Takashi Yamanaka Movies

A suburban town is faced with a series of bizarre incidents in which children disappear and three days later an adult in their life dies. A...

In 1964, Momoko came by herself to Tokyo from her hometown. She met Shūzō and married him. They raised two children together, but...

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...

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

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

Daikichi is a 70-year-old man and lives on a small island. Since his wife died, he has lived with his cat Tama. Daikichi was born and raised on the...

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...

A man suicides causing ruin for his family, reasons are unknown, but his son will decide to take revenge after a succesion of events.

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...

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

Small miracles take place within three families. These different stories revolve around a false kidnapping, a pious child and a forsaken dream. Based...

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...

Maye Sora, a 19-year-old university student living in Tokyo, receives news of her grandfather's death. Busy with moving with the help of her friends,...

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...

At midnight, in a residential area of Osaka, a middle aged man is murdered. The person who killed the man is a high school student. En is a 2nd...

News comes out that several people found 1 kg of solid gold in their mail boxes. Maya Yamabuki moves back to her hometown and surprises the movers by...

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...

Tanaka, a man lives in the countryside, breaks into a game arcade with his friend Kato, rob the safe and runs away with the store owner's car. After...

A short omnibus created by four young creators on the theme of "drawing the people of Ichii who use a certain station where a cat lives".

Stories: Did Daruma fall down?, An Accident Property, seven wonders of a certain school, Evil Sound Invitation