Soundtrack: Kazuo Otani

The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by Kazuo Otani. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.


Love's Tale of Young Grass (TV Series)

1987 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Fumio Kurokawa · Nobushiki Yamazaki

Plot Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are four loving March sisters living with their mother in Gettysburg during the Civil War. Their father is a military doctor fighting in the Union...

5.5

343 votes

5.5

343 votes

Lupin the Third vs. Cat’s Eye

2023 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Kôbun Shizuno · Hiroyuki Seshita · Keisuke Ide

Plot Lupin III competes with the Kisugi sisters to steal a triptych of paintings that once belonged to their father, and which hold the key to a long-unsolved mystery.

5.4

114 votes

5.4

114 votes

The Gourmet: The Japan-America Rice War

1993 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshio Takeuchi

Plot The Oishinbo gang takes time off from the normal culinary wars to get involved with a political dispute about American rice imports. The economic conflict between a pushy US Senator...

Not rated

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Tokimeki Tonight (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Hiroshi Sasagawa · Tsutomu Shibayama · Tomomi Mochizuki · Kazunori Tanabashi

Plot TV Series (1982 - 1983). 34 Episodes. 15-year-old Ranze Eto lives in an isolated castle in Japan with her werewolf mother, vampire father, and younger brother, Rinze. Despite her lineage,...

Not rated

Not rated

Goodbye Mama

1991 · Movie · 108 min. · Japan

Direction Yasushi Akimoto

Cast Keiko Matsuzaka · Yuta Yamazaki · Ken Ogata · Eriko Watanabe

Plot A successful office lady, who has made herself sexually available to a doctor, has her routine disrupted when her former boyfriend's son appears in her life. She is not connected...

Not rated

Not rated

The Gourmet (TV Series)

1988 · Series · 23 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshio Takeuchi

Plot TV Series (1988 - 1992). 136 Episodes. Drama about newspaper reporters, as the cynical food critic named Shirou Yamaoka.

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The Gourmet: Ultimate vs. Supreme

1992 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Iku Suzuki · Yoshio Takeuchi

Plot Culinary journalists Shirou Yamaoka and Yuko Kurita must prepare the menu that will represent the Touzai Newspaper on an upcoming competition against the Teito Newspaper. The theme: food that promotes...

Not rated

Not rated

The Glass Mask (TV Series)

1984 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Gisaburô Sugii

Plot TV Series (1984). 23 Episodes. itajima Maya, a 13-year-old girl with a talent for acting, was discovered by the reclusive actress Tsukikage. The story follows Maya's growing up, intense training,...

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Not rated

Cat's Eye (TV Series)

1983 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Kenji Kodama · Yoshio Takeuchi · Masaharu Okuwaki · Shunji Ôga

Plot The 3 Kisugi sisters, Rui, Hitomi and Ai run the Cat's Eye Cafe. They are the daughters of Michael Heinz, a painter who mysteriously disappeared in the seventies. In order...

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I and Myself: The Two Lottes (TV Series)

1991 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Kenji Kodama

Plot TV Series (1991 - 1992). 29 Episodes. Outspoken Luise and shy Lotte meet at summer camp and realize they are identical twins who were separated at birth by their divorced...

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Not rated