Kirin Kiki

Kirin Kiki

Nascimento : 1943-01-15, Tokyo, Japan

Morte : 2018-09-15

História

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.

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Kirin Kiki
Kirin Kiki
Kirin Kiki

Filmes

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.
Assunto de Família
Hatsue Shibata
Depois de uma de suas sessões de furtos, Osamu e seu filho se deparam com uma garotinha escondida. A princípio relutam em ajudar a menina, mas a esposa de Osamu concorda em abrigar e cuidar dela depois de descobrir as dificuldades que ela enfrenta. Embora a família seja pobre e mal ganhem dinheiro com os pequenos crimes que cometem, eles parecem viver felizes juntos até que um incidente revela segredos escondidos, testando os laços que os unem.
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.
Depois da Tempestade
Yoshiko Shinoda
O Japão está prestes a receber o 23º tufão do ano. A matriarca Yoshiko, uma mulher idosa que mora sozinha, recebe a visita de dois filhos que não costumam ir à sua casa: Ryota, um escritor fracassado que ainda sofre com o divórcio e se arrisca fazendo bicos de detetive, e a filha mais velha, que tenta passar por exemplo da família, mas também tem seus problemas. Juntos, eles aguardam a chegada do tufão e relembram a morte recente do pai e marido.
Mystery Trilogy Special
Kirika Ohmori (segment "A Mystery Writer's Daily Life")
This mystery special consists of three thrilling stories by three notable writers.
Nossa Irmã Mais Nova
Fumiyo Kikuchi
Três irmãs - Sachi, Yoshino e Chika - vivem juntas em uma casa grande na cidade de Kamakura. Quando seu pai - ausente da casa da família nos últimos 15 anos - morre, eles viajam para o interior para seu funeral, e conhecem Suzu, sua tímida meia-irmã adolescente. Após criar laços rapidamente com a órfã, elas convidam-na para viver em Kamakura. Suzu ansiosamente concorda, e uma nova vida de alegres descobertas começa para as quatro irmãs.
Uma Pastelaria em Tóquio
Tokue
Sentaro gere uma pequena pastelaria de dorayakis – uma especialidade japonesa que consiste em duas panquecas recheadas com doce de feijão (“an”, no original). Quando Tokue, uma senhora com cerca de 70 anos, se oferece para trabalhar na pastelaria, ele aceita com relutância. No entanto, Tokue rapidamente prova que a sua receita de “an” é mágica. Graças à sua receita secreta, o negócio de Sentaro floresce rapidamente. Com o tempo, Sentaro e Tokue abrem os seus corações, e desenvolvem uma relação de amizade que vai revelando também algumas feridas do passado.
Kakekomi
Genbei
Kakekomi tells the stories of Edo women in the 1800s that escape abusive husbands and lovers by taking refuge in Tokeiji, a monastery in Kamakura.
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.
Pais & Filhos
Riko Ishizeki
Um empresário bem sucedido e obcecado com o trabalho duro e o mérito descobre que seu filho foi trocado na maternidade. Ele e a esposa precisam agora decidir se querem ou não trocar as crianças, mas questões como a inteligência e o potencial das crianças parecem influenciar sua dúvida.
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.
Until the Break of Dawn
Aiko Shibuya
High school student Ayumi is trained by his grandmother to act as a "tsunagu," an intermediary for people who want to reach the dead.
Chronicle of My Mother
Yae
Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own behavior has taken on his increasingly distant family and resolve his own long-simmering resentments. Evocative of classic Ozu, this gorgeously wrought epic family portrait explores the tenderness and trappings of familial bonds.
Hanezu
Takumi's Mother
Woodwork artist Takumi moves to the small village Asuka in Nara Prefecture. He remodels old homes and lives a peaceful existence with nature. Takumi then meets Kayoko, a woman who went to the same school as Takumi. Kayoko is fascinated with the color crimson. She dyes scarves with the color of hanezu. Kayoko lives with boyfriend Tetsuya, who works as an editor of a PR magazine. They live together. Soon, Kayoko falls in love with Takumi.
O Que Eu Mais Desejo
Hideko
Dois irmãos se afastam após a separação dos pais. O mais velho vive com a mãe e o outro com o pai, mas enquanto o primeiro sonha que a família viva toda junta novamente, o outro não quer isso em hipótese nenhuma. A chegada do trem-bala na região é acompanhada de um mito entre as crianças de que no encontro de dois trens existe uma liberação de energia grande o suficiente para realizar um desejo, e o irmão mais velho planeja uma viagem secreta para encontrar-se com o mais novo em uma cidade onde o encontro dos trens é provável para pedir que a família fique junta novamente.
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.
O Mundo dos Pequeninos
Haru (voice)
Nos subúrbios de Tóquio, sob o assoalho de uma casa velha, Arrietty vive em seu minúsculo mundo com a família, fazendo de tudo para manter em segredo a existência de todos. Sobrevivendo como pequenos ladrões, eles conhecem as regras para que nunca sejam percebidos pelos verdadeiros (e grandes) donos da casa. Para isso, procuram manter a desconfiança deles em cima dos gatos e ratos e tomam todos os cuidados possíveis para evitar de serem vistos. Contudo, quando um jovem rapaz se hospeda na casa, a pequenina Arietty acredita que poderá manter uma amizade com ele, apesar da diferença dos tamanhos.
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."
Andando
Toshiko Yokoyama
Um drama familiar que decorre num dia de Verão quando dois filhos adultos vão visitar os pais idosos. Os pais, cada dia mais velhos, habitam na casa da família há décadas. O filho e a filha regressam para um raro encontro familiar, trazendo as respectivas famílias consigo. Juntaram-se para honrar a memória do filho mais velho, que morreu num acidente, há quinze anos. Esta é um típica família disfuncional unida pelo amor, por ressentimentos e segredos.
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
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.
O Gosto do Chá
Obaa
O filme conta a rotina de uma família que vive no interior do Japão, composta pelo excêntrico avô, a mãe Yoshiko, que está tentando retornar ao seu emprego de animadora realizando um curta-metragem à mão na mesa de jantar, o pai Nobuo é um terapeuta especializado em hipnose que realiza sua prática em família, o filho Hajime que apaixona-se pela nova aluna de seu colégio, e a filha Sachiko, que se vê constantemente importunada pelo seu clone gigante que insiste em se esconder quando ela tenta flagrá-lo. Eles ainda recebem o tio Ayano, um produtor musical relaxando de férias no campo.
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 is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo period in 18th Century France. However, when punk girl and self-styled 'Yanki' Ichiko comes calling, her days as 'ordinary' are most certainly numbered...
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.
O Retorno
Xia
Em 2084 a humanidade aposta todas as fichas em uma mulher que deve salvar o mundo da invasão de uma raça alienígena. Para isso ele terá que voltar a 2002, quando tudo começou e onde conhece um misterioso mercenário. Juntos eles se infiltram em uma base do governo e descobrem o porquê da invasão.
Pistol Ópera
Rin
Miyuki Minazuki, apelidada de “Gata de Rua,” é a “Número 3” no Sindicato de Assassinos. Ela mora com sua avó, e sua arma preferida é uma pistola. Gata de Rua recebe suas ordens de Sayoko Uekyo, uma mulher enigmática de vestido branco. Ela parece confortável com sua posição no ranking, mas a rivalidade se intensifica quando o misterioso “Número 1,” apelidado de “100 Olhos,” começa a atacar os outros assassinos que estão no topo da hierarquia. Quando Sayoko informa Gata de Rua de que 100 Olhos agora é um alvo para o Sindicato, surge a oportunidade para matá-lo e assumir o primeiro lugar. Espécie de remake e continuação de A Marca do Assassino (Goro Hanada, protagonista em 1967, é agora “Número 0,” um conselheiro de Gata de Rua), o filme aplica o estilo tardio de Suzuki à matriz dos filmes de gângster que ele fazia na Nikkatsu, resultando num painel delirante de cores e ritmos, um balé ou uma ópera de sedução e morte.
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
A lonely high schooler suddenly meets the love of his life out of thin air. Is she a real person or a figment of his imagination?
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
Aochi, um professor universitário de alemão, encontra com seu antigo colega Nakasago quando viaja de férias para um vilarejo à beira-mar. Nakasago vive como nômade e é perseguido por um grupo local, acusado de ter seduzido e assassinado a mulher de um pescador. Depois que Aochi resolve a situação do amigo com a polícia, os dois jantam e conversam sobre a vida, acompanhados pela gueixa Koine. Seis meses depois, Aochi volta para visitar o amigo e descobre que ele está casado com Sono, uma mulher incrivelmente parecida com Koine. Repentinamente, Nakasago foge com Koine, abandonando Sono, que está grávida. Mas tudo pode ser sonho, delírio ou realidade. Acompanhando a trama, a peça musical “Zigeunerweisen” (1878), de Pablo de Sarasate, toca com insistência. Primeiro filme da “trilogia de Taisho,” que faz referência ao Japão dos anos 1910-1920, foi vencedor de quatro prêmios da Academia Japonesa em 1981, incluindo os de Melhor Filme e Melhor Diretor.
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.
Tatsu no Ko Tarou
Yamanba (voice)
Taro, The Dragon Boy é um filme animado sobre a mitologia e as culturas japonesas, com foco em Taro, um rapaz que tem de fazer uma viagem para um lago distante para salvar sua mãe, que foi transformada em um dragão.
Ballad of Orin
Tama Ichise
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
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.
A Lanterna Vermelha
Um jovem casal recém-casado em Tóquio vive uma vida difícil, mudando-se repetidamente por causa de seus relacionamentos pouco familiares com o ambiente.
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
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.
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