Movies: Michiko Kawai
- 1989
Fancy Dance (1989)
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Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline, he learns to adjust. Then his girlfriend shows up, enticing him to return to his rock 'n' roll root...
- 1998
Wait and See (1998)
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A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged father shows up at his house requesting shelter. One of the best of Somai's seriocomic studies of the ...
- 1983
P. P. Rider (1983)
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Three high-school students tangle with indulgent yakuza and lackadaisical police as they set out in search of the class bully, who has been kidnapped....
- 2002
The Sea Is Watching (2002)
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O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the warnings of her fellow workers, particularly Kikuno and the brothel's owner, O-Shin falls in love with the samurai....
- 1986
Maison Ikkoku - Apartment Fantasy (1986)
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Travel into Japan's nuttiest apartment house and meet its volatile inhabitants: Kyoko, the beautiful and mysterious new apartment manager; Yusaku, the exam-addled college student; Mrs. Ichinose, the drunken gossip; Kentaro, her bratty son; Akemi, the...
- 1986
They Were Eleven (1986)
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A group of students from the Cosmo Academy are about to take their final exam: surviving for over fifty days in a derelict ship. But when they arrive, they discover that instead of ten students, there are eleven. One of them doesn't belong there......
- 1998
Shomuni (1998)
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Based on the comic by Hiroyuki Yasuda...
- 2016
Family Court Probation Officer, Akira Yamanobo (2016)
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Tokyo Family Court judicial research official Akira Yamanobo is in charge of Tetsuo and Ayano Katase's divorce arbitration. Ayano, the wife, who works for a boutique company, insists her husband is involved with another woman. Supported by her employ...
- 1988
Memories of You (1988)
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University student Akira meets the lovely 14-year-old Yumi, whom he had tutored years ago. Her mother is told by her doctor that the schoolgirl has leukaemia and has only 6 months to live....
- 2016
What's for Dinner, Mom? (2016)
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Two sisters Tae and Yo come back to their old house which is soon to be torn down. Clearing up the family mementos, Tae finds a red box full of recipes and letters written by their mother who died 20 years ago. In these recipes and letters, she finds...
- 1988
Just Two Of Us (1988)
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The love that occurs 24 hours after a man and woman in their 20s meet against the backdrop of the bubble period....
- 1992
The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1992)
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An one hour made for TV special. Set in modern Japan, a journalist goes Insumasu to investigate people with deformation....
- 2007
Konna otona no onnanoko (2007)
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Based on the comic book by Marie Abiko....
- 1985
Like a Savage (1985)
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Young writer Tamako, who is wrongfully accused of killing the head yakuza, must find a way out of trouble....
- 1987
Lover's Time (1987)
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- 2006
Kanashiki Tenshi (2006)
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The body of a 59-year-old male is found on the banks of a river. The stepson, Kazuo, confesses to his involvement but also implicates his estranged sister Nami. Two detectives, Okishima Keisuke and Kono Kaoru, then travel to the resort district of Be...
- 2000
Sleeping Bride (2000)
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Sleeping Bride is the story of a girl, Yumi, who since birth, has never been awake. A boy called Yuuichi finds the girl in the hospital while he is a patient there. A nurse remarks that the girl is 'Sleeping Beauty', and Yuuichi believes that a kiss ...
- 1995
The detective whose path was crossed by a snake (1995)
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Starring Ken Takakura, this TV special depicts a detective (Akira Hayasaka) who lives in a harsh life with pride and conviction. Minoru Akiba, Chief of the Investigation Division 1 of the Metropolitan Police Department, is a veteran detective who ha...
- 2002
Sorry (2002)
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Twelve year old Sei has hit puberty and is quickly becoming sexually aware, sometimes not as privately as he'd like; erections in school and other inopportune times plague him. He talks about it with his school friends, Kinta and Nyanko, in between t...