Yoshitaka Zushi

SOAR: I Wish You Were Here (2015)

A tragic love story set in a mountain village in the Showa era, waiting for a fiancé who died in the war, but it is more than that. It breaks through the existing concept of a film with a beginning, middle, and end, and like Fellini or Godard... Hara Masa ...

Best Wishes for Tomorrow (2007)

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

Prodigy (2007)

Naruse Uta is a "unique" 13 year old child. She possessed the talent to read sheet music even before she could speak, but has now come to the point where she hates playing the piano. Her father was also a piano virtuoso, but mysteriously disappeared from h ...

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Dodes'ka-den' (2002)

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Dodes'ka-den" (1970). ...

Closed Ward (2001)

Madadayo (1993)

In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce devotion of his former students, who honor him each year with a raucous "Not yet!" birthday toast. Told in warm, gently comic vignettes, Kurosawa ...

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 ...

Dreams (1990)

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa's own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier's ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh's canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity's ...

The Silk Road (1988)

In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who wants to control the length of the Silk Road. One student is Zhao Xingde, who becomes the favorite of his commander, Zhu Wangli. While sacking a for ...

Ran (1985)

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons. ...

Sound of the Tide (1984)

Japanese film based on the life of sculptor Eikichi Takahashi, who died as a soldier on Guadalcanal. ...

Kyojin-gun monogatari: Susume eikô e (1977)

Human Revolution II (1976)

Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference. ...

Dodes'ka-den (1970)

On a Tokyo dump's shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who "drives" an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindne ...

The Human Bullet (1968)

A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as the war draws to a close, his commanding officers become increasingly desperate and push their men to ever mo ...

When the Flowers Bloom (1965)

Hiroko, who has a weekly magazine reporter as her lover is assigned as a public health nurse in a remote village. However, there is widespread poverty and ignorance beyond her imagination. ...

Life of Matsu the Untamed (1965)

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly. ...

Red Beard (1965)

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Bear ...

Mother (1963)

A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son. ...

The Lucky General (1962)

The action takes place in a city where you can live on only 100 yen a day. The "General", who indulged in gambling with his henchmen all day, he was running his business and hitting him with a taxi turned out to be a trifle for him. A unique work, filled w ...

Heso no taisho (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Sazae And Aunt Apron (1960)

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip ...