Birthday: 1932-04-09
Place of Birth: Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Biography: Noboru Mitani is an actor, known for A Thousand & One Nights (1969), The Geisha House (1998) and Dodes'ka-den (1970).
An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the ...
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Aspiring to be admitted to a good university and to become a lawyer, Tasiro Yuusuke, a tenth-grader ...
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A scientist realizes his dead wife is an organization of mitochondria bent on making a new species t...
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On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “dri...
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A talk show hostess takes a camera crew out to an abandoned factory to investigate a purported snuff...
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A story about Sayoko Kano, a junior high school student, who is believed to be a descendent of an In...
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A taut, economical policier-cum-gang-hostage thriller....
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The film portrays the life of Tatsuya, a young man of proper descent whose outward respectability hi...
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A TV production crew are making a documentary about the infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro. When they st...
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The familiar Chikan group members who bite into the buttocks of women in the crowd of crowded trains...
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When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condi...
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Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But S...
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An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help the...
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Junko Miyashita plays a mysterious hitchhiker picked up by a brute of a construction worker named Ke...
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A young woman undergoes psychiatric treatment after she no longer hears music and develops sexual ha...
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A man in hospital has a weird and sexy conversation with a woman in the next bed, whom he cannot see...
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A teacher, Sakiko Kurata, receives a phone call regarding one of her former students. Young Sueko is...
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Famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent b...
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Based on a celebrated book by Kuniko Mukoda, this film directed by Yasuo Furuhata tells of a close f...
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Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss....
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Three strangers gather in search of an elusive cherry blossom. The tree hardly matters after a while...
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Ninth movie in the Torakku Yarō series. Momojiro travels to Nagano to take Jonathan's place driving ...
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Lung Yen Fei returns from Japan to investigate the cause of his teachers' death....
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1979 Nikkatsu Roman Porno film. Senkichi, a middle-aged salaryman, started to feel lonely just by r...
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After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza faction...
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A family murder case that occurred in Hita City, Oita Prefecture. A murderer whose statute of limita...
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An old married couple with bedroom problems become upset over the sexual antics of their daughter an...
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The story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very different me...
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A major electronics company on the verge of developing technology to create a 3D image that can be p...
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A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, us...
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When Tetsuya (Yosuke Kubozuka) was 10-years-old he met Emi (Meisa Kuroki), who suffered from a heart...
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Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across ...
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In the winter of 1945, Sakura the elephant gave birth to a baby elephant at Tokyo Fujimi Zoo under t...
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Nami is a department store worker who agrees to stand in for a friend in a magazine photo shoot, whi...
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17 year old Saki lives in a run-down shack with her mom, who survives by pushing a food cart from da...
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Coffee-shop waitress Kanako, divorced with a young son, finds herself obliged to honour a rash promi...
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Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his ...
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Vain, middle-aged actress Biwako is placed in witness protection while authorities investigate the b...
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Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through ...
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Kuroiwa, a high school teacher who carries a “Big Magnum 44” gun is sent to a school that is full of...
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Utae and Aiko attend an all-girl private school where the devoutly religious principal seems to be r...
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In Roppongi, university student Koshiro is fascinated by the world of "black suits" when he meets Cl...
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Yokomizo, a police officer in the traffic police force, is looking forward to watching his son Kazuh...
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On what apparently is a parallel world, time flows in a much slower pace than normal. The ocean rema...
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Izumi has moved to an apartment near the shore. Dr. Takasaki's and his assistant Kyouko also lives n...
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Family is the source of all evil, in this aspiring horror film which traces its descent from The Tex...
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A mysterious street-painter, Jouji, wanders aimlessly, homeless. Together with his homeless pals, he...
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From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With ...
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Etsuko, a female college student, tries to beat the con artists at their own game after she gets sca...
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A young man, involved with a gang of hoodlum exploiting vulnerable elderly men to steal their retire...
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The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s rele...
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Kyogokudo is a used book seller who doubles as an onmyouji, or Heian style occultist. His friend Sek...
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A trio of young scientists investigate a source of uranium at the base of a sacred mountain, and aft...
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A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. B...
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A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for deser...
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Three people whose lives have taken a turn for the worse retreat into a world of erotic dreams made ...
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A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946....
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Set in the late 1950s, when geisha culture was threatened by moral crusades, it tells the story of O...
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After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring...
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A melodrama about the life of a mentally disabled young man and his devoted sister after their famou...
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A successful Japanese movie director in his sixties becomes increasingly ill while working on his la...
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Ichiro Sasaki, 35, is working for a small training school in Tokyo. Though his work and his life are...
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Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and se...
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A private detective and a college student find themselves in hot water while investigating the murde...
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A young man working as a cameraman in Tokyo is visited for three days by his parents from the countr...
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Mejika, reputed for her iron discipline, is hired as a biology teacher at a renowned high school. Bu...
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A drama depicting the conflict between a man that ran to an old lover suffering from advanced leukem...
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Taken out of the pages of history itself, this is the story of the sizzling love between Kenreimon-i...
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Yuko is in love with an old poet who happens to be also a married man. She waits patiently for him a...
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In late 90s Osaka, three people from various walks of life meet by chance. They team up to orchestra...
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Chief Detective KIMURA Denbei, fondly referred to as Smoky Denbei, is a legendary figure at the Metr...
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One spring, Tasaka, an elementary school teacher, receives a new class of first graders. While takin...
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Yasuji Hajima runs a butcher shop. When he was younger, he was just as interested in the sex as the ...
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Ikuko is a mature, reserved Kyoto woman married for many years to a respectable, now-middle-aged man...
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This time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence to d...
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Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a...
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An animated film based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of th...
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Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she st...
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The peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders ...
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When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their th...
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On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by ...
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A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to so...
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Akira Kurosawa’s only television work—a lyrical documentary that follows a thoroughbred from birth a...
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A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to...
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Two high school girls get mixed up in murder while investigating the disappearance of a classmate....
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A shady music mogul brings together two wannabe stars—punk rock rebel Kan and new-wave crooner Shing...
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A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly": find a ...
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A free-spirited psychiatrist exudes a magnetic attraction for patients with out-of-the-ordinary neur...
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A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shi...
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In a struggling small theater troupe, director Inuo pressures an actor to perform a death role with ...
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A female college student who started a part-time job taking care of a bedridden elderly person notic...
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A comedy directed by Mitsumasa Saito about a pair of clumsy detectives who solve a case they become ...
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Ex-conman Junpei plots revenge on a corrupt corporation by leading a team of swindlers posing as pol...
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