Yukio Watanabe Filmography

Occupation:
Editor

  • Sanmon Yakusha

    Crew: Editor

    Actors: Naoto Takenaka, Hideko Yoshida, Nobuko Otowa

    Synopsis: Celebrated Japanese filmmaker Kaneto Shindo, at 88, was the world's second-oldest working director when he made this biopic of character actor Taiji Tonoyama (Portugal's Manoel de Oliveira, age 91, held the distinction of being the oldest). Tonoyama, who acted in 250 films throughout his career Read More

    2000

  • Love/Juice

    Crew: Editor

    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

  • The Hypnotist

    Actors: Miho Kanno, Ken Utsui, Yukio Watanabe

    Synopsis: Fresh off the international success of such Japanese supernatural flicks as Ring (1996) and Cure (1998) comes this bizarre mystery thriller. The film opens with a trio of inexplicable suicides: a groom strangles himself at his own wedding, an old man hurls himself out a window, and an athlete runs Read More

    1999

  • A Tale of Osaka

    Crew: Editor

    Actors: Chizuru Ikewaki, Kenji Sawada, Yuko Tanaka

    Synopsis: With an eye to Yasujiro Ozu's masterpiece Tokyo Story (1953), director Jun Ichikawa creates this drama about a dysfunctional family. Fourteen-year-old Shimotsuki, like most Japanese students her age, is struggling through studying for high school entrance exams -- until her world is shattered when Read More

    1999

  • Bokuto Kidan

    Crew: Editor

    Actors: Masahiko Tsugawa, Yukio Sumida, Yoshiko Miyazaki

    Synopsis: Noted filmmaker Kaneto Shindo directs this erotic drama adapted from the autobiographical book by renowned writer Nagai Kafu. Kafu, a noted rake and whoremonger, became one of Japan's more celebrated literary figures by documenting fleeting pleasures and subtle human interactions as he frequented Read More

    1993

  • Byoin De Shinuto Iukoto

    Crew: Editor

    Actors: Ittoku Kishibe, Masayuki Shionoya

    Synopsis: Noted filmmaker Jun Ichikawa directs this elegiac semi-documentary look at cancer and death. The film focuses on five terminal cancer patients, all of whom are being treated in the same hospital by the same doctor (Ittoku Kishibe). Filmed with a fractured, episodic structure, Byoin quietly Read More

    1993

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