Naoto Takenaka

When feudal lord Itakura Katsuakira decides to prepare his samurai troops for the onslaught of modernization by having them compete in a ...

A fourth-grader investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his village, which is somehow related to a power ...

Two historical incidents that deepened the friendship between Japan and Turkey are connected in this story of friendship and compassion: In the ...

20 years after his escape from Impel Down, the legendary pirate Shiki, the Golden Lion, reappears causing massive upheaval to the Marines. During ...

As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then ...

Nostalgia is Takashi Miike’s favorite film of his considerable body of work. Including biographical elements, Nostalgia centers around the home ...

When the sadness of her father’s disappearance gets to Molly Hale, she unknowingly uses the Unown to create her own dream world along with ...

Jiro is a Tokyo man who offers a stand-in service where he’ll do “anything”. A woman claiming to be from Fukuoka wants to be ...

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 ...