Tomoko Nakajima

Till We Meet Again on the Lily Hill (2023)

Yuri is a high school student in the present day. She isn't happy with her life at home or school. One day, she has an argument with her mother and runs away from home. Somehow, when Yuri later opens her eyes, she realizes that she is in the year 1945. She ...

One Day, You Will Reach the Sea (2022)

This work is a 12-year story of Mana, a woman who cannot accept the death of her best friend, staring at her as she tries to step forward while having deep sorrow. ...

As You Like It (2019)

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. ...

A Beautiful Star (2017)

A family believes they are aliens from other planets and tries to save Earth from impending calamity. ...

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 ...

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. ...

The Little House (2014)

Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which the old lady has recorded her memories. This is how he learns the truth about her youth working as a house ...

Tokyo Family (2013)

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

Oba: The Last Samurai (2011)

In 1944, the American military lands on the shores of Saipan. Refusing to commit suicide with his superiors or be forced into camps for prisoners of war, Captain Oba Sakae leads a group of his men and other similarly minded local residents into the mountai ...

Wenny Has Wings (2008)

Masato and his wife Keiko are a happy couple, with their children Eiji and Erina. He, she and Eiji are plunged into despair, after Eiji and Erina are involved in a car accident whereby Erina dies. ...

Veronika Decides to Die (2005)

Towa lives in a peculiar sanatorium after committing suicide. Convalescing in sanatorium, she is informed that she has only 7 days to live. Isolated within their worlds, strange people live in this sanatorium and try to avoid making any contact with her. ...

The Buried Forest (2005)

Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mountainous and bordered by an unkempt buried forest. ...

The Taste of Tea (2004)

A spell of time in the life of the five-piece Haruno family in rural Tochigi Prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano, a successful music producer, is looking to get his head together after ...

Kita no kuni kara 2002 Yuigon Part 2 (2002)

MPD-PSYCHO/FAKE (2002)

A reworking of MPD Psycho by the author of the original manga Eiji Otsuka edited from the TV show and newly-filmed scenes. ...

Give It All (1998)

Etsuko – a typical Japanese high school student, who's unlucky in love, an academic failure, and plain bored with life. That's until one day, the view of a boat gliding gracefully in the sea inspires her to take up the oar. Since she's rejected by her sc ...

Jungle Emperor Leo (1997)

Tezuka Osamu's most famous work "Jungle Emperor Leo" has been made into an animated version a number of times. In this theater version, Tezuka Osamu was able for the first time to depict the theme that "All life is equal" through Leo's self-sacrifice. ...

Parasite Eve (1997)

A scientist realizes his dead wife is an organization of mitochondria bent on making a new species that will wipe out humanity. ...

Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu (1995)

Mermaid's Scar (1993)

According to an ancient Japanese legend, mermaid flesh may grant immortality if eaten. However, there is a much greater chance that consumption will lead to death or transformation into a damned creature known as a Lost Soul (or Deformed Ones in the Englis ...

Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1 (1992)

There is a man who divorced his wife. He moved to rural Hokkaido from Tokyo where he lived with his family without running water or electricity. He has his son and daughter in tow and works hard for them. The folk in the area try to help. A couple of years ...

Dance till Tomorrow (1991)

Live action adaption of Naoki Yamamoto's romantic comedy manga series. ...

Chizuko's Younger Sister (1991)

The Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a freak accident the year prior. When the other daughter Mika is suddenly in a dangerous situation, Chizuko returns as a ghost to save her; reunited with her sister ...

Why She Won't Marry (1990)

Tsugumi (1990)

Tsugumi, who lives in a small seaside town, has been in delicate health from birth. Her parents spoiled her and she is rough and selfish. However, a few people are attracted by her beauty and unique character. ...

Oshare dorobō (1989)

Kita no kuni kara '89 Kikyo (1989)

4th installment in the Kita no kuni kara series ...

April Ghost Story (1988)

A girl dies and a ghost who died 80 years ago tries to convince her to come back to life instead of remaining a ghost. ...

Eien no 1/2 (1987)

An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. They start dating but then strange things then begin to happen to him, including a beating from the local yakuza. ...

Kita no kuni kara '87 Hatsukoi (1987)

Third installment of the Kita no kuni kara series. ...

Clockwork- Goodbye Winter (1986)

Ayumi Ishida won the Blue Ribbon for the Best Actress. ...

Kita no kuni kara '84 Natsu (1984)

Set in the town of Furano in Hokkaido, Kita no Kuni Kara centers around the story of the Kuroita family. Narrated by the son, Jun, the tale follows the lives of two children torn between their parents and their parents' divorce. Jun, and his sister Hotaru, ...

Kita no kuni kara '83 Fuyu (1983)

First movie follow-up of the popular TV series. ...