Masayuki Shida

Rental Family (2025)

An American actor in Tokyo struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese 'rental family' agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. As he immerses himself in his clients' worlds, he begins to form genuine bonds that blu ...

A Missing Part (2024)

Every day, Jay travels the length and breadth of Tokyo in his taxi, looking for his daughter Lily. In the 9 years since he has separated from his wife, he has never been able to get custody of his daughter. Having given up hope of ever seeing her again, he ...

The Women in the Lakes (2024)

A 100-year-old resident of a Lake Biwa nursing home dies mysteriously. Did a respirator keeping him alive suddenly malfunction, or was he murdered? A young detective on the case meets a female caregiver. The investigation runs into a dead end, but the two ...

Mokuhihan (2022)

Lupin's Daughter: The Movie (2021)

Hana Mikumo (Kyoko Fukada), born into the "L Family," a family of thieves for generations, falls in love with Kazuma Sakuraba (Koji Seto), the son of a family of police officers for generations. While hiding her true identity, she dreams of living a normal ...

Little Miss Period (2019)

Periods are depicted as pink, heart-shaped sentient beings that harass women on a monthly basis, delivering awful gut punches, but also offering a shoulder to cry on. ...

The Forest of Love (2019)

A con man and a would-be filmmaking crew force themselves into the lives of two grief-scarred young women. But nothing is as it seems. ...

Another World (2018)

Ko, a man in his late 30s, lives in the countryside with his wife and teenage son. Mitsuhiko, who runs a local car dealership, also stayed in his hometown. One day, their mutual friend Eisuke returns from a long military operation and their reunification b ...

The Limit of Sleeping Beauty (2017)

Aki is an unsuccessful 29-year-old actress who eventually became a magician's assistant. While pretending to be hypnotised on the stage, Aki finds the boundary between reality and illusion becoming increasingly vague. For Aki, the only beautiful memory she ...

Kyotaro Nishimura Travel Mystery 68: Disappearing Woman in Yamagata (2017)

Inspector Totsugawa of the First Investigation Division goes to Tsuruoka in Yamagata to attend the wedding of the son of Inspector Mukai, his former colleague who now works for the Yamagata Prefectural Police. While sightseeing at Mt. Haguro after the cere ...

Shin Godzilla (2016)

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a fore ...

Kagura Me (2015)

A woman bears a 13 year grudge with her father over the traditional dance he was performing that caused him to be absent from her mother's death, until they reconnect over the very same dance. ...

The Tang of Lemon (2012)

Twenty-year-old Kaori, an aspiring accessory designer, spends her days troubled by her mother's violence and excessive meddling. Meanwhile, forty-year-old secretary Kaori, whose daughter is a shut-in, can't stop shoplifting and having casual sex. ...

Villon's Wife (2009)

This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the story centers less on the womanizing, heav ...

Chicken Is Barefoot (2004)

A disabled child of separated parents gets caught up in police espionage due to his uncanny ability to remember license plate numbers. ...

Swallowtail Butterfly (1996)

The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan. ...

Dance with Me (1996)

As a child, Kyoko learned latin dance from Jose, a Cuban-American serviceman stationed in Japan. Years later, Kyoko travels to New York to see Jose again. After much searching, she finds Jose, only to discover that he is dying of AIDS and no longer remembe ...

Sharaku (1995)

A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal. The film explores the eternal relationship between artist and pro ...