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Tag Archives: Tsutomu Yamazaki
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 »
Sanshiro Sugata (1965)
The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. Read More »
Tampopo (1985) Jûzô Itami, Ken Watanabe
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, the main story is about trucker Goro, who rides into town like a modern Shane Read More »
Yatsuhaka-mura / Village of Eight Gravestones (1977) Yoshitarô Nomura, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Mayumi Ogawa, Tsutomu Yamazaki
A Tokyo man witnesses the death by poisoning of his grandfather, Read More »
Demon Pond / Yashagaike (1979) Masahiro Shinoda, Tamasaburô Bandô, Gô Katô, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Outside of a small village in Japan, a mysterious pond is inhabited by mythic creatures. Read More »
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 »
Mori, the Artist’s Habitat / Mori no iru basho (2018) Shûichi Okita, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Munetaka Aoki, Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Vegetation thrives in painter Morikazu’s garden, which is home to creatures Read More »
The Funeral / Osôshiki (1984) Jûzô Itami, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kin Sugai
At the beginning of the film the father-in-law of the protagonist dies unexpectedly of a heart attack. Read More »
Play it, Boogie-Woogie AKA Slow na boogie ni shitekure (1981) Toshiya Fujita, Atsuko Asano, Masato Furuoya, Tsutomu Yamazaki
A young cat burglar begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and her on-again-off-again bonehead biker boyfriend. Read More »