
May 12, 1956 · 70 years old
Kimiko Yo was born in Yokohama, a city just south of Tokyo to a Japanese mother and Taiwanese father on the 12th of May 1956. Her cousin was actress Bunjaku Han. She became active in front of the camera in 1987 and has been a feature of Japanese television and cinema ever since. She had begun acting…

Something has surfaced in Tokyo Bay. As the Prime Minister of Japan pleads with the public to remain calm, a horrific creature of tremendous size makes landfall in the city, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Then it evolves.

Soon after buying an expensive cello, Daigo learns that his orchestra is disbanding. He moves back to his hometown with his wife, where he answers an ad for what Daigo thinks is a travel agency but is, in actuality, a mortuary.

An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a râmen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.

A life-size blow-up doll develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk.

A man who is driven to the edge of a cliff and believes that money, a woman, and fame are all buried in the ring, And goes up to a sumo rikishi.

Humanity is under attack by human-mimicking flesh-eating alien parasites. One parasite bonds with his young high school student host, and he convinces the parasite to help him stop the others.

The story revolves around Yoko Inoue, a pregnant woman in search of a cafe that was frequented by a Taiwanese composer whose life she is researching.

A restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and the personality of the owner draw a series of flawed patrons, including Tamako, whose boyfriend has passed away, live-in worker Michiru, and ruckus-raising Kenzo.

Were people's lives changed by having known Yonosuke?

A young woman's murder provokes reflection on the ugliness and villainy of modern society.

A goblin is sent to Earth to behead students and turn their bodies into demons.

In a universe of parallel worlds, two lovers search for a place to belong.

The Master's late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle delivery man struggling with love.

In a universe of parallel worlds, a love story takes place.

Troubled high school student Makoto arrives in Tokyo to exact revenge from a past incident. He then falls in love at first sight with Ai, a daughter raised in a wholesome family. Around Makoto and Ai are Iwashimizu , who has feeli...

Painter and poet Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934) gets involved with a beautiful widow, becoming a rival of her dead husband's ghost and the jealous lover who murdered him.

A husband is suffering from melancholia, and he wants to commit suicide. His wife, who is a cartoonist, forces him to quit his job for the therapy. The wife's optimism influence the husband, and they live happily ever after.

Young married couple Rie and Sang move from Tokyo to Lake Toya in Hokkaido Prefecture to start a bakery restaurant named Mani. Sang bakes bread and Rie makes food. Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, the customers leave in a happy ...

A young medical intern student is dismayed when he is assigned to work in a remote countryside village.

In 1945 the war was not over in Brazil: A death squad assassinated all the Japanese immigrants who accepted defeat.

During the Edo Period of Japan, an excellent cook marries the heir to a renowned cooking family. However, her husband is a terrible chef. With the help of her new mother-in-law, she begins to teach him the ways of the culinary arts.

A prison officer hands in his resignation after his wife's death, to drive to the port where she wants her ashes scattered at sea.

Toko Suguri is married and they have a lovely daughter. She doesn't have any major problems in her life. One day, Toko Suguri meets her former lover, Akihiko Kurata, at a friend's wedding. They haven't seen each other in ten years...

A young girl wanders into a wing of her elementary school that has been abandoned for years and is rumored to be haunted. When she doesn't come back, a group of her classmates go looking for her, only to find that they, too, are t...

Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing population and declining industries. Keita Izumi begins to produce black fig on Shishikari Island. Because of his well received product...

A naked drunk man shows up on a national live TV in the middle of a sacred festival Namahage, where men dressed in ogre-like costume visit homes to scare kids not to do bad things in the next year. The man, young father Tasuku, ge...

Nami, the widow of a disgraced narcotics officer seeks to clear his name by going undercover.

Hiroko meets Koji one day while attempting to grab an apple from a tree. Then, they meet several times in the park, until she learns that Koji cannot speak or hear. She learns Japanese Sign Language in order to understand Koji bet...

A happily married and well-educated executive meets a beggar who claims to be his father.

A young student believes spirit of an alien from another planet has gone back in time.

The young heir to a construction company in Taiwan is sent to Kyoto to oversee the renovation of a hotel they've bought. In the hopes to get back with his ex and sell the hotel, he meets the in-keeper and her daughter.

Kiko Mishima (Hana Sugisaki) was exploited by her own family. When she was little, her mother neglected her. After her mother remarried, Kiko Mishima was abused mentally and physically by her family that included her mother, stepf...

Bored with school, 15-year-old Daisuke Kawashima embarks on a pilgrimage to visit the 7,000-year-old cedar tree on distant Yakushima Island. Through his journey, Daisuke meets a number of interesting people, including friendly tru...

A seeing-eye dog name Shiro is granted one wish by his former, now dead owner. Shiro chooses to become a human for a short time so he can find the girl who trained him as a puppy. While attempting to get to know her [as he runs al...

A widow who has raised her autistic son alone loses her job and begins attending a technical college. She meets others looking for a new start in life, including a former salary-man with whom she begins a furtive romance.

Domestic drama focusing on a soon to be retired train driver and his wife.