Masayuki Shionoya Movies

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lurks some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and...

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of...

A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for...

A police psychologist suspects her former lover of serial murders on the Tokyo subway.

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the...

A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.

A man tries to mend his past by helping his best friend’s sister.

In a small town, high school students in their final year try to balance their studies while also playing together in a rock band.

Anarchic parody of the crime genre set around a bank robbery.

All the protagonists move about in a Tokyo Bar that has an entire wall taken up with a black-and-white reproduction of a photo of Monument Valley....

narrow attic room. Student Yamamoto was breathless at the sight he saw peeking through the gap. His mentor, Takabayashi's second daughter, Masako,...

The piano tuner Ota is still in mourning for the loss of his beloved wife. He would like to go on, but he can’t find the beach where his wife...

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home...

A duo get mixed up with a girl who finds a trunk load full of heroin.

Akira was raised in an assassin family. Everything seemed fine until he met a girl he once saw killed 10 years ago.

Based on a short story by Seichi Matsumoto from 1956 and remake from the 1957 movie of the same name, the story is about an actor who has the...

Sakura is a moody teenage girl who lives close to the US military base in the city of Yamato, Japan. She is struggling everyday to become a rapper...

Filmed in a documentary style, six patients in six wards of different ages and circumstances await death at a hospital in Japan. The sterile and...

The Eternal Founntain was broadcast as the Saturday Drama Special on NHK. Laywer Akio Yamauchi takes over the court-appointed attorney for Yoji...