Yayako Uchida

Tokyo Fair Weather (1997)

This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Naoto Takenaka
CAST:  Naoto Takenaka  •  Miho Nakayama  •  Tadanobu Asano  •  Nobuyoshi Araki

This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Naoto Takenaka
CAST:  Naoto Takenaka  •  Miho Nakayama  •  Tadanobu Asano  •  Nobuyoshi Araki

Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007)

Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn between the inherited recklessness of his father Oton and the inherited responsibility, wisdom and emotional ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jōji Matsuoka
CAST:  Joe Odagiri  •  Kirin Kiki  •  Yayako Uchida  •  Takako Matsu

Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn between the inherited recklessness of his father Oton and the inherited responsibility, wisdom and emotional ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jōji Matsuoka
CAST:  Joe Odagiri  •  Kirin Kiki  •  Yayako Uchida  •  Takako Matsu

Blue Wind Blows (2018)

‘My dad saw a monster here. When he was a kid.’ · ‘A monster?’ · ‘Yeah, a monster. It moves between this world and the next.’ Ao lives with his mother and little sister Kii on Sado Island in Japan. He misses his father, who recently disappeared without a trace – ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tetsuya Tomina
CAST:  Hizuki Tanaka  •  Yayako Uchida  •  Tsubaki Tanaka  •  Masato Hagiwara

‘My dad saw a monster here. When he was a kid.’ · ‘A monster?’ · ‘Yeah, a monster. It moves between this world and the next.’ Ao lives with his mother and little sister Kii on Sado Island in Japan. He misses his father, who recently disappeared without a trace – ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tetsuya Tomina
CAST:  Hizuki Tanaka  •  Yayako Uchida  •  Tsubaki Tanaka  •  Masato Hagiwara

Wandering (2022)

On a rainy evening, 19-year-old university student Fumi Saeki happens to meet 9-year-old Sarasa Kanai in the park. Kanai Sarasa is soaking wet. She is separated from her parents and lives with her aunt, but she tells Saeki Fumi that she doesn't want to go back to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lee Sang-il
CAST:  Suzu Hirose  •  Tori Matsuzaka  •  Ryusei Yokohama  •  Mikako Tabe

On a rainy evening, 19-year-old university student Fumi Saeki happens to meet 9-year-old Sarasa Kanai in the park. Kanai Sarasa is soaking wet. She is separated from her parents and lives with her aunt, but she tells Saeki Fumi that she doesn't want to go back to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lee Sang-il
CAST:  Suzu Hirose  •  Tori Matsuzaka  •  Ryusei Yokohama  •  Mikako Tabe