Yuko Tanaka

Why had a mother who seemed happy desired to end her own life? Desperate to uncover his mother’s true intentions, Sakuya ventures into uncharted ...

After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion and turmoil.

In 1964, Momoko came by herself to Tokyo from her hometown. She met Shūzō and married him. They raised two children together, but Shūzō suddenly ...

A family reunites after 15 years. They each have a story to tell as they have not forgotten what happened years ago.

Daikichi is a 70-year-old man and lives on a small island. Since his wife died, he has lived with his cat Tama. Daikichi was born and raised on ...

A compelling human drama about the growing social problems and public responsibilities regarding the welfare and ethical treatment of neglected ...

A restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a series of flawed patrons including Tamako, whose ...

Jiro Sawada is a sophomore in high school when a false accusation drives him out his hometown: a small village in Fukushima Prefecture. The ...

Toma lives in a small riverside town with his brutish father and his father’s girlfriend. Witnessing his father’s predilections for ...

Keisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan’s most respected legends of cinema. Made to commemorate the ...

The posthumous wish of Eiji’s wife is for her ashes to be scattered in the ocean near her hometown. Eiji also learns that his wife letter ...

Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao’s grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a trip Tadao is reluctant to make.

Based on an autobiography by Hiroshi Tamura, the film follows story of the author’s experience of homelessness when this father suddenly ...

Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange… What’s even more strange ...

Minako (TANAKA Yuko), begins her day running up and down the hills of her hometown delivering milk door to door. When that’s done, she ...

Hibi tells about mother who does pottery and lives rather simple life, growing her children up. She does remarkable job in pottery, finding a new ...

Tatsuo and Ikuo have been raised by hard-working parents who run a funeral home. For relief, they practice games of manzai, a Japanese comic ...

Japanese film icon Ken Takakura, who has starred in over 100 films, stars in this elegiac look at war and remembrance. Hideji Yamaoka (Takakura) ...

Togashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi’s grade school entrance examinations, but he ...

Young Wakana is the daughter of a husband and wife comedy act, who have worked together for 20 years without any big success. Wakana’s parents ...

Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the ...

A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose owner lives to bring entertaining ...

In the 39th year of Meiji, a Yucheng, who had lived in poverty since childhood, lived in a house near the ramp in order to become a concubine of usury

An eerie statue of the Kannon shedding tears in an old Western-style house. Fifty years of the strange lives of the mothers and daughters who ...

Young Kinu Yamabe is drawn to low-born Onimaru, who is vital and charismatic, but viewed by his father as a demon. After her first period, Kinu ...

The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils.

Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he’s reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a ...

Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.

Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A ...

Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist ...