Ikkei Watanabe Movies

A young, mentally retarded boy is wrongfully accused of murder, but his family lacks the means to hire an attorney to defend him. The boy’s...

The Shinsen-gumi–Onishu conflict escalates, causing defections. Naruto and Inokubi vow to prove Shizuka’s innocence, leaving Namakura and...

In Tokyo, lonely patrons pay to sleep ("soine") with someone. Massage, cuddle, sleep… for comfort and nothing more than the warm embrace of...

In 1934 (Showa 9), Maj. Gen. Yamamoto Isoroku was ordered to be the chief representative of the preliminary negotiations for the Disarmament...

In the early days of the Internet, a case arises from an innovative software and the developer is falsely arrested by the police. This film is based...

Restaurant owner Kenji Nagata has been stabbed to death. When the police begin an investigation, a bag of human bones is discovered in Nagata's car...

Makoto, who lives in a port town, sees a TV broadcast where Go world champion Park mentions having a rival in Japan, sparking anticipation for a...

"Marriage Counselor" is about an employee of a major real estate company who used to be a top salesman, but has become an annoying "Showa-era old...

What would you do on the last day of your life? A nurse knows she's dying of cancer, but she hides the truth in order to support the patients that...

Based on a true story about about a man who was told for many years that he was not employable, but threw all of his effort into working as a...

A small bar in Shinjuku's Golden Gai brings together its owner and a circle of regulars. Across 35 years of changing eras, their conversations trace...

A drama about friendship that spans ages, this is based on a true story which chronicles the life of a man who died at the age of 23 after an illness...

A romance occurs via email, between Jun Shibahara, the ace in his swimming team, and an ill girl.

The protagonist, Shippei Iida, moves with his mother to the remote island of Origoshima. He transfers to the island's only high school, Origoshima...

a TV drama special based on the life of SUNTORY's founder Shinjiro Torii

What makes us human? What do robots bring to us? Seiji Nozoe directs this masterpiece by the Czech national author and playwright Karel Capek. This...