Movies with Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Departures

Genres: Drama, Music

Starring: Kimiko Yo, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tôru Minegishi, Tarô Ishida, Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ryoko Hirosue

Directors: Yôjirô Takita

Country: Japan

Year: 2008

Available Quality: Hi Def

Daigo Kobayashi is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and now finds himself without a job. Daigo decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled "Departures" thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency only to discover that the job is actually for a "Nokanshi" or "encoffineer," a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life. While his wife and others despise the job, Daigo takes a certain pride in his work and begins to perfect the art of "Nokanshi," acting as a gentle gatekeeper between ...

Gake no ue no Ponyo

Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Starring: Yuria Nara, Hiroki Doi, Joji Tokoro, Tomoko Yamaguchi, Yuki Amami, Kazushige Nagashima, Akiko Yano

Directors: Hayao Miyazaki

Country: Japan

Year: 2008

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

The son of a sailor, 5-year old Sosuke lives a quiet life on an oceanside cliff with his mother Lisa. One fateful day, he finds a beautiful goldfish trapped in a bottle on the beach and upon rescuing her, names her Ponyo. But she is no ordinary goldfish. The daughter of a masterful wizard and a sea goddess, Ponyo uses her father's magic to transform herself into a young girl and quickly falls in love with Sosuke, but the use of such powerful sorcery causes a dangerous imbalance in the world. As the moon steadily draws nearer to the earth and Ponyo's father sends the ocean's mighty waves to find his daughter, the two children embark on an adve...