Shiro Sasaki Movies
- 2006
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A6.42006HD
An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling,...
- 2012
The Woodsman and the Rain
The Woodsman and the Rain62012HD
A widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for his help and increasingly starts to rely on him.
- 1986
Have You Seen the Barefoot God?
Have You Seen the Barefoot God?61986HD
2 almost inseparable friends. The talented painter recognized by all decided to leave the town where they live and become an artist and the shy poet...
- 2015
Journey to the Shore
Journey to the Shore6.52015HD
Mizuki’s husband Yusuke went missing for 3 years. He suddenly comes back home one day and asks Mizuki to go on a trip with him. Their trip...
- 1984
Farewell to the Ark
Farewell to the Ark71984HD
A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among...
- 1979
Eighteen Years, to the Sea
Eighteen Years, to the Sea6.51979HD
Kei and Atsuo were both enrolled in summer school. Kei was an honor student, and Atsuo was the polar opposite - but opposites attract. After school,...
- 1984
The Crazy Family
The Crazy Family6.61984HD
The Kobayashi family finally are able to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment to the suburban house of their dreams. But things are not as...
- 1984
Mermaid Legend
Mermaid Legend6.91984HD
After a woman is framed for the murder of her fisherman husband, she seeks out a bloody revenge on the corrupt businessmen responsible.
- 1982
Tattoo
Tattoo5.21982HD
An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.
- 1986
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast6.41986HD
During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland...
- 1984
Mitsugetsu
Mitsugetsu6.61984HD
Tetsuaki's struggling to write a novel while his mother fades; Mitsuko's engagement has been forced upon her unwillingly; the two individuals run...
- 1981
Hear the Wind Sing
Hear the Wind Sing61981HD
A student travels back to Kobe for the summer. Once there, he meets his friend Rat, hangs on the usual place, listening to the Beach Boys and meets a...
- 1997
20th Century Nostalgia
20th Century Nostalgia6.51997HD
A young student believes that the spirit of an alien from another planet has gone back in time, taking over his body to infiltrate and study humanity...
- 1999
Nabbie's Love
Nabbie's Love7.61999HD
Nanako returns to her hometown on the tiny island of Aguni to meet her grandmother Nabbie. However, when Nanako's ferry arrives, it is also carrying...
- 2001
A Tender Place
A Tender Place5.62001HD
Kasumi is in the midst of an affair with Ishiyama, one of her husband's clients. When Kasumi and her family visit Ishiyama's villa in Hokkaido, she...
- 1996
Some Kinda Love
Some Kinda Love01996HD
The life of a urban planning official and that of an old fellow student, now project developer, are turned upside down by a chance encounter with a...
- 2005
Heart, Beating in the Dark
Heart, Beating in the Dark5.52005HD
This new version of Nagasaki's Yami utsu shinzô (1982) is neither a remake nor a sequel. It is both those things, and at the same time it is...
- 2002
Concent
Concent4.82002HD
In her brother's apartment where he died, Yuki finds a vacuum cleaner with its cord still hooked up to the outlet. She discovers that the...
- 1981
Empire of Kids
Empire of Kids51981HD
Following a stint in reform school, Ryu (Shinsuke Shimada) returns to his home, the Minami area of Osaka, accompanied by his new friend Ko (Takeshi...
- 2003
Matasaburo the Wind Imp
Matasaburo the Wind Imp62003HD
Each year, at the start of the fall school year in September, Japan suffers from typhoons. That same month, in a small elementary school in a...