Tsutomu Yamazaki

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his servants son is kidnapped

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caused by the events from his high school...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takao Osawa

On August 12, 1985, a jumbo jet crashes, causing 520 fatalities, making the accident the biggest single-plane accident in the world. The local press...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinichi Tsutsumi

Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

A released inmate is hired to solve a murder case.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Sorimachi

In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Takuya Kimura

Set in the Philippines, Takashi Miike’s “The Guys from Paradise” weaves together the stories of several real-life criminal cases....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Kikkawa

Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masahiro Motoki

A melodrama about the life of a mentally disabled young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hinako Saeki

A widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for his help and increasingly starts to rely on him.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Koji Yakusho

A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

A detective is charged with investigating a bank corruption scandal.

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Matsuzaka

Masahiro Nakai (SMAP) stars in this hit film based on the best-selling novel by Miyuki Miyabe. Directed by Yoshimitsu Morita, the film also stars...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Masahiro Nakai

Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Nanako Matsushima

A droll and formalistic comic drama about the various relationships among, and odd obsessions of, the residents of a Tokyo apartment block.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Momoko Bitô

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Cast: Kenichi Matsuyama

A Japanese detective, Kikuchi, is framed for a murder and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency to investigate his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo....

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

17 year old Tokyo pizza delivery boy Kosuke crashes his bike into photographer Reiko and breaks her expensive camera. He promises to deliver homemade...

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Cast: Kotaro Takada

Kaoru, a wealthy woman whose youth is fading, abandons the hustle and bustle of the city to live a peaceful life in a house on the coast. There she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyoka Suzuki

In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meeting has continued through days and...

Genre: History

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yosuke Kubozuka

Kakekomi tells the stories of Edo women in the 1800s that escape abusive husbands and lovers by taking refuge in Tokeiji, a monastery in Kamakura.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Erika Toda

A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

A man is found dead in a office of Takayanagi Ballet Company. The suspect is a female dancer at the ballet company. The Takayanagi Ballet Company...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Hiroshi Abe

A college student has an affair with a married, middle-aged teacher.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Misako Tanaka

A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koichi Sato

A man's body is found under the statue of a winged kirin in the Nihombashi area of Tokyo. A suspect named Yashima has a car accident and falls...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Abe

In May 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (or JAXA) launched an unmanned spacecraft of their own development to retrieve samples from an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Watanabe

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. The film follows their subsequent...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Atsuko Asano

Residents in a town have a hard time due to the land tax and forced labor. 9 people, including Juzaburo Kokutaya (Sadao Abe), worry about the future...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sadawo Abe

At midnight, Yamabe, a killer, escapes from prison. Two years before, bribed by a narcotic smuggler, Yamabe killed a real estate broker. As he was...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Go Wakabayashi

Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows...

Genre: Action

Cast: Takuya Kimura

A Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the honor of an individual? In the spring of the 18th year of...

Genre: History

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

Akinori Kimura (Sadao Abe) and his wife Mieko (Miho Kanno) opens an apple orchard in their hometown of Hirosaki in Aomori Prefecture. Due to Meiko's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sadawo Abe

The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Michiko Oshitani, who lived in Shiga Prefecture, is found dead at an apartment in Tokyo. She was strangled to death. Mutsuo Koshikawa is the owner of...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Hiroshi Abe

Based on a semi-autobiographical story by Ogai Mori, about a Japanese medical student who goes to Berlin to study in the 1880s and falls in love with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiromi Go

When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tamasaburo Bando

The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

In 1974, Morikazu is 94 years old and his wife Hideko is 76 years old. They live at a house in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. The garden at their home is full of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

Young public prosecutor Keiichiro Okino is assigned to the department of the Tokyo Public Prosecutors Office that deals with violent cases, where he...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Takuya Kimura

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomohisa Yamashita

A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney offers to take the case to gain notoriety.

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Cast: Mariko Okada

During World War II, Japan sends gold to the Phillipines. After the war, the gold is lost in the bay of Manille. Former soldier Takeichi Matsuo is...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Mari and Humi learn from their mother that their father has dementia on his 70th birthday. They help prepare their mother for his farewell and...

Genre: Family

Cast: Yu Aoi

Businessmen competing for international building contracts in this globe-trotting comedy-adventure.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jinpachi Nezu

Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A special effects filled fantasy adventure, in which an 8-year-old boy encounters an ancient samurai warrior who is only six inches tall.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

Genichiro, a lonely retired man living with his son’s family who mostly ignores him, feels closest to his granddaughter who is in highschool....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

Keiichi Yoshinaga, who works for a major construction company receives a sudden phone call from his ex-wife, Junko Aoba. She tells Keiichi that their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koichi Sato

A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

A large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroshi Katsuno

Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

A Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start over. When a young maid falls for him, he talks her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Following a tip, Manabu Yazaki loses his last money betting on the older "banba" horse "Unryu" (jockied by Makie, a legendary jockey's daughter) in a...

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Cast: Yûsuke Iseya

A 7 years girl is found dead in the local park’s toilet. Kaga Kyouichiro, who was asked to find the girl, and his cousin Matsumiya Shuhei...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroshi Abe

A doctor who died at a young age due to the metastasis of a malignant tumor to the lungs after cutting his right leg below the knee due to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Takeshita

A man with a dark past comes from Tokyo to the fishing port of Izu, and tries to begin a new life as a fisherman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Marusa no Onna" a.k.a. "A Taxing Woman".

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jūzō Itami

Documentary about the making of Juzo Itami's film "Tampopo" (1985).

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jūzō Itami

Anthology of five low-budget short films: "Nao and I", "MILD7", "LOVERS", "Strawberry Fields", "Label"

Genre: Drama

Cast: Houka Kinoshita

Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kei Satō

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Cast: Kotaro Koizumi

A Salaryman in Hokkaido heads to Tokyo for his daughters wedding, but the fun is just beginning,,,

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

The year 1864: The Shinsengumi, the shogun’s armed force in Kyoto ripped the city apart, with blades in hand, searching for pockets of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Matsudaira

Kintaro is a reformed delinquent, the former leader of a biker gang who has gone straight. Working at a construction company, his unorthodox tactics...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katsunori Takahashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kyōko Kagawa

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Takumi Takahara

The protagonist is a woman (Hiroko Yakushimaru) who is a sales manager at the Japanese branch of a famous French shoe brand. The protagonist is...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Hiroko Yakushimaru

Junko Mizuta, who is returning from juvenile training school, is a former motorcycle gang. Even though he now works, he still goes to his father...

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Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

After the death of a man in their nursing home, a group of residents find his notebook titled "Shinibana" containing a plan to tunnel into and steal...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

27-year-old Yazaki Junpei has come back to his hometown of Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture for the first time in 10 years after working in Tokyo. As...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaname Endo

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Frankie Sakai

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyôko Kishida

Akane Kawasaki, known for her aversion to physical contact with men, possesses some unfavorable habits such as stealing. Despite these flaws, she...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths of a university mountain club who are trapped in a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Makoto Satō

Iwao, , Kumagai, and Konishi broke into the safe containing the wages of the employees of Ato Industries and obtained a fortune large enough to live...

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Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki