2 Women / Achira ni iru oni (2022)
Drama
The special relationship between a man and two women.
Starring: Shinobu Terajima, Etsushi Toyokawa, Ryôko Hirosue, Kengo Kôra, Jun Murakami, Misako Renbutsu, Gaku Sano, Shôhei Uno, Mitsuko Oka
Director: Ryûichi Hiroki
The Hound of the Baskervilles: Sherlock the Movie (2022)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
Homare Shishio who was thought to be dead reunites with Wakamiya Junichi after 3 years to investigate the attempted kidnapping of an entrepreneur's daughter. However, the entrepreneur dies soon after so the duo ends up on a strange island in the Seto Inland Sea where they come face-to-face with the entrepreneur's weird family members and associates amid a scary legend of a dog which attacks people.
Starring: Dean Fujioka, Takanori Iwata, Yûko Araki, Ryôko Hirosue, Nijirô Murakami, Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Director: Hiroshi Nishitani
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
Step (2020)
Drama | Family
Single father Kenichi has raised his daughter Miki alone for the past ten years, from when she attended nursery school until her graduation from elementary school. Kenichi is currently 30 years old. His wife Tomoko died at a young age and he has raised Miki alone since that time. While raising his daughter alone, he has encountered various problems.
Starring: Takayuki Yamada, Rine Tanaka, Tamaki Shiratori, Misaki Nakano, Ryôko Hirosue
Director: Ken Iizuka
We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous / Usohappyaku Kyomachi Rowaiyaru / We Make Antiques 2 (2020)
Comedy
The central Kansai region of Japan is the setting for the historic cities of Sakai and Kyoto. Noda and Koike from We Make Antiques are back and together for the tea ceremony by Furuta Shigenari who is the master of the ceremony. Enter a mysterious new woman named Shino about whom the two have a feeling.
Starring: Kiichi Nakai, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Ryôko Hirosue, Tomochika, Aoi Morikawa, Toshio Sakata
Director: Masaharu Take
The Confidence Man JP: SP / Konfidensu Man JP: SP (2019)
Comedy | Drama
How much of a role does luck play in a person's life? Some people believe you create your own luck. Kingpin Akutsu Akira relies only on himself to get what he wants. Dako gets a taste of her own medicine when Akutsu cheats her of her money to avenge his friend, who was a victim of Dako's scam. Will Dako give in to her fate? How will she climb out of the rut this time?
Starring: Masami Nagasawa, Masahiro Higashide, Fumiyo Kohinata, Shinya Kote, Lisa Oda, Kazuki Kitamura, Ryôko Hirosue, Miho Nakayama
Director: Ryô Tanaka
Love x Doc / Rabu×Dokku (2018)
Comedy | Romance
A woman visits a laboratory where they are researching a potion for love. Asuka Okada is a popular pastry chef, yet often loses her job and friends because of love. She visits clinic researcher Reiko who creates a special formula for Asuka to prevent her from falling in love.
Starring: Yô Yoshida, Shûhei Nomura, Hiroshi Tamaki, Kôtarô Yoshida, Ryôko Hirosue, Atsushi Shinohara
Director: Osamu Suzuki
Mix / Mixed Doubles / Mikkusu (2017)
Family | Sport
Tamiko used to be a very good ping pong player as a child, but she is now twenty-eight years old and left the sport behind. Her mother Hanako had taught her how to play imposing discipline and regimen, but following the former's death the daughter had felt free by quitting the sport and instead leading an ordinary life. One of her co-workers Akihiko asks her to go steady one day, but soon sleeps with a pretty co-worker called Airi. Having lost her chance with this man she quits her job and returns to her hometown. Here her mother once owned a ping pong club. At the same time, the man she lost has joined the company's ping pong club prompting her to want to beat him. She begins to practice again.
Starring: Yui Aragaki, Eita, Ryôko Hirosue
Director: Jun'ichi Ishikawa
Goemon (2009)
Action | Drama
Based on a Japanese folk legend that echoes the tale of Robin Hood, this ninja thriller follows the exploits of Goemon Ishikawa, who leaves his fighting clan after its chief is murdered and uses his skills as a thief to help the poor. But after learning the identity of his leader's killer – the traitorous Hideyoshi – Goemon sets out on a bloody path of vengeance, joined by his loyal friend, Saizo.
Starring: Yôsuke Eguchi, Takao Ohsawa, Ryôko Hirosue, Takeru Satô, Tokimasa Tanabe, Ryohei Hirota
Director: Kazuaki Kiriya
Flowers (2010)
Drama
A story of six women from three different generations. In the 1930s, Rin is worried about her arranged marriage that her parents set up. Rin has three daughters: Kaoru – who tragically loses her husband in a car accident, Midori – a career woman who becomes shaken by a marriage proposal, and youngest child Sato. In the 1960s, Sato gives birth to Kana and Kei. In the present day, Kana is worried about becoming a single mother.
Starring: Yû Aoi, Kyôka Suzuki, Yûko Takeuchi, Rena Tanaka, Yukie Nakama, Ryôko Hirosue
Director: Norihiro Koizumi
Hana's Miso Soup / Hanachan no misoshiru (2015)
Drama
Chie, who is a recent college graduate, becomes engaged to a man. Her life, however, takes an unexpected turn when she is diagnosed with terminal cancer. The ensuing treatment should render her infertile. Despite that, life delivers another unexpected twist when Chie finds herself impregnated. She is now faced with the difficult choice of risking her own life or ending the pregnancy for which she has yearned. Chie adopts a traditional Japanese diet and puts the lifeline she is given to use.
Starring: Ryôko Hirosue, Ken'ichi Takitô, Yo Hitoto, Mahiru Konno
Director: Tomoaki Akune
Detective Conan: Edogawa Conan Missing Case / Detective Conan: The Disappearance of Conan Edogawa: The Worst Two Days in History / Meitantei Konan: Edogawa Konan shissou jiken – Shijou saiaku no 2-kakan (2014)
Animation | Drama
Conan, who has lost his memories, is dragged into a furore over a terrorist bombing plot, once again alongside the poor actor Sakurai! Unable to let down his guard until the very end, how would the incident conclude?
Starring: Minami Takayama, Megumi Hayashibara, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ryôko Hirosue, Wakana Yamazaki, Rikiya Koyama, Ken'ichi Ogata, Kappei Yamaguchi
Director: Yasuichirô Yamamoto
Key of Life / Kagi-dorobô no mesoddo (2012)
Comedy | Crime | Romance
Sakurai is an aspiring actor who becomes frustrated with his life. Sakurai then decides to kill himself, but before committing suicide Sakurai heads off to a public bathhouse. At the bathhouse, Sakurai then witnesses a man named Kondo collapse and lose his memory in front of Sakurai. On a sudden whim, Sakurai switches locker keys with Kondo and pretends to be Kondo. Sakurai soon finds himself in trouble with the yakuza.
Starring: Masato Sakai, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ryôko Hirosue
Director: Kenji Uchida
Snow on the Blades / Zakurozaka no adauchi (2014)
Action | Drama | History
Shimura Kingo fails his duty to protect the life of the Shogun's chief minister, and spends his life tracking down the assassins. However, all but one of the assassins die before Kingo can reach them. Still, Kingo presses on.
Starring: Kiichi Nakai, Hiroshi Abe, Ryôko Hirosue, Masahiro Takashima, Sei Matobu, Eisaku Yoshida, Yoshikuni Dôchin, Yôichirô Ohmi, Yuria Kizaki, Tatsuya Fuji, Kichiemon Nakamura
Director: Setsurô Wakamatsu
The Railroader / Railroad Man / Poppoya (1999)
Drama
A solitary middle-aged station manager is haunted by troubling memories of his past when he learns the line his station is on will be decommissioned for lack of profitability. He is visited by a young woman, who mysteriously appears to cheer him up.
Starring: Ken Takakura, Shinobu Ôtake, Ryôko Hirosue, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Masanobu Andô, Ken Shimura, Tomoko Naraoka, Yoshiko Tanaka, Nenji Kobayashi
Director: Yasuo Furuhata
Secret / Himitsu (1999)
Drama | Fantasy
Yojiro Takita directs this witty, understated comedy about the clash between generations and the different facets of love. Naoko (Kayoko Kishimoto) and her 17-year-old daughter Monami are hospitalized after their bus plunges off the edge of a cliff. Just as Naoko is about to die, she manages to transfer her soul to her daughter's body so as not to be separated from her husband Heisuke (Kaoru Kobayashi).
Starring: Ryôko Hirosue, Kaoru Kobayashi, Ken Kaneko, Yuriko Ishida, Hideaki Itô, Tomoe Shinohara, Kayoko Kishimoto, Rie Shibata, Ren Ohsugi, Hatsuo Yamaya
Director: Yôjirô Takita
Legal High SP / Rigaru Hai (2013)
Drama
Kazuhiko Kogure, who is a 2nd grade student in middle school, falls off from one of the school's rooftop. There were other male students on the roof when Kazuhiko Kogure fell off. According to the other students there, Kazuhiko Kogure tried to jump to another school building, but missed. Fortunately, Kazuhiko Kogure only fractured his leg and ribs. According to Kazuhiko Kogure's mother Hidemi, the school insists it was students playing around and did not involve bullying. Hidemi though, doesn't believe it, because Kazuhiko Kogure has a fear of heights. Hidemi goes to see attorney Machiko Mayuzumi (Yui Aragaki) and Machiko decides to take her case, but she asks for fellow attorney Kensuke Komikado's (Masato Sakai) help. Meanwhile, the school hires attorney Teshigahara Isao (Kinya Kitaoji).
Starring: Masato Sakai, Yui Aragaki, Nana Eikura, Ryôko Hirosue, Katsuhisa Namase, Kin'ya Kitaôji
Director: Junichi Ishikawa
Orpheus' Lyre / Sakura, futatabi no Kanako (2013)
Drama
Yoko (Ryoko Hirosue) lost her young daughter Kanako through an accident and she grieves heavily. The guilt that Yoko feels drives her to commit suicide in her daughter's bedroom. Yoko is saved, but, since then, acts strange. Meanwhile, her husband Nobuki (Goro Inagaki) wants to get her out of the situation and support his wife. One day, Yoko meets a pregnant female high school student, Masami (Mayuko Fukuda). Yoko becomes confident that the baby the student carries is her daughter Kanako reincarnated.
Starring: Ryôko Hirosue, Gorô Inagaki, Mayuko Fukuda, Shô Takada, Kyôko Enami
Director: Minoru Kurimura
LOVE: Masao kun ga iku! / Go, Masao! (2012)
Comedy
"Love, Masao-Kun Ga Iku" describes the relationship between people and their dogs. Comedian Hideki Matsumoto and a labrador retriever named Masao are selected to appear on the travel corner segment of a TV animal program. Until, Hideki Matsumoto and the labrador retriever Masao become popular, they help each other.
Starring: Ryôko Hirosue, Shingo Katori, Riko Narumi, Ken Mitsuishi, Susumu Terajima, Takehiko Ono
Director: Kentarô Ohtani
Departures / Okuribito (2008)
Drama | Music
Daigo Kobayashi is a young married cellist who played in an orchestra that has just been disbanded. Suddenly on the street without a job, Daigo decides to move back to his hometown with his wife. There he gets a job as an undertaker. He sees himself as a sort of gatekeeper between life and death. However, Daigo's work is despised by all the people around him. But it is through his relationship with death on a daily basis that Daigo begins to understand what life is really about.
Starring: Masahiro Motoki, Ryôko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Director: Yôjirô Takita
