Hidetoshi Nishijima Filmography

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Actors: Hoshi Ishida, Mitsuki Tanimura, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Miyako Koda, Ryo Tsugumi

Synopsis: Inspired by the deadly sarin gas attacks on a Tokyo subway back in 1995, director Akihiko Shiota's introspective psychological drama follows the journey of a young boy attempting to reconnect with his estranged mother and sister after a horrific terrorist attack. The Nirvana cult has committed an Read More

7/25/08
Vacation

Actors: Kaoru Kobayashi, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Nene Ohtsuka, Shuji Kashiwabara, Ren Ohsugi

Synopsis: Director Hajime Kadoi examines the humanity of the folks whose job it is to serve and honor the law with this compassion drama concerning a middle-aged prison guard who is called on to assist a condemned prisoner in his final moments. Adapted from the novel by Akira Yoshimura, Vacation tells the Read More

2008
Freesia: Bullet Over Tears

Actors: Tetsuji Tamayama, Tsoji Kokami, Tsugumi, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Hirochi Oguchi, Kyusaka Shimada

Synopsis: Kazuyoshi Kumakiri's action film Freesia concerns the actions of the Katsumi Vengeance Agency. The agency's job is to provide hitmen who assassinate criminals under a new governmental plan. Tetsuji Tamayama portrays Kanou Hiroshi, a cold-hearted member of the agency who has quickly become one of Read More

2007
Peeping Tom

Actors: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Urara Awata, Ayumi Kinoshita, Midoriko Kimura, Go Riju

Synopsis: A nebbishy author finds his career is taking an unexpected detour into sex in this comedy from Japan. Ben Makiguri (Hidetoshi Nishijima) is a middle-aged writer whose most recent project has been turned down by his publisher, forcing him to move into a dingy apartment in a run-down building. One Read More

2007
Oh-Oku, The Women of the Inner Palace

Actors: Yukie Nakama, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Haruka Igawa, Mitsuhiro Oikawa, Kaoru Sugita

Synopsis: Toru Hayahi's period melodrama Oh-Oku, The Women of the Inner Palace concerns the political maneuverings of many people surrounding a five-year-old boy who becomes Shogun upon the passing of his father. The boy's mother (Haruka Igawa) becomes one of the more powerful people in the country, but the Read More

2007
Tony Takitani

Actors: Issey Ogata, Rie Miyazawa, Takahumi Shinohara, Hidetoshi Nishijima

Synopsis: A man who has lived a life of emotional isolation discovers the dark side of falling in love in this drama from Japanese filmmaker Jun Ichikawa. Tony Takitani (Issey Ogata) is the son of a Japanese musician with a passion for jazz who spent most of World War II in Shanghai, and was later sentenced Read More

7/29/05
Su-Ki-Da

Actors: Hiromi Nagasaku, Aoi Miyazaki, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yam Eitan, Sayuri Oyamada

2005
Three Year Delivery

Actors: Tomoko Nakajima, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Midori Kiuchi, Erica Okuda, Sansei Shiomi

Synopsis: Japanese actress Miako Tadano makes her feature directorial debut with an adaptation of her own novel concerning an expectant mother whose pregnancy stretches on three times longer than the standard nine months. Fuyuko Matsuda (Tomoko Nakajima) has gone to extraordinary lengths to protect her Read More

2005
The House of Himiko

Actors: Kou Shibasaki, Jô Odagiri, Min Tanaka, Hidetoshi Nishijima

2005
Sayonora Midori

Actors: Mai Hoshino, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Mayuko Iwasa, Toshinobu Matsuo

2005
Dolls

Actors: Miho Kanno, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tatsuya Mihashi, Chieko Matsubara, Kyoko Fukada

Synopsis: Master filmmaker Takeshi Kitano returns behind the camera for the first time since his indifferently received English-language effort Brother (2000) with this operatic tale of lost love. Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif -- specifically, the kind practiced in Bunraku doll theater Read More

12/10/04
Inu Neko

Actors: Kanako Enomoto, Yoko Fujita, Eiko Koiki, Shugo Oshinari, Hidetoshi Nishijima

2004
Casshern

Actors: Yusuke Iseya, Kumiko Aso, Toshiaki Karasawa, Akira Terao, Kanako Higuchi

Synopsis: A genetic discovery that could prove mankind's saving grace is instead used to create the very beings who threaten their existence in director Kazuaki Kirya's visionary sci-fi epic. The time is the late 21st Century; fifty years of war between Europa and the Eastern Federation have left the planet Read More

1/1/04
Last Scene

Actors: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yumi Aso, Kumiko Aso, Johnny Yoshinaga, Mayumi Wakamura

Synopsis: An elderly actor makes a belated effort to revive his career in this sentimental drama. In 1965, Ken Mihara (Hidetoshi Nishijima) is an young leading man whose career is on the rise after a series of increasingly successful movies in which he co-stars with actress Keiko Yoshino (Yumi Aso). Read More

2003
Love/Juice

Actors: Toshiya Nagasawa, Hidetoshi Nishijima

Synopsis: Love, sex, and the confusing gray area in between marks the playing field for this low-key comedy-drama from Japan. Chinatsu (Okuno Mika) is a twenty-something lesbian who shares an apartment with Kyoko (Chika Fujimura). Chinatsu is attracted in passing to Kyoko, who occasionally returns her Read More

2000
License To Live

Actors: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Koji Yakusho, Shun Sugata, Lily, Kumiko Aso

Synopsis: In a departure from his acclaimed horror films Cure (1997) and Charisma (1998), Kiyoshi Kurosawa's License to Live is a gentle family melodrama that doubles as a meditation on personal identity. The film focuses on Yutaka (Hidetoshi Nishijima), the victim of an ugly car accident who suddenly Read More

1998
2/Duo

Actors: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Eri Yu

Synopsis: In preparing for this film, director Nobuhiro Suwa wrote an detailed script and then threw it away at the last moment. Instead, in a manner reminscient of Mike Leigh and John Cassavetes, he worked intensively with the actors to develop their characters and allowed the script to develop from Read More

1997