A Geisha - Movie

In the post-war Gion district of Kyoto, the geisha Miyoharu agrees to apprentice the 16 year-old Eiko. The story follows the difficult life of Eiko as she and her mentor battle the social pressures of postwar Japan. For the geisha community, the period after World War II was a time of conflict between pre-war traditionalism with a new atmosphere of individual liberty and women’s rights. The film is as much about the social revolution taking place in 1953 occupied Japan as it is about the emotional relationship between the two women.


Cast
Michiyo Kogure - Miyoharu
Ayako Wakao - Eiko
Seizaburô Kawazu - Kusuda
Saburo Date - manishi
Sumao Ishihara - Kokichi
Midori Komatsu - Oume
Kanji Koshiba - Kanzaki
Kikue Môri - Domestic arts teacher
Chieko Naniwa - Okimi
Eitarô Shindô - Sawamoto
Ichirô Sugai - Saeki
Haruo Tanaka - Ogawa
Emiko Yanagi - Kaname

Bambino

A drama adaptation of a popular comic written by Sekiya Tetsuji. Matsumoto Jun plays the overenthusiastic protagonist from Fukuoka who comes to Tokyo with the desire to become a chef. The drama will display cooking skills and the Italian language.

Matsumoto Jun as Ban Shogo
Karina as Hibino Asuka
Sato Ryuta as Katori Nozomi
Uchida Yuki as Shishido Miyuki
Sasaki Kuranosuke as Kuwabara Atsushi
Kitamura Kazuki as Yonamine Tsukasa
Ichimura Masachika as Shishido Tekkan
Hoshan (ほっしゃん。) as Oda Toshio
Mukai Osamu (向井理) as Senoo Masashi
Komatsu Ayaka as Minakawa Kozue
Yamamoto Kei as Endo Susumu
Fukiishi Kazue as Takahashi Eri
Sasaki Takao (佐々木崇雄) as Nagai Hirokazu
Sato Yusuke as Takanashi Hiroshi
Asou Kousuke (麻生幸佑) as Shibata Kenichiro

Kamen Rider Hibiki

Summary:
Kamen Rider Hibiki's main focus is the story of the teacher and apprentice-like relationship of Adachi Asumu and the title character. Adachi Asumu is a young boy who is unsure of his own skill and worth and is at a crossroads in his life as he transitions to high school. As the series progresses, he learns what it is to be a man, more confident in his own power. The secondary focus of the series is the age old battle of the Kamen Riders (referred to as Oni in this program) and the Makamo, demons that can only be defeated using "pure sound". The series follows the training and changes of the four main Oni, Hibiki, Ibuki, Todoroki and Zanki.
(Source: Wikipedia)

Cast:
Hosokawa Shigeki
Tochihara Rakuto
Shibue Jyoji
Kawaguchi Shingo

Kamen Rider Kiva

Twenty-two years after the disappearance of his father, Wataru Kurenai lives in an infamous "haunted house" where he is destined as Kamen Rider Kiva to fight life-draining monsters known as the Fangaia, the very race his father fought years ago before his disappearence. Wataru is later joined by a second rider in the series (named Kamen Rider Ikusa) who is part of an organization seeking to destroy the Fangaia menace. The story is split between the actions of Wataru in the present (2008) and his father Otoya in the past (1986), slowly revealing the story behind the Fangaia and Kiva.

Kamen Rider Ryuki

Thirteen Advent Card decks were created for thirteen Kamen Riders. They make Contracts with monsters from the mysterious Mirror World, drawing on their strength in exchange for feeding them the life force of the creatures they destroy. The creator of the Advent Cards has only one rule: that there can be only one Kamen Rider. The others must be killed, and the sole victor will be granted a single wish. This is the Rider War.

All over the city, innocent people are being abducted, never to be seen again. During his investigations of these incidents, Shinji Kido- an intern at the online news service ORE Journal- discovers one of the Advent Card decks at an apartment where every reflective surface has been covered by newspaper. He is soon sucked into the Mirror World, discovering the terrifying truth behind the disappearances: people are literally being pulled through mirrors by the monsters of the Mirror World so that they may feed. He is about to be killed by a powerful dragon named Dragreder when he is saved by Kamen Rider Knight- Ren Akiyama.

Ren seeks to win the Rider War at all costs. He works with a young woman named Yui Kanzaki, who seeks her missing brother: the master of the Rider War, Shiro Kanzaki. Seeing Ren's strength, Shinji enters the Rider War not for the prize, but so that he may protect innocent people from the threat of the Mirror World, and stop the senseless fighting between the Kamen Riders.

With Dragreder as his Contract Monster, he becomes Kamen Rider Ryuki.

He will discover that there are some people who cannot be saved. That you must sometimes fight in order to stop the fighting. The extent to which you must go if you want your deepest wish to come true, and the sacrifices that you must make.

In the end, there can be only one Kamen Rider.

* Takamasa Suga
* Satoshi Matsuda
* Ayano Sugiyama

Sex Is Zero - Movie

Summary:

Raunchy comedy/drama starring pop idol Lim Chang-jung (see JAKARTA) as a hapless college schlub who falls for Miss Popularity, who conveniently happens to be dating the biggest prick on campus and is therefore blind to Lim's hopeless overtures until she gets knocked up and beaten silly by her embarrassed mother.

Often feels like an idealized male-centric filmization of the director's unrequited college romance, except that here the dream girl is made to suffer unspeakable anguish before she wises up to the man who really cares about her.

Cast:
Im Chang Jung
Ha Jin Won
Choi Seong-Guk
Jin Jae-Yeong

Contains graphic scenes of violence and/or sexual nature. Not for children