Kazuko Yoshiyuki
When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded...
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When Marnie Was There
as Nanny (voice)Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally...
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Kikujiro
as Masao's GrandmotherBrash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is...
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Departures
as Tsuyako YamashitaDaigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small...
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Empire of Passion
as SekiIn a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a...
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Cyborg She
as Jiro's grandmaA lonely university student develops a romance with a beautiful interesting woman, who turns out...
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Taboo
as uncreditedSet during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young...
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Premonition
as Satoko MikoshibaWhile stopped at a roadside phone booth for transmitting his work through the Internet to the...
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Juvenile Wife
as Michi - Etsuko's SupervisorA newlywed wife suffers the consequences for her husband’s actions when he cheats a customer at...
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Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura
as Yuko SetoSet in an alternate universe, the ancient capital of Kamakura is a vibrant town where...
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What a Wonderful Family! 2
as Tomiko HirataSeveral years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a...
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Double Bed
as Woman in BarKato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a...
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Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
as Aya TokunagaLady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to...
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The Little House
as Mrs. KonakaFollowing the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers,...
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Tokyo Family
as Tomiko HirayamaAn elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied...
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The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
as Hideyo TamuraIn 2012, Atsuya and his 2 childhood friends do something bad and run into an old general store....
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Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
as WifeThe blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a...
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Amagi Pass
as Kenzo's motherJapan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha...
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Brighter Days
as Sae's friendSaho Takahashi, capable but a disillusioned nurse, has lost all motivation for her job working...
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Yudo: The Way of the Bath
as Takako HoriiTwo estranged brothers inherit Marukin Hot Springs, a small-town bathhouse. One sees it as an...
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Snowland Revisited
as Hotel owner KikueKunio Shibano was bankrupted. He visits a snowland spa area to commit suicide. But he meets...
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Love Story
as uncreditedTBS Wednesday Drama Special about a young assistant in love with an older man who works as a...
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Photograph of Memories
as uncreditedA frustrated young woman returns from Tokyo to her hometown in Toyama where she meets an old...
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What a Wonderful Family!
as Tomiko HirataA husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife...
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Glory to the Filmmaker!
as MaidTakeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a...
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Jungle Block
as Sakiko TozakiA young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted...
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Kiri ni Kieta Hito
as uncreditedThe movie depicts the complicated romantic feelings of a woman who is attracted to a man other...
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Chizuko's Younger Sister
as Mariko's MotherThe Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a...
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Black Strait
as Chisako KayamaNewly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new...
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Leonie
as KikuIn the lush tradition of the glorious films of Merchant and Ivory, comes the true life story of...
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The Last Three Times We'll Meet
as uncreditedA love story woven by a loveless mistrust girl, Kaede Tamaki who works for a small video...
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What a Wonderful Family! 3
as Tomiko HirataAt the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one...
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The Sleeping Beast Within
as Keiko UekiWhen a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires...
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The Forest of Wool and Steel
as Kiyo TomuraHigh school student Naoki Tomura grew up in a remote area in Hokkaido. He meets piano tuner...
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Lily Festival
as Rie MiyanoSachi Hamano's Yurisai (Lily Festival) is about a man (Mickey Curtis) in his seventies who comes...
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The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor
as ToshieA lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time...
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Immoral Affairs
as uncreditedImmoral Affairs (Fukigen na kajitsu) is a Japanese film made in 1997 and directed by Katsuo...
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House of Sleeping Beauties
as Yasuko EgushiAbout an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized...
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It's a Beautiful Life - Irodori
as Kaoru tokumotoA group of elderly women come together to sell vegetable leaves.
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The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
as KyôkoA crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang...
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The Street of Desire
as Kazuko YamaguchiA valet at a fancy nightclub hatches a plot to punish those responsible for his father's death.
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Crossroads
as uncreditedDomestic drama focusing on a soon to be retired train driver and his wife.
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Oración
as uncreditedSet on a quiet ranch in Hokkaido. One day, a colt is born from a legendary bloodline. It is...
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Gold Woman
as Fusae TamuraA female career banker shatters the glass ceiling of a mega bank by disclosing its shady...
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The Hidden Trail of the Beasts
as TrainerA star tennis player takes revenge on the blackmailers out to ruin his athletic career.
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The Armed Organization
as uncreditedViolent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji...
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Bewitched in Tokyo SP
as uncreditedChristmas Special following the series.
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The Age of Our Own
as uncreditedMinami Yasuo, a college student, lives with Yuriko who has become the mistress of a foreigner...
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The Song of Love
as uncreditedHeartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her...
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Hold Me and Kiss Me
as uncreditedKeiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As...
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Gun Demon Without Form
as uncreditedA detective drama that realistically shows the work of an experienced detective who, under...
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Chase That Man
as uncreditedThe story of the desperate struggle between the police and a large crime syndicate.
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Teenage Wolf
as uncreditedIn the bustle of the city, on the corners of neon streets, the eyes of a wild beast are fixed on...
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A Killer Without a Grave
as Mitsu NagayamaNakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money...
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Riding the Metro
as uncreditedShinji (Shinichi Tsutsumi) steps out of a train station to find himself transported back to 1964.
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One Who Died in Vain
as uncreditedAfter returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home.
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Shutsugeki
as uncreditedAn original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango”...
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Nemuremitsu
as uncreditedOmnibus about three actresses from different generations
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The Seven Chefs
as Shoko HikagéTraveling chef Ryuji is called back to Tokyo to help save his late teacher’s restaurant. With...
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Granny Gabai
as Ba-chanGabai Granny is based on the bestseller Saga No Gabai Baachan (Gabai Granny from Saga), which is...
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Kidnapping Blues
as Bar MamaA man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to...
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Sosuke Loses His Lover
as ShinoKoji Wakamatsu adapted Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the...
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Time Never Stops
as Nami SaigoA family that was severely damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake that struck in March 2011,...
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Cinematic Liars of Asahi-za
as Hideko MatsuyamaMovie theater Asahiza has existed for almost a 100 years in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture....
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Foundry Town
as Woman WorkerSet in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families...
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Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi - Special 1
as uncreditedThe first special of the Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi drama series.
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Kids
as uncreditedA girl whose younger brother as well as her lover were killed is drawn with a pistol in her hand.
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A Heartful of Love
as uncreditedHiroshi, a 30 year-old businessman, has traveled back in time 20 years. He encounters Kazumi, a...
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Heaven Sent
as uncreditedSayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously...
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Tale on Tokai Chivalry
as uncreditedThe film is set in Fukagawa in the early Showa period and depicts a fateful confrontation...
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The Days of No Return
as uncreditedThe story of a high school boy (Toshiyuki Nagashima) in Tokyo returning to his home town of...
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MacArthur's Children—Part II
as uncreditedA continuation of the story of the postwar years in the Japanese Inland Sea. Now a decade has...
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Remembrance
as Mrs. YamaokiThe Yamaoki family moved from Kyoto to Tosa around the turn of the '50s; local school teacher...
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Baby, Baby, Baby!
as Sae Hiratsuka30 year old Yoko Sasaki (Arisa Mizuki) works diligently at a publishing company. She then...
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Yoshiko & Yuriko
as uncreditedBased on a true story, Yoshiko and Yuriko relates the journey and great love affair of Yoshiko,...
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Diamonds in the Sand
as uncreditedYoji, a divorced and demoted Japanese man, chooses to head to Manila, believing that nobody is...
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Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers
as uncreditedAfter the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its...
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Kamataki
as Kariya SenseiTwenty-three-year-old Ken has difficulty coping with the death of his father. His mother send...
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Secret Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secret Leak Incident
as uncreditedTV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to...
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Translucent Tree
as uncreditedTranslucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care...
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That Guy and I
as uncreditedAsada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's...
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Making of "Departures"
as HerselfA documentary about the making and shooting of Yojiro Takita’s ‘Departures’ (2008)
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Eigo ni yowai otoko azuma wa azuma, nishi wa nishi
as uncredited1962 Japanese movie
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A World Without Cherry Blossoms
as Keizo's wifeSaki, a high school girl who always skips classes, works part-time as a life adviser.
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Free and Easy 15
as uncreditedHama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company...
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Eien no 1/2
as uncreditedAn unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle...
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Long Wedding Road! Tokyo vs. Osaka Wakeari Kon Monogatari
as uncredited
Codename: Tomoko
as Hana InabuAn action in which a former CIA female operative captures a revenge drama that unfolds against a...
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In Search of a Lost Writer: Wandering in the World of the Seventh Sense
as ShoguminoA drama depicting the world of the female writer Midori Osaki in three parts: the dramatic...
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Sea of Wonders
as uncreditedA photographer is lost in a storm and washes up on an isolated island, where he meets a vampire...
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Going Home
as Haruo's motherHaruo returns to his hometown for his mother’s second marriage, where he happens to meet his...
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Maiko's Visit to Tokyo
as uncreditedA youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in...
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Golden Partners
as Yoshie MoriA motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's...
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The Love and Death of Kaoru Mitarai
as Kaoru MitaraiAfter she drives drunk and hits an old woman, a famous novelist is threatened with a law suit by...
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Kokoro no sanmyaku
as uncreditedA film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific...
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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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The Landlady
as Yukiko KawashimaLooks back 20 years into the past of an elderly woman who died of heatstroke and paints a...
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Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning 3
as uncreditedThe third work of the popular series depicting the famous detective Kyosuke Kozu. Blind...
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Valley of Dreams
as uncreditedA laid-off designer returns to her home town after five years away.
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Saijo katagi
as SachikoSet in an old merchant house in Kyoto, the film traces the passing of an era through the story...
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In the Cellar
as OshizuThe mysterious relationship between a breast-sick sister who lives in a warehouse and the...
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The Book Peddler
as Tome MiyoshiSuzume Akamatsu works at a library in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture. She delivers books by riding a...
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I Hear the Whistle
as Teacher MotohashiTells of the feelings and sufferings of a young girl with an incurable paralytic disease.
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CF Guretai
as uncreditedSoutaro Nagare is an assistant at a commercial film production company. However, one day at the...
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あとかたの街〜12歳の少女が見た戦争〜
as おざわあい / OZAWA AiYuki Ozawa is approaching her 50's and she has now began working on her first serialized manga....
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O-higara mo yoku, go-shusho sama
as uncreditedWhile Kazuo Tanaka eagerly practices his greetings for the big wedding the next day, his first...
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Looking for Anne
as AnriA Japanese teenager embarks on a quest to find the Canadian lover of her grandmother.
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SMAP×SMAP
as Bistro GuestSMAP×SMAP was an ongoing weekly Japanese variety show on Kansai TV and Fuji TV starring the...
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Leave It to the Nurses
as Maako NemotoThe drama follows Asakura who is training to be a nurse and believes that nursing is the only...
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Dollhouse
as Sakurai MasakoThis group of sexy, fresh and lively girls pursues dance and action with fervor and irresistible...
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Bewitched In Tokyo
as Sayo MatsuiArisa is fascinated by humans. So much so that she leaves the magic world. But the broom she...
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Going My Home
as Toshiko TsuboiRyota, a timid salaryman who has difficulties fitting in at home and work has his average life...
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The Mirror of Janus
as Mihoko KawamotoThe series is about a girl suffering from multiple personality disorder.
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The End of the World
as Sunada YukoMaria is in need of money. Because her day-time job doesn't pay enough, she works at night at a...
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Shinigami-kun
as uncreditedShinigami-kun, alias grim reaper #413, is a rookie who pronounces the death of those scheduled...
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Onichan no Sentaku
as uncreditedDespite being transferred to an obscure department, the main character of this family drama...
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Why I borrowed money from her
as uncreditedKunihiko Yamanobe, played by Hiroyuki Sanada, owes money to Yuki Tachibana, played by Kyoko...
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The Ice Wall
as uncreditedTwo mountaineers fall in love with the same woman. When one of the men plunges to his death,...
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Starman: A Love Story
as Miyo KashiwaraSawako (Ryoko Hirosue) was dumped by her husband and since then she has raised her three sons...
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Shinjuku Shark
as uncreditedHard-boiled suspense drama series about a detective feared as the "Shinjuku Shark" who bravely...
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Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi
as uncreditedThrough the lives of people aging in a seaside retirement home, the drama depicts the aging...
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The Tragedy of M
as uncreditedEver since his boyhood experience with a burglar in his house, Mamoru has made security a major...
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Et Alors
as uncreditedBased on book by Watanabe Junichi (渡辺淳一). Takafumi Kurusu, who is a qualified doctor, has...
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