Yōko Narahashi

Memoirs of a Geisha

Rob Marshall

Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li

A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

ウィンズ・オブ・ゴッド

Yōko Narahashi

Masayuki Imai, Shota Yamaguchi

After a car crash, a comedy duo wake to discover themselves in an army infirmary. At first they think they are in jail, then slowly realize that it is August 1945 and their colleagues are actually training for one-way flights to American battle ships.

Memory & Desire

Niki Caro

Eugene Nomura, Yuri Kinugawa

Sayo and Keiji have eloped to New Zealand to marry, away from the interference of Keiji's disapproving mother in Japan. On their honeymoon, they have the freedom to express their love away from her repressive influence. However, on what should be the happiest of days, Keiji is drowned and Sayo must, by custom, return to live with her cruel and selfish mother-in-law.

CIPHER

Tsuneo Tominaga

Jay Kabira, Elly Narita

Two brothers are in the spotlight: one a movie star making a football movie, the other a musician who occasionally goes to school (to cover for his sibling). What will destiny bring them?

Hold My Hand

Yōko Narahashi

Live action adaptation of the play that actor Imai Masayuki conceived, authored, directed and starred in before succumbing to illness in 2015. The story questions the meaning of living through the lives of people with learning disabilities. Directed by Narahashi Yoko, who also directed Imai's most famous work The Winds of God. Masato (Kabira Jay), who has a mild learning disability, commits a crime to protect his wife Sakura (Nanami), who also has a learning disability. He's at a loss and heads on a journey to Ise Grand Shrine, where he was supposed to visit with Sakura, but along the way he meets Reiko (Sumire), who reminds him of his wife.