Hideji Ōtaki

燃える雲

Takashi Nomura

Tetsuya Watari, Hideki Takahashi

超能力者　未知への旅人

Jun'ya Satô

Tomokazu Miura, Mieko Harada

Hikaru, an ordinary man, discovers a way to unleash the supernatural powers hidden inside his soul, allowing him to cure others with his newfound “ki” healing power.

思えば遠くへ来たもんだ

Yoshitaka Asama

Tetsuya Takeda, Shizue Abe

1980 Japanese film.

Tistou les pouces verts

Yuji Tanno

Mami Yamase, Hideji Ôtaki

When eight-year-old Tistou is sent home from school after being unable to stop falling asleep at lessons, his father decides that he will continue his education by learning from observation of real life, and where better to start than in the garden! With the gardener Mr. Moustache, Tistou discovers he has a remarkable gift—the green thumbs: everything he touches grows into beautiful plants. His next lesson is with the stern Mr. Turnbull, manager of his father's armament factory who takes Tistou to visit the town to learn about "order." Over the course of the next few days Tistou learns many new things as he visits the town prison, the slums, and the hospital, and everywhere he tries to change the world into a better place with his new extraordinary power. Finally, he learns about war, and upon visiting his father's factory, he finds out that they supply the two countries at war with their weapons...

Kagemusha

Akira Kurosawa

Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord.

Tampopo

Juzo Itami

Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.

Black Rain

Shōhei Imamura

Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura

Shigematsu Shizuma lives with his senile mother, his wife Shigeko, and his niece Yasuko in a village near Fukuyama. He, his wife, his niece and his close friends in the village were present at the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The Shizumas look for prospective husbands for Yasuko, but find that the families withdraw on finding out she was at Hiroshima.

Tree Without Leaves

Kaneto Shindō

Nobuko Otowa, Ichirô Zaitsu

Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in.

螢川

Eizo Sugawa

Rentaro Mikuni, Yukiyo Toake

During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his upcoming high school examinations. When he was little, he and Eiko had heard that in April of a year when the winter has been very harsh, any couple finding fireflies together needs to get married. However, his family's situation does not allow Tatsuo to continue his worrying about such things for very much longer.

原爆の子

Kaneto Shindō

Nobuko Otowa, Osamu Takizawa

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.

犬笛

Sadao Nakajima

Bunta Sugawara, Kinya Kitaoji

In this crime thriller produced by Toshiro Mifune (who has a supporting role), hard-boiled Shiro Akitsu goes on a relentless search for his abducted 7-year old daughter, with the aid of an Ainu dog summoned by a whistle she gave him.

Kabei: Our Mother

Yoji Yamada

Mirai Shida, Tadanobu Asano

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her two daughters with the support of Shigeru's sister Hisako and Shigeru's ex-student Yamazaki, but her husband does not return. WWII breaks out and casts dark shadows on the entire country, but Kayo still tries to keep her cheerful determination, and sustain the family with her love. This is an emotional drama of a mother and an eternal message for peace.

悪名 縄張荒らし

Yasuzō Masumura

Shintarō Katsu, Hiroko Isayama

About small-time gangster Asakichi's chaotic life in the 1930s. His gambling addiction means that he must not continue working in the family business. Instead he supports himself by arranging cockfights. He becomes ex-geisha Okinu's patron and lover, and falls directly into disfavor with the yakuza.

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons

Kenji Misumi

Tomisaburō Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa

In the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors, each has one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to complete his assassination.

Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion

Juzo Itami

Nobuko Miyamoto, Yasuo Daichi

An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so they can get a contract for a meeting of important foreign officials.

明日の記憶

Yukihiko Tsutsumi

Ken Watanabe, Kanako Higuchi

After being stricken with Alzheimer's disease in the prime of his life, a successful young businessman slips slowly away from his loving family.