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 ...

The only movie theater on the Onomichi seafront is about to close its doors. Its last night of screenings will be an all-night marathon of ...

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

Nobuko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On August 9, 1948, her son ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Following her mother’s suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them.

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 ...

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 ...

The burned remains of a young woman discovered in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The police comes to the conclusion that its the work of a pyromaniacal serial ...

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

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