Ako Movies

A molecular biologist's study of the human eye has far-reaching implications about humanity's scientific and spiritual beliefs.

A young drug dealer watches as his high-rolling life is dismantled in the wake of his cousin's murder, which sees his best friend arrested for the...

In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For Ishmael, a local reporter, the trial strikes a deep...

Ritsuko is a popular madame of a nightclub but, ever since her gangster husband got caught and imprisoned, her life has taken a turn for the worst....

Junko Miyashita plays a mysterious hitchhiker picked up by a brute of a construction worker named Kenzo who takes her back to his run-down and...

Tetsuaki's struggling to write a novel while his mother fades; Mitsuko's engagement has been forced upon her unwillingly; the two individuals run...

A junior high school student spends his nights hanging out at the disco. At home his parents are more interested in swapping partners with willing...

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji...

TBS Wednesday Drama Special about a young assistant in love with an older man who works as a photographer.

Two high school girls graduate and one of them goes off to a rural town to join an underground dance troupe. The other decides to visit and she stays...

Deaths in Tokimeki tells the story of a nondescript hitman, in a remote country villa, waiting to carry out a job: the assassination of the leader of...

When Nicole, a young copy-shop employee, is hired to translate an ancient Chinese manuscript, she soon finds that the document has strange powers...

In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school (Shingon) offered extensive training in complex...

The erotic adventures and troubles of several female college students.

A woman living alone is visited by her ex-husband. At the same time a young couple who are about to break up get trapped in the town as public...

Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.

Ninth movie in the Torakku Yarō series. Momojiro travels to Nagano to take Jonathan's place driving logging freight through the mountains. There...

A young wife is frightened that her husband and her father's second wife may be in cahoots with each other and are after her fortune. And then,...

A film by Akiyoshi Imazeki. Emi is a 16-year-old girl who lives in Enoshima. An adolescent movie depicting teenagers' outlook on life, values, and...