Makoto Akatsuka Movies

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist....

Genre: Family

Cast: Mirai Shida

Izumi aims to be the first deaf creator of artificial limbs. One day, her senior co-worker, Kubo, goes to Afghanistan to help give aid to children as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akiko Oshidari

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takatarô Kataoka

Several high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure; their halcyon days are soon coming to an end.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masasuke Hirose

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

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Cast: Sachiko Yoda

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Cast: Tsurutaro Kataoka

An anthology exploring the meaning of the Japanese greeting goaisatsu.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keizo Kanie

After the war, many filmmakers were expelled from the Japanese film industry due to the Toho Dispute and the Red Purge. Amid such circumstances,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sen Yamamoto

Tora-san Makes Excuses is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

After shooting a gangster in self-defense, Kim Hui Ro takes refuge at a hotel and takes the guest hostages. Realising his position, he invites the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Genre: History

Cast: Noriyuki Higashiyama

A made for TV movie that would be loosely remade as Magnitude 7.9 or DEATHQUAKE

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) who has a crescent-moon-shaped scar on his forehead...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mikijiro Hira

1981 Japanese film based on the novel by Naoshiro Yoshimoto.

Genre: Family

Cast: Yoshie Ichige

After ten years Ryuma Shiranui, aka Dragon, returns to Hong Kong to visit the grave of his mentor, Kaizan Fubiki, who recently died from "an...

Genre: Action

Cast: Makoto Akatsuka

1979 Japanese film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Akatsuka

When Nizaemon Kumogiri, a major thief quits his job as a thief, he has two more big jobs planned in order to obtain a huge sum of money to enable his...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Nozomi is a former actress who moves back to Japan from New Zealand. Upon arriving, she meets her fellow high school student neighbor Ryotaro Shiba,...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Miki Fujitani

Japanese film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Megumi Igarashi

Japanese youth film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nakamura

Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kichiemon Nakamura II

The story of a former police officer now retired to run a coffee shop called Bitter Coffee Life. In the long years of the past 20 years, he has been...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yasunori Irikawa

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nagase

Genre: Drama

Cast: Etsuko Gotô

Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Masaaki Daimon

The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinobu Ôtake

A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Masahiro Motoki

When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a musical. They would have to pay the overhead and,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Baisho

When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A teenage drama film about Makiko Hayashi, a top student who is aiming to get into University of Tokyo, together with a group of other students. She...

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Cast: Keiko Torii

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Cast: Riki Takeuchi

The story is about a convict released from prison for an old murder who is thinking about returning to his ex-wife and his former life. If she puts a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Takakura