Katsumi Kiba

Go Find a Psychic! (2009)

Once a year, on Christmas Eve, Cafe Telekinesis holds a real psychic party. At the party, psychics gather together to show off their abilities while for the rest of the year they hide their abilities. Yone Sakurai is a program director for a psychic variety TV show ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Katsuyuki Motohiro
CAST:  Hiroki Miyake  •  Masashi Suwa  •  Osamu Tsuji  •  Kotaro Shiga

Once a year, on Christmas Eve, Cafe Telekinesis holds a real psychic party. At the party, psychics gather together to show off their abilities while for the rest of the year they hide their abilities. Yone Sakurai is a program director for a psychic variety TV show ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Katsuyuki Motohiro
CAST:  Hiroki Miyake  •  Masashi Suwa  •  Osamu Tsuji  •  Kotaro Shiga

Timeless Melody (2000)

Kawamoto works and lives in a dilapidated pool hall which also serves as a rehearsal space for him and his friend Chikako. They seem contented to while away their hours doing nothing much at all. Meanwhile, an old pool shark meets some people from his past that he ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hiroshi Okuhara
CAST:  Takuji Aoyagi  •  Mikako Ichikawa  •  Takeshi Wakamatsu  •  Kimiko Yo

Kawamoto works and lives in a dilapidated pool hall which also serves as a rehearsal space for him and his friend Chikako. They seem contented to while away their hours doing nothing much at all. Meanwhile, an old pool shark meets some people from his past that he ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hiroshi Okuhara
CAST:  Takuji Aoyagi  •  Mikako Ichikawa  •  Takeshi Wakamatsu  •  Kimiko Yo

Udon (2006)

Kosuke is 31, and tired of his hometown where nothing happens. On a whim, he departs for New York with dreams of making it big. 6 months later, he straggles home... defeated, and saddled with debt. Awaiting him are his old friends, a caring sister, a disgruntled ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Katsuyuki Motohiro
CAST:  Yusuke Santamaria  •  Manami Konishi  •  Tortoise Matsumoto  •  Kyoka Suzuki

Kosuke is 31, and tired of his hometown where nothing happens. On a whim, he departs for New York with dreams of making it big. 6 months later, he straggles home... defeated, and saddled with debt. Awaiting him are his old friends, a caring sister, a disgruntled ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Katsuyuki Motohiro
CAST:  Yusuke Santamaria  •  Manami Konishi  •  Tortoise Matsumoto  •  Kyoka Suzuki

A Last Note (1995)

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring various stories and news of death and the past  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kaneto Shindō
CAST:  Haruko Sugimura  •  Nobuko Otowa  •  Hideo Kanze  •  Kyōko Asagiri

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring various stories and news of death and the past  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kaneto Shindō
CAST:  Haruko Sugimura  •  Nobuko Otowa  •  Hideo Kanze  •  Kyōko Asagiri

Owl (2003)

A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, they plan to entice men that happen to stray to their cabin with sex, and kill them. All goes well until a local cop shows up and, then, an old relation.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kaneto Shindō
CAST:  Ayumi Ito  •  Akira Emoto  •  Daijirô Harada  •  Mansaku Ikeuchi

A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, they plan to entice men that happen to stray to their cabin with sex, and kill them. All goes well until a local cop shows up and, then, an old relation.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kaneto Shindō
CAST:  Ayumi Ito  •  Akira Emoto  •  Daijirô Harada  •  Mansaku Ikeuchi

The Mohican Comes Home (2016)

Eikichi left his hometown in Hiroshima for Tokyo. He tried to find success with his music band, but failed. Several years later, Eikichi goes home to tell his father, Osamu, that his girlfriend is pregnant. His father curses him out, but he is also excited to have ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shuichi Okita
CAST:  Ryuhei Matsuda  •  Atsuko Maeda  •  Akira Emoto  •  Masako Motai

Eikichi left his hometown in Hiroshima for Tokyo. He tried to find success with his music band, but failed. Several years later, Eikichi goes home to tell his father, Osamu, that his girlfriend is pregnant. His father curses him out, but he is also excited to have ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shuichi Okita
CAST:  Ryuhei Matsuda  •  Atsuko Maeda  •  Akira Emoto  •  Masako Motai

What a Wonderful Family! (2016)

A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present. She replies that she wants a divorce. The wife's divorce announcement sends the entire family into chaos.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yoji Yamada
CAST:  Isao Hashizume  •  Yu Aoi  •  Kazuko Yoshiyuki  •  Masahiko Nishimura

A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present. She replies that she wants a divorce. The wife's divorce announcement sends the entire family into chaos.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yoji Yamada
CAST:  Isao Hashizume  •  Yu Aoi  •  Kazuko Yoshiyuki  •  Masahiko Nishimura

Moon and Thunder (2017)

When Yasuko (Eriko Hatsune) was a child, her mother left their home. She grew up not knowing what an ordinary family is. Satoshi's (Kengo Kora) mother was the girlfriend of Yasuko's late father. One day, Satoshi appears in front of Yasuko. Since that moment, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hiroshi Ando
CAST:  Kengo Kora  •  Eriko Hatsune  •  Takemi Fujii  •  Daisuke Kuroda

When Yasuko (Eriko Hatsune) was a child, her mother left their home. She grew up not knowing what an ordinary family is. Satoshi's (Kengo Kora) mother was the girlfriend of Yasuko's late father. One day, Satoshi appears in front of Yasuko. Since that moment, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hiroshi Ando
CAST:  Kengo Kora  •  Eriko Hatsune  •  Takemi Fujii  •  Daisuke Kuroda

Sekigahara (2017)

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mitsunari. The story includes the intrigues and shifting loyalties of the various ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masato Harada
CAST:  Junichi Okada  •  Kasumi Arimura  •  Koji Yakusho  •  Takehiro Hira

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mitsunari. The story includes the intrigues and shifting loyalties of the various ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masato Harada
CAST:  Junichi Okada  •  Kasumi Arimura  •  Koji Yakusho  •  Takehiro Hira

What a Wonderful Family! 2 (2017)

Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new problems. Ignoring his family’s worry that he is too old to drive, Shuzo takes his old schoolmate for a spin after carousing ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yoji Yamada
CAST:  Isao Hashizume  •  Kazuko Yoshiyuki  •  Masahiko Nishimura  •  Yu Aoi

Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new problems. Ignoring his family’s worry that he is too old to drive, Shuzo takes his old schoolmate for a spin after carousing ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yoji Yamada
CAST:  Isao Hashizume  •  Kazuko Yoshiyuki  •  Masahiko Nishimura  •  Yu Aoi

What a Wonderful Family! 3 (2018)

At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one afternoon, housewife Fumie falls asleep and wakes up to find a thief has stolen her secret money she kept hidden in the refrigerator.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yoji Yamada
CAST:  Isao Hashizume  •  Kazuko Yoshiyuki  •  Masahiko Nishimura  •  Yui Natsukawa

At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one afternoon, housewife Fumie falls asleep and wakes up to find a thief has stolen her secret money she kept hidden in the refrigerator.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yoji Yamada
CAST:  Isao Hashizume  •  Kazuko Yoshiyuki  •  Masahiko Nishimura  •  Yui Natsukawa

Cab (1996)

A suspenseful story about an earnest and kind-hearted taxi driver who, by chance, turns into a violent murderer and races through the darkness of the city.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Meiro Murahashi
CAST:  Takanori Jinnai  •  Miki Ozawa  •  Rikiya Yasuoka  •  Kumiko Mori

A suspenseful story about an earnest and kind-hearted taxi driver who, by chance, turns into a violent murderer and races through the darkness of the city.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Meiro Murahashi
CAST:  Takanori Jinnai  •  Miki Ozawa  •  Rikiya Yasuoka  •  Kumiko Mori

Golden Kamuy (2024)

On the Hokkaido frontier, a war veteran and Ainu girl race against misfits and military renegades to find treasure mapped out on tattooed outlaws.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shigeaki Kubo
CAST:  Kento Yamazaki  •  Anna Yamada  •  Gordon Maeda  •  Yuma Yamoto

On the Hokkaido frontier, a war veteran and Ainu girl race against misfits and military renegades to find treasure mapped out on tattooed outlaws.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shigeaki Kubo
CAST:  Kento Yamazaki  •  Anna Yamada  •  Gordon Maeda  •  Yuma Yamoto