Hideko Yoshida Movies

When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation to save him....

Genre: Action

Cast: Eriko Sato

Nagito has a fetish for calligraphy on the human body and meets her ideal soulmate Jerome, an English translator sent to Japan. However, once...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vivian Wu

This documentary follows and records interviews with an actress in an underground theater troupe and others around her.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hideko Yoshida

Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ichiro Araki

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Just when you think Kyoshiro's life can't get any stranger, someone starts running around raping and murdering, and leaving notes proudly proclaiming...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A trilogy of separate stories. In "Labyrinth labyrinthos", a girl and her cat enter a strange world. In "Running Man", a racer takes on the ultimate...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Banjo Ginga

A close look at the inner workings of Japan's political underbelly.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eisaku Yoshida

Yokubo from director Tetsuo Shinohara is based off of the award-winning love story by Mariko Koike. A young man searching for physical comfort and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuka Itaya

The psychiatric evaluation of a young actor arrested for a brutal double murder concludes he may be unfit for trial. Further investigation, however,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyoka Suzuki

In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As further disasters follow, politicians plead with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi

Comedy centered on a stripper agency

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Miyo Hanayama works as a home care nurse, supporting the home care of patients who are close to death. Shigeaki Noguchi complains that his wife has...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Etsuko Ichihara

Satomi is not putting much effort into her school work. She is told by her instructor that she is short of the minimum number of credits to advance....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masami Nagasawa

When Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter to Mitsuo and Mitsuo goes looking for her. But...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A hospital accidentally gives a man Count Dracula's blood while trying to save his life. A year later, he's back from the dead, trying to right the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Ogata

A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

A young boy named Taichi Ogawara finds a fox cub on the side of the road and takes it home as a pet. He discovers it is blind, deaf, and mute....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Arashi Fukasawa

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naoto Takenaka

Toru Hayashi is an unremarkable bachelor who lives with his mother, until one day a young woman named Rumi moves in in the apartment upstairs. Rumi...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kyoko Koizumi

Romantic drama based on the manga published in Young Comic.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masami Naka

Based on the novel by Osamu Dazai and distributed by ATG. The story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Ohmori

Based on the comic by Mitsutoshi Furuya

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shinsuke Minami

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

Kenta, a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar, when he meets a man in a Hawaiian shirt named Yamaki. He invites...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuko Takeuchi

Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The...

Genre: History

Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

A double suicide happens in Morioka in Iwate Prefecture. The two were employees of rival real estate companies. A prosecutor who senses a setup...

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Cast: Ken Ogata

Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ikko Furuya

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Chiyomatsu under the hill, also known as Choromatsu. He is a young man whose occupation is an approach shop, that is, a phony business of sex...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Masaaki Sakai

Anzu, an office worker, has been steadily saving money to move to the U.S. and live freely. When she finally reaches her goal of 5 million yen, her...

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Cast: Kintarô Hara

Panic occurs when the Governor of Tokyo proposes to attract a nuclear power plant to Tokyo.

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Cast: Koji Yakusho

Naruse Uta is a "unique" 13 year old child. She possessed the talent to read sheet music even before she could speak, but has now come to the point...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Riko Narumi

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A period comedy set at the end of the Sengoku Period about Sasuke Saruhi, a middle-aged ninja.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ichirō Zaitsu

A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Etsushi Toyokawa

In Genroku-era Japan, after Lord Asano is forced to commit suicide for attacking Kira, Chief Retainer Araki sends Kaizuka Shingo undercover to...

Genre: History

Cast: Hideko Yoshida

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sachiko Hidari

Set in Shanghai during the turbulent years leading up to and through World War II, the film follows a group of Japanese jazz musicians and performers...

Genre: Music

Cast: Hideko Yoshida