Screenplay: Yôji Yamada

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Rie Miyazawa · Nenji Kobayashi · Min Tanaka

Synopsis 19th century Japan. Seibei, a just-widowed samurai, struggles to care for his senile mother and two young daughters. He holds back from a possible remarriage, self-conscious about his poverty. When ordered to kill a skilled rebel swordsman, he can't evade...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Takuya Kimura · Rei Dan · Takashi Sasano · Nenji Kobayashi

Synopsis Shinnojo, a low level samurai, lives with his pretty, dutiful and loyal wife Kayo. He has come to find his position in a castle as a food-taster for a feudal lord to be boring and pointless, and talks about opening...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Takako Matsu · Hidetaka Yoshioka · Yukiyoshi Ozawa

Synopsis Nagase Masatoshi stars as a samurai, whose adherence to his code of honor is tested by the forces around him. It is mid-nineteenth century Japan, and the way of the samurai is fading, as Western influences and corruption are slowly...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Tadanobu Asano · Mitsugorô Bandô · Rei Dan

Synopsis Based on childhood days of Teruyo Nogami.

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Isao Hashizume · Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Tomoko Nakajima · Yû Aoi

Synopsis An old married couple Shukichi Hirayama and Tomiko live on a small island in the Inland Sea. They go to Tokyo. The couple have 3 children. The eldest son Koichi runs a hospital. The first daughter Shigeko runs a beauty...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Hisashi Igawa · Chieko Baisho · Chishu Ryu · Gin Maeda

Synopsis On a beautiful island in Seto Inner Sea, Seichi and Minko make their living by transporting rocks to construction sites by boat. They cherish the deepest affection for this piece of land they call home, and the simple life they...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Toshiyuki Nishida · Eiko Shinya · Keiko Takeshita · Nae

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Ken Takakura · Chieko Baisho · Hidetaka Yoshioka · Tokuko Sugiyama

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Tetsurô Tanba · Go Kato · Kensaku Morita · Yôko Shimada

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Ryo Kase · Yû Aoi · Sayuri Yoshinaga · Yuriko Ishida

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Ken Takakura · Chieko Baisho · Tetsuya Takeda · Kaori Momoi

Synopsis The story is about a convict released from prison for an old murder who is thinking about returning to his ex-wife and his former life. If she puts a yellow handkerchief on the window, it would mean that she wants...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Takako Matsu · Haru Kuroki · Hidetaka Yoshioka · Satoshi Tsumabuki

Synopsis Takeshi finds several notebooks by his late aunt Taki Nunomiya, who never married. Through the notebooks Takeshi learns of his aunt's life. Prior to World War II, in a little house with a red triangular roof in Tokyo, Taki works...

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Yoshiko Kuga · Hizuru Takachiho · Ineko Arima · Koji Nambara

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Junko Toda · Chieko Baisho · Yuki Kawamura · Sanae Nakahara

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Yo Oizumi · Sayuri Yoshinaga · Mei Nagano · Rosa Kato

Synopsis Akio Kizaki (I Oizumi), who spends his days as head of the Human Resources Department of a large company, is nervous about his wife's divorce and concerned about the relationship with his daughter, who is now a university student. To...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Kazunari Ninomiya · Haru Kuroki · Tadanobu Asano

Synopsis Set in post-World War II Japan, midwife Nobuko is resolved to move on as she stands at the grave of her son Koji who died, alongside thousands of others, when the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on the civilians in...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Sachiko Mitsumoto · Chishu Ryu

Synopsis It's Tough Being a Man aka Am I Trying and Tora-san,Our Lovable Tramp is a 1969 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada and starring Kiyoshi Atsumi. It is the first entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Yû Aoi · Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Yui Natsukawa

Synopsis In this sequel to the first It's A Wonderful Family, the characters who are still based on those in Tokyo Family (which itself was based on Tokyo Story), are a couple of years older with the father, grandfather and husband...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Yû Aoi · Yui Natsukawa · Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Synopsis The three grown children of a couple approaching their 50th wedding anniversary are shocked when their mother demands a divorce.

Direction Tomio Kuriyama

Cast Toshiyuki Nishida · Miyoko Asada · Rentarô Mikuni · Yûko Natori