Movies: Aki Takejo

A high school boy with violent impulsive tendencies begins a troubled relationship with an older woman he sees at a funeral....

The comical battles between a handsome hoodllum, part-time handyman/problem solver and an ugly yakuza. (From a George Akiyama manga.)...

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This film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Hisashi Inoue, which tells the story of a comedian who teams up with a strange man he meets while traveling, and the two become very popular in Asakusa while performing their unusual acts....

A struggling Japanese neighborhood supermarket manager chances upon an old classmate, who has plenty of ideas for revitalizing his business....

A former assassin is drawn into a conspiracy which leads him to return to his old ways, endangering his brother who suspects that something is afoot......

Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a small coastal fishing town where he's become an honest fisherman....

Oshin comes from a family of poor rice farmers. Her father and brother must work in the fields and her grandmother and mother, who is expecting another child, barely have enough to eat. In order to make ends meet for her family, 7-year-old Oshin give...

The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils....

Master director Sadao Nakajima brings to life the adventures of Shohachi, a ronin (masterless samurai) searching for his father's enemy. O-Tama, the star of a light acrobatics hut in the back mountains of Asakusa, falls in love at first sight with a...

A movie starring Meijin Takahashi, the God of Famicom. Based on the Hacchaki Sensei manga....

Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of a manga by Shotaro Ishinomori was an official selection at the 5th Shanghai International Film Festival and won the award for Best Screenplay at the 14th Tokyo International Film Festival....

Six year old Momoko and Motoharu are turned suddenly into High school students. And more than that they have now psychic powers....