Cinematography: Ryûto Kondô

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Ryûto Kondô. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Shoplifters

2018 · Movie · 121 min. · Japan

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Kirin Kiki · Sôsuke Ikematsu · Lily Franky · Moemi Katayama

Plot Osamu works as a day laborer. He and his son Shota like to shoplift together. On the way back home from a shoplifting session, Osamu finds little Yuri freezing. He...

7.4

10K votes

7.4

10K votes

Monster

2023 · Movie · 126 min. · Japan

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Soya Kurokawa · Hiiragi Hinata · Sakura Ando · Eita

Plot When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to...

7.3

6K votes

7.3

6K votes

A Story of Yonosuke

2013 · Movie · 160 min. · Japan

Direction Shûichi Okita

Cast Kengo Kora · Yuriko Yoshitaka · Jun Kunimura · Gou Ayano

Plot Were people's lives changed by having known Yonosuke?

7.0

66 votes

7.0

66 votes

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House

2023 · Series · 38 min. · Japan

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda · Hiroshi Okuyama · Takuma Satô · Megumi Tsuno

Cast Mayu Matsuoka · Ai Hashimoto · Nana Mori · Keiko Matsuzaka

Plot Kiyo becomes a Makanai (person who cooks meals) at a house where Maiko (apprentice geishas) live together.

7.0

572 votes

7.0

572 votes

Ramblers

2003 · Movie · 83 min. · Japan

6.9

22 votes

6.9

22 votes

Scabbard Samurai

2011 · Movie · 103 min. · Japan

Direction Hitoshi Matsumoto

Cast Takaaki Nomi · Sea Kumada · Itsuji Itao · Tokio Emoto

Plot Nomi plays a samurai named Kanjuro who decided to give up his sword after a certain incident. He wanders aimlessly with his daughter (Kumada Sea), but because he abandoned his...

6.8

773 votes

6.8

773 votes

A Gentle Breeze in the Village

2007 · Movie · 121 min. · Japan

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...

6.7

47 votes

6.7

47 votes

Solanin

2010 · Movie · 126 min. · Japan

Direction Takahiro Miki

Cast Arata Iura · Kenta Kiritani · Yoichi Kondo · Kengo Kora

Plot Meiko and Taneda are a couple graduated from university two years ago. Unhappy with their lives, Meiko quits her job and encourages Taneda to have this band become professional. They...

6.7

100 votes

6.7

100 votes

The Light Shines Only There

2014 · Movie · 120 min. · Japan

Direction Mipo Oh

Cast Gou Ayano · Chizuru Ikewaki · Masaki Suda · Kazuya Takahashi

Plot In a Japanese port town, Tatsuo, a traumatized man, spends his days drifting aimlessly and his nights drinking himself to oblivion. Whiling his hours away at a pachinko parlor, he...

6.3

39 votes

6.3

39 votes

Over the Fence

2016 · Movie · 112 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuhiro Yamashita

Cast Jô Odagiri · Yû Aoi · Shôta Matsuda · Yukiya Kitamura

Plot Yoshio Shiraiwa (Joe Odagiri) is dumped by his wife and goes back to his hometown of Hakodate. He then enrolls at a vocational school, while receiving unemployment payments. At the...

6.2

24 votes

6.2

24 votes

The Kirishima Thing

2012 · Movie · 103 min. · Japan

Direction Daihachi Yoshida

Cast Ryunosuke Kamiki · Ai Hashimoto · Suzuka Ohgo · Masahiro Higashide

Plot Kirishima, star of the high school volleyball club, has mysteriously disappeared. His girlfriend, Risa, sends him text messages to no avail. His best friend, Hiroki, doesn’t understand why his friend...

5.9

64 votes

5.9

64 votes

The Center Lane with Rikako Ikee (S)

2021 · Documentary · 5 min. · Japan

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Rikako Ikee

Plot Our destiny isn’t set at birth. It’s not set by what happens around us. It’s shaped by the choices we make, And if Ikee’s story shows us anything It’s that...

5.6

43 votes

5.6

43 votes

My Man

2014 · Movie · 129 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuyoshi Kumakiri

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Fumi Nikaidou · Tatsuya Fuji · Takahiro Miura

Plot After losing everything in a tsunami, 10-year-old Hana is taken in by 26-year-old distant relative Jungo Kusarino. They live as father and daughter but share a profound sense of loss....

5.6

64 votes

5.6

64 votes

Bare Essence of Life

2009 · Movie · 120 min. · Japan

5.6

21 votes

5.6

21 votes

White Lily

2017 · Movie · 80 min. · Japan

Direction Hideo Nakata

Cast Rin Asuka · Kaori Yamaguchi · Shôma Machii · Kanako Nishikawa

Plot Nikkatsu has rebooted the Roman porno label and recommenced production of new works reviving its function as a sandbox for playful experimentation with the aim of attaing new forms of...

4.1

34 votes

4.1

34 votes

A Beautiful Star

2017 · Movie · 127 min. · Japan

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Mukoku

2017 · Movie · 120 min. · Japan

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A Man

2022 · Movie · 121 min. · Japan

Direction Kei Ishikawa

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Sakura Ando · Masataka Kubota · Nana Seino

Plot Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.

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Mourning Recipe

2013 · Movie · 129 min. · Japan

Direction Yuki Tanada

Cast Hiromi Nagasaku · Renji Ishibashi · Fumi Nikaidou · Masaki Okada

Plot Through the mother's recipe for living happily, a family is able to overcome their personal wounds and move on with their lives. Ryohei's wife suddenly passes away, leaving Ryohei without...

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No Longer Human

2019 · Movie · 120 min. · Japan

Direction Mika Ninagawa

Cast Yûdai Chiba · Tatsuya Fujiwara · Kengo Kora · Rie Miyazawa

Plot Oguri Shun plays Dazai Osamu who is one of the more popular novelists in Japan. Like most artists he has his vulnerabilities and exposures. In this case, the man is...

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Not rated