Kyôhei Shibata

Young writer Tamako, who is wrongfully accused of killing a yakuza boss, must find a way out of trouble.Read More »

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In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launches a plan to cut back on his labor force. Fifty employees are segregated into a special assignment division and given an ultimatum: meet a sales goal of 1.5 billion yen within three months or be fired. Spiteful of their unjust treatment, two men, Shinoda and Takigawa, take up the battle against the ruthless Yokoyama.Read More »

When a doctor is found dead and the company’s exclusive data on a cancer drug is missing, detective Taka-yama and Oshita are called to the Nakamitsu pharma-ceutical laboratory. However, a bungled attempt to catch the murderer leave Takayama and Oshita re-assigned to the lackluster task of patrolling public bathrooms and hopefully out of trouble.Read More »

Based on the script by the late Shoji Kaneko, director Toru Kawashima turned it into a buddy movie that has quite the cult following in Japan. The two already collaborated on the, in my opinion, excellent Ryuji a year earlier and shortly before Kaneko’s death.Read More »