List of the best Masahiro Motoki movies: Departures(2008), Rampo(1994), The Long Excuse(2016) ... ...
Drama
Japan
2008
130 Minutes
Masahiro Motoki Tsutomu Yamazaki Ryôko Hirosue Kazuko Yoshiyuki Kimiko Yo Takashi Sasano Toru Minegishi Tetta Sugimoto Tatsuo Yamada Yukiko Tachibana
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A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals.
Mystery & Thriller
Japan
1994
100 Minutes
Kogoro Akechi
Masahiro Motoki Naoto Takenaka Michiko Hada Teruyuki Kagawa Mikijir? Hira Shiro Sano Ittoku Kishibe Nekohachi Edoya Jyunichi Takagi Charlie Yutani Kirin Kiki
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Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts... See full summary »
Drama
2016
Minutes
Sôsuke Ikematsu Masahiro Motoki Eri Fukatsu Haru Kuroki Shigeyuki Totsugi Maho Yamada Jiji Bû Pistol Takehara Suon Kan Hideto Iwai
After his wife dies in a bus accident, a man rashly volunteers to take care of the children of a man who also lost his wife in the crash.