Movies: Kei Suma

  • 1987
    BU・SU

    BU・SU (1987)

    BU・SU

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    Mugiko, an 18-year-old attempts to escape her unhappiness with village life by going to Tokyo to live and work in the geisha house run by her aunt. The daughter of a once great geisha, Mugiko is entitled by blood to train in the geishas ancient art o...

    BU・SU
  • 1992
    Basara: The Princess Goh

    Basara: The Princess Goh (1992)

    Basara: The Princess Goh

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    Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to commit suicide. Princess Goh, daughter of the lord but adopted by Hideyoshi, is outraged when Rikyū's severed ...

    Basara: The Princess Goh
  • 1993
    A Class to Remember

    A Class to Remember (1993)

    A Class to Remember

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    A cantankerous but loveable high school teacher teaches a night school in a poor neighborhood for adult students on the fringes of Japanese society....

    A Class to Remember
  • 2007
    Freesia: Bullet Over Tears

    Freesia: Bullet Over Tears (2007)

    Freesia: Bullet Over Tears

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    In the near future of a Japan, the ancient 'Act of Vengeance' is revived and professional executioners are permitted to kill criminals by the requests from their victims. People who are to be executed are notified of the execution time and date in ad...

    Freesia: Bullet Over Tears
  • 1987
    Tora-san Goes North

    Tora-san Goes North (1987)

    Tora-san Goes North

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    When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged daughter, and a woman in whom he is secretly interested....

    Tora-san Goes North
  • 1989
    The Political Game

    The Political Game (1989)

    The Political Game

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    This is James Miki's first directorial work, and he is also the original writer and scriptwriter. Noritaka Sakamoto was in charge of photography, and Kentaro Haneda was in charge of music direction. It depicts how an honest candidate aiming for a cle...

    The Political Game
  • 1988
    Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial

    Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial (1988)

    Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial

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    In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship....

    Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
  • 1987
    Luminous Woman

    Luminous Woman (1987)

    Luminous Woman

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    A hulking man from the country pursues his beloved to the underworld of Tokyo nightclubs, where he finds work as a sideshow wrestler and becomes involved with a faded opera singer....

    Luminous Woman
  • 2005
    Summer of Ubume

    Summer of Ubume (2005)

    Summer of Ubume

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    Kyogokudo is a used book seller who doubles as an onmyouji, or Heian style occultist. His friend Sekiguchi brings him the story of a woman who has been pregnant for twenty months. Sekiguchi investigates further with the help of his friend Enokizu, a ...

    Summer of Ubume
  • 1988
    Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You

    Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You (1988)

    Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You

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    A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz band and reignites his youthful passion for the music, giving him a chance to set things right in his life....

    Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
  • 1996
    The Rainbow Seeker

    The Rainbow Seeker (1996)

    The Rainbow Seeker

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    A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose owner lives to bring entertaining films to the residents of his small town....

    The Rainbow Seeker
  • 1986
    Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy

    Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy (1986)

    Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy

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    During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and his family help the friend's daughter, who becomes romantically involved with an aspiring artist....

    Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
  • 1989
    Misty Kid of Wind – The Glass Cape

    Misty Kid of Wind – The Glass Cape (1989)

    Misty Kid of Wind – The Glass Cape

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    Karin has lived alone in a secluded mountain village with her consumptive mother since her father died. Her worried grandfather advises her to send her mother to a sanatorium and be adopted by him, although she refuses to accept. On the Buddhist All ...

    Misty Kid of Wind – The Glass Cape
  • 1986
    Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies

    Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies (1986)

    Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies

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    Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and she is given a part as a bit player. After the studio's top leading lady is embroiled in a scandal, Koharu is suddenly thrust into the limeli...

    Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
  • 2010
    A School Behind Bars

    A School Behind Bars (2010)

    A School Behind Bars

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    "A School Behind Bars" centers around Asahi Junior High School, which is located within Nagano Matsumoto Boy's prison in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture - the only public school in Japan that is located inside a prison. The school's students are al...

    A School Behind Bars
  • 2000
    Pickpocket

    Pickpocket (2000)

    Pickpocket

    6.32000HD

    Kaido is a professional pickpocket who works the Tokyo subway with his young foster-daughter, Rei: She lets herself be groped while Kaido relieves the groper of his wallet. More often than not they're observed by a middle-aged cop, who generally lets...

    Pickpocket
  • 1987
    Tora-san Plays Daddy

    Tora-san Plays Daddy (1987)

    Tora-san Plays Daddy

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    A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the boy’s mother, Tora-san meets a cosmetics saleslady and the three become a surrogate family, with Tora-san as “d...

    Tora-san Plays Daddy
  • 1989
    Dream Street

    Dream Street (1989)

    Dream Street

    01989HD

    A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka....

    Dream Street
  • 1992
    Investigation of a Typical Love

    Investigation of a Typical Love (1992)

    Investigation of a Typical Love

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    The screenplay is Haruhiko Arai of "Tragedy of W" and "Revolver". The man is a detective who doesn't take on anything other than background checks for marriage and looking for cats. One day, a request for a job that belongs to him comes in. It is fro...

    Investigation of a Typical Love