Hidekazu Akai (赤井英和, Hidekazu Akai) is a Japanese actor and former Pro Boxer. After becoming a professional bpxer , Akai won the Junior Welterweight All Japan Rookie King Tournament by 3RKO against Ozaki Fujio in the 4th All Japan Rookie King final match. Since his debut, he had 12 straight KO wins.
One night, Manda Ginjiro a moneylender in the Minami district of Osaka, hears a gunshot echoing in an alleyway. The shooter is Yojiro Todoroki , one of Ginjiro's clients. Todoroki entrusts Ginjiro with his notebook, which he has been holding onto with great care, and runs out of steam. From that day on, a suspicious shadow begins to haunt Ginjiro. According to Hideo Sawaki, a bigwig in Minami, an organization is trying to kill Ginjiro....
Manda Ginjiro, a moneylender in Minami, is reunited by chance with Harumi, the woman who once saved his life. Harumi and her childhood friend Shimamoto had saved him from being attacked by hoodlums when he was 17 years old, when Ginjiro was busy fighting. According to Harumi, Shimamoto is active as a human rights lawyer who helps the weak......
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Fujisaki Aki is an employee at "Tsukiyono Drink", a medium-sized beverage manufacturer. She has been transferred to the Intellectual Property Department, that is in charge of managing intellectual property rights. Together with her superior, Kitawaki Masayoshi, who is a licensed patent attorney, the two work together to overcome various challenges faced by the company....
A young man struggling to repay his scholarship was involved in the wrongdoing of the Oreore fraud group. Ginjiro Manda, a moneylender in the Minami district of Osaka, or "the demon of the Minami district" as he is called, will not tolerate a story that does not make sense....
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Hanzawa Naoki works as a loan manager at the Osaka Nishi branch of Tokyo Central Bank. One day, Hanzawa makes a loan contract for 500 million yen with Nishi Osaka Steel Company. Hanzawa didn't want to approve the loan, but he had to due to the branch manager's order. Nishi Osaka Steel Company seems financially stable, but the company actually hides massive amounts of debt through fraudulent accounts. The company is caught. Three months later, Nishi Osaka Steel Company goes bankrupt. The bank's b...
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Hiroshi Kataoka works at a bank. He receives a promotion to manager of the Kamata branch. He is also informed that the Kamata branch will be shut down and he does not have to work hard. After the branch's shutdown, he will work again at the bank's headquarters. Hiroshi Kataoka is embarrassed by the situation. He sees the branch employees work hard and they do not know the branch will close. Hiroshi Kataoka is conflicted between his job and his employees....
Hiroto Miyama is an unconventional young lawyer who dances to his own tune and gets a little obsessive. For one thing, he’s only interested in criminal cases, and he will never give up in his pursuit of the truth even if offers only a 0.1% chance of being discovered. Japan’s 99.9% criminal case conviction rate leads the world, attesting to a “highly reliable” judicial system. In other words, once a crime suspect is indicted, prosecutor arguments tend to be accepted hook, line and sinker. In the ...
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Set in Osaka, high-spirited yakuza Kuwabara and buttoned-down construction consultant Ninomiya form an odd couple as they rail against the city’s “bad elements” drawn to money like sharks to the scent of blood. Laced with the characteristic witty banter of the Osaka dialect here is a gritty, hard-boiled drama that explodes with violent thrills and impact that defies all expectations....
Three tales raise unsettling questions about the central qualities of being human. In one, a father is torn between love for his son and the desire for revenge, while a second examines the twisted love of a teacher for his female colleague. The third story delves into the complex affections hidden within a bully....
Eiryo Waga is well-known musician who has begun a rapid climb to stardom, but he must keep his terrible past a secret. One day someone who knows all about his past confronts him, and Waga kills him in order to protect the fame he has obtained. Unfortunately, as Waga is leaving the scene, he runs into Asami, a budding stage actress. An investigation team is established led by two detectives, but they have difficulty making any headway. Meanwhile, by coincidence Waga bumps into Asami again. She al...
A successful screenwriter looks back on her life when she learns her husband has cancer. A year-long series, starring Narumi Yasuda....
Hamura entered a high school as a biology teacher. Unexpectedly, one of his students, Mayu, fell in love with him. The forbidden love between the teacher and the student began to sprout. Hamura was worried that his relationship with Mayu would be misunderstood, so he tried to escape. However, he later understood Mayu’s tragic life and that the two could not be separated…...
Hanzawa Naoki works as a loan manager at the Osaka Nishi branch of Tokyo Central Bank. One day, Hanzawa makes a loan contract for 500 million yen with Nishi Osaka Steel Company. Hanzawa didn't want to approve the loan, but he had to due to the branch manager's order. Nishi Osaka Steel Company seems financially stable, but the company actually hides massive amounts of debt through fraudulent accounts. The company is caught. Three months later, Nishi Osaka Steel Company goes bankrupt. The bank's b...
Following on the heels of "Stalker," this title continues the same theme, focusing on a young woman, Suzu, infatuated with her older sister's husband, Takeshi. As a neuro-psychiatrist, Takeshi has the expertise to diagnose her mental instability, but trying to care for her may only draw him further into her clutches. Looking into the mysteries of her childhood may be his only hope of curing her obsessive behavior before Suzu's violent tendencies threaten those around her....
A dramatized biography of the second of Japan's three legendary leaders. Rising from obscurity, Hideyoshi served under the command of Oda Nobunaga. With an extraordinary combination of intelligence, bravery and military skill, Hideyoshi rose to near-absolute power and greatly expanded upon Nobunaga's unification of Japan's warlords. This series also focused on Hideyoshi's personal life, particularly his relationships with his mother and his wife, and the pair's rivalry for influence over him....
Tsukasa leaves her hometown to work in Tokyo. While there, she is on her own facing the fascination and challenges of the working world. Her experiences gained, together with what she sees in others, gradually lead her to grow up. She is no longer in the midst of illusions and misconceptions....
The drama centers on Ashikaga Takauji's rise to power, overthrowing the Kamakura shogunate and eventually establishing the Ashikaga shogunate....
Yasutake Shingo is a newspaper reporter whose only redeeming feature is his earnestness. He meets Matsunaga Chie, who attends a music college, and they start dating. Each day becomes all the more bright and enjoyable for Shingo because of the lively Chie. She loves to laugh, sing and eat. After one and a half years, Chie is employed as a music teacher. One day, Shingo is informed that Chie has breast cancer. After thinking about it, he decides to share a lifetime with her and proposes. His propo...
Asamura Kitaro (Ozawa Kazuyoshi), a young assistant head of the Toyukai, is known in Kabukicho as the one-eyed Kitaro, and is feared as a mad dog that will not stop once he loses his temper. Asamura is strong in fighting but not in making money, and together with his brother Matsuo, he forcibly takes on the business of the rival Nishinaga clan. The Nishinaga clan tries to take Asamura's sister, Yuna, a singer, hostage, but Asamura retaliates against them and kills many members of the clan. When ...
When he returns to Earth to attend the wedding of his friend in Saipan, Musashi meets a beautiful girl named Shau who claims to come from the bottom of the sea. Just then, Monster Scorpis reappears in the sky above the island and Musashi faces the monster in order to protect the girl. What is the girl's true form? And what is the strange shadowy form that follows the monster Scorpis?...
First film in the 'Elegy' trilogy...
Second film in the 'Elegy' trilogy....
Third film in the 'Elegy' trilogy....
The twelfth film in the 'Conquest' series....
The thirteenth film in the 'Conquest' series....
A one shot game setup by lonely outlaws!...
The first film in the 'Japan Gokudo War' series....
The second film in the 'Japan Gangster War' series....
The third 'Japan Gangster War' film....
The fourth 'Japan Gangster War' film....
The fifth 'Japan Gangster War' film....
The sixth 'Japan Gangster War' film....
The eighth 'Japan Gangster War' film....
The ninth 'Japan Gangster War' film....
King of Minami TV Movie...
The fifteenth 'Conquest' film....
The fourteenth 'Conquest' film....
The sixteenth 'Conquest' film....
The Seventeenth 'Conquest' film....
The eighteenth 'Conquest' film....
The nineteenth 'Conquest' film....
A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world....
The first 'Front and Back' film....
The second 'Front and Back' film....
The third 'Front and Back' film....
The fourth 'Front and Back' film....
The fifth 'Front and Back' film....
The final 'Front and Back' film....
The first 'Strong Man' film....
The Second 'Strong Man' film....
The Third and final 'Strong Man' film....
A yakuza society that has turned into a world of warring states, a story of inferiority unfolded by men who aim to unify the world with force. Conquer this turbulent world and win the unification of Japan...!!...
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A former boxing gym owner and his younger brother rise up to help a boy and his teacher's daughter from a vicious religious group that preys on good people....
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Tanno Tomofumi, diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer's at the age of 39, Orange Lamp followed a married couple's nine years after realizing that life has no reason to surrender to an disease....
In Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for nearly twenty years. Each day passes eventlessly... until one day. The monotony of their daily lives is interrupted by the appearance of a beautiful female college student, Momoko, who comes to visit her aunt. After catching a glimpse of Momoko, both Tatsuya and Nobuyuki can't stop thinking about her. Since then, the small town is not so quiet anymore…...
Film about e-sport....
Musashi is a 10 year old boy with big dreams. He wants to grow up to be an astronaut so he can fly through the stars and meet his hero Ultraman. His mother worries that Musashi daydreams too much, but his police officer father thinks a little bit of daydreaming never hurts anyone....
The story of Asaki (Eiji Okuda) and his younger brother Shinji (Sho Aikawa). The elder brother has established himself as an author of sports manga. The younger brother engages in vigorous bare-knuckle brawls with local yakuza and well-known brawlers. The distance between them grows little by little, and the younger brother struggles in the shadow of his elder brother's light. Strong enemies and incidents appear one after another....
Kaisei Sakamoto is a 16 year old boy who is inclined to settle everything with his fists. He grew up in a town where you can see both Nagazaki and Gunkanjima, living with his father. His father, Genkai Sakamoto, runs a small ramen shop. The father-son duo has just recently had a large fight. The story showcases fragments of one's youth and the questions that crop up while growing up....
Depicts the “bonds” that connect through “food” under the theme of school lunch in Ashiya City. Nonomura Nana is a new nutritionist who works at an elementary school in Ashiya. Struggle every day for the smiles of children who eat delicious lunch. The lunch menu that appears is packed with the ingenuity and love of nutritionists and cooks. While drawing efforts to keep costs down, cooperation with suppliers, and the backside of difficult cooking sites, the importance of school lunches that prote...
Sakai's Happiness is a humorous and bittersweet portrayal of an ordinary family dealing with the challenges of everyday life....
In the early morning of January 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck, and Tadao Furuichi (Hidekazu Akai), who was running a camera store in Kobe City, lost his friends, his house, and his property. Tadao is busy volunteering for the reconstruction of the town, and one day he comes across his own golf bag that survived the earthquake. Feeling a miracle, Tadao decides to challenge the professional golf test before he turns 60....
A lowly but academically diligent warrior named Bessho Hikoshiro finds himself unable to move up in the world due to the stifling caste system of the Bakumatsu era. After being expelled from the household into which he was adopted through marriage and separated from his wife and son, he moves in with his disapproving elder brother and his wife. He meets his old class rival Enomoto Takeaki, now a commander of a naval ship, and is later told by a kindly noodle shop owner that Enomoto's rise in soc...
Eiji Morioka is legendary fighter, he is the 3rd and last Japanese boxing medalist. His life story is told from the eyes of his daughter Haruko, who is involved in checkered life of Eiji. Touching true story full of love....
The story of Hidekazu Akai, aka "Osaka Rocky," a legendary Japanese boxer who survived a mortal injury and went on to become a famous actor....
Detectives Takayama and Oshita participate in a major drug bust which arouses suspicion that the government may be secretly involved....
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Shinjuku has become chaotic. Ryushin Takeda (Kio Osawa), a member of the Hanako clan, and Daisuke Tsurumi (Junichi Kawamoto), the assistant to the Wakagashira, have killed the chairman and Wakagashira of the family, and the two of them are wreaking havoc on other areas without any plot or blunder. . Hozumi (Nariki Nagahara), the young head of the Kurohime family and leader of the Hozumi group, who had the casino vandalized, moves to take revenge on Takeda and Tsurumi, but Ryutaro Dojima (Yasukaz...
Ryushin Takeda (Mikio Osawa) and Daisuke Tsurumi (Junichi Kawamoto), former members of the Hanayuki family, killed the chairman and wakagami of their own family and ravaged other areas. He is invited by Ryutaro Dojima (Yasukaze Motomiya), the Kurohime family's young assistant and leader of the Doryūkai, to join the Kurohime family's Doryūkai, but at the same time, he joins Japan's largest wide-area organization, the Udagawa-gumi executives and the Iwakuma-gumi. Chishi Iwakuma (Hidekazu Akai), he...
Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and resist the infection, she finds new friendship and companionship with a journalist named Miyuki and a man named Akira....
Remake of Chusei Sone's 1983 comedy about a yakuza family trying their luck in show business....
1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami, who was the detective in charge of the Case 64, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department. His relation with the reporters is conflicted and his own daughter is missing. The statute of limitations for the Case 64 will expire in one year. Then a kidnapping case, similar to the Case 64, takes place. The rift between the crim...
1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami, who was the detective in charge of the Case 64, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department. His relation with the reporters is conflicted and his own daughter is missing. The statute of limitations for the Case 64 will expire in one year. Then a kidnapping case, similar to the Case 64, takes place. The rift between the crim...
High school seniors Mikayo, Chuko and Kei are forced to join a historical research club to fulfill a graduation requirement. Their teacher, Mr. Kachi, plans a mandatory club trip to a small village called Oshakabe in Yamagata prefecture to study remnants of an ancient clan of warriors called the ochimusha who displayed legendary cowardice in battle. When they arrive, the local villagers hold a special ceremony and construct a "super shrine". As a result, an 800-year seal is broken, unleashing a ...
Tendokai's Washio Kazuma, the underboss of Japan's largest crime syndicate, goes on the warpath when his blood brother and family turn up dead....
Suzume Akamatsu works at a library in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture. She delivers books by riding a bicycle. Through her work, Suzume grows as a person....
Based on the comic book series by Tadashi Ichinose and Kyouta Kita....
Daisuke is in the 2nd grade of high school and he plays on his school's baseball team. Daisuke then takes part in a gourmet contest with 3 of his friends and 2 girls, including Miki, from a nearby girls' high school. The gourmet contest is held to revive the village....
A yakuza boss's daughter starts a pirate TV broadcast....
A pair of schoolgirls get caught up in a scheme targeting local businesses. Loan shark Ginjiro can help, but first things first: what’s in it for him?...
At a companywide meeting, Bunsaku Akiba sees Toshie, an old girlfriend who is now the secretary and lover of Nishijima, the chairman who has control over the entire group. Although Akiba is married, the love affair between him and Toshie flares up again. Akiba uses Toshie to approach the chairman, but as Toshie gets more possessive of him, Akiba starts to have murderous thoughts....
A heartwarming drama based on a true story of the Pandan Water Pipeline Project where Japanese and Filipinos work together while overcoming various hardships. Every year more than 1 million children die because they do not have access to clean drinking water. In Pandan, a rural village on the Panay Island, many people were suffering from kidney disease because they did not have access to clean drinking water. The project was started with the aim to solve this problem by building a 10 kilometre ...
Loan shark Ginjiro is known as the Demon of Minami. Cosmetics maker Kaburaki has his eye on him. Sakagami meets Yulim, who has come over from Korea....
Ginjiro looks after 10-year-old Ayumi. Her mother is away on staff training. The company is a criminal outfit pushing unlisted stock to the elderly....
A man who borrowed money from Ginjiro commits suicide. He had been laid off by the unethical Naniwa Advertising Co. A new recruit is also suffering....
Business turns bad for Ginjiro’s client Matsuno. Self-proclaimed behavioral economist Keiko appears, and the businesses she advises boom. She’s a hit!...
A self-proclaimed cult founder comes to loan shark Ginjiro. Ginjiro sees through his lies and judges the cult a fraud. A co-conspirator is bitter....
Loan shark Ginjiro Manda meets an old friend, banker Imamiya. Harassed by his manager and pestered about past mistakes, Imamiya commits suicide....
Loan shark Ginjiro meets two people from his past: Harumi, who runs a kids restaurant; and Shimamoto, a human rights lawyer who isn't what he seems....
Feared loan shark Ginjiro Manda investigates a group of fraudsters when a struggling student and a widow with links to the group ask him for money....
Ginjiro lends 50 million yen to a man named Sugaya, who dies before repaying it. Sugaya’s daughter appears with a photo of someone unknown to Ginjiro....
When his brother is taken hostage, loan shark Ginjiro must face his heartless past while attempting to shake the shadowy force threatening his life....
Loan shark Ginjiro Manda meets with a former client, design firm CEO Tominaga. It was Tominaga’s wife who saved Manda from bankruptcy 10 years ago....
Osaka loan shark Ginjiro meets Tomoe, a childhood friend of his friend Ryuichi, but the lonely Tomoe has fallen in love with a man she met online....
Ginjiro meets factory owner Shirakawa, who has been given a 50-million-yen draft he has no memory of. Ginjiro hears rumors of a draft fraud ring....
When Tendokai's headquarters are attacked, underboss Washio Kazuma orders his trusted lieutenant to investigate a possible mole inside the family....
A Japanese boxer stages a dramatic and dangerous comeback after suffering brain damage in the ring....
Set in Osaka's Shinsekai, the film depicts the lives of Ayumu Tobita (Hidekazu Akai), who makes a living as a shogi gambler (shinken-shi), and Ryuzo Kayama (Masaya Kato) who aims to become a professional player....
Sasaki Ryohei (Yamada Ryosuke), the second son of the Sasaki family, is a high school student who lives in Shimane. He has just been chosen to be the vice captain of the youth soccer club. Setting his sights on participating in the prefectural championship, Ryohei practices every day with his buddies. One day, Ryohei has a severe headache and is brought to the hospital. Ryohei is diagnosed with an acute brain tumor from the test results. The family is told by the doctor that Ryohei will not live...
A tragic love story set against the always volatile and oftenviolent backdrop of Shanghai during the Japanese occupation and at the opening of the Pacific Theater of the Second World War. A nightclub singer becomes involved with both a member of the Chinese resistance and an officer of the Japanese army....
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The 7th popular series starring Hitoshi Ozawa. Hitoshi Soma, the leader of the Soma group, went to the third chairman, Goichi Yajima, with his feet settled with Keizo Sakai, who planned to take over the Shinseikai, and asked him about the killing of the same gate. On the other hand, the Hanshin Tigers' Murasame prepares to fight with the Soma group because Sakai's Odai was killed, but the chairman, Harimoto, takes measures. The Soma group and the Hanshin Tigers did not appear at the regular mee...
The TV movie is about a third-rate female lawyer who is an alcoholic, has a history of divorce, and only handles divorce settlements. She spends her days in a state of despondency, but when her estranged husband and daughter disappear, she embarks on a search, partly out of ambition....
Two people meet on a beach in Isumi. One is Ayaka, who skipped work and arrived at the seaside with no idea where she was going. The other is Nagisa, who was born and raised in the town. Ayaka and Nagisa decide to have a drink together. Ayaka, who has built a career at a Tokyo company, feels comfortable being with Nagisa, despite their differences – Nagisa grew up surrounded by nature and she is free-spirited. Ayaka was planning to skip work for just one day, but she eventually decides to stay o...
An alternate version of Ultraman Cosmos 2: The Blue Planet, which was created due to the arrest of the film's star, Taiyo Sugiura. New scenes were filmed that are primarily set in the past. Musashi Haruno, now a middle school student, continues to pursue his dream to become an astronaut, which is also a promise he made with Cosmos. However, he is on the verge of despair because space development gets canceled due to a rocket accident. A mysterious girl named Shau appears in front of Musashi. She...
The Tenma-kai, a Kansai yakuza organization, has been eagerly eyeing an expansion into Kanto, breaking the long-standing agreement between the two regions. In this crisis, Takeda (Nishioka Tokuma), the leader of the Takeda Family, proposes uniting the Kanto yakuza under a single alliance to block the Tenma-kai's incursion. While many groups quickly agree to the plan, the Kyotoukai alone refuses to cooperate. Suspicion arises that the Kyotoukai's leader, Nishijima (Taro Suwa), might betray them ...
The largest yakuza organization in Kansai, the Tenma-kai, has broken the agreement and begun advancing into Kanto. Enomoto (Yasukaze Motomiya), the assistant underboss of the Takeda Family in Kanto, is approached by the Tenma-kai with an offer to join them, but he refuses. However, due to a scheme by the Tenma-kai, the Takeda Family’s boss, Takeda Masaki (Nishioka Tokuma), is suddenly arrested on charges of extortion. Additionally, the family’s underboss, Miyamura (Jiro Okazaki), is ambushed an...
To prevent the Kansai-based Tenma-kai from expanding into Kanto, Enomoto (Yasukaze Motomiya), leader of the Enomoto-gumi and part of the Kanto yakuza, was guarding Takeda Masaki (Tokuma Nishioka), president of the largest Kanto organization, the Bandō Alliance. However, Takeda was targeted by a hitman. Although Takeda survived, he remained unconscious, and his condition was critical. Makabe (Takanori Higuchi), the director of the organization, plotted to take over as Takeda’s successor and supp...