Yoshio Nakamura

5 Centimeters per Second (2025)

Spring 1991. Takaki and Akari meet in elementary school and continue to exchange letters even after she moves away. They make a final promise to each other to meet again. It is now 2008. They live their respective lives, paths never crossing. Enduring memo ...

A Pale View of Hills (2025)

Dual timelines explore a Japanese widow's memories spanning post-war Nagasaki in 1950s and England during 1980s Cold War era, unraveling secrets that intertwine her past and present experiences across borders. ...

The Real You (2024)

Why had a mother who seemed happy desired to end her own life? Desperate to uncover his mother's true intentions, Sakuya ventures into uncharted technological territory. He turns to VF (Virtual Figure), a technology that aggregates personal data from one's ...

Ripples (2023)

Yoriko Sudo believes in a new religious group Midoriinochikai, that worships water. She lives peacefully, devoting herself to the group daily. ...

A Man (2022)

Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke. ...

My Broken Mariko (2022)

Shiino one day finds out that her best friend Mariko has committed suicide. After snatching Mariko's urn from her abusive father, Shiino heads to Marigaoka Cape, a place Mariko always wanted to go. ...

Only the Cat Knows (2019)

Masaru and Yukiko have been married 44 years. They have three children who live independently from them. Masaru and Yukiko enjoy their peaceful days, but, one day, Yukiko tells her daughter Naoko that she wants to divorce Masaru. ...

In This Corner of the World (2016)

Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, ...

Somebody's Xylophone (2016)

A married woman obsesses over a hairstylist she becomes involved with. ...

The Torture Club (2014)

The "Torture Club" is an official after-school activity at the private school Saint Honesty Gakuen. Yuzuki has no idea about the club when she enrolls, and gets abducted by the club members and hauled off the club-room. ...

Alien vs. Ninja (2010)

A comet crashes into a Japanese forest and a group of mighty ninjas must fight a group of killer Aliens before they reach their village and kill everyone. ...

Oppai Volleyball (2009)

Terajima Mikako became a boys volleyball team coach at a junior high school she has been assigned to. As an incentive for the team members who do not show the slightest enthusiasm, she promises to show them her boobs if they win a game. ...

Out of the Wind (2007)

High school student Mariko sings in the choir at the all-girls school she attends, and her biggest dream right now is to go to a music college. One day on her way home from school, she accidentally drops her bookbag into the sea. A man jumps into the water ...

Kitokito! (2007)

Coming of age story about a boy and his mother. ...

Madamada Abunai Deka (2005)

Flower & Snake II (2005)

The beautiful Shizuko and her husband Toyama Takayoshi have a loving relationship, But Takayoshi is getting older and isn't always able to perform. His primary source of gratification involves observing his wife in sadomasochistic scenarios so he commissio ...

Flower & Snake (2004)

The wealthy president of a company has built up an unpayable debt to a local crime lord, and to escape punishment he sells his famous dancer wife to the lecherous old man figuring a 90 year old can't do too much bad with her. Perhaps not, but others can wh ...

GO (2001)

Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him. ...

Abe Sada in the Heisei Era: I Want You (1999)

Saki, a full-time housewife, feels dissatisfied with her monotonous life, but continues to play the role of a faithful wife. Her husband, a university lecturer, is satisfied with Saki, and he spends his days having fun with one of his students as his mistr ...

Lustful Revenge (1996)

After reading about beautiful women killed in a gruesome manner during the recent months, Akiko tries to nail down the sick serial killer herself. What she does not know is that the killer has already targetted her as his next victim. ...

Monkeys in Paradise (1993)

A Japanese middle class family is about to make a journey on a hot summer's afternoon. But their annual holiday is haunted by mishaps. ...