Eiko Nagashima

Desperate Sunflowers (2016)

Natsuko Kotani was born to be a swindler. Meanwhile, Tetsuko Ishida is Natsuko's distant relative. Unlike Natsuko, Tetsuko is an attorney with an upright disposition. Whenever Natsuko makes trouble, Tetsuko is called to solve her troubles. Believing that N ...

Present for You (2015)

Shigeru Kajiwara (Joe Odagiri) works part-time at a company that sells mysterious health food. One day, the other employees run off with the company's money. ...

Piecing Me Back Together (2010)

A young woman named Izumi suffers the loss of her boyfriend Junichi, who died from a fatal motorcycle accident. The shock from her boyfriend's sudden death causes Izumi to lose her memory from the time of the accident. A lawyer named Makiko then helps Izum ...

Yamazakura, The Cherry Tree in the Hills (2008)

Based on a short story written by Shuhei Fujisawa (who also wrote Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, Love and Honor), the film depicts the uneasy life of Noe Isomura (Rena Tanaka) with the difficult family she has married into after her former husband pas ...

Misuzu (2001)

Tells the life story of Teru Kaneko, who was born and raised in a small coastal town. While working as a clerk in a book shop, Teru starts writing her own verses to get away from the worries of a disgraceful marriage. Under the pseudonym Misuzu, her works ...

What Can I Do for You (1999)

Takase, a fledgling recording engineer, visits Miyakojima Island in Okinawa for a documentary program. There he meets violinist Yohko and is attracted to her. She participates in the filming as a reporter despite the fact that she has a boyfriend with whom ...

Looking for (1998)

Natsuko's mother is hospitalized and only has six months to live. Her last wish is to see her father, who left her 20 years ago. Natsuko sets out to find him. ...

An Obsession (1997)

Police detective Sosuke is shot down while chasing down a suspect. While he is unconscious, his gun is stolen. He recovers, but loses his wife and resigns from the police force. All of a sudden, his lost gun is used in a series of crimes. ...

Isana no umi (1997)

Renji grew up in a family that runs a pelagic fishing business and vaguely thinks about becoming a fisherman in the future. He is attracted to Kyoko, a new transfer student to his fisheries school who is knowledgeable about whales, but there is a big diffe ...

Wild Life (1997)

An ex-boxer working for a game parlor owner gets caught up in a complex blackmail operation he doesn't understand. Before long he's caught between two yakuza bosses and a mysterious thief who motivation is unknown. Add in the boss' daughter who has a crush ...

Moon Angel (1996)

Two female truck drivers detest each other, and try to steal each other's business. Their rigs are both painted with elaborate large pictures of beautiful naked women. One day, whilst hauling loads of fish in Hokkaido, they are separately stopped by traffi ...

The Man with Two Hearts (1996)

Gonin (1995)

Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers. ...

Like a Rolling Stone (1994)

Tanaka is a yakuza who collects 'protection money' from establishments. He has just been released from jail, where he had spent eight years, and finds out that his boss wants to get rid of him. Tanaka is not an archetypal yakuza; he travels by public trans ...

Haruka, Nostalgia (1993)

Ayase Shinsuke, a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up in. He meets a strange boy who calls himself by the author's real name. ...

Yakuza Warfare (1991)

Two childhood friends find themselves caught in the midst of an all-out turf war between rival factions in the yakuza-stained region of Kyushu. ...

Mr. Lady Cinderella at Dawn (1990)

Ningen no sabaku (1990)

Music Box (1989)

A former yakuza returns to gangster life after an old enemy threatens his son. ...

The Seburi Story (1985)

The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the community's members who especially experience difficulties as modern Japan encroaches on their world. The setting is World War II, and confli ...

Cursed Village in Yudono Mountains (1984)

Awaji, the president of a famous food company, is found murdered in a locked bathroom. with mummified human hands found all over the body. Taki, a Young bonze, begins to privately investigate. ...

Ryuji (1983)

Ryuji tries quitting the yakuza to actively support his wife and daughter; as he's used to easy money, it's a difficult transition. ...

Battle Anthem (1983)

The story of Japan's victory in the battle of Tsushima Strait. ...

Grudge Girls Academy: Serial Murder of Fear! (1981)

There are two bizarre rumors spreading about a girls' high school called "Seiwa Joshi Gakuen." The first is a "Hanako-san in the Toilet"-like story about a painting that hangs in the principal's office = young twin sisters who escape from the painting at n ...

Crazed Fruit (1981)

A working class young man, Tetsuo, who distrusts all rich people, falls in love with a girl, Chika, from an affluent family. He has a difficult time, but love survives despite the problems. ...

Tetsugen (1981)

Japanese film based on the life of Zen Master Tetsugen Doko. ...

The Beasts' Carnival (1980)

A hit man working for the Yakuza double crosses his employers and flees with a cache of diamonds from the latest heist. Injured and hiding in the mountain regions of Spain, with Japanese assassins in hot pursuit, he takes refuge in the home of a local doct ...

Pink Tush Girl: Proposal Strategy (1980)

Two high school girls graduate and one of them goes off to a rural town to join an underground dance troupe. The other decides to visit and she stays with a troubled family. ...

White Love (1979)

Kobasashi was learning Spanish so that she could go to Spain to look for her father who had left the family. She fell in love with her language teacher Ken. Finally she found her father in Madrid and she also met Ken's ex-girl friend Taeko there. Ken came ...

Red Scorpion Beauty (1979)

Female Teacher (1977)

A female teacher is raped by a gang of students in her school. The repercussions of this lead to scandal, blackmail and murder. ...

Love in the Mud (1977)

This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tokyo, being with her friends and studying. Her biggest interest is ladies hats. She is rather well off, as her father is the ambassador of Japan in Spain. On ...

Lullaby to Kill (1977)

Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolved murder. Then some murders happen. Kindaichi must find out about the past in order to reveal who the mu ...

Sachiko no sachi (1976)

Based on the manga of the same name by Kazuo Kamimura. ...

Yojōhan seishun garasu-bari (1976)

A film that portrays the youth and fragile love of a transportation worker in Tokyo. ...