Tag: nobuhiroyamashita

To the sounds of cicadas during a Tokyo summer, 11-year-old Karin and her father Tetsuya leave the city by train to visit a countryside temple where the caretaker is the grandfather she has never met. It is a grand old...

This year, director Yamashita Nobuhiro (Linda, Linda, Linda, Tamako in Moratorium) was the guest of honor at the Camera Japan Film Festival in Rotterdam. The programme showed no less than five films by him, all of which were released in...

To the sounds of cicadas during a Tokyo summer, 11-year-old Karin and her father Tetsuya leave the city by train to visit a countryside temple where the caretaker is the grandfather she has never met. It is a grand old...

Yukon (Yamada Takayuki) Gondo is a hard-headed ne'er do well who can't quite seem to hang on to anything in his life. Having no relationships, no real job, and no goals sends him adrift in ways that often get him...

Black comedy kingpin Yamashita Nobuhiro of 松ヶ根乱射事件 (The Matsugane Potshot Affair) and リンダ リンダ リンダ (Linda Linda Linda) is not exactly new to Japanese TV, mostly dabbling in short dramas as part of omnibus series like WOWOW's カムフラージュ (Camouflage) in...