Cast: Naoko Otani

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Rentarô Mikuni · Hisaya Morishige · Etsushi Takahashi

Direction Sion Sono

Cast Isao Natsuyagi · Naoko Otani · Megumi Kagurazaka · Jun Murakami

Plot Prolific Japanese director Sion Sono departs from his usual style for this movingly restrained drama of a rural family's struggle to survive in the aftermath of the Tōhoku earthquake and...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Minori Terada · Naoko Otani · Yûnosuke Itô · Eisei Amamoto

Plot During World War II, a Japanese soldier finds himself assigned to a kamikaze mission against a U.S. battleship.

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Yoshio Harada · Naoko Otani · Toshiya Fujita · Michiyo Oguso

Plot Vacationing in a small seaside village, Aochi, a professor of German, runs into Nakasago, a former colleague turned nomad. Nakasago is being pursued by an angry mob for allegedly seducing...

Direction Ataru Oikawa

Cast Eriko Hatsune · Yuka Itaya · Naoko Otani · Arata Furuta

Plot Apartment 1303 is white, bright and airy with a sheer white curtain blowing from the wind off the balcony, and is on the thirteenth floor of a large building. The...

Direction Hiroshi Okamoto · Sôkichi Tomimoto

Cast Etsuko Ichihara · Akiko Nomura · Tokie Kanda · Yoshiko Miyazaki

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Naoko Otani · Tamao Nakamura · Tetta Sugimoto · Atsuro Watabe

Direction Yûsuke Watanabe

Cast Yoshio Harada · Naoko Otani · Shimokawa Shinpei · Etsushi Takahashi

Plot A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the...

Direction Banmei Takahashi

Cast Tasuku Emoto · Eiji Okuda · Maki Sakai · Tomori Abe

Direction Miwa Nishikawa

Cast Hiroyuki Miyasako · Miho Tsumiki · Sei Hiraizumi · Naoko Otani

Plot A portrait of an ordinary family that turns unstable when their frivolous son Shuji returns home after a long absence.

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Yuki Kimura · Isamu Nagato · Kô Nishimura · Naoko Otani

Plot Based on a mystery by Taiwanese-Japanese author Chin Shun-shin. After two elderly men in Yokohama quarrel over a Yang dynasty artifact, one of the men turns up dead with mysterious...

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Ken Takakura · Jô Shishido · Fumio Watanabe · Kinya Kitaoji

Direction Masaharu Segawa

Cast Takeshi Kitano · Kie Nakai · Naoko Otani · Saburo Ishikura

Plot This is a sad and beautiful story about a father who is a popular comedian and a son who suffered by an incurable disease.

Direction Shirô Moritani

Cast Ken Takakura · Sayuri Yoshinaga · Tomokazu Miura · Naoko Otani

Plot In 1954, Go Akuzu (Ken Takakura) travels to the Tsuruga Straits that separate Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido from the island of Honshu, to investigate the tragic loss of a...

Direction Sadao Nakajima

Cast Shin Saburi · Toshirô Mifune · Chiezô Kataoka · Bunta Sugawara

Plot The eastern and western factions of the Yakuza battle to control Japan.

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Toshiyuki Nagashima · Hiroshi Katsuno · Hirotarô Honda · Keiko Takeshita

Plot After the war-time government orders the disbanding of the Big-Six baseball league, the teams of Waseda and Keio universities play one final game before they are drafted into the armed...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Naoko Otani · Masakazu Tamura · Yusuke Kawazu

Plot A yakuza member's half-sister means much more to him in a film that repeatedly depicts realities other than what normal societal rules allow. The overly protective and loving brother; however,...

Direction Michiko Namiki · Yûsuke Ishii · Mai Takano

Cast Kasumi Arimura · Kengo Kora · Mitsuki Takahata · Takahiro Nishijima

Plot TV Miniserie (2016). 10 episodes. Six young men and women who move from the countryside to the big city of Tokyo, each with their own dreams and aspirations. Among them...

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Hiroki Matsukata · Mikijiro Hira · Seizo Fukumoto