
February 23, 1943 · 83 years old
Akaji Maro (麿 赤児 Maro Akaji, born February 23, 1943) is a Japanese actor, butoh performer, and theater director. He is the founder of Dairakudakan. One of his sons is the film director Tatsushi Ōmori; another is the actor Nao Ōmori.

A detective is trying to find the cause of a string of suicides.

A young, naive boy sets out alone on the road to find his wayward mother. Soon he finds an unlikely protector in a crotchety man and the two have a series of unexpected adventures along the way.

A postman is mistaken for a dangerous criminal by the police.

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.

A young man gets off the train in the morning and wanders the business districts aimlessly. He runs across some yakuza gangsters, whom he despises, and goes on a killing spree, but soon becomes involved with a subordinate gang.

A salaryman, a drug addict and a yakuza go on a breathless three man chase through the streets of Tokyo, each for a different reason and fighting demons.

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.

In a world where people are discriminated based on their birthplace, a resident of the much-reviled Saitama Prefecture embarks on a revolutionary campaign to improve things for his home.

The War ended on August 15th, 1945. What took place in Japan on the previous night? The unknown destiny of the day is unveiled.

In a so-called "spirit video", Kanon (Kôki) is astonished to see a high-school girl who looks exactly like her.

The lives of women saved by the historical Tokei-ji Buddhist Temple.

In the fictional Tokyo suburb of Mahoro, Tada Keisuke works as a "benriya" - a general problem solver for hire. One day in January, former classmate Gyoten Haruhiko appears unannounced. Back in their schooldays Haruhiko was a quie...

Three cat burgling sisters have to go up against the police and a Chinese crime syndicate in order to rescue their kidnapped father.

Story of everyday life and romance of a taxi driver who is a Korean resident in Japan.

An elderly couple is offered to meet with their dead son by strange people in exchange for herbal medicine.

Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (later played by Takumi Kitamura). Yasuo's life seemed great at the time, but his life totally changed after his wife died in accident....

Opens with a journalist reporting on the 1997 Kobe earthquake, as he remembers a trip made as a young boy. Then, he and family took a boat trip from Awaji to Beppu in order to bury the ashes of his elder brother, killed in the jus...

A discriminated assistant director decides to remake a bran-new love movie. But the contingently-rewritten script awakens real ghost which possesses the actor and and causes death of field personnel.