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
Direction Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
Cast Masanobu Ando · Yûsuke Kamiji · Maki Sakai · Megumi Sato
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
Direction Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
Cast Atsuko Maeda · Jun Fubuki · Kaoru Kobayashi · Akira Emoto
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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
Direction Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
Cast Tetsuji Tamayama · Tsugumi · Hidetoshi Nishijima · Tasuku Emoto
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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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