Itami Productions Popular Movie

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner,...

genus: Comedy

cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three...

genus: Comedy

cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult...

genus: Comedy

cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a...

genus: Comedy

cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

A TV production crew are making a documentary about the infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro. When they start filming at his old home, they come under...

genus: Horror

cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

A melodrama about the life of a mentally disabled young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to...

genus: Drama

cast: Hinako Saeki

Vain, middle-aged actress Biwako is placed in witness protection while authorities investigate the brutal murder she witnessed. Under the watch of...

genus: Drama

cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

A successful Japanese movie director in his sixties becomes increasingly ill while working on his latest film. Though his family, friends, and doctor...

genus: Drama

cast: Rentaro Mikuni

genus: Documentary

cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

Documentary about the making of Juzo Itami's film "Tampopo" (1985).

genus: Documentary

cast: Jūzō Itami

Jūzō Itami's debut short film, concerning a group of unique young people in the high economic growth period who are into games with rubber...

genus: Drama

cast: Akira Ichimura

A documentary about the Juzo Itami memorial museum in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture on the island of Shikoku, Japan.

genus: Documentary

cast: Jūzō Itami