Toshiaki Toyoda Trailers
Director and screenwriter. He's known as one of the best Japanese directors working today.
Director and screenwriter. He's known as one of the best Japanese directors working today.
Total trailers found: 24
10 October 2025
Toshiaki Toyoda's three short films starring Kiyohiko Shibukawa as an ascetic monk ("Alive.", "I’m Here" and "Sugu ni yuku"), re-edited together as a feature-length film, as part of the “Mt.
12 April 2014
A month after Genji Takiya graduates, a new battle for supremacy at Suzuran All-Boys High School begins.
23 September 2022
A prequel to "I'm Here." An 18-minute short film about a man with a torch who appears at a modern-day shrine festival and causes a commotion.
24 July 2024
New Toshiaki Toyoda's short film starring Kiyohiko Shibukawa as a meditating monk.
10 October 1998
A young man decides one day to start killing yakuza. After he kills his first two he gets roped into helping a wannabe gangster and his bumbling underlings to perform a hit.
09 September 2001
Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him.
01 February 2025
Rosuke, a monk, has gone missing. His lover, Nonoka, takes the assassin Shinno to a religious facility in search of Rosuke.
17 November 2018
A documentary four years in the making that highlights the wondrous Ogasawara Islands, where 65-year-old Miyagawa Noritsugu resides.
23 November 2011
Having abandoned modern civilization, Ryoichi lives an isolated, self-sufficient life on a snow-covered mountain and sends mail bombs to the CEOs of corporations and TV networks.
08 October 2005
On the surface, the Kyobashis appear to be a happy family. Despite a family agreement that they are all open with each other, the entire household knows the opposite is true.
07 September 2018
Shoji Segawa was a quiet and inconspicuous boy, but, for the first time, he is recognized by people after winning the National Middle School Shogi Tournament.
19 July 2003
After discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track down the key of the universe, which a fellow prisoner known as the Counterfeit King said he had hidden.
28 January 2022
Toyoda Toshiaki went to Sado Island and filmed musician Koshiro Hino and Kodo, the local Taiko Performing Arts Ensemble, while they performed music composed especially for Shiver.
25 November 1991
Set in Osaka's Shinsekai, the film depicts the lives of Ayumu Tobita (Hidekazu Akai), who makes a living as a shogi gambler (shinken-shi), and Ryuzo Kayama (Masaya Kato) who aims to become a professional player.
23 November 2017
Tokunaga is an unpopular comedian. He meets a senior comedian, Kamiya, who holds a strong faith in comedy.
31 August 2012
Rui is the charismatic leader of a new religious group. Consequently, he starts to gain attention from the mass media.
20 September 2019
A girl finds an old handgun in her attic and the symbolic object conjures a mystical scene of samurai (a stellar cast of actors joined by the 20-person Edo punk band Seppuku Pistols, who also provide the soundtrack) gathering within the moss-grown location of Kasosan Shrine in Tochigi Prefecture.
24 July 2020
Seven years ago, a mysterious monster was found deep in a rural coal mine. Since then, rumors of a plague spread through the small town, and people experience an unexplainable mental illness.
03 August 1996
The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. It's a small god with a pointed head, a fat belly and a characteristic smile.
13 October 2009
Based on the Japanese legend of 15th century adventurer, Oguri Hangan Daisukeshige, Toyoda places us in a surreal world of tattooed Japanese slave workers whose real life roles serve more as symbols than actual characters.
20 August 2021
A man is tasked with assisting in the ritual suicide of a samurai who won't die without condemning the corrupt powers that be.
19 May 2001
Documentary on the Japanese boxer Unchain Kaji, who retired from the ring at the age of 30 with an eye injury and a losing record.
25 January 2005
A short documentary showing behind the scenes of Toshiaki Toyoda’s ‘9 Souls’.