Takako Tokiwa

The film delicately portrays a young girl who struggles with the sudden discovery of juvenile breast cancer and her complicated relationship with ...

Moriyama Kosaku is released from a Hokkaido prison on parole. After he salutes the prison officers, he approaches a car that is stopped nearby. A ...

Seven men and women, consisting of three couples who are reluctant companions and one single man, play in the game with the secret that their ...

When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time to the world inside the screen.

Tatsuya Nakadai, the world’s greatest living actor, returns to the screen in a brilliant adaptation of a story by novelist Shuhei Fujisawa. A ...

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

Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his aunt cares for his ailing cousin. Immersed in ...

After the end of the second world war, Fred Wada Isamu (Osawa), an American of Japanese descent who runs a fruit and vegetable shop in Los ...

Relatives gather from afar in wintery Ashibetsu upon the death of patriarch Mitsuo. A mysterious woman named Nobuko suddenly shows up. Her ...

Shizuru Tamai lives in a small mountain town in rural Japan with her mother and grandmother. Her grandmother is partially unable to move, and ...

Yukichi Matsumoto’s 2013 stage adaptation of Shuji Terayama’s “Lemmings”. Two cooks share a room, one of which talks with ...

In 1945, Japan surrendered to the United States and the Second World War was over. Right? Wrong. For eighty percent of the Japanese community in ...

Chuushingura from the perspective of Horibe Yasubee.

Shuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that his loan shark brother, who had helped to ...

A woman (Takako Tokiwa) risks her life to exact revenge for her murdered lover.

A radio DJ, Mai starts a new program called, “Love Letters from the Drawer” to assist people who need an extra push to send out their ...

The final showdown, and the final reveal. who is Friend? How can he be stopped?

Set 15 years after “Twentieth Century Boys,” Kanna (Airi Taira) reunites with several main characters from the first film in an ...

In 1969, Kenji, an elementary school kid and his friends built a secret base during their summer holidays. They fantasized that they had to fight ...

A middle school teacher, Jinno, is friends with a young couple that is about to have a baby. But on the eve of the birth, the father, Kimura, ...

In 1897, actor, director, producer and theatre company leader Kawakami Otojiro set off on a tour of the USA with his wife Sadayakko and theatre ...

After the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy marriage seem to suddenly vanish as she finds out ...

Shinji (Shinichi Tsutsumi) steps out of a train station to find himself transported back to 1964.

Jr. High School Student Wataru and his friends like playing in an abandond building and looking for ghosts. However it seems he is not the only ...

The main characters are the Mamiya brothers who are living together although they are over 30-years-old. Unconcerned with appearance and ...

Tetsumu, an introverted youth, realizes he has a natural ability of communicating with elephants. This prompts him to leave for Chiang Mai in ...

Namiko Morita, who lived in Otaru, moved to this area with her husband, Yutaro, and opened the brewery “Morita Brewery”. Eventually, ...

A James Brown fanatic gangster decided to disband his own gang and see his long lost daughter before entering prison. Hoping to change his mind, ...

After a 13-year imprisonment in Hong Kong, a kickboxer challenges the current champion in order to restore his honor.