Movies: Sadawo Abe

  • 2007
    Ten Nights of Dreams

    Ten Nights of Dreams (2007)

    Ten Nights of Dreams

    6.42007HD

    Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki's same-titled short story collection, Ten Nights of Dreams brings ten fantastical dream sequences to film with great visual and psychological panache. Representing the combined efforts of eleven direct...

    Ten Nights of Dreams
  • 2005
    Year One in the North

    Year One in the North (2005)

    Year One in the North

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    In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of Hokkaido. These people once supported the now displaced Samurais of the older days. After two years, o...

    Year One in the North
  • 2012
    Dreams for Sale

    Dreams for Sale (2012)

    Dreams for Sale

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    After losing their restaurant in a fire, a husband and wife come up with a strange plan to rebuild their shattered finances: marrying the husband off to a series of lonely women and defrauding them....

    Dreams for Sale
  • 2015
    A Farewell to Jinu

    A Farewell to Jinu (2015)

    A Farewell to Jinu

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    Takeharu Takami (Ryuhei Matsuda) is a bank teller, but he becomes allergic to money. He decides not to use money at all. Takeharu decides to move to a small village in the Tohoku region. There, he encounters residents who are not so easy....

    A Farewell to Jinu
  • 2007
    Maiko Haaaan!!!

    Maiko Haaaan!!! (2007)

    Maiko Haaaan!!!

    6.52007HD

    Kimihiko Onizuka is a salaryman infatuated with maiko (apprentice geisha) and whose greatest goal in life is to play a party game called "yakyuken" with one....

    Maiko Haaaan!!!
  • 2008
    Paco and the Magical Book

    Paco and the Magical Book (2008)

    Paco and the Magical Book

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    Onuki asks people in a hospital to perform a play for Paco, who suffers from memory disorder. His only hope is to help Paco survive from her illness....

    Paco and the Magical Book
  • 2023
    Revolver LILY

    Revolver LILY (2023)

    Revolver LILY

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    In 1924 Yuri killed 57 people as a spy before going underground as the madam of a small brothel. There, she encounters an orphan whose family was murdered and holds the key to finding a large sum of money reported missing by the Imperial Japanese Arm...

    Revolver LILY
  • 2003
    Kisarazu Cat's Eye: Nihon Series

    Kisarazu Cat's Eye: Nihon Series (2003)

    Kisarazu Cat's Eye: Nihon Series

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    When Bussan learns he has less than a year to live, he decides to continue his life as usual. He spends his time with his friends, a band called Kisarazu Cat's Eye. Their funny adventures range from playing gigs to solving a mystery surrounding count...

    Kisarazu Cat's Eye: Nihon Series
  • 2022
    Lesson in Murder

    Lesson in Murder (2022)

    Lesson in Murder

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    Masaya is a university student, but he attends a school that's not his ideal school. His days are generally gloomy. One day, he receives a letter from serial killer Haimura. He was convicted for nine murders and received the death penalty. Back when ...

    Lesson in Murder
  • 2006
    Kisarazu Cat's Eye: World Series

    Kisarazu Cat's Eye: World Series (2006)

    Kisarazu Cat's Eye: World Series

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    After terminally ill Bussan finally passes away he misses hanging out with his still living friends and decides to return to Kisarazu. In his ghost form however only his most trusted friends can see him, and his meddling in the lives of the living re...

    Kisarazu Cat's Eye: World Series
  • 2014
    Nuigulumar Z

    Nuigulumar Z (2014)

    Nuigulumar Z

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    A gothic lolita merges with a teddy bear to fight zombies and save the world....

    Nuigulumar Z
  • 1996
    Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment

    Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment (1996)

    Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment

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    There still stands a famous apartment building where such prominent manga artists as Tezuka Osamu, Shotaro Ishinomori and Fujio Akatsuka once lived, worked, and shared experiences....

    Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment
  • 2013
    The Apology King

    The Apology King (2013)

    The Apology King

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    Ryoro Kurojima (Sadao Abe) is the director of a Tokyo apology center. His job is to teach others how to apologize. Ryoro Kurojima solves problems by using his apology techniques on anything from simple arbitration to a national crisis....

    The Apology King
  • 2015
    UNFAIR: the end

    UNFAIR: the end (2015)

    UNFAIR: the end

    5.62015HD

    Natsumi Yukihira (Ryoko Shinohara) receives secret documents of an organization that controls the country from the shadows. Because of this, Natsumi's ex-husband, Kazuo Sato (Teruyuki Kagawa) pays a terrible price. Natsumi goes back to the Investigat...

    UNFAIR: the end
  • 2005
    Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims

    Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims (2005)

    Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims

    6.52005HD

    Yaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, while Kita is an actor addicted to various drugs....

    Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims
  • 2003
    JAPANESE NAKED TRIBE

    JAPANESE NAKED TRIBE (2003)

    JAPANESE NAKED TRIBE

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    The story takes place when the Shin-Okubo district of Tokyo was still known as Okubomura, where the yakuza are running a real estate business called Misato Kogyo. Starting with the mule AF, who carries 'cargo' inside his own butt hole, the gang membe...

    JAPANESE NAKED TRIBE
  • 2015
    Tales of the Bizarre 25th Anniversary Autumn Special: Film Directors Collection

    Tales of the Bizarre 25th Anniversary Autumn Special: Film Directors Collection (2015)

    Tales of the Bizarre 25th Anniversary Autumn Special: Film Directors Collection

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    "Box" Shuko Yoshino (played by Yuko Takeuchi), a researcher at a medical university, was suddenly hit in the head while working. When she woke up, she found herself locked in a sealed metal box. Ryota Murakami (played by Satoshi His Wife), a single o...

    Tales of the Bizarre 25th Anniversary Autumn Special: Film Directors Collection
  • 2016
    Sniper

    Sniper (2016)

    Sniper

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    Detective Ryoko Kozuki receives a demotion after having an affair with a superior. She succeeds in arresting a rapist in an undercover operation that puts her at risk. Her achievement immediately becomes the talk of the precinct, but no one approache...

    Sniper
  • 2003
    Ikebukuro West Gate Park SP

    Ikebukuro West Gate Park SP (2003)

    Ikebukuro West Gate Park SP

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    This special takes place three years after the end of the original series. Makoto is homeless as a result of his mom selling out their shop and soon becomes involved in a ‘bone smasher’ case, in which someone puts homeless people to sleep and breaks ...

    Ikebukuro West Gate Park SP
  • 2006
    Helen the Baby Fox

    Helen the Baby Fox (2006)

    Helen the Baby Fox

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    A young boy named Taichi Ogawara finds a fox cub on the side of the road and takes it home as a pet. He discovers it is blind, deaf, and mute. Because of this, he names it Helen, after Helen Keller....

    Helen the Baby Fox