Movies: Yoko Ishino

A burning Godzilla, on the verge of meltdown, emerges to lay siege to Hong Kong. At the same time horrifying new organisms are discovered in Japan. These crustacean-like beings are seemingly born of the Oxygen Destroyer, the weapon that killed the or...

Follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with the responsibilities in their lives....

Seven families are aboard a bus towards a field camp for their vacation. At this camp, it becomes clear that this is not a common trip. The parents are of the kind that abused their children or were visited by children's services, and at the camp the...

Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electromagnetic cloud for an unknown reason and is totally blocked and isolated from other parts of the world. The temperature inside the cloud is slowly in...

#30 in the King of Minami series, introducing Ginjiro Manda's new sidekick Kohei. This installment explores the fatal effects of bankruptcy on the loan shark profession, when a young business owner gets tricked into declaring bankruptcy in order to e...

High school student Noguchi learns that there isn't a single male softball team in the nearby area. He figures if he starts up a softball team, they are sure thing to go to the national tournament. He then persuades his friend Onitsuka to help him st...

#16 in the series, after "Futures Trading Hell."...

#29 in the King of Minami series. Manda and his associates follow a debt-laden detective to Hiroshima, where they plan to collect from his former employer for engaging in wrongful termination, under the intentionally vague label of "restructuring."...

#26 in the series, following "Trans Woman Blues."...

Detective Takeo Kosai is about to be demoted. He then plans to entrap Akira Dojima without his partner Detective Emi Ishikawa's knowledge. Akira Dojima kidnapped and killed a girl 15 years ago...

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#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....

#19 in the series, following "Con Man Elimination."...

An accidental shooting on the job and a recent divorce take a toll on the personal and professional life of a Japanese detective. Just as it seems he can't go any lower, he is suspended from the force for disregarding orders to halt his criminal inve...

Two years ago, Katsuo Todo (Takashi Naito) was appointed as the general manager of the Plato Royal Hotel Yatsugatake from the Plato Tokyo hotel. He works hard every day with his staff to provide the best time and space for our customers. Concierge Sh...

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A drama about a father and his son centered around the Great Hanshin earthquake....

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#23 in the series, following the Five Hour Special....

#33 in the King of Minami series. The CEO of a health food start-up borrows money from Manda using his fiancee's house as collateral, but when his American supplier demands more money than expected, he turns to a business loan company to make up the ...