Naoko Ohtani

An old couple, their only son, the son’s wife, a young man and his lover live peacefully in a village. Then, a terrifying earthquake ...

While celebrating with her friends in her new cheaply rented apartment on the thirteenth floor of a building, the young Sayaka unexpectedly jumps ...

Shohei works as a doctor in a seaside hospital. One day, a new patient is admitted to the hospital with ovarian cancer. Shohei is surprised to ...

A portrait of an ordinary family that turns unstable when their frivolous son Shuji returns home after a long absence.

A young woman returns to the island where she grew up.

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old ...

A widow and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku people are forced to reside. The two boys are ...

A movie about Yutaka Tani, also known as ” Malay Tiger Harimao, ” who was active on the Malay Peninsula during the Pacific War

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events ...

This is a sad and beautiful story about a father who is a popular comedian and a son who suffered by an incurable disease.

Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend Yamazaki who he knew since college. Yamazaki ...

On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he’ll never gamble again. But, that night, Jirocho ...

After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on ...

Based on a mystery by Taiwanese-Japanese author Chin Shun-shin. After two elderly men in Yokohama quarrel over a Tang dynasty artifact, one of ...

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in ...