Hiroyuki Nagato – MRQE

Furusato

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Deep in the mountains of Japan a dam is scheduled to be built, thus forcing a relocation of the farmers. One of them is 78-year-old Denzo, whose son and his wife consider him senile. Left alone, he befriends a young boy, Sentaro, who has heard that the old man was once a great angler. The unlikely pair spend lots of happy time together, until Denzo has a heart attack and dies far upstream. The dam is completed and the entire area is inundated. Everyone will move away, except Denzo.

Nemureru bijo

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

About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old men are expected to take sleeping pills and share the bed for a whole night with a girl without attempting anything of bad taste like putting a finger inside their mouths.

Sukeban Deka: Kôdo nêmu = Asamiya Saki

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

Recruited by a clandestine police organization, “K” must stop a plot by student radicals to create anarchy in Japan. Armed with a hi-tech steel yo-yo, and a new name (Asamiya Saki), she must infiltrate an elite high school to find the terrorists but finds an even more sinister plan is about to unfold.

Nezu no ban

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

A celebration of the ancient art of Japanese rakugo, roughly translated as comic storytelling. The film is interspersed with numerous funerals and wakes, songs, dances, and often disgustingly crude jokes.

Chinpira

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Osamu rescues a girl who was being chased by two punks and is soon mixed up with the Yakuza

Kunniavelka

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

A hobo exposes the misdeeds of a new yakuza.

Kage gari

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the middle of the Edo period, when the finances of the shogunate were in a desperate situation, the shogunate sent its shadow spies to each clan, who secretly planned the abolition of the clans and the seizure of their territories. The Inami clan has mastered the essence of making weapons, thus breaking the law. To protect the clan, its elders hire three “Shadow Hunters”… TV movie based on the popular manga by Takao Saito.

Shôgun Iemitsu no ranshin – Gekitotsu

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

Iemitsu, Tokugawa Shogun III, hates his eldest son Takechiyo; all his love is given to his younger son Tokumatsu. One day, he orders Takechiyo to an initiation rite in Yedo. Takechiyo lives far away under the surveillance of Hotta Masamori, head of the Skura clan, where he was also raised. Hotta does suspect some kind of treachery, but he can not ignore the direct command of the Shogun. Therefore, he starts on his travel with Takechiyo and seven accompanying samurais. A large army under the command of Iba Shoemon, a vassal of the Shogun, attacks their night camp in the vicinity of a copper mine. Hotta dies in this first battle, but Takechiyo and the samurai manage to escape. They are chased by the army, and several skirmishes between the small force and the larger army follow.

Tobenai chinmoku

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

Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki depicts in exquisite images a series of encounters and life’s turning points.

Hiken

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the law is unfair. His brother keeps his opinions about the law to himself. The swordsman vents his frustration by cutting off the thumbs of an enemy. The fighter is then banished. To live, he becomes a thief. To restore the family’s lost honor, the other brother is forced to challenge the fighter to a duel.