Yukio Ninagawa Movies

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.

A former retainer to a noble family kills his wife's father when he tries to expose his past crimes. When he begins an affair with the daughter of...

In the summer of 1963, flats of modern construction begin to be built in the slums where vagrants and women of the night gather. The city hall's plan...

In William Shakespeare's "Cymbeline," King Cymbeline is furious when his only daughter, Inogen, marries Postumus, a man of low birth, instead of...

The film depicts the fatal, forbidden love between Nadeko, who is bought by a shop selling her mother, and her son-in-law, Jisumaru.

Kenji stutters and suffers from interpersonal blushing. After his mother's death, he lives with his violent father, but cannot stand it, so he takes...

As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life...

'The Ninagawa of the world', still ill. The 80-year-old's intense run to stay alive, even after falling ill!

Oedipus, a prince of Corinth, was prophesied to "kill his father and marry his mother." To avoid the fulfillment of this prophecy, he went on a...

Musashi is a play by Hisashi Inoue. It is set six years after the Ganryujima duel, when Musashi Miyamoto and Kojiro Sasaki are reunited at a Zen...

A successful lyricist, Sakumaki (Yukio Ninagawa), lives with his partner Kazue (Keiko Fujita) and their daughter, though he has always kept an...

Yukio Ninagawa's striking rendering of the classic play by Euripides done entirely in Japanese performed in both Japan and Greece at the famous Odeon...