The best Yoshiko Matsuo’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Yoshiko Matsuo’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Yoshiko Matsuo.
Tamayura: Graduation Photo Part 1 - Kizashi
7.1/10
As Fu and her friends begin their third and final year of high school, the photography club gets two new members; freshman Takumi Shindou and sophomore Suzune Maekawa. Thinking about what to do after graduation, Fu decides she wants to pursue a career combining photography and travelling. Afterwards, Fu's family tell Fu about the time she took a picture of her father and first learned about "tamayura" from him. Later, as Chihiro and Tomo pay a visit for the Bamboo Festival, announcing that they plan to study abroad after graduation, Fu is shocked to learn that Riho is planning to leave town. During the festival the next day, as the girls get to see Kanae as part of Sayomi's explorer's club, Fu is approached by Riho, who explains she is going to Tokyo to open a gallery with her friend. Thankful for everything Riho has done for her, Fu promises the carry on her torch in pusuit of a career in photography.
Aria the OVA: Arietta
7.5/10
Akari finds herself nervous coaching a new undine as a Prima, until she awakens to find that it is just a dream. To soothe her worries, Alicia recalls stories of her beginnings as a Prima, as well as the memories she made.
Attack No. 1
6.9/10
Kozue is a high school girl and an enthusiastic volleyball player. Her dream is to play on the Japanese national volleyball team. Over the course of the series she makes it from the school district league up to the Japanese volleyball finals, step by step until the international volleyball championship. But the faster and higher Kozue climbs, the more she is confronted with the dark side of success: too-high expectations, self-conceit, and envy.
Tamayura: Graduation Photo Part 4 - Ashita
7.1/10
The last movie of a four-part finale of Tamayura.
Tamayura: Graduation Photo Part 2 - Hibiki
7/10
The second movie of a four-part finale of Tamayura.
3000 Leagues in Search of Mother: The Movie
7.7/10
A young Italian boy named Marco is devastated when his mother must leave home to work in Argentina to pay off the family debt. She sends the family letters, but soon the messages stop coming, which worries Marco and sets him off on an epic quest to find her.
Galaxy Express 999: Can You Love Like a Mother?!!
6.5/10
A remake of episodes 51-52 of the TV version.
The Travels of Kinuyo Tanaka
8.6/10
Compilation of film footage documenting Japanese film star Kinuyo Tanaka's goodwill tour of the U.S. in 1949.
