map of Treasure Island. He leaves the port accompanied by Glan, the rat and Bub, the baby on a strange looking boat of his own make to look for the island. Pirates soon find him and adventure ensues.

Tokugawa irezumi-shi: Seme jigoku

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their “production”. Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed women develop the history of confrontation between two highly skilled masters of tattoo.

Nagagutsu o haita neko

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

His goal is to help the weak and defenseless, but his saving a mouse makes him the most wanted in all the land. On the run from incessant, dim-witted mice, Perro befriends a young miller’s boy, Pierre; together, they decide to seek fame and fortune. When they cross paths with the lovely Princess Rosa, Perro determines to get Pierre hitched to Her Royal Highness.