Yoshio Harada

泪橋

Kazuo Kuroki

Moe Kamura, Mariko Fuji

Japanese drama film.

出張

Isao Okishima

Renji Ishibashi, Yoshio Harada

Still Walking

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Hiroshi Abe, Kirin Kiki

Twelve years after their beloved eldest son, Junpei, drowned while saving a stranger's life, Kyohei and Toshiko welcome their surviving children home for a family reunion. Younger son Ryota still feels that his parents resent that he isn't the one who died; his new wife, Yukari, is awkwardly meeting the rest of the family for the first time. Daughter Chinami strains to fill the uncomfortable pauses with forced cheer.

Pastoral: To Die in the Country

Shūji Terayama

Kantarô Suga, Izumi Hara

A director faces creative block while working on his latest film - a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.

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.

I Wish

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Koki Maeda, Oshiro Maeda

Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will precipitate a wish-granting miracle when they pass each other at top speed.

Tomorrow

Kazuo Kuroki

Kaori Momoi, Kaho Minami

On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of people in Nagasaki the day before that fateful event. It presents the human drama of people's lives, and their feelings of joy and sadness. These include a newlywed couple, an expectant mother, and lovers who must say farewell because the boy is called to serve in the army. Each of these people, like others in the city, hoped to live with their dreams for ‘tomorrow’. But tomorrow never comes for them, as their lives are brought to an abrupt and unexpected end. Knowing how the story ends, in this case, doesn't detract from it at all; rather, it enhances the emotional impact, which is further heightened by the poignant musical score from Teizo Matsumura. 'Ashita' is the first film in Kazuo Kuroki's 'War Requiem Trilogy,' which also includes 'Utsukushii Natsu Kirishima' (2002) and 'Chichi to Kuraseba' (2004).

はなれ瞽女おりん

Masahiro Shinoda

Shima Iwashita, Tomoko Naraoka

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.

二十世紀少年読本

Kaizô Hayashi

Hiroshi Mikami, Moe Kamura

Two brothers, Jinta and Wataru, are raised in a travelling circus. After an accident, Jinta decides to leave the circus and travels the countryside working as a con-man. After a run-in with a local gang of yakuza, he is invited to join their ranks, where he makes the mistake of falling for a boss's mistress. Wataru stays with the circus and works hard to regain its former glory

映画監督って何だ！

Shunya Ito

Kinji Fukasaku, Yoshiho Fukuoka

Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association

9 Souls

Toshiaki Toyoda

Yoshio Harada, Ryuhei Matsuda

After discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track down the key of the universe, which a fellow prisoner known as the Counterfeit King said he had hidden.

Farewell to the Ark

Shūji Terayama

Tsutomu Yamazaki, Mayumi Ogawa

A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among them are two cousins who love each other and who get into a quarrel with other villagers.

祭りの準備

Kazuo Kuroki

Jun Etô, Keiko Takeshita

Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.

柳生一族の陰謀

Kinji Fukasaku

Kinnosuke Nakamura, Shin'ichi Chiba

Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and birthmark which undermine his respect. Iemitsu and his brother Tadanaga become bitter rivals for the shogunate, and the land is split into factions, eventually erupting into warfare. Iemitsu's mentor, his fencing instructor Yagyu, is fixated upon securing Iemitsu the shogunate and ends up betraying everyone, even his own family, in pursuit of the goal.

海燕ジョーの奇跡

Toshiya Fujita

Saburo Tokito, Miwako Fujitani

In Okinawa, a Japanese-Filipino gangster named Joe kills an Okinawan mobster. Joe temporarily escapes the pursuing mob by fleeing to the Philippines, hoping to find there safety and perhaps to link up with his father. He meets Yoko, a saloon girl, who looks after him, but soon Joe's enemies show up, determined to make Joe pay.

The Face of Jizo

Kazuo Kuroki

Rie Miyazawa, Yoshio Harada

Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of 1948, as the ghost of her father visits Mitsué (Rié Miyama). He had somehow learned that she has fallen in love, and tries to convince her to start her new life. But Mitsué obstinately refuses his warm and humorous encouragements : « People were killed in my place. I do not have the right to find happiness », she says.