Sumie Sasaki Movies

Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2007 Fall Special" presents five tales. 1. Mirai Dousoukai - starring Ishihara Satomi. 2....

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Satomi Ishihara

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sachiko Hidari

In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

How did two sisters from Tsugaru survive in the big city of Tokyo? The older sister passed the nursing exam and works at a major hospital in Tokyo....

Genre: Action

Cast: Shinobu Yuki

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Mugihito

A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yu Aoi

A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Hisashi Igawa

Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave Tokyo,...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the city, and Kyoko has taken a job as a nurse at a...

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Cast: Masako Izumi

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Toshiya Fujita

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Matsuzaka

The indolent son of an oil vendor becomes a regular customer of a prostitute, racks up a mountain of debt, and is disowned by his parents.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kanako Higuchi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Mariko Okada

The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago Bay. The family of four consists of her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masako Izumi

Anthology film. "What's Wrong with Eating?" Numayama Kazuki is always complaining about his wife's, Atsugi Shizuka, body shape. Because of that...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Haruko Sagara

Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated by political opponents of her father. When she is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Young writer Tamako, who is wrongfully accused of killing the head yakuza, must find a way out of trouble.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Hiroko Yakushimaru

The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuko Tanaka

Four henchmen kill Ryu, the head of a group of dollar buyers, on a dark construction site. They divide 1.2 million yen from Ryu's bag into 4 parts...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kyōji Aoyama

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

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Cast: Keiko Takahashi

Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Misako Watanabe

A group of teenagers grow up in Okinawa amid the protests and resistance against the presence of the American base in the island.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ai Sasaki

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

Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" wafts through a hospice recreation room. Sitting at the grand piano is a young girl, Chiori, with a...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Mitsuru Hirata

Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joe Odagiri

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nagase

Aimi and her father move into an old, apartment building and learn quickly that things are not as they seem.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Mei Kurokawa

Set during the Meiji period (1868-1912), Kaede is the former mistress of a wealthy merchant. When he dies, she is forced out on the street and forced...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

In the middle of the era, Taisho, a big boss in Asakusa Iizuka, was severely questioned by the police about the source of funds for the Daido...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Daijirō Harada

Sci-fi writer Sakutaro (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and bank employee Setsuko (Yuko Takeuchi) met at as high school freshmen during their summer vacation....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuko Takeuchi

The drama special satirizes the daily life of a wife with a businessman husband who is busy with his work.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Reiji Kikukawa, who has a strong sense of justice, graduated from the police academy with the lowest score ever. He becomes a police constable, but...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toma Ikuta

Ryo finds employment cleaning windows of high-rises. Kagari lives inside one of the buildings. Ryo and Kagari lock gazes for a moment. It is a moment...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Uemura

Ayako is a 7-year-old girl with a dark, tanned face and a somewhat mysterious expression on her face. She shows up at the elementary school and acts...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Morio Kazama

A woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and joins a political theater troupe to protest the U.S. Security Pact.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ineko Arima

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last days of World War II.

Genre: War

Cast: Takeo Chii

A man and a woman committed double suicide in Kanazawa City. Immediately after the incident, Yoshiko Shiota, a woman living in Tokyo, contacts the...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Masakazu Tamura

After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s, the rough-hewn blind shamisen player and folk-song collector named...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryūzō Hayashi

A disillusioned Natsume arrives at Coin de Rue, a popular Tokyo pastry shop, begging for work. Aiming to become a high-calibre pastry chef, she is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yu Aoi

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

A remake of the 1953 film of the same name.

Genre: War

Cast: Komaki Kurihara

When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jūkichi Uno

A high school student steals the panties of a girl he likes but is witnessed, which sets off a chain of events that send his life and the lives of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kentaro Ito

Work life for Shunsuke Osaki has been success after success, but at some point his family began to slip by the wayside. As his elderly father begins...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naoto Ogata

Patronized by a gang ruling the city, Mako delinquently plays around a night club every night with her bad company. One night, a guy Hideo gets...

Genre: Action

Cast: Junko Natsu

Hana is a nineteen-year old expectant mother. She travels with her grandmother's ashes to her grandmother's house. Hana's mother, who gave birth to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aya Okamoto

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Momi’s House is a facility to support self-reliance of young people with problems. The facility is run by Yasutoshi (Naoto Ogata) and his wife...

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Cast: Sara Minami

Naive office girl Yuko supports her blithe big city lifestyle with a part-time job at a neighborhood cafe. Attracted to her manager there, the...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Oyamada

A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yutaka Mizutani

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tamori

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kento Kaku

Based on the comic book by Tatsuo Kanai

Genre: Romance

Cast: Rei Matsunaga

A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisano Yamaoka

A 7 years girl is found dead in the local park’s toilet. Kaga Kyouichiro, who was asked to find the girl, and his cousin Matsumiya Shuhei...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroshi Abe

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: Yūsuke Iseya

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

Miyama Akira is a movie director in his 60's. In the past, he left his hometown to chase his dream. When he learns that his friend, who used to talk...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ren Osugi

A film about a juvenile delinquent who swears, yet fails, to rehabilitate.

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Cast: Jushiro Hirata

A coming-of-age drama based on a novel by Kei Moriyama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Meiko Kaji

Here is a school that has never expelled a single student, believing in its children even after betrayal and betrayal after betrayal! Yoji (Yoichi...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiemi Eri

The one where they perform an exorcism on Minami Takahashi and stuff. Also the first segment here is Tsuruta remaking the earring story from the...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Yuko Oshima

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

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Cast: Masakazu Tamura

A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo. The owner of the...

Genre: History

Cast: Yūko Natori

The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Taiji Tonoyama

Haruka is a rookie physical therapist at an inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Japan. Just after her boyfriend suddenly dumps her, it's set that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Narumi Uno

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Cast: Sumie Sasaki