Takashi Yamanaka Movies

One summer day, 400 goldfish were found in the swimming pool of a secondary school. This is a story about the four 15-year-old girls who put them...

Shibuya in Tokyo, a city that continues to change due to redevelopment. At a house in the corner of Shibuya, Ai dreaming of a model, Mizuho working...

Set one year after the events of the original series, Densha Otoko has now become very popular and Akihabara, has become overrun with normal people...

High school student Kasumi Ogino is a member of the school choir and after years of praise for her singing voice thinks she is the absolute...

Welcome to Kowloon Walled City: a dystopian townscape where the people are brimming with nostalgia, and where the past, present, and future converge....

Adapted from the manga series "Black Jack"

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

Based on a letter from a fan addressed to the band "SING LIKE TALKING", which will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2018, a movie depicting three...

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...

1960s Japan—economic boom, Olympic pride, and a crackdown on “public morals.” An anti-prostitution law targets women but spares...

Toko grew up unloved by her mother Mizuho who continues to adore her deceased son. She lives alone in an apartment the electricity has been cut off...

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

Reporters Takehara and Tsumura Aki work for the magazine "Shukan Dodongo". Their chief editor tells them to monitor Okase Shohei who is an...

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...

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...

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...

When Toma decides to place his father, who suffers from dementia, in a facility, he discovers an instant camera filled sith memories in his father's...

Sugimoto Taeko moves in with her daughter Natsuki and granddaughter Mizuki. They begin a lively life together. In the midst of it all, Taeko sees her...

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