Shinobu Ōtake

Nikuko is a brash, jolly, scattered, and passionate woman in an otherwise sleepy seaside town in northern Japan. She’s also the single ...

A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young girl who has a ritual of repeating “Tomorrow is my birthday” everyday. He ...

A beautiful mother and her two daughters run a bar in a town. They have a dream of becoming rich, reforming the building, and living as ...

The four Takezawa sisters discover that their father has an illegitimate child so they hire a private detective to investigate. Release: Like ...

A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her palentologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs. Release: Rex Dinosaur Story 1993 ...

Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After ...

Based on a true story. A Japanese girl and an American guy, fall in love in Japan. Their relationship will not be easy to manage, with their ...

The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on a teacher he had when he was a child. ...

A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad ...

Set at the end of the Sengoku period to early Edo period, “Sanada Ten Braves” follows 10 members of a ninja group who all serve under ...