Perfect Days (2023)
Drama
Hirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo, lives his life in simplicity and daily tranquility. Some encounters also lead him to reflect on himself.
Starring: Koji Yakusho, Min Tanaka, Tokio Emoto, Tomokazu Miura, Yumi Asô
Director: Wim Wenders
Small, Slow but Steady / Keiko, me wo sumasete (2022)
Drama | Sport
A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president, who has been her biggest supporter, push her to the limit.
Starring: Yukino Kishii, Masaki Miura, Shinichirô Matsuura, Himi Satô, Hiroko Nakajima, Nobuko Sendô, Tomokazu Miura
Director: Shô Miyake
Detective Chinatown 3 / Tang ren jie tan an 3 (2021)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Mystery
A major crime occurs in Tokyo when detectives Tang Ren and Qin Feng are invited to investigate the crime. A battle between the strongest detectives in Asia is about to break out with bursts of laughter.
Starring: Baoqiang Wang, Haoran Liu, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Tony Jaa, Masami Nagasawa, Tomokazu Miura
Director: Sicheng Chen
AI Amok / AI Houkai (2020)
Sci-Fi | Thriller
Artificial Intelligence has permeated every aspect of planetary life in 2030. Tokyoites experience AI in every aspect of their lives whether medical, finance, transportation or their personal and day-to-day interactions. Many would tell you that AI is indispensable. Yet, as is often the case with technology jumping the gun on ethics and rules AI spins out of control and causes calamity after calamity. The city and the country are in chaos.
Starring: Takao Osawa, Kento Kaku, Alice Hirose, Takanori Iwata, Masahiro Takashima, Sei Ashina, Tina Tamashiro, Kimiko Yo, Tomokazu Miura
Director: Yû Irie
A Forest of Wool and Steel / Hitsuji to hagane no mori (2018)
Drama | Music
When high school student Tomura Naoki met piano tuner Itadori Soichiro at his school in Hokkaido, he could smell the forest from the piano tuned by Soichiro. Touched, the boy decides to work together with Soichiro at his musical instruments store. Naoki develops relationships with many people related to the piano and he meets sister pianists and high school students Kazune and Yuni.
Starring: Kento Yamazaki, Tomokazu Miura, Ryôhei Suzuki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Moka Kamishiraishi, Keiko Horiuchi, Riisa Naka
Director: Kôjirô Hashimoto
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
Outrage Beyond / Outrage 2 / Autoreiji: Biyondo (2012)
Action | Crime | Drama
As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West.
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Ryo Kase, Toshiyuki Nishida, Shun Sugata, Machiko Ono, Tomokazu Miura
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Outrage / Autoreiji (2010)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
The boss of a major crime syndicate orders his lieutenant to bring a rogue gang of drug traffickers in line, a job that gets passed on to his long-suffering subordinate.
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Kippei Shîna, Ryo Kase, Tomokazu Miura, Jun Kunimura, Renji Ishibashi
Director: Takeshi Kitano
The Katsuragi Murder Case / Katsuragi jiken (2016)
Drama
Kiyoshi Katsuragi ran a small hardware store. He worked very hard and had his own family and home. He though he had the ideal family, but his 21-years-old son, Minoru, killed 8 people indiscriminately. His son is now a death-row inmate. Kiyoshi gets violent. Kiyoshi‘'s first son, Tamotsu, becomes isolated from his company‘'s restructuring and Kiyoshi‘'s wife, Nobuko, becomes crippled. Hoshino then appears in front of them. To show her opposition to the death penalty, she is going to marry Minoru.
Starring: Hirofumi Arai, Kaho Minami, Tomokazu Miura, Rena Tanaka, Tatsuya Wakaba
Director: Masaaki Akahori
Four Days of Snow and Blood / Ni-ni-roku / 226 (1989)
Action | Drama | War
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents before the coup was suppressed.
Starring: Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Tomokazu Miura, Masahiro Motoki
Director: Hideo Gosha
Sea Without Exit / Deguchi no nai umi (2006)
Drama | War
Koji Namiki, a talented young pitcher, who had won the National High School Baseball Championships enters university, but soon afterwards injures his elbow. He and his teammates work hard to get back on the field placing all his hopes on a new slow-ball, "the magic pitch." However, the outbreak of WWII wipes out the baseball ambitions from everyone. They join the military and in the navy undergo the severe training that prepares them for death. Death awaits them in a "kaiten" (special attack submarine or "human torpedo") within the gloomy ocean depths, but Koji never gives up his dream of the "magic pitch."
Starring: Ebizô Ichikawa, Yûsuke Iseya, Juri Ueno, Shun Shioya, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yûko Kotegawa, Tomokazu Miura
Director: Kiyoshi Sasabe
Koto the Ancient City / Ancient City / Koto (1980)
Drama
Koto is a 1980 film directed by Kon Ichikawa starring Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura in an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata's story The Old Capital.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Keiko Kishi, Jun Izumi, Yuuki Kitazume
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Temptation of Angle / Tenshi o yûwaku (1979)
Drama | Romance
This story of the everyday life of a couple living together is made all the more powerful by the lead's real off-screen romance.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura
Director: Toshiya Fujita
White Love / Howaito rabu (1979)
Romance
A pimp has an adulterous affair with a Japanese girl who studies flamenco dancing.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Keiju Kobayashi, Kazuo Kitamura
Director: Tsugunobu Kotani
Dances of Flame / Honoo no mai (1978)
Drama | Romance
Takuji spies a house on the hill while wandering on the beach. He is invited in and treated as an honoured guest, especially by the lovely young Kiyono. They soon marry, but as the year is 1940, the oncoming war threatens. Takuji disappears, then returns, then is enlisted.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Toshio Hosokawa, Michiyo Kogure, Michiko Araki, Ichirô Arishima, Midori Kanazawa
Director: Yoshisuke Kawasaki
Take Me Away / If She Looks Back, It's Love / Furimukeba ai (1978)
Drama | Romance
Kyoko met Tetsuo during her vacation in San Francisco. They fell in love at first sight and agreed to meet in Tokyo. However, Tetsuo failed to turn up and Kyoko decided to marry someone else. When Tetsuo learnt of Kyoko‘s marriage, he took up all sort of jobs in order to save enough money to fly to Tokyo…
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Yôko Minamida, Akitsugi Moritsugi, Tomoko Naraoka, Eiji Okada
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Flag in the Mist / Sweet Revenge / Kiri-no-hata (1977)
Drama | Mystery
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead with him to take her brother's case. They live in KitaKyushu which, though a city, she contends that the local lawyers are not up to the job. Otsuka contemptuously brushes her off. A year passes. Masao has suicided in jail, his appeal having failed due to the lack of interest and competence of the local defence lawyer. Kiriko returns to Tokyo, planning revenge on Otsuka for refusing the case and causing her brother's death. Meanwhile, through the actions of a crusading young journalist, Otsuka is informed of Masao's death. His curiosity piqued, he requests the file and reviews the evidence. Otsuka also has an adoring mistress who owns a bar. By coincidence (?), the real murderer is an associate of one of her employees. Kiriko, now working as a hostess in a different bar, is asked by a friend to tail her boyfriend, whom she suspects of cheating. The boyfriend is murdered in the bar owner's flat, and Kiriko grabs the chance to set her revenge plan into action. Kiriko rigs the crime scene to falsely incriminate the bar owner, who is subsequently jailed. Otsuka's mistress out of the way, Kiriko sets out to seduce and entrap Otsuka, against the advice of the crusading journalist.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Rentarô Mikuni, Hiroshi Sekiguchi, Haruko Kato
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa
Love in the Mud / Dorodarake no junjô (1977)
Drama
Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take care of his sickly mother. Family objections ensue as Tamiko is older than Masao, and the two cannot marry in peace.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Ichirô Arishima, Chisako Hara, Yûzô Hayakawa
Director: Sokichi Tomimoto
A Portrait of Shunkin / Shunkinsho (1976)
Drama
Okoto is a rich girl, who was blind since childhood. She has become distant and cold to everyone except her young servant Sasuke, whom she can trust. Without himself realizing it, he grew fond of her. One day, tragedy strikes and Koto was badly scared on her face. Sasuke couldn't bear to see her. In order to preserve the memory of her once beautiful face, he went even to take away his own sight of vision…
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Moeko Ezawa, Akiko Kazami, Hôsei Komatsu
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa
Autumn Interlude / Kaze tachinu (1976)
Drama
The story began in the early summer of 1942 when 'Tatsurou' met 'Setsuko' at Karuizawa. Its love at first sight but sadly 'Setsuko' was pledged to marry a stranger by her parent. She ran away from her hometown and arrived at Tokyo in search of her love one. War erupted then and Tatsurou was summoned to service. As be set foot on a snow-capped mountain before his imminent departure, they promised to each other to press on until they meet again. But, soon she was fallen very ill to TB…
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Shinsuke Ashida, Seizaburô Kawazu, Jûkichi Uno
Director: Mitsuo Wakasugi
