Movies: Hisashi Igawa

The plight of U.S. Army deserters from Vietnam on the run in Japan, centering on the culture clash between the troubled Americans and the Japanese who try to help him....

A group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India....

A story of friendship between two women, Yae and Kiyoko. Their friendship is tested when artist Yae, who suffers from fatal illness, develops special feelings towards her best friend Kiyoko’s boyfriend Kosuke....

This is the DVD version of the TV show, which consists of a single video that plays the first and last episodes of the tv show bridged by an edit recapping the major events of the lost middle episodes....

When a team of detectives lose the trail of a murderer, they decide to keep an eye on the suspect’s ex-lover, who is trapped in an abusive marriage....

A Japanese remake of the South Korean film of the same name....

A remake of the 1953 film of the same name....

Suspense film based on Ryuji Hori's non-fiction book about the kidnapping and murder of 4-year-old Yoshinobu Murakoshi in 1963....

A film adaptation of the second play from "The Man Who Turned Into A Stick" by Kōbō Abe himself....

Period piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have lost her memory....

The struggle of a young man and boys who try to create the environment where they can speak their minds freely....

Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her trauma, and finally, rescues his niece who is about to be lured into prostitution....

During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head of the opposing lord to declare victory....

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A Japanese boy in love with a girl of Korean origin must battle the prejudices of those around him in order to sustain the relationship....

A detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV....

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"Young People" is a story about the lives of four brothers and a sister, Sato. After the death of his parents, the older brother, Taro, who works in construction, decides to replace them. The second brother, Jiro, is a truck driver. The third, Saburo...

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Adaptation of novel....