Best movies of Joji Matsuoka

Actors : Tokio Emoto, Saki Takaoka, Mikako Tabe, Kaoru Kobayashi,
Directors : Joji Matsuoka,

A cook opens a restaurant that only serves from midnight till dawn. One day, he discovers an obituary urn. Follow the stories of his regulars tangled astound this urn.

Actors : Joe Odagiri, Takako Matsu, Kirin Kiki, Yayako Uchida,
Directors : Joji Matsuoka,

Leaving her alcoholic husband, Eiko takes their son Masaya away from Tokyo and back to her hometown in a Kyushu rural mining community. She toils to support him though many years of ...

Actors : Mansaku Fuwa, Tamae Andô, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Hisashi Igawa,
Directors : Joji Matsuoka,

When people finish their day and hurry home, his day starts. His diner is open from midnight to seven in the morning. They call it "Midnight Diner". Pork, Miso soup combo, Beer, Sake and ...

Actors : Shintarô Morimoto, Marino Kuwajima, Tadanobu Asano, Rei Dan,
Directors : Joji Matsuoka,

A young boy lives in poverty with his grandfather while tending his dream of becoming a painter.

Actors : Michitaka Tsutsui, Saki Takaoka, Mikihisa Azuma, Kazuko Shirakawa,
Directors : Joji Matsuoka,

Kaoru, a highschool boy, falls in love with a girl, Sonoko, a leading member of his high-school's swimming club. Though he cannot swim at all, he joins the swimming club to win her heart.

Actors : Hiroko Yakushimaru, Etsushi Toyokawa, Michitaka Tsutsui, Kai Atô,
Directors : Joji Matsuoka,

Shoko and Mutsuki get married to satisfy their worried parents, but she is well past the age at which a 'good' Japanese woman should marry, and he is in love with a young male college ...

Actors : Etsushi Toyokawa, Takayuki Inoue, Yuka Kono, Ai Maeda,
Directors : Joji Matsuoka,

There are two versions of "Toire No Hanako-san." The first version, released in 1995, was set in an elementary school and centered on a boy named Takuya and a new transfer student named ...