Nobuko Miyamoto

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

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 struggling Japanese neighborhood supermarket manager chances upon an old classmate, who has plenty of ideas for revitalizing his business.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

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 TV production crew are making a documentary about the infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro. When they start filming at his old home, they come under...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

The film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

A successful Japanese movie director in his sixties becomes increasingly ill while working on his latest film. Though his family, friends, and doctor...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ichiro Araki

"Hankyu Densha" follows the lives of various people who commute on Hankyu Railway's Imazu Line - connecting the cities of Nishinomiya and Takarazuka...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Miki Nakatani

An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so they...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

Based on a celebrated book by Kuniko Mukoda, this film directed by Yasuo Furuhata tells of a close friendship undone by love.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Biwako is a vain, middle-aged actress who witnesses a brutal murder. Realizing that the very public life of the woman makes their sole witness...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man does...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tamori

Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult lead...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Aki Asakura

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order he was duty bound to...

Genre: History

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Sakiko, works independently at a travel agent in Tokyo. She was raised by her mother, Tatsuko, is hospitalized, Sakiko returns to her hometown...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nanako Matsushima

1982 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryo Tamura

Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Masahiro Motoki

Botchan (Kazunari Ninomiya) has sense of strong justice and does not lie. He is offered a teaching job at a middle in a small village far away from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazunari Ninomiya

Deaths in Tokimeki tells the story of a nondescript hitman, in a remote country villa, waiting to carry out a job: the assassination of the leader of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Sawada

Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A young woman breaks off her long-term relationship with her boyfriend to move to Tokyo in search of new experiences.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Setsuko Karasuma

Hiroyuki Tachikawa is 28-years-old. He quits his job due to severe quotas and difficult relations. His girlfriend, Chieko Takanashi (Eriko Nakamura),...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shota Matsuda

Mayu Daimon is a woman who does not remember her mother's face, and her father is the only person she has blood relationship in this world, but he is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ko Shibasaki

A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideo Kanze

A love story written by an ordinary housewife is going to be broadcast as a radio drama and almost everyone among the crew insists on changing...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshiaki Karasawa

Ulysses Jenkins composed "Dream City" from documentation of a twenty-four-hour performance he organized in collaboration with David Hammons, Maren...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: George Abe

Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

The story centers on a man who loves movies, having once worked at movie studio in pursuit of his dreams, surrounded by great directors and famous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Sawada

The world of adults seen by a high school girl in the valley between school and home after school, and the sparkling poison that only a daughter of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiromi Kurita

A documentary about a man who continues to document the "Yokkaichi Asthma", caused by the pollution in Yokkaichi City, Mie Prefecture, which became a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

A mother, daughter and two of their friends live in an old Western-style house in Suginami. As secrets are revealed, they face challenges together.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Miki Nakatani

Nobita travels to the future to show his beloved grandma his bride, but adult Nobita has fled his own wedding.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Wasabi Mizuta

A documentary with stars from the original cast.

Genre: Music

Cast: Mikhail Baryshnikov

Ichinoi, a 75-year-old woman living a peaceful life, unwittingly buys a Boy's Love manga one day…and is fascinated by what she finds inside....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

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

A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Marusa no Onna 2" a.k.a. "A Taxing Woman's Return".

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jūzō Itami

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Daibyonin" a.k.a. "The Last Dance".

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jūzō Itami

Tamio Akanishi works at a public office in Yokohama. He is going through one of the worst periods of his life, having been left by his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kei Tanaka

For his first film in fourteen years animation director Isao Takahata embarked on a visually sumptuous adaptation of "The Tale of the Princess...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Isao Takahata

A documentary about the legendary Japanese filmmaker.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jūzō Itami

In Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture, “QUON CHOCOLATE” is gaining popularity for its carefully selected flavors and colorful designs. This...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Komaki Kurihara

A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "A-Ge-Man" a.k.a. "Tales of a Golden Geisha".

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jūzō Itami

A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Minbo no Onna" a.k.a. "Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion".

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jūzō Itami

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shigemichi Sugita

Aki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo moves to the Sanriku Coast in the Tohoku region to become a female diver. She becomes a local idol, then...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Non

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ralph Macchio