Hidetaka Yoshioka

The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sachiko Murase

In a post-war alternative timeline, Japan is divided into the North, controlled by the Union, and the South, controlled by the United States. A...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Hidetaka Yoshioka

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nagase

Leaving her provincial home, teenage Mutsuko arrives in Tokyo by train to take a job in a major automotive company but finds that she is employed by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maki Horikita

Would-be writer Ryunosuke Chagawa is still living across the street from Norifumi Suzuki and his auto repair shop, though now he shares his home with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maki Horikita

O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the warnings of her fellow workers,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Misa Shimizu

When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Minister's assassination, and on the run from...

Genre: Action

Cast: Masato Sakai

A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival of a man who ignites flames of romance in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Husband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated, rural farming village where Takao grew up.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Terao

Prince Siddhartha is heir to the Shakya kingdom, which is constantly at war with the more powerful Kosala kingdom. His father tries to raise as him...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Hidetaka Yoshioka

When her husband is hospitalized with tuberculosis, Chika has a series of three relationships: with a teacher in her hometown, with a student in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takami Yoshimoto

A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Terao

The story follows the teacher and students of the Ryubetsu Handicapped High School.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" wafts through a hospice recreation room. Sitting at the grand piano is a young girl, Chiori, with a...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Mitsuru Hirata

Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose owner lives to bring entertaining films...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

Tora-san Makes Excuses is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

2500 years ago, in India, Siddhartha was born as a prince of the Shakya clan, but he gives up his position as a prince to see the world. He meets a...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Hidetaka Yoshioka

Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rie Miyazawa

Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Matsumura

Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a tale of morality with deeper insights into its...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Terao

The Tokyo Olympics are about to open, and Rynosuke Chagawa is excited to receive a new TV set to watch the upcoming events. His wife Hiromi is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hidetaka Yoshioka

This is the true story of the last officially recorded case of adauchi, when a young man avenged the death of his father by brutally killing the...

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Cast: Tatsuya Fujiwara

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

Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (Ryosuke Yamada). Suzuki is a former middle school...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged to someone else.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarrasses himself by getting drunk and insulting all...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

When Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter to Mitsuo and Mitsuo goes looking for her. But...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Mitsuo, unhappy in his new job as a shoe salesman, is invited to a festival and is introduced to a friend’s sister. Tora-san meanwhile helps an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), runs away from her husband, who is only interested...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to track down her estranged brother, and informs his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

After failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush on a young nurse there. Tora-san, dispatched to bring...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully comprehends his importance, the old man is a Living...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for another woman, so together they decide to confront...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami,...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koichi Sato

1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami,...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koichi Sato

Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Takako Matsu

In a time when the main source of energy was still coal, there was a man who saw the future in oil. Young Tetsuzo Kunioka who hails from Moji,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Junichi Okada

Carrying a bag full of samples, Mitsuo makes rounds to shoe stores in remote cities. While staying at budget hotels, his thoughts turn to Tora-san.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A detective in Toyama is forced to confront his painful past when he takes on a murder case involving his two estranged childhood friends.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Junichi Okada

Set on a quiet ranch in Hokkaido. One day, a colt is born from a legendary bloodline. It is given the name Oracion or "prayer". When Oracion is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuki Saito

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife asks Tora-san...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

The 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the series. The adult Mitsuo,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

The film is about poor children and 'The Kids' Diner', a place where they can go to get free or cheap food.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kanata Fujimoto

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetaka Yoshioka

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region...

Genre: History

Cast: Ken Watanabe

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kunie Tanaka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kunie Tanaka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kunie Tanaka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kunie Tanaka

14 year-old schoolgirl Tsubame is into university student Toru. She sees him in her area and really wants to be his. She struggles with how to inform...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaya Kiyohara

Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

This is the story between single mother housekeeper and mathematics professor,who has a brain damage.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Terao

here is a small old-fashioned shop called ‘Fuji Family’ at the foot of Mt Fuji that is a convenience store in name only. It is run by...

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Cast: Hiroko Yakushimaru

Baffling serial killings unfold in which the victims are tied up and left to starve. Tone was just released from prison after finishing his sentence...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Takeru Satoh

Eiso Tsubaki, a former aristocrat, was suspected in a murder case in Ginza and committed suicide. Detective Kindaichi Kosuke, who is commissioned by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetaka Yoshioka

Komari Sano's parents ran a small Tokyo factory that manufactured aircraft parts. With her parents' influence, Komari Sano dreamed of becoming a...

Genre: History

Cast: Suzu Hirose

A widow who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins attending a technical college to gain new qualifications. She meets...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinobu Otake

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anne Suzuki

A lonely young man moves in a 50-year-old apartment building. When he meets the cheerful residents, he finds himself surrounded by small happiness.

Genre: Family

Cast: Kenichi Matsuyama

There is a man who divorced his wife. He moved to rural Hokkaido from Tokyo where he lived with his family without running water or electricity. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kunie Tanaka

An off-beat comedy about 3 'damejin' (useless persons), who don't work and spend their lives doing nothing. They actually don't want to work. When...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ryuta Sato

In this drama set on Shikina Island, a far-flung island of the Japanese archipelago located more than six hours from the Japanese main islands, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetaka Yoshioka

In the early days of the Internet, a case arises from an innovative software and the developer is falsely arrested by the police. This film is based...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masahiro Higashide

A drama that depicts the trajectory of four years in the life of two young musicians and one woman who dreamed of becoming a star, leaving Hakata to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masahiro Motoki

During the Sengoku period, villagers brutally killed eight samurai, and in the Taisho era, the head of an old family murdered 32 villagers in the...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Hidetaka Yoshioka

Sakamoto Chika, who works for a real estate company in Kagoshima, is having a hard time growing at work and is unable to respond to the proposal from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fuka Koshiba

In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shigemichi Sugita

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Cast: Shigemichi Sugita

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kunie Tanaka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kunie Tanaka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura