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Born 1950 in Tokyo, Akimasa Kawashima (川島章正) is a Japanese film editor. He has received numerous awards, including the 39th Japan Academy Film Prize for Excellent Editing for 125 Years Memory.
Kawashima grew up watching American movies, and when he was in high school, he started watching European movies. At first, he wanted to be a producer, but after being told by his teacher, "You are good at editing," he chose editing because he knew that editing was 'the second directing'.
In 1972, he joined the editing department of Nikkatsu Studio. He has been freelancing since 1995 .
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11 March 1989
A former yakuza returns to gangster life after an old enemy threatens his son.
16 December 1989
As the monk Ryuun, whose past and origin make him prone to internal and external fits, leaves the temple towards Tokyo, he gets to catch a glimpse of enlightenment resonating with the blind Kanoko.
29 April 1983
On her wedding day, Makiko is stabbed by a woman in wedding dress. The wound isn't serious but the attacker blows herself up and can't be identified.
28 October 2005
Following a tip, Manabu Yazaki loses his last money betting on the older "banba" horse "Unryu" (jockied by Makie, a legendary jockey's daughter) in a draft-horse race held in his childhood home of Obihiro on the island of Hokkaido.
06 February 1981
An office lady follows his boss, whose work affairs had been discovered inside the company and he has been ordered to be transferred to another workplace.
25 May 1985
Natsuko is witnessed carrying on an affair with her boss, Misawa, by the unmarried Chieko. However, Chieko dies by falling and is found about ten days later in the shrubbery in front of the company.
08 January 1982
Yoko is a housewife who's frustrated by her husband's lack of virility. She finds solace in erotic daydreams, the ministrations of a condom salesman and, eventually, the partner-swapping lifestyle.
26 April 2003
Shiro Amasuka, dead leader of the Shimbara Revolt is resurrected from hell with the desire of overthrowing the shogunate for killing his companions.
23 November 2022
A British comedy in Japanese clothes, with central character Ginji at once earnest farm boy and entrepreneurial savant, finding ingenious and entertaining solutions in a timeless tale of business and found family.
07 February 2004
Having put down his sword and given up the will to fight, the masterless samurai Iemon lives in solitude while being haunted by his violent enigmatic past.
21 November 1987
Michiko Sakuraba (Mami Ogawa), a secretary at the Morio Kikuchi Law Office, located in a corner of the business district, takes out a concert ticket from her handbag and smiles.
22 January 1982
A husband happily takes delivery of a new plaything, a woman who has been trained to be a slave and obey his every command however degrading or painful for three months.
25 December 1981
Nami is a department store worker who agrees to stand in for a friend in a magazine photo shoot, which turns out to be for an S&M magazine.
06 October 2023
Harumi comes to terms with her mother’s passing and gets embroiled in the hunt for a legendary 600 million yen pearl.
25 October 1980
After a married businessman has his way with a young prostitute he takes good soak in the bath. When he returns to the bedroom he discovers her bloody body.
07 June 1996
After reading about beautiful women killed in a gruesome manner during the recent months, Akiko tries to nail down the sick serial killer herself.
18 May 1991
A human drama on the state of marriage today, following the battle between a mother and daughter over her marriage and humorous depictions of the people around them.
18 February 1984
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 a religious cult.
13 September 2008
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper.
09 October 1993
In 1940, Kubota Shoten, which has been in business for generations, goes bankrupt due to the debauched lifestyle of its president, Kunimitsu Kubota.
18 October 1997
Ikuko is a mature, reserved Kyoto woman married for many years to a respectable, now-middle-aged mana
20 September 2008
While alone in a nightclub, straight-laced Lui meets sensitive but troubled punk kid Ama. Mesmerized by his split tongue, she becomes obsessed with body modification and soon wants the same treatment.
06 April 1984
A woman bored with her lover starts an affair with the college friend of the deceased husband of her best friend by pretending to be the widow.
30 May 1998
Tokyo is a dark technopolis, a city of faceless chrome and cold marble. It is ruled by Nogi, a yakuza boss specializing in drugs and murder.
15 January 1991
A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange interchange of roles takes place.
07 May 1988
Nami is a nurse and the unwilling object of her patients' lust. When she is hit by a car whilst fleeing from the home of her unfaithful boyfriend, the driver of the car takes her as a sexual prisoner.
08 December 1984
Fujiko has won a happy marriage after competing with her friend Kanae for Shunsuke, but her boring daily life and dissatisfaction with her husband only grows day by day.
16 February 2002
In a world where vendettas are officially sanctioned, the people sometimes needed help in carrying out their vengeance.
15 December 1990
Two pilots compete to be the best jet fighter. A commander with a troublesome past, a female director who wants a good scoop, a competition that is looking for their best guy.
01 March 2019
Yuriy Norshteyn, Russia’s most renowned animator, has crafted many brilliant works, including his award-winning Tale of Tales and Hedgehog in the Fog.
20 September 1983
Kate lies on the beach under the clear blue sky of the tropics, exposing her dynamite body to the sun.
03 December 1982
A seemly ordinary high school girl tormented by masochistic visions gets involved with a teacher who harbours a secret passion for her.
19 October 2002
When pregnant lunchbox factory worker Yayoi has finally taken all the abuse she can handle, she strangles her brutish husband and disposes of the body parts, piece by piece.
08 July 1989
Nagashima is a playboy who refuses to be tied down by marriage. Suffering from insomnia recently, he is eager to find a glamorous girl who can make him fall asleep.
16 October 2010
Mito Domain Samurai Seki Tetsunosuke must pay the consequences for his role in the assassination of Great Elder Ii Naosuke.
27 November 1981
Hairstylist Misa meets S&M enthusiast Ippei and is convinced to give it a try. Then later, Ippei's ex-wife, who happens to be one of Misa's beauty shop clients, begins a sexual relationship with her.
21 February 2025
In the early 1920s, Yasuko, a budding actress, crosses paths with Chūya Nakahara, a young poet destined to be revered as a genius.
14 April 1984
A married couple of abalone divers must confront ruthless investors taking over their coastline.
03 April 1981
A woman and her business partner run a neighborhood bar. He hopes they can be married someday. One evening, a yakuza swaggers into the bar and asks the woman how much would it take to have sex with her.
23 January 1981
A teacher, Sakiko Kurata, receives a phone call regarding one of her former students. Young Sueko is accused of being a prostitute and has requested Sakiko’s help.
29 August 1992
Yuko dreams of being a best selling children's author, but as an adult she has made little progress. In her depression, she bonds with Ginko, a roadside fortune teller who has had a tragic love life.
24 April 1981
A working class young man, Tetsuo, who distrusts all rich people, falls in love with a girl, Chika, from an affluent family.
10 July 1981
A soon-to-be-married woman goes to Tokyo to beat multiple sexual world records before her freedom expires.
09 January 1981
Toriko is a sexually frustrated wife who gets involved in swapping games with her neighbors.
13 June 1992
Horror director Toshiharu Ikeda adapts a story by Baku Akae about a high-school student who falls in love with a woman on a school trip.
10 October 2009
This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo.
25 June 1994
Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published.
07 February 2004
Namiko Morita, who lived in Otaru, moved to this area with her husband, Yutaro, and opened the brewery "Morita Brewery".
29 May 1981
Secretary Sayo does some corporate snooping for her boyfriend, an upstart executive with a rival company.
15 May 1981
The story depicts how an intelligent, beautiful, and chaste female teacher becomes a woman who writhes in lust after being humiliated by the lecherous vice principal and students.
23 September 1995
Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers.
05 December 2015
Two historical incidents that deepened the friendship between Japan and Turkey are connected in this story of friendship and compassion: In the night of 16 September 1890 the Turkish frigate Ertuğrul is caught up in a typhoon and sinks off the Japanese coast.
18 September 1999
When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to dig, breaking open a money-and-favours scandal that threatens to rock the entire structure of business and government to its core.
09 October 1981
The wife of a prominent businessman works as a late-night radio personality. One night on her way to the radio station, she is raped by a motorcycle gang without knowing the reason.
28 May 1982
I am 21 years old and newly married to Yoshio, a junior high school teacher. To help pay off the mortgage on our new home, we decided to let Ikuyo—a colleague of Yoshio’s and an English teacher—rent the room upstairs, but.
20 September 1983
Yuko arrives at Amami Airport. She sees her sister-in-law and a local young man...
