Kumiko Akiyoshi Movies

First mainstream film directed by Genji Nakamura, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1974 short story of the same title.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfamiliar relationships with their surroundings.

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Cast: Kenji Takaoka

Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Life seems to be good for Shintoto, an up-and-coming rakugo artist who has just had his first sexual experience at a local brothel. Lucky for him, he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two young sons, whose names he has had tattooed on...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jinpachi Nezu

Shuichi Kushimori is a 17 year old high school student who lives happily with his mother and stepsister. One day, without warning, his estranged...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kazunari Ninomiya

A Tokyo psychiatrist is hoping to better his career by marrying the daughter of a prominent doctor. The match is threatened however when an...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

Sakura and Kenzo are married. Both think they can live a happy marriage, despite the fact that she cannot have children and he does not want to give...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

A group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

A successful businessman and his alcoholic wife attempt to piece together their unhappy lives and shattered marriage. Little do Nagai and Akira know...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Mikami

Teenager Midori's family moves back to the city where she lived as a child and is relieved to discover that her old friend Ryusuke still lives there....

Genre: Horror

Cast: Risa Goto

Genius scientist Kikuo Himura (Yosuke Kubozuka) succeeds in developing a miracle cure for the cold virus. There are now people who are after Kikuo...

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Cast: Yosuke Kubozuka

A young drifter and a precocious sixteen years old girl slowly form a bond in a small town haunted by its wartime past.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

A woman faces betrayal, which tests her love.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukiyo Toake

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 playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

An ex-Olympic athlete and a student commit cash robbery. Aki Hoshino, a pre-med student, becomes inspired to steal money the school collected as...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

During the age of warring clans (Sengoku Jidai), many samurai lords sought to unite the country under their banners by becoming the supreme leader....

Genre: History

Cast: Ken Matsudaira

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

In a fishing town by the Seto Sea, a student discovers a woman motionless on the beach and takes her back to his family's inn to nurse her, but he...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

Akio's sister, Neri has separated from her boyfriend. They lived in Kamakura. She moves in with her brother. Her ex-boyfriend's sister, Eiko comes to...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

Based on the novel of the same name by Hisashi Inoue.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masao Kusakari

A young woman fails her university entrance exam and starts shoplifting.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

Drama about young people in the Japanese rock scene starring the lead singer of Japanese rock band The Tigers (1966-1971, 1981-1983).

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Sawada

A detective wonders that his sister is a murder suspect.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

21-year-old Hideo Ishida is a reckless young man. Today again, he took part in a car race with a stolen driver's license and a car belonging to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiromi Go

Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.

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Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

A run-in with the police once again puts three former reformatory inmates on the wrong side of the law. Their situation becomes increasingly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshizumi Ishihara

Japanese movie.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kazukiyo Nishikiori

Rising from the lowliest of country samurai to the heights of power as Taiko, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is one of the pivotal figures of the Sengoku period.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyôhei Shibata

A young boy learns he is part of a powerful race of psionic humans who must fight the normal humans determined to keep them from Earth.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Junichi Inoue

Hiroshi Nanjo is an active and tactful youth devoting more of his energies to his part time job than to studying for a college entrance exam. On the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiromi Go

Daichi (Mahiro Takasugi) is a young dental technician. He is called a prince due to his excellent skills at work and his handsome appearance. One...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

Based on the actual experience of Michi Inoue, an active female high school student at the time, a movie of the best-selling essay “17 years...

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Cast: Yukari Taki

Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

While Ryoko is in Vienna studying music, her boyfriend dies in a traffic accident. Ryoko believes that she has psychic powers which killed him, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

Some of the greatest battles during the Age of Civil Wars were fought between the Uesugi and Takeda clans. Leading up to them was the incredible life...

Genre: History

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomokazu Miura

A unique black comedy set in Ginza Cinepathos, a long-established movie theater that closes at the end of March 2013 while being familiar to movie...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

Biopic of Date Masamune. Young Masamune upon learning of the death of Nobunaga decides that he is the man to fill those sainted clogs. The fastest...

Genre: History

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Genre: Crime

Cast: Goro Inagaki

Hideo is sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco to settle her family's debt. Over the next 20 years, the couple works hard and raises...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

The days of love between a free-spirited heroine who continues to seek freedom and a young man who is attracted to her charm. Starring Kumiko...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

The movie is based on an autobiographical book titled “Tokyo Furyou Shounen Densetsu.” The book was written by Endo Natsuki, who was once...

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Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

Genre: Romance

Cast: Gackt Camui

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Cast: Yuki Himura

A comedy farce depicting the noise that occurs when two unemployed circus participants discover a debt bond in a basket with parrots, which they...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiromi Go

Based on the comic by Tsuchida Seiki, inspired by the artist's own life experience, this film portrays the loss and regeneration of the life of four...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryo Yoshizawa