Akira Emoto Movies

Folk singer Wataru Takada has been performing for over 35 years. This feature-length documentary follows him closely over the course of five months,...

A man with family troubles suddenly loses his job and finds a light of hope through a magnificent 1,000 year old community festival that he...

This is a story about a high school student who had it all going for him. He was great at basketball, he had a love like no other, until a day where...

Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark

A down-and-out actor living in Tokyo is hired as a token American guy for a Japanese rental-family company, leading him on an unexpected journey of...

Two best friends—Tatsuo, a retiring Yakuza member, and Kiyoshi, a cop—travel to the funeral of a woman they both loved.

“A Grain of Wheat” is a story of two bakeries in Yokohama. A French baker, Eriko, makes a sudden visit to Honda who is the owner of a...

An adult love story written and directed by Yasushi Akimoto of "Goodbye Mama" and shot on location in New York. Haruko and Natsuko are sisters who...

A documentary featuring actor Akira Emoto, film scholar Chika Kinoshita, Somai biographer Tatsuya Kimura and Sailor Suit assistant director Koji...

Questioning the meaning of people's lives, the multiple stories include the work of a manga artist, old men get involved in a fight and a murder, a...

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

The acting family, the Emotos, are the subject of this documentary following Emoto Akira and his sons.