Direction: Joji Matsuoka

Direction Joji Matsuoka · Kazuyoshi Kumakiri · Fumio Nomoto · Nobuhiro Yamashita

Cast Kaoru Kobayashi · Yutaka Matsushige · Ken Mitsuishi · Toshiki Ayata

Plot 2009-2014. Shinya Shokudô is a tv series from Japan since 2009. It tells many stories about ordinary people eat in shinya shokudo, which means a restaurant at midnight. This small...

Direction Joji Matsuoka · Nobuhiro Yamashita

Cast Kaoru Kobayashi · Jô Odagiri · Mansaku Fuwa · Reiko Kataoka

Plot An anthology of human relationship stories connected by the only open in the wee hours diner the characters frequent. Resolutions are often facilitated by the owner/chef.

Direction Joji Matsuoka

Cast Kaoru Kobayashi · Mansaku Fuwa · Tamae Andô · Toshiki Ayata

Plot A small diner in a busy shopping district is open from midnight until 7am and is run by a renowned chef known as 'the Master.' One evening, a burial urn...

Direction Joji Matsuoka

Cast Kaoru Kobayashi · Aoba Kawai · Koichi Sato · Sôsuke Ikematsu

Plot When people finish their day and hurry home, his day starts. He's diner is open from midnight to seven in the morning.

Direction Joji Matsuoka

Cast Jô Odagiri · Kirin Kiki · Yayako Uchida · Takako Matsu

Plot Leaving her alcoholic husband, Eiko takes their son Masaya away from Tokyo and back to her hometown in a Kyushu rural mining community. She toils to support him though many...

Direction Joji Matsuoka

Cast Shintarô Morimoto · Marino Kuwajima · Tadanobu Asano · Rei Dan

Plot A young boy lives in poverty with his grandfather while tending his dream of becoming a painter.

Direction Joji Matsuoka

Cast Hiroko Yakushimaru · Etsushi Toyokawa · Michitaka Tsutsui · Kai Ato

Plot Shoko and Mutsuki get married to satisfy their worried parents, but she is well past the age at which a 'good' Japanese woman should marry, and he is in love...

Direction Joji Matsuoka

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Ayumi Ito · Akira Emoto · Hirofumi Arai

Plot Based on a true story, the film depicts the life of Kuro, a dog who had lived in a high school in Nagano prefecture since 1960.

Direction Joji Matsuoka

Cast Michitaka Tsutsui · Saki Takaoka · Mikihisa Azuma · Kazuko Shirakawa

Plot Kaoru, a highschool boy, falls in love with a girl, Sonoko, a leading member of his high-school's swimming club. Though he cannot swim at all, he joins the swimming club...