Cast: Yui Natsukawa

Direction Yoshishige Miyake · Takashi Komatsu · Hisashi Ueda

Cast Rieko Miura · Yûko Nishimaru · Ryoko Kuninaka · Takashi Tsukamoto

Synopsis Shinsuke Kuwano (Abe Hiroshi), a successful architect at 40, enjoys living by himself. He doesn’t like people but somehow is able to design wonderful houses for them. He has a routine of making himself a delicious dinner and then relaxing...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Hiroshi Abe · Yui Natsukawa · You · Kazuya Takahashi

Synopsis A family drama about grown children visiting their elderly parents, which unfolds over one summer day. The aging parents have lived in the family home for decades. Their son and daughter return for a rare family reunion, bringing their own...

Direction Takeshi Kitano

Cast Takeshi Kitano · Tadanobu Asano · Michiyo Oguso · Yui Natsukawa

Synopsis Blind Zatoichi makes his living by gambling and giving massages. But behind his humble facade, Zatoichi is a master swordsman, gifted with lightning–fast draw and strokes of breathtaking precision. Zatoichi wanders into a town run by sinister gangs and a...

Direction Yôji Yamada

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

Synopsis 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 runs a hospital. The first daughter Shigeko runs a beauty...

Direction Hiroshi Nishitani · Gaku Narita · Sawada Kensaku · Mizuki Nishisaka

Cast Masaharu Fukuyama · Kou Shibasaki · Kazuki Kitamura · Hiroshi Shinagawa

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Ohshirô Maeda · Koki Maeda · Hiroshi Abe · Jô Odagiri

Synopsis In his latest film the Japanese master Hirokazu Koreeda takes a close look at the world of childhood to tell the story of Koichi, a child who lives with his mother and grandparents in Kagoshima, in the South of the...

Direction Nobuhiro Yamashita

Cast Kaho · Masaki Okada · Erisa Yanagi · Shôko Fujimura

Synopsis Eighth-grader Soyo lives in a very small rural village of Japan where the primary and middle school share a building for all of 6 students. They spend a happy childhood together playing around the village. Osawa, a boy from Tokyo,...

Direction Yōjirō Takita

Cast Kiichi Nakai · Yui Natsukawa · Miki Nakatani · Koichi Sato

Synopsis One night in the Tokyo winter of 1899, as Dr Chiaki Ono (Takehiro Murata) and his wife are packing to move their surgery to Manchuria, they are visited by an elderly man with an ill grandson. Amidst the chaos of...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Takako Matsu · Haru Kuroki · Hidetaka Yoshioka · Satoshi Tsumabuki

Synopsis 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 house with a red triangular roof in Tokyo, Taki works...

Direction Yuzo Asahara

Cast Aya Ueto · Kengo Kora · Kimiko Yo · Toshiyuki Nishida

Synopsis Having had a divorce after one year of marriage, Haru was proposed by a samurai chef in Kaga region to marry his succeeding son Yasunobu Funaki. The son turned out not into cooking but fighting with swords, and four years...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Arata Iura · Yusuke Iseya · Susumu Terajima · Seminosuke Murasugi

Synopsis Members of a cult, modeled on Aum Shinrikyo, sabotage a city's water supply, then commit mass suicide near the shores of a lake. Family members (the credited cast, minus Asano) of the perpetrators meet at the lake to observe the...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Junichi Okada · Rie Miyazawa · Tadanobu Asano · Arata Furuta

Synopsis Set in 1702, Hana yori mo naho looks back a full three centuries to a time when samurai clans offered monetary rewards to the samurais who succeeded in taking on a revenge act. The central character is a young samurai,...

Direction Yôji Yamada

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

Synopsis 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 couple of years older with the father, grandfather and husband...

Direction Yôji Yamada

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

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

Direction Takashi Ishii

Cast Ken Ogata · Shinobu Otake · Kimiko Yo · Mai Kitajima

Direction Kaizô Hayashi

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Yui Natsukawa · Tomoko Yamaguchi · Kiyotaka Nanbara

Synopsis Japan's favorite hard-boiled detective Maiku Hama (Masatoshi Nagase) returns for the third time in this crime drama. A crazed killer has been poisoning women around the city and planting Hama's fingerprints on the bodies. Hama must leave his cozy office...

Direction Hideyuki Hirayama

Cast Yui Natsukawa · Naomi Zaizen · Mikako Tabe · Miku Ishida

Synopsis Yui plays the socially awkward Sayoko, a housewife and mother, who starts working in a small travel agency. There she encounters Aoi, the boss of the agency, who's also of the same age. Interacting with the frank Aoi, Sayoko gradually...

Direction Masaharu Take

Cast Haru · Kenichi Matsuyama · Kimiko Yo · Fukiko Hara

Synopsis The northern territory of Hokkaido has its hinterlands and there is the location for Hotel Royal. Masayo applied to an art school and failed to get accepted. She is working at the family hotel now instead. Guests come and guests...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Iain Glen · Masahiro Motoki · Kippei Shiina · Takaya Kamikawa

Synopsis Spy Sorge depicts the life of Soviet spy Richard Sorge, whose infiltration of the German embassy in Tokyo gave Stalin an ear to Axis plans through the 1930's and into the first months of World War II.

Direction Izuru Narushima

Cast Mizuki Itagaki · Yuna Kawahara · Fumiyo Kohinata · Haru Kuroki

Synopsis Twenty-three years after graduating, Nakahara Ryoko (Ono Machiko) has returned to Joto No. 3 Junior High School as a transfer teacher. She continues to tell the headmistress (Yo Kimiko) the true story of how, as a 14-year-old student, then called...