Tomokazu MiuraFilmography

The Taste of Tea

Actors: Mayo Banno, Takahiro Sato, Tadanobu Asano, Satomi Tezuka, Tomokazu Miura

Synopsis: Filmmaker Katsuhito Ishii takes a break from the post-Tarantino excess of such highly-stylized outings as Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl for this low-key look at an eccentric family residing in a quiet countryside town just north of Tokyo. The Haruno family is a five-piece clan living the Read More

Into the Faraway Sky

Actors: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Suzuka Ohgo, Yuma Sasano, Fumiyo Kohinata, Chang Chen

Synopsis: The new kid in town finds his new friends might know something his father doesn't in this playful comedy from Japanese filmmaker Isao Yukisada. Ryunosuke Kusunoki (Ryunosuke Kamiki) is a boy from Tokyo who moves with his family to a farming community in Hokkaido province, where he soon finds he Read More

Always: Sunset on Third Street 2

Actors: Hidetaka Yoshioka, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Koyuki, Maki Horikita, Masako Motai, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Kazuki Koshimizu

Synopsis: Director and screenwriter Takashi Yamazaki returns to the nostalgic world of Tokyo in the Fifties in this sequel to his successful comedy-drama Always: Sunset on Third Street. Would-be writer Ryunosuke Chagawa (Hidetaka Yoshioka) is still living across the street from Norifumi Suzuki (Shinichi Read More

Sea Without Exit

Actors: Juri Ueno, Shinosuke Ichikawa, Shun Shioya, Teruyuki Kagawa, Tomokazu Miura

Synopsis: Director/screenwriter Yoji Yamada (The Twilight Samurai) teams with emerging filmmaking talent Kyoshi Sasabe (Half a Confession) for this screen adaptation of author Hideo Yokoyama's somber novel. Koji Namiki is a young pitcher who has shown great promise on the diamond by winning the National Read More

The Matsugane Potshot Affair

Actors: Hirofumi Arai, Takashi Yamanaka, Miwa Kawagoe, Yuichi Kimura, Tomokazu Miura

Synopsis: When a gold ingot and a severed human head are discovered in a small provincial town, the rush to solve the curious case wavers between tragic and darkly humorous in this defiantly original film from Linda Linda Linda director Nobuhiro Yamashita. In the 1990s, the economy in a small country town Read More

Nagori Yuki

Actors: Tomokazu Miura, Atsuko Sudo, Keiko Tsushima, Takayuki Sorita, Mi Housho

Synopsis: Nobuhiko Obayashi's Nagori Yuki (The Last Snow) is based on a popular song. Yusaku (Tomokazu Miura) is a middle-aged man whose wife leaves him at the beginning of the film. While contemplating suicide, Yusaka gets a phone call from his old friend Kenichiro (Bengal), whose wife,Yukkiko, is in a Read More

Karutetto

Actors: Yoshihiko Hakamada, Sachiko Sakurai, Nao Ohmuri, Kaoru Kukita, Shunji Fujimura

Synopsis: The give and take between the members of a string quartet becomes a metaphor for human relationships in this drama. First violinist Akio (Yoshihiko Hakamada), second violinist Tomoko (Sachiko Sakurai), violist Daisuke (Nao Ohmuri), and cellist Ai (Kaoru Kukita) comprised a student string quartet Read More

Yawarako na Hoo

Actors: Yuki Amami, Tomokazu Miura, Shunsuke Matsuoka, Taro Suwa

M/Other

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Tomokazu Miura, Makiko Watanabe, Ryudai Tatkahashi

Synopsis: The second film by Nobuhiro Suwa further explores the improvisational style that he developed in his highly praised debut, 2/Duo (1997). Starting from a three-page treatment, Suwa worked with actors Makiko Watanabe and Tomokazu Miura to fill out the plot and shade in the subtleties of their Read More

Harukanaru Koshien

Actors: Tomokazu Miura, Hitoshi Ueki, Akira Emoto

Synopsis: In 1964, an outbreak of the so-called "German" measles in Okinawa struck a U.S. military base and swiftly spread to the local population. One result of that outbreak was that a number of Okinawan children became deaf or were otherwise handicapped. This uplifting movie, based on a novel and a comic Read More

226

Actors: Kenichi Hagiwara, Tomokazu Miura, Masahiro Motoki, Naoto Takenaka, Daisuke Ryu

Synopsis: Many may not be aware that during the 1930s a very covert civil war was going on in Japan and no government minister (and almost no military general officer) was safe from it. The conflict was chiefly between those who wanted to take over and exploit whatever parts of Asia could be conquered, and Read More

Typhoon Club

Actors: Yuichi Mikami, Toshiyuki Matsunaga, Youki Kudoh, Yuka Ohnishi

Sayonara Jupiter

Actors: Tomokazu Miura

Synopsis: Director Koji Hashimoto calls the shots for this ambitious Japanese sci-fi epic concerning the colonization of Earth's neighboring planets, and the discovery of a menacing black hole that threatens to spell the end for all of mankind. In the 22nd Century the United Earth Federation has authorized Read More

Kaikyo

Actors: Ken Takakura, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tomokazu Miura, Naoko Otani

Synopsis: In 1954, Go Akuzu (Ken Takakura) travels to the Tsuruga Straits that separate Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido from the main island of Honshu, to investigate the tragic loss of a passenger ship in the treacherous waters of the straits. His solution to the marine dangers is to first advocate Read More

Dai Nippon 'Teikoku

Actors: Tetsuro Tamba, Tomokazu Miura, Teruhiko Saigo, Teruhiko Aoi, Saburo Shinoda

Synopsis: In this heroic portrait of Japanese soldiers during World War II, young men of all stripes (from a barber to a graduate of a military academy) go off to put their lives on the line for their country (as did their counterparts from many other areas of the globe, though that is not an issue in the Read More

Hoito Rabu

Actors: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Kazuo Kitamura, Bunjaku Han

Synopsis: Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura co-star in their tenth film together, a melodrama in which both travel to Spain to reconcile with their past. He rekindles an affair with an old flame before his long-lost love falls to her death. She reconciles with her aging father, a guitar maker who is not Read More

Toi Ashita

Actors: Tomokazu Miura, Ayumi Ishida, Junko Miyashita, Tomisaburo Wakayama

Synopsis: Pathos and irony nuance this drama by director Tatsumi Kamishiro about the relationship between a young man and an adoptive father-figure. Akira Tagawa's (Tomokazu Miura) father has been imprisoned for a murder he did not commit. The devoted Akira wants to free him even though the man is an Read More

Kiri-no-hata

Actors: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Rentaro Mikuni, Akiko Koyama

Synopsis: Kinzo Otuka (Rentaro Mikuni) is a defense lawyer who refuses the request of Kiriko (Momoe Yamaguchi) to defend her brother after he is falsely accused of murder. When her brother commits suicide, Kiriko is convinced that Kinzo could have saved her sibling. She seeks vengeance by planting evidence Read More

Ogon No Paatonaa

Actors: Tomokazu Miura, Tatsuya Fuji, Misako Konno, Shinsuke Ashida

Synopsis: A cameraman and a cop agree to help a woman who believes her missing father is in danger in this routine adventure story. The trio travels by yacht to investigate mysterious distress signals, only to discover a sunken treasure in stolen gold. They soon are trailed by the minions of a prominent Read More

Shunkin Sho

Actors: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Takeya Nakamura, Masahiko Tsugawa, Nobuo Nakamura

Synopsis: This romantic melodrama tells the story of the blind daughter of a wealthy pharmacist (Momoe Yamaguchi), in mid-19th-century Japan (just prior to the Meiji Restoration). A born autocrat, she transforms her father's apprentice into her lover and servant and teaches him to play the samsien for her Read More