Kichitaro Negishi

Directing

Kichitaro Negishi

Born 1950-08-24 · Tokyo, Japan

Japanese film director.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Female Teacher: Dirty Afternoon poster
5.9

A teacher, Sakiko Kurata, receives a phone call regarding one of her former students. Young Sueko is accused of being a prostitute and has requested Sakiko’s help. This minx seduces random strangers for sex, but does not ask for payment. Sakiko has moved to another town and barely remembers Sueko, but there’s something about her that awakens painful memories of her own secretive past. What is that strange paint thinner smell on Sueko? Who is the man in the nylon ski mask that violently assaulted Sakiko many years ago? In her search for answers, Sakiko discovers that her past may have inadvertently destroyed another family’s future.

Female Teacher: Dirty Afternoon

1981

Villon's Wife poster
6.5

This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the story centers less on the womanizing, heavy-drinking, suicidal hero than on the wife who loves him. Written by Palm Springs International Film Festival

Villon's Wife

2009

Bonds poster
5.6

Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father. His life begins to unravel when a journalist following him takes an interest in the wife of a boyhood chum, and the wife of another close friend takes an interest in Ise. A couple of murders later, Ise/Haga goes on the run and also sets out for revenge.

Bonds

1998

Yasuko, Songs of Days Past poster
7.7

In the early 1920s, Yasuko, a budding actress, crosses paths with Chūya Nakahara, a young poet destined to be revered as a genius. Drawn to each other by their shared pretentiousness, they begin living together and quickly fall into a complex relationship. Their lives take a dramatic turn when they move to Tokyo and are visited by Hideo Kobayashi, a friend of Chūya’s who would later emerge as one of Japan's foremost literary critics. This seemingly chance encounter not only alters Yasuko's fate but also entwines the three of them in an intense and inescapable destiny.

Yasuko, Songs of Days Past

2025

The House of Wedlock poster
8.0

Tokiko Enomoto finds out that her husband Kazuya, who mostly lives at an apartment near his work while she and their children live at home, has been having an affair with a live-in mistress, Ryōko, at his apartment. Tokiko tells her two sons, Tarō and Jirō, that she has decided to divorce their father. The children are shocked but understand their mother's position. Kazuya realizes the damage he has done and tries to remedy the situation.

The House of Wedlock

1986

Crazed Fruit poster
5.7

A working class young man, Tetsuo, who distrusts all rich people, falls in love with a girl, Chika, from an affluent family. He has a difficult time, but love survives despite the problems.

Crazed Fruit

1981

Flakes of Snow poster
7.3

A troubled architect weaves his way through numerous romantic situations in a search for true love and contentment.

Flakes of Snow

1985

Translucent Tree poster
3.7

Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer from Tokyo, pays a visit to her town and the tree they shared time under some twenty years back after a TV commercial shoot. His remembrances of her, the tree, and the long unrequited love stir both of their hearts to fumbling action as they re-discover the love between them.

Translucent Tree

2004

Distant Thunder poster
6.8

A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his romance with the eccentric Kaede and parents selected fiancee Ayako.

Distant Thunder

1981

Dog in a Sidecar poster
5.8

The film begins in the present, with its heroine, Kaoru, a grown-up woman working as a real-estate agent, while helping out the folksy proprietor of a neighborhood fishing pond. There she meets a shy girl who needs her help baiting a hook and reminds her of herself in the fourth grade.

Dog in a Sidecar

2007

What the Snow Brings poster
6.6

Following a tip, Manabu Yazaki loses his last money betting on the older "banba" horse "Unryu" (jockied by Makie, a legendary jockey's daughter) in a draft-horse race held in his childhood home of Obihiro on the island of Hokkaido.

What the Snow Brings

2005

Wet Weekend poster
3.8

A woman in her thirties, unable to let go of an affair with her boss, finds herself drawn to another man as she moves from new ideas to new emotions.

Wet Weekend

1979

Detective Story poster
6.7

A private detective and a college student find themselves in hot water while investigating the murder of a night club owner.

Detective Story

1983

Rape Ceremony poster
4.0

In a rural town, ex-members of a motorcycle gang become sporadic victims of vigilante attacks. A group of high school boys are responsible for the various assaults because they're upset that the motorcycle gang had disbanded. The boys idolized the rebel gang and harbored dreams of joining them after graduation. A female student happens to see one of the assaults and is threatened by the high school thugs. But she turns out to tougher than she looks.

Rape Ceremony

1980

BOLT poster
NR

Scene one: March 11th, 2011. An earthquake and a tsunami strike the East coast of Japan, damaging the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. A man and five other brave power plant workers are sent to fasten a bolt to prevent radiation leaks. Scene two: 2013. The man is now cleaning the empty houses surrounding the nuclear plant. But the strange atmosphere starts giving him hallucination... Scene three: Christmas, 2014. A woman in a red car crashes by the garage where the man is working. The woman looks just like his wife, who died in the tsunami.

BOLT

2019

Cabaret Diary poster
4.3

The story of lovers in "Miss Nippon" cabaret in Kabukicho, Shinjuku, where a strict, almost martial, code is followed among employees to bring the business to the top. Workers must follow the rules and a "no relations between workers" policy that's tightly enforced.

Cabaret Diary

1982

Never in the Morning! poster
4.0

A free spirited woman signs a contract with her boss to be his mistress but finds she needs more satisfaction than he can give.

Never in the Morning!

1980

Kachô Shima Kôsaku poster
7.0

Based on the comic book by Kenshi Hirokane

Kachô Shima Kôsaku

1992

Our Wedding poster
8.5

On her wedding day, Makiko is stabbed by a woman in wedding dress. The wound isn't serious but the attacker blows herself up and can't be identified. The attacker is thought to be an ex-girlfriend of Tsutomu, the groom. He gives two names to the police but these two are still alive. But there is still one woman in Tsutomu's mind...

Our Wedding

1983

Chibusa poster
9.0

Based on the novel of the same name by Shizuka Ijûin. Played as a double feature with Crepe (1993).

Chibusa

1993

Joseito poster
5.3

An obscure Nikkatsu Roman Porno movie.

Joseito

1979

Joseito poster
5.3

An obscure Nikkatsu Roman Porno movie.

Joseito

1979

Eien no 1/2 poster
8.0

An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. They start dating but then strange things then begin to happen to him, including a beating from the local yakuza. - Wikipedia

Eien no 1/2

1987

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Yakai Vol.10 Tsunami

1998