Nenji Kobayashi

The story centers on a man who loves movies, having once worked at movie studio in pursuit of his dreams, surrounded by great directors and ...

When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time to the world inside the screen.

Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new ...

A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of violence.

Nobuko works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On August 9, 1948, her son appears in front of ...

An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.

Ginko’s younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times ...

Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave ...

A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband’s honor.

In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist ...

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei ...

A widow who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins attending a technical college to gain new qualifications. She ...

Also known as: For My Daughter’s 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother’s suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them, for ...

A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad ...

When a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain whether he will ever escape the shadow of his ...

Joji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grizzly murder of an Okinawa woman. As he probes deeper ...

Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two young sons, whose names he has had tattooed ...

A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled “island closest to heaven” that her late father had told her about.

Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his ...

A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with ...