Makoto Akatsuka Movies

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his...

Japanese film.

Teacher Yuki (Natsuki) is appointed to a high school where he stages a big soccer match.

A made for TV movie that would be loosely remade as Magnitude 7.9 or DEATHQUAKE

After the war, many filmmakers were expelled from the Japanese film industry due to the Toho Dispute and the Red Purge. Amid such circumstances,...

After shooting a gangster in self-defense, Kim Hui Ro takes refuge at a hotel and takes the guest hostages. Realising his position, he invites the...

Several high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure; their halcyon days are soon coming to an end.

Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) who has a crescent-moon-shaped scar on his forehead...

A romantic triangle comprised of two brothers in love with the same woman.

Set in a small Nagano village in the 1930s, the film follows Hanji, a young boy captivated by a local kabuki performance. Inspired by Yukio, Hanji...

Izumi aims to be the first deaf creator of artificial limbs. One day, her senior co-worker, Kubo, goes to Afghanistan to help give aid to children as...

Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike

1981 Japanese film based on the novel by Naoshiro Yoshimoto.

An anthology exploring the meaning of the Japanese greeting goaisatsu.

A teenage drama film about Makiko Hayashi, a top student who is aiming to get into University of Tokyo, together with a group of other students. She...

1979 Japanese film.

The story of a former police officer now retired to run a coffee shop called Bitter Coffee Life. In the long years of the past 20 years, he has been...