Shin Ultraman / Shin Urutoraman (2022)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
As the threat of giant unidentified lifeforms known as "S-Class Species" worsens in Japan, a silver giant appears from beyond Earth's atmosphere.
Starring: Takumi Saitoh, Masami Nagasawa, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Daiki Arioka, Akari Hayami, Tetsushi Tanaka
Director: Shinji Higuchi
What Did You Eat Yesterday? / Gkijouban Kinou nani tabeta? (2021)
Drama | Romance
Shiro Kakei lives with his boyfriend Kenji Yabuki. Shiro works as an attorney and cooks well. He is meticulous and also thrifty. Kenji is a hairdresser with a good personality.
Starring: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Seiyô Uchino, Kôji Yamamoto, Hayato Isomura, Hokuto Matsumura, Misako Tanaka
Director: Kazuhito Nakae
Zero Focus / Zero no shôten (2009)
Drama
Spurred by the disappearance of a newly-wed husband, three women in post-war Japan are drawn into a murder mystery.
Starring: Ryôko Hirosue, Miki Nakatani, Tae Kimura, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Takeshi Kaga, Tetta Sugimoto
Director: Isshin Inudô
Drive My Car / Doraibu mai kâ (2021)
Drama
After his wife's unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku, a renowned stage actor and director, receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima. There, he begins to face the haunting mysteries his wife left behind.
Starring: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tôko Miura, Reika Kirishima, Masaki Okada
Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie / Gekijouban Okusama wa, toriatsukaichuui (2021)
Action | Drama
Spun off from the television serial with the same title, the story begins with Mr. Isayama pointing a gun at his beautiful wife as she arrives home and enters the door. The wife was a secret agent who his this little from fact from her dear husband. Then again, he was a special agent posing as a technology worker himself. It seems marital bonds and co-habitation were not necessarily ingredients for honesty and sharing of information between husband and wife.
Starring: Haruka Ayase, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Kôsuke Suzuki, Kenshi Okada, Atsuko Maeda, Minosuke
Director: Tôya Satô
Silent Tokyo / サイレント・トーキョー (2020)
Drama | Thriller
It is Xmas, the time for shopping, consumerism, gifts, late gifts and of course silly hats. This is no time for a call into a television station with an ultimatum about a bomb in a major population centre like Tokyo. In fact, a video is uploaded demanding a conversation with the Prime Minister or else.. a bomb will blow up. Can the police stop the criminal and avoid deaths?
Starring: Kôichi Satô, Yuriko Ishida, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tomoya Nakamura, Alice Hirose, Kai Inowaki, Ryô Katsuji
Director: Takafumi Hatano
Aircraft Carrier Ibuki / Kubo Ibuki (2019)
Action | Drama | Thriller | War
Japan builds its first aircraft carrier, the Ibuki, to deal with escalating world tensions.
Starring: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Tatsuya Fuji, Jun Murakami, Hôshi Ishida, Shigeyuki Totsugi, Hayato Ichihara, Kinari Hirano
Director: Setsurô Wakamatsu
Penguin Highway (2018)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
A fourth-grader, Aoyama-kun, investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his village, which is somehow related to a power from a young woman working at a dental clinic.
Starring: Kana Kita, Yû Aoi, Rie Kugimiya, Megumi Han, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Naoto Takenaka
Director: Hiroyasu Ishida
The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps / Ningyo no nemuru ie (2018)
Drama
Separated mother Kaoruko who has two offsprings from her estranged husband awaits the graduation of their daughter for the divorce proceedings to begin and subsequently be finalized. That is the couple's agreement. Tragedy strikes when the daughter will never graduate. She is comatose and brain dead due to an accident. The dilemma is whether to pull the plug and donate the girl's organs or await indefinitely to see if an unlikely healing will occur.
Starring: Ryôko Shinohara, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Kurumi Inagaki, Kentarô Sakaguchi, Rina Kawaei, Sayaka Yamaguchi, Tetsushi Tanaka, Min Tanaka, Keiko Matsuzaka
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Oz Land / Ozu Rando: Egao no Maho Oshiemasu (2018)
Adventure
Kurumi is hired at a high-end hotel, but is instead dispatched to work at fun fair that is connected to the business network. The new work is out in the country and there is not much else to do or places to go. The go-to employee is one Yoshiko. Kurumi wants to be successful and valued and is eager to learn from Yoshiko. All is not as it seems on the surface however.
Starring: Haru, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Ai Hashimoto, Amane Okayama, Tomoya Nakamura, Mari Hamada
Director: Takafumi Hatano
Samurai's Promise / Chiri tsubaki (2018)
Drama
Uryu Shinbei appeals his boss's corruption and his appeal is denied. He is kicked out from the han. Shortly afterwards, his wife Shino collapses from a disease and dies. Right before her death, she tells Shinbei, "I hope you go back to the han and help Uneme Sakakibara." Shinbei and Uneme were friends, but they became rivals to gain Shino's affection. Uneme is also related to Shinbei's exile.
Starring: Jun'ichi Okada, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Haru Kuroki, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Kumiko Asô
Director: Daisaku Kimura
The Last Recipe / Last Recipe: Memory of Giraffe's Tongue / Rasuto Reshipi ~Kirin no Shita no Kioku~ (2017)
Comedy | Drama
Sasaki-san is a superlative cook who is on auto-control and can make wondrous meals with nary a thought anymore. In a literal case of last wish on earth, he receives a special request to cook a specific dish. The catch is he needs to discover the recipe of famed chef Yamagata who was in occupied Manchuria in China in the 1930s.
Starring: Kazunari Ninomiya, Gô Ayano, Yoshi Oida, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Aoi Miyazaki, Daigo Nishihata, Yutaka Takenouchi
Director: Yôjirô Takita
Creepy / Kurîpî: Itsuwari no rinjin (2016)
Mystery | Thriller
Takakura is a former detective. He receives a request from his ex-colleague, Nogami, to examine a missing family case that occurred 6 years earlier. Takakura follows Saki's memory. She is the only surviving family member from the case. Meanwhile, Takakura and his wife Yasuko recently moved into a new home. Their neighbor, Nishino, has a sick wife and a young teen daughter. One day, the daughter, Mio, tells him that the man is not her father and she doesn't know him at all.
Starring: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yûko Takeuchi, Haruna Kawaguchi, Masahiro Higashide, Teruyuki Kagawa
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
While the Women Are Sleeping / Onna ga Nemuru Toki (2016)
Drama
While vacationing with his wife, a writer (Hidetoshi Nishijima) begins following another man (Takeshi Kitano) and woman (Shiori Kutsuna) who are guests at the resort hotel where he stays.
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Sayuri Oyamada, Shiori Kutsuna, Hirofumi Arai, Makiko Watanabe
Director: Wayne Wang
Mozu the Movie / Gekijouban Mozu (2015)
Action | Thriller
Lone wolf detective with an enormous personal grievance seeks to connect the mysterious death of his daughter to an urban legend of a villain who terrorizes Japan by insinuating himself into people's dreams and the collective psyche of the Japanese people.
Starring: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Takeshi Kitano, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yôko Maki, Yuriko Ishida, Tôri Matsuzaka, Hiroki Hasegawa, Fumiyo Kohinata, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Atsushi Itô
Director: Eiichirô Hasumi
Poison Berry in My Brain / Nounai poizun berî (2015)
Comedy
Ichiko can't forget the younger man she met at a party. To make matters worse, she has five different characters in her brain who debate whether or not she should reach out to that man.
Starring: Yôko Maki, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Yûki Furukawa, Songha, Yô Yoshida, Hiyori Sakurada, Kazuyuki Asano
Director: Yûichi Satô
Sayonara Itsuka / Saying good-bye, oneday (2010)
Drama | Romance
In 1975, Yutaka is transferred to Bangkok for work. One day, he meets the beautiful and mysterious Toko in a bar and is attracted to her right away. Despite being engaged to Mitsuko, the two begin a passionate affair that ends as quickly as it began. 25 years later, the former lovers are reunited in Bangkok, and their love is ignited once again. Will their love survive the second time around?
Starring: Miho Nakayama, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yuriko Ishida
Director: John H. Lee
Hameln / Hâmerun (2013)
Drama
A former principle (Nagatoshi Sakamoto) lives in a shut down elementary school. The ex-principle lives peacefully there, while repairing the old school. One day, a decision to dismantle the school is made. Noda (Hidetoshi Nishijima), a former student at the elementary school, comes back to town to work as a museum employee. He visits his former school to retrieve articles housed in the school. Noda also has a small secret about a time capsule buried at the school. The time capsule was buried during the last day for the school. Noda meets his former principle and also former teacher Ayako and her daughter Ritsuko (Chieko Baisho). While seeing them, Noda's memories of his school days come back. Ayako lived in a nursing home, but she is being moved to a large hospital in the next town. With her daughter helping her to move, she stops at her old school.
Starring: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Chieko Baishô, Nagatoshi Sakamoto, Kenji Mizuhashi, Hiroya Morita, Akiko Kazami
Director: Takushi Tsubokawa
Team Batista Final: The Portrait of Kerberos / Chîmu Bachisuta Final: Keruberosu no shouzou (2014)
Drama
Kohei (Atsushi Ito) and Keisuke (Toru Nakamura) work with the government and Tojo Medical University as Trinity. The project is to create a new technological system to determine cause of death. They then receive a threatening letter. The letter warns that the Kerberos Tower and Tojo Medical University will be blown up. Meanwhile, a group of people die. Kohei and Keisuke are unable to determine the cause of death through autopsy.
Starring: Atsushi Itô, Toru Nakamura, Mirei Kiritani, Tôri Matsuzaka, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Chiaki Kuriyama, Katsuhisa Namase
Director: Kazunari Hoshino
Genome Hazard / Genom Hazard: aru tensai kagakusha no itsukakan (2013)
Drama | Thriller
Ishigami comes home from work and discovers his wife dead. Just then, he receives a phone call from his wife and falls in utter confusion. Unexplainable things keep happening as Ishigami struggles to find his wife. Gradually, Ishigami realizes all his memories are gone and finds himself acting like someone else. What is his true identity?
Starring: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Hyo-jin Kim, Yôko Maki, Yuri Nakamura, Manabu Hamada. Masatô Ibu, Lee Kyoung-Young, Nahana
Director: Seong-soo Kim
