Movies: Michiko Kawai

  • 1989
    Fancy Dance

    Fancy Dance (1989)

    Fancy Dance

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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...

    Fancy Dance
  • 1998
    Wait and See

    Wait and See (1998)

    Wait and See

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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 ...

    Wait and See
  • 1983
    P. P. Rider

    P. P. Rider (1983)

    P. P. Rider

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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....

    P. P. Rider
  • 2002
    The Sea Is Watching

    The Sea Is Watching (2002)

    The Sea Is Watching

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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....

    The Sea Is Watching
  • 1986
    Maison Ikkoku - Apartment Fantasy

    Maison Ikkoku - Apartment Fantasy (1986)

    Maison Ikkoku - Apartment Fantasy

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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...

    Maison Ikkoku - Apartment Fantasy
  • 1986
    They Were Eleven

    They Were Eleven (1986)

    They Were Eleven

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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......

    They Were Eleven
  • 1998
    Shomuni

    Shomuni (1998)

    Shomuni

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    Based on the comic by Hiroyuki Yasuda...

    Shomuni
  • 2016
    Family Court Probation Officer, Akira Yamanobo

    Family Court Probation Officer, Akira Yamanobo (2016)

    Family Court Probation Officer, Akira Yamanobo

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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...

    Family Court Probation Officer, Akira Yamanobo
  • 1988
    Memories of You

    Memories of You (1988)

    Memories of You

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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....

    Memories of You
  • 2016
    What's for Dinner, Mom?

    What's for Dinner, Mom? (2016)

    What's for Dinner, Mom?

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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...

    What's for Dinner, Mom?
  • 1988
    Just Two Of Us

    Just Two Of Us (1988)

    Just Two Of Us

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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....

    Just Two Of Us
  • 1992
    The Shadow Over Innsmouth

    The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1992)

    The Shadow Over Innsmouth

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    An one hour made for TV special. Set in modern Japan, a journalist goes Insumasu to investigate people with deformation....

    The Shadow Over Innsmouth
  • 2007
    Konna otona no onnanoko

    Konna otona no onnanoko (2007)

    Konna otona no onnanoko

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    Based on the comic book by Marie Abiko....

    Konna otona no onnanoko
  • 1985
    Like a Savage

    Like a Savage (1985)

    Like a Savage

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    Young writer Tamako, who is wrongfully accused of killing the head yakuza, must find a way out of trouble....

    Like a Savage
  • 1987
    Lover's Time

    Lover's Time (1987)

    Lover's Time

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    Lover's Time
  • 2006
    Kanashiki Tenshi

    Kanashiki Tenshi (2006)

    Kanashiki Tenshi

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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...

    Kanashiki Tenshi
  • 2000
    Sleeping Bride

    Sleeping Bride (2000)

    Sleeping Bride

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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 ...

    Sleeping Bride
  • 1995
    The detective whose path was crossed by a snake

    The detective whose path was crossed by a snake (1995)

    The detective whose path was crossed by a snake

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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...

    The detective whose path was crossed by a snake
  • 2002
    Sorry

    Sorry (2002)

    Sorry

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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...

    Sorry