Rie Miyazawa

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Rie Miyazawa is a Japanese actress and former teen idol. She is regarded as one of Japan's top actresses, and her accolades include six Japan Academy Film Prizes and three Kinema Junpo Awards Miyazawa began her career as a child model, seeing wide exposure as the original face of Mitsui Rehouse, and made her acting debut in the 1988 film Seven Day's War, for which she won the Japan Academy Award for Newcomer of the Year at age sixteen. Her short-lived music career began with the single "Dream Rush" in 1989, and the next year she performed at the prestigious Kōhaku Uta Gassen television special. Miyazawa quickly rose to prominence as one of the top idols of the early Heisei period, attracting controversy for her 1991 nude photography book Santa Fe, which moved 1.5 million copies. Her personal struggles were further scrutinized, including a high-profile engagement to sumo wrestler Takanohana, a suicide attempt and battle with anorexia nervosa. By 1996, she went into hiatus and briefly resettled in San Diego. She took on a few television drama roles in the late 1990s, and returned to the big screen in the Taiwanese films The Cabbie (2000) and Peony Pavilion (2001). She co-starred in the highly-acclaimed 2002 film The Twilight Samurai, which marked a full-fledged comeback for Miyazawa and remains as her most recognizable role both domestically and internationally. She saw further success in The Face of Jizo and Tony Takitani (2004), and received several accolades for Pale Moon (2014) and Her Love Boils Bathwater (2016). Born : 6th-Apr-1973

Movie Credits

Hana

In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn't an accomplished swordsman however, and he prefers sharing the life of the residents, teaching the kids how to write etc. When he finally finds the man he is looking for, he will have to decide whether he follows the way of the samurai or chooses peace and reconciliation.
Released : 3rd-Jun-2006

47 Ronin

Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal followers (now Ronin, masterless Samurai) dedicate their lives to avenging his death.
Released : 22nd-Oct-1994

MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming

Musical band "Yajima Biyoshitsu" comes to Japan from Nevada, USA to debut their CD.
Released : 29th-Apr-2010

The Book of the Dead

A sheltered aristocratic woman in feudal Japan, bored and unfamiliar with the world outside her estate, passes the time copying a special Buddhist sutra sent by her father who has been absent on official business for years. While gazing out her window one late afternoon, the setting sun creates a vision of a holy figure in the distant mountains.
Released : 1st-Jul-2005

The Twilight Samurai

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?
Released : 2nd-Nov-2002

Gelatin Silver, Love

The story of a photographer who becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman who lives in the apartment opposite his.
Released : 7th-Mar-2009

Tony Takitani

A reclusive illustrator falls in love with a young woman who addictively shops for clothing.
Released : 27th-Jan-2005

Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1

There is a man who divorced his wife. He moved to rural Hokkaido from Tokyo where he lived with his family without running water or electricity. He has his son and daughter in tow and works hard for them. The folk in the area try to help. A couple of years pass and the older son moves back to Tokyo, attends school and works part-time. The daughter commutes to the city to attend school. She wants to become a nurse. To become a registered nurse she needs to study a further three years. This takes money.
Released : 22nd-May-1992

Ashura

Adapted from the successful play, the film takes place in 19th-century Japan, where a war between demons and their slayers is fought. Izumo, a kabuki actor with a demon-slaying past, meets and falls in love with Tsubaki. However, something is not right, as mysterious marks appear on her body as time progresses. At the same time, it is announced that Ashura, the queen of all demons, will be resurrected and bring destruction to the universe.
Released : 16th-Apr-2005

Seven Days War

A community is in turmoil when junior high schoolers barricade themselves in an empty factory to protest the draconian rules of parents and teachers. They're sick of heavy-handed teachers and iron-fisted parents. And now they're going to do something about it.
Released : 13th-Aug-1988

Peony Pavilion

In the 1930s, a songstress courtesan finds herself in a confusing relationship with her cousin as their marriages to men go into decline.
Released : 7th-Dec-2001

Phoenix: Reminiscence of Flower

From time immemorial to the age of space colonization, there is one legend that has stayed unchanged in every history book—the tale of the immortal bird Phoenix. A being whose blood is said to grant eternal life or wisdom, the radiant figure ensures the continuation of sentient life in the universe as it oversees human civilizations and their development. Yet, mankind remains a slave to its habits; from happiness and sorrow, to wrath and love, a myriad of emotions continue to play an integral part of human life. Simultaneously, time and time again, certain beliefs and agendas persist over the centuries to disturb the fragile equilibrium of the world's preordained nature and principles. It appears that fate and its dynamic variables can manifest itself in many ways—and oftentimes exhibits a bizarre sense of humor...
Released : 3rd-Nov-2023

The Sunday Runoff

A comedy about how the world of politics really works! Tsutomu is a secretary for a member of the Japanese Parliament. After the latter suffers a heart attack, his daughter Yumi is chosen to fill his place in the next election because she seems easy to control. However, her unpredictable behavior soon throws the campaign out of control.
Released : 7th-Jan-2022

The Moon

Yoko, who gets a job at a nursing home, witnesses the elderly and disabled people there having their human dignity threatened.
Released : 13th-Oct-2023

Kiki's Delivery Service

A young girl named Kiki must leave her home for a year to begin training in witchcraft. She leaves on her broom, but first says goodbye to her friends and family. Kiki then begins her new life with her trusted cat Jiji.
Released : 1st-Mar-2014

Defeat the Devil!

A one part drama/made for TV movie starring Rie Miyazawa
Released : 6th-Jan-1990

疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳〜生きる覚悟〜

'The Ninagawa of the world', still ill. The 80-year-old's intense run to stay alive, even after falling ill!
Released : 2nd-Jan-2016

聖夜の奇跡　あなたの好きな愛はどれ?

A foreign student from Taiwan, Mr. Bell, attends language school in Japan and meets Miss Sato there. He falls in love with her, but doesn't dare to open his heart to her. Nevertheless, on Christmas night miracles do happen.
Released : 23rd-Dec-1995

Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel

The second TV movie Obayashi Nobuhiko directed based on Akagawa Jiro's Mikeneko Holmes series.
Released : 21st-Feb-1998

Pale Moon

Daily, Rika Umezawa battles a nagging sense of emptiness and dissatisfaction. She works a tiring job, comes home to an unappreciative husband and has little opportunity to enjoy life. But things change when office gossip about affairs and embezzlement inspire Rika to do the unthinkable. Soon, Rika finds herself filling the void with a university student named Kota and the millions entrusted to her by clients. Is her newfound lifestyle the key to happiness? And if so, how long can it last?
Released : 15th-Nov-2014

The Face of Jizo

Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of 1948, as the ghost of her father visits Mitsué (Rié Miyama). He had somehow learned that she has fallen in love, and tries to convince her to start her new life. But Mitsué obstinately refuses his warm and humorous encouragements : « People were killed in my place. I do not have the right to find happiness », she says.
Released : 31st-Jul-2004

Like Asura

Four sisters discover that their elderly father is having an affair. When a letter is published in the newspaper detailing the affair, they try to hide it from their mother, while suspecting each other of having written it.
Released : Unknown

The Cabbie

After falling in love with a traffic cop, a cab driver commits as many traffic violations as he can in order to see her again.
Released : 10th-Oct-2000

Dreaming Awake

Recently appointed dean at a film school, Kimuro Hajime develops a special concern for one of his students, Daisuke. The brash, headstrong young man is fixated on with the Second World War. He feels a sense of frustration at the irrational sacrifice of young people's lives during the war six decades earlier. Daisuke finds that he can vent his frustrations to Kimuro, who experienced the war firsthand. Kimuro's wife, Emiko, is also troubled by memories of the war. She lost a loved one in the war and has never gotten over it. And Kimuro himself also has something from the past that he has yet to face. He believes that the burden of his unresolved past will eventually be the death of him. When Daisuke's neurosis causes him to quit school, life changes for all three of them.
Released : 18th-Oct-2008

I Am Makimoto

Sou Makimoto works in the "send-off" department at the city hall. The department's main responsibility is to hold funerals for people who die alone and bury them at a cemetery. Makimoto doesn't like to socialise with his colleagues or listen to them. By doing his job, he meets various people and slowly begins to change his life.
Released : 30th-Sep-2022

Erotic Liaisons

A low-key private detective agency in Paris is run by Rie and her lover and partner Kishin, two ex-pats who tick along between cases by giving guided tours of the city to busloads of Japanese tourists. After the wealthy Okuyama hires them to trail his French mistress Lorraine whom he believes to be having an affair, feeble-willed Kishin finds himself seduced by this femme fatale and way out of his depth in a seamy underworld of rich Japanese businessmen, S&M games and huge piles of money.
Released : 17th-Oct-1992

Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project

Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and Hama-chan envy his decision, and Hama-chan conspires to visit Takano, even though he has no vacation time left.
Released : 18th-Aug-2001

Basara: The Princess Goh

Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to commit suicide. Princess Goh, daughter of the lord but adopted by Hideyoshi, is outraged when Rikyū's severed head is thrown in the Nijo River. She sends Usu, Oribe's servant, to retrieve the head and deliver it to Rikyū's adopted daughter.
Released : 11th-Apr-1992

The Tale of Himeji Castle

A young samurai dares to approach a castle mistress as he searches for an escaped falcon, a crime punishable by death, but escapes with his life. He is forced to return to the castle by the dying light, but the mistress has become fascinated with him...
Released : 9th-Sep-1995

Utsutsu

A mysterious woman approaches a salaried man who leads a peaceful family life and tells him, "Your wife is having an affair with my husband." From this mysterious woman's words, the gears of a man's destiny begin to go mad.
Released : 1st-Jun-2002

Why Do I Choose?

Who Do I Choose? is a Japanese film directed by Shūsuke Kaneko.
Released : 26th-Aug-1989

The After-Dinner Mysteries

Kageyama (Sho Sakurai) works as the butler for rich heiress Reiko Hosho (Keiko Kitagawa). Reiko happens to be a novice detective but lacks certain deductive skills needed by detectives. Because of this Reiko relies on Kageyamaa to help her solve cases. Meanwhile, Kageyama isn't afraid to mince words and often calls out Reiko with his sharp tongue!
Released : 30th-Oct-2013

The Invitation from Cinema Orion

Based on the short story from the best-selling collection "Poppoya" by Jiro Asada, "The Invitation from Cinema Orion" tells the story of a couple's undying love for the cinema and each other.
Released : 3rd-Nov-2007

Pieta in the Toilet

Hiroshi has given up on his dreams of becoming a painter and works part-time cleaning office windows. He learns that he has only 3 months left to live. During his last summer, high school student Mai appears. Hiroshi becomes attracted to her.
Released : 6th-Jun-2015

Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu

Released : 9th-Jun-1995

Her Love Boils Bathwater

A strict, but caring mother has an awakening when she is told she has cancer and it is terminal. She has a few months. She needs to complete her tasks in that short time frame.
Released : 29th-Oct-2016

Oceans

An ecological drama/documentary, filmed throughout the globe. Part thriller, part meditation on the vanishing wonders of the sub-aquatic world.
Released : 22nd-Jan-2010

Too Young To Die!

After dying in a bus crash and falling to hell, high schooler Daisuke joins a demonic rock band so he can be reincarnated back into the mortal world.
Released : 25th-Jun-2016

No Longer Human

The story of Osamu Dazai, one of Japan's most celebrated novelists, absorbed in alcohol and love; married and in a relationship with two other lovers.
Released : 13th-Sep-2019

Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso

Released : 27th-Aug-2002

Seven Days War

In the town of Saima, when summer is about to begin, a group of six high school students intend to live a secret adventure by spending seven carefree days in a ruined mining facility.
Released : 13th-Dec-2019

Youth Peony Lantern

Based on "Kaidan Botan Dango" by Sanyutei Encho, a rakugo storyteller who was active from the late Edo period to the Meiji era, Kara Juro was in charge of the script. A feature-length historical drama depicting a fierce and painful love story between ghosts and humans. Impressive artistic and fantastic painting with depth as if you were watching the stage. In all, this work is a beautiful, love horror fantasy.
Released : 21st-Aug-1993

Don't Steal My Heart

Sakurako, an aspiring model living in a flat in downtown Rome, is chosen as the new character of the conglomerate.
Released : 29th-Sep-1992

TV Credits

鎌倉殿の13人

Maki no kata - Following the ascension to power of Taira no Kiyomori, the Minamoto clan is exiled. Minamoto no Yoritomo meets Masako, the sister of Hōjō Yoshitoki and later marries her. Following this marriage, the gears of Yoshitoki's destiny begin to turn.
Released : 9th-Jan-2022

FM999: 999 WOMEN'S SONGS

Eve (The First Woman) - Kiyomi Koike is a 16-year-old girl. She has all these different emotions intertwined in her mind. One day, she suddenly blurts out "What is a woman?" She then hears a DJ's voice in her head. The voice states "Women's Songs! Radio FM999 starts." The DJ in Kiyomi Koike’s head proceeds to spin songs that matches her worries. With her eyes closed, Kiyomi Koike meets various women in the world of music and learns from them.
Released : 29th-Mar-2021

東京エレベーターガール

- Tsukasa leaves her hometown to work in Tokyo. While there, she is on her own facing the fascination and challenges of the working world. Her experiences gained, together with what she sees in others, gradually lead her to grow up. She is no longer in the midst of illusions and misconceptions.
Released : 10th-Jan-1992

ロマンス

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Released : 12th-Apr-1999

元禄繚乱

Aguri - The 38th NHK Taiga Drama is Genroku Ryoran. The "Forty-seven Loyal Samurai" is one of the most enduring and best loved stories of Japan's history. Generations have grown up hearing the stirring tale of Oishi Kuranosuke, chief councillor of the Ako clan who leads his men through suffering and hardship to ultimately avenge their lord after he is unjustly forced to commit harakiri. NHK's 38th Taiga Drama "Genroku Ryoran" is the ambitious remake of this classic epic and boasts a cast that reads like a Who's Who in Japanese entertainment.
Released : 10th-Jan-1999

神様、もう少しだけ

Lisa Takimura - Masaki is fond of a music producer named Keigo, to get to his concert she ends up selling her body. She end up meeting him after the concert and fall in love with him, and he is interested in her. How ever Masaki has gotten HIV during the time she sold her body... How will this affect her relationship with Keigo?
Released : 7th-Jul-1998

武蔵 MUSASHI

Oshino - Orphaned when he was not yet ten, Musashi grows up skilled in the martial arts. During the Battle of Sekigahara, he fights on the side of the losing Toyotomi forces, but eludes the enemy as they hunt down the vanquished soldiers. He then spends years wandering the countryside mastering the sword. As his fame spreads throughout the nation, men seek him out to test their skills against him--most notably Sasaki Kojiro who faces Musashi in the ultimate duel at Ganryujima.
Released : 5th-Jan-2003

足跡姫～時代錯誤冬幽霊～

- NODA MAP, led by Hideki Noda, broadcasts its 2017 performance of "Princess Footprints" . This work is a tribute to Nakamura Kanzaburo XVIII.
Released : 18th-Jan-2017

真犯人フラグ

- Ryōsuke Sagara is an ordinary salaryman and he works for a mid-size shipping company. He is a good-natured person. His family consists of his wife Maho, high school student daughter and elementary school student son. Maho works part-time at a supermarket. They are a happy family, but Maho and their two children suddenly disappear. There are no clues about their disappearance. Ryōsuke gets the attention of the media and public. He tries to find the truth behind his family's disappearance with the help of his subordinate Mizuho Ninomiya at work.
Released : 10th-Oct-2021

一番大切な人は誰ですか？

Nakamichi Toko -
Released : 13th-Oct-2004

火の鳥エデンの宙

Romi (voice) - In the age of space exploration, Romi and George flee a devastated Earth in search of a new world.
Released : 13th-Sep-2023

LEADERS

- Before World War II, the automobile industry in developed countries in Europe and the United States possessed formidable technological capabilities. A youth who saw this industrial might with his own eyes, returns to Japan fired up with the dream to develop the national automobile industry with his own hands. This young man’s name is Aichi Saichiro and this is the story of Aichi (Toyota) Motor Corporation.
Released : 22nd-Mar-2014

ブラックボード〜時代を戦った教師たち〜

Hisako Shirahama - "Blackboard ~ Jidai to Tatakatta Kyoushitachi~," revolves around teachers in different time periods having to deal with the problems of that era. The first episode stars Sakurai as Shirahama, a junior high school teacher who taught his students about "dying for your country" during wartime. After later losing his right arm in the war, he returns to teaching but is burdened and conflicted by what he taught his students in the past. The second episode of "Blackboard ~Jidai to Tatakatta Kyoushitachi~" stars Sato Koichi as a teacher during the 1980s having to deal with school violence. Shida Mirai plays a delinquent student, and Kanjiya Shihori plays another teacher at the school. Set in modern-day Japan, tackles the story of forbidden teacher-student relationships. Matsushita Nao plays a devoted English teacher who's offering personal lessons for a pupil (played by Kamiki Ryunosuke), who barely can read or write.
Released : 5th-Apr-2012

江〜姫たちの戦国〜

- Princess Go was the youngest of the most famous three sisters in Japanese history, who each led a remarkable life in an age of turmoil and civil war. Go loses her parents in the war, marries three times, and feuds with her own sister in competing for power. Go's husband becomes the second Tokugawa Shogun and she ensures her prominence as she gives birth to a son who later becomes the third Shogun and a daughter, a wife of the Emperor. The drama describes the age of the civil war through the eyes of Princess Go, who plays a significant part in establishing the age of peace that lasts over 200 years in Japan.
Released : 9th-Jan-2011

青春オーロラ・スピンスワンの涙

Haduki Mika -
Released : 10th-Apr-1989

SMAP×SMAP

Bistro Guest - SMAP×SMAP was an ongoing weekly Japanese variety show on Kansai TV and Fuji TV starring the members of SMAP. The show began on April 15, 1996 and it aired from 22:00 to 22:54 every Monday. The show's usual ratings were higher than 20%, which is considered high since most variety shows range from 10-20%. Each episode begins a variety of skits, comedic performances, and/or games. These are followed by Bistro SMAP, in which the SMAP members compete against each other to impress celebrity judges with their gourmet cooking. Last is a musical performance by SMAP which may include celebrity guests, as well.
Released : 15th-Apr-1996

ブラックボード〜時代を戦った教師たち〜

Shirahama Hisako - "Blackboard ~ Jidai to Tatakatta Kyoushitachi~," revolves around teachers in different time periods having to deal with the problems of that era. The first episode stars Sakurai as Shirahama, a junior high school teacher who taught his students about "dying for your country" during wartime. After later losing his right arm in the war, he returns to teaching but is burdened and conflicted by what he taught his students in the past. The second episode of "Blackboard ~Jidai to Tatakatta Kyoushitachi~" stars Sato Koichi as a teacher during the 1980s having to deal with school violence. Shida Mirai plays a delinquent student, and Kanjiya Shihori plays another teacher at the school. Set in modern-day Japan, tackles the story of forbidden teacher-student relationships. Matsushita Nao plays a devoted English teacher who's offering personal lessons for a pupil (played by Kamiki Ryunosuke), who barely can read or write.
Released : 5th-Apr-2012

阿修羅のごとく

Tsunako - The story of four sisters: ikebana teacher Tsunako, housewife Makiko, librarian Takiko and waitress Sakiko. On one winter day, they gather together for the first time in a long while.
Released : 9th-Jan-2025

全裸監督

Etsuko Takamiya - Follows the rise of Tooru Muranishi, one of Japan's most notorious directors of adult video. Adapted from a biography of the man, this series depicts the character, his art, vision and his interactions with the approving and disapproving folk around him.
Released : 8th-Aug-2019

夏目家の食卓

- A Meiji era home drama about the great writer Soseki Natsume and his wife Kyōko. A story of love and tears of a funny couple starring Rie Miyazawa and Masahiro Motoki!
Released : 5th-Jan-2005

江〜姫たちの戦国〜

Chacha/Yododono - Princess Go was the youngest of the most famous three sisters in Japanese history, who each led a remarkable life in an age of turmoil and civil war. Go loses her parents in the war, marries three times, and feuds with her own sister in competing for power. Go's husband becomes the second Tokugawa Shogun and she ensures her prominence as she gives birth to a son who later becomes the third Shogun and a daughter, a wife of the Emperor. The drama describes the age of the civil war through the eyes of Princess Go, who plays a significant part in establishing the age of peace that lasts over 200 years in Japan.
Released : 9th-Jan-2011

グーグーだって猫である

Asako Kojima - About a lady and her cat. The lady's cat dies and she loses all inspiration to continue living, and doing her work from home job. One day when forced to get out of her house for a while she finds and orphaned kitten in the park. The kitten is sick and she takes the kitten to the vet. This kitten brings her out of her depression and gives her new hope.
Released : 18th-Oct-2014

結婚式場花嫁介添人がゆく

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Released : 29th-May-1994

バイプレイヤーズ～名脇役の森の100日間～

- Set in "Byplaywood" a large film studio surrounded by forest, far from the city. The story depicts 100 days of turmoil caused by the gathering of serial dramas and movies from various TV stations at once in this remote studio. It is a drama full of battles for ratings between studios, clashes between young, mid-career, and big names, and a heartwarming story of friendship and bonding. Also, the self-deprecation and parodies are enhanced by the fact that the actors play a role of themselves.
Released : 8th-Jan-2021

フードファイト

Miyazono Saeka - The president of a large food production company combines gourmet eating and gambling into an underground eating contest, or "Food Fight," in the basement of his company. After growing up in an orphanage, Mitsuru Ihara starts working as a custodian at the large food producer. The pleasant, kind Ihara often visits his former home, pretending to be an important business man, not the blue-collar cleaner that he really is. He also has a bigger secret, which is, he is the reigning champion of the underground eating competition held at the company. In it, two contestants battle to see who can pack away more food within a set time limit. The noble Ihara, with nine consecutive wins, always donates the prize money anonymously to his orphanage, despite the fact that he wins millions. The circumstances surrounding his victories, however, are often surprising and usually unusual, perhaps unrealistic. He also wins by a very small margin, by only 1 point in most cases.
Released : 1st-Jul-2000

神様のボート

노지마 요코 -
Released : 10th-Mar-2013

協奏曲

- Love and ambition collide when two brilliant architects compete for the same woman and the glory of success in their highly competitive field. Kakeru, a young dreamer just entering the professional world, starts out with the goal of building a magnificent church. The story unfolds when a world-famous architect, whom Kakeru idolizes but has never seen, collapses in front of him on the beach. The skillful portrayal of the intertwined loves and professional trials of these characters makes for a suspenseful and inspiring drama.
Released : 11th-Oct-1996

同屋三分亲

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Released : 30th-Oct-1990

梦中情人

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Released : 11th-Jan-1990

ノースライト

- A family asks a man to build a house he would like to live in himself. However, when it is completed, the family disappears without moving in.
Released : 12th-Dec-2020

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Rie Miyazawa

Movie Credits

Hana

47 Ronin

Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal followers (now Ronin, masterless Samurai) dedicate their lives to avenging his death.Released : 22nd-Oct-1994

MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming

Musical band "Yajima Biyoshitsu" comes to Japan from Nevada, USA to debut their CD.Released : 29th-Apr-2010

The Book of the Dead

The Twilight Samurai

Gelatin Silver, Love

The story of a photographer who becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman who lives in the apartment opposite his.Released : 7th-Mar-2009

Tony Takitani

A reclusive illustrator falls in love with a young woman who addictively shops for clothing.Released : 27th-Jan-2005

Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1

Ashura

Seven Days War

A community is in turmoil when junior high schoolers barricade themselves in an empty factory to protest the draconian rules of parents and teachers. They're sick of heavy-handed teachers and iron-fisted parents. And now they're going to do something about it.Released : 13th-Aug-1988

Peony Pavilion

In the 1930s, a songstress courtesan finds herself in a confusing relationship with her cousin as their marriages to men go into decline.Released : 7th-Dec-2001

Phoenix: Reminiscence of Flower

The Sunday Runoff

The Moon

Yoko, who gets a job at a nursing home, witnesses the elderly and disabled people there having their human dignity threatened.Released : 13th-Oct-2023

Kiki's Delivery Service

A young girl named Kiki must leave her home for a year to begin training in witchcraft. She leaves on her broom, but first says goodbye to her friends and family. Kiki then begins her new life with her trusted cat Jiji.Released : 1st-Mar-2014

Defeat the Devil!

A one part drama/made for TV movie starring Rie MiyazawaReleased : 6th-Jan-1990

疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳 〜生きる覚悟〜

'The Ninagawa of the world', still ill. The 80-year-old's intense run to stay alive, even after falling ill!Released : 2nd-Jan-2016

聖夜の奇跡 あなたの好きな愛はどれ?

A foreign student from Taiwan, Mr. Bell, attends language school in Japan and meets Miss Sato there. He falls in love with her, but doesn't dare to open his heart to her. Nevertheless, on Christmas night miracles do happen.Released : 23rd-Dec-1995

Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel

The second TV movie Obayashi Nobuhiko directed based on Akagawa Jiro's Mikeneko Holmes series.Released : 21st-Feb-1998

Pale Moon

The Face of Jizo

Like Asura

Four sisters discover that their elderly father is having an affair. When a letter is published in the newspaper detailing the affair, they try to hide it from their mother, while suspecting each other of having written it.Released : Unknown

The Cabbie

After falling in love with a traffic cop, a cab driver commits as many traffic violations as he can in order to see her again.Released : 10th-Oct-2000

Dreaming Awake

I Am Makimoto

Erotic Liaisons

Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project

Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and Hama-chan envy his decision, and Hama-chan conspires to visit Takano, even though he has no vacation time left.Released : 18th-Aug-2001

Basara: The Princess Goh

The Tale of Himeji Castle

A young samurai dares to approach a castle mistress as he searches for an escaped falcon, a crime punishable by death, but escapes with his life. He is forced to return to the castle by the dying light, but the mistress has become fascinated with him...Released : 9th-Sep-1995

Utsutsu

A mysterious woman approaches a salaried man who leads a peaceful family life and tells him, "Your wife is having an affair with my husband." From this mysterious woman's words, the gears of a man's destiny begin to go mad.Released : 1st-Jun-2002

Why Do I Choose?

Who Do I Choose? is a Japanese film directed by Shūsuke Kaneko.Released : 26th-Aug-1989

The After-Dinner Mysteries

The Invitation from Cinema Orion

Based on the short story from the best-selling collection "Poppoya" by Jiro Asada, "The Invitation from Cinema Orion" tells the story of a couple's undying love for the cinema and each other.Released : 3rd-Nov-2007

Pieta in the Toilet

Hiroshi has given up on his dreams of becoming a painter and works part-time cleaning office windows. He learns that he has only 3 months left to live. During his last summer, high school student Mai appears. Hiroshi becomes attracted to her.Released : 6th-Jun-2015

Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu

Released : 9th-Jun-1995

Her Love Boils Bathwater

A strict, but caring mother has an awakening when she is told she has cancer and it is terminal. She has a few months. She needs to complete her tasks in that short time frame.Released : 29th-Oct-2016

Oceans

An ecological drama/documentary, filmed throughout the globe. Part thriller, part meditation on the vanishing wonders of the sub-aquatic world.Released : 22nd-Jan-2010

Too Young To Die!

After dying in a bus crash and falling to hell, high schooler Daisuke joins a demonic rock band so he can be reincarnated back into the mortal world.Released : 25th-Jun-2016

No Longer Human

The story of Osamu Dazai, one of Japan's most celebrated novelists, absorbed in alcohol and love; married and in a relationship with two other lovers.Released : 13th-Sep-2019

Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso

Released : 27th-Aug-2002

Seven Days War

In the town of Saima, when summer is about to begin, a group of six high school students intend to live a secret adventure by spending seven carefree days in a ruined mining facility.Released : 13th-Dec-2019

Youth Peony Lantern

Don't Steal My Heart

Sakurako, an aspiring model living in a flat in downtown Rome, is chosen as the new character of the conglomerate.Released : 29th-Sep-1992

TV Credits

鎌倉殿の13人

Maki no kata - Following the ascension to power of Taira no Kiyomori, the Minamoto clan is exiled. Minamoto no Yoritomo meets Masako, the sister of Hōjō Yoshitoki and later marries her. Following this marriage, the gears of Yoshitoki's destiny begin to turn.Released : 9th-Jan-2022

FM999: 999 WOMEN'S SONGS

東京エレベーターガール

ロマンス

Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal followers (now Ronin, masterless Samurai) dedicate their lives to avenging his death.
Released : 22nd-Oct-1994

Musical band "Yajima Biyoshitsu" comes to Japan from Nevada, USA to debut their CD.
Released : 29th-Apr-2010

The story of a photographer who becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman who lives in the apartment opposite his.
Released : 7th-Mar-2009

A reclusive illustrator falls in love with a young woman who addictively shops for clothing.
Released : 27th-Jan-2005

A community is in turmoil when junior high schoolers barricade themselves in an empty factory to protest the draconian rules of parents and teachers. They're sick of heavy-handed teachers and iron-fisted parents. And now they're going to do something about it.
Released : 13th-Aug-1988

In the 1930s, a songstress courtesan finds herself in a confusing relationship with her cousin as their marriages to men go into decline.
Released : 7th-Dec-2001

Yoko, who gets a job at a nursing home, witnesses the elderly and disabled people there having their human dignity threatened.
Released : 13th-Oct-2023

A young girl named Kiki must leave her home for a year to begin training in witchcraft. She leaves on her broom, but first says goodbye to her friends and family. Kiki then begins her new life with her trusted cat Jiji.
Released : 1st-Mar-2014

A one part drama/made for TV movie starring Rie Miyazawa
Released : 6th-Jan-1990

疾走する蜷川幸雄80歳〜生きる覚悟〜

'The Ninagawa of the world', still ill. The 80-year-old's intense run to stay alive, even after falling ill!
Released : 2nd-Jan-2016

聖夜の奇跡　あなたの好きな愛はどれ?

A foreign student from Taiwan, Mr. Bell, attends language school in Japan and meets Miss Sato there. He falls in love with her, but doesn't dare to open his heart to her. Nevertheless, on Christmas night miracles do happen.
Released : 23rd-Dec-1995

The second TV movie Obayashi Nobuhiko directed based on Akagawa Jiro's Mikeneko Holmes series.
Released : 21st-Feb-1998

Four sisters discover that their elderly father is having an affair. When a letter is published in the newspaper detailing the affair, they try to hide it from their mother, while suspecting each other of having written it.
Released : Unknown

After falling in love with a traffic cop, a cab driver commits as many traffic violations as he can in order to see her again.
Released : 10th-Oct-2000

Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and Hama-chan envy his decision, and Hama-chan conspires to visit Takano, even though he has no vacation time left.
Released : 18th-Aug-2001

A young samurai dares to approach a castle mistress as he searches for an escaped falcon, a crime punishable by death, but escapes with his life. He is forced to return to the castle by the dying light, but the mistress has become fascinated with him...
Released : 9th-Sep-1995

A mysterious woman approaches a salaried man who leads a peaceful family life and tells him, "Your wife is having an affair with my husband." From this mysterious woman's words, the gears of a man's destiny begin to go mad.
Released : 1st-Jun-2002

Who Do I Choose? is a Japanese film directed by Shūsuke Kaneko.
Released : 26th-Aug-1989

Based on the short story from the best-selling collection "Poppoya" by Jiro Asada, "The Invitation from Cinema Orion" tells the story of a couple's undying love for the cinema and each other.
Released : 3rd-Nov-2007

Hiroshi has given up on his dreams of becoming a painter and works part-time cleaning office windows. He learns that he has only 3 months left to live. During his last summer, high school student Mai appears. Hiroshi becomes attracted to her.
Released : 6th-Jun-2015

A strict, but caring mother has an awakening when she is told she has cancer and it is terminal. She has a few months. She needs to complete her tasks in that short time frame.
Released : 29th-Oct-2016

An ecological drama/documentary, filmed throughout the globe. Part thriller, part meditation on the vanishing wonders of the sub-aquatic world.
Released : 22nd-Jan-2010

After dying in a bus crash and falling to hell, high schooler Daisuke joins a demonic rock band so he can be reincarnated back into the mortal world.
Released : 25th-Jun-2016

The story of Osamu Dazai, one of Japan's most celebrated novelists, absorbed in alcohol and love; married and in a relationship with two other lovers.
Released : 13th-Sep-2019

In the town of Saima, when summer is about to begin, a group of six high school students intend to live a secret adventure by spending seven carefree days in a ruined mining facility.
Released : 13th-Dec-2019

Sakurako, an aspiring model living in a flat in downtown Rome, is chosen as the new character of the conglomerate.
Released : 29th-Sep-1992

Maki no kata - Following the ascension to power of Taira no Kiyomori, the Minamoto clan is exiled. Minamoto no Yoritomo meets Masako, the sister of Hōjō Yoshitoki and later marries her. Following this marriage, the gears of Yoshitoki's destiny begin to turn.
Released : 9th-Jan-2022

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Released : 12th-Apr-1999