Cast: Tomokazu Miura

Direction Wim Wenders

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Arisa Nakano · Tokio Emoto · Yumi Asou

Synopsis Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them....

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Kiwako Harada · Riki Takeuchi · Noriko Watanabe · Tomokazu Miura

Synopsis After being threatened by his girlfriend’s brother, Ko (Riki Takeuchi) goes on a trip on his Kawasaki to contemplate his options. He meets Miiyo (Kiwako Harada) by chance, and the two stay in touch. He later receives an invitation to...

Direction Nobuhiro Suwa

Cast Tomokazu Miura · Makiko Watanabe · Ryudai Takahashi

Synopsis M/OTHER centers on a seemingly stable relationship at the moment when it starts to come apart. Tetsuro, owner of a chain of elegant, loss-making restaurants, is recently divorced; his ex-wife has custody of their eight-year-old son, Shun. Tetsuro now cohabits...

Direction Takashi Yamazaki

Cast Maki Horikita · Kazuki Koshimizu · Koyuki · Tomokazu Miura

Direction Katsuhito Ishii

Cast Maya Banno · Takahiro Sato · Tadanobu Asano · Satomi Tezuka

Synopsis A spell of time in the life of a family living in rural Tochigi prefecture, north of Tokyo. Though her husband is busy working at an office, Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project...

Direction Takashi Yamazaki

Cast Maki Horikita · Hidetaka Yoshioka · Shin'ichi Tsutsumi · Koyuki

Synopsis Leaving her provincial home, teenage Mutsuko arrives in Tokyo by train to take a job in a major automotive company but finds that she is employed by a small auto repair shop owned by Norifumi Suzuki. Suzuki's hair-trigger temper is...

Direction Nobuhiro Suwa

Cast Shoko Ikezu · Serena Motola · Toshiyuki Nishida · Hidetoshi Nishijima

Synopsis In her search for answers, 17-year-old Haru sets out on a long journey across the country to the town where, in 2011, the devastating tsunami swept away her brother and parents. This road trip takes the young woman, who is...

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Yuichi Mikami · Youki Kudoh · Tomokazu Miura · Saburo Date

Synopsis A class of Japanese teens experience their first feelings with the opposite sex while a typhoon storm is rising.

Direction Satoshi Miki

Cast Jô Odagiri · Tomokazu Miura · Kyôko Koizumi · Yuriko Yoshitaka

Direction Shô Miyake

Cast Yukino Kishii · Tomokazu Miura · Masaki Miura · Shinichirô Matsuura

Synopsis A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president, who has been her biggest supporter, push her to the limit.

Direction Hiroshi Kurosaki

Cast Kasumi Arimura · Kentarô Sakaguchi · Tôma Ikuta · Yuri Nakamura

Synopsis Saeko falls into deep despair after her boyfriend Yusuke dies in a car accident. A few months later, she meets Naruse who received heart transplant from Yusuke and now he feels something for Saeko in his heart.

Direction Takeshi Kitano

Cast Takeshi Kitano · Tomokazu Miura · Kippei Shiina · Ryo Kase

Synopsis In a ruthless battle for power, several yakuza clans vie for the favor of their head family in the Japanese underworld. The rival bosses seek to rise through the ranks by scheming and making allegiances sworn over saké. Long-time yakuza...

Direction Rintaro Mayuzumi · Kazuyoshi Okuyama

Cast Masahiro Motoki · Naoto Takenaka · Michiko Hada · Teruyuki Kagawa

Synopsis Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts, his publisher shows him a newspaper with an...

Direction Takeshi Kitano

Cast Takeshi Kitano · Toshiyuki Nishida · Tomokazu Miura · Ryo Kase

Synopsis The Sanno crime family has grown into a huge organization, expanding its power into politics and legitimate big business. The Sanno’s upper ranks are now dominated by young executives, and the old-guard members are penting up resentment while being pushed...

Direction Katsuhito Ishii

Cast Tsuyoshi Kusanagi · Maiko · Ryo Kase · Yoriko Douguchi

Synopsis Tokuichi and Fukuichi are two blind masseurs plying their trade around the hot springs on the Izu Peninsula, in 1930’s Japan. The two have trained their other senses to perceive much about the world others cannot see. Those powers of...

Direction Yoshisuke Kawasaki

Cast Momoe Yamaguchi · Tomokazu Miura · Toshio Hosokawa · Michiyo Kogure

Synopsis Takuji spies a house on the hill while wandering on the beach. He is invited in and treated as an honoured guest, especially by the lovely young Kiyono. They soon marry, but as the year is 1940, the oncoming war...

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Kiichi Nakai · Riho Makise · Shôfukutei Tsurube · Takatoshi Takeda

Synopsis A pampered young model is killed in a traffic accident. Given the chance to return to earth, she becomes involved with the advertising executive who is trying to cover up her death.

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Toshio Kakei · Misa Shimizu · Seina Suzuki · Mirei Nakamura

Direction Katsumi Nishikawa

Cast Momoe Yamaguchi · Tomokazu Miura · Moeko Ezawa · Akiko Kazami

Synopsis Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly scarred on her face. In order to preserve the memory of her once beautiful face, Sasuke takes away his own sight.

Direction Tomoyuki Takimoto

Cast Toshiyuki Nishida · Tetsuji Tamayama · Umika Kawashima · Kimiko Yo

Synopsis A middle-aged divorcee (Toshiyuki Nishida) embarks on a journey across Japan with his dog Happy. Along the way, they have to overcome health issues and financial difficulties.