Yoshihide Otomo Movies

Xiao Dou is a shy and naive mailworker living in Beijing with his sister. When a coworker is fired for reading people's correspondences Xiao Dou...

“Hana-Dama”—a flower in the wasteland. This flower is a symbol of earthly desires and every human is overwhelmed by desire and...

The bus driver Nakatsuka Yukihiko saw in his dream the sexual fantasies involving one of his regular female passengers - Noriko Otomo. On the other...

Tatsuya Kawakami's mother becomes a member of a religious group after her husband commits suicide, and makes a large donation to the organization....

In 1970s Onomichi, Akira invites his crush Yoshioka to spend summer break at his home. But when Yoshioka falls for Meeko, tension brews beneath the...

Cross the Hu-du-men - the demarcation between the back and front stage in Cantonese opera - and you leave yourself behind to totally absorb in your...

Former punk rocker Jonen, now a Buddhist priest, seems to have lost the meaning of his life. His manic depression handicaps him further. Music seems...

The Unnameable Dance shows the life and dance of Tanaka Min, an elderly dancer in his 70s, in a multifaceted and dynamic manner.

Set in Nagano Prefecture, the movie stars Shingo Mizusawa (8000 Miles) as an awkward 28-year-old temporary factory worker named Kaji; a character...

A companion piece to The Wages of Resistance: Narita Stories, which dealt with the protests against the construction of Narita Airport. Depicts the...

Osaka Korean High School has provided education for the past six decades to the children of pro-North Korean residents in Japan. This school is...

The documentary on Yamazaki Hiroaki, the student died in the First Haneda Incident of 8 October 1967.

Each year, at the start of the fall school year in September, Japan suffers from typhoons. That same month, in a small elementary school in a...

Performance by Takashi Makino with music composed by Otomo Yoshihide. A tribute for Teruto Soejima and Masayuki Takayanagi.

A man and a woman meet the day before the 15th anniversary of the Great Hanshin earthquake. Both experienced the quake as a child but left soon after...

"AA" is a documentary about Akira Aida (mostly known as Aquirax Aida), a japanese music critic who introduced free jazz, improvisation, and...

A few years ago, when Tomomi (Hiroko Akune) was on the way home from school, she saw her friend Keiko (Misaki Mori) about to be raped by a man....

Naho repeatedly enters hotels with random men and kills them before having sex with them. A man, Manabu, stays with her and performs piercings on her...

Kenji Nakagami, one of the most notable Japanese writers of the post-war, died in 1992. His work reveals a strong connection to his homeland, Kishu:...

The Wages of Resistance is a feature-length documentary film that portrays an "extended span of time" of the protests against building Narita...