Yoshi Oida

Nô Feminist (2022)

Gloria, Lili and Amir rehearse a Noh play under the strict direction of Master Hiro. The premiere is in a few hours, Amir has trouble concentrating due to the incessant noise of the door slamming, Lilli's awkward position on stage makes it difficult for he ...

Adieu Paris (2022)

An old Parisian bistro with eternal charm. Eight gentlemen at the table, eight great figures. They were the "kings of Paris"… National treasures, masterpieces in peril. A well-honed ritual ... A sense of humor and self-deprecation intact. Tenderness and ...

Show Me the Way to the Station (2019)

A young girl, Sayaka, develops a heartwarming friendship with an old man named Hasu. Based on an award-winning novel by Ijuin Shizu. ...

The Last Recipe (2017)

A famous chef who is tasked with tracking down a 70-year-old missing recipe. ...

Open at Night (2017)

One night to change everything. One night to save a theater, one night to change one's perspective about life. Luigi will push and pull Faeza with him everywhere around Paris an entire night to save his theater. ...

Basho (2017)

An adaptation of Matsuo Basho's poem Travelogue of Weather-Beaten Bones. ...

Silence (2016)

In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism. ...

Invisible World (2013)

An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world. ...

Operation Casablanca (2011)

Mistaken for a dangerous Islamist, Saadi - a regular guy who happens to be an illegal Arab immigrant - sets out on the most dangerous day of his life. A satirical and thrilling comedy where a wrongly accused suspect gets mixed up in a worldwide terrorist p ...

The Last Ronin (2010)

16 years after the fateful "revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin," involving samurais from the Ako domain who avenged their leader and then commited seppuku (ritual suicide), the sole survivor of that incident, Kichiemon Terasaka (Koichi Sato) traverses the co ...

The Stone Council (2006)

In France, the single translator Diane Siprien adopts an Asian baby named Liu-San in a foundation directed by Sybille Weber. Years later, a weird mark appears on the boy's chest and Diane and Liu share their dreadful nightmares. Diane is assigned for a thr ...

Carmen (2005)

Carmen, a bonobo female, flees from the research center in linguistics where she is being kept. She takes refuge at a young couple's place, Mercier and his pregnant wife Myriam. Mercier, beginning at a new job, is reluctant to welcome the ape. But Myriam m ...

The Tragedy of Hamlet (2002)

Peter Brook presents a new interpretation of the classic in a setting is vaguely eastern rather than Scandinavian, with a multi-ethnic cast . ...

Wasabi (2001)

Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his girlfriend who ...

Taxi 2 (2000)

A cabdriver and a cop race to Paris to rescue a love interest and the Japanese minister of defense from kidnappers. ...

Autumn Blossoms (1999)

Felice… Felice… (1998)

Tragic love story about the photographer and explorer Felice Beato who travelled back to Japan in 1895 to seek his former wife O-Kiku. On the way he describes in a nostalgic letter to his brother how much he yearns for his lost love O-Kiku and how impotent ...

The Eyes of Asia (1997)

Julian Nakaura, a priest of the Society of Jesus, was one of four young ambassadors sent to Rome by the Jesuits in 1582, as proof that Japan had converted to Christianity. Fifty years after the mission, which so fascinated European royalty, Julian was forc ...

Madame Butterfly (1995)

Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha, seeks to fulfill her dreams through marriage to an American naval officer. Her faith in their future is shattered by his empty vows and the loss she endures touches something deep within us all. ...

The Pillow Book (1995)

Nagito has a fetish for calligraphy on the human body and meets her ideal soulmate Jerome, an English translator sent to Japan. However, once Nagiko's father's gay publisher rejoins the scene, the story is overtaken by treachery and bloodlust. ...

Tollgate (1994)

Georg works up at the highway. He collects the toll from the tourists; he collects the toll from the truck drivers. All of Europe has to go by him. Below, in the shadow of the mighty bridge, Georg lives with his parents in an old farmhouse with its empty s ...

The Mahabharata (1990)

One of the great masterpieces of world literature comes to vivid life in an elaborate production from acclaimed theater and film innovator Peter Brook. This collection of ancient Sanskrit stories (composed into the longest book ever written) comprises a se ...