Yûko Tanaka

The mythological tale of a war between encroaching civilization and the beast gods of the forest. (Miramax)

The story of a woman's life work founding a bone marrow bank for her son. (CD Japan)

Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange... What's even more strange is that people are beginning to see dragons, which shouldn't enter the world of humans. Due to all these bizarre events, Ged, a wandering wizard, is investigating the cause... (imdb)

Middle-aged Minako is a milk woman in Nagasaki, living and uncomplicated and unhurried life delivering milk daily around the city. In their youth she and Keita were in love, but separated after his father and her mother died together causing a scandal. She never married, but Keita did and is now a city official with a terminally ill wife, Yoko. Before she dies Yoko tries to reunite the former lovers, but this disturbs and angers Minako. (ftvdb.bfi.org.uk)

The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai is a widower who lacks the ability to earn money, and he lives with his daughter Oei at the house of his friend, Bakin. Hokusai meets a woman called Onao and finds himself uncontrollably attracted to her, but she disappears all of a sudden. One day, an excited Oei brings home a young girl who looks exactly like Onao. Immediately, Hokusai starts to paint, using the young girl as a model.

A retired yakuza Shuji (Ken Takakura), now turned fisherman, gets dragged into his past by the arrival of a woman from Osaka Keiko (Yûko Tanaka) who sets up a bar in the small fishing village, bringing her boyfriend Yajima (Takeshi Kitano) and his troubles along. Shuji seeing the bad influence Yajima has on the other fishermen, tries to sort things out the only way he knows.

This erotic and violent story taken from Emily Bronte's classic novel, takes place in medieval Japan instead of 19th-century Yorkshire. Onimaru (Yasaku Matsuda) is an orphan boy taken in by a group of priests who worship the Mountain of Fire and try to appease the gods of anger. He loves Kinu (Yuko Tanaka), the beautiful daughter of a local family. (mubi.com)

Film parodies a family putting their 6-year old through rigorous exams and IQ tests to enter a better than average elementary school. It also looks at the midlife crisis of the husband and touches on role reversal in the family as the father becomes the homemaker and the mother goes out selling tombstones.

A prison officer hands in his resignation after his wife's death, to drive to the port where she wants her ashes scattered at sea. (imdb)

Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist Saburō, and attempts to play matchmaker between the two when they all return to Tokyo.

Old fisherman takes a journey so he'll no longer burden his granddaughter Haru. Together they visit family in search of a new home.

Set in 1989 in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, 17-year-old Toma (Masaki Suda) lives with his father and his father's lover. Toma witnesses his father's sadistic behavior towards his lover and, soon, Tooma finds himself following in his father's footsteps. (asianwiki.com)

A World War II pilot (Ken Takakura) reflects on the friendships he forged in the past. (google)

Tells the story of Oshin, a poor little girl who would someday become the owner of a big supermarket chain in Japan. (imdb)

A timid movie theater owner is secretly in love with one of his patrons but struggles to express his feelings. Meanwhile, he must deal with the financial hardships of his ailing business. (imdb)

Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune. (imdb)

Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A mysterious murder took place afterwards, an Ozuka was held responsible. 40 years later, the boy, who became a printing shop owner, was visited by a retired policeman who came from Amagi Pass. The truth then started to reveal itself. (imdb)

A mother and her three children find their fate thrown into chaos by an incident that happened one night. The family members each go their separate ways but reunite after 15 years and struggle to restore their family bonds. ( "One Night" Film Partners)

A mother demands answers from teacher when her son begins acting strangely. (imdb)

Based on the book by Keiko Ochiai, "The Rape" details the struggles and determination of a young woman who is attacked and raped on her way home from her lover's and shows how she comes to terms with the crime and the perpetrator in life and in court.