List of the best Yôji Yamada movies: Kabei: Our Mother(2008), Tokyo Family(2013), What a Wonderful Family! II(2017), What a Wonderful Family!(2016), The Twilight Samurai(2002) ... ...
Drama
Japan
2008
133 Minutes
Director
Sayuri Yoshinaga Tadanobu Asano Rei Dan Miku Sato Mirai Shida Tsurube Shofukutei Mitsugorô Bandô Umenosuke Nakamura
Based on childhood days of Teruyo Nogami.
Drama
Japan
2013
146 Minutes
Director
Yû Aoi Satoshi Tsumabuki Yui Natsukawa Kazuko Yoshiyuki Jun Fubuki Nenji Kobayashi
In this update of Yasujiro Ozu's "Tokyo Story", a retired schoolteacher and his wife visit their three working children in modern-day Tokyo.
Comedy
Japan
2017
115 Minutes
Director
In this sequel to the first It's A Wonderful Family, the characters who are still based on those in Tokyo Family (which itself was based on Tokyo Story), are a couple of years older with ... See full summary »
Comedy
Japan
2016
108 Minutes
Director
Isao Hashizume Kazuko Yoshiyuki Masahiko Nishimura Yui Natsukawa Tomoko Nakajima Yû Aoi Jun Fubuki Shozo Hayashiya Yuriko Hirooka Katsumi Kiba
In this sequel to the first It's A Wonderful Family, the characters who are still based on those in Tokyo Family (which itself was based on Tokyo Story), are a couple of years older with ... See full summary »
Drama
2002
129 Minutes
Director
Hiroyuki Sanada Rie Miyazawa Nenji Kobayashi Ren Ôsugi Hiroshi Kanbe Min Tanaka Erina Hashiguchi Miki Itô
samurai childhood sweetheart daughter sister husband mother brooding somber moving japan village house countryside office first love honor code family ties aging class distinctions domestic violence
In the 19th century a woman (Rie Miyazawa) helps a widowed samurai (Hiroyuki Sanada) who must kill a rebellious swordsman.