Bad Lands (2023)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A grifter and her loose-cannon brother get their hands on a massive amount of money, but their ill-gotten gains puts a huge target on their back.
Starring: Sakura Andô, Ryôsuke Yamada
Director: Masato Harada
Godzilla Minus One / Gojira -1.0 (2023)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi
Post war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb.
Starring: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Andô, Kuranosuke Sasaki
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
Monster / Kaibutsu (2023)
Drama | Thriller
A mother demands answers from her son's teacher when her son begins acting strangely.
Starring: Sakura Andô, Eita Nagayama, Soya Kurokawa, Hinata Hiiragi, Mitsuki Takahata, Akihiro Kakuta, Shidô Nakamura, Yûko Tanaka
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu
A Man / Aru otoko (2022)
Drama | Mystery | Romance
Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.
Starring: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Sakura Ando, Masataka Kubota, Nana Seino
Director: Kei Ishikawa
The Great Yokai War: Guardians / Yôkai Daisensô: Gâdianzu (2021)
Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
A battle of Japanese monsters takes place for the fate of the world.
Starring: Kokoro Terada, Hana Sugisaki, Takao Osawa, Nao Ômori, Sakura Andô, Kôji Ohkura
Director: Takashi Miike
Shoplifters / Manbiki kazoku (2018)
Crime | Drama
A family of small-time crooks take in a child they find outside in the cold.
Starring: Lily Franky, Sakura Andô, Mayu Matsuoka, Jyo Kairi, Miyu Sasaki, Kirin Kiki, Sôsuke Ikematsu
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura / Destiny: Kamakura Monogatari (2017)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Not only is Kamakura-based Masakazu Isshiki a mystery novelist, but he is also a good detective himself. His wife Akiko and he are acquainted with all manners of creatures and gods who are of, from or passing through the town. Dealing with and tackling his cases means he can use all the help he can get.
Starring: Masato Sakai, Mitsuki Takahata, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Sakura Andô, Min Tanaka, Tamao Nakamura, Jun Kunimura, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Tomokazu Miura
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
Tornado Girl / A Boy Who Wished to Be Okuda Tamio and a Girl Who Drove All Men Crazy / Okuda Tamio ni naritai Boy to deau otoko subete kuruwaseru Girl (2017)
Comedy | Romance
Thirty-five-year-old Yuji Koroki likes singer Tamio Okuda. He is useless with women in the tradition of films like Train Man or My life Changed When I Went To A Sex Parlour. He works at a popular magazine and has a difficult time with the banter of those coworkers around. There is Akari though and is lovely and flaunting and hence desirable and attractive to Yuji and all men. With love comes misery however as Yuji is soon deep in both.
Starring: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Kiko Mizuhara, Suzuki Matsuo, Hirofumi Arai, Lily Franky, Sakura Andô
Director: Hitoshi Ône
Tsuioku / Reminiscence / Memory (2017)
Drama | Mystery
Atsushi Shikata, Keita Tadokoro and Satoshi Kawabata spent their childhood days as friends. As adults, they meet again due to a murder case. Atsushi Shikata works as a detective, Keita Tadokoro is a suspect and Satoshi Kawabata is a victim. They come face to face with the truth of the murder case and their detested past sealed within their minds.
Starring: Jun'ichi Okada, Shun Oguri, Tasuku Emoto, Masami Nagasawa, Fumino Kimura, Sakura Andô, Hidetaka Yoshioka
Director: Yasuo Furuhata
For Love's Sake / Ai to makoto (2012)
Musical | Romance | Teen
Troubled high school student Makoto arrives in Tokyo to exact revenge from a past incident. He then falls in love at first sight with Ai, a daughter raised in a wholesome family. Around Makoto and Ai are Iwashimizu , who has feelings for Ai and Gamuko , a gang member who eyes Makoto. Also Gamuko's leader, Yuki have eyes for Makoto too. Who will get Makoto?
Starring: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Emi Takei, Takumi Saitô, Ito Ohno, Sakura Andô
Director: Takashi Miike
Asleep / Shirakawa yofune (2015)
Drama
Terako (Sakura Ando) is a young woman without a job. She has an affair with Iwanaga (Arata Iura) who is married. His wife is in a coma. One day, Terako's friend kills herself. After that, Terako sleeps all day long and wakes up only when Iwanaga calls her.
Starring: Sakura Andô, Arata Iura, Mitsuki Tanimura
Director: Shingo Wakagi
Her Granddaughter / A Man's Life / Otoko no isshô (2014)
Drama
Tsugumi Dozono works at a large electronics company in Tokyo. She likes to spend long vacations at her grandmother's house in the countryside. One day, her grandmother passes away and Tsugumi Dozono decides to live in her grandmother's house while working from home. She finds a strange middle-aged man in the house. The man's name is Jun Kaieda. Jun Kaieda tells Tsugumi that he is her grandmother’s ex-student and her grandmother gave him a key to the annex house. Tsugumi, who does not know the exact relationship between her grandmother and Jun, begins to live with him.
Starring: Nana Eikura, Etsushi Toyokawa, Osamu Mukai, Sakura Andô, Tomoya Maeno
Director: Ryuichi Hiroki
100 Yen Love / Hyakuen no koi (2014)
Comedy
Kazuko (Sakura Ando) lives at her parents' home. She rarely hangs out with other people. Things change when her younger sister divorces and moves back with her child. Kazuko and her sister's relationship goes bad, causing Kazuko to move out and live alone. What brings happiness to Kazuko is to watch a middle-aged boxer (Hirofumi Arai) practice at a boxing gym. The boxing gym is located between the 100 yen shop where she works and her home. One day, Kazuko and the middle-aged boxer meet and they begin to live together.
Starring: Sakura Andô, Hirofumi Arai
Director: Masaharu Take
Homeland / Ieji (2014)
Drama
Jiro has come home. His tiny farming village is now deserted because it lies in the badly contaminated Fukushima zone. Nonetheless, Jiro begins cultivating his land. An old school friend helps him and together they plant rice. "It's like slow suicide", says Jiro's friend. Jiro's half-brother, Soichi, who has evacuated with his family cannot believe that Jiro has moved back into the old home. Soichi's step-mother, who is Jiro's biological mother, had never got over Jiro leaving. Suffused with grief and poetry, the images in this film describes life after the nuclear catastrophe. They also tell us what it means to go home when home will never be the same again.
Starring: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Masaaki Uchino, Yûko Tanaka, Sakura Andô, Takashi Yamanaka, Yôji Tanaka, Ken Mitsuishi, Renji Ishibashi, Tôru Kizu
Director: Nao Kubota
Pedaldance / Petal Dance (2013)
Comedy
Four women, who have their own different sorrows, embark on a road trip. They look back at their past and restart their lives.
Starring: Aoi Miyazaki, Shiori Kutsuna, Sakura Andô, Kazue Fukiishi, Masanobu Andô
Director: Hiroshi Ishikawa
Our Homeland / Kazoku no kuni (2012)
Drama
Based on the director's own experience, Our Homeland follows a Korean family living in Japan, of which the father (Masane Tsukayama) decided to take North Korean nationality because of his strong belief decades ago. In 1997, Sonho (Arata Iura), the son of the family who was sent to North Korea under a "repatriation program" with the promise of a "paradise" free of discrimination, returns to Japan for the first time in 25 years to seek treatment for his brain tumor due to the difference in medical technology between the two countries. Allowed to stay for only three months and closely monitored by a North Korean officer (Yang Ik-Joon), Sonho is welcomed and embraced by his family and old friends but his father, who is still sticking to the belief but also feeling guilty about sending his son to North Korea at the same time, while Sonho's younger sister Rie (Sakura Andô) develops the aversion to North Korea and its political ideas.
Starring: Sakura Andô, Arata Iura, Ik-Joon Yang, Kotomi Kyôno, Tatsushi Ohmori, Jun Murakami, Shogo
Director: Yong-hi Yang
Yellow Elephant / Kiiroi zô (2013)
Drama | Romance
Married couple Aiko Tsumari (Aoi Miyazaki) and Ayumu Muko (Osamu Mukai) live a happy and peaceful life. Aiko is bit naive, while Ayumu works as a not so popular novelist.One day, a letter arrives for Ayumu. Because of this letter, the couple become estranged…
Starring: Sakura Andô, Himeka Asai, Akira Emoto, Tasuku Emoto, Lily Franky
Director: Ryuichi Hiroki
Love Exposure / Ai no mukidashi (2008)
Action | Comedy | Drama | Romance
Three emotionally abused individuals from the fringes of society get locked in a convoluted love triangle. Yuu, a Catholic boy searching for true love ends up taking "panty shot" photos of women in public until he discovers Yoko, whom he sees as his Virgin Mary. Yoko, an anti-family, misandrist girl finds that her foster mother will be marrying Yuu's father. Koike, an "original sinner" and the regional leader of a brainwashing cult, co-ordinates a plan to convert Yuu's family to her cult. Under her careful direction, their lives come crashing together in one fateful street fight.
Starring: Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Andô, Yutaka Shimizu, Hiroyuki Onoue, Tasuku Nagaoka, Sô Hirosawa
Director: Shion Sono
