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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.

A Distant Cry from Spring

1980

7.6

♡ 3

Yôji Yamada Director

Mizuho Suzuki as

Ken Takakura as Kôsaku Tajima

Hidetaka Yoshioka as Takeshi Kazami

Chieko Baishô as Tamiko Kazami

The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival of a man who ignites flames of romance in the heart of the mother and shows her boy the importance of grit and kindness, but then he leaves with the autumn wind.

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.

Madadayo

1993

teacher student relationship

7.3

♡ 20

88%

tribute

Akira Kurosawa Director

Tetsu Watanabe as

Masuo Amada as

Hidetaka Yoshioka as Takayama's son

Tomoyuki Dan as (uncredited)

In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce devotion of his former students, who honor him each year with a raucous “Not yet!” birthday toast. Told in warm, gently comic vignettes, Kurosawa’s farewell celebrates aging, friendship, and the sustaining ritual of teacher and pupils refusing to say goodbye.

The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai

2020

5.9

♡ 8

Takashi Koizumi Director

Hidetaka Yoshioka as

Kuranosuke Sasaki as

Tatsuya Nakadai as Makino Tadayuki

Takako Matsu as Suga

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Makino clan of Nagaoka, dreamt of independence from the restraints of vassalship. Despite his progressive views and his desire for his estate to remain neutral during the Boshin Civil War, he was bound by loyalty and duty to the clan and was compelled to choose sides.

Gakkô II

1996

6.7

♡ 1

hot air balloon

Yôji Yamada Director

Hidetaka Yoshioka as

Hideko Hara as

Masatoshi Nagase as

Pinko Izumi as

The story follows the teacher and students of the Ryubetsu Handicapped High School.

A Class to Remember 3: The New Voyage

1998

6.6

♡ 1

Yôji Yamada Director

Takashi Sasano as

Kunie Tanaka as

Kimiko Yo as

Hidetaka Yoshioka as

A widow who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins attending a technical college to gain new qualifications. She meets others looking for a new start in life, including a former salaryman with whom she begins a furtive romance...

Riverside Mukolitta

2021

6.9

♡ 8

Family

Naoko Ogigami Director

Hiroko Yakushimaru as

Hidetaka Yoshioka as Kenichi Mizoguchi

Noriko Eguchi as Nakashima

Hikari Mitsushima as Shiori Minami

A lonely young man moves in a 50-year-old apartment building. When he meets the cheerful residents, he finds himself surrounded by small happiness.

The Hidden Blade

2004

7.6

♡ 12

84%