Cast: Takako Matsu

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Takako Matsu · Hidetaka Yoshioka · Yukiyoshi Ozawa

Plot Nagase Masatoshi stars as a samurai, whose adherence to his code of honor is tested by the forces around him. It is mid-nineteenth century Japan, and the way of the...

Direction Tetsuya Nakashima

Cast Takako Matsu · Masaki Okada · Yoshino Kimura · Yukito Nishii

Plot Impassive before a class where lack of interest and disorder reign, a teacher begins a long monologue that culminates in an overwhelming revelation: the accident that took her daughter´s life...

Direction Toshiaki Toyoda

Cast Kôji Chihara · Yoshio Harada · Jun Inoue · Itsuji Itao

Plot Nine convicts escape from prison; most are convicted murders. They commandeer a van from a strip club. Their plan is to find a stash of counterfeit money that a deranged...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Takako Matsu · Haru Kuroki · Hidetaka Yoshioka · Satoshi Tsumabuki

Plot Takeshi finds several notebooks by his late aunt Taki Nunomiya, who never married. Through the notebooks Takeshi learns of his aunt's life. Prior to World War II, in a little...

Direction Shunji Iwai

Cast Hideaki Anno · Ryunosuke Kamiki · Suzu Hirose · Nana Mori

Plot It is only at their sister's and mother's funeral when a woman meets her niece after many years. The niece is now a grown girl. The sister takes on the...

Direction Koki Mitani

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Takako Matsu · Koichi Sato · Shingo Katori

Plot The Uchōten Hotel (THE 有頂天ホテル, THE Uchōten Hoteru?) (also known as Suite Dreams and Wow-Choten Hotel) is a 2006 comedy film written and directed by Japanese director Koki Mitani. The...

Direction Joji Matsuoka

Cast Jô Odagiri · Kirin Kiki · Yayako Uchida · Takako Matsu

Plot Leaving her alcoholic husband, Eiko takes their son Masaya away from Tokyo and back to her hometown in a Kyushu rural mining community. She toils to support him though many...

Direction Miwa Nishikawa

Cast Teruyuki Kagawa · Yusuke Iseya · Takako Matsu · Rena Tanaka

Plot A married couple finds themselves in a dire financial situation after they lose their restaurant in a fire. The couple determined to run a restaurant again turn to crime. The...

Direction Shunji Iwai

Cast Takako Matsu · Seiichi Tanabe · Kaori Fujii · Rumi

Plot Uzuki Nireno has left Hokkaido, her small rural home in the very north of Japan, to pursue her studies at a University in Western Tokyo. Even though her transition to...

Direction Shimako Sato

Cast Takeshi Kaneshiro · Tôru Nakamura · Takako Matsu · Kyusaku Shimada

Plot Set in a fictional Japanese city in 1949, a master criminal hones in on his latest victim. Set in an alternate world where ninety percent of Japan’s wealth is controlled...

Direction Tetsuya Nakashima

Cast Junichi Okada · Nana Komatsu · Satoshi Tsumabuki · Haru Kuroki

Plot Hideki and Kana Tahara are newlyweds. Hideki is excited about his future with Kana. One day, a mysterious person visits the company where Hideki works. Hideki's colleague conveys the visitor's...

Direction Kichitaro Negishi

Cast Takako Matsu · Tadanobu Asano · Shigeru Muroi · Masatô Ibu

Plot This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the story...

Direction Nobuhiro Doi · Toshio Tsuboi · Kaneko Fuminori

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

Plot 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...

Direction Masayuki Suzuki

Cast Takuya Kimura · Takako Matsu · Hiroshi Abe · Zoe Aggeliki

Plot Kohei (Takuya Kimura) returns to Tokyo and reunites with his former colleagues. He will be up against one of the famous lawyers in Tokyo to solve a car accident which...

Direction Yuji Nakae

Cast Kenji Sawada · Takako Matsu

Plot Tsutomu lives alone in the mountains, writing essays, cooking Zen food with the vegetables he grows and the mushrooms he picks in the hills. His routine is happily disturbed when...

Direction Nobuhiro Yamashita

Cast Takayuki Yamada · Takeru Satō · Yosiyoshi Arakawa · Takako Matsu

Plot Hardcore is about the life story of a treasure hunter who lives in the countryside of Gunma in Japan. He is pure and kind, but has no communication skills and...

Direction Naoto Takenaka

Cast Naoto Takenaka · Miho Nakayama · Nobuyoshi Araki · Tadanobu Asano

Plot This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki.

Direction Takashi Koizumi

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Tatsuya Nakadai · Takako Matsu · Kyôko Kagawa

Plot The last year of Ryotaro Shiba’s life, as he tried to achieve peace and independence without joining the armies of East and West.

Direction Masayuki Suzuki

Cast Takuya Kimura · Keiko Kitagawa · Takako Matsu · Koichi Sato

Plot A prosecutor and his assistant are involved in an investigation whose victim is also involved in bribery case.

Direction Kozo Nagayama · Masayuki Suzuki · Yuji Usui

Cast Takuya Kimura · Tomoko Yamaguchi · Yutaka Takenouchi · Takako Matsu

Plot Minami who is dumped by her ex-boyfriend, Asakura, on their wedding day. She later meets Sena, Asakura’s ex-roommate and a pianist, and lives with him as she has no other...