Hidetoshi Nishijima

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miho Kanno

A writer retreats to a secluded suburban house to work on her new novel. But her attention is instead occupied by her archaeologist neighbor's newly...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Miki Nakatani

When technical illustrator Tony Takitani asks his wife to resist her all-consuming obsession for designer clothes, the consequences are tragic.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Issey Ogata

The prison guards working in penitentiaries where death row inmates are locked up are forced to spend their daily lives constantly facing death.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi

Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

Higashigaito Yutaka is transferred to the Bangkok branch of Eastern Airlines. In three months, he will marry Michiko, a relative of the airline's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miho Nakayama

Two youths meet in adolescence, reconnect as adults, and though both have changed drastically, their love still remains.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aoi Miyazaki

Kotaro and Kuroe marry almost immediately in a Christian ceremony and move into an apartment. Life is completely joyous until, one day, Kuroe falls...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nagase

Six women attempt to make it in current day Tokyo, living their everyday lives the best and worst they can. For them, every little moment becomes a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuka Itaya

Two children, each abandoned by their families, come together in the wake of the Sarin gas attack in Tokyo. Based on the true events of the deadly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hoshi Ishida

The slow collapse of the relationship between an out-of-work actor and his girlfriend.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eri Yu

A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideaki Anno

Young French journalist Ada Servier arrives in Kobe to cover the memorial ceremonies of the big earthquake from 1995. Fifteen years after the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Déborah François

Shuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that his loan shark brother, who had helped to finance...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

A salaryman debates selling his grandfather's land to pay off his father's debt.

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Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

The year is Seitoku 2 (1712), and Japan has a new ruler. But Ietsugu, the 7th Tokugawa shogun, is only four years old. The power vacuum this creates...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukie Nakama

Ishigami comes home from work and discovers his wife dead. Just then, he receives a phone call from his wife and falls in utter confusion....

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

Reiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi) is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko doesn't come from an elite background, but she has...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Yûko Takeuchi

In the near future of a Japan, the ancient 'Act of Vengeance' is revived and professional executioners are permitted to kill criminals by the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuji Tamayama

Suzu lives with Furuta, her fiance, but one day she leaves home without saying a word. She moves into the apartment of her friend Abe, but he has...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kanako Enomoto

On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda

In 1974, during the height of the recession, a Japanese Korean family relocates to Tokyo to raise money and seek better treatment for their ill son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shunya Isaka

Eight love stories start and end in an amusement park.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Miho Kanno

Physician Kohei Taguchi and Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare investigator Shiratori soon become involved in major reforms to the death...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Atsushi Ito

Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

Saori is a young woman struggling to make her way in life. Her gay father, Himiko, had abandoned Saori and her mother years before. Now her father's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ko Shibasaki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

A college senior (Mirai Moriyama) takes a bicycle trip for his last summer vacation. On his trip he comes across drive-in "HOUSE475" and its manager...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

Twenty-something lesbian Chinatsu shares a one-bedroom apartment with heterosexual Kyoko. Although Chinatsu and Kyoko have a passing attraction,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mika Okuno

Lone wolf detective with an enormous personal grievance seeks to connect the mysterious death of his daughter to an urban legend of a villain who...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

Ichiko is a 30-year-old unemployed woman. She meets Ryoichi at a drinking establishment. Even though he is a lot younger than her, she can't forget...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yoko Maki

A married couple living in a house that seems to be inhabited by supernatural beings and beetles. The first of six movies in the Kazuo Umezz's Horror...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

Spurred by the disappearance of a newly-wed husband, three women in post-war Japan are drawn into a murder mystery.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryoko Hirosue

After having narrowly escaped an attempt on his life at the hands of a psychopath, detective inspector Takakura quits active service in the police...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

Kenji and Aya spend their summer days in a Hotel. While she is doing her own thing, he tries to work on his novel. But then a few strange hotel guest...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

In spite of a longstanding tradition forbidding women from working in a sake brewery, Retsu, a young blind woman, challenges herself to overcome her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuko Asano

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Cast: Shinobu Terajima

Naive office girl Yuko supports her blithe big city lifestyle with a part-time job at a neighborhood cafe. Attracted to her manager there, the...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Oyamada

A famous chef who is tasked with tracking down a 70-year-old missing recipe.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazunari Ninomiya

During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct of his leader. Years after, his dying wife wish...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Junichi Okada

Kaede's life is changed when she discovers that she is the product of her father's affair. She tries to confide in Dr. Nishijima, a lecturer that she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aoi Miyazaki

Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have taken their toll on planet Earth. As a result of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yûsuke Iseya

Haruo returns to his hometown for his mother’s second marriage, where he happens to meet his first love Miyuki for the first time in eight...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

A collaboration between Apichatpong and Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto from his album “async”. The people falling asleep in this film...

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Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

Kaoruko and Kazumasa Harima are a separated couple with two children. They plan to divorce once their daughter, Mizuho, enters elementary school. One...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

Kurumi is hired at a high-end hotel, but is instead dispatched to work at fun fair that is connected to the business network. The new work is out in...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Haru

A fourth-grader investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his village, which is somehow related to a power from...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Kana Kita

This is the continuation and final part of Double Face SP, the Japanese remake of the highly successful 2002 Hong Kong film, Infernal Affairs. This...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Fumiyo Kohinata

Two men, a detective and a gang member, infiltrate each other's organization. Soon they find their fates intertwined.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Teruyuki Kagawa

The story takes place over a 24 hour period. In the southernmost part of Japan, 20 fishing boats of an unknown nationality suddenly fire upon and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

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Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

Ryo and Natsu love each other immensely. They are also able to feel each other's pain. Their relationship is troubled when Ryo allows himself to be...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

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Cast: Fumiyo Kohinata

Reiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi) is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko doesn't come from an elite background, but she has...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Yûko Takeuchi

The Japanese government sets up a special task force to fight the giant creatures suddenly appearing across the country. Soon, the squad unexpectedly...

Genre: Action

Cast: Takumi Saitoh

In her search for answers, 17-year-old Haru sets out on a long journey across the country to the town where, in 2011, the devastating tsunami swept...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Serena Motola

Yutaka, tired of his writing job, is asked by his landlord to save his rundown apartment building from demolition by converting it into a variety...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

Psycho-mystery in which two men confront each other over the murder of a woman in Shibuya.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Show Aikawa

Young film star Ken Mihara is about to fall from stardom. His rise as a celebrity is solely credited to his onscreen counterpart, Keiko, who recently...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

NHK TV Special

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hayao Miyazaki

At the end of the TV series of the same name, it is revealed that the husband works for the Public Security Bureau, and their marriage is a cover to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Haruka Ayase

On Christmas Eve, a TV broadcasting station receives a phone call. The caller warns "I have set up a bomb at Ebisu in Tokyo." A contract worker for...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Koichi Sato

One night, as pub owner Sotaro is caring for his sick wife, Shizuko, she asks him to promise that if she dies, he will never remarry. Thinking she is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

It's the year 2023. The development of artificial intelligence has come a long way in recent years. When a policeman gets seriously injured and won't...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Yûko Takeuchi

Kenji is overjoyed when his usually thrifty boyfriend takes him on a trip to Kyoto for his birthday, but the trip ends up uncovering a painful topic.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

Directed by Banmei Takahashi of "New Love in Tokyo." A drama centered around identity, with a half Korean/Japanese man and a hermaphroditic woman.

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Cast: Itsumi Ōsawa

Two holes appear suddenly on the walls of a cheap apartment where a piddling fiction writer, Makiguri, lives. What he wrote fiercely after that was...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Urara Awata

Naruse Uta is a "unique" 13 year old child. She possessed the talent to read sheet music even before she could speak, but has now come to the point...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Riko Narumi

There is a man who divorced his wife. He moved to rural Hokkaido from Tokyo where he lived with his family without running water or electricity. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kunie Tanaka

Hiroto Miyama works with rookie lawyer Honoka Kono on a team that specializes with criminal cases for Madarame Law Firm. Atsuhiro Sada has become the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Matsumoto

***Fushiawase wo Anata ni (We Bring You Misfortune) A woman sees a company called "Fushiawase wo Anata ni" (we bring you misfortune) promoting a new...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Tamori

Army Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda (Nakamura Shido) has been fighting guerrilla warfare in the jungles of Lubang Island in the Philippines with his...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Shido Nakamura

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

It's 20 years later and the Isono family is having a rough time. Katsuo is facing a series of professional setbacks. Wakame is having a tough time...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yuki Amami

Anzai, Mutoh, Hamada, Hagiwara, and Miru are in a car headed to a love hotel used by the Sugiyama Clan for money laundering. This one night only gang...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

A writer (Hidetoshi Nishijima) who has an artistic crisis purchases a stack of diaries written by a teenage girl (Yû Aoi) who is fatally ill....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yu Aoi

The super unconventional lawyer is back! Our new friends are comic book girls! And the biggest enemy of all! The strongest lawyer who manipulates...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jun Matsumoto

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Hiromi Nagasaku

Ayami, who works in the marketing department of an advertising agency, is about to turn 30 and is beginning to think that she would rather live her...

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Cast: Ryoko Tanami

A drama depicting the whereabouts of two pairs of lovers who meet at a cafe at night and intersect. Yamagata, an unsuccessful actor, lies to Yuko,...

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Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

Spanning locations in Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Hokkaido and featuring interviews with cast members and rare behind-the-scenes footage, it captures the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

Three young Japanese drop-outs are comically adrift in New York

Genre: Drama

Cast: Issei Ishida

One day, Shiro's all-time favorite idol Mami Mitsuya suddenly appears right in front of him! Even though this meeting left him excited, his partner...

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Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a...

Genre: History

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

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Cast: Atsushi Ito

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Hiroshi Mikami

Fuyuko (Tomoko Nakajima), begins the film nine months pregnant, but doesn't deliver until her third year, to the bafflement of all around her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomoko Nakajima

Program about the making of the film, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with actors Reika Kirishima, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masaki...

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Cast: Reika Kirishima

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

A romantic drama about a modern woman's thirst for romance. Sawako Fujitani has beautiful legs and is a successful "leg-talent," but on the contrary,...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Mai Kitajima

French-language remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's film of the same name

Genre: Crime

Cast: Damien Bonnard

Suomi, the wife of a wealthy man, suddenly disappears. After learning of Suomi's disappearance, five men who loved her assemble at her husband's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masami Nagasawa