Tsutomu Yamazaki

The Honest Realtor

Hotshot Nagase Saichi is Tosaka Real Estate’s top realtor. He lies through his teeth and will stop at nothing t...

High and Low

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but dem...

Three Sisters

The Story is about three daughters of a "Hatamoto" during the end of the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration.

Leaders

Before World War II, the automobile industry in developed countries in Europe and the United States possessed f...

The Unspoiled Diamond

A college student has an affair with a married, middle-aged teacher.

Roosevelt Game

Based on the same-titled novel by Ikeido Jun (the writer of Hanzawa Naoki series), the drama unfolds against a...

The Black Swindler

Kurosaki is a vigilante who scams criminals to rectify their misdeeds, driven by his father's attempted suicide...

Red Beard

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his fir...

Kagemusha

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen,...

The Last Song

Just when about to commit suicide after being deserted by his bride-to-be during the wedding, a man meets a uni...

Sketchbook of Early Spring

A home drama questions the modest happiness of the ordinary petty bourgeoisie through the life of a salaryman a...

Tampopo

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop sellin...

Blade of the Immortal

Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the bruta...

Kumokiri Nizaemon

A Japanese television jidaigeki that was broadcast in prime-time in 1995 on Fuji TV. It is based on Shōtarō Ike...

Departures

Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the l...

The Trading Company

An economic drama depicting the struggle and collapse of a Japanese general trading company. The US branch pres...

Red Cross

Kiyo is a female school student in Saga Prefecture, Japan. She admires nurses and wants to be helpful to her na...

Lovers Lost

A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a...

Killing for the Prosecution

Young public prosecutor Keiichiro Okino is assigned to the department of the Tokyo Public Prosecutors Office th...

Space Battleship Yamato

In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' b...

Crying Out Love in the Center of the World

While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caus...

Kemono Michi

The drama sheds light on the dark side of Japan connected to the political and financial world by depicting the...

The Funeral

When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurren...

The Emperor in August

In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meet...

Farewell to the Ark

A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitio...

愛と愛

The movie stars Ayako Wakao. It depicts the emotional turmoil of a woman caught between two kinds of love: her...

Copycat Killer

The story of a criminal who abducts and kills women, and those who try to catch him. Nakai is cast as a cold-bl...

August Without Emperor

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V...

GO

Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will no...

Shield of Straw

Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter is then mur...

Hissatsu Shiokinin

The Summit of Mt. Fuji

The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoons as far a...

The Ramen Girl

An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, s...

Play it, Boogie-Woogie

A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. Th...

The Woodsman and the Rain

A widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for his help an...

Turning Point

A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumi...