Yuko Tanaka Movies

Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way,...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Youji Matsuda

Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mountainous and bordered by an unkempt buried...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karen

Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange... What's even more strange is that...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Junichi Okada

Togashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi's grade school entrance examinations, but he becomes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eikichi Yazawa

Tatsuo and Ikuo have been raised by hard-working parents who run a funeral home. For relief, they practice games of manzai, a Japanese comic...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kentaro Seagal

The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Morio Kazama

Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao's grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a trip Tadao is reluctant to make.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eri Tokunaga

The posthumous wish of Eiji's wife is for her ashes to be scattered in the ocean near her hometown. Eiji also learns that his wife letter for him at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a small...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Young Kinu Yamabe is drawn to low-born Onimaru, who is vital and charismatic, but viewed by his father as a demon. After her first period, Kinu...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda

Keisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan’s most respected legends of cinema. Made to commemorate the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryo Kase

The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuko Tanaka

Jiro Sawada is a sophomore in high school when a false accusation drives him out his hometown: a small village in Fukushima Prefecture. The entire...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Matsuyama

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sarasa Ayuba

Tomiko, a middle-aged woman, waits patiently for her husband, who disappeared thirty years ago, to return. She lives alone in a declining fishing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuko Tanaka

Young Wakana is the daughter of a husband and wife comedy act, who have worked together for 20 years without any big success. Wakana’s parents...

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Cast: Chizuru Ikewaki

Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshio Harada

A restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a series of flawed patrons including Tamako, whose...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi

Toma lives in a small riverside town with his brutish father and his father's girlfriend. Witnessing his father's predilections for abuse, Toma...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masaki Suda

A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose owner lives to bring entertaining films...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

An orphan girl receives a scholarship for a prestigious school from an anonymous benefactor who she refers to as Daddy Long Legs.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazue Komiya

Japanese film icon Ken Takakura, who has starred in over 100 films, stars in this elegiac look at war and remembrance. Hideji Yamaoka (Takakura) was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shigeru Izumiya

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Cast: Ken Ogata

When a young boy begins behaving strangely, shocking truths emerge as the story unfolds through the eyes of his single mother, a teacher who is...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Sakura Ando

Minako (TANAKA Yuko), begins her day running up and down the hills of her hometown delivering milk door to door. When that's done, she heads to her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuko Tanaka

Why had a mother who seemed happy desired to end her own life? Desperate to uncover his mother’s true intentions, Sakuya ventures into...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sosuke Ikematsu

An eerie statue of the Kannon shedding tears in an old Western-style house. Fifty years of the strange lives of the mothers and daughters who protect...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Yuko Tanaka

Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

Hibi tells about mother who does pottery and lives rather simple life, growing her children up. She does remarkable job in pottery, finding a new way...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuko Tanaka

Daikichi is a 70-year-old man and lives on a small island. Since his wife died, he has lived with his cat Tama. Daikichi was born and raised on the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinosuke Tatekawa

In the early days of the Showa era in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture a newborn baby is abandoned with a doll under the eaves of a merchant house along...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miho Nakanishi

Yahagi Michiko is accosted and raped walking home one evening. From there she maneuvers the logistics of the police, hospital, and criminal justice...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuko Tanaka

A family reunites after 15 years. They each have a story to tell as they have not forgotten what happened years ago.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeru Satoh

Towards the end of WWII, the Navy gave the Kyoto University's physics lab the secret of a bomb that makes use of nuclear fission energy. While doing...

Genre: History

Cast: Yuya Yagira

In 1964, Momoko came by herself to Tokyo from her hometown. She met Shūzō and married him. They raised two children together, but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuko Tanaka

Based on an autobiography by Hiroshi Tamura, the film follows story of the author's experience of homelessness when this father suddenly decides to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teppei Koike

A compelling human drama about the growing social problems and public responsibilities regarding the welfare and ethical treatment of neglected dogs...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryo Kase

In the 39th year of Meiji, a Yucheng, who had lived in poverty since childhood, lived in a house near the ramp in order to become a concubine of usury

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yuko Tanaka