Keiko Takahashi Movies

Set in the traditional city of Kyoto, Japan, this deeply poetic TV movie revolves around Chieko who becomes bewildered and troubled as she discovers...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aya Ueto

The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Eriko Hatsune

Genshiro is a famous Kenkaya of Edo. He turns up in incidents to get interfering fees but gets involved in a terrible incident… the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

A drama about a father and his son centered around the Great Hanshin earthquake.

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Cast: Naoto Ogata

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A high school girl is the best in her judo club until a girl from a rival academy arrives and takes her down. Can she summon the heart to beat her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Megumi Kiyosato

27-year-old Hatsumi Takimoto is a former teacher and now waitress. She holds a secret. Three years after her boyfriend died, she receives a letter...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aki Asakura

An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryudo Uzaki

Inuyama is intrigued by the existence of "Jake," a mysterious crocodile that has been sighted in many countries around the world. He continues to...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Ren Osugi

Genre: Romance

Cast: Keiko Takahashi

Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kikuko Fujimoto

Though a farmer and his fellow villagers in this Japanese film resist the effort to turn the unspoiled region in which they live into a land...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Japanese Drama film about the female experience during the war years.

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Cast: Keiko Takahashi

A former retainer to a noble family kills his wife's father when he tries to expose his past crimes. When he begins an affair with the daughter of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly": find a bug with the power to bring humans back from the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yûsuke Iseya

Satoru Mizushima is a designer, who prefers traditional things like handmade items and handwritten works. One day, he happens to meet a mysterious...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kazunari Ninomiya

Ippei Akabane (Takaya Kamikawa) is an unpopular novelist. He barely makes ends meet writing serials novels under different pen names. Daigo Kurei...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Shinji Takeda

The Saigo no Kotoba book follows Kawashima's life after her mother's death, and her pursuit of her singing dreams by performing free concerts on the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Misato Fukuen

Shiro's struggle with his father's cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he must communicate his love and admiration for him before...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira

In the early 1200s, Dogen brought Chinese Zen philosophy to Japan, and established the Japanese Zen school of Buddhism. He taught that a person was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kantarô Nakamura

"Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as "Kayokyoku". Kayokyoku is a catch-all term to describe the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

A man fed up with city life moves to a village in the mountains

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Emoto

Hitoshi Nagano, who works at an electronics store, picks up a cellphone left behind by a customer and goes about a scam. He calls the person's mother...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kazuya Kamenashi

A hard-boiled man who lived in the world of the Yakuza, leaves everything behind in search of revenge for his great friend.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eiji Okuda

Before going to Tokyo from her hometown of Mishima, Fukushima Prefecture, Kyoko stopped by at Tsuchiyu Onsen and was handed an "old woman's skin."...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Konatsu Kato

G-men of Japan fifth installment. A young detective, questioning a double suicide involving his police officer friend and a Turkish girl, travels...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Shuji Tokita (Eiji Okuda) is a film director and a professor at a university. He goes through a difficult time trying to film his new movie. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Okuda

Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the 2nd World War.

Genre: War

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese...

Genre: Action

Cast: Takanori Jinnai

Yasuko, a housewife, lives in an urban high-rise apartment with her husband Satoru and her son Takuto. Annoyed by spam calls and door-to-door...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Keiko Takahashi

Based on a blockbuster song by Kaguyahime, a folk group. Makoto, a college student who belongs to a puppet theatre club, meets Michiko, who works at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Takahashi

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masaomi Kondo

A 16-year-old girl works in a factory to pay her late father’s debt. When she makes up her mind to become a hostess, a boy approaches her with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Takahashi

Yumi Ishikawa (Mari Atsumi) is nineteen and a popular geisha. Orphaned when a child, Yumi she was raised by Shizuko, the madame of a geisha house....

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Cast: Mari Atsumi

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Cast: Masaki Kanda

A drama depicting the conflict between a man that ran to an old lover suffering from advanced leukemia, his wife and child that were left behind, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

Yuko is in love with an old poet who happens to be also a married man. She waits patiently for him and only him, yet she is constantly being lust by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Takahashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Takahashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Takahashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Takahashi

First production by Directors' Company. A man stripped bare of all modern values lives in a pure form, like a beast, feeding and satiating his every...

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Cast: Jugatsu Toi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Etsushi Toyokawa

Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A woman works as a prostitute and attendant to make a living at a bathhouse. She is athletic and is an avid runner. She has met and adopted a white...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reiko Nanjo

A film about an orphan kid in Japan in 1943

Genre: Drama

Cast: Saori

Comedy film.

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Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

Ai is a call girl that makes good money for what she does but there’s always at risk no matter how good the money is. The job makes her feel...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Chikako Aoyama

A woman run a store in a tiny seaside hamlet near the cliffs where people come to commit suicide.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Takahashi

Adaptation of the classic masterpiece about the relationship between parents and their children.

Genre: Family

Cast: Gō Katō

Directed by Banmei Takahashi of "New Love in Tokyo." A drama centered around identity, with a half Korean/Japanese man and a hermaphroditic woman.

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Cast: Itsumi Ohsawa

An old man falls into a coma and dreams about his childhood during WWII.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Junko's only son dies in an accident. Junko is exhausted by despair and grief, and her husband, who should be there to support her, instead blames...

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Cast: Yoshino Kimura