Cast: Yui Natsukawa

Direction Yoshishige Miyake · Takashi Komatsu · Hisashi Ueda

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

Plot 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...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Hiroshi Abe · Yui Natsukawa · You · Kazuya Takahashi

Plot 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...

Direction Takeshi Kitano

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

Plot 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...

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 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

Plot 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...

Direction Nobuhiro Yamashita

Cast Kaho · Masaki Okada · Erisa Yanagi · Shôko Fujimura

Plot 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...

Direction Yōjirō Takita

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

Plot 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...

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 Yuzo Asahara

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

Plot 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...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

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

Plot 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)...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

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

Plot 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...

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 Takashi Ishii

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

Direction Kaizô Hayashi

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

Plot 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...

Direction Hideyuki Hirayama

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

Plot 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...

Direction Masaharu Take

Cast Haru · Kenichi Matsuyama · Kimiko Yo · Fukiko Hara

Plot 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...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

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

Plot 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...

Direction Izuru Narushima

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

Plot 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...