Misako Watanabe Movies

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.

Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the...

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand...

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined...

The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo...

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.

Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high school's grounds. The dog, named Kuro, stays at...

Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old...

Job-hunting Daisuke heads to the Antiquarian Bookshop Biblia in Kita-Kamakura with a book signed by Natsume Soseki that his deceased grandmother left...

Film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.

Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival...

Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan children are wandering through the battlefield...

A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.

A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out.

Two soon-to-be kamikaze pilots stop by a local school near their base to play the piano one last time, leaving a deep impression on a teacher. Years...

In a quiet farming village in northeastern Japan, there lives an elderly couple. One day, a notice arrives in the mail about an antique camera sale...

It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the...

Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes,...