Makoto Kitano

Rising pop star Mima Kirigoe quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia.

An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.

#25 in the King of Minami series. A trans dancer named Rio is in debt to Manda after trying to finance a trip to the US for gender reassignment surgery, still illegal in Japan. The owner of a prestigious nightclub recruits her, introduces her to a doctor in Osaka who performs the illicit surgery and even agrees to foot the bill. But when the club owner turns out to have ulterior motives, Rio turns to Manda for help.

Following a stint in reform school, Ryu (Shinsuke Shimada) returns to his home, the Minami area of Osaka, accompanied by his new friend Ko (Takeshi Masu). He's greeted by his friends, Chabo (Ryusuke Matsumoto) and Ken (Bang-ho Cho). They seek to forge their own path through a multitude of rival gangs in Kita and Minami, including the Hokushin Alliance, backed by the yakuza, the Hope Association, and various other minor factions, including Zainichi Korean groups. What follows is a wild, fast-paced story of violence, revenge, betrayal, and discrimination, that never loses its sense of humor.

Finalists, semi-finals, and finals of the competition to determine the "Kaiou," the most powerful ghost storyteller who tells the scariest ghost stories. The 10 winners of the preliminary rounds held in Tokyo and Osaka, including Tanishi Matsubara, Ami, and Daizo Miki, as well as the seeded player, Kinzo Sakura, tell ghost stories under the watchful eye of Junji Inagawa, the chief advisor of the competition.

This time, the guests are Yumiki Hoshino, a member of the Psychic Detective Agency, and Mr. Sakurai, the director of the Ghost Story Library, making up an iron-clad lineup for the program's first UFO location shoot! They hit the most terrifying spots combining spirits and UFOs!

The members of the Psychic Detective Squad, led by well-known psychic Makoto Kitano, visit numerous legendary haunted places! The "Haunted Lodge" is one of the most haunted spots in the Kanto area, where there is no end to the number of sightings and experiences!

Makoto Kitano's Don't You Guys Go. Ancient Japan Romance SPIt was built by the Hata clan and enshrines the god of sericulture and textiles, and has an unusually shaped three-poster torii gate. What is the true identity of the 'Hata' clan, an ancient powerful family in Kyoto whose name is still preserved in the names of places such as Taimata? At Shitennoji Temple, the head temple of the Japanese sect of Buddhism, we investigated what appears to be the vestiges of an ancient ritual.