Masahiko Nishimura

Our Last Day (2024)

A middle-schooler, Kiho lives alone after her father committed suicide and her mother who has been absorbed in a cult religion disappeared. One day, when Kiho goes to school and sees a sign "School is closed" she decides to find an eternal rest. However, w ...

[MADO] (2023)

Starring Masahiko Nishimura, "MADO(Window)" is an extremely closed, socially conscious drama based on a true story of the actual court case known as "Yokohama Secondhand Smoke Trial" in Japan, This is the first feature film directed by a successful commerc ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles: Sherlock the Movie (2022)

Based on the feature-length novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles" written by Arthur Conan Doyle, which is the movie version of the TV drama "Sherlock" broadcast on the Fuji TV series in 2019. ...

Dreaming of the Meridian Arc (2022)

In the present day, the local government of Katori City is in the process of sponsoring a taiga drama about its famous historical figure Tadataka Ino, who is known for being the first person to make a map of Japan in 1821. During the process of of making t ...

My Father's Tracks (2021)

Taiga Kitamura, who was separated from his mother at an early age, believes that his father's selfishness in devoting himself to the rally hastened her death, and leaves for Tokyo upon entering university. While aiming to become an actor but feeling vaguel ...

Oshûkatsu (2021)

Shinichi and Chikako Ohara have been married for 50 years. After Shinichi retired from his job, he has stayed at home, which Chikako stresses over. They are on the verge of having a divorce. Meanwihle, their daughter, Aya runs a food truck. She meets Ryota ...

The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood (2021)

In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who get involved in misadventures while on set. ...

Angry Rice Wives (2021)

In August, 1918, Matsuura Ito lives in a coastal village of Toyama with her husband and three children. During the summer, there wasn't much fish to catch, so her husband has been far away from home to catch fish. To support herself and her children, Ito c ...

Izakaya Choji (2020)

Apparel Designer (2020)

HIRAKATA a major apparel manufacturer in financial crisis, decides to launch a new brand to revive its fortunes, and brings back Yuji Fujimura (Masanobu Takashima) who left the company after a previous conflict with the president. and gathers a group of y ...

The 47 Rōnin in Debt (2019)

Feudal lord Takuminokami Asano has been led to kill himself due to a scheme by Kozukenosuke Kira. Having no time to mourn his death, samurai Kuranosuke Oishi decides to take revenge on Kira, planning an attack with the help of accountant Chosuke Yato… bu ...

Samurai Shifters (2019)

Shunnosuke Katagiri is a samurai and a bookworm. He receives a mission to help a daimyo move. With the assistance of Genemon Takamura and Oran, Shunnosuke Katagiri carries out his mission. ...

Momikeshite Fuyu 2019 Natsu: Natsu demo Samukute Shini Soudesu (2019)

Shusaku, who is the second son of the Kitazawa family, is going through hard times. He fails his job interviews for a patisserie position, which he hopes to become. Except for Shusaku, the other family members have gained the same social positions and fina ...

Eien no Nispa (2019)

Takeshiro Matsuura was a Japanese explorer who was the first person to document the inner reaches of what is now known as Hokkaido. He explored the area extensively during the mid 19th century and created a map of the island that included parts which had b ...

What a Wonderful Family! 3 (2018)

At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one afternoon, housewife Fumie falls asleep and wakes up to find a thief has stolen her secret money she kept hidden in the refrigerator. ...

Linking Love (2017)

Struggling high schooler Miyui Mashio is transported back to 1991, where she attends school with her quarreling parents—realizing she must form an idol group with her mother to help her parents fall in love, or risk never being born. ...

What a Wonderful Family! 2 (2017)

Several years after Shuzo settled his wife's birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new problems. Ignoring his family's worry that he is too old to drive, Shuzo takes his old schoolmate for a spin after ...

The Blue Hearts (2017)

Six directors picked a favorite song by Japanese punk rock band "The Blue Hearts" and made a short film inspired by the song. ...

Great evil does not go to sleep: The counterattack of the special investigation unit prosecutor (2016)

Shinichi Tominaga is a prosecutor, newly appointed to the special investigation division for the Tokyo district prosecutors' office. He is currently busy with a case involving suspicious donations to powerful politician Yohei Tachibana. Shinichi then recei ...

Samurai Hustle Returns (2016)

Masaatsu Naito successfully completes Sankin-kotai (required ritual to visit the shogun). On his way home, he hears that an insurrection by peasants has taken place in his hometown of Yunagaya. Masaatsu Naito knows that it is a counterattack by Matsudaira. ...

The Magnificent Nine (2016)

Residents in a town have a hard time due to the land tax and forced labor. 9 people, including Juzaburo Kokutaya (Sadao Abe), worry about the future of their town. They then set up a plan to save the town. The plan is to lend large amounts of money to han ...

What a Wonderful Family! (2016)

A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present. She replies that she wants a divorce. The wife's divorce announcement sends the entire family into chaos. ...

Clover (2014)

Saya Suzuki is an ordinary employee working at a hotel. She falls in love with her elite boss Susumu Tsuge. Through their romance, Saya Suzuki grows as a person. ...

Out Burn (2014)

Eiko Yagami (Ryoko Yonekura) is a "Marubo", a unit of Ueno Central Police Station's Organized Crime Division which deals directly with organized gangs to try and keep the peace. However, Eiko has some sidelines: she's a moneylender to her fellow police off ...

Samurai Hustle (2014)

During the reign of the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Yunagaya Domain in the Tohoku region is a small han. But at the han, there is a gold mine. Suddenly, Masaatsu Naito of Yunagaya Domain receives an order to perform Sankin-kotai within 5 d ...

Columbo of Shinano - Dead Person's Echo (2013)

The first in a series of Japanese TV movies about a police detective who has adopted the dress and mannerisms of famous American TV detective Columbo, based on a series of novels by popular mystery author Yasuo Uchida. One day, Detective Takemura Iwao, al ...

The Wind Rises (2013)

A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane. ...

A Chair on the Plains (2013)

Four people decide to travel to Hunza, Pakistan to find paradise. Kentaro Tooma works as head of sales for a camera company. One of his clients is Jujo Togashi who owns the shop Camera Togashi. The two men are friends and become captivated by a picture wi ...

Tokyo Family (2013)

An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved. ...

The Floating Castle (2012)

In the year 1590, the mighty warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is close to fulfilling his ambition of unifying all of Japan under his banner when he comes across unexpected resistance in the form of a floating fortress known as Oshi Castle. Narita Nagachika, a fr ...

Rock'n'Roll Housewives (2012)

Mieko is a housewife with some problems. Her husband is indifferent to her and her daughter Sayako refuses to go to school. One day, Mieko meets Kaori who is divorced. Mieko and Kaori worked at a same company years ago. Kaori tells Mieko that how she was s ...

Crossroads (2011)

Domestic drama focusing on a soon to be retired train driver and his wife. ...

Circumstances (2011)

Youko and Harumi have been friends since youth as their life circumstances were similar. Youko ends up marrying a politician and publishes a successful picture book basen on Harumi's life, when her son suddenly gets abducted. ...

Our Stardust Dance (2011)

A drab middle-aged man with thoughts of committing suicide and an extraordinary child prodigy plan a fake kidnap in exchange for a ransom of 10 billion yen. ...

Gene Waltz (2011)

Doctor Rie (Miho Kanno) is know as the Joan of Ark of Obstetrics & Gynecology. She works in a challenging environment with clinics shutting down due to lack of doctors and the system itself breaking down. Dr. Rie then helps an infertile woman conceive ...

Abacus and Sword (2010)

Set during the Meiji Restoration period of Edo era Japan, Naoyuki belongs to the 8th generation of the Inoyama family, a wealthy family known for finance & accounting. He is also a gifted mathematician and uses the abacus with extreme skills. Naoyuki works ...

Sakurada Gate Incident (2010)

Mito Domain Samurai Seki Tetsunosuke must pay the consequences for his role in the assassination of Great Elder Ii Naosuke. Based on true events. ...

Love Scenario (2010)

Popular TV screenwriter Mayumi Taniyama suffers from the dreaded writer's block. When producer Masaya Mukai asks for a screenplay written for him, Mayumi Taniyama offers to write one if he falls in love with her. ...

The King of Minami Returns (2010)

Loan shark Ginjiro Manda meets an old friend, banker Imamiya. Harassed by his manager and pestered about past mistakes, Imamiya commits suicide. ...

Saru Lock: The Movie (2010)

Saru is a talented young locksmith who unlocks any kind of lock. He is, however, a complete fool when it comes to women. One day a girl Mayumi asks him to open a safe full of stolen money. Knowing nothing about it, Saru takes the money briefcase with Mayu ...

Dear Heart (2009)

Mizushima Shinji is staying a highlands for his health with his wife Miwako after he recieved a heart transplant. But his tender personality turns to violent. In fact, he got a a serial killer's heart. ...

The Unbroken (2009)

Onchi was exiled to posts around Asia and Africa due to his work as head of a labor union for National Air Line. He is ordered to return to head office after ten years, and continues to struggle. When a National Air Line plane is involved in the worst air ...

Black Current (2009)

A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney offers to take the case to gain notoriety. ...

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 Silent Sword: Loyalty and Honor (2008)

Keinosuke (Masakazu Tamura) is a ronin (wandering samurai) who lives on the streets although he is a nobleman. There's just one woman in this world that he loves, Shiho (Emi Wakui) but when he meets her again, she is already someone else's wife. Her husban ...

I Want to Be a Shellfish (2008)

1944, in the depths of World War II. Toyomatsu Shimizu is a completely typical barber from a remote sea-side town who lives frugally but happily with his wife Fusae and their five-year-old son. Eventually, though, the army beckons and he is drafted. One da ...

AIBOU: The Movie (2008)

A former TV presenter is murdered. On the same day, two police officers from the Metropolitan police Special Mission Task Force, Sugishita Ukyo (Yutaka Mizutani) and Kameyama Kaoru (Yasufumi Terawaki), are guarding a female Diet member, Katayama Hinako (Yo ...

Nodame Cantabile in Europe (2008)

This 2 night special takes off during their graduation, where Chiaki-senpai & Nodame left for Europe. The first special centered on Chiaki's story, the story tells about Chiaki's dream to be a conductor. Nodame on the other hand attended the conservatory t ...

Off Highway 20 (2007)

Hisashi was once a member of a motorcycle gang. Now he plays pachinko everyday with his live-in girlfriend, Junko. He has a habit of "huffing" paint thinner. His debts accumulate every day. Hisashi's old friend from the gang, Ozawa is a loan shark. He pers ...

Best Wishes for Tomorrow (2007)

A Japanese Class B war criminal sets out to take full responsibility for the execution of American Airmen. ...

Ikiru (2007)

In a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe finds that he has a terminal cancer, he decides to intensively live his last months of life. While dying, he finds the meaning of life, and fights for the constr ...

Detective Conan Drama Special 1: The Letter of Challenge (2006)

In order to uphold his title of High School Detective, a teen sleuth must protect his classmates from kidnapping after receiving a threatening letter. ...

Hanada Shonenshi the Movie: Spirits and the Secret Tunnel (2006)

Ichiro Hanada is a mischievous boy who gains the ability to see and talk to ghosts after a near-death experience. ...

Woman's Island (2006)

Yuki Takase works at a small publishing house that publishes free newspapers. Together with her assistant Rei Fujishima, she is instructed to go through Tokyo and interview women, asking: 'How do you combine a career with love? ...

TAKI 183 (2006)

Five youngsters are obsessed with graffiti, but after painting their masterpiece in Shibuya, they begin to drift apart. ...

Furuhata Ninzaburo Final: Last Dance (2006)

Kyoko Kagami is a pen name for a pair of twin writers. After one sister kills the other, their technical advisor Furuhata investigates. His investigation is complicated by his feelings for the surviving sister. ...

Furuhata Ninzaburo Final: A Fair Murderer (2006)

Ichiro Suzuki, a baseball player obsessed with fair play, murders a man who was blackmailing his brother who is none other than Furuhata's faithful friend Mukojima. ...

Furuhata Ninzaburo The Resurrection Of Death (2006)

Furuhata investigates a series of bizarre, seemingly random accidental deaths. He zeroes in on the suspected murderer, but loses faith in his instincts when the suspect is himself killed. However, in the end, he ends up solving three murders and catching t ...

Furyo shonen no yume (2005)

In the cold region of Hokkaido, there is a Beiyou Yushi High School that specializes in recruiting high school students from all over the country who are unable to continue their studies due to bad behavior, ...

The Winds of God (2005)

Two Osaka comedians, Makoto (Tomomitsu Yamaguchi) and Kinta (Go Morita), are riding bicycles in Tokyo when they're hit by a dump truck. They regain consciousness in 1945, but not of their own bodies. Somehow, their souls have been transported into the bodi ...

Negotiator (2005)

In this movie, Japan's top negotiator confronts a formidable foe threatening Tokyo's subways. As high-stakes tension brews, Mashita must outsmart an adversary with a personal vendetta, testing his skills like never before. ...

The Battling Angel (2003)

Police struggle to uncover Klein, a powerful criminal organization. Asuka, a young detective, is assigned to contact and escort Hatsumi, a mistress of the drug lord Kimikuni, but they are ambushed, leaving Hatsumi brain-dead and Asuka near to death. Howeve ...

Tales of the Bizarre: 2003 Spring Special (2003)

Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2003 Spring Special" presents five tales. 1. Kao wo Nusumareta (My Face was Stolen) - starring Inagaki Goro 2. Rental Love - starring Iijima Naoko 3. Oikaketai (I want to Chase [Him/Her]) - starring Kyon ...

Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso (2002)

At the end of World War II, a secret human experiment was being conducted in Manchuria, which was in the sphere of influence of the Japanese military. One man's face was to be transformed into that of a completely different person through plastic surgery. ...

Ghiblies: Episode 2 (2002)

Ghiblies (pronounced with a hard "g" as in "gallop") is a short film aired during a TV special about Ghibli. It's about a fictional animation studio named "Ghibli" and the people who work there. This rare Ghibli Comedy is a look into who the people making ...

Number One (2001)

Kubozuka plays Araki Ryunosuke who starts working at a host club called "club NO.1" to pay his debt. ...

As the River Flows (2000)

2000 live-action Japanese film. ...

Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999)

An independent group of researchers called the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN) actively track Godzilla as he makes landfall in Nemuro. Matters are further complicated when a giant meteor is discovered in the Ibaragi Prefecture. The mysterious rock begin ...

The Black House (1999)

A timid insurance agent investigates a possible insurance fraud case that involves a death. As the facts are slowly revealed, he becomes progressively more frightened. ...

The Exam (1999)

Togashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi's grade school entrance examinations, but he becomes jobless when his company folds. To regain his confidence Togashi decides to join the marathon that is taking ...

The Terror of Dr. Kuroiwa (1999)

Furuhata comes out of retirement to investigate a series of bizarre serial killings which would look like deaths by natural causes except for the notes found inside the victims' anuses. ...

Furuhata Ninzaburo vs SMAP (1999)

Furuhata is called in to investigate a murder committed by the well-known Japanese boy band SMAP. ...

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997)

A love story written by an ordinary housewife is going to be broadcast as a radio drama and almost everyone among the crew insists on changing various parts of the play to their liking. ...

Woman in Witness Protection (1997)

Vain, middle-aged actress Biwako is placed in witness protection while authorities investigate the brutal murder she witnessed. Under the watch of two dedicated cops, Biwako struggles to maintain her career, her public image, and her personal life as she p ...

Princess Mononoke (1997)

Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to des ...

Moonlight Serenade (1997)

After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his brother after World War II. ...

Warai no Daigaku (1997)

In Tomoko's Case (1996)

Tomoko Tamura, a second-year high school student living in a detached house in Miyahara-chō, Omiya City, Saitama Prefecture (now Kita Ward, Saitama City), goes on an overnight hot spring trip to Izu with eight of her classmates, four boys and four girls, ...

July 7th, Sunny Day (1996)

Hinata Mochizuki (Arisa Mizuki) is a superstar in the pop music scene, and Kenta Yamabe (Masato Hagiwara) is a very ordinary office worker. One day, the two meet, and then fell in love. However, due to the influence of various external factors, the relatio ...

The Disappearance of Furuhata Ninzaburo (1996)

Famous detective Furuhata Ninzaburo has disappeared, so a TV crew decide to make a documentary about his career interviewing his associates and the killers he caught. ...

A Brief Parting (1996)

The head of a flower arrangement clan murders her overbearing teacher and rival during a flamenco recital. The one thing Furuhata, who was in the audience, can't quite figure out is how the killer found her victim in the dark auditorium. ...

The Laughing Kangaroo (1995)

A love triangle turns deadly during an awards ceremony in Australia. Unfortunately for the killers, however, Furuhata and Shintaro are on a well-deserved holiday in the same hotel. ...