Kyūsaku Shimada Movies

Yumiko has been invited by her cousin to spend summer vacation in a rural village. Once they arrive, she is mad to feel very unwelcome by the...

The "Himawari So" ("Sunflower House") is a group home for mentally underdeveloped adults. Manga artist Itpon Aijo (Naoto Takenaka) begins to work at...

A tattoo changes a woman. A tattoo changes a man. Tattoo is everything ... Asami, a woman who breaks into an affair with a man who has a wife the...

A timid girl high school student, Sonoko Ishii (Emi Suzuki), has two important friends at her high school. They are Sonoko's boyfriend Satonaka (Kei...

The first in a series of Japanese TV movies about a police detective who has adopted the dress and mannerisms of famous American TV detective...

Film on the life of Ramo Nakajima, part adaptation of his short stories, part documentary

After her parents’ divorce, ten-year-old Nagi moves with her mother to a small island in Setouchi. Traumatic visions of her alcoholic father...

Kouta Fujioka is a 29-year old man who has a good family, including his father who always supports him, his mother who enjoys cooking, and his older...

The second volume of the popular ghost story TV series “Ghost Story Shin Mimibukuro,” based on the real-life ghost story book “Shin...

Almost all of the dialogue and narration is extracted from the original story, and there are no particular deviations from the original storyline,...

Dumped by a bored pet owner, a mixed-breed mutt ends up with three time loser Yasuyuki, who's loveless, homeless and jobless. Yasuyuki finds solace...

A psychological suspense based on the novel of the same name by Naoki Prize-winning author Tsuyoshi Osaka. Psychiatrist Aiko Minamikawa was asked to...

At the beginning of the 19th century, Japan was under a policy of national isolation. A group of Dutch scholars who wanted to open the country...

Mayu Daimon is a woman who does not remember her mother's face, and her father is the only person she has blood relationship in this world, but he is...

The soldiers no longer know why they are at war, and when it even started. Daily and dutifully they march to the river and shoot at the opposite...

The “ultimate love” that aims at “tolerance” and “symbiosis” will be sublimated and ask questions to the chaotic...

Film about Sakamoto Ryōma. The focus is on Oryo, the maid who became Ryoma’s wife and lived with him for one year before his death.