Misako Watanabe Movies

A touching literary and artistic story about the sadness and pathos of a woman's love, crying in agony over her hidden past.

A blockbuster youth action film based on the serialized novel in Nikkan Sports by Yoshirō Akinaga, now adapted for the screen.

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

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

In post-war Japan, a publisher goes to visit her former teacher for help on a modern translation of a legend about a mummified Buddhist monk who was...

Adaptation of Jirō Osaragi's novel.

1961 Japanese movie

Film by Buichi Saito

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...

1962 Japanese movie

Knowing that he has only a month to live, a pianist goes back to his beloved ocean. He meets a girl with a broken leg. She is the daughter of his...

Fictionalized account of 20-year-old Noriko Tsuji, a real-life victim of a severe birth defect which afflicted 8,000 Japanese, children whose mothers...

2001 Japanese film

Set in an old merchant house in Kyoto, the film traces the passing of an era through the story of a parent and child.

Ambitious action drama about a young man living a carefree life of women and money, struggling to crawl out of the mire, and his lover who tries to...

A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropped train ticket.

A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by...