Yoji Yamada – MRQE

Tokyo Taxi

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000

One day, taxi driver Koji Usami is tasked with driving 85-year-old Sumire Takano from Shibamata, Tokyo to a senior care facility in Hayama, Kanagawa. Sumire asks Koji to make some detours. Gradually opening up to her, Sumire begins to tell the story of her grand past…

Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro yuuyake koyake

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo’s first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his family, he goes to a bar to drink, then brings home a surly old man with a sad story, whose identity will surprise everyone. Later, Tora meets Botan, a geisha.

Otoko wa tsurai yo: Kuchibue wo fuku Torajirô

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi’s hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated, Tora-san wearing the priest’s robe delivers the memorial speech, much to his family’s surprise. Thinking he’s found his true calling, Tora-san decides to join the order, and falls for the priest’s divorced daughter.

Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajirô ren’ai juku

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a night of eating and drinking. The old woman’s health deteriorates and she dies. At her funeral, Tora-san falls in love with the old woman’s daughter, but winds up acting as a go-between for her and a young law student.

Musuko

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has always felt jealous of his college-educated brother, but ultimately wins both the girl and his father’s acceptance and support in a touching and refreshing way.

Otoko wa tsurai yo 50: Okaeri Tora-san

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the series. The adult Mitsuo, Tora-sans nephew, who runs into Izumi, his first love, whom he had once promised to marry. The familiar faces of Kurumaya Cafe, which Tora-sans family ran in Shibamata, also return. Catching up with old friends, it is always their dearest memories of Tora-san which everyone shares on such occasions

Tsuma yo bara no yô ni: Kazoku wa tsuraiyo III

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one afternoon, housewife Fumie falls asleep and wakes up to find a thief has stolen her secret money she kept hidden in the refrigerator.

Gakko

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A cantankerous but loveable high school teacher teaches a night school in a poor neighborhood for adult students on the fringes of Japanese society.

Kazoku wa tsuraiyo 2

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Several years after Shuzo settled his wifes birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new problems. Ignoring his familys worry that he is too old to drive, Shuzo takes his old schoolmate for a spin after carousing. Soon, a new disturbance arises for the Hirata family. Veteran director Yamada Yoji continues his comedy about the perfect Japanese family turned upside down in chaos, laughters and understanding. This time, with an additional taste of death.

What a Wonderful Family!

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present. She replies that she wants a divorce. The wife’s divorce announcement sends the entire family into chaos.