Misako Watanabe Movies

A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out.

The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo...

A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by...

Fierce struggle between brothers and sisters in a lawless land where violence is the norm.

Film by Buichi Saito

Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.

Ryota Tanaka, a young man who was struggling to become a manga artist in Tokyo, came back to his hometown in Fukuoka, feeling the limits of his...

Version of Proof of the Man (1977).

Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival...

A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropped train ticket.

Reiko, a free-spirited college girl not bound by social conventions, ends up having an affair with an older, married man even though she already has...

Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes,...

A beautiful and healthy young girl growing up in poverty overcomes hardships and grows into a woman in this deeply moving literary epic.

A touching literary and artistic story about the sadness and pathos of a woman's love, crying in agony over her hidden past.

A blockbuster youth action film based on the serialized novel in Nikkan Sports by Yoshirō Akinaga, now adapted for the screen.