Hideji Ōtaki

“A School Behind Bars” centers around Asahi Junior High School, which is located within Nagano Matsumoto Boy’s prison in ...

Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao’s grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a trip Tadao is reluctant to make.

A brother and sister leave the big city to live with their veterinarian father when their mother is hospitalized. As they are adjusting to their ...

After being stricken with Alzheimer’s disease in the prime of his life, a successful young businessman slips slowly away from his loving family.

Shizuka (Mami Nakamura) is a young school teacher. She moves to a small village by the sea, near her own home country. The elementary school she ...

A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents’ own ...

2000 live-action Japanese film.

Tokiko Haebaru, a 76-year-old grandmother living in Nago, Okinawa. She soon embarks on a marathon across Japan.

Based on the long running manga of the same name by Sadao Shouji.

In the 16th Year of Keityo (1611), the lord of Ogura Castle in Kyushu admitted Sasaki Kojiro’s because of his great sword techniques. ...

When eight-year-old Tistou is sent home from school after being unable to stop falling asleep at lessons, his father decides that he will ...

Nayoko, a good-hearted geisha, brings luck to the men she sleeps with, even though most are scoundrels who don’t deserve it.

A former yakuza returns to gangster life after an old enemy threatens his son.

During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his ...

Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electromagnetic cloud for an unknown reason and is ...

Travel into Japan’s nuttiest apartment house and meet its volatile inhabitants: Kyoko, the beautiful and mysterious new apartment manager; ...

Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a dangerous match with the husband of her ...

The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the first Japanese expedition to reach the summit ...

The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokugawa Period, a time in which appearances are very important. Gonza competes with ...

Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he’s reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a ...

When Wabisuke’s father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds ...

In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must come to terms with their nation’s defeat ...

A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a ...

1980 Japanese film.

Akira Kurosawa’s lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order ...