Yoji Tanaka Movies

Three years after Tozai Ikusa (mahjong tournament), Hiroyuki Igawa receives a letter that Shigeru Akagi’s funeral ceremony will be held....

A dark and strange comedy about a bank robber with bad luck. Bungling a bank robbery turns out to be a profitable mistake for Yamazaki, an amateur...

Shu Kubota is killed by someone with a baseball bat. A metal bat and an old toy are found at the crime scene. Detective Yoshito (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi)...

The day after being dumped by the boyfriend to whom she was going to give her virginity, Sawako Tsukahara (Kumiko Endo), an office lady in the...

In central Tokyo, a young man, Sosuke, aspires to be a manga artist. His current work is about a battle between a hunter and a Japanese wolf. He...

A seeing-eye dog (Shiro) is granted one wish by his former owner. He chooses to become a human for a short time so he can find the girl who trained...

"Quartet" tells the story of four young musicians as they form a string quartet and pursue fame.

The head of a psychological research institute and a lieutenant in the Japanese Air Force are both investigating a mysterious cult known only as...

Two kids, fourteen-year-old Eriko and her thirteen-year-old brother Daigo, suddenly find themselves trapped in a parallel universe. Most things are...

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.

A man’s body is found in the suburbs of Tokyo. The dead man was hit by a car and his head beaten by the reckless driver after the accident. The...

Naomi Shimizu is a young career woman working for Enrico Dandolo, an Italian fashion house. That is until one day the company declares bankruptcy....

A live-action adaptation of George Asakura’s manga, consisting of interwoven romantic vignettes centered around heartfelt letters exchanged...

Bald Moriyama wants a new image and buys a wig. It works: suddenly he has a career and a girlfriend. But, as Moriyama will soon learn, life gets...

War between North Korea and Japan

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the...

The editor-in-chief of a literary magazine who is popular with women sets up a fake wife and bids farewell to his mistresses.

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

A free-spirited psychiatrist exudes a magnetic attraction for patients with out-of-the-ordinary neuroses and odd conditions brought about by stress.

L stopped enjoying life as a little girl. She flees abuse at the hands of her adoptive parents and heads for the big city. There, L's life is wrecked...