Movies: Fukumi Kuroda

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making"...

A TV production crew are making a documentary about the infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro. When they start filming at his old home, they come under attack from the ghost of the painter's wife....

The film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as her unfaithful, sometimes partner. As well as showing her relationships with the man she loves and the ...

Spurred by the disappearance of a newly-wed husband, three women in post-war Japan are drawn into a murder mystery....

Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare intensely for a prestigious high school's entrance exam with the help of a private tutor. One night, one of the wives confesses to her husband that she has...

The Rinkaiji family, by all appearances, is a well-to-do Japanese family. The father, Nariyuki, works in an elite corporation, which gives his wife Yoshiko status in their suburban neighborhood. But the daughter Sugina, who herself has secretly stopp...

After a Space Beast throws them off Shuttle Base, the Changeman scramble to get their ship back as Sayaka tries to protect it from the inside....

An archery club on retreat in Hokkaido is forced to rescue their teacher who is kidnapped....

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A big battle between world class phantom thieves unfolds over the worlds largest diamond!...

During the 1980 Gwangju uprising in South Korea, a Korean man and a second-generation Korean-Japanese woman meet during the student activist movement. Under the chaos of the time the man and woman fall in love, but the woman disappears. 30 years lat...

Anthology of three stories about the bond between fathers and sons...

A young girl with leukemia travels a pilgrimage by skateboard....

A man fed up with city life moves to a village in the mountains...

The TV movie follows a detective with a burning sense of justice who risks his life to pursue a corruption case involving the prime minister's office....

Kodama learns that his old classmate Hayashi is getting married to an idol, and organizes a junior high school reunion....

Bored Hatamoto film...

Magazine reporter Saeko Kawamura receives a message on her answering machine from her friend Yuka asking for help... when Saeko goes to Takamatsu in Shikoku to find Yuka, she runs into journalist Ogata!...