Mitsuru Hirata Movies

An antique shop "Jidaiya" sells time not antiques. One day a lady run into this shop with a cat.

An aspiring floral designer and the photographer next door become drawn to each other through the everyday sounds they hear through their shared...

Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.

Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater...

Six young pilots who all volunteered to be Kami-kaze or suicide pilots.

A 100-year-old resident of a Lake Biwa nursing home dies mysteriously. Did a respirator keeping him alive suddenly malfunction, or was he murdered? A...

Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by...

Flowers examines the lives of six women across three generations, from the Show period all the way through to the present day.

Two men, a detective and a gang member, infiltrate each other's organization. Soon they find their fates intertwined.

Four short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers.

On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never gamble again. But, that night, Jirocho heads to a...

Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and...

Seven friends part ways after their last day at school. Some seek their fortune in Tokyo, others remain in their hometown Maebashi. Over the course...

Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" wafts through a hospice recreation room. Sitting at the grand piano is a young girl, Chiori, with a...

On Mihama, one of Tokyo's outlying islands, Shinji witnesses the rape of his girlfriend and middle-school classmate, Haruka, then commits an...

A story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a series of high risk surgical procedures.

After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home.