Hâdo romanchikkâ (2011)

Actors: Atsurô Watabe (actor), Keiko Awaji (actress), Haruki Kadokawa (producer), Hakuryû (actor), Shidô Nakamura (actor), Tokio Emoto (actor), Yôko Maki (actress), Naoya Kinoshita (producer), Dai Watanabe (actor), Yûma Ishigaki (actor), Sei Ashina (actress), Jason Gray (miscellaneous crew), Kaoru Wada (composer), Motoki Ochiai (actor), Shigeyuki Endô (producer),

The Seer (2010)

Actors: Rodolfo Coloma (producer), Joey Ansah (actor), Joey Ansah (miscellaneous crew), Joey Ansah (producer), Christian Howard (actor), Simon Modery (editor), Ray Jay (producer), Marina Ferreira (producer), Marina Ferreira (producer), Charlie Bray (producer), Charlie Bray (producer), Udana Fonseka (producer), Roarke Alexander (actor), Sandun Seneviratne (producer), Sandun Seneviratne (writer),

Katte ni shiyagare!! Gyakuten keikaku (1996)

Actors: Shô Aikawa (actor), Ren Ohsugi (actor), Shirô Shimomoto (actor), Tarô Suwa (actor), Yoriko Dôguchi (actress), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (writer), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (director), Hiroyuki Tanaka (actor), Kenzô Kawarasaki (actor), Akihiko Shiota (writer), Kôyô Maeda (actor), Hijiri Taguchi (producer), Yûko Nitô (actress), Takeshi Mikami (actor),

Nagisa no Shindobaddo (1995)

Actors: Yoshihiko Hakamada (actor), Miyako Yamaguchi (actress), Toshie Negishi (actress), Kazuya Takahashi (composer), Yoshinori Okada (actor), Kunio Murai (actor), Bang-ho Cho (actor), Kôta Kusano (actor), Ryosuke Hashiguchi (writer), Ayumi Hamasaki (actress), Ryosuke Hashiguchi (actor), Ryosuke Hashiguchi (director), Kazuo Hayashi (producer), Hideyuki Takai (producer), Hiroko Anzai (actress),

Plot: Fortunately this film isn't just another repetition of the Japanese highschool drama genre - even though all characters are students and a reference to bullying is not missing. Instead, we witness the very complex relationships between Yoshida, leaving Shimizu for Aihara (or at least he tries to), and his friend Ito, whose love for Yoshida seems to have little chance for success. In the end we have a coalition of Ito and Aihara - who may or may not be in love with Ito (or with Yoshida, who knows) - teaching Yoshida a lesson. This is not a film about homosexuality either, indeed one message of the film may be that it doesn't matter if a boy loves a boy or a girl. Anyway, the complexity (even incomprehensibility) of the motivations of the characters is a most realistic and just reflection of the motivations of modern Japanese teenagers. Or in other words: the film captures exactly the same thing which Banana Yoshimoto describes in her novels; what it is however, is very difficult to say.

Yakyukyô no uta (1977)

Actors: Osamu Inoue (editor), Kenji Shimamura (actor), Shirô Sasaki (producer), Yuri Yamashina (actress), Kei Tani (actor), Hiroshi Inuzuka (actor), Akira Takahashi (actor), Asao Koike (actor), Tomiko Ishii (actress), Hiroshi Gojo (actor), Akira Kato (director), Kibaji Tankobo (actor), Hitoshi Takagi (actor), Toshie Takada (actress), Osamu Tsuruoka (actor),

Arabu no arashi (1961)

Actors: Yûjirô Ishihara (actor), Masanori Tsujii (editor), Izumi Ashikawa (actress), Keisuke Yukioka (actor), Shadia (actress), Ryoji Hayama (actor), Hassan Youssef (actor), Toshirô Mayuzumi (composer), Kamal Al-Shennawi (actor), Ken Mitsuda (actor), Jun Hamamura (actor), Koreya Senda (actor), Hisano Yamaoka (actress), Kô Nakahira (director), Kô Nakahira (writer),

Furusato wa midori nariki (1961)

Actors: Tokue Hanazawa (actor), Yoshi Katô (actor), Yôyô Kojima (actor), Rentarô Mikuni (actor), Yoshiko Sakuma (actress), Chûji Kinoshita (composer), Osamu Tanaka (editor), Masao Oda (actor), Shôji Nakayama (actor), Midori Yamamoto (actress), Ken Sudô (actor), Keiko Okawa (actress), Shinji Murayama (director), Kôsaku Okano (actor), Yoshiko Kusuda (writer),

Nihon no higeki (1953)

Actors: Keisuke Kinoshita (director), Nadao Kirino (actor), Jun Tatara (actor), Ken Uehara (actor), Eijirô Yanagi (actor), Keiko Awaji (actress), Tanie Kitabayashi (actress), Keisuke Kinoshita (writer), Chûji Kinoshita (composer), Shin'ichi Himori (actor), Keiji Sada (actor), Fujio Suga (actor), Sanae Takasugi (actress), Yûko Mochizuki (actress), Teiji Takahashi (actor),

Plot: Alternating in time, between the end of World War II and 1953, Haruko, a widow, does what she can to keep her daughter Utako and son Seiichi safe, fed, and sheltered. By 1953, it's clear that the children, as they enter adulthood, want little to do with their mother. They have a different view of their childhood and her sacrifices: in their eyes, she abandoned them to live a life of pleasure. The self-pitying Haruko is sure her life was one of pain and humiliation, for her children. As Seiichi, now a medical student, announces his plans to let a wealthy man adopt him, and as Utako considers the offer to go away with a married man who is her English teacher, what is left for Haruko?

Asu o tsukuru hitobito (1946)

Actors: Sôjirô Motoki (producer), Kajirô Yamamoto (director), Susumu Fujita (actor), Seizaburô Kawazu (actor), Akira Kurosawa (director), Kajirô Yamamoto (writer), Tomoyuki Tanaka (producer), Chieko Nakakita (actress), Hideko Takamine (actress), Masayuki Mori (actor), Masao Shimizu (actor), Takashi Shimura (actor), Yônosuke Toba (actor), Ryô Takei (producer), Noboru Itô (composer),

Plot: Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in sympathy with striking railroad workers, one of whom boards with the sisters and their parents. The girls' father argues with them about their strike, but finds his views changing when he himself loses his job.

Rikugun (1944)

Actors: Keisuke Kinoshita (director), Chishû Ryû (actor), Shin Saburi (actor), Shûji Sano (actor), Eijirô Tôno (actor), Ken Uehara (actor), Haruko Sugimura (actress), Kinuyo Tanaka (actress), Tadao Ikeda (writer), Ken Mitsuda (actor), Toshio Hosokawa (actor), Yasumi Hara (actor), Jun Yokoyama (actor), Fujio Nagahama (actor), Kazumasa Hoshino (actor),