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
Direction Nobuhiro Yamashita
Cast Keishi Nagatsuka · Hiroshi Yamamoto · Machiko Ono · Masaaki Takakura
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
Direction Satoko Yokohama
Cast Ken'ichi Matsuyama · Kumiko Aso · Seiji Nozoe · Arata Iura
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
Direction Daihachi Yoshida
Cast Lily Franky · Kazuya Kamenashi · Ai Hashimoto · Tomoko Nakajima
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Mukoku
2017 · Movie · 120 min. · Japan
Direction Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
Cast Atsuko Maeda · Jun Fubuki · Kaoru Kobayashi · Akira Emoto
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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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