Kichitaro Negishi
1950 (74 года)Villon's Wife
Kichitaro Negishi
Tadanobu Asano, Takako Matsu
This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the story centers less on the womanizing, heavy-drinking, suicidal hero than on the wife who loves him. Written by Palm Springs International Film Festival
Villon's Wife
遠雷
Kichitaro Negishi
Toshiyuki Nagashima, Johnny Okura
A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his romance with the eccentric Kaede and parents selected fiancee Ayako.
Distant Thunder
雪に願うこと
Kichitaro Negishi
Yusuke Iseya, Koichi Sato
Following a tip, Manabu Yazaki loses his last money betting on the older "banba" horse "Unryu" (jockied by Makie, a legendary jockey's daughter) in a draft-horse race held in his childhood home of Obihiro on the island of Hokkaido.
What the Snow Brings
サイドカーに犬
Kichitaro Negishi
Yūko Takeuchi, Hana Matsumoto
The film begins in the present, with its heroine, Kaoru, a grown-up woman working as a real-estate agent, while helping out the folksy proprietor of a neighborhood fishing pond. There she meets a shy girl who needs her help baiting a hook and reminds her of herself in the fourth grade.
Dog in a Sidecar
永遠の１／２
Kichitaro Negishi
Saburo Tokito, Shinobu Ōtake
An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. They start dating but then strange things then begin to happen to him, including a beating from the local yakuza. - Wikipedia
Eien no 1/2
Kizuna
Kichitaro Negishi
Koji Yakusho, Ken Watanabe
Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father. His life begins to unravel when a journalist following him takes an interest in the wife of a boyhood chum, and the wife of another close friend takes an interest in Ise. A couple of murders later, Ise/Haga goes on the run and also sets out for revenge.
Bonds
オリオンの殺意より 情事の方程式
Kichitaro Negishi
Miyako Yamaguchi, Rokkō Toura
Toshihiko, a high school boy, hates Kozo, his father, enough to kill him. His mother had lived in terror of him and, at last, broken in spirit, she had left and her pitiful departing figure is still seared in Toshihiko's mind. Soon, Kozo marries Asako who is young and beautiful. An idea forms in Toshihiko's mind to get even with his father for the shabby way he had treated his mother. He wonders if he can do it through Asako.
An Unforgettable Affair
探偵物語
Kichitaro Negishi
Hiroko Yakushimaru, Yūsaku Matsuda
Naomi is a university student who is leaving for the US to study in a week; Shuichi is a washed-up gumshoe who's hired by Naomi's father to bodygard his daughter until she leaves. Shuichi finds the job annoying and wants to quit. But he also has a screwed-up ex and alimony to pay. Things go from bad to worse when Naomi and Shuichi stumble upon a murder which might involve the yakuza. They decide to find out who committed the murder but God knows what it will lead to.
Detective Story
ウホッホ探険隊
Kichitaro Negishi
Yukiyo Toake, Kunie Tanaka
Tokiko Enomoto finds out that her husband Kazuya, who mostly lives at an apartment near his work while she and their children live at home, has been having an affair with a live-in mistress, Ryōko, at his apartment. Tokiko tells her two sons, Tarō and Jirō, that she has decided to divorce their father. The children are shocked but understand their mother's position. Kazuya realizes the damage he has done and tries to remedy the situation.
The House of Wedlock
俺っちのウエディング
Kichitaro Negishi
Saburo Tokito, Yoshiko Miyazaki
On her wedding day, Makiko is stabbed by a woman in wedding dress. The wound isn't serious but the attacker blows herself up and can't be identified. The attacker is thought to be an ex-girlfriend of Tsutomu, the groom. He gives two names to the police but these two are still alive. But there is still one woman in Tsutomu's mind...
Our Wedding
女教師 汚れた放課後
Kichitaro Negishi
Yuki Kazamatsuri, Eri Kanuma
A teacher, Sakiko Kurata, receives a phone call regarding one of her former students. Young Sueko is accused of being a prostitute and has requested Sakiko’s help. This minx seduces random strangers for sex, but does not ask for payment. Sakiko has moved to another town and barely remembers Sueko, but there’s something about her that awakens painful memories of her own secretive past. What is that strange paint thinner smell on Sueko? Who is the man in the nylon ski mask that violently assaulted Sakiko many years ago? In her search for answers, Sakiko discovers that her past may have inadvertently destroyed another family’s future.
Female Teacher: Dirty Afternoon
透光の樹
Kichitaro Negishi
Kumiko Akiyoshi, Toshiyuki Nagashima
Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer from Tokyo, pays a visit to her town and the tree they shared time under some twenty years back after a TV commercial shoot. His remembrances of her, the tree, and the long unrequited love stir both of their hearts to fumbling action as they re-discover the love between them.
Translucent Tree
Asa wa dameyo
Kichitaro Negishi
Eri Kanuma, Yûko Ôsaki
Draws a career woman who enjoys a free-spirited sex life. A movie adaptation of Kayoko Maruyama’s original work of the same name. The script written by Yo Takeyama, the director is Kichitaro Negishi of “Rape Ceremony”, and the filming by Koichi Suzuki.
Never in the Morning!
