Takashi Kawamata Movies

A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A youth movie starring Miyoko Asada that depicts a cute and lovely 16 years old girl who lives a bright and refreshing life with her purity. She...

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Cast: Mari Natsuki

When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown, so a bevy of lawyers and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Kishi

In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masahiko Tsugawa

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūsuke Kawazu

A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Matsuzaka

A playful short film made in the style of a trailer for a fictional feature film that seems to be a spoof of films that were popular in Japan at the...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yukiyo Toake

In the early hours of April 13th, a five year old hemophiliac child was kidnapped by someone from Tanemura General Hospital in Tokyo, Setagaya. Tokyo...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Mikijiro Hira

One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Kuga

Uninvited guests crash a former student radical's wedding and accuse him, his bride and other guests of ignoring their political commitments.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miyuki Kuwano

A romance that follows the men in the life of Kyoko a Travel Agent working for New Japan Travel Service.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruko Wanibuchi

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Masatoshi Nakamura

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nakamura

After his company goes bankrupt, Katsuji Watanabe resorts to pickpocketing again with his old swindler buddies. However, one by one, his friends...

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Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

Kakumaru (Kiyoshi Atsumi) is an unpopular manzai performer who is too good-natured but has a very bad manners. Moulin, Kakumaru's former partner,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kaori Momoi

A case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train accident.

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Cast: Akiko Koyama

Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Noboru Andō

Keiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura (Kaoru Kobayashi). A mysterious case...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Asami Kobayashi

An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jirô Ishizaki

Comedy about the trials and tribulations of youth.

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Cast: Masahiko Tsugawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noboru Andō

A feverishly perverse 1969 film noir oddity starring female impersonator Akihiro Maruyama. When wealthy Kyohei hires transvestite singer "Black Rose"...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kikko Matsuoka

The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

Rainbow Over the Pacific is a tale of romance that moves from the streets of Tokyo to the islands of Hawaii as it weaves the story of two...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yukio Hashi

Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Tanaka

Based on the comic by Mitsutoshi Furuya

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shinsuke Minami

Two former design school classmates, 21-year-old office worker Kyoko and illustrator Jiro, run into each other on the street and soon begin living...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kaoru Yumi

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

A detective wonders that his sister is a murder suspect.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Komaki Kurihara

Romantic drama based on the manga published in Young Comic.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masami Naka

A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves throws him into a spiral of destruction.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takao Kataoka

Masako, a five-year-old girl living, gets a scratch on her finger. After that, she suffered horrible spasms. The doctor checks on her and arrives at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mayuko Wakamori

This ethereal montage of still images with darkly somber undertones, Yunbogi’s Diary is based on photographs that Oshima took during his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hōsei Komatsu

A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating. Though she survives, the impact of the event...

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Cast: Akiko Koyama

The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to her ending up as a prostitute.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Saga

Two men succeed in opening a joint restaurant after hilarious troubles.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kinichi Hagimoto

Two born rivals plot a new start after a string of ups and downs.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kinichi Hagimoto

Comedy around a motorman and a conductor of a streetcar.

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Cast: Kinichi Hagimoto

A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Claire Denis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Aki...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stanley Kwan

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

Shuhei, a mystery writer, is invited to a dinner party at a country house. The guests include Tanase and his wife Noriko. Next day, Tanase is shot...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Mariko Fuji

The golden duo of Yoshitaro Mura and Kiyoshi Atsumi brings you a full-on comedy filled with laughter and melancholy set in Kitakyushu. Matsujiro...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi