Hula Girls / Hura gâru (2006)
Comedy | Drama
Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.
Starring: Yasuko Matsuyuki, Etsushi Toyokawa, Yû Aoi, Shizuyo Yamasaki, Ittoku Kishibe, Sumiko Fuji
Director: Sang-il Lee
I Never Shot Anyone (2020)
Comedy | Drama
Susumu Ichikawa, an obsolete writer with no manuscript at all, had another face – a legendary hitman. But the truth of the matter is… he had never shot a person. One day, he receives a murder request from a friend. Seeing this as an opportunity to achieve the ideal hard-boiled novel, he decides to hire a real hitman and demands that he report to him the assassination situation as it was.
Starring: Renji Ishibashi, Ittoku Kishibe, Michiyo Yasuda, Kaori Momoi, Kôichi Satô, Etsushi Toyokawa, Yôsuke Eguchi
Director: Junji Sakamoto
Lying to Mom / Suzuki-ke no uso (2018)
Comedy | Drama | Family
Koichi is a son in the Suzuki family. He is a hikikomori and dies suddenly. The rest of Suzuki family, father Yukio, mother Yuko and daughter Fumi, fall into confusion. Especially the mother Yuko, who is shocked by her son's death, and loses her memory. Fumi lies to her mother and tells her "Koichi stopped being a hikikomori and now works in Argentina."
Starring: Ittoku Kishibe, Hideko Hara, Mai Kiryû, Ryo Kase, Kayoko Kishimoto
Director: Katsumi Nojiri
Sakura Guardian in the North / Kita no sakuramori (2018)
Drama
In August, 1945, the Soviet Union invaded the area around Sakhalin Island. Tetsu Ezure escaped with her two sons from Sakhalin Island and arrived in Abashiri City, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. What awaited for them was extreme cold weather and famine. They worked very hard. In 1971, Tetsu’s second son Shujiro returns to Japan after finding success in the United States. He visits Abashiri for the first time in 15 years. His mother Tetsu Ezure lives alone there.
Starring: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Masato Sakai, Ryôko Shinohara, Hiroshi Abe, Kôichi Satô, Ittoku Kishibe
Director: Yôjirô Takita
Happy Flight / Haapi Furaito (2008)
Comedy | Drama
A great variety of aviation professionals such as pilots, flight attendants, the ground crew, mechanics, dispatchers, controllers, and the bird patrol crew all support a single flight. They have only one mission: to secure the safety of the passengers! Today was supposed to be any other day on the job, departing on schedule and heading safely to Honolulu, but…
Starring: Seiichi Tanabe, Saburô Tokitô, Haruka Ayase, Kazue Fukiishi, Tomoko Tabata, Shinobu Terajima, Ittoku Kishibe
Director: Shinobu Yaguchi
Recall / The Flying Tire / Soratobu taiya (2018)
Drama | Thriller
Tokuro Akamatsu runs a transport company. One day, a truck owned by Tokuro Akamatsu is involved in an accident. A tire came off the truck and killed passengers in another car. At first, Tokuro Akamatsu doubts that poor maintenance was the cause and he soon discovers a defect in the truck. Tokuro Akamatsu demands a reexamination by car manufacturer Hopu. The company moves slowly in their reexamination which causes Tokuro Akamatsu to investigate the issue by himself. He uncovers a truth that the Hopu is trying to hide.
Starring: Tomoya Nagase, Dean Fujioka, Issey Takahashi, Kyoko Fukada, Takashi Sasano, Ittoku Kishibe, Yasufumi Terawaki, Eiko Koike, Alan Abe, Tsuyoshi Muro, Aoi Nakamura, Akira Emoto, Kuranosuke Sasaki
Director: Katsuhide Motoki
The Projects / Danchi (2016)
Comedy | Sci-Fi
An elderly couple is offered to meet with their dead son by strange people in exchange for herbal medicine.
Starring: Naomi Fujiyama, Ittoku Kishibe
Director: Junji Sakamoto
A Boy Called H / Shônen H (2013)
Drama
Told from the viewpoint of the father Morio (Yutaka Mizutani), "A Boy Called H" follows a young boy named Hajime Senoh, nicknamed "H". His father, Morio runs a tailor shop. With the onset of World War II, their family must endure difficult times. Nevertheless, H is filled with curiosity and a sense of justice.
Starring: Yutaka Mizutani, Ran Ito, Tatsuki Yoshioka, Shun Oguri, Ittoku Kishibe
Director: Yasuo Furuhata
The Makioka Sisters / Fine Snow / Sasame-yuki (1983)
Drama | Romance
This lyrical adaptation of the beloved Japanese novel by Junichiro Tanizaki was a late-career triumph for world-class director Kon Ichikawa (The Burmese Harp, Fires on the Plain). Revolving around the changing of the seasons, The Makioka Sisters (Sasame-yuki) follows the lives of four sisters who have taken on their family's kimono manufacturing business, over the course of a number of years leading up to the Pacific War. The two oldest have been married for some time, but according to tradition, the rebellious youngest sister cannot wed until the third, conservative and terribly shy, finds a husband. This graceful study of a family at a turning point in history is a poignant evocation of changing times and fading customs, shot in rich, vivid colors.
Starring: Keiko Kishi, Yoshiko Sakuma, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Kotegawa Yûko, Jûzô Itami, Kôji Ishizaka, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Ittoku Kishibe
Director: Kon Ichikawa
