Cast: Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Direction Yōjirō Takita

Cast Masahiro Motoki · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Ryoko Hirosue · Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Plot Daigo Kobayashi is a young married cellist who played in an orchestra that has just been disbanded. Suddenly on the street without a job and no hope for a career,...

Direction Takeshi Kitano

Cast Takeshi Kitano · Yusuke Sekiguchi · Kayoko Kishimoto · Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Plot Tokyo, the present. Masao, an only child, lives with his grandmother. His only friend leaves for his summer holiday. Finding a photograph of his mother with an address, Masao sets...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Isao Hashizume · Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Tomoko Nakajima · Yû Aoi

Plot An old married couple Shukichi Hirayama and Tomiko live on a small island in the Inland Sea. They go to Tokyo. The couple have 3 children. The eldest son Koichi...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Hiroyuki Nagato · Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Shoichi Ozawa · Shinsuke Ashida

Plot A businessman returns from an extended trip, but something seems off. Criminal operations and religious cults come into play, while the man's daughter and her journalist boyfriend race to find...

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 Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Tatsuya Fuji · Takahiro Tamura · Takuzo Kawatani

Plot Oshima takes the tradition of kaidan-eiga (ghost stories), so widespread in Japanese cinema, to construct this beautiful film on a passionate and tragic love affair that defies social taboos.

Direction Takeshi Kitano

Cast Takeshi Kitano · Toru Emori · Kayoko Kishimoto · Keiko Matsuzaka

Plot Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.

Direction Toshiya Fujita

Cast Meiko Kaji · Yoshio Harada · Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Shin Kishida

Plot Lady Snowblood (Shurayuki-hime) is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes (in Lady Snowblood I). As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Yû Aoi · Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Yui Natsukawa

Plot In this sequel to the first It's A Wonderful Family, the characters who are still based on those in Tokyo Family (which itself was based on Tokyo Story), are a...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Yû Aoi · Yui Natsukawa · Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Plot The three grown children of a couple approaching their 50th wedding anniversary are shocked when their mother demands a divorce.

Direction Norio Tsuruta

Cast Hiroshi Mikami · Noriko Sakai · Maki Horikita · Mayumi Ono

Plot Satomi finds a newspaper foretelling his daughter's death. Three years later, with Satomi broken by her demise, another newspaper appears predicting doom.

Direction Haruhiko Mimura

Cast Tsunehiko Watase · Yûko Tanaka · Mikijiro Hira · Yoichi Ito

Plot Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A mysterious murder took place...

Direction Claude Gagnon

Cast Tatsuya Fuji · Christopher Heyerdahl · Matthew Smiley · Naho Watanabe

Plot Ken, a 23-year-old, is devastated at the death of his father. He decides to commit suicide by jumping into the near-freezing river, but somehow miraculously survived. His mother thinks that...

Direction Akiyoshi Kimata

Cast Isao Hashizume · Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Kazue Ito · Chiharu Nîyama

Plot While Kazuo Tanaka eagerly practices his greetings for the big wedding the next day, his first as a matchmaker, his second daughter Hitomi prepares for her travels with her secret...

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Jô Shishido · Chieko Matsubara · Hideo Murata

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Hiroshi Abe · Tomoko Yamaguchi · Aoi Miyazaki · You

Plot The main character, Tsuboi Ryota, is a salaryman often criticized for being physically big, but with a “small” heart, and he is stuck in a dilemma of not really being...

Direction Emiko Hiramatsu

Cast Masato Sakai · Miki Nakatani · Masayasu Wakabayashi · Denden

Plot An animal shelter worker tries to find a home for a mother of newborn pups before her seven-day care limit expires and she's put to sleep.

Direction Shun Nakahara

Cast Setsuko Karasuma · Toshinori Omi · Ako · Natsuki Asakawa

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Mako Midori · Jiro Kawarazaki · Hatsuo Yamaya · Kei Sato

Direction Yôsuke Okuda

Cast Shinsuke Kato · Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Osahide Takahashi

Plot A neighbor dies when potted flowers fall from a balcony of an apartment complex. A man whose father suffers from dementia begins to question if it really was an accident.