Keiko Takahashi

Analog (2023)

Satoru Mizushima is a designer, who prefers traditional things like handmade items and handwritten works. One day, he happens to meet a mysterious woman, Miyuki Miharu, at the cafe named Piano. She seems to have similar values to him and he is attracted to ...

The Old Woman Skin (2023)

Before going to Tokyo from her hometown of Mishima, Fukushima Prefecture, Kyoko stopped by at Tsuchiyu Onsen and was handed an "old woman's skin." This allowed her transform herself into an old woman, enabling her to find out what's truly in the heart of t ...

Summer Blooms (2018)

27-year-old Hatsumi Takimoto is a former teacher and now waitress. She holds a secret. Three years after her boyfriend died, she receives a letter from him. After meeting a former student, Hatsumi Takimoto confesses about her past. ...

Red Ball (2015)

Shuji Tokita (Eiji Okuda) is a film director and a professor at a university. He goes through a difficult time trying to film his new movie. He believes his movies reflect his own personal expriences. A female high school student, Ritsuko (Yukino Murakami) ...

The Serialist (2013)

Ippei Akabane (Takaya Kamikawa) is an unpopular novelist. He barely makes ends meet writing serials novels under different pen names. Daigo Kurei (Shinji Takeda) is on death row. He killed four women twelve years ago. During his murdering spree, he sent pi ...

It's Me It's Me (2013)

Hitoshi Nagano, who works at an electronics store, picks up a cellphone left behind by a customer and goes about a scam. He calls the person's mother and pretends to be her son. He then gets the mother to transfer money to his bank account. Soon, Hitoshi g ...

Kamihate Store (2012)

A woman run a store in a tiny seaside hamlet near the cliffs where people come to commit suicide. ...

Eclair (2011)

A film about an orphan kid in Japan in 1943 ...

Symphony in August: Shibuya 2002-2003 (2009)

The Saigo no Kotoba book follows Kawashima's life after her mother's death, and her pursuit of her singing dreams by performing free concerts on the streets of Tokyo's Shibuya district. ...

Be Sure to Share (2009)

Shiro's struggle with his father's cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he must communicate his love and admiration for him before it's too late. A series of flashbacks reveals their relationship over time, and the trouble Shiro faced con ...

Zen (2009)

In the early 1200s, Dogen brought Chinese Zen philosophy to Japan, and established the Japanese Zen school of Buddhism. He taught that a person was capable of realizing Buddhahood within himself, by way of Zazen. Zazen is extended hours of sitting and medi ...

The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia (2007)

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 dead, in order to report on the afterlife. With his trusty companion Endo in tow, he sets off on a quest fo ...

Tokyo Rhapsody (2007)

"Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as "Kayokyoku". Kayokyoku is a catch-all term to describe the music that defined two generations of post-war Japan. Although the term survives, it has a strong connotatio ...

Koto (2005)

Set in the traditional city of Kyoto, Japan, this deeply poetic TV movie revolves around Chieko who becomes bewildered and troubled as she discovers the true facets of her past. With the harmony and time-honored customs of a Japanese backdrop, the story be ...

Tracing Jake (2004)

Inuyama is intrigued by the existence of "Jake," a mysterious crocodile that has been sighted in many countries around the world. He continues to travel around the world, listening to the testimonies of various people of different ages, nationalities, and ...

Uzumaki (2000)

The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals. ...

The Driverless Hearse (1998)

Magnitude: Bridge to Tomorrow (1997)

A drama about a father and his son centered around the Great Hanshin earthquake. ...

A Story of Modern Chivalry (1997)

A hard-boiled man who lived in the world of the Yakuza, leaves everything behind in search of revenge for his great friend. ...

The Man with Two Hearts (1996)

Seraphim Night (1996)

Directed by Banmei Takahashi of "New Love in Tokyo." A drama centered around identity, with a half Korean/Japanese man and a hermaphroditic woman. ...

Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident (1995)

Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II ...

I Can Hear the Duck Singing (1993)

A man fed up with city life moves to a village in the mountains ...

Door II: Tokyo Diary (1991)

Ai is a call girl that makes good money for what she does but there's always at risk no matter how good the money is. ...

Hoshi wo tsugu mono (1990)

An old man falls into a coma and dreams about his childhood during WWII. ...

War and Flowers (1989)

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

Door (1988)

Yasuko, a housewife, lives in an urban high-rise apartment with her husband Satoru and her son Takuto. Annoyed by spam calls and door-to-door salesmen, Yasuko slams the door on a salesman's hand when he tries to squeeze a flyer through the apartment's cha ...

Golf Before Dawn (1987)

Comedy film. ...

The Story of Jiro (1987)

Adaptation of the classic masterpiece about the relationship between parents and their children. ...

Newaza Gal: Straight From Behind (1987)

A high school girl is the best in her judo club until a girl from a rival academy arrives and takes her down. Can she summon the heart to beat her rival and become the next representative for the nationals? ...

Love Letter (1985)

A drama depicting the conflict between a man that ran to an old lover suffering from advanced leukemia, his wife and child that were left behind, and the friendship that develops between his wife and his former lover. ...

Curse of the Seven flutes (1983)

Genshiro is a famous Kenkaya of Edo. He turns up in incidents to get interfering fees but gets involved in a terrible incident… the Shichikudano Whistles known as Akinonanakusa and her seven sisters. The sisters were killed one after another. The whistle ...

Wolf: Running Is Sex (1982)

A serial rapist's violent daily routine is disrupted when a disaffected young woman who shares his primal lifestyle begins living with him. ...

Lake of Illusions (1982)

A free-spirited girl living in a Japanese province spends her time working in a brothel and running with her dog. When her routine is shattered she gets on a path of hate and self discovery. ...

The Imperial Japanese Empire (1982)

Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the 2nd World War. ...

Tattoo (1982)

An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank. ...

Burst City (1982)

Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living. ...

Love Letter (1981)

Yuko is in love with an old poet who happens to be also a married man. She waits patiently for him and only him, yet she is constantly being lust by others. ...

Summer of Demon (1981)

A former retainer to a noble family kills his wife's father when he tries to expose his past crimes. When he begins an affair with the daughter of another clan's retainer, her father tries to poison him but the substance instead claims an innocent victim.. ...

Auto Town (1981)

Main Line to Terror (1975)

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan Nation ...

The Gate of Youth (1975)

Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of the life of the characters. Shinsuke's father dies while bravely using dynamite to rescue a gro ...

Kandagawa (1974)

Based on a blockbuster song by Kaguyahime, a folk group. Makoto, a college student who belongs to a puppet theatre club, meets Michiko, who works at a printing factory, and they come to learn the bitterness and sadness of love. The two live humbly by the R ...

Rise, Fair Sun (1973)

Though a farmer and his fellow villagers in this Japanese film resist the effort to turn the unspoiled region in which they live into a land development, they are ultimately unsuccessful. ...

The Awakening (1971)

Games (1971)

A 16-year-old girl works in a factory to pay her late father's debt. When she makes up her mind to become a hostess, a boy approaches her with kind and gentle manners... ...

Love for Eternity (1971)

Snow Country Elegy (1971)

Just for You (1970)

Yumi Ishikawa (Mari Atsumi) is nineteen and a popular geisha. Orphaned when a child, Yumi she was raised by Shizuko, the madame of a geisha house. Yumi is impulsive, out-going. And although she cannot claim to be good at Japanese dancing or playing musical ...

The Forbidden Fruit (1970)

Child Bride (1970)

High School Affair (1970)

G-men of Japan 5: Skyscraper Wolves (1960)

G-men of Japan fifth installment. A young detective, questioning a double suicide involving his police officer friend and a Turkish girl, travels all the way from Kyushu to Tokyo. Disguising himself as a yakuza member, he intends to root out the underworl ...