Chu Arai

1987 TV Movie Adaptation of Bakeru-kun

Original work: The second installment of Edogawa Rampage's Inference Masterpiece series, which began airing on Asahi TV in the second half of the 1970s and gained popularity. Famous actor Tian Zhimao plays detective wise Kogoro. A magician who targets the Yucun family, who obtain huge wealth through gemstones. Even the wise Kogoro was fooled by his meticulous criminal plan

Based on Edogawa Rampo's famous story, "Black Lizard"

Chotaro and Nakanishi, a duo of unemployed advertisers, drifted to Isehama, a port town near Yokohama, but a gang was making its presence felt in the town and the shopkeepers in the shopping arcade were troubled by it. Chotaro poses as a journalist and uses his words of wisdom to suggest that pen is mightier than the sword, so they create a mini-comic magazine and launch a campaign to expel the gang.

A private detective and a college student find themselves in hot water while investigating the murder of a night club owner.

Kogoro approaches the true face of a bloody clown who attacks beautiful women one after another! Based on the Edogawa Rampo story, "Hell's Clown."

Japanese horror comedy from 1967.

A big battle between world class phantom thieves unfolds over the worlds largest diamond!

Tragedy about a terminally ill girl.

When a hard-driving copywriter (Hiroyuki Sanada) discovers his comely wife (Keiko Saito) is involved in a scintillating game of strip rock-paper-scissors with some guy clad only in a pair of boxer shorts and Mickey Mouse ears, he is less than happy. When the stranger tries to make a run for it, a fight ensues between the two men, and they accidentally tumble down several flights of a concrete stairwell. One hurried ambulance ride later, the copywriter finds himself in a private teaching hospital equipped with the latest gleaming gizmos. Meanwhile, a young internist (Hiroko Yakushimaru) girds herself for her first emergency room case -- the battered copywriter. After giving a curt bow and a nervous "Good Evening," she accidentally jams a syringe into his bloody wound. Soon the absurdity of their situation, along with their medical misery, binds the two men and their blundering nurse together.

In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work

Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a dangerous match with the husband of her frigid cousin.

A new stationmaster is appointed to a dilapidated local line. On top of the failing local line feuding for hot spring customers with a bus company looking to start a new route, they even get involved in a disappearance and a murder...

The widow of a murdered yakuza boss serves jail time for attacking the man she believes killed her husband. After her release, as she is shadowed by a hitman, she returns to thoughts of revenge.

Comedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall.

Five fellows are taken by the police for bank hold-ups.

Owner and workers of a tiny medicine factory fall in love with a lovable girl.

Teacher Shizuko and her literature club students are caught up in a murder case while on vacation in Izu. The victims are Kazumasa, who was in a relationship with Shizuko's friend Ritsuko, and his wife.

A story based on Edogawa Ranpo's "Ghost Tower".

The eleventh film in the comedy series starring Japan's leading comedy group, the Crazy Cats. Susumu Sakamori and his friends travel to Mexico to find a stone statue that contains the location of the secret treasure "Olmeca".

Based on the Edogawa Rampo story, "Transformation of the Illusion".

Based on the Edogawa Rampo story "Tower of Ghosts."