Takehiko Ono

Ko, a man in his late 30s, lives in the countryside with his wife and teenage son. Mitsuhiko, who runs a local car dealership, also stayed in his ...

A failed actor switches identities with a stranger at a bath house thinking it is his way out of his life of misery but only to find himself ...

Go, Masao! describes the relationship between people and their dogs. Comedian Hideki Matsumoto and a labrador retriever named Masao are selected ...

Three engineers cannot make a robot work in time for a science show, and hire a man to inhabit the robot’s shell to save their jobs. The ...

After Detective Shunsaku Aoshima is promoted to section chief he has the daunting task of dealing with eight cases at the same time, which ...

The touching and dramatic tale of the relationship between a Japanese family, their dog and her three puppies, set against the backdrop of a ...

In a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe finds that he has a terminal cancer, he decides to ...

Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up during his inaugural speech as the company chairman.

Tells the story of Yamaguchi Yoshiko, a Japanese woman born and raised in China during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. She debuts as the ...

Yumiko returns to work in Hama-chan’s department. She had once left the company after getting married, but a dark shadow now seems to loom ...

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

Hama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company faces a restructuring process.

Hama-chan’s supervisor is promoted after many frustrating years with his wayward, fishing-obsessed underling, and Hama-chan’s new ...

The movie takes place again in the fictional Wangan Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department the once empty space within ...

Made-for-TV film adaptation of the 1957 novel by Seicho Matsumoto starring Takeshi Kitano and directed by Noboru Tanaka. The novel was previously ...

A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call ...

A young, good-hearted doctor Kenichi suffers from a rare syndrome whereby his feelings cannot be hidden. Such people are known as ...

A traveling ronin perceived as a fool impresses a samurai leader with his fishing skills and gains employment.

Aoshima, a police detective working in the Bayside Precinct, is continually frustrated by the hierarchy and red tape that plague the system. His ...

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 ...

When the famous SL “Lady of Childbirth” traveling on the Yamaguchi Line approached Tsuwano, a passenger saw a man crashing into the ...

A man who lost his wife and a woman whose husband died have a fateful meeting in connection with a double suicide and fall madly in love.

Shibuya, Tokyo. Yoichi and Michio are a pair of hoodlums who make their living as bookies at horse races. One day, Yoichi’s companion ...