
















































































JFDB Japanese Film Database
Currently featuring the official details of more than 6,500 Japanese films in both English and Japanese.
Search All
Search by Title, Name, Company, Association.
Title
Search by Title.
Cast / Staff
Search by Name.
Company / Association
Search by Company / Association.
Latest Titles

YAMABUKI (2022)
- Director
- YAMASAKI Juichiro
- Cast
- KANG Yoon-Soo, INORI Kirara
Third feature film from The Sound of Light and Sanchu Uprising: Voices at Dawn director Yamasaki Junichiro, who makes films while farming in the mountains of Maniwa City, Okayama Prefecture. This ambitious ensemble work was shot on 16mm film and has ...
- Release Date
- Nov, 5th, 2022

WEDDING HIGH (2022)
- Director
- OHKU Akiko
- Cast
- SHINOHARA Ryoko, NAKAMURA Tomoya, SEKIMIZU Nagisa
Comedy about weddings helmed by Tremble All You Want director Ohku Akiko with original script from comedian Bakarhythm, who also is acclaimed as a screenplay writer. Nakagoshi (Shinohara Ryoko) is the wedding planner for groom Akito (Nakamura Tomoya...
- Release Date
- Mar, 12th, 2022

Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side B (2022)
- Director
- KAWASE Naomi
- Cast
Official documentary film for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. This two-part project weaves together the "truth" of the Games that were delayed a year and faced numerous COVID-19 related issues, including the unprecedented step of holding competitions withou...
- Release Date
- Jun, 24th, 2022

SHYLOCK'S CHILDREN (2023)
- Director
- MOTOKI Katsuhide
- Cast
- ABE Sadawo, UETO Aya, TAMAMORI Yuta
A million yen goes missing at the Nagahara Branch of Tokyo Daiichi Bank. Long-time customer service staff Nishiki (Sadawo Abe) sets out on a mission to uncover the truth together with his colleagues Airi (Aya Ueto) and Tabata (Yuta Tamamori). After c...
- Release Date
- Feb, 17th, 2023

DRIVE INTO NIGHT (2021)
- Director
- SAKO Dai
- Cast
- ADACHI Tomomitsu, TAMAOKI Reo
Sako Dai directed renowned actor Osugi Ren's final performance in The Chaplain and spent nine years on the original script for this story about despair and hope for two men. Two men work at a scrapyard factory in the boonies. Akimoto Taichi (Adachi ...
- Release Date
- May, 13th, 2022

MONDAYS: See you "this" week! (2022)
- Director
- TAKEBAYASHI Ryo
- Cast
- MARUI Wan, Makita Sports
This office drama marks the second film for Takebayashi Ryo, whose feature film debut Bookmark 14 became a long-running hit. Yoshikawa Akemi (Marui Wan), who has her eye on a job at a big ad agency, is scrambling to prepare a presentation on Monday ...
- Release Date
- Oct, 14th, 2022

To Be Killed by a High School Girl (2022)
- Director
- JOJO Hideo
- Cast
- TANAKA Kei, MINAMI Sara, OSHIMA Yuko
Haruto Higashiyama (Kei Tanaka) is a 34-year-old Japanese history teacher who combines good looks with an honest and friendly personality. When he has been assigned to Nitaka High School, a school for advanced students, Haruto immediately attracts t...
- Release Date
- Apr, 1st, 2022

FAMILIA (2022)
- Director
- NARUSHIMA Izuru
- Cast
- YAKUSHO Koji, YOSHIZAWA Ryo, MATSUSHIGE Yutaka
Seiji, a potter, lost his wife early and lives alone in a mountain village. His only son Manabu, temporarily returns home from an assignment in Algeria, with his wife Nadia, who is a former refugee. Manabu declares that he will quit his job and take ...
- Release Date
- Jan, 6th, 2023
JFDB Archives

Danger Paws (1962)
- Director
- NAKAHIRA Ko
- Cast
- SHISHIDO Joe, ASAOKA Ruriko, NAGATO Hiroyuki
Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs will now need a counterfeiter to make the bogus bills, they each decide to cash in on it by selling th...
- Release Date
- Dec, 1st, 1962

The Shrikes (1961)
- Director
- SHIBUYA Minoru
- Cast
- ARIMA Ineko, AWASHIMA Chikage, KAWAZU Yusuke
Sugako Okada, a restaurant waitress, and her daughter Sachiko meet for the first time in twenty years. But their long separation has made it difficult for them to understand each other and Sachiko leaves to work at a beauty parlor. When her mother fa...
- Release Date
- Mar, 1st, 1961

Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968)
- Director
- SATO Hajime
- Cast
- KO Hideo, YOSHIDA Teruo, SATO Tomomi
A passenger plane, flying on course, is suddenly forced down by a huge flying-saucer. The passengers are unhurt. But one of them, trying to escape, is suddenly engulfed by the huge craft which had originally forced them down. Then a horrible thing h...
- Release Date
- Aug, 14th, 1968

The Body (1962)
- Director
- NARUSAWA Masashige
- Cast
- SAGA Michiko, KAWAZU Yusuke, SHINDO Eitaro
Sakiko, who works at a firm on the Ginza, is gifted with so sensual a physique that it even attracts her own sex. Her parents work at public bathhouse in a fishing town. One night she gives herself to her boss Sasaki and becomes his mistress. Sasaki...
- Release Date
- Nov, 8th, 1962