Ittoku Kishibe Movies

Elderly ladies rise to the challenge of staging a play and struggle to launch a theater company. Based on the actual amateur theater company...

A dream collaboration between five directors who represent the modern Japanese film industry! An omnibus work composed of five short films has been...

Youko and Harumi have been friends since youth as their life circumstances were similar. Youko ends up marrying a politician and publishes a...

Panic occurs when the Governor of Tokyo proposes to attract a nuclear power plant to Tokyo.

Comedy film.

A droll and formalistic comic drama about the various relationships among, and odd obsessions of, the residents of a Tokyo apartment block.

The members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their hometown, they move from Shikoku to Tokyo and resume...

Shuichi is engaged to Sanae and they will marry soon. One day, Shuichi is driving a car and his friend Teru sits as a passenger. He is speeding...

A virginal boy travels with three hookers to a small island to collect his estranged father's washed up and sun-bleached bones.

A disgraced warrior planning the murder of a Japanese diplomat, and a ninja in the employ of a navy official are about to land in San Francisco when...

The Tigers, a rock band, escape their parents and teachers trying to forcibly cut their long hair, but accidentally stow away on a train to Tokyo. In...

The story of a love triangle between two high school best friends and their cancer-stricken female classmate.

Men and women caught up in a downward spiral of corruption, discrimination, poverty and death are the focus of this detective-thriller/social-drama...

One day, Mori no Ishimatsu (Kankuro Nakamura

Akiko quit being a piano teacher and has been spending her days aimlessly without setting any goals for herself. One night on New Year’s Eve,...

The fifth work of the "Kita-Shirakawa school movie" in which a student of Kyoto University of Art and Design, a professional film staff, and a cast...

The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. It's a small god with a pointed head, a fat belly...

Kantarou Kobayashi is an ordinary businessman who has multiple troubles on hand. He's been having an affair with a woman working in the same company,...