Kaori Momoi

A former kindergarten teacher has quit her job. One day she meets a magician at the beach and undertake to travel together in his car. She wants ...

Mariko is living the life of a typical Japanese college student in the 70’s, spending far more of her time balancing boyfriends and ...

A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who ...

There still stands a famous apartment building where such prominent manga artists as Tezuka Osamu, Shotaro Ishinomori and Fujio Akatsuka once ...

A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai (Kimura) and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband’s ...

When a warlord dies, a peasant thief is called upon to impersonate him, in order to protect his clan from appearing weak and vulnerable. But he ...

Swallowtail Butterfly takes place in an alternate Japan, in a ghetto where immigrants from all over the world have come to live and make their ...

The space will be witness of dreams, hopes, disappointments and dramatic destinies of its residents, delivering an intimate human history of ...

On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of ...

A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a ...

Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objects to the idea. One day, someone leaves ...

Yukie, Koichi and Akira are rogues looking for a place to crash. They move into a house which Etsuko (Kaori Momoi) inherited from her parents. ...

A rebel youth joins a duo of entertainers only able to communicate by gesturing; when the female performer is suddenly abducted, he and Takeru ...

Hirobe is a lonely man. After witnessing her girlfriend die with a terminal illness, he wanders through the city like a shadow. One day, he meets ...

Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu. Release: Gate of Youth, Part 2-1982-Koreyoshi ...

The story starts with Kinya, who has recently upgraded his car. He’s a young adult and he’s single so naturally he uses his ride to ...

Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his ...

Director Kazuo Hara tells the tale of the eponymous Chika and four different relationships she has during the turbulent political climate of the ...

Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), imperial loyalist who tried to unite the Choshu and Satsuma clans and ...

Two semi-slackers (Kenichi Hagiwara and Kunie Tanaka) with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town. ...