Kaori Kobayashi

A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.

Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day period...

Three young country boys are beginning to drift apart as friends. In the summer, they set off to have an adventure in the mountains.

Can a woman love two men at the same time? Set against the backdrop of Kyoto's rich history, this story depicts a woman's difficult choice for love....

It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he...

Suspense TV movie adaptation of an original story by Sawako Ariyoshi, starring Yukiyo Toake.

A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious...

A Japanese teenager bicycles aimlessly through the countryside after killing his mother.

After the death of her mother a young woman wants to meet her real father

Youth movie.

Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.

The screenplay is Haruhiko Arai of "Tragedy of W" and "Revolver". The man is a detective who doesn't take on anything other than background checks...

People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to...

A would-be bank robber forgets his mask on his first big heist, and then botches an attempt to shoplift a replacement mask from a nearby convenience...

Aiko, born and raised in Tochigi, meets Rie, a visitor from Tokyo, at Shin-Tochigi Station. Rie fell asleep on the train and is unable to return...

After his parent's divorce, Kazuo Saito moves with his mother from Onomichi and must leave his girlfriend behind. At his new school, Kazuo is...