Direction: Yûya Ishii

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Yûya Ishii. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Great Passage

2013 · Movie · 134 min. · Japan

Direction Yûya Ishii

Cast Ryuhei Matsuda · Aoi Miyazaki · Jô Odagiri · Kaoru Kobayashi

Synopsis Mitsuya majime (Ryuhei Matsuda) es un vendedor de éxito. Pero su amor por la lectura y dedicación, así como un título de postgrado en lingüística, las capturas de los ojos de Masashi Nishioka (Joe Odagiri) y Kouhei Araki (Kaoru Kobayashi),...

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House of the Owl

2024 · Series · 51 min. · Japan

Direction David S. Shin · Yûya Ishii · Yusaku Matsumoto · Yoshitaka Mori

Cast Mackenyu Arata · Min Tanaka · Masanobu Ando · Satoshi Nikaido

Synopsis At the height of his career and powers, Japan's master fixer, who has guided politicians and business heads through some of Japan's biggest scandals, discovers that fixing his family is harder than fixing a country.

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Sawako Decides

2010 · Movie · 112 min. · Japan

Direction Yûya Ishii

Cast Hikari Mitsushima · Masashi Endô · Kotaro Shiga · Ryô Iwamatsu

Synopsis Sawako has lived in Tokyo for five years, is working her fifth office job, and is dating her fifth boyfriend, who is also her boss at the office. Her life with Kenichi, her boyfriend, and his daughter from a previous...

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Mitsuko Delivers

2011 · Movie · 109 min. · Japan

Direction Yûya Ishii

Cast Riisa Naka · Aoi Nakamura · Ryo Ishibashi · Yukijiro Hotaru

Synopsis Mitsuko is 24, heavily pregnant and estranged from the American father of her child. Her parents believe she is happy and successful in America and are unaware that she has secretly returned to Tokyo. Making the biggest decisions on the...

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To Walk Beside You

2009 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

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A Madder Red

2021 · Movie · 144 min. · Japan

Direction Yûya Ishii

Cast Machiko Ono · Iori Wada · Yuki Katayama · Jô Odagiri

Synopsis Ryoko has not had fortune smile upon her recently. She is attractive, but lost her husband in a traffic accident seven years ago. She received no consolation for that or how she has to take care of a son and...

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The Asian Angel

2021 · Movie · 128 min. · Japan

Direction Yûya Ishii

Cast Sôsuke Ikematsu · Choi Hee-seo · Jô Odagiri · Kim Min-jae

Synopsis Aoki is a failing novelist, and Sol is a failing pop singer. Encountering each other in South Korea, speaking different languages, they and their families somehow end up in a truck heading off into the Korean countryside.

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Heart of Hearts

2024 · Movie · Japan

Direction Yûya Ishii

Cast Sôsuke Ikematsu · Ayaka Miyoshi · Kenshi Okada · Taiga Nakano

Synopsis Desperate to know his mother’s real intention for having wanted to end her life, Sakuya requests a cutting-edge AI company to create her virtual figure.

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Almost a Miracle

2019 · Movie · 120 min. · Japan

Direction Yûya Ishii

Cast Kanata Hosoda · Sôsuke Ikematsu · Takanori Iwata · Atsuko Maeda

Synopsis High school boy Machida is a loner who is not particularly good at his studies or extracurricular activities. He does seem to have his heart in the right place however. When he is injured at school instead of the school...

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The Moon

2023 · Movie · 144 min. · Japan

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Our Family

2014 · Movie · 117 min. · Japan

Direction Yûya Ishii

Cast Mieko Harada · Sôsuke Ikematsu · Kyôzô Nagatsuka · Satoshi Tsumabuki

Synopsis A family drama about a family's struggles as their mother's impending death when she is diagnosed with a brain tumor brings to light financial burdens that need to be shouldered by her sons.

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Masked Hearts

2023 · Movie · 140 min. · Japan

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The Vancouver Asahi

2014 · Movie · 134 min. · Japan

Direction Yûya Ishii

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Kazuya Kamenashi · Mitsuki Takahata · Aoi Miyazaki

Synopsis Once upon a time in Vancouver, there was a baseball team called the Asahi, This was in the 1930s, when the city had a small Japantown on the downtown wharves, and the team was formed by the Canadian-born kids of...

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