Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Zatoichi is mentored by the blind leader of a secret organization as he contends with both the Yakuza and a jealous husband. Release: Zatoichi ...

As in so many other countries, the 1960s are a time of cultural change and upheaval in Japan. Political protesters take to the streets, social ...

Not everyone values the housewife enough. When the local friendly neighbourhood burglar hits their house, the husband and wife descend into a ...

Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces ...

In this film director Yoji Yamada bows down before his teacher and role model. Yamada was assistant director on Yazujirō Ozu’s Tōkyō ...

Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police ...

A young man has an affair with an older woman. He is very jealous of her husband and decides that they should kill him. One night, after the ...

A motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen’s worth of the Imperial Navy’s gold, team ...

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a ...

A lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time he’s running from loan sharks and his ...

Koji Wakamatsu adapted Kouhei Tsuka’s play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of a traveling acting troupe. Release: ...

The story of a man who returns to his hometown in order to attend the second wedding of his mother only to also run into his old squeeze. The ...

A young girl is sent to the country for health reasons, where she meets an unlikely friend in the form of Marnie, a young girl with flowing ...

In the lush tradition of the glorious films of Merchant and Ivory, comes the true life story of Leonie Gilmour (Emily Mortimer), whose life ...

Hiroshi, a 30 year-old businessman, has traveled back in time 20 years. He encounters Kazumi, a young woman who was gravely ill. Hiroshi regarded ...

When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive ...

Movie theater Asahi-za has existed for almost a 100 years in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture. Unlike other theaters, Asahiza plays old films and ...

The story of a high school boy (Toshiyuki Nagashima) in Tokyo returning to his home town of Nagano upon the death of his father. Release: The ...

A neighbor dies when potted flowers fall from a balcony of an apartment complex. A man whose father suffers from dementia begins to question if ...

Gabai Granny is based on the bestseller Saga No Gabai Baachan (Gabai Granny from Saga), which is penned by comedian Shimada Yoshichi as he ...