An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a ramen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.

Yumeji

1991

Japanese

6.9

♡ 6

83%

Seijun Suzuki Director

Kimiko Yo as

Michiyo Yasuda as Owner of a hotel

Yoshio Harada as Wakiya

Kenji Sawada as Yumeji Takehisa

Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.

Midnight Diner 2

2016

Japanese

7.4

♡ 8

80%

Joji Matsuoka Director

Kimiko Yo as Chieko

Takashi Yamanaka as Gen

Mitsuki Tanimura as Kasumi

Yutaka Matsushige as Ryu

The Master’s late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle delivery man struggling with love.

Ki no umi

2004

Japanese

6.3

♡ 2

Action

Drama

Tomoyuki Takimoto Director

Kimiko Yo as

Sansei Shiomi as Kiyoshi Saegusa

Masato Hagiwara as Masahiko Asakura

Kanji Tsuda as Toshio Yamada

Near the slopes of Mount Fuji, there is a so called suicide forest, an infamous place where people who are tires of living have their last breath of air. The four different stories of this film all revolve around this place.

My SO Has Got Depression

2011

Japanese

6.7

♡ 5

husband wife relationship

Kiyoshi Sasabe Director

Hiroshi Inuzuka as Kawaji

Kanji Tsuda as Kazuo Takazaki

Masato Sakai as Mikio Takazaki

Kimiko Yo as Satoko Kurita

Mikio is a married man and works hard for the company where he is employed. Then one day Mikio is diagnosed with depression. Mikio's wife is Haruko. They have been married for 5 years. Haruko draws comics for work, but they do not sell well. She mainly relied on Mikio for support. Meanwhile, Haruko did not notice any changes in her husband. She begins to blame herself for not noticing any signs. Mikio's depression derived from his work. His company has been pressing him to quit the company. After Mikio quits his job his condition improves, but the dynamics of their relationship changes.

Kokô no mesu

6.9

Izuru Narushima Director

Hiroki Narimiya as Kôhei Nakamura

Yutaka Matsushige as Kôji Shimada

Katsuhisa Namase as Rokurô Nomoto

Kimiko Yo as Shizuka Takei

Dr Toma, a skilled surgeon, starts work at a regional hospital in Japan. After performing an operation to remove a patient’s liver cancer, something that normally would not be done at this hospital, he quickly gains a very good reputation amongst the town’s people. Some of his colleagues become so jealous they are resentful and waiting patiently for the perfect opportunity to crucify him. Soon they get their chance as Dr Toma considers performing a controversial operation…

Café Lumière

2003

Japanese

6.8

♡ 7

90%

Hsiao-Hsien Hou Director

Tadanobu Asano as Hajime Takeuchi

Masato Hagiwara as Seiji

Kimiko Yo as Yôko no keiba

Nenji Kobayashi as Yôko no otôsan

In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregnant by a man she does not want to marry and has found a kindred spirit in a used bookstore owner who aids her research.

Yamato

2005

Japanese

6.4

♡ 9

Jun'ya Satô Director

Shinobu Terajima as Ayako

Kimiko Yo as Sayo Nishi Yû Aoi

Yû Aoi as Taeko

Atsuko Takahata as Tsune Tamaki

Directed by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, "Yamato" has a framing story set in the present day and uses flashbacks to tell the story of the crew of the World War II Japanese battleship Yamato. The film was never released in the United States, where reviewers who have seen it have compared the military epic to "Titanic" and "Saving Private Ryan."

No Reasons

2016

English

3.3

♡ 10

Spencer Hawken Director

Shôta Sometani as Beef Tongue

Johnnie Mae as Big Momma

Pierre Taki as Chopsticks

Kimiko Yo as Kung Po

When Jodie goes missing, her parents are left behind to pick up the pieces. They frantically try every option to get her to come home, or for her kidnappers to release her. While they search the mortuaries looking for clues, a private investigator discovers a murky world and a terrible secret everyone wants to keep.

Haunted School

1995

Japanese

6.2

♡ 4

Hideyuki Hirayama Director

Yuriko Hirooka as Mrs. Chiba

Kimiko Yo as Professor Yukawa

Hironobu Nomura as Shinichi Komukai

Takashi Sasano as Teacher on Duty

A young girl wanders into a wing of her elementary school that has been abandoned for years and is rumored to be haunted. When she doesn't come back, a group of her classmates go looking for her, only to find that they, too, are trapped inside. They must somehow find their way to safety, and quickly, because the rumors of ghosts are turning out to be true.

Any Crybabies Around?

6.0

Takuma Satô Director

Riho Yoshioka as

Kimiko Yo as

Takashi Yamanaka as

Toshirô Yanagiba as

A man has a baby, runs away, then comes back, but he can't just show up, apologize, and hope that makes himself a grown man.

Dearest

2012

Japanese

6.9

♡ 4

47%

Action

camper

Drama

last will and testament

late wife

testament

Yasuo Furuhata Director

Ken Takakura as Eiji Kurashima

Mieko Harada as Kumiko Tsukamoto

Kimiko Yo as Tamiko Hamasaki

Yûko Tanaka as Yôko Kurashima

The posthumous wish of Eiji's wife is for her ashes to be scattered in the ocean near her hometown. Eiji also learns that his wife letter for him at the post office before she died.

Bloody Passion

1992

Japanese

5.4

♡ 2

300 million yen cache

Eiichi Kudô Director

Kimiko Yo as

Tôru Nakamura as

Yumi Asô as

Masato Furuoya as

A man tries to mend his past by helping his best friend’s sister.

Black Widow Business

2016

Japanese

6.2

♡ 2

Yasuo Tsuruhashi Director

Kimiko Yo as Eiko Segawa

Shunsuke Kazama as Hiroshi

Masahiko Tsugawa as Kiharu Funayama

Masatô Ibu as Sojiro Takeuchi

Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and eventually marries her. Not longer after their marriage, Kozo Nakase suddenly collapses and dies. Kozo Nakase leaves everything to Sayako. The rest of his family are left out of his will including his daughter Tomomi. Tomomi hires a private investigator, Honda, to find out more about Sayoko.

Nobody's Perfect

2013

Japanese

6.6

♡ 4

Ryuichi Hiroki Director

Kimiko Yo as

Mone Kamishiraishi as

Tamae Andô as Hideko aoyagi

Hiroki Miyake as Takashi konno

"Daijobu 3 Kumi" depicts the interactions between new teacher Shinnosuke Akao, who was born without arms and legs, and the 28 students in his 5th grade class, told from the vantage point of school board member Yusaku Shiraishi

The first Gentleman

2021

Japanese

5.1

♡ 6

Action

Comedy

Hayato Kawai Director

Asuka Kudô as Kozan Shimazaki

Miki Nakatani as RInko Soma

Kimiko Yo as Takako Soma

Ainosuke Kataoka as Tayori Soma

Hiyori (Kei Tanaka) is an ornithologist (expert on birds). His wife is Rinko (Miki Nakatani). She is the leader the minority opposition party. One morning, Hiyori is about to travel to an isolated island to watch birds on a 10 day trip. Before he leaves, Rinko asks him if she becomes the prime minister would he be inconvenienced. Hiyori then goes on his bird watching trip. During this time, he is completely isolated from the outside world. When he returns home, his wife Rinko is now the prime minister of the country. She is also the first ever female prime minister of Japan. Suddenly, Hiyori is now the first gentleman of the country. He decides to support his wife, but he finds himself caught up in unexpected circumstances.

Hiruko the Goblin

1991

Japanese

6.1

♡ 9

53%

Shin'ya Tsukamoto Director

Kimiko Yo as

Ken Mitsuishi as Archeologist

Bang-ho Cho as (as Banhô Chô)

Kenji Sawada as Hieda Reijirou

A school was built on one of the Gates of Hell, behind which hordes of demons await the moment they will be free to roam the Earth. Hiruko is a goblin sent to Earth on a reconnaissance mission. He beheads students in order to assemble their heads on the demons' spider-like bodies. Hieda, an archaeology professor, and Masao, a haunted student, investigate the gory deaths.

Dear Doctor

2009

Japanese

7.0

♡ 3

71%

Miwa Nishikawa Director

Takashi Sasano as

Yutaka Matsushige as

Kimiko Yo as Akemi Ohtake

Kaoru Yachigusa as Kaduko Torikai

Osamu Ino is a great doctor who is beloved in his rural village. His knowledge and dedication make an equally strong impression on his reluctant medical intern, Keisuke Soma. But, Soma and the villagers reconsider their opinion when they learn about a shameful incident from Dr. Ino's past. Now the once-respected doctor must account for his past actions.

Villain

2010

Japanese

7.0

♡ 7

57%

71%

Action

based on novel or book

Sang-il Lee Director

Sansei Shiomi as Detective Sano

Eri Fukatsu as Mitsuyo Umagome

Kimiko Yo as Yoriko Shimizu

Hikari Mitsushima as Yoshino Ishibashi

Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services and going on random encounters with girls looking for spending cash. His world is shattered one day when he is involved in the murder of one of his former encounters, the sweet-faced Ishibashi Yoshino who, after being jilted by playboy Masuo Keijo, berates and mocks the troubled loner.

Noise

2022

Japanese

6.2

♡ 11

100%

Ryuichi Hiroki Director

Kimiko Yo as Hanae Shoji

Tatsuya Fujiwara as Keita Izumi

Susumu Terajima as Tadashi Okazaki

Masatoshi Nagase as Tsutomu Hatakeyama

Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing population and declining industries. Keita Izumi (Tatsuya Fujiwara) begins to produce black fig on Shishikari Island. Because of his well received product, the island is close to receiving a 5 billion yen grant from the government, which is part of the goverment's policy to reinvigorate rural economy. The residents of the island are excited, but their peaceful days changes by the appearance of Mutsuo Komisaka. Keita Izumi and his friends Jun Tanabe (Kenichi Matsuyama) and Rookie Police Officer Shinichiro Moriya are suspicious about him. One night, Keita Izumi's daughter goes missing. Due to that, Keita Izumi, Jun Tanabe and Shinichiro Moriya happen to kill Mutsuo Komisaka. They decide to hide Mutsuo Komisaka’s murder to protect the future of the island and their families. It turns out Mutsuo Komisaka was a psycho killer. Police officers come to Shishikari Island to catch Mutsuo Komisaka.

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Yumeji

Midnight Diner 2

Ki no umi

My SO Has Got Depression

Kokô no mesu

Café Lumière

Yamato

No Reasons

Haunted School

Any Crybabies Around?

Dearest

Bloody Passion

Black Widow Business

Nobody's Perfect

The first Gentleman

Hiruko the Goblin

Dear Doctor

Villain

Noise