Kazuko Shirakawa Movies

On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently...

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.

A story of three escort girls living in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. They work at the same escort service while feeling lonely in their urban lives.

A sendup of the stereotypical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a...

Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic...

Ichijo Sayuri, once the legendary queen of Osaka strippers, has retired to run a sushi shop. She is awaiting her day in court after having been...

Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave Tokyo,...

Sayaka is a sexually frustrated housewife whose husband rarely talks and is always busy with work. But she soon finds an antidote to her loneliness...

Existential study on a newly unemployed factory worker who silently moves through the city, unknowingly influencing other people's lives.

Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend,...

Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two young sons, whose names he has had tattooed on...

The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world.

Death-row inmate Sudo sends a letter to magazine reporter Fujii. In his letter, he states that a man named Kimura, also known as "teacher," committed...

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji...

Matsuoi and his wife Tsuya moved to Oshima City because of her unpredictable character. Even though Tsuya continues to have affairs, Matsuoi loves...

A film about family life in Osaka. Following the death of their father, three boys struggle to find their own identity with the help of their...

Centres on Jeanne, a journalist tracking a mysterious rare herb that appears only once every 997 years.

Hajime Kindaichi, Miyuki Nanase, and their English teacher, Susumu Odagiri, go to the Cross-shape Village to take Wakaba Tokita from the forced...

A woman's husband’s infidelity drives her to sleep with both of her sisters’ lovers.

For a girl who works in a 3rd rate bar, Ayuko is full of vanity. Nomura, her patron, is besotted by her and it is their habit that they cannot reach...