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

Synopsis 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 the resulting nuclear crisis.

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 and killing a fisherman's wife. Police intervene and Aochi vouches...

Direction Ataru Oikawa

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

Synopsis 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 view of the sea is breathtaking but the history of...

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

Synopsis 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 very same man that her husband is hunting. Once he...

Direction Banmei Takahashi

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

Direction Miwa Nishikawa

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 claw marks across his face. A detective takes up the...

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

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

Direction Masaharu Segawa

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 passenger ship in the treacherous waters of the straits.

Direction Sadao Nakajima

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

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

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

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

Synopsis 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 forces and face the hardships of military service.

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

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

Synopsis 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, soon has to contend with his sister falling for and...

Direction Michiko Namiki · Yûsuke Ishii · Mai Takano

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

Synopsis 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 is Sugihara Oto and Soda Ren. After her mother died,...

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

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