Yoji Tanaka Movies

World Wat II broke out shortly after diplomat Chiune Sugihara was assigned to Lithuania. Nazi Germany occupied the western half of Poland and began...

Nasu Kano, known as Nu, has a developmental disability. As soon as she was born, her mother abandoned her in a coin locker. One day, Nu meets Kazuma...

Eri Manaka lives alone in the big city. She writes a romantic novel on impulse and is startled when it gets rave reviews and makes her a literary...

Yuri and Takumi are brother and sister who faced unusually harsh treatment by their father. An act of brutality keeps them extremely close together...

Jun, Bunji, Kido and Maki spend their days wandering aimlessly in the city of Kisarazu where sense of dread rules the streets while the adults around...

After a brief kidnapping, a young woman connects with the boyish member of a gang. They start traveling, soon encountering a nurse hoping to become...

LIFE IS JOURNEY is an anthology of four stories about people who live in solitude, but who yearn for togetherness. Each day brings chance meetings...

Tachibana Aya is a newly graduated ethics and social studies teacher at Kitadobashi High School. Among her students are those who know about her...

Tetsuo Gonda, nicknamed Gon-mama, is a big, macho gay man. During the day, he works out at the gym, and in the evening, he runs his Snack Hibari bar,...

A foppish English businessman (Christian Storms) stages a martial-arts contest between champions of two rival yakuza gangs to resolve a dispute over...

Arashi mixes Japanese rock, Noh Masks and the weird volcanic landscapes of Sado Island in a radical reworking of The Tempest. In this Tempest the...

A pair of friendly coworkers at a rental video store accidentally become murderers. Borrowing a station wagon, they flee with no particular...

Reiki Beni (Tomonori Hirose), the second head of the Beni Detective Agency, along with his partner Shoji Ai (Gentoku Aoki), underground idol Saori...

Behind-the-scenes footage of Houka Kinoshita's film １７才 (Age 17).

The urban legend that "Scissors-san", who cuts elementary school students with scissors, appears in Toride, Ibaraki Prefecture, has become a hot...

My Cactus is a film from writer/director Koto Nagata that tells the story of unrequited love between its two main characters.

A young man is sent from Japan to Taiwan in order to get his disenfranchised brother to sign away his inheritance rights.

Asako and Yamada, after getting drunk for the first time and going straight to the hotel, spend a hot night, but they are separated by a fire that...