Kyōzō Nagatsuka

天城越え (Amagi goe)

Susumu Ooka

Kazunari Ninomiya, Misako Tanaka

A fifteen year old boy travels through the Amagi Pass, he encounters some strange people, one of them is the geisha Ozuka Hana. After a murder takes place, the police searchs for the culprit.

ミッドナイト・バス

Masao Takeshita

Taizo Harada, Mirai Yamamoto

Middle-aged Riichi Takamiya drives the midnight bus between Tokyo and snow-swept Niigata, where he lives. Just as the relationship with his younger girlfriend is about to bloom, his emotionally desperate ex-wife suddenly reappears.

ひき逃げファミリー

Toshiyuki Mizutani

Kyôzô Nagatsuka, Mie Nakao

Set in the 1990s, this film uses black humour to cast a sharp, satirical eye at the problems facing modern Japanese families. Hiroshi accidentally hits a young woman with his car and flees in panic. He confesses to his wife, Yoko, who persuades him to keep quiet as his arrest would mean the end for their already troubled family. Their daughter is having an affair with a married man, their son is being bullied and refusing to go to school and their grandfather is becoming more difficult. Yoko urges the family to move the car into the living room in order to destroy the evidence by taking it apart. Hiroshi finally decides to do the honest thing but a series of bizarre incidents then ensues...

バカヤロー！3 へんな奴ら

Tsutomu Kashima, Naoto Yamakawa

Mitsuru Hirata, Hideko Hara

おこげ

Takehiro Nakajima

Misa Shimizu, Takehiro Murata

A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.

眩 ～北斎の娘～

Taku Katô

Aoi Miyazaki, Ryuhei Matsuda

Oei, later known as Katsushika Oi, was born the third daughter of Edo’s talented painter Katsushika Hokusai and his second wife Koto. Although Oei became the wife of a town painter for a time, her love of the paintbrush more than her husband spelt disaster and she comes back home to Hokusai from the family she had married into. This is how Oei starts to help her father out in his painting of the “insurmountable high wall”. Meanwhile, Oei can only talk to the painter Ikeda Zenjiro, who is her father’s student, about her pain and worries. Zenjiro has taken Edo by storm as Keisai Eisen, the master of ukiyo-e portraying beautiful women. He visits regularly because he admires Hokusai and secretly likes Oei although their relationship is like childhood friends. Oei respects her father whose paintings fascinated her and continues to work as a painter who supports him behind the scenes. When Hokusai’s masterpiece Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji was completed, she was also by his side.

ザ・中学教師

Hideyuki Hirayama

Kyôzô Nagatsuka, Tomoko Fujita

The story of an unconventional teacher facing up to his unruly and apathetic class.

笑う蛙

Hideyuki Hirayama

Kyôzô Nagatsuka, Nene Otsuka

A woman has a fine life with rewarding work, a nice house, and a serious boyfriend in the lowlands of Japan. In walks her long lost husband who years ago disappeared and abandoned her. The wife allows her lost husband to secretly live in her house. More specifically, he lives in the wife's closet. The closet has a peep hole, so he does nothing day and night but watch his wife live her life.

あなたへ

Yasuo Furuhata

Ken Takakura, Yūko Tanaka

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 for him at the post office before she died.

ぼくたちの家族

Yuya Ishii

Satoshi Tsumabuki, Mieko Harada

The emotional journey of a four-member family that fails to recognize that it is rapidly growing apart until the mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

絵の中のぼくの村

Yōichi Higashi

Mieko Harada, Keigo Matsuyama

Tells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Includes the boys relationships with their schoolteacher mother, civil servant father, elderly landlord, a rough new boy at the school, and three mysterious spirits in the form of old women.

遠い一本の道

Sachiko Hidari

Hisashi Igawa, Sachiko Hidari

Set in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive film tells the story of the wife of a railroad worker in the northern part of Japan. The ferocious local class restrictions work to keep her husband in his place, as does his lack of education.

瀬戸内ムーンライト・セレナーデ

Masahiro Shinoda

Kyôzô Nagatsuka, Michiko Hada

After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his brother after World War II.

cfガール

Izo Hashimoto

Masanori Sera, Saki Takaoka

The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Takashi Kitajima.

恋と花火と観覧車

Hakaru Sunamoto

Kyôzô Nagatsuka, Nanako Matsushima

Morihara was left a widower 8 years ago when his wife passed away. He attends his first mixer party under the guidance of his daughter. There he meets Fumika and starts conversation. Morihara is too shy to show his love since he is much older than Fumika. On learning that Fumika goes to England to study about English Tea, Morihara rushes to the airport but his effort is in vain. He takes out his dead wife's photo and consults her: "I love Fumika, what should I do?"

ひまわり ~沖縄は忘れない、あの日の空を~

Yoshihiro Oikawa

Kyôzô Nagatsuka, Kenta Suga

After an American helicopter crashes into a classroom in Okinawa International University, student Ryuichi is compelled to write a report on a similar accident 52 years ago, in 1959, when an American jet fighter crashed into his grandfather's elementary school. He also plans to hold a peace concert.