Cast: Sakura Ando

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Kirin Kiki · Sôsuke Ikematsu · Lily Franky · Moemi Katayama

Synopsis Osamu works as a day laborer. He and his son Shota like to shoplift together. On the way back home from a shoplifting session, Osamu finds little Yuri freezing. He takes her home with them. His wife Nobuyo gets angry...

Direction Sion Sono

Cast Takahiro Nishijima · Hikari Mitsushima · Sakura Ando · Hiroyuke Onoue

Synopsis Having grown up in a devout Christian family, Yu (Takahiro Nishijima) has always been a well-behaved kid. After his mother dies, his priest father is seduced by a woman who breaks his heart, causing him to torment Yu by forcing...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Soya Kurokawa · Hiiragi Hinata · Sakura Ando · Eita

Synopsis When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to know what’s going on. But as the story unfolds through...

Direction Momoko Andô

Cast Sakura Ando · Miyoko Asada · Bengal · Akira Emoto

Synopsis Sawa Yamagishi worked as a nursing-care helper. The family of an old man asked Sawa to sleep with him, which led her to eventually lose her job and house. Now, she has nowhere to go. Sawa finds elderly people in...

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Kyôko Koizumi · Yû Aoi · Eiko Koike · Sakura Ando

Synopsis Japanese director Kurosawa has been awfully quite since the release of his latest film Tokyo Sonata in 2008. Like many other indie directors in Japan, he may be trying to finance his next film project? Meanwhile, he’s directing Shokuzai, a...

Direction Takashi Yamazaki

Cast Ryunosuke Kamiki · Minami Hamabe · Yûki Yamada · Munetaka Aoki

Synopsis Japan, devastated after the end of World War II, enters into crisis after the appearance of an atomic monster.

Direction Hiroshi Ishikawa

Cast Aoi Miyazaki · Shiori Kutsuna · Sakura Ando · Kazue Fukiishi

Synopsis Four women, who have their own different sorrows, embark on a road trip. They look back at their past and restart their lives.

Direction Masaharu Take

Cast Sakura Ando · Hirofumi Arai · Yôzaburô Itô · Toshie Negishi

Synopsis Kazuko (Sakura Ando) lives at her parents' home. She rarely hangs out with other people. Things change when her younger sister divorces and moves back with her child. Kazuko and her sister's relationship goes bad, causing Kazuko to move out...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Emi Takei · Tsuyoshi Ihara · Yo Hitoto

Synopsis It is a high school romance about two people from two different worlds. The boy Makoto is played by Satoshi Tsumabuki (VILLIAN, VILLON'S WIFE, PANDEMIC, SCHOOL DAYS WITH A PIG), while the girl Ai is played by Emi Takei who...

Direction Ryuichi Hiroki

Cast Aoi Miyazaki · Osamu Mukai · Tatsuomi Hamada · Himeka Asami

Synopsis Married couple Aiko Tsumari (Aoi Miyazaki) and Ayumu Muko (Osamu Mukai) live a happy and peaceful life. Aiko is bit naive, while Ayumu works as a not so popular novelist. One day, a letter arrives for Ayumu. Because of this...

Direction Naomi Kawase

Cast Sakura Ando · Jiji Boo · Wakato Kanematsu

Synopsis Seed is also a sentimental portrait of Asian femininity, which Kawase depicts as "primitive, primal and erotic at the same time". The soundtrack was composed by the band Sakanation, famous for their fusion of folk melodies and artful lyrics.

Direction Daihachi Yoshida

Cast Sakura Ando · Sei Andô · Reila Aphrodite · Hirofumi Arai

Direction Nobuhiro Doi · Toshio Tsuboi · Kaneko Fuminori

Cast Takako Matsu · Hikari Mitsushima · Issei Takahashi · Ryuhei Matsuda

Synopsis Maki, Suzume, Iemori, and Beppu accidentally met in a karaoke one day. They then decided to form a musical quartet and live together. At this point no one knows that each of them actually plotted the meeting with their own...

Direction Kei Ishikawa

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Sakura Ando · Masataka Kubota · Nana Seino

Synopsis Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.

Direction Daisaku Kimura

Cast Ken'ichi Matsuyama · Yû Aoi · Sôsuke Ikematsu · Kaoru Kobayashi

Synopsis An alpine story of family, determination and destiny.Toru grew up in the Tateyama mountain ranges: alpine country. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the mountain with his father to prepare their mountain hut for the summer season...

Direction Yutaka Yamasaki

Cast Makiko Watanabe · Sakura Ando · Sora Aoi · Arata Iura

Synopsis A seemingly "normal" office worker Hiroko (Makiko Watanabe) has a secret. At home she lives with a prosthetic torso - no head, arms or feet, just body and male private part. Hiroko bathes with the torso and she also makes...

Direction Akane Yamada

Cast Yûya Yagira · Megumi Han · Sakura Ando · Yuriko Yoshitaka

Synopsis Natsuki, a sales clerk of a bookstore, and Koji. a high school student. Seemingly nothing in common, they have one thing they can share; the books. While keeping empty relationship with a man working at a major publishing house, Natsuki...

Direction Yuki Tanada

Cast Ayame Misaki · Sakura Ando · Tokio Emoto · Yuya Endo

Synopsis The story follows several high school students discovering and experimenting with their sexuality. Hiruma is desperate to get laid and takes out his sexual urges on Ando, a fat boy who has "boobs". His classmate Tomono, a sickly loner, is...

Direction Hitoshi Yazaki

Cast Miki Nakatani · Nao Omori · Jûichi Kobayashi · Chizuru Ikewaki

Synopsis The film sets you thinking from the onset, and you'll be wondering whether it is a requisite for couples to share common interests in order to bind them together and sustain a relationship.

Direction Shingo Wakagi

Cast Sakura Ando · Arata Iura · Guama · Maki Izawa

Synopsis Terako (Sakura Ando) is a young woman without a job. She has an affair with Iwanaga (Arata Iura) who is married. His wife is in a coma. One day, Terako’s friend kills herself. After that, Terako sleeps all day long...