Makoto Akatsuka Movies

Japanese film.

The story of a former police officer now retired to run a coffee shop called Bitter Coffee Life. In the long years of the past 20 years, he has been...

When Nizaemon Kumogiri, a major thief quits his job as a thief, he has two more big jobs planned in order to obtain a huge sum of money to enable his...

1979 Japanese film.

#36 in the series, following "License for Cruelty." The CEO of a yakuza-backed finance company teams up with a shady consultant to convince debtors...

1981 Japanese film based on the novel by Naoshiro Yoshimoto.

A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband's honor.

Set in a small Nagano village in the 1930s, the film follows Hanji, a young boy captivated by a local kabuki performance. Inspired by Yukio, Hanji...

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist....

A made for TV movie that would be loosely remade as Magnitude 7.9 or DEATHQUAKE

After ten years Ryuma Shiranui, aka Dragon, returns to Hong Kong to visit the grave of his mentor, Kaizan Fubiki, who recently died from "an...

After the war, many filmmakers were expelled from the Japanese film industry due to the Toho Dispute and the Red Purge. Amid such circumstances,...

A teenage drama film about Makiko Hayashi, a top student who is aiming to get into University of Tokyo, together with a group of other students. She...