Takashi Yamanaka Movies

Based on a true story - a true love story of a man and his wife who are at the mercy of fate, but wish to be reunited for 11 years. With thoughts of...

In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and Tokachi, and an anarchist group called...

Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness....

Welcome to Kowloon Walled City: a dystopian townscape where the people are brimming with nostalgia, and where the past, present, and future converge....

A film adaptation of Sayaka Murata's novel Vanishing World

A suburban town is faced with a series of bizarre incidents in which children disappear and three days later an adult in their life dies. A...

The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go...

Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure...

Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness....

Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this portrait of a group of vulnerable, variously wounded people — a depressed housewife,...

A rock band writes a song called "Fish Story" that is foretold to save the world. The song exceeds the boundaries of space and time and ties people...

A young man falls in love with a woman he meets at a party, but when she leaves him, he must face some uncomfortable truths.

A man has a baby, runs away, then comes back, but he can't just show up, apologize, and hope that makes himself a grown man.

A depressed widower, a bored housewife, and a gay lawyer all intersect in this triptych of love lost.

A man suicides causing ruin for his family, reasons are unknown, but his son will decide to take revenge after a succesion of events.

Having failed to get into graduate school, with no girlfriend, no money, and no prospects of success with his band, Tsurugi's life has reached rock...

Three patients of different backgrounds, illnesses and stages are being treated at a psychiatric clinic in Nagano Prefecture. Their cases range from...

Daikichi is a 70-year-old man and lives on a small island. Since his wife died, he has lived with his cat Tama. Daikichi was born and raised on the...

High school student Kasumi Ogino is a member of the school choir and after years of praise for her singing voice thinks she is the absolute...

Adapted from the manga series "Black Jack"