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
I Shall Live by Myself / Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone / Ora Ora de Hitori Igumo (2020)
Family
Momoko is a woman who is seventy-five-years old and lives alone. She lives in Tokyo, but was not born there having arrived there over fifty years ago. She had met a nice man, been proposed to and accepted. She gave birth to two children before her husband had died. She was alone again until finding her way into a library one day. She soon found solace and companionship in the books and her life was changed. This is her journey.
Starring: Yûko Tanaka, Yû Aoi, Masahiro Higashide, Gaku Hamada, Munetaka Aoki, Kankurô Kudô
Director: Shûichi Okita
One Night / Over Night / Hitoyo (2019)
Drama | Family
Koharu's children are torn apart and live independent of one another. Years pass and the family reunites. They each have a story to tell. One was so affected he can not articulate himself well. Another is a writer, but is not working anywhere steadily. Another is a hostess at a club and entertains the guests. They have not forgotten what happened years ago.
Starring: Takeru Satoh, Ryôhei Suzuki, Mayu Matsuoka, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Yûko Tanaka
Director: Kazuya Shiraishi
The Island of Cats / Neko to jiichan (2019)
Drama
A seventy-year-old widowed man named Daikichi lives on a small island with his beloved pet cat. He is a local, a native, enjoys his home and spending time with that cat and old friends. His own son has done what many local youngsters have. The son has moved to Tokyo. However, change is eternal and friends are dying of old age, the environment is changing and old age creeps up and makes folk infirm. The old man has to contend with this change.
Starring: Shinosuke Tatekawa, Ko Shibasaki, Kaoru Kobayashi, Yûko Tanaka, Tasuku Emoto, Guin Poon Chaw, Takashi Yamanaka, Shôno Hayama
Director: Mitsuaki Iwagô
Amagi Pass / Amagi goe (1983)
Drama
Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A mysterious murder took place afterwards, an Ozuka was held responsible. 40 years later, the boy, who became a printing shop owner, was visited by a retired policeman who came from Amagi Pass. The truth then started to reveal itself.
Starring: Tsunehiko Watase, Yûko Tanaka, Mikijirô Hira, Yôichi Ito, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Kenzo Kaneko, Ichirô Ogura
Director: Haruhiko Mimura
The Backwater / Tomogui (2013)
Drama
Set in 1989 in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, 17-year-old Tooma (Masaki Suda) lives with his father and his father's lover. Tooma witnesses his father's sadistic behavior towards his lover and, soon, Tooma finds himself following in his father's footsteps.
Starring: Masaki Suda, Misaki Kinoshita, Yukiko Shinohara, Ken Mitsuishi, Yûko Tanaka
Director: Shinji Aoyama
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
Princess Mononoke / Mononoke-hime (1997)
Adventure | Animation | Fantasy
While fighting to save his village from the attack of a demon-god, Ashitaka comes in contact with it and is inflicted with a deadly curse. In his search for a cure he is forced to leave his village forever and journey to the forest inhabited by animal gods. There he finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and a village led by Lady Eboshi.
Starring: Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yûko Tanaka, Kaoru Kobayashi, Masahiko Nishimura, Tsunehiko Kamijô
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Anata e / Dearest (2012)
Drama
A prison officer hands in his resignation after his wife's death, to drive to the port where she wants her ashes scattered at sea.
Starring: Ken Takakura, Yûko Tanaka, Kôichi Satô, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Kimiko Yo, Haruka Ayase, Takahiro Miura
Director: Yasuo Furuhata
Tales from Earthsea (2006)
Adventure | Animation | Anime | Fantasy
A prince sets out on a magical journey and discovers wizards, witches, dragons and self-knowledge.
Starring: Junichi Okada, Aoi Teshima, Bunta Sugawara, Yûko Tanaka, Teruyuki Kagawa, Jun Fubuki, Timothy Dalton, Willem Dafoe, Mariska Hargitay
Director: Goro Miyazaki
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