Bitter Honey

2016

Japanese

5.7

♡ 11

Gakuryû Ishii Director

Fumi Nikaidô as Akako Akai

Masatoshi Nagase as Fish Monger

Kengo Kôra as Ghost

Yôko Maki as Yuriko Tamura

Akako, a shape-shifting goldfish in the form of a coquettish nymphet clad in diaphanous red dresses, naively plays the role of erotic muse and adoring pet for an aging writer seeking greatness. Things quickly get complicated for the odd couple, however, when the writer's deceased former student/lover enters the picture as a ghost and helps Akako realize her own desires, activating her agency and frustrating the one-sided male fantasy the writer is so keen to continue.

In za pûru

2005

Japanese

6.6

♡ 1

Action

based on novel or book

Comedy

hospital

Satoshi Miki Director

Ryû Nakatani as

Noriko Eguchi as

Yôko Maki as

Miwako Ichikawa as Suzumi Iwamura

A free-spirited psychiatrist exudes a magnetic attraction for patients with out-of-the-ordinary neuroses and odd conditions brought about by stress.

Poison Berry in My Brain

2015

Japanese

6.3

♡ 2

Yûichi Satô Director

Yôko Maki as Ichiko Sakurai

Terunosuke Takezai as Ichiko's ex-fiancé

Yûki Furukawa as Ryoichi Saotome

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Yoshida

Ichiko is a 30-year-old unemployed woman. She meets Ryoichi at a drinking establishment. Even though he is a lot younger than her, she can't forget him. Meanwhile, Ichiko has 5 different characters in her brain that governs her actions. The 5 characters are Yoshida, Ishibashi, Ikeda, Hatoko and Kishi. These 5 character then have a fierce meeting. Yoshida presides over the meeting as the chairman. Ishibashi is the optimist. Ikeda is the pessimist. Hatoko is the character that lives in the moment and Kishi thinks about the past.

Sway

2006

Japanese

7.1

♡ 6

Miwa Nishikawa Director

Tamae Andô as

Yôko Maki as Chieko Kawabata

Pierre Taki as Funaki

Masatô Ibu as Isamu Hayakawa

A psychologically thrilling portrait of the severe dysfunction behind a family clinging to decorum and pride.

Summer Time Machine Blues

2005

Japanese

7.0

♡ 7

87%

Katsuyuki Motohiro Director

Chikara Honda as Akira Tamura

Tsuyoshi Muro as Daigo Ishimatsu

Kuranosuke Sasaki as Professor Kohtaro Hozumi

Yôko Maki as Yui Ito

The members of a sci-fi club accidentally spill Coke on the remote controller of an air-conditioner during summer and suddenly a time machine appears in their sweating bath-like clubroom.

My Uncle

2016

Japanese

6.3

♡ 2

beach

Comedy

uncle nephew relationship

Nobuhiro Yamashita Director

Shinobu Terajima as

Ryûhei Matsuda as

Erika Toda as

Yôko Maki as Eri

Yukio Haruyama is an elementary school student. He has an uncle that teaches philosophy part-time at an university. His uncle leeches off his family. The uncle then goes on a blind date and falls in love with beautiful Eri Inaba. She is a fourth generation Japanese living in Hawaii. Sometime later, Eri goes back to Hawaii to take over a coffee farm left behind by her recently deceased grandmother. Yukio and his uncle travel to Hawaii to see Eri.

Ride or Die

2021

Japanese

5.6

♡ 3

69%

Ryuichi Hiroki Director

Yôko Maki as Mika Oe

Honami Satô as Nanae / Kotaro's wife

Kiko Mizuhara as Rei Nagasawa

Anne Suzuki as Yu Nagasawa

Rei helps the woman she's been in love with for years escape her abusive husband. While on the run, their feelings for each other catch fire.

Yakiniku Dragon

2018

Japanese

6.2

♡ 6

Wui-Sin Chong Director

Toshie Negishi as Mineko

Shôhei Uno as Oh Shin Gil

Yôko Maki as Shizuka

Yô Ôizumi as Tetsuo

Set in the 1970's in the Kansai region of Japan.. Yong-Gil is Korean, but he moved to Japan and settled down. He runs a small restaurant named Yakiniku Dragon. He is married and has three daughters: oldest daughter Jung-Hwa, middle daughter Yi-Hwa and youngest daughter Mi-Hwa. Oldest daughter Jung-Hwa is dating Tetsuo, but they break up. Middle daughter Yi-Hwa loves Tetsuo and marries him, but Tetsuo still loves her older sister and they divorce. Youngest daughter Mi-Hwa wants to become a singer, but she is in love with a married man.

After the Storm

2016

Japanese

7.4

♡ 40

96%

Hirokazu Koreeda Director

Lily Franky as

Makoto Nakamura as

Hiroshi Abe as Shinoda Ryôta

Yôko Maki as Shiraishi Kyôko

Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detective. He is divorced from his ex-wife Kyoko and he has an 11-year-old son Shingo. His mother Yoshiko lives alone at her apartment. One day, Ryota, his ex-wife Kyoko, and son Shingo gather at Yoshiko's apartment. A typhoon passes and the family must stay there all night long.