Direction: Shinji Sômai

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Tomoko Tabata · Shinobu Chihara · Kiichi Nakai · Junko Sakurada

Plot Renko is a youngster whose parents have just divorced. Her father moves out and she has to adapt to a new way of life.

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Yuichi Mikami · Youki Kudoh · Tomokazu Miura · Saburo Date

Plot A class of Japanese teens experience their first feelings with the opposite sex while a typhoon storm is rising.

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Noriko Hayami · Minori Terada · Kiriko Shimizu · Nobutaka Masutomi

Plot After witnessing the rape of his wife, a man's mind snaps and he attacks a prostitute. Two years later, the man and the prostitute meet by chance.

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Hiroko Yakushimaru · Tsunehiko Watase · Rentarô Mikuni

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Kyôko Koizumi · Tadanobu Asano · Kumiko Aso · Akira Emoto

Plot A haunting tale of destiny and life's unpredictability: an elite bureaucrat, humbled by an incident which ruined his promising career, has a chance encounter with a glamorous hostess, heartbroken by...

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Kiichi Nakai · Riho Makise · Shôfukutei Tsurube · Takatoshi Takeda

Plot A pampered young model is killed in a traffic accident. Given the chance to return to earth, she becomes involved with the advertising executive who is trying to cover up...

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Naoki Sakata · Yasutaka Oh · Ken'ichi Makino

Plot A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a house surrounded by an overgrown...

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Yuki Saito · Takaaki Enoki · Mai Okamoto · Leonard Kuma

Plot This dazzling portrait of an orphaned girl at several stages of her life, from childhood to adulthood, opens with one of the most famous long takes in Japanese cinema, a...

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Tatsuya Fuji · Michiko Kawai · Masatoshi Nagase · Shinobu Sakagami

Plot Three high-school students tangle with indulgent yakuza and lackadaisical police as they set out in search of the class bully, who has been kidnapped.

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Koichi Sato · Yuki Saito · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Shiho Fujimura

Plot A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged father shows up at his...

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Keiji Mutô · Michiru Akiyoshi · Narumi Yasuda · Hide Demon

Plot A hulking man from the country pursues his beloved to the underworld of Tokyo nightclubs, where he finds work as a sideshow wrestler and becomes involved with a faded opera...

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Ken Ogata · Masako Natsume · Koichi Sato · Yukiyo Toake

Plot Fusajiro is a veteran tuna fisherman who lives with his daughter Tokiko. She's in love with Shunichi, who runs a tea shop but wants to become a fisherman himself. Fusajiro...

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Shingo Tsurumi · Hiroko Yakushimaru · Mieko Harada · Mariko Ishihara

Plot Aspiring to be admitted to a good university and to become a lawyer, Tasiro Yuusuke, a tenth-grader from Kyushu, enrols in a prestigious high school in Tokyo. Plans are made...