Ring / The Ring / Ringu (1998)
Horror | Mystery
A reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.
Starring: Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Hiroyuki Sanada, Yûko Takeuchi, Hitomi Satô, Takashi Takayama
Director: Hideo Nakata
The 47 Ronin in Debt / Kessan! Chushingura (2019)
Comedy | History
Following a nefarious plot by Kozukenosuke Kira Takuminokami Asano Tono is ordered to take the blade and commit suicide. he has loyal foot soldiers however. Kuranosuke is one. He vows vengeance and is ready to wield his sword. to enact his revenge he needs funds and turns to an accountant in the fiefdom. Together they hatch a plan. It is time to put the plan into motion.
Starring: Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Takashi Okamura, Gaku Hamada, Yû Yokoyama, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Yoshiyoshi Arakawa, Yûko Takeuchi
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
The Confidence Man JP: The Movie / Konfidensu Man JP the movie (2019)
Comedy | Crime
Con men and con women Dako, Boku-chan and Lichard are professionals who know the angles, vulnerabilities, disguise and planning. They go to work in Hong Kong and are adept at siphoning huge amounts of money from evil characters like capitalists and greedy businessmen and mafia thugs.
Starring: Masami Nagasawa, Masahiro Higashide, Fumiyo Kohinata, Shinya Kote, Lisa Oda, Yûko Takeuchi, Haruma Miura, Yôsuke Eguchi, Eiji Takigawa, Michael Keida
Director: Ryô Tanaka
A Long Goodbye / Nagai owakare (2019)
Family
A seventy-year-old retired school headmaster informs his wife and daughters that he has Alzheimer's disease. They are all concerned, but react differently due to their individual situations. The family watches as the husband and father regresses due to the disease and loses his memory. Interestingly, there are sparkling moments of his life of which the man will not let go.
Starring: Yû Aoi, Yûko Takeuchi, Chieko Matsubara, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yuito Kamata
Director: Ryôta Nakano
The Travelling Cat Chronicles / Tabineko ripôto (2018)
Drama
Nana is the cutest girl. She is also smart and aware of her talents. She has paws and purrs. Her father Satoru cannot take of her anymore and must give her up. He searches for someone to take care of Nana and begins visiting people who may be good candidates. As Nana and her father take trips in their car Satoru meets old friends, meets new friends and his own story unfurls in the process.
Starring: Sôta Fukushi, Yûko Takeuchi, Alice Hirose, Takurô Ôno, Ryôsuke Yamamoto, Tomoya Maeno, Mitsuki Takahata
Director: Kôichirô Miki
Cheap Flight!! / Chiipu Furaito (2013)
Comedy
Miharu Aizawa receives an order to work for Cherry's Airlines from major airline. Cherry's Airlines is a low cost, budget carrier. The concept for Cherry's Airlines is to provide little to no service, all for the lowest cost to the passenger. Miharu struggles with her new job, because she is trained to provide excellant service from her previous company. Miharu begins to feel gloomy from struggling with her amateur colleagues and against the low cost policy of her company. Nevertheless, Miharu works hard for Cherry's Airlines first flight.
Starring: Yûko Takeuchi, Osamu Mukai, Mirei Kiritani, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Reina Triendl, Erika Asakura, Masumi Nomura, Michiko Kichise, Ai Katô, Eiichirô Funakoshi
Director: Satoru Nakajima
No More Cry / Nakumonka (2009)
Comedy | Drama
Two brothers are separated as young boys and vow not to cry at their separation. They are unknowingly reunited as adults thanks to fate. Find laughter through the tears.
Starring: Sadao Abe, Eita, Yûko Takeuchi, Takashi Tsukamoto, Sarutoki Minagawa
Director: Nobuo Mizuta
Golden Slumber / Gôruden suranbâ (2010)
Drama | Thriller
When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Minister's assassination, and on the run from corrupt cops. It's only the beginning of what quickly becomes the worst, weirdest day of his life. But he'll get by with a little help from his friends, who include a famous pop diva, a rockabilly deliveryman, a crippled old gangster, and the world's most cheerful serial killer. Among the many puzzles of this twisty, clever film is how Nakamura manages to sneak a genuinely moving tribute to friendship into the madcap procession of perilous events. No matter what befalls Aoyagi, his friends and parents believe in him because of his steadfast, almost irrational pleasantness.
Starring: Masato Sakai, Yûko Takeuchi, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Gekidan Hitori, Shihori Kanjiya, Saki Aibu, Akira Emoto
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Hayabusa (2011)
Adventure | Drama
May 9, 2003 – The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launches its unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa into orbit. Its mission is to collect samples from a near Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa. Hayabusa is scheduled to make contact with the asteroid in November 2005. As the spacecraft approaches its rendezvous date with the asteroid problems arise for the JAXA staff back on Earth.
Starring: Yûko Takeuchi, Toshiyuki Nishida, Masahiro Takashima, Shirô Sano, Kôji Yamamoto, Shingo Tsurumi
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Creepy / Kurîpî: Itsuwari no rinjin (2016)
Mystery | Thriller
Takakura is a former detective. He receives a request from his ex-colleague, Nogami, to examine a missing family case that occurred 6 years earlier. Takakura follows Saki's memory. She is the only surviving family member from the case. Meanwhile, Takakura and his wife Yasuko recently moved into a new home. Their neighbor, Nishino, has a sick wife and a young teen daughter. One day, the daughter, Mio, tells him that the man is not her father and she doesn't know him at all.
Starring: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yûko Takeuchi, Haruna Kawaguchi, Masahiro Higashide, Teruyuki Kagawa
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
The Magnificent Nine / Tono, risoku de gozaru! (2016)
Comedy | History
It is eighteenth century Japan and the residents of a poor town lead a typically meagre life. Then nine residents, which include Juzaburo, hatch a scheme to improve their lots by running a pawn and loan business with the proceeds being distributed among the townfolk. However, the plan is risky with such commerce and profiteering being frowned upon in a society with a caste system. Based on a novel by Isoda Michifumi, The Magnificient Nine features a cast of well-known Japanese cinema familiars.
Starring: Sadao Abe, Eita, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Yûko Takeuchi, Ryûhei Matsuda, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
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
The Inerasable / Zange: Sunde wa ikenai heya (2015)
Horror
I is a successful writer of mystery-novels. One day she receives a letter from Kobu, a young student who recently moved into an apartment near her university. At night she hear strange noises and scary voices that got her afraid. She pleads I to help her. As a mystery-writer, I smells the ultimate story and decides to help Kobu. Together they uncover the truth about the people who lived in Kobu's apartment before. And it is a dark story full of anger, hatred, murder and suicide.
Starring: Yûko Takeuchi, Ai Hashimoto, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Kentarô Sakaguchi, Ken'ichi Takitô
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Be with You / Ima, ai ni yukimasu (2004)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Widower Takumi lives a quiet life with his six-year-old son, Yuji. His wife, Mio, promised before her passing that she'd be with them again when the rainy season starts. On the first anniversary of her death, Takumi and Yuji comes across a woman in the woods taking shelter from a monsoon downpour. She bears an uncanny resemblance to Mio, but has no recollection of who she is or what she's doing there.
Starring: Yûko Takeuchi, Shidô Nakamura, Akashi Takei, Karen Miyama, Yôsuke Asari, Yûta Hiraoka
Director: Nobuhiro Doi
Cape Nostalgia / Fushigi na misaki no monogatari (2014)
Drama
A story set in a café situated along a small cape and run by an elderly woman named Etsuko and aided her nephew Koji.
Starring: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Hiroshi Abe, Yûko Takeuchi, Tsurube Shôfukutei
Director: Izuru Narushima
Airport 2013 / Daikûkô 2013 (2013)
Comedy
An airplane lands due to bad weather. A family, who rode on that airplane, goes through various troubles and it gets worse.
Starring: Yûko Takeuchi, Katsuhisa Namase, Erika Toda, Jô Odagiri, Teruyuki Kagawa
Director: Kôki Mitani
Strawberry Night (2013)
Thriller
Reiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi) is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko doesn't come from an elite background, but she has risen fast through the ranks with hard work. Reiko than becomes involved in a murder case named "Strawberry Night" due to the mysterious use of those words surrounding the case…
Starring: Yûko Takeuchi, Takao Osawa, Ken'ichi Endô, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Renji Ishibashi, Tomokazu Miura
Director: Yûichi Satô
A Ghost of a Chance / Sutekina kanashibari (2011)
Comedy
Emi Hosho (Eri Fukatsu), a not so successful lawyer, is assigned to the one of the most unusual of cases. Her client is accused of murdering his wealthy wife and he his alibi is that he was staying at an inn while suffering from "kanashibar" (sleep paralysis). The only witness able to corroborate his alibi is the 500-year-old ghost of the Sengoku period military commander Rokubei Sarashina (Toshiyuki Nishida) – who sat on the accused's chest all night long. Attorney Emi Hosho travels to the inn to investigate further. Emi Hosho also falls into "kanashibar" and soon discovers the 500-year-ghost sitting on her chest. Knowing that the ghost is the only witness who can support her client's alibi, she grabs his hand and pleads with him to testify in court….
Starring: Toshiyuki Nishida, Kyôko Fukada, Eri Fukatsu, Hiroshi Abe, Yûko Takeuchi, Kiichi Nakai, Tadanobu Asano, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi
Director: Kôki Mitani
1778 Stories of Me & My Wife / Boku to tsuma no 1778 no monogatari (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A science fiction writer finds out his wife has cancer, and decides to write her a story every day to keep her alive, like a reverse Scheherazade or perhaps to cope with the inevitability of his loss.
Starring: Michiko Kichise, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Ren Ohsugi, Yûko Takeuchi, Shôsuke Tanihara
Director: Mamoru Hoshi
