Isao Hashizume

A heartwarming tale about the turning point in the life of an elite business man in his fifties and a local train that has been running since ...

In the spring of Genroku 14 (1701), Oishi Kuranosuke (Tamura Masakazu), the chief retainer of the Asano family in Ako domain is shocked to learn ...

The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and was later executed as a war ...

Shinichi and Chikako Ohara have been married for 50 years. After Shinichi retired from his job, he has stayed at home, which Chikako stresses ...

Ohara Koji is no ordinary Rookie. He is the Hanshin Tigers’ secret weapon. Who would have thought that after two major shoulder injuries, ...

The story centers around Mikage, a young woman who loses her parents when young. She grows up in a lonely household with her grandmother who dies ...

One day poison is discovered in the shogun’s food. The brilliant swordsman Mondo sets out to save Japan’s leader from certain death.

A noble samurai serving the Shogun as ‘Kogi Kaishaku-nin’ (Official Executioner) is the target of a plot by the evil Yagyu Clan to ...

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 ...

In this film director Yoji Yamada bows down before his teacher and role model. Yamada was assistant director on Yazujirō Ozu’s Tōkyō monogatari, ...

It is the early 1930s and the command of the Japanese Imperial Navy determines to construct the world’s biggest and most formidable ...

A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present. She ...

Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detective. He is divorced from his ...

A pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside fast food stop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her ...

Mikami, an ex-yakuza of middle age with most of his life in prison, gets released after serving 13 years of sentence for murder. Hoping to find ...