Hidetoshi Nishijima Movies

In spite of a longstanding tradition forbidding women from working in a sake brewery, Retsu, a young blind woman, challenges herself to overcome her...

Yutaka, tired of his writing job, is asked by his landlord to save his rundown apartment building from demolition by converting it into a variety...

The prison guards working in penitentiaries where death row inmates are locked up are forced to spend their daily lives constantly facing death.

It's the year 2023. The development of artificial intelligence has come a long way in recent years. When a policeman gets seriously injured and won't...

Kohei Yamamura, a second-year high school student, has trouble fitting in and gets along poorly with his classmates. With the school sports festival...

NHK TV Special

A husband and wife each believe that the other is cheating on them. The upstairs room in their house becomes a point of bizarre physical...

Shuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that his loan shark brother, who had helped to finance...

In 1983, photographer Gocho Shigeo met an early death at the young age of 36. The view we see reflected in Gocho’s photographic images has...

Kaede's life is changed when she discovers that she is the product of her father's affair. She tries to confide in Dr. Nishijima, a lecturer that she...

Army Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda (Nakamura Shido) has been fighting guerrilla warfare in the jungles of Lubang Island in the Philippines with his...

A 2001 Japanese language film directed by Shinji Aoyama, starring Hidetoshi Nishijima. The film screened at Locarno International Film Festival in...

Three young Japanese drop-outs are comically adrift in New York

Young French journalist Ada Servier arrives in Kobe to cover the memorial ceremonies of the big earthquake from 1995. Fifteen years after the...

Tsutsui, an office worker, marries Hitomi, who has a son from a previous marriage. However, one day, he realizes that something is missing in the...