Masayuki Suō

Shall We Dance?

Masayuki Suo

Koji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari

A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves ballroom dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.

それでもボクはやってない

Masayuki Suo

Ryô Kase, Asaka Seto

A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all the while insisting that he is innocent.

シコふんじゃった。

Masayuki Suo

Masahiro Motoki, Misa Shimizu

A college senior, Shuhei, is blackmailed by a professor into joining the school's sumo team. He is aided by a group of misfits who must team together to defeat their rivals or face disgrace and the disbandment of the sumo club.

ファンシイダンス

Masayuki Suo

Masahiro Motoki, Honami Suzuki

Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline, he learns to adjust. Then his girlfriend shows up, enticing him to return to his rock 'n' roll roots.

終の信託

Masayuki Suo

Tamiyo Kusakari, Koji Yakusho

Shinzo Egi is an asthma sufferer who does not want to be place on life support. As a last request, Shinzo Egi asks his doctor Ayano Orii if she could follow his wish. Doctor Ayano Orii is then questioned in a criminal case because of her decision.

Ohaka to rikon

Ryō Iwamatsu

Kaoru Kobayashi, Yoshiko Tanaka

Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with bored housewife Atsuko. When Atsuko makes a male friend at her leather-working class, Yoshinori has a fit. This is on top of the myriad of odd clients that he must appease.

東京日和

Naoto Takenaka

Naoto Takenaka, Miho Nakayama

This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki.

カツベン！

Masayuki Suo

Ryō Narita, Yuina Kuroshima

Set at a movie theater in a small village around 100 years ago. Silent films are play at the movie theater. A young man aspires to become a benshi, a performer that provides live narration to silent films.

ダンシング・チャップリン

Masayuki Suo

Tamiyo Kusakari, Luigi Bonino

舞妓はレディ

Masayuki Suo

Mone Kamishiraishi, Hiroki Hasegawa

Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed for lack of references, Haruko's strong accent intrigues a linguistics professor, who undertakes to coach her.

変態家族 兄貴の嫁さん

Masayuki Suo

Ren Osugi, Miki Yamaji

The film tells a story about a woman and her relationship with the family of her husband's, in particular her husband's younger brother and father-in-law. Her husband, on the other hand, has an affair with a dominatrix and is obsessed in S&M games.

神田川淫乱戦争

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Usagi Asô, Makoto Yoshino

Two sexually energized young women who live in a high-rise apartment building happen one day to spy from their window a mother and son making love in the apartment across from theirs. They decide to stage a rescue attempt to free him and in the process one of the young women ends up falling in love with the son despite having a boyfriend and enjoying sex with her female companion. Of course, the mother they are warring against has her own plans when she feels her privacy invaded.