Hidetaka Yoshioka
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1970-08-12
Locus Natus: Saitama, Japan
Et ut: 吉冈秀隆, 吉岡 秀隆
Rhapsody in August
The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her...
release : 1991.05.25popularis : 10.221
The Hidden Blade
Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his...
release : 2004.10.30popularis : 4.252
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
In a post-war alternative timeline, Japan is divided into the North, controlled by the Union, and the South, controlled by the United States. A...
release : 2004.11.20popularis : 19.883
Always - Sunset on Third Street
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...
release : 2005.11.11popularis : 7.598
The Sea Is Watching
O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the warnings of her fellow workers,...
release : 2002.07.27popularis : 4.283
Always: Sunset on Third Street 2
Would-be writer Ryunosuke Chagawa is still living across the street from Norifumi Suzuki and his auto repair shop, though now he shares his home with...
release : 2007.11.03popularis : 3.786
Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
There is a man who divorced his wife. He moved to rural Hokkaido from Tokyo where he lived with his family without running water or electricity. He...
release : 1992.05.22popularis : 3.251
Winny
In the early days of the Internet, a case arises from an innovative software and the developer is falsely arrested by the police. This film is based...
release : 2023.03.10popularis : 5.277
Last Song
A drama that depicts the trajectory of four years in the life of two young musicians and one woman who dreamed of becoming a star, leaving Hakata to...
release : 1994.02.05popularis : 1.264
Golden Slumber
When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Minister's assassination, and on the run from...
release : 2010.01.30popularis : 10.34
Railroad Man
A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line...
release : 1999.06.05popularis : 6.646
Yatsuhakamura
During the Sengoku period, villagers brutally killed eight samurai, and in the Taisho era, the head of an old family murdered 32 villagers in the...
release : 2019.10.12popularis : 2.503
A Distant Cry from Spring
The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival of a man who ignites flames of romance in the...
release : 1980.03.15popularis : 2.638
Letter from the Mountain
Husband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated, rural farming village where Takao grew up.
release : 2002.10.05popularis : 4.599
Buddha: The Great Departure
Prince Siddhartha is heir to the Shakya kingdom, which is constantly at war with the more powerful Kosala kingdom. His father tries to raise as him...
release : 2011.05.28popularis : 13.89
The Many Faces of Chika
When her husband is hospitalized with tuberculosis, Chika has a series of three relationships: with a teacher in her hometown, with a student in...
release : 2005.01.05popularis : 0.85
When this flower blooms
Sakamoto Chika, who works for a real estate company in Kagoshima, is having a hard time growing at work and is unable to respond to the proposal from...
release : 2022.03.16popularis : 2.598
Godzilla Minus One
In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the...
release : 2023.11.03popularis : 127.552
After the Rain
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst...
release : 2000.01.22popularis : 11.732
Damejin
An off-beat comedy about 3 'damejin' (useless persons), who don't work and spend their lives doing nothing. They actually don't want to work. When...
release : 2006.07.01popularis : 2.488
A Class to Remember II
The story follows the teacher and students of the Ryubetsu Handicapped High School.
release : 1996.11.19popularis : 6.051
Dr. Coto's Clinic
In this drama set on Shikina Island, a far-flung island of the Japanese archipelago located more than six hours from the Japanese main islands, the...
release : 2022.12.16popularis : 6.801
Half a Confession
Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a tale of morality with deeper insights into its...
release : 2004.01.10popularis : 6.786
Miracle in Four Days
Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" wafts through a hospice recreation room. Sitting at the grand piano is a young girl, Chiori, with a...
release : 2005.06.04popularis : 3.165
Tora-san, My Uncle
Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.
release : 1989.12.27popularis : 2.994
The Rainbow Seeker
A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose owner lives to bring entertaining films...
release : 1996.12.28popularis : 2.857
Tora-san Makes Excuses
Tora-san Makes Excuses is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko...
release : 1992.12.26popularis : 1.839
Buddha 2: The Endless Journey
2500 years ago, in India, Siddhartha was born as a prince of the Shakya clan, but he gives up his position as a prince to see the world. He meets a...
release : 2014.02.08popularis : 8.397
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and...
release : 2001.08.18popularis : 3.258
Madadayo
Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset...
release : 1993.04.17popularis : 10.435
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
In May 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (or JAXA) launched an unmanned spacecraft of their own development to retrieve samples from an...
release : 2012.02.11popularis : 3.536
Always: Sunset on Third Street '64
The Tokyo Olympics are about to open, and Rynosuke Chagawa is excited to receive a new TV set to watch the upcoming events. His wife Hiromi is...
release : 2012.01.21popularis : 7.078
The Last Revenge
This is the true story of the last officially recorded case of adauchi, when a young man avenged the death of his father by brutally killing the...
release : 2011.02.26popularis : 2.396
Grasshopper
Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (Ryosuke Yamada). Suzuki is a former middle school...
release : 2015.11.07popularis : 3.86
Tora-san to the Rescue
Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged to someone else.
release : 1995.12.23popularis : 1.046
Tora-san's Easy Advice
Mitsuo, unhappy in his new job as a shoe salesman, is invited to a festival and is introduced to a friend’s sister. Tora-san meanwhile helps an...
release : 1994.12.23popularis : 1.101
Tora-san's Matchmaker
After failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush on a young nurse there. Tora-san, dispatched to bring...
release : 1993.12.25popularis : 1.481
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship.
release : 1988.12.24popularis : 1.926
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and...
release : 1986.12.20popularis : 1.513
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san...
release : 1984.08.04popularis : 0.887
Tora-san's Song of Love
Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to...
release : 1983.08.06popularis : 2.341
Tora-san, the Go-Between
In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a...
release : 1985.08.03popularis : 1.434
Tora-san Plays Daddy
A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the...
release : 1987.12.26popularis : 1.206
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully comprehends his importance, the old man is a Living...
release : 1982.08.07popularis : 1.592
Tora-san Confesses
When Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter to Mitsuo and Mitsuo goes looking for her. But...
release : 1991.12.23popularis : 3.493
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to track down her estranged brother, and informs his...
release : 1981.08.08popularis : 1.876
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for another woman, so together they decide to confront...
release : 1990.12.22popularis : 2.366
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan.
release : 1989.08.05popularis : 0.756
Tora-san's Island Encounter
Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), runs away from her husband, who is only interested...
release : 1985.12.28popularis : 2.666
Tora-san's Promise
Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarrasses himself by getting drunk and insulting all...
release : 1981.12.28popularis : 1.971
Tora-san, the Expert
Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist...
release : 1982.12.28popularis : 2.554
64: Part 2
1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami,...
release : 2016.06.01popularis : 2.464
64: Part 1
1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami,...
release : 2016.05.07popularis : 3.505
Juvenile
11-year-old Yusuke and his classmates camp in the woods and see a strange light. They discover a small metallic object like a robot which talks,...
release : 2000.07.15popularis : 6.119
The Little House
Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which...
release : 2014.01.25popularis : 4.568
Fueled: The Man They Called "Pirate"
In a time when the main source of energy was still coal, there was a man who saw the future in oil. Young Tetsuzo Kunioka who hails from Moji,...
release : 2016.12.11popularis : 2.103
Reminiscence
A detective in Toyama is forced to confront his painful past when he takes on a murder case involving his two estranged childhood friends.
release : 2017.05.06popularis : 2.13
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
Carrying a bag full of samples, Mitsuo makes rounds to shoe stores in remote cities. While staying at budget hotels, his thoughts turn to Tora-san.
release : 1997.11.22popularis : 1.235
Oracion
Set on a quiet ranch in Hokkaido. One day, a colt is born from a legendary bloodline. It is given the name Oracion or "prayer". When Oracion is...
release : 1988.07.23popularis : 1.333
The Rainbow Seeker 2
Sequel to The Rainbow Seeker where Ryo meets Katsu on a small island in the south of Japan. There, he falls in love for a single mother.
release : 1997.12.27popularis : 3.165
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife asks Tora-san...
release : 1984.12.28popularis : 4.117
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
The 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the series. The adult Mitsuo,...
release : 2019.12.27popularis : 3.954
The Kids' Diner
The film is about poor children and 'The Kids' Diner', a place where they can go to get free or cheap food.
release : 2019.03.23popularis : 1.307
The Nearest Place to the Sky
Kitagawa, a top salesman with an impressive record, is hiding a dark secret—he borrowed the 9 million yen of his record from loan sharks. One...
release : 1994.10.15popularis : 1.963
Fukushima 50
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region...
release : 2020.03.06popularis : 9.127
The Brightest Roof in the Universe
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...
release : 2020.09.04popularis : 2.879
Tora-san Goes Religious?
Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated,...
release : 1983.12.28popularis : 4.152
Tora-san Goes North
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged...
release : 1987.08.15popularis : 3.329
The Professor and His Beloved Equation
This is the story between single mother housekeeper and mathematics professor,who has a brain damage.
release : 2006.01.21popularis : 2.454
Fuji Family New Year Special 2017
here is a small old-fashioned shop called ‘Fuji Family’ at the foot of Mt Fuji that is a convenience store in name only. It is run by...
release : 2017.01.03popularis : 1.165
In the Wake
Baffling serial killings unfold in which the victims are tied up and left to starve. Tone was just released from prison after finishing his sentence...
release : 2021.10.01popularis : 3.553
Akuma ga Kitarite Fue wo Fuku
Eiso Tsubaki, a former aristocrat, was suspected in a murder case in Ginza and committed suicide. Detective Kindaichi Kosuke, who is commissioned by...
release : 2018.07.23popularis : 0.958
Air Girl
Komari Sano's parents ran a small Tokyo factory that manufactured aircraft parts. With her parents' influence, Komari Sano dreamed of becoming a...
release : 2021.03.20popularis : 1.554
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
A widow who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins attending a technical college to gain new qualifications. She meets...
release : 1998.10.17popularis : 3.525
Hana and Alice
Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.
release : 2004.03.13popularis : 9.277
Riverside Mukolitta
A lonely young man moves in a 50-year-old apartment building. When he meets the cheerful residents, he finds himself surrounded by small happiness.
release : 2021.11.03popularis : 4.981