Takao Osawa Movies

Minoru has spent most of his life being protected by his spunky female best friend Aki. Fed up, he decides to take up boxing. However, just as he...

Four strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket, and a woman with a preternaturally precise sense of time) are brought...

The private eye of Shinjuku Yokubo Tantei is a lone wolf, lush, and loser but has kept his integrity in a dirty, dangerous world.

13th installment of the 16-film franchise.

Yoichiro Nozaki, a high-achieving office worker, collapses from an aneurysm. The doctor advises immediate surgery, but the outcome is uncertain. Even...

In Tokyo, left on his own after the loss of his mother and jobless, a series of bad decisions and misfortune lands young Reito in prison. Left with...

Due to his short fuse, Kyota is never able to hold a job for very long. Instead, he wastes his days with his dead-beat friends, Takuji and Ringo....

In the near future, a man undergoes an experiment by sharing living quarters with an alien aboard a space station. Based on a Yasutaka Tsutsui play.

A film about love and winter sports.

After the end of the second world war, Fred Wada Isamu (Osawa), an American of Japanese descent who runs a fruit and vegetable shop in Los Angeles....

It may sound cliché, but Japanese people really do love their fish. If Japan has the best and freshest fish in the world, then Tokyo's Tsukiji...

Takayuki (Takao Osawa) is an elementary school teacher in Tokyo. He is seized with Behçet's syndrome, and will gradually lose his sight. He...

Yamato submerges in the cold, deep northern seas with Mozart's music echoing. The nuclear-powered submarine, named the “Great and Powerful...