Tsutomu Yamazaki Movies

Genichiro, a lonely retired man living with his son’s family who mostly ignores him, feels closest to his granddaughter who is in highschool....

A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.

Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure...

The protagonist is a woman (Hiroko Yakushimaru) who is a sales manager at the Japanese branch of a famous French shoe brand. The protagonist is...

A Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start over. When a young maid falls for him, he talks her...

27-year-old Yazaki Junpei has come back to his hometown of Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture for the first time in 10 years after working in Tokyo. As...

A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths of a university mountain club who are trapped in a...

Documentary about the making of Juzo Itami's film "Tampopo" (1985).

A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Marusa no Onna" a.k.a. "A Taxing Woman".

A Salaryman in Hokkaido heads to Tokyo for his daughters wedding, but the fun is just beginning,,,

A documentary about the making and shooting of Yojiro Takita’s ‘Departures’ (2008)