Takashi Yamanaka Movies

Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness....

Welcome to Kowloon Walled City: a dystopian townscape where the people are brimming with nostalgia, and where the past, present, and future converge....

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.

In 1964, Momoko came by herself to Tokyo from her hometown. She met Shūzō and married him. They raised two children together, but...

Set in late 19th-century Imperial Russia, this acclaimed stage production by KERA stars Yuki Amami and Yoshio Inoue in a moving adaptation filled...

1960s Japan—economic boom, Olympic pride, and a crackdown on “public morals.” An anti-prostitution law targets women but spares...

Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this portrait of a group of vulnerable, variously wounded people — a depressed housewife,...

Sugimoto Taeko moves in with her daughter Natsuki and granddaughter Mizuki. They begin a lively life together. In the midst of it all, Taeko sees her...

Late 18th century, Tohoku. An outcast girl, Rin lives in a village suffering from famine. She draws strength from Mt. Hayachine, where the spirits of...

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...

A rock band writes a song called "Fish Story" that is foretold to save the world. The song exceeds the boundaries of space and time and ties people...

Three patients of different backgrounds, illnesses and stages are being treated at a psychiatric clinic in Nagano Prefecture. Their cases range from...

Jiro Sawada is a sophomore in high school when a false accusation drives him out his hometown: a small village in Fukushima Prefecture. The entire...

A young man falls in love with a woman he meets at a party, but when she leaves him, he must face some uncomfortable truths.

A man suicides causing ruin for his family, reasons are unknown, but his son will decide to take revenge after a succesion of events.

14 year-old schoolgirl Tsubame is into university student Toru. She sees him in her area and really wants to be his. She struggles with how to inform...

Shibuya in Tokyo, a city that continues to change due to redevelopment. At a house in the corner of Shibuya, Ai dreaming of a model, Mizuho working...

Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness....

The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go...

A suburban town is faced with a series of bizarre incidents in which children disappear and three days later an adult in their life dies. A...