Masako Motai Movies

On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satomi Kobayashi

An overworked career woman leaves her life in the city for an island vacation only to encounter eccentric local inhabitants.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Satomi Kobayashi

When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masahiro Motoki

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

1990 Original Video

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Cast: Masako Motai

A 30-something Gundam fan and engineer is forced to live with his recluse brother Maury and younger sister Lisa to take care of their Japanese...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masako Motai

Fuji Television film based on the manga of the same name by Hiroshi Aro.

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Cast: Megumi Mori

Young Atsuko Kagami comes into possession of a magical mirror that lets her transform into anything she wishes. Atsuko Kagami then attempts to save a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Haruka Ayase

Ichiro Hanada is a mischievous boy who gains the ability to see and talk to ghosts after a near-death experience. (live-action adaptation of the...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kenta Suga

A story of 6 days with 5 people gathered around a small sparkling pool at Chiang Mai in Thailand. 4 years ago, Kyoko started to live in Thailand and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satomi Kobayashi

Blessed with several large rivers, interconnected streams and springs, Japan's ancient capital, Kyoto, anoints the land with a bountiful source of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Satomi Kobayashi

A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryo Kase

Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi, and their two children, undergoes a dramatic change...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bengal

A comedy about a young woman who has terminal cancer.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kyoko Koizumi

Koji, a jazz musician, takes a cigarette break in between sets at a Tokyo nightclub. He witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Linda, who is being...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

The Tokyo Olympics are about to open, and Rynosuke Chagawa is excited to receive a new TV set to watch the upcoming events. His wife Hiromi is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hidetaka Yoshioka

Following the death of his wife professor Kyoichi leads a solitary life by the sea. A stray cat called Mii, who was being fed by his wife, not only...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Issey Ogata

Eikichi left his hometown in Hiroshima for Tokyo. He tried to find success with his music band, but failed. Several years later, Eikichi goes home to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda

In a small town on the countryside, every young boy is forced to have the same bowl-head haircut known as the "Yoshino-gari" hairstyle. Then one day,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryo Yoneda

Kazuo encounters a religious group travelling around Japan performing "miracles". He discovers they are fakes, but is intrigued by the showmanship of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Masato Hagiwara

Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

A haiku club comprised of five unlikely students aim to win the national high school haiku tournament.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Megumi Seki

Hana, Toki and Toki’s daughter Toshi begin to live in the countryside. Hana’s nephew Akira, who just graduated from middle school, also...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satomi Kobayashi

Teenage Mutsuko comes to Tokyo for work but ends up at a repair shop. She befriends the owner's family. Neighbors Hiromi, writer Chagawa with admirer...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maki Horikita

Would-be writer Ryunosuke Chagawa is still living across the street from Norifumi Suzuki and his auto repair shop, though now he shares his home with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maki Horikita

Yukio is your average high school student who spends his days going to class and avoiding bullies. That is until he meets Ryusuke, a guitar prodigy....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiro Mizushima

Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Though they believe their service will help to...

Genre: War

Cast: Yuji Oda

Hazuki and Aoi are classmates but their relationship outside class is fraught, and outside school non-existent. But when both girls are drawn to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minori Hagiwara

In Tokyo, actress Touko leaves the filming set of her latest project and comes across three people by random chance: she gives a ride to a man named...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satomi Kobayashi

The highly disciplined human resources manager Taro Onizuka starts to heal and change as he raises the kitten he found in a park.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ren Osugi