Akira Emoto

When it rains it pours. Kenji divorced his wife, lost his job and his old squeeze Naoko is getting married back home in the north of Japan, ...

In a small fishing village, a gloomy middle school student named Kai meets a mermaid named Lu.

After failing his university entrance exam, Yuki Hirano sets his eyes on the role of a forestry trainee. Setting off for training he doubts his ...

An old swordsman, his former comrade and a young braggart are hired by prostitutes to track down bandits who mutilated one of the women.

Based primarily on the first game in the series, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the film focuses on rookie defense attorney Phoenix Wright, as he ...

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order he was duty bound ...

The film stars Seishiro Kato as Rantaro who is sent to a ninja training school by his parents. During the summer, their teacher is invaded by a ...

Set during the Edo Period, a young man from a noble family meets a young woman under a special tree called “Raiou” (the tree was ...

Hutch the Honey Bee and friends set on an adventure to find Hutch’s missing Queen Bee Mother, whom he lost during a surprise attack by a ...

When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Minister’s assassination, and on ...

Rintaro directs a tale of three children who visit a land of wonder. This is the first “3D anime” that Madhouse has produced. Oh, and ...

A hit man looks to protect the daughter of one of his victims against CIA assassins.

In an attempt to spur citizens into taking more productive roles in society, the Japanese government issues death messages, or ...

Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife ...

In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As further disasters follow, politicians plead with ...

While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank ...

The lives of a young cop, a sanitation worker and a brooding pharmacist violently intersect on a bus that’s hijacked by a suicidal ...

One of the true classic’s of anime’s much-loved robot genre.

Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare intensely for a prestigious high school’s ...

Shortly after hearing from a colleague about a woman whose brother committed suicide after seeing his doppelgänger, a Japanese engineer on the ...

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart ...

A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, they plan to entice men that happen ...

This movie is a political/espionage thriller, based on a real kidnapping incident of Korean politician, Kim Dae-Jung.

Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small ...