Tsuyukusa (2022)
Drama | Romance
A woman who believes herself to have had an unusual stroke of luck forms a relationship with a man who failed to stop his wife from killing herself.
Starring: Satomi Kobayashi, Yutaka Matsushige, Kami Hiraiwa, Taiyô Saitô, Noriko Eguchi
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama
Tokyo Oasis / Tôkyô oashisu (2011)
Drama
Before she even realizes, Touko starts to run away from somewhere in the city. As an actress in a fantasy world, Touko seems to have lost her grip on reality. Along her journey, she makes acquaintance with people who carry similar issues.
Starring: Satomi Kobayashi, Ryô Kase, Haru Kuroki, Tomoyo Harada
Director: Kana Matsumoto, Kayo Nakamura
Dogs Without Names / Inu ni namae wo tsukeru hi (2015)
Drama
A film maker decides to channel her grief over her deceased golden retriever into making a documentary about people who rescue dogs and cats 'without names' – meaning with no one to care for them. She works with organizations who rescue dogs and cats from being euthanized and sees anew the power of our bonds with these animals and our responsibilities should we opt to care for them.
Starring: Satomi Kobayashi, Takaya Kamikawa, Misato Aoyama, Saori Imamura, Nobuko Shibuya, Satoshi Fujii
Director: Akane Yamada
Sing My Life / Suspicious Woman / Ayashii kanojo (2016)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Katsu is now an old woman who even at seventy three has not lost her penchant for being sardonic and dissatisfied. Upon visiting a photography studio her life and body are transported to that of a twenty-year-old girl giving her the opportunity to make up for missing out on her earlier dreams of becoming a singer, a more harmonious family member and to have more fun than life generally afforded her.
Starring: Mikako Tabe, Mitsuko Baishô, Satomi Kobayashi, Jun Kaname, Takumi Kitamura, Katsuko Kanai, Yôichi Nukumizu, Kôtarô Shiga
Director: Nobuo Mizuta
Pale Moon / Kami no tsuki (2014)
Drama
A mellow drama following the moral decline of a housewife turned bank employee who embezzles a fortune from her customers and indulges in an affair with a younger man. Set in 1994, shortly after the burst of Japan's economic bubble.
Starring: Rie Miyazawa, Sosuke Ikematsu, Yûko Ohshima, Seiichi Tanabe, Satomi Kobayashi, Yoshimasa Kondô, Renji Ishibashi
Director: Daihachi Yoshida
Glasses / Megane (2007)
Comedy | Drama
Taeko an stressed out career woman leaves her stressed out life in the city for an island vacation. The vacation does not become what expected, as everyone on the island are rather strange.
Starring: Satomi Kobayashi, Mikako Ichikawa, Ryô Kase, Ken Mitsuishi, Masako Motai, Hiroko Yakushimaru
Director: Naoko Ogigami
Kamome Diner / Kamome shokudô (2006)
Comedy | Drama
Where are we welcome? On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay with her, and meets Masako, a formal and ethereal middle-aged woman whose luggage has gone missing. The three women work in the diner, interact, and serve customers. A somewhat brusque man teaches Sachie to make delicious coffee, then he returns under other circumstances. Three neighborhood women inspect the empty diner every day; will anything bring them inside? We learn why Sachie serves rice balls; but why Finland?
Starring: Satomi Kobayashi, Hairi Katagiri, Masako Motai, Jarkko Niemi, Tarja Markus, Markku Peltola
Director: Naoko Ogigami
