Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government Read More »
Tag Archives: Masahiro Motoki
Departures / Okuribito (2008) Yôjirô Takita, Masahiro Motoki, Ryôko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Daigo Kobayashi is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been Read More »
The Five / Gonin (1995) Takashi Ishii, Kôichi Satô, Masahiro Motoki, Jinpachi Nezu
Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza Read More »
The Long Excuse / Nagai iiwake (2016) Miwa Nishikawa, Masahiro Motoki, Pistol Takehara, Eri Fukatsu
Based on a book by writer – director Miwa Nishikawa, a recently widowed writer Read More »
Sumo Do, Sumo Don’t AKA Shiko funjatta (1992) Masayuki Suo, Masahiro Motoki, Misa Shimizu, Naoto Takenaka
Yet another tradition in the tradition of “ragtag misfits” in Japanese comedy…Sumo Do, Sumo Don’t tells the story of a university sumo club in Japan. Read More »
Gemini AKA Sôseiji (1999) Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Masahiro Motoki, Ryô, Yasutaka Tsutsui
Yukio is living a charmed life: he is a respected young doctor with a successful practice and a beautiful wife. Read More »
Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment / Tokiwa-so no seishun (1996) Jun Ichikawa, Masahiro Motoki, Sadao Abe, Satoko Abe
A look at the youthful beginnings of manga giants Motoo Abiko, aka Fujiko Fujio, Fujio Akatsuka Read More »
Spy Sorge (2003) Masahiro Shinoda, Iain Glen, Masahiro Motoki, Kippei Shîna
A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II Read More »
Four Days of Snow and Blood (1989) Hideo Gosha, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Tomokazu Miura, Masahiro Motoki, Action, Drama, War
Based on the “2.26 Incident”, an attempted coup d’état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Read More »