Noboru Mitani Movies

Akira Kurosawa’s only television work—a lyrical documentary that follows a thoroughbred from birth and training to the Japan...

A conflict between parents and their delinquent daughter.

A female college student who started a part-time job taking care of a bedridden elderly person notices an eerie cry from the basement.

Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss.

Three people whose lives have taken a turn for the worse retreat into a world of erotic dreams made flesh in this drama from director Sai Yoichi. An...

When Suzie and her parents take a visit to Japan her father's business partner, an inventor called Tetsuro decides to make Suzie a robot. The robot's...

A story about Sayoko Kano, a junior high school student, who is believed to be a descendent of an Indian goddess. Sayoko is a kind of femme fatale,...

Yokomizo, a police officer in the traffic police force, is looking forward to watching his son Kazuhiko grow up. However, Kazuhiko rebels against his...

Coffee-shop waitress Kanako, divorced with a young son, finds herself obliged to honour a rash promise she made to a long-time customer. He always...

A young man working as a cameraman in Tokyo is visited for three days by his parents from the countryside.

A teacher, Sakiko Kurata, receives a phone call regarding one of her former students. Young Sueko is accused of being a prostitute and has requested...

One spring, Tasaka, an elementary school teacher, receives a new class of first graders. While taking the children's attendance, Tasaka is surprised...

1987film

Set in the 1930s in the international city of Shanghai, the film follows the extravagant life and times of a group of jazz musicians, living from one...

An old married couple with bedroom problems become upset over the sexual antics of their daughter and a visiting randy couple. But then the part-time...

In the winter of 1945, Sakura the elephant gave birth to a baby elephant at Tokyo Fujimi Zoo under the watchful eye of the zookeeper Shota Tanabe....