Takashi Yamanaka Movies

A depressed widower, a bored housewife, and a gay lawyer all intersect in this triptych of love lost.

Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this boldly erotic yet movingly tender portrait of a group of vulnerable, variously wounded people...

A new season of the acclaimed series finishes with these twenty sensational shorts capturing the essence of psychological terror with chilling...

Jiro Sawada is a sophomore in high school when a false accusation drives him out his hometown: a small village in Fukushima Prefecture. The entire...

At midnight, in a residential area of Osaka, a middle aged man is murdered. The person who killed the man is a high school student. En is a 2nd...

Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This is the story of four 13-year-olds in search of...

A man suicides causing ruin for his family, reasons are unknown, but his son will decide to take revenge after a succesion of events.

A man has a baby, runs away, then comes back, but he can't just show up, apologize, and hope that makes himself a grown man.

A young man is sent from Japan to Taiwan in order to get his disenfranchised brother to sign away his inheritance rights.

When a gold ingot and a severed human head are discovered in a small provincial town, the rush to solve the curious case wavers between tragic and...

Having failed to get into graduate school, with no girlfriend, no money, and no prospects of success with his band, Tsurugi's life has reached rock...

A reporter is sent through time and space to document the lives of Japanese people at various times in history. This time, he is sent to unwrap the...

The growth and struggles of Akari, a third-generation Korean born the year of the Great Hanshin Earthquake. A post-disaster story based on people...

News comes out that several people found 1 kg of solid gold in their mail boxes. Maya Yamabuki moves back to her hometown and surprises the movers by...

A two-part feature directed separately by Shimizu and his colleague Keisuke Toyoshima. Unrelated to each other, both have a common goal: to bring...

Maye Sora, a 19-year-old university student living in Tokyo, receives news of her grandfather's death. Busy with moving with the help of her friends,...

The story follows Hariko, a junior high schooler who moonlights as an illusionist, experiencing a meteoric rise in popularity and newfound financial...

Small miracles take place within three families. These different stories revolve around a false kidnapping, a pious child and a forsaken dream. Based...

Tanaka, a man lives in the countryside, breaks into a game arcade with his friend Kato, rob the safe and runs away with the store owner's car. After...