Masaharu Take
Known for Directing
Born
January 1, 1967 (age 59)
Birthplace
Aichi, Japan
Filmography
36 films, 3 shows
Known for Directing
Born
January 1, 1967 (age 59)
Birthplace
Aichi, Japan
Filmography
36 films, 3 shows

Bunny Drop
2011 · 1h 54m
country: Japan
Daikichi learns that his recently deceased grandfather has an illegitimate daughter with an unknown mother. The girl's name is Rin and she is just 6 years old. Everybody in Daikichi's family looks at the girl as an embarrassment and wants no part of her. Disgusted by his family's attitude, Daikichi decides to raise Rin by himself, even though he has no experience raising a child and is still single.

Phone Call From Mary
2011 · 1h
country: Japan
Minako and Mayuko are rival members of their high school's karate club. While staying at a training camp boarding house, one of the other members, Saori, starts to lose her mind overnight. When one of the 10 staff members of the training camp vanishes, Minako starts to investigate the cause...

Pacchigi! Love & Peace
2007 · 2h 6m
country: Japan
In 1974, during the height of the recession, a Japanese Korean family relocates to Tokyo to raise money and seek better treatment for their ill son.

Memories of Matsuko
2006 · 2h 10m
country: Japan
While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy.

The Vanished
2006 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
A young reporter is covering the mysterious case of a child found dead with missing internal organs.

We Shall Overcome Someday
2005 · 1h 58m
country: Japan
Romeo, A.K.A. Kosuke Matsuyama, is a second-year high school student. A nice, normal, nonviolent type, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a rampaging crowd of Korean boys, outraged by insults perpetrated by several of his idiotic class-mates on two Korean girls. He makes a narrow escape, but soon after, he and his best bud Yoshio are sent by their home-room teacher to invite the Korean students to a friendly soccer game as a way of restoring the peace.

Chicken Is Barefoot
2004 · 1h 54m
country: Japan
A disabled child of separated parents gets caught up in police espionage due to his uncanny ability to remember license plate numbers.

Hotel Hibiscus
2002 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
Hotel Hibiscus is the story of one very young energetic girl named Mieko and her international family who live in Okinawa. They live in a run down old hotel called Hotel Hibiscus with only one room for rent.

Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
2001 · 2h 8m
country: Japan
A young, good-hearted doctor Kenichi suffers from a rare syndrome whereby his feelings cannot be hidden. Such people are known as "satorare" and their well-being come under special government protection.

Score 2: The Big Fight
1999 · 1h 24m
country: Japan
Three criminals pull off a major heist at a Tokyo bank and one of them hides the money in aplace that only he knows while the rest go into hiding. A year later, the one who hid the money is now dead and the two remaining robbers are desperate for the loot with crooked cops who are also in hot pursuit of the sizable bounty fast on their trail. They enlist the services of freelance criminals to aid them in their search, except there is a traitor in their midst. With the clock ticking the race is on to find the money first, but at what cost.

Shomuni
1998 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
The day after being dumped by the boyfriend to whom she was going to give her virginity, Sawako Tsukahara (Kumiko Endo), an office lady in the accounting department of Manpan Trading Co., is dispatched as a helper to General Affairs Section 2. General Affairs Section 2, nicknamed "Shomuni," is the company's cesspool department where underachieving office ladies are gathered. The members of the General Affairs Department are Chinatsu Tsuboi (Reiko Takashima), who is in charge of the department; the femme fatale Kana Miyashita (Michiko Kawai); the self-disciplined Yumiko Maruhashi (Asako Kobayashi); the boastful Kayoko Tokunaga (Mari Hamada); the unremarkable Section Chief Inoue (Masao Komatsu); and the stray cat, Butcha.