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Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon, Lt. Jim Reardon and Maj. Ian Campbell are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. While Campbell wants to rebel and attempt an escape, Gordon tries to take a more stoic approach, an attitude that proves to be surprisingly resonant.
An independent group of researchers called the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN) actively track Godzilla as he makes landfall in Nemuro. Matters are further complicated when a giant meteor is discovered in the Ibaragi Prefecture. The mysterious rock begins to levitate as it's true intentions for the world and Godzilla are revealed.
The fifth installment of the Gokudo Action Series, which depicts the process of the yakuza organization walking on the path to national domination, centered on the confrontation between the two gangsters who became their nemesis. This work is set in a certain area of Hiroshima, which is shaken by the construction problem of an industrial waste treatment plant.
Former yakuza gang boss Noboru Ando reminisces about old partner in crime Kei Hanagata.
#31 in the King of Minami series. A washed-up yakuza named Fukunaga borrows money from Manda, unwittingly involving him in a sinister murder plot.
The director of a large Tokyo trading company is kidnapped and held for ransom. A young but experienced detective is put on the case while being at the centre of a nationwide television sensation.
A wandering monk who strays far from the Buddha’s teachings—that is Gedobo (Hitoshi Ozawa). His eyes see only the fate of evil festering in this world. Masuba (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi), working tirelessly as an underboss, grows weary of a world where even his boss has abandoned honor for money. Dissatisfied with life in a clan without jingi (duty and humanity), he drifts further into frustration. One day, Masuba encounters a monk begging on the roadside. The monk warns him: “Be careful. Darkness is trying to swallow you whole.” At that moment, Masuba’s destiny begins to shift…
Detective Masaki (Koji) happens upon a chilling scene: Gedobo (Hitoshi Ozawa) leading the vile yakuza Tamura to his death. Shocked but trusting his instincts as an investigator, Masaki begins to pursue the “mysterious monk.” Together with his partner Nagasawa, Masaki defies orders from above, chasing after shadows. But with no evidence to be found, those connected to Nagasawa’s case begin to turn up dead one by one. And always, lurking close to evil—Gedobo. The second chapter of Shinji Hiramatsu’s dark, new-wave crime entertainment!
Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.