Ryôko Hirosue Movies

Departures

81/100

A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals.

Wasabi - Ein Bulle in Japan

67/100

Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he ... See full summary »

Goemon

68/100

Based on a Japanese folk legend that echoes the tale of Robin Hood, this ninja thriller follows the exploits of Goemon Ishikawa (Yôsuke Eguchi), who leaves his fighting clan after its chief... See full summary »

Key of Life

74/100

A failed actor switches identities with a stranger at a bath house thinking it is his way out of his life of misery but only to find himself filling the shoes of an elite assassin.

Railroad Man

72/100

A solitary middle-aged station manager is haunted by troubling memories of his past when he learns the...

Himitsu

69/100

A man is shocked to find out that after a deadly car accident involving his wife and daughter, his wife died, but her mind somehow got transfered into their daughter's body.

Mixed Doubles

66/100

Tamiko used to be a very good ping pong player as a child, but she is now twenty-eight years old and left the sport behind. Her mother Hanako had taught her how to play imposing discipline ... See full summary »

Love Collage

65/100

(Japanese with English subtitles) Down-on-his-luck photographer Makoto (Ryuhei Matsuda) receives a letter from his old girlfriend...

Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust

68/100

When a brilliant female researcher accidentally turns an ordinary washing machine into a time machine, the Japanese government convinces her to travel back to 1990 and prevent the ... See full synopsis »

Snow on the Blades

67/100

Shimura Kingo fails his duty to protect the life of the Shogun's chief minister, and spends his life tracking down the assassins. However, all but one of the assassins die before Kingo can reach them. Still, Kingo presses on.

Lingering Spirits

74/100

Gajiroo does not pose or pretend and instead is honest that he is an average guy who only cares about cash and how pretty the girl is. He is hit by a car one day, but luckily survives it. ... See full summary »

Hana's Miso Soup

74/100

Chie, who is a recent college graduate, becomes engaged to a man. Her life, however, takes an unexpected...

Miporin's Dimple

77/100

When she was two years old, Miho had leukemia. Now, at twelve years old, a fresh junior high student, she turns ill again. But examinations at the hospital don't show any signs of relapse. ... See full summary »

Go, Masao!

72/100

Go, Masao. describes the relationship between people and their dogs. Comedian Hideki Matsumoto and a labrador retriever named Masao are selected to appear on the travel corner segment of a ... See full summary »

The Woman Who Buys the Local Newspaper

58/100

When the wife of an assistant to a minister is set up and subsequently blackmailed she has to go to extreme lengths to satisfy her blackmailers, while also safeguarding her husband's ... See full summary »

The Nutcracker 3D

This adaptation of the Nutcracker story (by Tchaikovsky and original choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov) is updated in this stop-motion animation from the original Japanese ... See full summary »

Zero no shôten

63/100

Spurred by the disappearance of a newly-wed husband, three women in post-war Japan are drawn into a murder mystery.

Orpheus' Lyre

71/100

Yoko lost her young daughter Kanako through an accident and she grieves heavily. The guilt that Yoko...

Presents

66/100

Yonimo kimyo na monogatari 20th anniversary special fall 2010

66/100

Tears of Kitty

78/100

Hanachan no misoshiru

61/100

Silver Jack

70/100

Stray Dog

70/100

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