Wakaba Irie Movies

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuji Miyake

Yoshiyama Kazuko is a third-year junior high school student. One day while cleaning the lab, she smells lavender and faints. From then on, she has...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Tomoyo Harada

A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Sawako, working in a bank, tired of the usual everyday life, once she met the chef of French cuisine Yukio Goto and spent the night with him. Sawako...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Saitô

9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Satomi Kobayashi

The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments....

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

In the third installment of Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the end of battle, where Miyamoto continues on a mission...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of legend. His beginning are not exactly...

Genre: History

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

After noticing in the news there was a fire in an old canal town, Eguchi recalls visiting there a decade ago as a university student.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satomi Kobayashi

Sashichi is a dapper and handsome man. He is called a doll Sashichi because he is "a nice man like a doll." On top of that, he is a considerable...

Genre: Action

Cast: Masaaki Daimon

The son of wandering actors, also a budding actor, little Akira is forced to change school often and, after having attended thirty-two different...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wakaba Irie

Kizaki, who moved to Tokyo from the Kansai region to become a manga artist, is assigned to work at a used electrical appliance store where he works...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michitaka Tsutsui

Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki's sixth decade behind the camera, "A Boy's Summer in 1945" (literally "A Beautiful Summer in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tasuku Emoto

During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isako Washio

Maeda Tsunanori, the lord of Kaga Domain, had two young princes - Katsumaru, the son of his legitimate wife, who died, and Yasunosuke, the son of his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Movie adaptation of a novel by Rampo Edogawa.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Hada

Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

The film tells about a young detective Zenigata Heiji who successfully solves a disgusting and unusual case involving the manufacture of counterfeit...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kotaro Satomi

A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Second live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Harada

It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yasufumi Hayashi

Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his psyche,...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yasuko Tomita

Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada's ex-wife. Recovering from the shock,...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Morio Kazama

A Francophile filmmaker in a creative rut tries to pass off a free-spirited young actress as his movie-star wife in order to fool a chief from the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yukihiro Takahashi

Organized thieves battle against the Shogun’s ruthless ruling in attempt to get back their land.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

In a village subsisting on its herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaori Momoi

Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his aunt cares for his ailing cousin. Immersed in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shunsuke Kubozuka

Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Based on a true story. Shiro, a dog who lives in an inn on Akajima in Okinawa, swims to the opposite shore on Zamami to see his love, a dog named...

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Cast: Masaya Katô

A human drama on the state of marriage today, following the battle between a mother and daughter over her marriage and humorous depictions of the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yoshiko Mita

Mondonosuke, a young sword student, has a bad dream about his sensei being killed in a duel.Consequently, he quickly returns to his sensei's dojo in...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Junko Asahina

A young woman moves in with her estranged father after her mother passes away.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yuki Saito

A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that her late father had told her about.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomoyo Harada

In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greatest performance as a gambler returning to his home...

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Cast: Hashizo Okawa

The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hitomi Kuroki

A heartwarming, based-on-true-story of how a hearing-impaired couple, Masahiro and Namiko, knew each other, got married and began participating in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryo Anamiya

Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as "The Domain" Each a stand alone film in it's own,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

The only movie theater on the Onomichi seafront is about to close its doors. Its last night of screenings will be an all-night marathon of Japanese...

Genre: History

Cast: Takuro Atsuki

Film director Mario Baba meets a mysterious gentleman, and realizes he is a important man from his boyhood. The two chase each other around, causing...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tomokazu Miura

A legendary actress thought to be dead is discovered living in an isolated mansion. A screenwriter is tasked with writing her comeback film, which...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Takako Irie

People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaori Takahashi

The story of two young hustlers, Tatsuro and Shin. They each have a lady friend, and everything seems to work, until the day Shin declares he's in...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoshihiko Hakamada

Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maki Sakai

The Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a freak accident the year prior. When the other daughter...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hikari Ishida

After a series of chance meetings a shiftless motorbike enthusiast Ko begins a romance with a carefree girl Miyo, after teaching her to ride. When...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Riki Takeuchi

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Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Takehiro Murata

The Domain: White Blade

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Cast: Ken Takakura

Ayase Shinsuke, a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up in. He meets a strange boy who calls himself by the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Katsuno

Four sisters with no consanguinity are living together since childhood. When facing misfortune and grievances in lives, they give support and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Misako Konno