Isao Natsuyagi has 3 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2010s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Like Father, Like Son.
Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.
Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda · With Masaharu Fukuyama, Machiko Ono, Yoko Maki
After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cahoots with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire for revenge knows no bounds.
Dir. Shunya Ito · With Meiko Kaji, Rie Yokoyama, Isao Natsuyagi
As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.
Dir. Peter Webber · With Matthew Fox, Tommy Lee Jones, Eriko Hatsune