A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano, a successful music producer, is looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Sachiko is concerned with why she seems to be followed by a giant version of herself. As the lazy days pass by, each member of the family is followed in a series of episodic vignettes.

Detective Chinatown 3

2021

Chinese

5.6

♡ 27

Sicheng Chen Director

Janine Chun-Ning Chang as Ivy

Tony Jaa as Jack Jaa

Andy Lau as Q member

Tomokazu Miura as Watanabe

Tang Ren and Qin Feng travel to Japan to investigate the death of a mafia head. As they suspect foul play, they engage in a battle of wits against foreign detectives.

Tôkyô jôkû irasshaimase

1990

Japanese

6.5

♡ 4

Drama

Shinji Sômai Director

Kiichi Nakai as Fumio Amamiya

Shunji Fujimura as Katsu Hashimoto

Tomokazu Miura as Takeo Amamiya

Takatoshi Takeda as Takeshi Wada

A pampered young model is killed in a traffic accident. Given the chance to return to earth, she becomes involved with the advertising executive who is trying to cover up her death. A blend of fantasy and trenchant realism in which Somai uses the ethereal glow of advertising images to comment on the transience of life.

M/Other

1999

Japanese

7.1

♡ 1

Drama

Nobuhiro Suwa Director

Makiko Watanabe as Aki

Hiroo Fuseya as Real estate agent

Ryudai Takahashi as Shun

Tomokazu Miura as Tetsuro

Tetsuro is living with his young girlfriend Aki in a pleasant house in Tokyo. They both spend a lot of time at their jobs. However their routine is upset when Tetsuro brings his 8-year-old son Shun to live with them, while his ex-wife recovers from a car accident.

Station to Heaven

1984

Japanese

7.0

♡ 1

Masanobu Deme Director

Sayuri Yoshinaga as Kayo Hayashiba

Tomokazu Miura as Kouichi Hashimoto

Masahiko Tsugawa as Kouji Fukumi

Nobuyoshi Araki as Photographer

From a true incident that happened in 1960's Japan. This drama is contemporary in setting but medieval in its characters and emotions as it focuses on a tangled web of murder and deceit encountered by a beautiful woman, Kayo after her abusive husband is murdered.

Tôku no sora ni kieta

2007

Japanese

6.3

♡ 3

Isao Yukisada Director

Suzuka Ohgo as

Tomokazu Miura as Mr. Kusonoki

Takashi Kashiwabara as Ryosuke Kusunoki

Shinji Rokkaku as Tanishi

A vast wheat field, a straight road that has no end, a sky without a single building in sight – this is a town in the country where time comfortably passes by. But this former paradise is now being stirred up by a fight amongst its people over constructing an airport. This is a tale of three young people exploring youth and friendship as they reach out into the sky.

Bye Bye Jupiter

1984

Japanese

4.3

♡ 5

Ishirô Honda Director

Tomokazu Miura as Dr. Eiji Honda

Masumi Okada as Dr. Mohammed Mansur

Hisaya Morishige as Earth Federation President

Toshirô Mifune as Samurai on TV

In the 22nd century, scientists from an energy-depleted Earth research new fuel sources in the far corners of the solar system, where they discover an ancient alien race from Jupiter as well as the emergence of an apocalyptically dangerous black hole. Koji Hashimoto's 1983 sci-fi adventure was conceived as a Japanese competitor to the upcoming sequel to Stanley Kubrick's classic 2001, titled 2010, and often mirrors the sequel's plot.

The Forest of Wool and Steel

2018

Japanese

6.2

♡ 1

based on novel or book

Kôjirô Hashimoto Director

Kento Yamazaki as

Mone Kamishiraishi as Kazune Sakura

Hayato Sano as Masaki Tomura

Tomokazu Miura as Soichiro Itadori

High school student Naoki Tomura grew up in a remote area in Hokkaido. He meets piano tuner Soichiro Itadori in school and eventually decides to work at Itadori’s musical instrument store. Tomura gradually grows as a piano tuner through his interactions with the other tuners and musician clients

His Motorbike, Her Island

1986

Japanese

7.3

♡ 3

Drama

Romance

Nobuhiko Ôbayashi Director

Tomokazu Miura as Hidemasa Sawada

Takahiro Tamura as Kouichiroh Shiraishi

Kiwako Harada as Miyoko Shiraishi

Tôru Minegishi as Onozato

After a series of chance meetings a shiftless motorbike enthusiast Ko begins a romance with a carefree girl Miyo, after teaching her to ride. When Miyo proves herself a biker prodigy Ko begins to fear that she is destined to crash.

Sora e: Sukui no tsubasa resukyû uingusu

2008

Japanese

4.5

♡ 3

Action

Drama

Masaaki Tezuka Director

Miyoko Asada as Chieko Kawashima

Ichirôta Miyakawa as Vice Captain

Tomokazu Miura as Yasuo Kikuta

Yoshino Kimura as Yoshino Kimura

Masaki Tezuka‘s live-action adaptation of “Rescue Wings” deviates from the original by centering around a female rookie pilot played by 16-year-old actress (only 15 at the time of filming) Yuko Takayama. After her mother is saved, Haruka Kawashima joins an elite air rescue team and decides she wants to become the first female pilot of a UH－60J (Japanese version of the Black Hawk) rescue helicopter. She goes through harsh, rigorous training and must overcome her emotions for the serious job of saving lives. After several mistakes she’s bluntly told she’s not good enough to be a rescue pilot, but the conflict only makes her more determined. One day, an F-15J fighter plane goes missing from radar and Kawashima receives the distress call. On reserve fuel and the struggling against all odds, she must accomplish her mission at any cost.

Mai bakku pêji

2011

Japanese

6.2

♡ 3

Nobuhiro Yamashita Director

Tomokazu Miura as

Hiroshi Yamamoto as

Daikichi Sugawara as

Shiori Kutsuna as (as Shiori Kutsuna)

In 1969, Sawada is filled with idealism that permeated that era and starts working as a gonzo journalist for a weekly magazine. Two years later, Sawada interviews activist Umeyama with senior reporter Nakahira. Umeyama boasts that his group will steal arms and take action in April. Sawada doubts Umeyama's claims but is attracted to his personality. An incident occurs... Sawada hears news that a man was killed at a army post...

Izu no odoriko

1974

Japanese

7.2

♡ 3

Katsumi Nishikawa Director

Tomokazu Miura as

Ken Mizoguchi as

Tomomi Satô as

Jûkichi Uno as Narrator

While vacationing in the Izu peninsula, a high school student Kawashima becomes intrigued by Kaoru, a pretty young dancer in a troupe of travelling performers, and he tags along with them on their journeys.

Ah haru

1998

Japanese

6.4

♡ 2

Drama

heisei

Shinji Sômai Director

Kôichi Satô as Hiroshi Nirasaki

Tomokazu Miura as Hiroshi's brother

Tsutomu Yamazaki as Sasaichi, Hiroshi's Father

Kimiko Yo as Wife of Hiroshi's brother

A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged father shows up at his house requesting shelter. One of the best of Somai's seriocomic studies of the messiness of family life.

Crossroads

2011

Japanese

4.9

♡ 4

Masatoshi Kurakata Director

Kimiko Yo as

Takashi Tsukamoto as

Eiko Koike as Mai

Tomokazu Miura as Toru Takishima

Domestic drama focusing on a soon to be retired train driver and his wife.

Outrage

2010

Japanese

6.8

♡ 29

Takeshi Kitano Director

Takashi Tsukamoto as Iizuka

Ryô Kase as Ishihara

Tomokazu Miura as Katô

Renji Ishibashi as Murase

When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a brutal quest for revenge.

Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura

2017

Japanese

6.6

♡ 7

100%

Takashi Yamazaki Director

Jun Kunimura as Chief Daibutsu

Tomokazu Miura as Goshiro Kotaki

Masato Sakai as Isshiki Masakazu

Tamao Nakamura as Kin

Set in an alternate universe, the ancient capital of Kamakura is a vibrant town where fantastical creatures live alongside humans. Akiko is a cheerful publishing assistant who moves into town after marrying Masakazu, a popular mystery writer. Akiko is surprised by the unusual town but enjoys the new curiosities surrounding her. However, just as she was beginning to settle in, a trifling incident sweeps her spirit to the underworld too soon. Convinced that destiny has something else in store for his wife, Masakazu journeys into the underworld to bring back Akiko’s spirit.

Small, Slow But Steady

2022

Japanese

6.9

♡ 7

100%

Shô Miyake Director

Makiko Watanabe as

Yukino Kishii as Keiko

Masaki Miura as Kobayashi

Tomokazu Miura as The Chairman

A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president, who has been her biggest supporter, push her to the limit.

Koto: Ancient City

1980

Japanese

6.5

♡ 2

Drama

Kon Ichikawa Director

Tomokazu Miura as

Eisuke Yoda as

Jun Izumi as

Momoe Yamaguchi as Chieko Sada

Chieko (Momoe Yamaguchi) has been raised as the only child of parents who run a dry goods store. When Chieko was a middle-school student, she learned that her parents are not her biological parents. Cheiko's mother told her that she was stolen while sleeping under a cherry tree in Gion, Kyoto, Japan, but Chieko doesn't believe that. Her relationship with her parents is very close. Chieko only tells her childhood friend Shinichi, but...

Always: Sunset on Third Street

2005

Japanese

7.7

♡ 4

90%

japanese economic miracle

shōwa era (1926-89)

tokyo, japan

Takashi Yamazaki Director Koyuki

Koyuki as Hiromi Ishizaki

Tomokazu Miura as Shirô "Akuma" Takuma

Yôichi Nukumizu as The Bicycle Shopkeeper

Pierre Taki as The Ice Seller

Teenage Mutsuko comes to Tokyo for work but ends up at a repair shop. She befriends the owner's family. Neighbors Hiromi, writer Chagawa with admirer Junnosuke strive alongside them in postwar Tokyo's evolution.

The Lines That Define Me

2022

Japanese

6.6

♡ 1

Drama

Norihiro Koizumi Director

Kaya Kiyohara as Chiaki Shinoda

Kanata Hosoda as Komae

Tomokazu Miura as Kozan Shinoda

Yôsuke Eguchi as Nishihama

Sousuke Aoyama is a college student who suffers painfully from the loss of his parents in a traffic accident. He meets Kozan Shinoda, a suibokuga (India-ink painting) artist, at an exhibition. Kozan becomes interested in Sousuke and surprisingly accepts him as his disciple. However, Kozan's niece is dismissive of Sousuke and declares to compete with Sousuke for the "Kozan Award." Although Sousuke seemed uninterested in painting at first, he gradually becomes drawn to it by each stroke he draws...

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The Taste of Tea

Detective Chinatown 3

Tôkyô jôkû irasshaimase

M/Other

Station to Heaven

Tôku no sora ni kieta

Bye Bye Jupiter

The Forest of Wool and Steel

His Motorbike, Her Island

Sora e: Sukui no tsubasa resukyû uingusu

Mai bakku pêji

Izu no odoriko

Ah haru

Crossroads

Outrage

Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura

Small, Slow But Steady

Koto: Ancient City

Always: Sunset on Third Street

The Lines That Define Me