Er is een bericht ontvangen van Kid the Phantom Thief, dat hij een Japans zwaard zal stelen dat toebehoort aan de rijke Onoe-familie in Hakodate, Hokkaido. Conan en Heiji Hattori, die toevallig in Hakodate waren, zijn bezig om Kid gevangen te nemen. Toevallig wordt de familieadvocaat van Onoe vermoord aangetroffen in het pakhuisdistrict, blijkbaar afgeslacht door een Japans zwaard. De verdachte is een investeerder/wapenhandelaar die op zoek zou zijn naar de verborgen schat van de familie Onoe. In het noorden tussen de kersenbloesems begint de spannende zoektocht naar schatten!
In Hokkaido nemen een oorlogsveteraan en een Ainu-meisje het op tegen misfits en deserteurs om een schat te vinden die op de huid van outlaws is getatoeëerd.
Met een aanstekelijk gevoel van verlatenheid raken de levens van drie jongvolwassenen tijdens een lange zomer in Hakodate, Hokkaido, nauw met elkaar verweven.
Een oude zwaardvechter, zijn voormalige kameraad en een jonge opschepper worden door prostituees ingehuurd om bandieten op te sporen die een van de vrouwen hebben verminkt.
In order to find a missing university student, a detective and his buddy get involved with the owner of a modeling agency.
In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of Hokkaido. These people once supported the now displaced Samurais of the older days. After two years, over 500 of them settled in their new land under the leadership of Hideaki, husband of Shino. However, as crops fail he is to go to Sapporo to learn new techniques of farming, leaving his wife and daughter for 5 years. All this time, the new community is constantly watched by the government which choose to again uproot them from their new homes.
Hokkaido, Japan: An old woman -- formerly a man -- lives by a lake in the northern reaches of Japan, gazing at Nakajima Island in its center where her daughter's body was found long ago. She hasn't been able to visit for almost 50 years. Tokyo: A middle-aged man lives on an island where criminals were once exiled in the past, earning a sparse living as a cattle herder. He is descended from such exiled criminals. He raised his only daughter by himself after losing his wife in an accident. One day, the daughter comes home from the mainland, seemingly pregnant but unwilling to explain.
Luca verloor haar familie tijdens de Grote Aardbeving in Oost-Japan, waardoor ze niet meer kon praten. Haar zangstem schudt echter de harten van degenen die naar haar luisteren. Het is een hymne van mededogen, gespeeld door Luca en de mensen.
In augustus 1945 viel de Sovjet-Unie het gebied bij het eiland Sakhalin aan. Tetsu Ezure (Sayuri Yoshinaga) ontsnapte met haar twee zonen van Sakhalin en belandde in de stad Abashiri, gelegen in de prefectuur Hokkaido in Japan. Ondanks veel arbeid kregen ze daar te maken met extreme koude en hongersnood. In 1971 keert Tetsu's tweede zoon Shujiro (Masato Sakai) terug naar Japan na zijn geluk beproefd te hebben in de Verenigde Staten. Hij bezoekt Abashiri, waar zijn moeder nog steeds leeft, voor de eerste keer in vijftien jaar.
Teacher Kawashima Haru takes a position on a remote island off the coast of Hokkaido, where she takes charge of six students. However, she is later forced to leave after an accident occurs. 20 years later, Haru learns that one of her former students has committed a crime, and eventually returns to the island once more.
Kasumi is in the midst of an affair with Ishiyama, one of her husband's clients. When Kasumi and her family visit Ishiyama's villa in Hokkaido, she plans to abandon them to be with Ishiyama. The next morning, her daughter Yuka disappears, which throws Kasumi's life into turmoil. Years later, Yuka remains missing, and Kasumi journeys back to Hokkaido with Utsumi, a terminally-ill former detective, and tries to follow any leads she can.
A history drama portraying the confrontation between the indigenous Ainu people living on Japan’s northernmost main island—then called “Ezo” and now known as “Hokkaido”—and the “sisam”, the Ainu word for ethnic Japanese.
In the Susukino red light district of Sapporo, a private detective (Yo Oizumi) drinks alcohol with his driver Takada (Ryuhei Matsuda) in his favourite bar. There he receives a phone call from a woman who identifies herself as Kyoko Kondo. The woman asks the detective to complete a simple task. The detective, having an excellent sense for danger, thinks the work is easy and accepts the case. The next day he begins the investigation.
Abashiri Prison is located in the coldest place in Japan. Two men, handcuffed together have escaped from the prison, one a yakuza, the other a petty criminal, and although they hate each other they must work together if they are to evade capture in this harshest of climates.
Een schooldirecteur en een romanschrijver, op zoek naar inspiratie, observeren een vreemd natuurverschijnsel voordat ze hun eigen verhalen delen.
A friend of the detective has been is murdered. During the investigation, he comes across a source which tells him that his friend was murdered for involvement with the dark side of the political world. On top of that, a woman approaches the detective with a request.
A college graduate falls in love with a woman during a business trip in Hokkaido
First business trip away from Tokyo in a while
An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the Taishō era. About 15 families who moved in search of agricultural land to the land of the pioneers in Hokkaido led a peaceful life. One day, one of the pioneers, Mikio Shimakawa's wife Yura, and her child Taichi are attacked and killed by a bear that cannot hibernate. To resolve the situation, Shimakawa goes against all odds and turns to Ginshiro, the most hated hunter in the village, for help. While Shimakawa was away from the village, Yura and his friends were holding a funeral, the bear attacked again...
First installment in a series about local Japanese urban legends. This installment includes 'Turbo-Granny', 'Gomiko-san' and 'Mom Comes at Night'.