Kirin Kiki

Kirin Kiki

Nacimiento : 1943-01-15, Tokyo, Japan

Muerte : 2018-09-15

Historia

Kirin Kiki (樹木 希林 Kiki Kirin) (15 January 1943 – 15 September 2018) was a Japanese actress known for her work in Japanese cinema and television.

Perfil

Kirin Kiki
Kirin Kiki
Kirin Kiki

Películas

The Home Invasion
Director
Stunning superstar Jasmine Jae is turning in for a relaxing night at home. Her full curves barely fit into her tight lingerie. This busty model gets into bed and innocently falls fast a. In no time, 5 strangers break into her home. These filthy criminals are ransacking her apartment while she sleeping
“樹木希林”を生きる
self
This documentary follows the last days of actress KIKI Kirin, who passed away on September 15, 2018. The documentary is the first long-term, in-depth coverage of Ki-kin, and is a re-edited version of the NHK documentary of the same title that was broadcast on September 26, 2006, adding previously unseen footage. She was loved all over Japan for her blunt remarks, her attentive concern for those around her, and her overflowing sense of humor. Despite her busy schedule, she valued her daily life and had her own unique style, even though she talked about life as it came. This film captures the last days of her life and gives us hints for living from her "life as it comes" and her many inspiring words.
Erica 38
Erica's Mother
Satoko Watabe, who calls herself Erica was organizing business support meetings, and collecting a fortune with a fictional investment story, under the order of her lover Ikuo Hirasawa. But she finds out that Hirasawa was actually dating multiple women and was betraying her. Once she cuts contact with Hirasawa, she seduces a rich old man, and obtains a luxurious house. She invites her mother who is in a care home to come live with her, and starts her own fictional “business support” sessions to defraud people. During her visit to Thailand, she meets a young man Porche. Erica falls in love, and enjoys her honeymoon. But the police were looming right around the corner...
Every Day a Good Day
Teacher Takeda
A university student attends a Japanese tea ceremony near her house with her cousin. There she has the Japanese tea ceremony in her life and it's there for her during moments when she is sad or happy.
Un asunto de familia
Hatsue Shibata
Osamu y su hijo se encuentran con una niña en mitad de un frío glacial. Al principio, y después de ser reacia a albergar a la niña, la esposa de Osamu aceptará cuidarla cuando se entere de las dificultades que afronta. Aunque la familia es pobre y apenas gana suficiente dinero para sobrevivir a través de pequeños delitos, parecen vivir felices juntos, hasta que un accidente imprevisto revela secretos ocultos, poniendo a prueba los lazos que les unen.
Mori, The Artist's Habitat
Hideko
In 1974, Morikazu is 94-years-old and his wife Hideko is 76-years-old. They live at a house in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. The garden at their home is full of trees, plants and insects. Morikazu paints pictures of the creatures in his garden and also observes them. This has been his daily routine for more than 30 years. Morikazu and Hideko entertain visitors every day including a photographer and the couple living next door.
Life is Fruity
Narrator
90-year-old architect Shuichi Tsubata and his 87-year-old wife Hideko live in Aichi Prefecture. Their garden is bursting with 70 types of vegetables and 50 types of fruits, and they live in harmony with nature.
Después de la tormenta
Yoshiko Shinoda
A pesar de haber empezado una prometedora carrera de escritor, Ryota va de desilusión en desilusión. Se ha divorciado de Kyoko y gasta todo el dinero que gana como detective privado apostando en las carreras, por lo que finalmente no puede pagar la pensión alimentaria de su hijo de 11 años, Shingo. Ahora Ryota intenta ganarse nuevamente la confianza de sus seres queridos y formar parte de la vida de su hijo. La situación no parece fácil, pero un día un tifón obliga a toda la familia a pasar una noche juntos.
Mystery Trilogy Special
Kirika Ohmori (segment "A Mystery Writer's Daily Life")
This mystery special consists of three thrilling stories by three notable writers.
Nuestra hermana pequeña
Fumiyo Kikuchi
Sachi, Yoshino y Chika son tres hermanas que viven en Kamakura, Japón, en la casa de su abuela. Un día, recibirán la noticia de la muerte de su padre, que las abandonó cuando eran pequeñas. En el funeral conocerán a la hija que su padre tuvo 13 años atrás y pronto las cuatro hermanas empezarán a vivir juntas.
Una pastelería en Tokio
Tokue
Sentaro tiene una pequeña pastelería en Tokio en la que sirve dorayakis. Cuando una simpática anciana, Tokue, se ofrece a ayudarle, él accede de mala gana, pero Tokue demostrará tener un don especial para hacer la salsa "an", el ingrediente esencial para estos postres. Gracias a su receta secreta, el pequeño negocio comienza a prosperar. Con el paso del tiempo, Sentaro y Tokue abrirán sus corazones el uno al otro para revelar viejas heridas.
Kakekomi
Genbei
Situado en el período Edo, durante una época en el que la tasa de divorcios era más del doble que en el día de hoy. Una ordenanza de austeridad ha sido proclamada por el gobierno y la vida de la gente común empeora. Durante este tiempo, muchas mujeres que quieren divorciarse se refugian en Tokei-ji, un templo budista en Kamakura, Japón. El Tokei-ji ayuda a las mujeres que son maltratadas por sus maridos y les ayudan a divorciarse si así lo desean.
This Mystery is Excellent! ~ Challenge from Bestseller Writer
大森キリカ (案内人)
Kashiopea no Endo Roru A murder takes place on a luxury overnight train which runs from Sapporo to Ueno, Tokyo. The victim is a film director. The suspects are 4 women. Nokosareta Senritsu After a pianist concludes her best performance to date, she dies mysteriously in the waiting room. The cause of her death is potassium cyanide that was laced in her coffee. Kuroi Pan Teru A man works as a supervisor for a construction company. 30 years ago, he was a popular actor who played a hero character on TV. Now, he has a wife and a 20-year-old daughter. One day, the man learns that his daughter is kidnapped. Daiyamondo Dasuto A cold wave hits Tokyo. Two men, working for the same company, are unable to avoid overtime work that night. The snow storm then causes electrical outages. The two men must face difficult life or death decisions.
De tal padre, tal hijo
Riko Ishizeki
Ryoata, un arquitecto obsesionado por el éxito profesional, forma con su joven esposa y su hijo de 6 años una familia ideal. Todas sus referencias se esfuman cuando la maternidad del hospital donde nació su hijo les informa que dos bebes fueron cambiados: el niño que crió no es el suyo y su hijo biológico ha crecido en un medio más modesto...
Promise: The Nabari Poisoned Wine Case, The Life of a Death-row Inmate
Masaru Okunishi is a prisoner who has been on death-row for over 40 years. In 1961, 5 women died from drinking poisoned wine in a small village gathering in Nabari City in Mie Prefecture. After his arrest, he appealed his innocence on the grounds that the police coerced his confession. He was found not guilty in the first trial. However, it was overturned and he received a death sentence in the second trial, which was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1972. Since then, Okunishi has continuously appealed for retrial, fighting against the horror of capital punishment. This TV dramatization of the Nabari Poisoned Wine Case depicts Okunishi in an isolated cell, his mother’s unwavering belief in his innocence, and the effort of people who have rallied to Okunishi’s defense.
Tsunagu (Until the Break of Dawn)
Aiko Shibuya
Ayumi, una estudiante de secundaria, es preparada por su abuela para actuar como un "tsunagu", un intermediario para las personas que quieren contactar con los muertos.
Chronicle of My Mother
Yae
Basada en la autobiografía del escritor japonés Yasushi Inoue, la historia se centra en un famoso escritor que debe cuidar de su madre, la cual sufre demencia, y con la que no mantiene una buena relación. La hija menor del escritor intercederá para mejorar la relación entre su padre y su abuela.
Hanezu
Takumi's Mother
En la región de Asuka, que es la cuna del Japón, hace mucho tiempo vivían los que disfrutaban del placer de la espera. En la actualidad, la gente ha perdido la capacidad de sentir ese placer, no es capaz de valorar el presente y se aferra a la ilusión de que las cosas evolucionan según un plan específico para cada uno. Hace mucho tiempo, la gente pensaba que en las montañas de Unebi, Miminashi y Kagu moraban los dioses. En esa época, un poderoso hombre de negocios había comparado esas montañas con una batalla que se libraba en su propio corazón. Las montañas eran una expresión del karma humano.
Milagro
Hideko
Los protagonistas son el dúo cómico infantil Maeda Maeda. Dos niños, hijos de una pareja divorciada. viven separados: uno con su madre en Fukuoka, y el otro con el padre en Kagoshima. Los dos sueñan conb la reconciliación de sus padres. Cuando conocen la noticia de la inauguración de una línea de tren que uniría ambas ciudades, se aferran a un rumor, según el cual cuando los primeros trenes se crucen, ocurrirá un milagro.
A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
fortune teller
Although Nobuyoshi and Saki just got married and moved into a new apartment, their relationship still lacks spark. Things start to change as they meet a weird fortune-teller who also happens to operate tours to hell. Without further ado the young couple books a honeymoon trip which takes them to the most bizarre, colorful and fun vision of hell you could ever dream of.
Hokaibito: Ina no Seigetsu
Narrator (voice)
Part documentary, part fiction this film revolves around the life of the haiku poet Seigetsu Inoue who wandered Ina Valley for about 30 years from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji era.
Ghost
Unten Sazuki
Nanami Hoshino, a wealthy entrepreneur, marries potter Kim Jun-ho, and they both live a seemingly happy life until Nanami is killed by a biker on her way home. Now a ghost whose presence cannot be seen, she realizes that her death was no coincidence and seeks help from the elderly psychic Unten in hopes of saving Jun-ho's life.
Villain
Fusae Shimizu
Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services and going on random encounters with girls looking for spending cash. His world is shattered one day when he is involved in the murder of one of his former encounters, the sweet-faced Ishibashi Yoshino who, after being jilted by playboy Masuo Keijo, berates and mocks the troubled loner.
Arrietty y el mundo de los diminutos
Haru (voice)
En una casita oculta bajo las tablas del suelo de una mansión campestre, vive una familia de seres diminutos, de apenas 10 cm. de altura, que tienen la norma de no dejarse ver nunca por los seres humanos; sin embargo, su tranquila existencia cambia cuando Arrietty, una audaz adolescente, es vista accidentalmente por un niño que se acaba de establecer en la casa debido a su delicada salud. Al tiempo que entre ambos surge una gran amistad, la existencia de los diminutos seres se verá peligrosamente amenazada... Adaptación del cuento infantil "The Borrowers", escrito por Mary Norton y ambientado en el Tokio contemporáneo.
Two Portraits of MIYAGINO
Madam
In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute, and becomes entangled in a love triangle. A mystery emerges involving two portraits and the sudden disappearance of the artist Sharaku. Helmed by Cannes-selected director Tatsuji Yamazaki, the film employs kabuki-inspired sequences and stylised sets.
Making 'Still Walking'
Self
A documentary filmed behind the scenes during the making of Hirokasu Kore-eda's 2008 film "Still Walking."
Still Walking (Caminando)
Toshiko Yokoyama
Un día de verano, unos hijos vuelven a la casa familiar para visitar a sus ancianos padres. Los dos llegan con sus respectivas familias para conmemorar la trágica muerte del hijo mayor en un accidente ocurrido hace quince años. Aunque la casa y la comida familiar apenas han variado, el paso de los años permite observar ligeros cambios en cada uno de los miembros de la familia: el amor se mezcla con el rencor y todos guardan algún secreto.
Dots and Lines
Jutaro Torikai is a senior detective set to uncover the truth behind an apparent double suicide.
Dog in a Sidecar
Granny Tome
The film begins in the present, with its heroine, Kaoru, a grown-up woman working as a real-estate agent, while helping out the folksy proprietor of a neighborhood fishing pond. There she meets a shy girl who needs her help baiting a hook and reminds her of herself in the fourth grade.
Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Eiko Nakagawa
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn between the inherited recklessness of his father Oton and the inherited responsibility, wisdom and emotional strength of his mother Okan. Following a period of intensely rebellious behavior, Boku learns that his mom has contracted cancer; suddenly, his mother comes to live with him in Tokyo the entire emotional landscape of his life is altered.
Red Whale, White Snake
On her way to Chikura to live with her son, Yasue Amami gets off at the Tateyama train station. She wants to see her old house. The a new owner, Mitsuko Kawahara, intends to demolish the place and replace it with a modern new house. With Mitsuko's permission, Yasue enters her old home. Her family had rented it during World War II to escape air raids over the city, and they stayed on for a few years after the war. As Yasue visits the grounds, memories come flooding back.
Our War
"Our War" is a special drama produced by Japanese TBS TV. This is the third bomb of the war-themed TV series after the "Song of Sugarcane Field" and "Guangzhou·Showa August 6th, 20th." It is said that in 2005, young people from the end of the island, Kenji and Showa’s 19-year-old pilot, Shi Tingwu, changed their identity because of time and space, and then used their respective perspectives to look at the Pacific War and the youthful story of peaceful modern life.
Tokyo Tower
Toru Kojima and his friend Koji are young student boys with one thing in common - they both love to date older women. Koji is a playboy with several women, young and older, whereas Toru is a romantic with his heart set on on certain lady.
Izo
Izo's Mother
El grito de Izo resuena en el lugar de ejecución, donde acaba de ser crucificado acusado de un asesinato. Muere, pero deja una profunda maldición. Su alma no puede ir al cielo ni al infierno, y quedará flotando en el espacio y el tiempo. Años después un vagabundo aparece entre los edificios. Es la reencarnación de Izo y tiene un claro objetivo: matar... (FILMAFFINITY)
El sabor del té
Obaa
El sabor del té es un homenaje al cine costumbrista clásico japonés, donde la familia es la base de creación de historias mínimas. Aquí tenemos a los Haruno, conformada por un abuelo ex dibujante y con mente de niño, un hijo que es odontólogo pero practica la hipnosis con sus pacientes y su familia, su esposa, una ex artista de animación que quiere retomar su carrera, el cuñado, que es un ingeniero de sonido y sus hijos, un joven enamorado de su compañera de colegio que intenta conquistarla a través del milenario juego del Go y la pequeña niña que tiene como "amiga" imaginaria a su yo gigante de la cual quiere deshacerse.
Fireflies: River of Light
Headmistress
After finally passing his teacher's exam, Miwa (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) devoted himself to teaching in a rustic primary school. He struggles to get through to his students, until he creates a class project to raise fireflies to fly over it once again. All students, even the reserved girl Hikari (Risako Sugaya), become passionately involved in the project. However, it brings them into conflict with parents and the school, one problem after another stands in his way.
Kamikaze girls
Momoko's Grandmother
Momoko (Kyoko Fukada) es una joven solitaria que vive en su propio mundo construido sobre la época rococó francesa y que tiene una visión muy particular de las cosas. Pero su mundo de disfraces y máscaras pronto se ve trastocado por la llegada de Ichigo (Anna Tsuchiya), una gamberra motorizada que, al contrario de ella, prefiere el estilo norteamericano y necesita estar rodeada de gente en todo momento. Para ello se inventa una leyenda urbana que la hará sentir importante y gracias a la cual juntará una pandilla propia con Momoko. A partir de ese momento ambas iniciarán una inseparable amistad que las hará ver el mundo de forma diferente. Adaptación de una novela de Novala Takemoto (autor de las novelas Lolita).
Half a Confession
Yasuko Shimamura
Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a tale of morality with deeper insights into its characters than we had anticipated. It begins when Soichiro Kaji (Terao), a retired detective, walks into police headquarters and confesses to the murder of his wife. We learn that the victim had prematurely developed Alzheimer's after the tragic death of their son, and in her suffering, had asked to die. The police chiefs would be far more content to take him at his word if it were not for a conspicuous hole in his story: 48-hour gap between the alleged murder and his confession. Fearing a public relations nightmare, they are eager to bury the incident and keep the press in the dark.
Teacher's suitcase
Sensei's ex-wife
Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial encounter, the pair continue to meet occasionally to share food and drink sake, and as the seasons pass - from spring cherry blossom to autumnal mushrooms - Tsukiko and Sensei come to develop a hesitant intimacy which tilts awkwardly and poignantly into love.
Through the Night
When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble of a destroyed shantytown they plan to haul it out for profit. Amidst this plan there is discrimination, war and an infatuation between a man and a woman, but like everything around them there and owing to the forces around them, there is as much chance that these may burn to ashes and be destroyed or be the beginning of something new.
Inochi
Mother
Yu Miri is a writer who's just become pregnant by her married lover. When she decides to keep the baby without his help, her ex-boyfriend Yutaka, decides to help raise him.
Returner
Xia
Año 2084. Después de décadas de sangrientas luchas, una fuerza invasora alienígena está a punto de destruir lo poco que queda del mundo. En un desesperado intento por salvar la raza humana, un soldado de la guerrilla, de nombre Miri, recurre a la máquina del tiempo. A sólo 72 horas del plazo límite previsto para el inicio de las Guerras Alienígenas, convence a Miyamoto, un francotirador experto en artes marciales, para que se una a su causa.
Pistol Opera
Rin
An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.
Cardboard House Girl
The story of a woman who lost everything.
Tokyo Marigold
Ritsuko Sakai
Eriko – lonely, aimless and self-absorbed – falls for Tamura. Despite knowing that he is waiting for his girlfriend to return from overseas, she requests to enter into a relationship with him for just one year.
Zawa-zawa Shimokita-sawa
Fan of Kyushiro
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses.
Keiho
Defence Counsel Shigure Nagamura
The psychiatric evaluation of a young actor arrested for a brutal double murder concludes he may be unfit for trial. Further investigation, however, reveals the crime was a well-planned statement against the section of Japan's criminal code granting diminished responsibility to the mentally impaired.
The Best Bad Thing
Aunt Hata
After her husband's death, Mrs. Hata desperately needs help on her cucumber farm. Rinko' mother wants her to spend the summer helping Mrs. Hata, her life-long friend. But 12-year-old Rinko sees Mrs. Hata's traditional Japanese ways as being backward and "crazy." When she gives in to her mother's request, she discovers Mrs. Hata is kind and courageous, fighting to save her farm. Before summer ends, RInko comes to appreciate and defend "crazy" Mrs. Hata.
Hissatsu shimatsunin
Otora
A former assassin is drawn into a conspiracy which leads him to return to his old ways, endangering his brother who suspects that something is afoot...
Fireworks, Ferris Wheels and Love
Sanae Mita
Morihara was left a widower 8 years ago when his wife passed away. He attends his first mixer party under the guidance of his daughter. There he meets Fumika and starts conversation. Morihara is too shy to show his love since he is much older than Fumika. On learning that Fumika goes to England to study about English Tea, Morihara rushes to the airport but his effort is in vain. He takes out his dead wife's photo and consults her: "I love Fumika, what should I do?"
Oishinbo
Tome
Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by the newspaper's owner, along with the young Yuko Kurita, to provide recipes for the "ultimate menu".
Mitabi no kaikyô
The Mystery of Rampo
Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts, his publisher shows him a newspaper with an account of events just like his forbidden story. As the film progresses, fantasy and reality intermingle in a tale that draws heavily on influences from Poe and Stoker's Dracula. The film's strongly Expressionistic direction skillfully combines a variety of media (animation, computer-generated imagery, grainy black-and-white fast film stock, color negatives) for artistic effect.
Toki no kagayaki
Nagashima
Yuka came to work as an intern nurse at a hospital and she met Shunichi again. They were school friends, and she liked him. But, she found out that Shunichi had an osteosarcoma.
Sakura
Fumi
The story of a bus conductor who dedicates his life to the cherished Japanese symbol.
Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her palentologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs.
Yearning
Omatsu
Famed onnagata (a man who plays women's parts in Kabuki) Tamasaburo Bando follows up on the success of his directorial debut, Gekashitsu, with this soft-focused romance about love and obligation, based on a novel by Kafu Nagai. Set during the Meiji period (1868-1912), Kaede (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is the former mistress of a wealthy merchant. When he dies, she is forced out on the street and forced to give up her young daughter to the merchant's family. The film opens with her working in a high-class brothel abutting Tokyo Bay. Though she has passionate affection for a drug wholesaler, whom she loves as well, Kaede is swamped with not only debts to the bordello and family obligations -- she is expected to support her parents and her sister -- but also guilt over losing her child. This pain is only increased when Kaede learns that her daughter is being abused. She does the only thing she can: She buys back her child by signing on at the brothel for a longer stint.
The Triple Cross
Following the bloody aftermath of a heist, three robbers are double-crossed by a new accomplice, who is then tracked down amid escalating carnage and spectacular car chases.
The Games Teachers Play
Yasuko Takeda
The story of an unconventional teacher facing up to his unruly and apathetic class.
リトルシンドバッド 小さな冒険者たち
Story about the adventures and the friendship of two Japanese-Malaysian boys.
Kim's War
After shooting a gangster in self-defense, Kim Hui Ro takes refuge at a hotel and takes the guest hostages. Realising his position, he invites the press inside and explains why he was driven to his crime.
War and Youth
Etsuko Onoki
An auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent. Finally the man opens up, and the girl is able to piece together her aunt's tragic story.
Misty Kid of Wind – The Glass Cape
Otane
Karin has lived alone in a secluded mountain village with her consumptive mother since her father died. Her worried grandfather advises her to send her mother to a sanatorium and be adopted by him, although she refuses to accept. On the Buddhist All Soul’s Day Festival in August, a messenger from her grandfather pays a sudden visit to her house.
Crane
Yura
Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju and says she will become his wife...
Remembrances
Mine Kamioka
The Yamaoki family moved from Kyoto to Tosa around the turn of the '50s; local school teacher Hirao becomes involved with Yasuko, sister to Sumio.
The Ballad of the Sea of Genkai
A young woman's life is turned upside down when her husband suddenly disappears, leaving behind numerous debts and his illegitimate child. Desperate to track down her missing husband, she travels to Kyushu in hopes of finding clues to his whereabouts and in the process discovers disturbing secrets about the man she loves.
Yume-Chiyo
Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left. Through her responsibility lies in taking care of her girls, she finds purpose in providing a man innocent of a false murder charge and in the process discovers love for the first time in his arms.
Miss Lonely
Terue Amano
Una estudiante de secundaria, que es muy solitaria, se encuentra de repente con el amor de su vida de la nada. ¿Es una persona real o producto de su imaginación?
Capone Cries a Lot
Sene Tachikawa
Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.
Amagi Pass
Ryosaku's wife
Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A mysterious murder took place afterwards, an Ozuka was held responsible. 40 years later, the boy, who became a printing shop owner, was visited by a retired policeman who came from Amagi Pass. The truth then started to reveal itself.
Highschool Scramble
Karate Cop
矢代スミ刑事課庶務 (Sumi Yashiro, Detective Secretary)
A martial arts master/detective investigates a series of murders and helps a deaf bathhouse attendant, Hisako.
I Are You, You Am Me
Naoko Saitoh
9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched, and the result is a touching and hilarious coming-of-age comedy as they attempt to survive the pressures of junior high school life.
The Wild Daisy
Omasu
Saito Masao reminisces on the days of his youth more than 50 years ago and his forbidden love of his older cousin Tamiko. When he was 15, Tamiko moved in to take care of his sickly mother. The two quickly fell in love with each other but were inevitably forced by their family to live separate lives.
The First Catch
Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.
Nurse's Husband
“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality is harsh. Keiko even had to work on the first night after her marriage. Ten years later, the married couple is still at it. Yauso tends to the house and their children, while Keiko sacrifices family life for life as an overworked nurse. One day, after Keiko comes home utterly exhausted and dejected from her work, Yasuo makes up his mind and writes a letter of resignation in her place. Upon learning of this, Keiko angrily declares that nursing is what she lives for and she will keep on working. Realising that that is one battle he will never win, Yasuo sends a letter to a newspaper -- “Nurses’ husbands, aren’t you having a hard time? Get together nurses’ husbands. Contact me.” There is a tremendous response. This leads to the formation of many unions of nurses’ husbands throughout the country.
Zigeunerweisen
Kimi
A surreal period film following an university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.
Heaven Sent
Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objects to the idea. One day, someone leaves behind a six-year-old child at their door, claiming that Shinsaku—or four other men—is the child's father! Sayoko and Shinsaku set out on a journey to find the real father.
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
Obayashi’s take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.
Down with The Big Boss
Okonomiyaki Manager
In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo's underworld.
Taro, el niño dragón
Yamanba (voice)
Taro es un niño perezoso que no hace nada aparte de comer y dormir durante todo el día. Es un buen luchador y por ello un mago le da una poción que le da la fuerza de cien hombres, pero solamente funcionará cuando utilice esta fuerza para ayudar a la gente. Un día recibe una mala noticia: su abuela le cuenta que han convertido a su madre en un dragón y Taro decide encontrarla pase lo que pase. A lo largo de su viaje tiene que derrotar demonios o ayudar a la gente que se encuentra a su paso de igual manera.
La balada de Orin
Tama Ichise
Orin es una cantante ciega que se gana la vida en una compañía de músicos ambulantes. Tras ser violada, es expulsada de su compañía por haber perdido la virginidad. Abandonada, a Orin no le queda más remedio que seguir ganándose la vida sola de pueblo en pueblo con sus actuaciones. Durante el camino será presa de personas mezquinas que intentarán aprovecharse de ella, pero también conocerá el amor.
Female Teacher
Yuriko Yokoyama(横山百合子)
A young teacher (Eiko Nagashima) is raped by students. She tries to resign but then decides to return and face the class.
Tomorrow Evening
Ayako is a 7-year-old girl with a dark, tanned face and a somewhat mysterious expression on her face. She shows up at the elementary school and acts strangely, but the children don't know her name and just call her "that girl". There are two groups of children at the elementary school, and the conflict between the groups intensifies...
Sachiko no sachi
Momoe
Based on the manga of the same name by Kazuo Kamimura.
The Sea of Eden
Nanjo, a new teacher at a girls' high school, unwittingly becomes the object of gossip when he buys underwear for Shimizu and spends his vacation with a female teacher. It turns out that Nanjo and Shimizu have fallen in love.
The Viper Brothers and the Young General
Without Complaint
Haruko Kitani
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
Statue in Fire
Drama about young people in the Japanese rock scene starring the lead singer of Japanese rock band The Tigers (1966-1971, 1981-1983).
The Four Roughnecks
Gimme gimme gimme! Yusaku Matsuda and his gang are on the hunt for women, money and more money! The late legendary actor, Yusaku Matsuda, stars in this explosive motion picture about the hedonistic lifestyles of four roughnecks directed by Yukihiro Sawada. Takeo Natsuki (Yusaku Matsuda) was just released from prison. He was the leader of three rascals; all they did was cause trouble. When they meet a girl whose father is resisting a forced eviction to make way for a construction site, they come up with their own plans to solve the problem.
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
About small time gangster Asakichis chaotic life in the 1930s. His gambling addiction means that he must not continue working in the family business. Instead He supports himself on arranging cockfights. He becomes ex-geisha Okinus patron and lover, and goes directly into disfavor with the Yakuza.
Red Paper Lantern
A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfamiliar relationships with their surroundings.
My Voiceless Friends
Maid
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.
Go As Messy As Messy Can Be
PTA Mama
Comedy about a young man who causes pandemonium by raiding a bar patronized by his father, winning the favors of a hostess and ends up feeling the breasts and hips of all the girls in his father's office.
Live My Share, Mother
Nurse Okamura
At school, Fumio is good in everything. His cheerful, out-going personality makes him a great favorite with teachers and classmates alike. He is in perfect health and there does not seem to be a single shadow to cloud his life. Then, one day, he feels a sudden pain in his shoulder. His parents take him to a doctor who tells them that their son has bone cancer and must be hospitalized. The parents cannot believe their ears, for Fumio had always been the picture of abounding health. The whole family with the exception of Fumio is cast into the depths of despair. They wonder why it had to happen to their Fumio and their happy family. The father who recovers first and decides to fight cancer to save his son's life.
Tora-san, His Tender Love
Maid in Shinshû
Tora-san regresa a su ciudad natal a instancias de su tío y su tía, pero una vez más causa caos y problemas para su gran boca. En un intento por hacer que se quede en casa y termine con su vida como vagabundo, la pareja de ancianos decide arreglar el matrimonio de Tora-san. Pero la reunión matrimonial nuevamente termina en vergüenza y la pareja de ancianos tiene que pagar la cuenta nuevamente. Después de una gran pelea, Tora-san está en el camino una vez más...
Crazy Big Explosion
A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats.
Angel's Lover
Comedy about two employees who work against their boss.
Nunnery Confidential
Pinku from 1968.
Journey
Koto—The Lake of Tears
Kayo Sugumo
A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, known for its production of quality shamisen strings, only to find her peaceful life turned upside down when a master musician takes personal interest in her.
Dynamite Doctor Returns
Fumiko (as Chiho Yûki)
Second movie in the yoidore hakase serie
Dianas of the Campus