Sumie Sasaki
Empire of Passion
as OdameIn a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a...
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Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
as uncreditedAdapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age...
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The Flowers of Evil
as uncreditedA high school student steals the panties of a girl he likes but is witnessed, which sets off a...
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One Million Yen Girl
as Fujii KinuA 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her...
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Spring Bell
as uncreditedRokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum...
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The Oil-Hell Murder
as uncreditedThe indolent son of an oil vendor becomes a regular customer of a prostitute, racks up a...
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The Insect Woman
as EnA woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect,...
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Pitfall
as ShopkeeperA man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a...
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The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji
as Shizue SakumaReiji Kikukawa, who has a strong sense of justice, graduated from the police academy with the...
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Zigeunerweisen
as Maid at a HotelA surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go...
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Farewell to the Land
as Junko's motherYukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his...
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The Life of Chikuzan
as MaidA 1977 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of shamisen player...
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Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
as uncreditedMichio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a...
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Red Finger
as uncreditedA 7 years girl is found dead in the local park’s toilet. Kaga Kyouichiro, who was asked to find...
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The Serialist
as uncreditedIppei Akabane (Takaya Kamikawa) is an unpopular novelist. He barely makes ends meet writing...
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Tales of Terror: Haunted Apartment
as uncreditedAimi and her father move into an old, apartment building and learn quickly that things are not...
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Gondola
as Ryo's MotherRyo came from Aomori Prefecture to Tokyo. He works as a window washer for high-rise buildings....
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Miracle in Four Days
as uncreditedDvorak's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" wafts through a hospice recreation room. Sitting...
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1778 Stories of Me and My Wife
as NeighborSci-fi writer Sakutaro (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and bank employee Setsuko (Yuko Takeuchi) met at as...
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Children on the Island
as Oishi's motherThe story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that...
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Bad Girl Mako
as uncreditedPatronized by a gang ruling the city, Mako delinquently plays around a night club every night...
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Teacher and Stray Cat
as uncreditedFollowing the death of his wife professor Kyoichi leads a solitary life by the sea. A stray cat...
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A Chain of Islands
as EikoWhen a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine...
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Patisserie Coin De Rue
as uncreditedA disillusioned Natsume arrives at Coin de Rue, a popular Tokyo pastry shop, begging for work....
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Like a Savage
as TamikoYoung writer Tamako, who is wrongfully accused of killing the head yakuza, must find a way out...
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The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
as uncreditedA freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly":...
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Miniature
as uncreditedGinko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one...
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Sayonara Midori-chan
as uncreditedNaive office girl Yuko supports her blithe big city lifestyle with a part-time job at a...
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Blossoms Bloom
as uncreditedWork life for Shunsuke Osaki has been success after success, but at some point his family began...
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Yearning
as OsawaFamed onnagata (a man who plays women's parts in Kabuki) Tamasaburo Bando follows up on the...
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Morning Fog
as uncreditedKyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in...
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Bad Girl
as uncreditedWakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom....
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The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
as Shiota HisakoA man and a woman committed double suicide in Kanazawa City. Immediately after the incident,...
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Blood and Sea
as Kura, Mother of NamiThe Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking...
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Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
as uncreditedJapanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the...
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Juvenile Delinquent: Shout of the Rising Sun
as uncreditedA film about a juvenile delinquent who swears, yet fails, to rehabilitate.
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Eternal Monument
as KanaA remake of the 1953 film of the same name.
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Tales of the Bizarre 20th Anniversary Spring Special: Popular Episode Competition
as uncredited
Tales of the Bizarre: 2007 Fall Special
as Tokiko YasumuraHosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2007 Fall Special" presents five tales. 1....
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Lonely Heart
as uncreditedA police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying...
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A Woman Called En
as uncreditedSet at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison,...
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The Wolves
as uncreditedA group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of...
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Chivalrous Life
as uncreditedIn the middle of the era, Taisho, a big boss in Asakusa Iizuka, was severely questioned by the...
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Shadow of Intimidation
as Matsue NakamuraFour henchmen kill Ryu, the head of a group of dollar buyers, on a dark construction site. They...
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Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
as Yaeko Numata (Episode 1)Anthology film. "What's Wrong with Eating?" Numayama Kazuki is always complaining about his...
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I Love The Sun
as uncreditedA coming-of-age drama based on a novel by Kei Moriyama.
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Momi's House
as uncreditedMomi’s House is a facility to support self-reliance of young people with problems. The facility...
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Kikenna onna
as uncreditedBased on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.
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War and Flowers
as uncreditedJapanese Drama film about the female experience during the war years.
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Oh My God
as uncreditedHana is a nineteen-year old expectant mother. She travels with her grandmother's ashes to her...
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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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A Full Life
as Reiko MorishitaA woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and joins a political theater troupe to protest...
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Tomorrow Evening
as uncreditedAyako is a 7-year-old girl with a dark, tanned face and a somewhat mysterious expression on her...
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Goodbye Elegy
as Akira's MotherMiyama Akira is a movie director in his 60's. In the past, he left his hometown to chase his...
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Okinawa
as uncreditedA group of teenagers grow up in Okinawa amid the protests and resistance against the presence of...
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Onna no Katei
as uncreditedThe drama special satirizes the daily life of a wife with a businessman husband who is busy with...
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My Husband is a Cartoonist
as uncreditedThe 82nd NHK Asadora is Gegege no Nyobo. The story is based on a 2008 autobiography by Mura...
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Kamen Rider
as GrandmaTakeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams...
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Segodon
as Ishi (Kumakichi's grandmother)Saigo Takamori, the hero of the Meiji Restoration, was born to a poor, low-ranking samurai...
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Kimi no na wa
as 角倉信枝A story of a man and a woman who meet amid the Great Tokyo Air Raid in 1945.
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CSI: Crime Scene Talks
as uncreditedSatoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police...
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Atsuhime
as uncreditedThe 47th NHK Taiga Drama is a life story of Princess Atsu, who was born in Kagoshima Prefecture,...
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Rinjo
as 安田明代Police coroner Kuraishi Yoshio and the crime lab team attempt to solve a serial murder case with...
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MIOKA –MY LAST DAYS WITH YOU–
as Minegishi ShizueOne day, Taichi, an ordinary university student, meets Mioka, a girl who is like a storm. Taichi...
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Matrilineal Family
as Kane YajimaA generations old family business is sent into turmoil when the sudden death of the head of the...
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Tokyo Tower
as uncreditedA story about a young man named Masaya, whose lifelong dream is to go build a life in Tokyo....
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Precious Moments
as uncreditedThe drama depicts the daily lives of three women of the marriageable age who are desperately...
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Yumechiyo Nikki
as uncreditedYumechiyo is the madam of a geisha house in a remote hot spring in the San'in region. When...
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Sasurai Onsen Endo Kenichi
as uncreditedEndo Kenichi is rumoured to have announced his retirement from acting. Staff head somewhere to...
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