Katsunobu Ito Movies

Shoko Morimura (Aika Yukihira) is a 36-year-old single mother who has been in a "friendship" with Kazuki Kitada (Sho Aoyagi), whom she met again at a...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Aika Yukihira

A timid insurance agent investigates a possible insurance fraud case that involves a death. As the facts are slowly revealed, he becomes...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Seiyo Uchino

Life seems to be good for Shintoto, an up-and-coming rakugo artist who has just had his first sexual experience at a local brothel. Lucky for him, he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

The story of lovers in "Miss Nippon" cabaret in Kabukicho, Shinjuku, where a strict, almost martial, code is followed among employees to bring the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Midori Takei

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mitsuru Hirata

A coming-of-age fantasy depicting the interaction between a girl who believes in the existence of kappa and a girl who watch over her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mami Ito

Idol vehicle Mahjong flick

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ayako Sugiyama

36-year-old Shoko Morimura (Aika Yukihira) is raising her daughter on her own while working as a temporary worker. At a high school reunion, she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aika Yukihira

Rikka Nikaidou is a cute and innocent girl sees two persons vanish into thin hair...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Kitagawa

A mother discovers that her 14-year-old daughter Yumi has leukemia and only six months to live. She decides to keep the information secret and pushes...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kumiko Goto

After hearing that his estranged father is in Kumamoto, Washichiro heads to Kyushu. Along the way, he picks up a runaway girl and his friend Kinta,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Show Aikawa

Master Shinkome asks Shinden to find a former disciple, Shintoto, from his rakugoka (comic storytelling) family. Shinden visits ex-disciples in his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenichi Matsuyama

Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

Based on the comic book of the same name by Youko Shouji

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Cast: Kyoko Koizumi

Mami runs a barber shop called The Pink Cut. The place is an immediate success, due mostly to super-short skirts. Recently, Akira, who is anxious...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mayumi Terashima

Real estate company employee Komachi and steelworks heir Kodama are both train aficionados. Their hobby proves useful for their burgeoning careers,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenichi Matsuyama

Street racers challenge each other to exceed the current speed record held by the F1 racer. However, in order to break the record of the Megalopolis...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gitan Ohtsuru

After appearing on a TV program a young woman is recruited to be an advertising idol much to the dismay of her boyfriend.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuka Kakumi

A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukiyo Toake

A kindergarten teacher meets a novice magician and together they travel to another city to find love.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiroko Yakushimaru

The shock of her fiance's sudden dissolution of their relationship causes university student, Miki, to lose her voice. While recuperating in a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Misaki Itō

After dying in battle, Japanese soldier Akira Kageyama (Karato) is resurrected as a ‘mirror demon’ a supernatural agent capable of...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Ryo Karato

A sendup of the stereotypical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda

Oba Kamon runs a cafe in the Nikko city. One day, a mysterious woman appears before him and leaves behind a message, “In the ring where the sun...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomu Muto

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Cast: Shigeru Amachi

A young rock singer is not appreciated by her band, and gets a postcard from Japan saying "wish you were here". She takes what little money she has...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carrie Hamilton

In Yamada Village, which is suffering from a serious shortage of wives due to the wave of depopulation, four young men from the village decide to go...

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Cast: Ryo Amamiya

A divorced man meets a kindly Korean prostitute whom he cannot get from his mind. Things don’t prove to be straightforward for either of them.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideaki Nitani