List of the best Mitsuko Baishô movies: Tokyo Lullaby(1997), All Around Us(2008), Vengeance Is Mine(1979), The Eel(1997), Akira Kurosawa's Dreams(1990), Yokiro(1983), Memories Corner(2011), Eijanaika(1981) ... ...
Drama
Japan
1997
85 Minutes
Kyozo Nagatsuka Kaori Momoi Mitsuko Baishô
Hamanaka Koichi returns to the old ward in eastern Tokyo. No one knows why he disappeared and left his family behind. No one knows why he is back either. His wife is unsure whether she ... See full summary »
Drama
2008
142 Minutes
Tae Kimura Lily Franky Mitsuko Baishô Susumu Terajima Tamae Ando Norito Yashima Minori Terada Akira Emoto Yûichi Kimura Yôsuke Saitô
The loss of a child puts a further strain on a Japanese couple's (Tae Kimura, Lily Franky) already troubled marriage.
Crime, Drama
Japan
1979
128 Minutes
Kazuko Enokizu
Ken Ogata Rentarô Mikuni Chocho Miyako Mitsuko Baishô Nijiko Kiyokawa Mayumi Ogawa
serial killer wife father madam truck driver ex-convict bleak brutal tense japan city suburbia prison brothel murder manhunt relationships incest investigation mental illness
Chronological exploits of Iwao Enokizu, a murderous thief on the run.
Drama
Japan
1997
116 Minutes
Misako Nakajima
Koji Yakusho Misa Shimizu Fujio Tsuneta Mitsuko Baishô Akira Emoto Shô Aikawa Ken Kobayashi Sabu Kawara Etsuko Ichihara Tomorowo Taguchi
barber assistant priest friend wife emotional moving small town river family home barbershop redemption infidelity guilt murder love transformation 1990s
A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After the release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking almost to no one except an eel he befriended while in prison.
Drama
1990
119 Minutes
Mother of 'I'
Akira Kurosawa Akira Terao Mitsunori Isaki Martin Scorsese Mitsuko Baishô Mieko Harada Chishu Ryu Hisashi Igawa Toshihiko Nakano Yoshitaka Zushi Toshie Negishi
young boy art student vincent van gogh soldier young man elderly man profound creative moving japan mountain forest countryside tunnel field childhood environmentalism nature war art
Filmmaker Kurosawa follows the life of "I" from boy (Mitsunori Isaki) to man (Akira Terao) in eight episodes of themes like war, nature and nuclear horror.
Drama
Japan
1983
144 Minutes
Ken Ogata Kimiko Ikegami Atsuko Asano Sayoko Ninomiya Mitsuko Baishô Morio Kazama Kazuo Kitamura Meicho Soganoya Tetsuro Tamba Ren Tamura
The loves and tragedies of a geisha in 1933 Japan.
Drama
France|Canada
2011
90 Minutes
Déborah François Hidetoshi Nishijima Hiroshi Abe François Papineau Sansei Shiomi Mitsuko Baishô Seizo Fukumoto Yura Arata Minehiro Minamitani
A young French reporter visits Japan to investigate the phenomenon of 'Death By Loneliness', which seems to have occurred following the 1995 Kobe earthquake. She interviews various people ... See full summary »
Drama
Japan
1981
151 Minutes
Oko
Kaori Momoi Shigeru Izumiya Ken Ogata Shigeru Tsuyuguchi Masao Kusakari Ako Mitsuko Baishô
Near the turbulent end of the Edo era, a man returning to Japan after exile in America searches for his wife and becomes swept up in the current of revolution in this incisive period drama from the great Shohei Imamura.