Makoto Akatsuka

After the war, many filmmakers were expelled from the Japanese film industry due to the Toho Dispute and the Red Purge. Amid such circumstances, ...

The story of a former police officer now retired to run a coffee shop called Bitter Coffee Life. In the long years of the past 20 years, he has ...

Set in a small Nagano village in the 1930s, the film follows Hanji, a young boy captivated by a local kabuki performance. Inspired by Yukio, ...

A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband’s honor.

Izumi aims to be the first deaf creator of artificial limbs. One day, her senior co-worker, Kubo, goes to Afghanistan to help give aid to ...

#36 in the series, following “License for Cruelty.”

A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He’s so good his fellow ...

An anthology exploring the meaning of the Japanese greeting goaisatsu.

Nozomi is a former actress who moves back to Japan from New Zealand. Upon arriving, she meets her fellow high school student neighbor Ryotaro ...

Japanese film.

Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) who has a crescent-moon-shaped scar on his ...

1981 Japanese film based on the novel by Naoshiro Yoshimoto.

A made for TV movie that would be loosely remade as Magnitude 7.9 or DEATHQUAKE