Naoko Ohtani Movies

A portrait of an ordinary family that turns unstable when their frivolous son Shuji returns home after a long absence.

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home...

Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beautiful sister named Akane. He dreams of sending her...

A movie about Yutaka Tani, also known as " Malay Tiger Harimao, " who was active on the Malay Peninsula during the Pacific War

Toei studios last ninkyo eiga of the 70's.

Based on a mystery by Taiwanese-Japanese author Chin Shun-shin. After two elderly men in Yokohama quarrel over a Tang dynasty artifact, one of the...

After making a career-derailing error, political reporter Yohei Iida is reluctantly reassigned to cover the Takushoku University track team as they...

When a neglected wife and her lover poison her cello-playing husband, a mysterious white-haired visitor from South America arrives, plunging the...

The body of Shinsuke Maeda, a wealthy older man, is discovered in his garden. While at first glance it appears that he missed his step while exiting...

A young woman returns to the island where she grew up.

Japanese horror anthology of 4 horrifying tales.

An epic drama depicting the lineage of a military family that lived for three generations before, during, and after World War II, against the...

On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never gamble again. But, that night, Jirocho heads to a...

This is a sad and beautiful story about a father who is a popular comedian and a son who suffered by an incurable disease.

Shuichi Furukawa receives a phone call from his mother. She reminds him that they are moving the next day. The following day, Shuichi takes a train...

Based on the life of artist Yumeji Takehisa

Yumi worked at a small snack bar called Bacchus, tucked away in a corner of the city. Before long, she had gathered her own entourage—three men...

Yasutake Shingo works as a newspaper reporter but his life is stiffled and lifeless. That changes one day when he meets the irrepressible Matsunaga...