A psychic housewife and her husband become burdened with a kidnapped girl who escaped her assailant. Read More »
Tag Archives: Kôji Yakusho
Spellbound / Kin’yû fushoku rettô: Jubaku (1999)
Tapping into the economic malaise and the growing outrage against endless tawdry financial scandals Read More »
Shall We Dance? / Shall we dansu? (1996) Masayuki Suo
Shohei Sugiyama has attained all that he has wanted in life. But he is still depressed and unhappy. Read More »
Kitsutsuki to ame / The Woodsman and the Rain (2011) Shûichi Okita, Kôji Yakusho, Shun Oguri, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Rookie movie director Koichi and his crew travels to the mountain village of Yamamura to film his next movie. Read More »
Bonds / Kizuna (1998) Kichitarô Negishi
Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years Read More »
Unagi / The Eel (1997) Shôhei Imamura
White-collar worker Yamashita finds out that his wife has a lover visiting her when he’s away, suddenly returns home and kills her. Read More »
Perfect Days (2023) Wim Wenders, Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano
Hirayama works as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. He seems content with his simple life. Read More »
Under the Open Sky / Subarashiki sekai (2020) Miwa Nishikawa, Koji Yakusho, Seiji Rokkaku, Yukiya Kitamura
A middle-aged former yakuza is released from prison after thirteen years Read More »
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet / Rengô kantai shirei chôkan: Yamamoto Isoroku (2011) Izuru Narushima, Kôji Yakusho, Hiroshi Abe, Shûichi Azumaya
The life of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto from the early 1930’s to his death at the hands of the US military in 1943. Read More »
The Last Ronin / Saigo no Chûshingura (2010) Shigemichi Sugita, Kôji Yakusho, Kôichi Satô, Nanami Sakuraba
16 years after the fateful “revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin” involving samurais from the Ako Read More »