Hideji Ōtaki

Akira, a young, jazz-obsessed drifter, returns to his squat, a ruined church, and finds Gill, a wounded African-American GI, on the run after the ...

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

A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.

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 ...

This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a musical. They would have to pay the overhead ...

Set in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive film tells the story of the wife of a railroad ...

Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami’s assassin fee and one fifth of the information he ...

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

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

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

The year is 1988, and in the midst of recovering from a near-miss with a large comet, Earth finds that there are much worse matters at hand: the ...

In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and ...

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

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.