Chōei Takahashi
Tampopo
as SalarymanIn this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit...
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Hachiko
as MaseThe tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno,...
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A Taxing Woman
as Section Manager of Subaru Bank BranchIntrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering...
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Woman in Witness Protection
as Kitamura Team LeaderBiwako is a vain, middle-aged actress who witnesses a brutal murder. Realizing that the very...
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Lake of Dracula
as Dr. Takashi SaekiA young girl suffers a terrifying nightmare of a vampire with blazing golden eyes. Eighteen...
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I Just Didn't Do It
as Masayoshi ArakawaA young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and...
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Heat Wave
as ShiroshimaRin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi...
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Supermarket Woman
as ShinFailing supermarket manager Goro hires the energetic Hanako, his old classmate, to help him...
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A Taxing Woman's Return
as Business EmployeeRyōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure...
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Casting Blossoms to the Sky
as Fumihiko SatoIn the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a...
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Kaza-hana
as Head PriestAn alcoholic civil servant wakes up under a cherry tree in Tokyo next to a bar hostess with whom...
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The Last Dance
as Dying PatientA successful Japanese movie director in his sixties becomes increasingly ill while working on...
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A Quiet Life
as Police OfficerA melodrama about the life of a mentally disabled young man and his devoted sister after their...
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Summer of the Moonlight Sonata
as Major YagashimaTwo soon-to-be kamikaze pilots stop by a local school near their base to play the piano one last...
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Scent of a Spell
as Yutaka TakimuraA young man returns home from the bar only to find a woman who was about to kill herself. Taking...
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Will to Live
as uncreditedIt is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the...
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Sweet Scent of Eros
as KoichiYukie, Koichi and Akira are rogues looking for a place to crash. They move into a house which...
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Fugitive Alien
as RockyAn alien is pursued as a traitor by his own race because he refuses to kill humans.
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The Sylvian Experiments
as Detective HirasawaDr. Hattori and her husband watch footage of brain surgery experiments with Manchurian, Russian...
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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
as Daijiro FurutaThis anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when...
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Love and Faith
as uncreditedSen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal...
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Machi nureta onna
as ChôkichiA woman living alone is visited by her ex-husband. At the same time a young couple who are about...
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Music
as Reiko's brotherA young woman undergoes psychiatric treatment after she no longer hears music and develops...
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Don't Mind
as uncreditedSet in downtown Tokyo, it depicts the activities of a weak youth baseball team, the Chidori...
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Yamazakura, The Cherry Tree in the Hills
as uncreditedBased on a short story written by Shuhei Fujisawa (who also wrote Twilight Samurai, The Hidden...
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Somebody's Flowers
as uncreditedA neighbor dies when potted flowers fall from a balcony of an apartment complex. A man whose...
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Going Home
as MasayoshiHaruo returns to his hometown for his mother’s second marriage, where he happens to meet his...
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Onihei side story: The Final Chapter - The Fourth Wife
as uncreditedInomatsu, a carpenter with a reputation as a skilled craftsman, has a wife named Oritsu. Oritsu...
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Manila Gokudo Wars
as uncreditedShuji Kanzaki, who lives in the underworld of Manila, winds up in a fierce battle with Japan's...
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Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
as RockyIn this second film compiled from episodes of a Japanese TV serial, Captain Joe, reformed...
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The Creature Called Man
as uncreditedA top police-guard, charged with protecting a visiting politician and ruthless dictator,...
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Through Their Eyes
as uncreditedA compelling human drama about the growing social problems and public responsibilities regarding...
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Wakare no uta
as uncreditedRichness, severity and pureness of love is beautifully and sentimentally depicted.
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The Takatsu River
as uncreditedSet along the river basin of Shimane Prefeture's Takatsu River, a government-protected river,...
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A Human Promise
as Takeya NakamuraAn old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the...
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 9 - Ghost Story of the Evening Mist Tower
as uncreditedNinth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
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Kāsan no ki
as MorinoA mother fights to reverse her dismissal from her job as a telephone operator
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Crossroads in Tokyo
as uncreditedA three parts movie following people forgotten by a society that modernizes at the price of...
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Abandoned
as uncreditedThe film tells the story of a man who was washed ashore on an uninhabited island after a ship...
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AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
as uncreditedDetective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner...
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Kogarashi Monjiro
as JutaMonjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned...
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The Road to Red Restaurant List
as Zenyoji Shizuo [Kochin owner] (Ep. 3)Suda Tamio is an ordinary salaryman. He experiences various stress throughout his daily life....
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Star Wolf
as RyuStar Wolf is a Japanese science fiction TV series inspired by the novel series bearing the same...
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Demon Ward
as Ishikawa IsaoSet within a hospital, located on the outskirts of town, mysterious phenomenons occur in...
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Kaiki Daisakusen - Second File
as uncreditedModern remake of the Kaiki Daisakusen / Operation Mystery tv show. A special unit called SRI...
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Marginal Village Inc.
as Hiroshi OnoIn a small village in the Kanto regioin, which is surrounded by mountains, residents and a...
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Ru: Taiwan Express
as Katsuichiro HayamaIn 1999, a general trading company in Tokyo celebrates because Shinkansen of Japan wins priority...
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Ooka Echizen
as Genjiro MurakamiThe reign of the eighth shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune in the Edo period, was notable for the “Ooka...
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