Direction: Kazuyoshi Kumakiri

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


Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories (TV Series)

2009 · Series · 23 min. · Japan

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...

7.7

72 votes

7.7

72 votes

Green Mind, Metal Bats

2006 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan

6.0

22 votes

6.0

22 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

#Manhole

2023 · Movie · 99 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuyoshi Kumakiri

Cast Yûto Nakajima · Nao · Kento Nagayama · Haru Kuroki

Plot Kawamura Shunsuke works for a real estate company. He is usually first at first when it comes to sales. He is respected by his boss and colleagues. Kawamura Shunsuke is...

5.4

72 votes

5.4

72 votes

Kichiku: Banquet of the Beasts

1997 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuyoshi Kumakiri

Cast Shigeru Bokuda · Sumiko Mikami · Shunsuke Sawada · Toshiyuki Sugihara

Plot 1970s Japan, and Aizawa, leader of a small left-wing political student group has been arrested. With him behind bars, the group is taken over by Masami, his girlfriend. But when...

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Mukoku

2017 · Movie · 120 min. · Japan

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Yoko

2023 · Movie · min. · Japan

Direction Kazuyoshi Kumakiri

Cast Rinko Kikuchi · Jô Odagiri · Jun Fubuki · Kenta Hamano

Plot Given up her dream and life long ago, Yoko has been socially isolated for years and barely leaves her tiny apartment. When she receives the news of her estranged father's...

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Antenna

2004 · Movie · 117 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuyoshi Kumakiri

Cast Ryo Kase · Akemi Kobayashi · Daisuke Kizaki · Mantarô Koichi

Plot Yuichiro (Ryo Kase) is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs over him like a pall as he wanders Japan's S&M clubs. But...

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Freesia: Icy Tears

2007 · Movie · 103 min. · Japan

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The End of Summer

2013 · Movie · 114 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuyoshi Kumakiri

Cast Hikari Mitsushima · Kaoru Kobayashi · Gou Ayano

Plot Tomoko (Hikari Mitsushima) is sick and tired of her relationship with writer Shingo (Kaoru Kobayashi), who is married and has children. Shingo is a talented writer, but has yet to...

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Hole in the Sky

2001 · Movie · 127 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuyoshi Kumakiri

Cast Susumu Terajima · Rinko Kikuchi · Bunmei Tobayama · Shunsuke Sawada

Plot The film tells the story of a Drive-In worker and a young tramp who has been left alone by her boyfriend somewhere in Hokkaido. Things seem to work out at...

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Sketches of Kaitan City

2010 · Movie · 150 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuyoshi Kumakiri

Cast Masaki Miura · Kaho Minami · Ryo Kase

Plot Before his death in 1990, novelist Sato Yasushi wrote 18 short stories for an incomplete anthology. Those stories were eventually published as the novel Kaitanshi Jokei. The ambitious collection was...

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The Ravaged House: Zoroku's Disease

2004 · Movie · 63 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuyoshi Kumakiri

Cast Marie Kawaguchi · Masaki Miura · Satoshi Morishita · Kôen Okumura

Plot In a rural village, a boy named Zoroku suddenly becomes infected with an unknown disease that causes him to rot away slowly.

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Nonko 36-sai (kaji-tetsudai)

2008 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuyoshi Kumakiri

Cast Maki Sakai · Gen Hoshino · Shingo Tsurumi · Kanji Tsuda

Plot Nobuko tried to be successful as an actress in Tokyo, but wasn't popular. She married her manager and soon divorced. Now a once-divorced woman in her mid-30s, she returns home...

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The Volatile Woman

2004 · Movie · 80 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuyoshi Kumakiri

Cast Mai Hoshiko · Mitsuko Ishii · Hiroshi Ohmori · Shunsuke Sawada

Plot Widowed young, Masuda Etsuko runs a small-town garage/gas-station on her own. Nervous bank robber Sawada (he keeps throwing up when stressed) enters her life pretending to be a customer, and...

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