Sayuri Yoshinaga Movies

The Makioka Sisters

73/100

The orphaned Makioka sisters look for a husband for their third sister, Yukiko, as the rebellious youngest sister, Taeko, is kept waiting her turn.

Taro - Der Drachenboy

76/100

A young boy has to make a voyage to a distant lake to save his mother, who has been turned into a dragon.

Buddha: The Great Departure

63/100

2005 years ago in India, a boy named Siddhartha Gautama of the kingdom Shakya is born. When Siddhartha was born there was a prophecy that the boy would become a king of all the kingdoms. At... See full summary »

Everything Goes Wrong

71/100

The young rebel Juro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, with the lover of the latter and with a girl in love with him.

Sennen no koi - Hikaru Genji monogatari

64/100

Based on the ancient Japanese Tale of Genji. This film is set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins from the death of her ... See full summary »

Cape Nostalgia

63/100

A story set in a café situated along a small cape and run by an elderly woman named Etsuko and aided her nephew Koji.

Living with My Mother

70/100

Set in post-World War II Japan, midwife Nobuko is resolved to move on as she stands at the grave of her son Koji who died...

Tora-san's Lovesick

71/100

Foundry Town

74/100

Station to Heaven

73/100

Izu no odoriko

68/100

Adapted from a famous short story in Japan, The Izu Dancer is the story of a male teenager on vacation in the Izu peninsula who encounters a thirteen-year-old girl who is part of a ... See full summary »

Der längste Tunnel

67/100

Dôran

68/100

Rokudenashi kagyo

54/100

Wakai hito

Kusa wo karu musume

Year One in the North

70/100

In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe...

A Chaos of Flowers

73/100

Actress

66/100

Tora-san's Dear Old Home

70/100

Crane

67/100

Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju sand says she will become his wife...

Kôtei no inai hachigatsu

71/100

Where the Legend Lives

59/100

Shiosai

61/100

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo. Yasuo spreads unpleasant gossip about ... See full summary »

The Crest of Man

64/100