Yoji Tanaka Movies

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro is a collection of 10 short horror films, each 5 minutes long (broadcast on BSi in February 2003). This is the second...

Hiroko is about to get married to the handsome Kenichiro when disaster strikes. Her landlord stops by the happy bride-to-be’s apartment where a...

Yamada, a good-for-nothing local civil servant who just loves monster movies, is suddenly given a huge mission to liven up the city! What...

A Japanese teenager bicycles aimlessly through the countryside after killing his mother.

Record shop clerk and aspiring DJ Tsutomu searches for his masculinity when challenged to a kendo duel.

A live-action adaptation of George Asakura’s manga, consisting of interwoven romantic vignettes centered around heartfelt letters exchanged...

Harumi comes to terms with her mother’s passing and gets embroiled in the hunt for a legendary 600 million yen pearl.

A dark and strange comedy about a bank robber with bad luck. Bungling a bank robbery turns out to be a profitable mistake for Yamazaki, an amateur...

War between North Korea and Japan

Follows the life of an Office Lady who gets through her tedious work days by dreaming of a legendary soup and soup chef she's heard of. She decides...

Two kids, fourteen-year-old Eriko and her thirteen-year-old brother Daigo, suddenly find themselves trapped in a parallel universe. Most things are...

Mina and Mizuki sisters attended a ballet class in Tokyo. One day, the sisters return home separately, but younger sister, Mizuki, is kidnapped on...

Made under the restrictions of "no zoom, pan, editing or post-sound", directors Shinobu Yaguchi and Takuji Suzuki skewer Japanese social conventions...

Kusanagi plays a police detective who gets framed for a crime he didn't commit and had to spend the last 10 years in prison. However, he regains his...

In Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for nearly twenty years. Each day passes eventlessly......

The editor-in-chief of a literary magazine who is popular with women sets up a fake wife and bids farewell to his mistresses.

22-year-old Kanami is constantly conscious of people's gaze due to the birthmark on her face. Upon coming in to contact with the eccentric people at...

One morning Hikaru Hino, a high school student living in Hakodate, wakes up to find she has grown a tail. She quickly cancels her first date with...