Yukako Kobayashi

Filmes

The Extremists' Opera
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When theater director Naoko (Saori) holds auditions for the first production of her newly established all-female theater troupe, she is mesmerized by Haru (Arisa Nakamura), who barges into the old garage where they rehearse. Naoko chooses Haru to be the lead as she leverages her power as director to pursue the romantic connection that fuels her voracious creativity. However, as opening night approaches, jealous entanglements threaten the artistic and ideological aims of the project, as well as the relationship with Haru pulling Naoko from her womanizing ways. Based on her own semi-autobiographical novel Kokan, cult theater director and actress Junko Emoto makes her directorial debut in this playful drama relishing the toil and passion of a struggling creative life on and off stage. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film
Pure Heart
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Through a coincidence Tozaki runs into Kurata, his first crush from high school. They begin a relationship, but Kurata's jealousy starts causing problems.
Ai no kotodama: Para o Fim do Mundo
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Hirofumi e Shinji são colegas da mesma agência de publicidade. Hirofumi trabalha em TI, e Shinji está no caminho rápido da elite da empresa. Os dois começam completamente com o pé errado, mas como o passar do tempo eles encontram-se caindo um para o outro.
Rail Truck
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A tale of two islands and growing up as a stranger in a strange land, told with an artistry that recalls Hou Hsiao-Hsien at his best. Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s short story of the same title (1922), Kawaguchi’s film moves the original early 20th-century Izu Peninsula to present-day Taiwan, where the strength of family ties is singularly put to the test. Yumiko (Machiko Ono), who married against her parents' wishes, has struggled on in stubborn determination since her husband’s death, moving her family from their Tokyo home to the verdant, rural Taiwan village of her in-laws. Her son Atsushi, strongly conscious that in ethnocentric Japan he is "different," is in a state of rebellion against both the society in which he has grown up and his mother. In their new home the family rediscovers the bonds that unite it.
Ai no Kotodama
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Ootani e Tachibana têm sido inseparáveis ​​desde o colégio. Agora que eles estão na faculdade, eles vivem juntos, eles estão felizes e tudo parece prefeito. Mas o seu pequeno mundo é interrompido quando encontrar um velho amigo de escola, Yuki, que parece ter uma queda por Tachibana, tornando Ootani sentir ciúmes e inseguro. Será Tachibana realmente escolhê-lo sobre uma menina bonita?
Family Secrets
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Kenji Shimamura has trouble being intimate with his girlfriend Noriko after a lifetime of watching his parents bicker over his father’s infidelity. After he spurns her advances, causing her to storm off in an offended rage, he decides it’s time to seek psychological help. Unfortunately that costs money and the best way to earn some quick cash in his family is to spy on his dad for his mother. He quickly discovers his dad has a young girlfriend named Yukari. Figuring the best way to deal with this gracefully is to come clean with Yukari he tells her all about their family and the real estate business his parents run together. Unfortunately, however, his plan backfires. Instead of being scared off Yukari applies for a job at the family business and befriends Kenji’s mother, setting up a chain of events that makes things awkward for everyone involved.
Seikimatsu Bakuroden Saga
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Live-action adaptation of the "Seikimatsu Bakuroden Saga" manga by Akira Miyashita.