Movies: Shigeru Izumiya

Life and love stories of stunt men and women....

First mainstream film directed by Genji Nakamura, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1974 short story of the same title....

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The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. It's a small god with a pointed head, a fat belly and a characteristic smile. When the casket in which the statuette was found is broken, the spirit o...

"Kotonoha" is a heartwarming friendship story between a high school girl who is not good at socializing and cannot make friends, and a girl who cannot speak words. Aju Makita plays the role of Kaori Ito, who is bullied at school because she has a hab...

A Francophile filmmaker in a creative rut tries to pass off a free-spirited young actress as his movie-star wife in order to fool a chief from the South Seas....

Detective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was ostensibly a student but in reality a high-priced prostitute. Even though he has been taken off the case for beating up a suspect, he refuses to let it go an...

A young tofu maker, Eikichi comes from Kyoto to open a tofu shop in a friendly neighborhood. He meets there a feisty local girl Ofumi who befriends him as he sets up his shop, Kyo-ya and in spite of the difficulties stemming from cultural differences...

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Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area whose inhabitants are mainly from Okinawa. Upon her return, Barbara faces problems beyond her control. Her brother and two friends take one of their te...

Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objects to the idea. One day, someone leaves behind a six-year-old child at their door, claiming that Shinsaku—or four other men—is the child's father! Say...

Asato is a young man who returns to a slummy neighbourhood (referred to as 'The Street') to be near his Mum who is in prison. He is able to transfer other people's injuries and is unable to walk past a child with a grazed knee or broken arm without h...

A foreign student from Taiwan, Mr. Bell, attends language school in Japan and meets Miss Sato there. He falls in love with her, but doesn't dare to open his heart to her. Nevertheless, on Christmas night miracles do happen....

A girl whose younger brother as well as her lover were killed is drawn with a pistol in her hand....

This exciting work is full of dangerous behind the scenes stories from the sex industry....

A seeing-eye dog (Shiro) is granted one wish by his former owner. He chooses to become a human for a short time so he can find the girl who trained him as a puppy. While attempting to get to know her (as he runs along behind her and sniffs for her ar...

Two scammers who cross the world without being caught by Satsu and killed...

Hot-selling artist Sosuke Natsume suddenly declares filmmaking on the final day of his concert. Although the staff at his music agency are panicking because of his sudden declaration, Natsume keeps preparing for it with the help of his old friend, ca...

A young couple played by Takizawa Hideaki and Fukada Kyoko get's married because the girl is pregnant. Their son is healthy until they find out he has cancer at the age of five. How does the young couple deal with that?...

Miki, a nursing care robot, is popular among some medical staff and patients for her dainty and efficient work, but others are more skeptical. One day, Miki malfunctions and begins to see and hear fragmented images and voices....