Akira Otaka Movies

In pre-WWII Vancouver, second-generation Japanese immigrants had it tough. Daily, they faced discrimination, hatred and injustice at the hands of...

A young couple is devastated when their son is killed by a falling tree during a windstorm. As the distraught father begins to look for answers into...

A wordless man stages an unexplained hunger strike and the people surrounding him exploit his silence to further their own cause...

After seeing her husband off to work, the young author identified only as Yoshiko sets off to read the large collection of letters she received from...

Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later...

Not to be confused with the 1995 theatrical film directed by Shûji Kataoka. In "Female Prisoner Punisher Maria," a wronged woman transforms...

The story involves an aloof thief, a young man who turns to God after his father’s suicide, a manipulative marriage councilor, a man who...

Physician Koichiro Kiby loses interest in work and begins drinking in a local park after the death of his wife. One day he encounters a girl who...

Misaki, a high school girl aiming for a university recommendation through karate, has a weakness: she's prone to oversleeping. If she's late just one...

This film, directed by Banmei Takahashi, is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Atsushi Mizoguchi. It depicts the love-hate relationship...

The first 'Front and Back' film.

One evening, a married couple comes to the Itami Law Office. Narumi Suzumura, six months pregnant, and her husband Takuya have come to ask Itami to...

In a corner of Shinjuku, there is a run-down hotel called Sankai Hotel, which used to be a gay-only Hatten inn that is quite famous in this world....