So Yamanaka Movies

Jirocho (Kiichi Nakai), a fledgling bakuto who left his wife, goes on a year-long training with his minions: right-hand man and military master...

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

Namiko Morita, who lived in Otaru, moved to this area with her husband, Yutaro, and opened the brewery "Morita Brewery". Eventually, they succeeded...

Pursued by loan sharks, Aoyama is rescued by a mysterious man in orange overalls, and spirited away to “The Town,” where other dropouts...

Four siblings are shocked to learn their adopted brother is actually a visiting alien and his time on earth is soon coming to an end. Will they be...

Togashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi's grade school entrance examinations, but he becomes...

Teacher Akira Suzuki breaks away from long-held customs and norms at his school. He tries hard to have the ideal classroom by using his own "Suzuki...

Live action film adaptation of a romance that was turned into a book after making a splash on the Internet bulletin board “2 Channel.”...

An unhappy housewife regains her passion for life by taking over a failing bath house.

2004 film

Kenmochi works as a novelist. He is able to recognize people who are suicidal. Kenmochi and his friend Urushihara meet these people and let them find...

In one long Friday evening, Takeshi Miyata, a straight-arrow businessman, will encounter a number of people (some only fleetingly) who have...

22-year old secretary Kazuko first bumps into Tamaki on the way back from work. Tamaki is crawling along the sidewalk on crutches at a snail's pace,...

On January 25th, 2024, Hiroshi Uchida, a 70-year-old man with terminal cancer made a deathbed confession to the Kamakura hospital staff treating him:...

After the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy marriage seem to suddenly vanish as she finds out that...

Three WWII veterans, reunited by family circumstances, quickly find their life savings threatened by a private corporation; they band together to...

The first in a series of Japanese TV movies about a police detective who has adopted the dress and mannerisms of famous American TV detective...

Nomoto Miho, a Japanese adult movie actor, plays a married girl. One day, the husband discovered a hair on the toilet and that was not his....

This documentary-style film recreates the infamous Asama Sanso Incident of 1972 wherein an extreme faction of the Students Allied Red Army holed...