With Hamada's death, it seemed that the Yuseikai's problems would be resolved, but an incident occurred in Yokohama in which a member of the Nakamori group was attacked. Matsumiya (Gen Hongo) once again assumes that this is the work of the Kyowakai and investigates. Meanwhile, the captured Kawakami (Tatsuya Nakazawa) and Ryuji (Tatsuya Kishida) are attacked by someone when they are released.

Makimoto (Tomohiro Waki), Arimura (Tasuku Nagaoka), and Itagaki (Keisaku Kimura) of Koukai, who shot Iwao (Daisuke Negishi), escape. Himuro (Yasufu Motomiya) prioritizes taking the seriously injured Iwao to the hospital. Himuro and Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) stubbornly refuse a thank you from Sakoda (Hideo Nakano) who rushes to the hospital. Afraid of conflict in the near future, they avoid colluding even though they have a common enemy, the Steel Association.

One day, while Himuro (Yasufu Motomiya), Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi), and the Yamazaki clan are watching the news, they hear shocking news. Gang members had barricaded themselves in the area and fired at the police officers who arrived. When Himuro learns that the scene is Tokorozawa, he wonders if it is Shima from the Sugimasa group. According to Sahara (Takayuki Kaneba) of the special investigation team, the incident was triggered by a tip-off that Gota, a member of the Sugimasa-gumi, was the head of Shabu, but Miyazono, the head of the Sugimasa-gumi, would have done something like that. Himuro couldn't accept that there was no such thing.

Hiroki Saito, chairman of the Ryuseikai and an ally of Himuro and his friends since their days in Yokohama, has been released from Hiroshima Prison after a long prison sentence. Saito tries to make amends for his time in prison by volunteering to be the commanding officer of a special attack team that is heading to Tokyo, but Himuro and his friends stop him from doing so. Meanwhile, Saito's obscene friends start a fight...

Hasegawa was left in critical condition at the hands of Chairman Murayama of the Hasseikai. Himuro kidnaps Numata, the Hasseikai chairman, and interrogates him, but Numata is shot by someone. Meanwhile, Hasegawa has regained consciousness, but due to the unpredictable situation, Himuro, Tamura, and the rest of the Yamazaki clan begin to crush the Hassei-kai.

The 55th installment of the popular chivalry series starring Yasukaze Motomiya and Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi. This is a success story of two people, Renji Himuro and Yuto Tamura, who aim to reach the top of the Japanese Yakuza world with the goal of "eliminating conflict from Japan." Characters with rich individuality are dynamic and adhere to the path of chivalry that "helps the weak and frustrates the strong." Tora, a member of the Yamazaki clan, was arrested by acting as a decoy to protect Tamura. What is his parent Tamura thinking? Set in Yokohama, the movements of the Kyowa-kai, the Shichinin-kai, and the police intersect in a flashy manner.

Marukami-kai Nakamori-gumi leader Nakamori and Himuro are shot by someone, and Himuro is taken to the police for questioning. Meanwhile, Tora and Teru are making a fuss at a club in Kazo and are about to cause some trouble. It was Himuro and Tamura's strategy to destroy the Kanto Seven-person Society, but...

Show featuring the Japanese bands 五人一首 (Gonin-Ish), 陰陽座 (Onmyo-za), 人間椅子 (Ningen Isu), and Gargoyle. Filmed on June 16th, 2001 at Shibuya On-Air West.

The Second Sino-Japanese War in a Toy Film brings the hidden shadows of the Showa Period to the silver screen as documentary and propaganda footage of the battlefields of China collected from a number of sources are knit together to give a new perspective on history.

Enjoy the timeless beauty of cherry blossoms, reminiscent of "The Tale of Genji," in the historic cities of Kyoto, Nara, and Otsu alongside the cast members of the 2024 Taiga Drama. Experience the carefully preserved ancient aristocratic culture, including court music, dance, kemari, and culinary traditions.

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Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there and tries to integrate in the Japanese society. She is determined to be a "real Japanese" before her year contract runs out, though it precisely this determination that is incompatable with Japanese humility. Though she is hired for a choice position as a translator at an import/export firm, her inability to understand Japanese cultural norms results in increasingly humiliating demotions. Though Amelie secretly adulates her, her immediate supervisor takes sadistic pleasure in belittling her all along. She finally manages to break Amelie's will by making her the bathroom attendant, and is delighted when Amelie tells her the she will not renew her contract. Amelie realizes that she is finally a real Japanese when she enters the company president's office "with fear and trembling," which could only be possible because her determination was broken by Miss Fubuki's systematic torture.

An introduction to the pop culture history of comics and animation in Japan, particularly adult comics, and the obsessive fantasy world of comic & animation fans.

A Japanese-American director digs deep into the controversial 'comfort women' issue to settle the debate on whether the women were paid prostitutes or sex slaves, and reveals the motivations and intentions of the main actors pushing to revise history in Japan.

NAMBA tells the American story of May Namba, born in 1922 to Japanese immigrants. During WWII, 125,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated, including the Namba family. May’s granddaughter, Miyako, narrates and guides us through her grandmother’s experiences living at Minidoka. Miyako packs a suitcase heart-wrenchingly contemplating the most important belongings to bring to the prison camp. She makes a mattress out of hay and lays down in a horse stall to use as a bed, just as her grandmother did. Throughout the film May and Miyako share this complex history—the injustice and love of country—that’s rarely discussed in history books.

A young boy becomes interested in the bodies of living things and starts to develop phobias after seeing a dog's corpse. Before long all manner of things begin to appear grotesque to him.

A study of artist Andy Goldsworthy’s work in Scotland and Japan.

In February 2017, Journey went to Japan for a special show at Tokyo’s Budokan that featured a complete performance of 1981’s Escape and 1983’s Frontiers at the request of legendary Japanese concert promoter Mr. Udo in honor of his 50th anniversary in the business. “There’s a few songs I don’t even recall playing, like [the Frontiers track] ‘Troubled Child,” Journey guitarist Neal Schon told Rolling Stone at the time. “Digging back into that stuff has been a lot of fun.”