Tokyo Family

Jan 18, 2013

2h 26m

★ 7.3

Overview

An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Shochiku

Tokyo Family Trailers

Cast

Shukichi Hirayama

Isao Hashizume

Tomiko Hirayama

Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Masatsugu

Satoshi Tsumabuki

Noriko Mamiya

Yu Aoi

Shuji Hirayama

Satoshi Tsumabuki

Koichi Hirayama

Masahiko Nishimura

Fumiko Hirayama

Yui Natsukawa

Shigeko Kanai

Tomoko Nakajima

Kurazo Kanai

Hayashiya Shōzō IX

Numata

Nenji Kobayashi

Kayo

Jun Fubuki

Kyoko Hattori

Narumi Kayashima

There are breakpoints in the history, the result of a single event may change the whole course. In 1909, an assassination attempt of a Japanese governor fails. Now, in 2009, Korea is just another state of Japan's Empire & Seoul has become a major city. A Korean resistance group fights for liberty, independence & the restoration of true history. Two cops, Japanese & Korean, investigate the group.

7.1

Parasyte: Part 1

Nov 29, 2014

Humanity is suffering from a series of mysterious murders across the globe, known as the 'Mincemeat murders'. High school student Izumi Shinichi has a parasite living off him, having replaced his right hand, and he might be the discoverer of truth.

7.1

Parasyte: Part 2

Apr 25, 2015

Humanity is under attack by human-mimicking flesh-eating alien parasites. One parasite bonds with his young high school student host, and he convinces the parasite to help him stop the others.

7.7

The Beast of Comedy

Jan 5, 2024

Tsuchiya, who lives with his single mother in Osaka, does not get serious work once he graduates from high school, but rather devotes himself to mailing jokes to the “Ohgiri” variety show. Seeking to be recognized as a show “Legend,” he devotes his entire life to laughter, setting himself the task of submitting hundreds of entries per day. At loose ends, he encounters a drifter, Pink, who finds him work at his bar while Tsuchiya now devotes himself to becoming a “postcard craftsman” who submits material to a radio program. The entertainers on the program begin to use material from his postcards. A comedian Tsuchiya admires, one of a comic duo called “Bacon,” says on the air that he admires Tsuchiya’s material and that he wants “to do material together.” Dreaming of another chance, Tsuchiya heads for Tokyo.

6.8

Bright Future

Jan 18, 2003

Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They become fascinated with a deadly jellyfish.

7.1

The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai

Jun 17, 2022

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Makino clan of Nagaoka, dreamt of independence from the restraints of vassalship. Despite his progressive views and his desire for his estate to remain neutral during the Boshin Civil War, he was bound by loyalty and duty to the clan and was compelled to choose sides.

0.0

Sasurai no modae

Aug 1, 1973

Two people who love each other are separated due to a certain incident. Two years later, the man has become an assassin. A story about an encounter between a fallen couple, a strip troupe, and a human smuggling ring.

7.8

Still Walking

Jun 28, 2008

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

6.9

Air Doll

Sep 26, 2009

A life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she goes for a walk around town and falls in love with Junichi. She starts to date Junichi and gets a job at the same store where he works. Everything seems to be going perfectly for her until something unexpected happens.

7.4

A Scene at the Sea

Oct 19, 1991

A deaf garbage collector happens upon a broken and discarded surfboard. The discovery plants in him dreams of becoming a surf champion. Encouraged by his also deaf girlfriend, he persists against all odds.

0.0

The Perfect Sex Crime

Jun 1, 1973

A daughter whose mother was killed and whose virginity was stolen by her stepfather sets a clever trap and plans a horrific murder without getting her hands dirty. A love drama with a touch of mystery, in which Naomi Tani plays the role of an evil woman who looks like a lady and spreads an aphrodisiac-like charm throughout the story.

7.6

(Ab)normal Desire

Nov 10, 2023

Director Yoshiyuki Kishi and screenwriter Takehito Minato—the team behind acclaimed boxing epic Wilderness—reunite to adapt Ryo Asai's prize-winning novel. A sensitive drama about the aberrant in a society without regard for diversity, the story unites characters trying to hide abnormalities: a prosecutor who is worried that his pubescent son is a shut-in, an introverted saleswoman with a peculiar habit, and a student tortured by feelings she can’t express. In a world fill with abnormalities, what if it’s actually normal to be abnormal?

6.0

Mountain Woman

Jun 30, 2023

Late 18th century, Tohoku. An outcast girl, Rin lives in a village suffering from famine. She draws strength from Mt. Hayachine, where the spirits of humans ascend after passing.

7.6

Drunken Angel

Apr 27, 1948

Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to convince Matsunaga to stay for treatment, which would drastically change his lifestyle. They form an uneasy friendship until Matsunaga's old boss Okada returns from prison.

7.4

Kamome Diner

Jun 11, 2006

On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay with her.

6.4

Life: Untitled

Nov 2, 2019

Follows a group of female escorts who are living life as best they can.

7.2

Kabei: Our Mother

Jan 26, 2008

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her two daughters with the support of Shigeru's sister Hisako and Shigeru's ex-student Yamazaki, but her husband does not return. WWII breaks out and casts dark shadows on the entire country, but Kayo still tries to keep her cheerful determination, and sustain the family with her love. This is an emotional drama of a mother and an eternal message for peace.

6.4

Love's Whirlpool

Mar 1, 2014

A room in a fancy downtown apartment. The evening orgy kicks off with eight men and women meeting for the first time, including an unemployed guy who pays the 20,000 yen party fee with money from his parents, and a female college student whose run-of-the-mill appearance hides a voracious sexual appetite.

7.4

0.5 mm

Nov 8, 2014

Sawa Yamagishi worked as a nursing-care helper. The family for an old man asked Sawa to sleep with him, which led her to lose her job. Now, she has nowhere to go. Sawa finds elderly people in trouble and gets involved in their lives. Meeting them, Sawa's own wounds start to heal.

7.3

I Just Didn't Do It

Jan 20, 2007

A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all the while insisting that he is innocent.