Yōichi Higashi Trailers
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Yōichi Higashi (東陽一 Higashi Yōichi) is a Japanese film director. He began his career working on documentaries at Iwanami Productions but, after going independent, turned to fiction film. He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for Yasashii Nipponjin in 1971, and then the award for Best Director at the 17th Hochi Film Awards for The River with No Bridge. In 1996, he won the Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival for the film Village of Dreams.
Most Popular Yōichi Higashi Trailers
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01 January 1965
Movie-installation by graphic-designer AQUIRAX UNO.
29 October 2011
One day, Yoko visits her long-distance lover on a whim, but finds her older sister Mikiko sleeping in his bed.
06 August 1982
Set in the wilderness of Hokkaido, the story of a couple in their 30s and a couple in their 20s is drawn, and the subtle emotions of the two men and women are depicted with intense Eros and delicate images under the theme of marriage exchange.
19 March 1988
A department manager at his company, buys a one-room apartment to have some space to himself. He signs an agreement with a young woman and has an affair with her once a week at the apartment.
13 July 1996
Tells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Includes the boys relationships with their schoolteacher mother, civil servant father, elderly landlord, a rough new boy at the school, and three mysterious spirits in the form of old women.
15 May 1982
Yahagi Michiko is accosted and raped walking home one evening. From there she maneuvers the logistics of the police, hospital, and criminal justice system while balancing her home life including romantic relationships.
05 March 1971
A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle engineer.
07 August 1981
Yuko is in love with an old poet who happens to be also a married man. She waits patiently for him and only him, yet she is constantly being lust by others.
05 April 2003
Kenzo was behind bars for killing a gangster. Upon his release, he goes to live with his son, whose marriage is on the rocks.
10 September 2016
A married woman obsesses over a hairstylist she becomes involved with.
26 September 1981
A story about a woman who is a research student of a theater company and the three men who are at the mercy of her.
10 October 1986
A sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine.
08 April 1983
Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband's emotional conflicts with the wisdom of an adult.
04 December 2010
War photojournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children. Because of Yasayuki's drinking problems the couple divorced.
25 December 1979
Mariko is living the life of a typical Japanese college student in the 70's, spending far more of her time balancing boyfriends and part-time jobs than on her schoolwork.
29 September 1984
Based on the novel of the same name by Yoshio Kataoka.
23 May 1992
A widow and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku people are forced to reside.
29 March 2000
14-year-old Takuya lives in a rural town near mountains and rivers. His 29-year-old uncle Koji works as a graphic designer in urban Tokyo.
06 August 1980
A young woman breaks off her long-term relationship with her boyfriend to move to Tokyo in search of new experiences.
15 March 1978
Third is an aimless young man who hangs around with a couple of girls who are amateur hookers. One day, while acting as their pimp, he gets into a conflict with a young gangster and winds up killing him.
29 September 1973
A psychotherapist suffers from the onslaughts of Satori, the demon whose name is paradoxically homonymic to the word used for enlightenment experiences in the Zen tradition.
31 July 2004
Seikichi, makes his living fishing from a small boat off the coast of Okinawa. He and his 12-year-old grandson Akira live in a small, tree-lined village in the northern part of the island which is surrounded by a white-sand beach and plots of pine and flowering bushes.
01 January 1962
A college graduate falls in love with a woman during a business trip in Hokkaido
11 April 1969
A film documenting life in Okinawa under the domination of American military bases
