Yo Oizumi
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1973-04-03
Locus Natus: Hokkaido, Japan
Et ut: Yô Ôizumi, 오오이즈미 요
Spirited Away
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon...
release : 2001.07.20popularis : 111.413
May I Quit Being A Mom!?
A child is a blessing. You love the child. And it’s sometimes therefore that you feel suffocated. The film is a collection of real-life moments...
release : 2020.02.29popularis : 0.386
Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva
Archeologist and avid puzzle solver Professor Layton and his assistant Luke are caught up in an adventure when a masked figure steals an entire opera...
release : 2009.12.01popularis : 6.828
Mom, Is That You?!
Akio Kanzaki’s job as head of human resources is wearing his nerves thinner and thinner. To make matters worse, he’s on the brink of...
release : 2023.09.01popularis : 3.152
The Cat Returns
Young Haru rescues a cat from being run over, but soon learns it's no ordinary feline; it happens to be the Prince of the Cats.
release : 2002.07.19popularis : 32.691
73rd NHK Kouhaku Uta Gassen
The 2022 (Reiwa 4) edition of NHK's New Year's Eve TV special Kōhaku Uta Gassen
release : 2022.12.31popularis : 3.778
TEAM NACS FILMS N43°
TEAM NACS tries out film directing for the first time! Introducing 'N43°'! From Hokkaido to you - a message card from the five members of TEAM...
release : 2009.09.25popularis : 1.422
The Boy and the Beast
Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world...
release : 2015.07.11popularis : 17.544
Kitaro
Kitaro is a half human, half creature who keeps an eye on the human society to save them from the evil attacks from another world. He finds that a...
release : 2007.04.28popularis : 4.837
Phone Call to the Bar
In the Susukino red light district of Sapporo, a private detective (Yo Oizumi) drinks alcohol with his driver Takada (Ryuhei Matsuda) in his...
release : 2011.09.10popularis : 1.5
Daichi (Social Distancing Version)
Recording of the play Daichi (Social Distancing Version) performed on July 11, 2020, at the PARCO Theater in Tokyo's Shibuya City.
release : 2020.07.11popularis : 0.979
Phases of the Moon
Osanai Kei enjoys a peaceful and happy life with his wife Osanai Kozue and daughter Osanai Ruri, but his wife and daughter die in an accident. Osanai...
release : 2022.12.02popularis : 3.524
Bread of Happiness
A couple decide to relocate from Tokyo to the northern island of Hokkaido where they settle and establish a bakery and café called Mani. One...
release : 2012.01.28popularis : 7.296
Simsons
Four Japanese girls, 3 totally inept at the sport, come together to form a curling team in Northern Japan. The town is famous for scallops and...
release : 2006.02.17popularis : 2.135
Kitaro and the Millennium Curse
Young women disappear one after another in drizzling rain. They all hear the “cursed song” of the Cage Song before they vanish into thin...
release : 2008.07.09popularis : 5.879
The Kiyosu Conference
After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and...
release : 2013.11.09popularis : 5.242
Detective in the Bar 2
A friend of the detective has been is murdered. During the investigation, he comes across a source which tells him that his friend was murdered for...
release : 2013.05.11popularis : 4.856
I Am a Hero
Hideo Suzuki is a 35-year-old mangaka assistant, whose life seem to be stuck around his exhausting but low-paying job, unfulfilled dreams, strange...
release : 2016.04.23popularis : 23.463
When Marnie Was There
Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an...
release : 2014.07.19popularis : 23.845
Twilight: Saya in Sasara
A drama about a struggling young widow with a baby whose dead husband returns to the world of the living to help her.
release : 2014.11.08popularis : 2.429
After School
A middle school teacher, Jinno, is friends with a young couple that is about to have a baby. But on the eve of the birth, the father, Kimura,...
release : 2008.05.24popularis : 1.946
Nasu: A Migratory Bird with Suitcase
Legendary bicycle racer Marco Rondanini dies as team Pao Pao Beer is set to race in Japan. Team member Ciocci, close friend of Marco, starts to think...
release : 2007.10.24popularis : 2.771
A Bolt from the Blue
Haruo has a dream to become the best magician, but, so far, he is only a marginal magician. Haruo also doesn't have parents. He then goes back 40...
release : 2014.05.24popularis : 2.536
A Drop of the Grapevine
After a symphonic music career in Europe cut short by hearing loss, Ao (Oizumi Yo) returns home to run his family's farm in Hokkaido alongside...
release : 2014.10.11popularis : 1.34
Case Closed: The Million-Dollar Pentagram
A message has arrived from Kid the Phantom Thief, that he will steal a Japanese sword belonging to wealthy Onoe Family in Hakodate, Hokkaido. Conan...
release : 2024.04.12popularis : 70.893
G'mor Evian!
"Good Morning Everyone!" revolves around a family involved in the punk music scene. Aki is a former guitarist for a punk band. She became pregnant...
release : 2012.12.15popularis : 0.776
Kakekomi
Kakekomi tells the stories of Edo women in the 1800s that escape abusive husbands and lovers by taking refuge in Tokeiji, a monastery in Kamakura.
release : 2015.05.16popularis : 4.14
Akechi Mitsuhide: The man God hated
The famed leader Oda Nobunaga had two right-hand men who contributed to unifying the nation. One was Akechi Mitsuhide and the other Kinoshita...
release : 2007.01.03popularis : 1.508
Drucker in the Dug-Out
The movie is about Minami Kawashima, a high school girl who becomes the manager of her school's baseball team in place of her hospitalized friend,...
release : 2011.06.04popularis : 2.341
Free and Easy 17
Yumiko returns to work in Hama-chan's department. She had once left the company after getting married, but a dark shadow now seems to loom over her.
release : 2006.08.05popularis : 2.485
Dear Family
Nobumasa Tsuboi (Yo Oizumi) runs a small factory in a small town. He has a daughter Yoshimi Tsuboi (Riko Fukumoto) who suffers from a congenital...
release : 2024.06.14popularis : 1.801
Muromachi Burai
Set in war-torn 15th century Kyoto, on the eve of the Onin War, the movie centers on a band of outlaws led by Hyoe (Oizumi) a scoundrel whose lethal...
release : 2025.01.17popularis : 3.23
Brave Story
Jr. High School Student Wataru and his friends like playing in an abandond building and looking for ghosts. However it seems he is not the only one....
release : 2006.05.22popularis : 6.317
Sugar & Spice
Recently graduated from high school, 17-year-old Shiro decides to put off college and work at a gas station instead. Shy and introspective, Shiro...
release : 2006.09.16popularis : 3.168
Gold Medal Man
Senichi was born in 1964, when the entire nation was excited about the Tokyo Olympics. As an elementary student, Senichi won a footrace and got a...
release : 2016.10.22popularis : 1.998
Tokyo Ghoul
A Tokyo college student is attacked by a ghoul, a super-powered human who feeds on human flesh. He survives, but has become part ghoul and becomes a...
release : 2017.07.16popularis : 13.111
Fullmetal Alchemist
Two alchemist brothers go on a quest for the Philosopher's Stone after an attempt to revive their dead mother goes horribly wrong.
release : 2017.12.01popularis : 14.407
Nasu: Summer in Andalusia
Pepe Benengeli is a second-class cyclist, only there to support the star member of the team. This summer he is participating in the Tour of Spain,...
release : 2003.06.26popularis : 5.271
The Last Shot in the Bar
In order to find a missing university student, a detective and his buddy get involved with the owner of a modeling agency.
release : 2017.12.01popularis : 2.59
Yakiniku Dragon
Set in the 1970's in the Kansai region of Japan.. Yong-Gil is Korean, but he moved to Japan and settled down. He runs a small restaurant named...
release : 2018.06.22popularis : 2.981
A Banana? At This Time of Night?
Hisashi Tanaka is a medical student in Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. He does volunteer work and gets to know Yasuaki Kano at the hospital. Yasuaki Kano...
release : 2018.12.28popularis : 1.422
After the Rain
Akira Tachibana is a 17-year-old high school student. She was once a promising athlete, but an injury has prevented her from taking part in track and...
release : 2018.05.25popularis : 6.602
My Dad Is a Heel Wrestler
Takashi Omura (Hiroshi Tanahashi) was once a popular professional wrestler, but he isn't popular anymore. He now wears a cockroach mask and wrestles...
release : 2018.09.21popularis : 2.474
Restaurant from the Sky
Wataru, his woman Kotoe and daughter Shiori are ranchers and dairy farmers in Hokkaido in northern Japan. He is following in his father's footsteps....
release : 2019.01.25popularis : 1.564
Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island
Upon hearing about the story of Treasure Island, Nobita dreams of discovering and exploring his own treasure island, despite the fact all of the...
release : 2018.03.03popularis : 15.035
Looking Up at the Half-Moon
Two 17 year old teens are hospitalized for different reasons. Ezaki suffers from Hepatitis A, while Akiba is due to a weak heart. The relationship...
release : 2010.04.03popularis : 2.391
Kuroido Goroshi
March 1952, the only doctor in the village Shiba had found a dead body of Sanako. The cause of death is overdose of sleeping pills. Sanako had been...
release : 2018.04.14popularis : 2.017
Older Brother, Younger Sister
The Akazas are a blue-collar family living in a working-class neighborhood of Tokyo. Older brother Inosuke is a carpenter who works for his father...
release : 2018.06.25popularis : 1.26
River
Five old friends meet again at a school reunion and discuss their painful memories. The friends then run into an old acquaintance who was an exchange...
release : 2003.11.29popularis : 1.438
Pakodate-jin
One morning Hikaru Hino, a high school student living in Hakodate, wakes up to find she has grown a tail. She quickly cancels her first date with...
release : 2002.02.19popularis : 1.207
Howl's Moving Castle
Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets...
release : 2004.09.09popularis : 71.383
The Day I Bought a Star
The short film is about a boy who lives and works on a farm. One day when going to sell vegetables at a market, his cart breaks down. Two strangers,...
release : 2006.01.03popularis : 4.555
The Untold Tale of the Three Kingdoms
A new interpretation of "Records of the Three Kingdoms," which is historical text of the three states of Wei, Shu, and Wu in China.
release : 2020.12.11popularis : 2.719
Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction
Hayami Teruya is a dedicated salaryman who does a workman like job as the chief editor for a magazine. He has personal charm, get along with both the...
release : 2021.03.26popularis : 1.028
Farewell: Comedy of Life Begins with a Lie
The editor-in-chief of a literary magazine who is popular with women sets up a fake wife and bids farewell to his mistresses.
release : 2019.12.21popularis : 1.689
Asakusa Kid
Before he hit it big, Takeshi Kitano got his start apprenticing with comedy legend Fukami of Asakusa. But as his star rises, his mentor's declines.
release : 2021.12.09popularis : 8.018
Food Luck!
Yoshito grew up with his mother Yasue after his father passed away. His mother ran a yakiniku (grilled meat) restaurant that his father had left...
release : 2020.11.20popularis : 5.223
Little Ghostly Adventures of Tofu Boy
Long time ago in ancient Japan, human beings could still see Yokai monsters and were afraid of them. However, as time passed and civilization and...
release : 2011.04.29popularis : 2.258