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6.8

♡ 10

Yôji Yamada Director

Yuriko Hirooka as

Takashi Sasano as Custodian

Jun Fubuki as Kayo Yû Aoi

Yû Aoi as Noriko Mamiya

A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present. She replies that she wants a divorce. The wife's divorce announcement sends the entire family into chaos.

What a Wonderful Family! 3: My Wife, My Life

2018

friends vs. family interment

6.8

♡ 8

96%

Yôji Yamada Director

Takashi Sasano as

Jun Fubuki as

Masahiko Nishimura as Yû Aoi

Yû Aoi as

At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one afternoon, housewife Fumie falls asleep and wakes up to find a thief has stolen her secret money she kept hidden in the refrigerator.

Instant Swamp

2009

6.8

♡ 1

Comedy

Satoshi Miki Director

Ryô Kase as Gas

Yutaka Matsushige as Kawabata

Keiko Matsuzaka as Midori Jinchoge

Takashi Sasano as Nishiohtachime

A woman finds out her father is not her real one after her mother falls into a coma while searching for a mythical creature. She decides to meet her real father who happens to be an off-beat antique shopkeeper.

We Make Antiques! Osaka Dreams

5.4

Masaharu Take Director

Satoru Matsuo as Chairman

Takashi Sasano as Morio Koide

Kuranosuke Sasaki as Sasuke Noda

Tomoya Maeno as Seiji Noda

A treasure appears in front of antique dealer Norio Koike (Kiichi Nakai) and potter Sasuke (Kuranosuke Sasaki). The treasure is Hideyoshi Toyotomi’s chawan (procelain tea bowl) called Houou, that has been missing.

Hope and Pain

1988

6.5

♡ 2

Yôji Yamada Director

Toshinori Omi as Arles, Sadaichi Takai

Takeshi Katô as Chief of police

Hiroko Yakushimaru as Fusako Nakahara

Takashi Sasano as Yakuza boss

The adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War.

Greatful Dead

2013

6.4

♡ 15

Eiji Uchida Director

Itsuji Itao as

Wakana Sakai as

Kenji Matsuda as

Takashi Sasano as Shiomi

Nami is a young woman with numerous hangups sprouting from a dysfunctional childhood. She inherits a small fortune that allows her to pursue various interests, many of which are abnormal.

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

2011

7.3

♡ 16

76%

Takashi Miike Director

Munetaka Aoki as Hikokuro Omodaka

Hikari Mitsushima as Miho

Takehiro Hira as Naotaka Ii

Takashi Sasano as Sousuke priest

A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.

Damejin

2006

6.1

♡ 2

Comedy

Satoshi Miki Director

Takashi Sasano as

Hidetaka Yoshioka as

Masumi Okada as

Sion Sono as (voice)

An off-beat comedy about 3 'damejin' (useless persons), who don't work and spend their lives doing nothing. They actually don't want to work. When they hear 'in India one can live without working' they take it seriously. They begin to raise the money to go to India by doing anything but working, such as ripping off stamps from others' letters to sell, robbery at the bank which itself went bankrupt, etc.

Wasao

2011

5.6

♡ 4

Yoshinari Nishikôri Director

Takashi Sasano as

Shirô Sano as

Hiroko Yakushimaru as

Kai Inowaki as

Wasao, an Akita dog in Aomori Prefecture that became famous as an ugly-yet-cute dog from a traveller's blog. Heartwarming drama starring Wasao himself turns part of the life of this former stray into an original story. Setsuko, who runs a grilled-squid shop in a fishing village at the foot of the Shirakami mountains, decides to take in a large dog with a long, unruly fur that has shown up in town. She names the dog Wasao and showers it with affection, but Wasao at that time doesn't take to Setsuko.

The Discarnates

1988

7.1

♡ 9

Nobuhiko Ôbayashi Director

Tôru Minegishi as

Yôji Matsuda as

Takashi Sasano as Dentist

Kumiko Akiyoshi as Fusako Harada, Mother

Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada's ex-wife. Recovering from the shock, Harada indulges in melancholy, mainly on his failure as a husband and father, and goes to a 'Rakugo' show, where a friendly man in the audience invites him home. Harada is puzzled at the strong resemblance of this man and his wife to his own parents, who were killed nearly 30 years ago when he was twelve.

Haunted School

1995

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.

Zô no senaka

2007

6.7

♡ 3

Satoshi Isaka Director

Nao Minamisawa as Haruka Fujiyama

Takashi Sasano as Haruo Takagi

Katsumi Takahashi as Kiyoshi Sakuma

Masatô Ibu as Konno

A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovered that he has got terminal lung cancer and will die within half a year. He declines any treatment and decides to go to see some people he has not met for years, to write farewell letters to his family, relatives and friends...

Cape Nostalgia

2014

6.1

♡ 2

based on novel or book

Izuru Narushima Director

Takashi Sasano as

Hiroshi Abe as

Eiko Koike as Eri

Sayuri Yoshinaga as Etsuko

Etsuko's café in her peaceful little seaside town is where everyone gathers to gossip and taste her famous brew. But the winds of change are beginning to blow.

Life in Overtime

2018

6.6

♡ 1

aging

based on novel or book

Hideo Nakata Director

Takashi Sasano as

Hiroshi Tachi as

Atsuko Takahata as

Hitomi Kuroki as

After decades of single-minded dedication to his work, a worker with an elite career course at a major bank is transferred or rather relegated to a subsidiary company, where he finds himself at a loos as he reaches retirement age.

Labyrinth of Cinema

2019

6.7

♡ 9

93%

Nobuhiko Ôbayashi Director

Takashi Sasano as

Tokio Emoto as

Gorô Inagaki as

Tadanobu Asano as Lt. Sako

When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time to the world inside the screen.

10 Promises to My Dog

2008

human animal relationship

6.9

♡ 9

japan

Romance

Katsuhide Motoki Director

Takashi Sasano as

Pierre Taki as (as Piêru Taki)

Ryô Kase as Susumu Hoshi

Chizuru Ikewaki as Yuko Inoue

One day a puppy comes to the house of Akari, who has just turned twelve, and was trying hard to act strong after her mother suddenly fell ill. She immediately falls in love with the puppy and names it "Socks" after the paws which looked like they had white socks on. Akari was together with Socks day and night. However, as Akari grows up, her feelings and interest moves away from Socks. Year by year, their distance grows, which also leads to her physical distance as she moves to a far off city, and must leave Socks behind to a childhood friend.One day Akari remembers the 10 promises that she had made with Socks and her deceased mother...

Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies

1986

7.0

♡ 1

Comedy

Yôji Yamada Director

Takashi Sasano as

Kaori Momoi as Empress Akiko

Hidetaka Yoshioka as Mitsuo

Keiko Matsuzaka as Sumie Kawashima

Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and she is given a part as a bit player. After the studio's top leading lady is embroiled in a scandal, Koharu is suddenly thrust into the limelight when she replaces her in a film and gains instant fame and fortune. But the going is not always easy, and she soon seeks help from unexpected quarters.

Chin-Yu-Ki: The Journey to the West with Farts

4.0

Yudai Yamaguchi Director

Pierre Taki as

Takashi Sasano as

Kana Kurashina as

Junpei Mizobata as

Genzo is a monk on his way to Tianzhu (early East Asian name for India). Along the way, he happens to visit a house and meets an old couple. The couple has an adopted son, Taro Yamada (Kenichi Matsuyama). They ask Genzo to rehabilitate Taro who makes trouble with his magical power. Genzo takes Taro and travels to Tianzhu.

Dear Doctor

2009

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.

Yûkai Rhapsody

2010