Yoji Tanaka Movies

Witness a bizarre job interview and a dotty grandma in these five short surreal stories revolving around legendary Japanese department store Parco.

Three storylines interweave in Border Line. Kurosawa (Murakami Jun) finds himself driving a taciturn young man named Matsuda (Sawaki Tetsu) halfway...

At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area of low-class...

Akiko Sakata was a hikikomori during her school days. She was withdrawn from social life and isolated. She goes to Tokyo and becomes a scriptwriter.

Sugisaki (Tatsuya Fujiwara) is an actor already past his prime. He lands a job as the lead in a TV program. The television program ventures into...

Three years after Tozai Ikusa (mahjong tournament), Hiroyuki Igawa receives a letter that Shigeru Akagi’s funeral ceremony will be held....

This coming-of-age story from Japan opens just after 17-year-old Sataka has gotten dumped by her boyfriend. When her mother is hospitalized with a...

30 year old Yoko Sasaki (Arisa Mizuki) works diligently at a publishing company. She then receives the unexpected news that she is pregnant. Having...

A middle-aged push-over has an argument with two friends at the hotel he reserved for their holiday. They pick on him until an unexpected protector...

A failed director is trying to get his next movie off the ground, while dealing with his cranky brother and his estranged wife.

Starring Rei Dan, this is the third film directed by Yutaka Mizutani. Riko Hanamura (Rei Dan) is the leader of a local amateur symphony orchestra,...

If you loved movies such as Shonen Merikensack and GS Wonderland, then this one, which predates the former, will impress you as well. The story is...

An aspiring actor tries to find fans on YouTube to convince his beloved to marry him. But on his way to fame everything goes awry with the appearance...

The film follows Saki (Momotsuki), Mei (Kudo), and Kaho (Teramoto), the members of the budding idol group called Wish as they are set to appear in...

Rakugo Eiga is a film featuring Japan's traditional art, 'rakugo' as its theme. It is a modern adaptation of three rakugo tales presented in three...

Hiroko is about to get married to the handsome Kenichiro when disaster strikes. Her landlord stops by the happy bride-to-be’s apartment where a...

A former boxing gym owner and his younger brother rise up to help a boy and his teacher's daughter from a vicious religious group that preys on good...

When a young man is sent to a prison workhouse for a crime he did not commit his friend on the outside must find evidence to clear his name.

"Atlanta Boogie" centers around a mock track meet between the "normal" and "good" citizens of Yokohama and those they want to expel from the...