Cast: Hideko Yoshida

Direction Peter Greenaway

Cast Vivian Wu · Ken Ogata · Ewan McGregor · Yoshi Oida

Synopsis As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book", the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on bodies,...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Shinobu Otake · Akira Emoto · Hideko Yoshida

Synopsis The legend of abandoning old people in the mountains is preserved in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan. But similar stories can be found, as folktales, here and there throughout the country. A number of poems have been written on the theme...

Direction Hiroshi Teshigahara

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Etsuko Ichihara · Osamu Okawa · Kiyoshi Atsumi

Synopsis A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man for whom he is searching.

Direction Hideaki Anno

Cast Eriko Sato · Mikako Ichikawa · Jun Murakami · Mitsuhiro Oikawa

Direction Shinji Higuchi

Cast Tsuyoshi Kusanagi · Kou Shibasaki · Etsushi Toyokawa · Mao Daichi

Synopsis In the aftermath of a major earthquake under Suraga Bay, Misaki (a young girl) and Toshiro (a pilot of a deep sea submarine) are rescued from a ruined city street just as leaking gasoline ignites. Reiko Abe arrives just in...

Direction Hideyuki Hirayama

Cast Mieko Harada · Mitsuko Baisho · Shigeru Muroi · Naomi Nishida

Synopsis Four down on their luck housewives murder their husbands and find whacky ways to hide the bodies!

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Kumiko Goto · Hidetaka Yoshioka

Synopsis Tora-san Confesses is the forty-fourth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

Direction Haruo Ichikura

Cast Yoshida Eisaku · Ken Ogata · Masumi Miyazaki · Hideko Yoshida

Synopsis A close look at the inner workings of Japan's political underbelly.

Direction Kazuo Ikehiro

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Naoko Kubo · Shiho Fujimura · Kayo Matsuo

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Ken Ogata · Yukiyo Toake · Toru Emori · Koichi Sato

Synopsis A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when it's president passes away!

Direction Shusuke Kaneko

Cast Ken Ogata · Harumi Harada · Noboru Nakaya · Sumiyo Hasegawa

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Naoto Takenaka · Keiko Oginome · Hideko Yoshida · Nobuko Otowa

Synopsis Celebrated Japanese filmmaker Kaneto Shindo, at 88, was the world's second-oldest working director when he made this biopic of character actor Taiji Tonoyama (Portugal's Manoel de Oliveira, age 91, held the distinction of being the oldest). Tonoyama, who acted in...

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Etsushi Toyokawa · Yûki Amami · Shuto Tanabe · Rina Matsumoto

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Kyoka Suzuki · Shin'ichi Tsutsumi · Ittoku Kishibe · Naoki Sugiura

Synopsis Stage actor Masaki Shibata Shinichi Tsutsumi has murdered a man and his wife. He confesses his crime; he says his motive was that the woman, who is five months pregnant, criticized his one-man show. It could be an open-and-shut case...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Katsuo Nakamura · Masaaki Daimon · Mitsuo Hamada · Daigo Kusano

Synopsis Set in Japan's Tenpyou era, four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The film tells the tale of the four monks' youth and the life and times...

Direction Tetsuo Shinohara

Cast Yuka Itaya · Jun Murakami · Saki Takaoka · Gô Rijû

Synopsis Yokubo from director Tetsuo Shinohara is based off of the award-winning love story by Mariko Koike. A young man searching for physical comfort and dumb lust, and the world-weary woman drowning in a sea of men that works with him....

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Makoto Fujita · Shiho Fujimura · Tomomi Satô

Direction Tomoyuki Furumaya

Cast Masami Nagasawa · Shun Oguri · Atsushi Ito · Takashi Tsukamoto

Synopsis Satomi is not putting much effort into her school work. She is told by her instructor that she is short of the minimum number of credits to advance. One option is for her to participate in the Robot Club, which...

Direction Makoto Wada

Cast Kyôko Koizumi · Hiroyuki Sanada · Kumi Mizuno · Masumi Okada

Synopsis Toru Hayashi lives alone with his mother. Young salaryman whose life is staggeringly banal, he is what we can call a man stuck, until a pretty young woman moves into the apartment upstairs. Rumi Kato, charming and smart, quickly sympathizes...

Direction Kôhei Yoshidome

Cast Hiroshi Ohmori · Yasushi Suzuki · Shun Ueda · Etsuko Ohtsuka

Synopsis The story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. In consequence, he feels himself "disqualified from being human" (a literal translation of...