Kumiko Akiyoshi

Family (2023)

Based on the comic by Tsuchida Seiki, inspired by the artist's own life experience, this film portrays the loss and regeneration of the life of four men. ...

Smiles Leading To Happiness (2019)

Daichi (Mahiro Takasugi) is a young dental technician. He is called a prince due to his excellent skills at work and his handsome appearance. One day, he meets again his childhood friend Manatsu (Seia Yasuda). Manatsu has just began work as a dental hygien ...

Karanukan (2017)

Cold (2014)

Genius scientist Kikuo Himura (Yosuke Kubozuka) succeeds in developing a miracle cure for the cold virus. There are now people who are after Kikuo Himura's cold vaccine. Doctor Ichinose (Akira Emoto) is jealous of Kikuo Himura and tries to get the formula ...

The Intermission (2013)

A unique black comedy set in Ginza Cinepathos, a long-established movie theater that closes at the end of March 2013 while being familiar to movie fans with its retro appearance and unique lineup. Unique guests visiting the theater draw a human pattern dur ...

Furyō shōnen 3, 000-ri no sō-ban (atama) (2012)

The movie is based on an autobiographical book titled "Tokyo Furyou Shounen Densetsu." The book was written by Endo Natsuki, who was once affiliated with the biker team and band COOLS that was formed in the 1970s by Tachi Hiroshi (61) and Iwaki Koichi (60) ...

Kindachi Kosuke: The Devil Comes and Blows the Whistle (2007)

Translucent Tree (2004)

Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer from Tokyo, pays a visit to her town ...

The Blue Light (2003)

Shuichi Kushimori is a 17 year old high school student who lives happily with his mother and stepsister. One day, without warning, his estranged stepfather returns home from a long absence. He quickly falls into a circle of drinking and starts abusing his ...

Seventeen (2002)

Based on the actual experience of Michi Inoue, an active female high school student at the time, a movie of the best-selling essay "17 years old" depicting the honest feelings of a high school girl. ...

Desert Moon (2001)

A successful businessman and his alcoholic wife attempt to piece together their unhappy lives and shattered marriage. Little do Nagai and Akira know that their precarious relationship will soon be transformed by a stranger, the enigmatic Keechie. ...

Love Ghost (2001)

Teenager Midori's family moves back to the city where she lived as a child and is relieved to discover that her old friend Ryusuke still lives there. Her terrifying nightmares begin intersecting with her everyday life. Do her nightly dreams about an anonym ...

The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe (1999)

Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa. ...

Deep River (1995)

A group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India. ...

Lesson (1994)

The days of love between a free-spirited heroine who continues to seek freedom and a young man who is attracted to her charm. Starring Kumiko Akiyoshi. ...

Crimson Lotus (1993)

Sakura and Kenzo are married. Both think they can live a happy marriage, despite the fact that she cannot have children and he does not want to give up her relationship with her lover Yoko. ...

Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon (1993)

Biopic of Date Masamune. Young Masamune upon learning of the death of Nobunaga decides that he is the man to fill those sainted clogs. The fastest way to do this is to subjugate the neighboring warlords. This is an action that results in the death of his f ...

Saito Dosan: Rage of Power (1991)

During the age of warring clans (Sengoku Jidai), many samurai lords sought to unite the country under their banners by becoming the supreme leader. One of the first to vie for power in this way was Saito Dosan, the 'Viper'. His son-in-law, Oda Nobunaga, di ...

Heaven and Earth: Dawn Episode (1990)

Some of the greatest battles during the Age of Civil Wars were fought between the Uesugi and Takeda clans. Leading up to them was the incredible life of Uesugi Kenshin, who rose from a son out of favor with his... ...

The Enchantment (1989)

A Tokyo psychiatrist is hoping to better his career by marrying the daughter of a prominent doctor. The match is threatened however when an attractive but very troubled tourist guide comes to him for consultation... ...

The Discarnates (1988)

A recently divorced writer is reunited with the ghosts of his parents who died when he was a boy. However, every time he sees them he loses more life energy. Now, he must choose between starting a new life or staying forever in the past. ...

Tora-san Plays Daddy (1987)

A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san's dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the boy's mother, Tora-san meets a cosmetics saleslady and the three become a surrogate family, with Tora-san as "daddy". ...

The Orphaned Geisha (1987)

Geisha Yaeko is approached by a samurai who has just returned to Edo while she is painting a picture of camellia flowers in a temple. The samurai, whom she meets again at a drinking party, is the heir to the castle's daimyo, Yuuki Shinichiro, and the two b ...

Night Train (1987)

A woman faces betrayal, which tests her love. ...

Taikoki (1987)

Rising from the lowliest of country samurai to the heights of power as Taiko, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is one of the pivotal figures of the Sengoku period. ...

Flakes of Snow (1985)

A troubled architect weaves his way through numerous romantic situations in a search for true love and contentment. ...

The Horizon (1984)

Hideo is sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco to settle her family's debt. Over the next 20 years, the couple works hard and raises 4 children. After Pearl Harbor is attacked, they are interned with other Japanese immigrants in a camp, lo ...

Aitsu to lullaby (1983)

Japanese movie. ...

Afternoon of the Evil Spirits (1983)

An ancient evil spirit resurrects in the modern age and possesses a beautiful woman. ...

Weekend Shuffle (1982)

First mainstream film directed by Genji Nakamura, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1974 short story of the same title. ...

To Trap a Kidnapper (1982)

Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school. ...

The Shootout (1982)

A run-in with the police once again puts three former reformatory inmates on the wrong side of the law. Their situation becomes increasingly desperate as events spin out of control, culminating in an audacious hijack at sea... ...

Cute Devil (1982)

Ryoko visits brother-in-law Koji to recover from her time at a mental hospital. But she becomes increasingly convinced that Koji's eight year old niece Alice was responsible for her sister Fuyuko's death. Several horrific deaths follow. ...

Farewell to the Land (1982)

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 his back in penance, and locked in a sibling rivalry with his traditional but urbane younger brother who live ...

Kamikaze, the Adventurer (1981)

An ex-Olympic athlete and a student commit cash robbery. Aki Hoshino, a pre-med student, becomes inspired to steal money the school collected as "special fees" from parents wanting to assure their offspring's' acceptance into the hallowed institution. He f ...

Something Like It (1981)

Life seems to be good for Shintoto, an up-and-coming rakugo artist who has just had his first sexual experience at a local brothel. Lucky for him, he gets to date the beautiful sex worker he meets that day, and a younger high school rakugo aficionado is al ...

Toward the Terra (1980)

A young boy learns he is part of a powerful race of psionic humans who must fight the normal humans determined to keep them from Earth. ...

Crocodile, Parrot and Fur Seal (1977)

A comedy farce depicting the noise that occurs when two unemployed circus participants discover a debt bond in a basket with parrots, which they received instead of pension money. At that time, Hiromi Go and Kirin Kiki, who were gaining popularity, play th ...

Sugata Sanshiro (1977)

The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means of combat nor a demonstration of physical skill, but an art which reveals the artist to himself. ...

Mount Hakkoda (1977)

Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia. ...

Suddenly, Like a Storm (1977)

21-year-old Hideo Ishida is a reckless young man. Today again, he took part in a car race with a stolen driver's license and a car belonging to the junkyard. But unfortunately, things go wrong and after a collision with another car, the seriously injured H ...

Brother and Sister (1976)

Members of a country family react differently to the return of daughter Mon from a town factory.While the men are angry she is pregnant with no husband, the women show kindness. ...

Permanent Blue (1976)

In a fishing town by the Seto Sea, a student discovers a woman motionless on the beach and takes her back to his family's inn to nurse her, but he soon discovers than she is an extremist on the run from the police. ...

The War of the 16 Year Olds (1976)

A young drifter and a precocious sixteen years old girl slowly form a bond in a small town haunted by its wartime past. ...

The Corporation (1976)

Tadashi Iki returns to Japan from a Soviet gulag 11 years after being captured during the invasion of Manchuria. He is offered a position in the expansive Kinki Corporation, but rival corporations are competing for a government contract to produce fighter ...

Light and Shade of Youth (1976)

Hiroshi Nanjo is an active and tactful youth devoting more of his energies to his part time job than to studying for a college entrance exam. On the other hand, Bunpei Noro is an awkward fellow who once failed in a college entrance exam and is now studying ...

The Perennial Weed (1975)

A detective wonders that his sister is a murder suspect. ...

Statue in Fire (1974)

Drama about young people in the Japanese rock scene starring the lead singer of Japanese rock band The Tigers (1966-1971, 1981-1983). ...

Virgin Blues (1974)

Teenagers are rebels without a cause. Let it be for stress relief or just a way to kill time, Mami (Kumiko Akiyoshi) and Chiaki were always up to no good – but their luck runs out when they shoplift with some other girls at a local supermarket. They flee ...

Aoba shigereru (1974)

Based on the novel of the same name by Hisashi Inoue. ...

Younger Sister (1974)

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 see Neri. She wonders if the separation occurred due to her because the three of them used to live togethe ...

Red Paper Lantern (1974)

A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfamiliar relationships with their surroundings. ...