Editing

Toshio Goto

Born

1938-11-06 (87)

Place of birth

Ina, Nagano, Japan

Known for

Editing

Credits

17 titles

Toshio Goto (後藤 俊夫, Gotō Toshio, born 1938 in Ina, Nagano, Japan) is a Japanese director. He worked as an assistant director of Satsuo Yamamoto from 1962 to 1978. He directed his first film in 1978. His 2009 film Beauty was entered into the 31st Moscow International Film Festival.

Known for

Behind the camera

Komugīro no tenshi suzume to shōnen poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Komugīro no tenshi suzume to shōnen

1978

Komugīro no tenshi suzume to shōnen poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Komugīro no tenshi suzume to shōnen

1978

The Forest of the Little Bear poster
8.0

Hunting master Ginzo kills a man-eating bear. When he finds out the bear had a cub, Ginzo decides to raise the cub, but the bear later becomes a troublemaker.

The Forest of the Little Bear

1987

Film Director Satsuo Yamamoto poster
NR

A documentary made to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Satsuo Yamamoto's death.

Film Director Satsuo Yamamoto

1993

Konnichiwa Hânesu poster
NR

A female college student who aims to become a pianist meets a boy who raises a guide dog.

Konnichiwa Hânesu

1983

Under Aurora poster
5.2

The story of a man and a wolf-dog in East Siberia during the early 1900s.

Under Aurora

1990

Under Aurora poster
5.2

The story of a man and a wolf-dog in East Siberia during the early 1900s.

Under Aurora

1990

The Old Bear Hunter poster
7.2

After an old man is attacked by a bear in the snowy mountains of northern Japan, he vows to hunt down the marauder.

The Old Bear Hunter

1982

The Old Bear Hunter poster
7.2

After an old man is attacked by a bear in the snowy mountains of northern Japan, he vows to hunt down the marauder.

The Old Bear Hunter

1982

Hometown poster
9.0

Deep in the mountains of Japan a dam is scheduled to be built, thus forcing a relocation of the farmers. One of them is 78-year-old Denzo, whose son and his wife consider him senile. Left alone, he befriends a young boy, Sentaro, who has heard that the old man was once a great angler. The unlikely pair spend lots of happy time together, until Denzo has a heart attack and dies far upstream. The dam is completed and the entire area is inundated. Everyone will move away, except Denzo.

Hometown

1983

The Day the Earth Moved poster
9.0

January 16, 1995. Tsuyoshi Takahashi, a young student at Shiokaze elementary, is driven solely to get excellent grades. Because of this he often ignores those around him in his pursuit of perfection. Miho, a young girl in his class that wishes he would appreciate the people around him. Kazu a sickly and bed ridden classmate that lives near him. January 17, the 1995 Kobe / Hyogoken-Nanbu Earthquake strikes killing more than 6000 people and leaving 300 000 more homeless. Measuring 6.9 on the Richter Scale, it was the largest Earthquake to hit Japan since the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. In the aftermath of the quake, Tsuyoshi's finds his priorities changing. Dealing with the death of one friend while helping another to cope with a very personal loss, Tsuyoshi is forced to mature into someone who can no longer ignore the suffering around him.

The Day the Earth Moved

1997

Beauty poster
NR

Set in a small Nagano village in the 1930s, the film follows Hanji, a young boy captivated by a local kabuki performance. Inspired by Yukio, Hanji learns kabuki with Utako. As they grow, they become skilled actors, performing in a final kabuki before World War II. After the war, Hanji returns to revive kabuki and restore the community’s spirit. In the 1980s, as he nears death, the villagers organise a final performance in his honour, where he performs “Tenryu Koishibuki” for Yukio.

Beauty

2008

Vietnam no dâchan poster
NR

A Japanese journalist reunites with a girl who lost her family in the Vietnam War

Vietnam no dâchan

1994

Vietnam no dâchan poster
NR

A Japanese journalist reunites with a girl who lost her family in the Vietnam War

Vietnam no dâchan

1994

Komugironotenshi sugare oi poster
NR

Kenichi, a fifth-grader, moved from Tokyo to the Ina Valley to receive treatment for his asthma. At his new elementary school, he meets Sabu, the class clown; Masaru; and Karen, a girl born in Brazil.

Komugironotenshi sugare oi

1999

Komugironotenshi sugare oi poster
NR

Kenichi, a fifth-grader, moved from Tokyo to the Ina Valley to receive treatment for his asthma. At his new elementary school, he meets Sabu, the class clown; Masaru; and Karen, a girl born in Brazil.

Komugironotenshi sugare oi

1999

Boku-chan no senjō poster
NR

As air raids intensify, fourth-grader Hisashi, or Boku-chan, chooses to evacuate from Osaka to Shimane over the objections of his mother. He is elected head of his new class but is always confronted by the delinquent Shinji.

Boku-chan no senjō

1985