For fans of Yoji Yamada: what to watch, read & play next

A working-class Tokyo family navigates big dreams and small disappointments with affectionate, grounded comedy.

Ageing parents visit children too busy to truly receive them — quiet, devastating, and deeply human.

A father's love and duty collide in this tender story of letting go without losing each other.

A son caught between family loyalty and ordinary life when his father's criminal world erupts.

A road trip to find a missing wife turns into a bruising meditation on love and male grief.

Two loyal lieutenants face the unravelling of the father-figure bond that defined their lives.

A wandering, warm-hearted man searches Kyoto for someone he holds dear — unhurried and humane.

A widowed father raises his son alone, channelling grief into fierce, imperfect devotion.

A young woman leaves a rural mountain village for Tokyo, navigating loss and new beginnings.

Lives in a red-light district intersect in unexpected moments of human connection and small grace.

A woman's practical dreams and an unlikely romance collide in warmly observed contemporary Japan.

A divorced father races against custody loss, finding unexpected partnership in a woman in crisis.

A dead mother's promise to return in the rainy season shapes a father-son story of tender grief.

A boy shoulders adult responsibility caring for his baby brother after their mother's death.

A girl rediscovers her father's love of photography as she finds the courage to keep moving forward.

A young cook fights to preserve tradition and love as the old town around him quietly disappears.

A tight-knit rural village harbours secrets beneath its festivals and daily rhythms in 1983 Japan.

Community bonds and hidden guilt unravel across a hot Japanese summer in this intimate village mystery.

Loyalties and hidden truths fracture a close-knit rural community with quiet, irreversible force.

A small Japanese village's summer festival conceals tragedies that bind its people in shared fate.

Trust and communal belonging are tested when violent secrets surface in an intimate rural setting.

A private detective probes a 1950s Tokyo murder mystery layered with personal loss and old grief.

Hidden histories and unspoken loyalties finally surface as a village's long-held secrets converge.

Beneath a peaceful summer exterior, a Japanese village carries grief and obligation nobody can escape.

A young man convalescing in Japan finds quiet restoration in friendship and the beauty of ordinary days.

A woman chases a lost love across continents, seeking answers that only honesty can finally provide.

A daughter and mother rebuild their lives in a traditional Tokyo neighbourhood after sudden, shattering loss.

Two brothers in pre-war Tokyo nurture their dreams through decades of hardship and loyalty.

A young man searches Tokyo's underworld for the father he never knew, finding himself instead.

A widower and his family quietly reconstruct their lives after grief reorders everything they knew.

A woman drawn to a seaside town tries to recover buried memories and the shape of her own past.

An adopted daughter in Kyoto searches for identity and belonging amid the rituals of traditional craft.