Direction: Yôichi Higashi

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Michitaka Tsutsui · Takato Hosoyamada · Miho Tsumiki · Tomoko Nakajima

Synopsis A 29 year old graphic designer named Koji goes back to his hometown to attend his father's funeral, as well as mentor his 14 year old nephew Takuya who has recently been arrested. Koji feels he can reach Takuya, who...

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Satomi Ishihara · Tadanobu Asano · Mitsuru Hirata

Synopsis Tamako is a 13-year-old girl in her first year at high school. Her grandfather (Kenzo) returns home from prison and proceeds to deal with her school bullies. As Tamako starts to gain respect for her grandfather the pair find themselves...

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Naoko Otani · Tamao Nakamura · Tetta Sugimoto · Atsuro Watabe

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Akira Fukuhara · Fumio Haruya · Takato Hosoyamada · Tomoya Iju

Synopsis Seikichi, 70, makes his living fishing from a small boat off the coast of Okinawa. He and his 12-year-old grandson Akira live in a small, tree-lined village in the northern part of the island which is surrounded by a white-sand...

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Mako Midori · Jiro Kawarazaki · Hatsuo Yamaya · Kei Sato

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Synopsis A documentary on the status of the island during the U.S. military occupation. It tells the story of a youth who survived a mass suicide on one of the islands in the wake of Japan's defeat in 1945. This film...

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Reiko Ohara · Kaoru Kobayashi · Reiko Nakamura · Kenzo Kawarazaki

Synopsis Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband’s emotional conflicts with the wisdom of an adult. Kazumi’s younger and more inexperienced husband Hideo is continually suspicious of her fidelity.

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Chôichirô Kawarasaki · Mako Midori · Soichi Ito · Renji Ishibashi

Synopsis A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle engineer.

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Masao Kusakari · Kanako Higuchi · Kaoru Kobayashi · Mitsuko Kusabue

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Masanobu Katsumura · Takako Tokiwa · Sôsuke Ikematsu · Takato Hosoyamada

Synopsis Sayoko has moved away from the city centre and into the suburbs. She gets her hair done at a beauty salon. When she replies to a courtesy follow-up e-mail from the stylist things take an unexpected turn involving her visiting...

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Toshiyuki Nagashima · Tsugiaki Yoshida · Aiko Morishita · Akiko Shikata

Synopsis Third (Toshiyuki Nagashima) is an aimless young man who hangs around with a couple of girls who are amateur hookers. One day, while acting as their pimp, he gets into a conflict with a young gangster and winds up killing...

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Yagi Nakasuji · Yûko Tanaka · Morio Kazama · Masahiko Tsugawa

Synopsis Yahagi Michiko is accosted and raped walking home one evening. From there she maneuvers the logistics of the police, hospital, and criminal justice system while balancing her home life including romantic relationships.

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Setsuko Karasuma · Masahiko Tsugawa · Koichi Sato · Ichirô Araki

Synopsis The story of the rise and fall of a young courtesan.

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Hiromi Nagasaku · Sei Andô

Synopsis War photjournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara (Tadanobu Asano) married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda (Hiromi Nagasaku) and had children. Because of Yasayuki's drinking problems the couple divorced. Yasuyuki is now coughing up blood, hospitalized, and violent. Even with all of these problems...

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Sasa Handa · Yuzuka Kinoshita · Takayuki Ohishi · Yûya Takayama

Synopsis One day, Yoko visits her long-distance lover on a whim, but finds her older sister Mikiko sleeping in his bed. Brokenhearted, Yoko begins a relationship with a man she meets by chance…

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Mieko Harada · Keigo Matsuyama · Shogo Matsuyama · Kyôzô Nagatsuka

Synopsis Tells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Includes the boys relationships with their schoolteacher mother, civil servant father, elderly landlord, a rough new boy at the school, and three...

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Kaori Momoi · Eiji Okuda · Leo Morimoto · Jūzō Itami

Synopsis Mariko is living the life of a typical Japanese college student in the 70's, spending far more of her time balancing boyfriends and part-time jobs than on her schoolwork. She finds herself torn between a former boyfriend who's the tough,...

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Setsuko Karasuma · Akiko Kana · Kumi Kageyama · Ryuichi Tamura

Synopsis A 20-year-old woman feels entrapped in her relationship with her current boyfriend - she wants out of her "nowhere" life and into something better. To that end, she hooks up with a photographer for whom she poses in the nude....

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Yosuke Natsuki · Reiko Oshida · Hiroaki Murakami · Hitomi Takahashi

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Keiko Takahashi · Katsuo Nakamura · Tomoko Udagawa · Noboru Nakaya

Synopsis The story describes the secret relationship between a woman named Yuko and Oda, a poet. The relationship has lasted six years with interruptions to protect its secrecy.