Taiji Tonoyama

April 1954. 12 year old schoolgirl Sadako thinks her main problem is being unable to pass the baton in relay races. But just as her team starts ...

Japanese Drama film about the female experience during the war years.

A young rock singer is not appreciated by her band, and gets a postcard from Japan saying “wish you were here”. She takes what little ...

A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations ...

Tatsuhiko and Shofumi are hoodlums living in downtown Hawaii, having flown out of Japan and entered the country illegally for a reason. The two ...

The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno’s death.

At the time between the World Wars, Japan is involved in empire-building throughout East and Southeast Asia. After a brief career as a low-level ...

During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his ...

Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of ...

Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out a niche in the market with their musical talents.

The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the community’s members who ...

Hoshino Bunzo raises up his orphan grandson, Keiji whose right leg gets paralyzed when he was an infant. Bunzo loves Keiji so much that he does ...

Hideo is sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco to settle her family’s debt. Over the next 20 years, the couple works hard ...

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone ...

A gripping and entertaining historical drama that follows the actions of the thief Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi during the Edo period.

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 ...

To satisfy her lover’s fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate tattoos by Kyogoro, an old craftsman. ...

A daughter of Hatamoto (high-ranked soldier) Otsuyu (Akiko Kana) and a Ronin living in Choya (cheap apartment) Shinzaburo Hagihara (Yoichi ...

Model Reiko Higa is injured after being hit by a car pursued by motorcycle cop Tomishima. Tomishima’s supervisor refuses his request to ...

When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first ...

The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his ...

Loosely based on a 1926 short story by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, the film opens as an artist and a young woman are in a dentist’s waiting ...

Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends.

Japanese film based on the life of Zen Master Tetsugen Doko.

A member of the jieitai (“Self-Defense Force”; i.e. Japanese military) is on leave and finds a woman giving birth in a graveyard in ...

Intellectual collegue professor Sasa becomes obsessed with beautiful Sugiko, a virgin. Eventually, luring her to a love hotel.