Movie: Yamazakura, The Cherry Tree in the Hills

Top 10 Billed Cast

Rena Tanaka
田中麗奈

Noe Isomura

Noriyuki Higashiyama
東山紀之

Yoichiro Tezuka

Tetsuya Chiba
ちばてつや

Shouzaemon Isomura

Fumi Dan
檀ふみ

Sumiko Fuji
富司純子

Shizu Tezuka

Reika Fujisawa
藤沢玲花

Ben Hiura
樋浦勉

Takahiro Hōjō
北条隆博

Kôjun Itô
Kôjun Itô

Nao Minamisawa
南沢奈央

  • HomePage

  • Overview

    Based on a short story written by Shuhei Fujisawa (who also wrote Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, Love and Honor), the film depicts the uneasy life of Noe Isomura (Rena Tanaka) with the difficult family she has married into after her former husband passed away. One day as she tries to brake off a branch of a cherry tree, she is aided by a samurai who she does not recognize but who recognizes her. He turns out to be a former suitor that she never met named Yaichiro Tezuka (Noriyuki Higashiyama) and who teaches swordsmanship to the local samurai. Meanwhile, the powerful new chief retainer of the village enacts land policies that threaten the survival of the local farmers.

  • Release Date

    2008-05-31

  • Average

    7.5

  • Rating:

    3.8 starts
  • Tagline

  • Genres

  • Languages:

    日本語
  • Keywords

Recommendations Movies

Sarutobi Sasuke and the Army of Darkness 2 - The Earth Chapter
80%

Sarutobi Sasuke and the Army of Darkness 2 - The Earth Chapter(ja)

2004-01-02

Part 2 of 4 Sarutobi Sasuke Series.

Flow
93%

Flow(en)

2012-11-14

Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel
80%

Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel(en)

1987-05-19

Anne Shirley, now a schoolteacher, has begun writing stories and collecting rejection slips. She acts as Diana's maid of honor, develops a relationship with Gilbert Blythe, and finds herself at Kingsport Ladies' College. But while Anne enjoys the battles and the friends she makes, she finds herself returning to Avonlea.

Hero
60%

Hero(ja)

2015-07-18

Prosecutor Kohei Kuryu takes charge of a case with a foreign embassy possessing the key to solve the case. Due to the extraterritoriality involving the case, the investigation has not gone anywhere. A crisis then ensues. Kohei Kuryu and his office attempt to extract the truth behind the wall of the Neustrian Embassy.

Flow
87%

Flow(xx)

2019-12-05

A turbulent day in a life, painted by air.

Flow
80%

Flow(en)

1996-01-01

A filmmaker talks about his work and love life with an unseen friend behind the camera. We also watch four of his short films.

Road
47%

Road(hi)

2002-09-27

Arvind Chauhan and Lakhsmi are in love with each other. Lakhsmi's dad, a senior police inspector, hates Arvind, and so Arvind and Lakshmi decide to elope

Re/cycle
77%

Re/cycle(en)

2019-06-07

With input from actor and writer Jan Hlobil, director and cinematographer Rene Smaal presents a film in the true surrealist tradition, in the sense that only 'found' elements were used, and that it defies interpretation based on ordinary cause-and-effect time sequence.

Mantovani, the King of Strings
60%

Mantovani, the King of Strings(it)

2014-05-26

Known for his unmistakable cascading strings and recordings such as Charmaine, Mantovani enthralled the world with his sublime arrangements. This is the story of the man and his music.

12
56%

12(en)

2000-04-01

“Can one man bear the sins of the world?”

Tito Among the Serbs for the Second Time
55%

Tito Among the Serbs for the Second Time(sr)

1994-10-15

Tito, lifelong president of Yugoslavia, is coming from his grave to once again talk to Serbs and to check what has changed since he was gone.

Freche Mädchen 2
52%

Freche Mädchen 2(de)

2010-08-03

After Kati, Hanna and Mila first experiences with guys, it is now necessary to cultivate those relations. The jealous Mila thinks that her friend Markus, would cheat on her with Vanessa. Kati, who is actually together with Tobi, finds that Robert, whom she met during a shooting, more than just cool. Only with Hanna everything seems to work perfectly. Branko is a real gentleman and does everything for her musical career - but not entirely unselfishly, as soon turns out. Problems therefore pre-programmed with the girlfriends and their new conquests!

There Are No Saints
52%

There Are No Saints(en)

2022-05-27

A man is imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. When his wife is murdered and his son kidnapped and taken to Mexico, he devises an elaborate and dangerous plan to rescue his son and avenge the murder.

Road
49%

Road(en)

2017-08-05

An elder brother who lived a life of crime but left to show his younger brother the lifestyle is not fit for anything. Years later his younger brother takes his footsteps in the life of drugs/crime, to a deal gone wrong his younger brother is murdered, his elder brother steps back into his crime ways and to find and avenge his younger brother's death.

Crying 100 Times - Every Raindrop Falls
70%

Crying 100 Times - Every Raindrop Falls(ja)

2013-07-22

Shuichi had a motorcycle accident 4 years ago. Because of the accident, he lost the last year of his memory. One day, at a friend's wedding, Shuichi has a fateful meeting with Yoshimi. They enjoy happy times together and Shuichi thinks about marrying Yoshimi. Then Yoshimi becomes sick. A sad truth is hidden in the lost memory of Shuichi.

Lial
40%

Lial(ar)

1982-08-11

Naima escapes from her stepfather's house, and works in Sherazade's nightclub who gives her the artistic name 'Layal' and she becomes a famous dancer. She falls in love with journalist Galal and hopes to marry him.

Anime Supremacy!
64%

Anime Supremacy!(ja)

2022-05-20

Hitomi Saito has been climbing the ranks for years and is set to direct an anime series for the first time, while brilliant director Chiharu Oji is about to make his big comeback after nearly a decade.

Always: Sunset on Third Street '64
68%

Always: Sunset on Third Street '64(ja)

2012-01-21

The Tokyo Olympics are about to open, and Rynosuke Chagawa is excited to receive a new TV set to watch the upcoming events. His wife Hiromi is pregnant and he has built a second level on his shop to provide his adopted son Junnosuke with a private space to study for entrance to Tokyo University to set up a career with a major company. He dreams of sparing Junnosuke the struggles that he has faced as a writer. The family continues to rely upon Hiromi's income from her bar. Meanwhile a rival story, The Virus, by a new writer has appeared in the periodical that has been publishing his stories "Boy's Adventure Book" and he fears the new competition. Norifumi Suzuki also receives a new TV, but more of a deluxe model. Mutsuko Hoshino (Roku) is still the principal mechanic in the Suzuki family's auto repair shop, but she dresses up some mornings to go to a nearby street with the hope of a "chance" meeting with Dr...

Similar Movies

The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
54%

The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising(en)

2007-10-05

A boy's life is turned upside down when he learns that he is the last of a group of immortal warriors who have dedicated their lives to fighting the forces of the dark.

Bicentennial Man
73%

Bicentennial Man(en)

1999-12-17

Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. As Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the Martin family soon discovers they don't have an ordinary robot.

Jakob the Liar
67%

Jakob the Liar(en)

1999-09-16

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.

The Man in the Iron Mask
45%

The Man in the Iron Mask(en)

1998-02-05

The Boys
70%

The Boys(fi)

1962-11-02

When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys communicated with them on many levels: had trades, worked as interpreters, rotated business, spied on German love adventures and fought with each other about the favor of soldiers. In autumn 1944, the war was ending. Germans left Oulu by leaving behind fragile relationships, bastard kids and unfinished businesses. The most shocking of all was the faith of young Jake...

Madame Bovary
57%

Madame Bovary(en)

2015-06-04

The classic story of Emma Bovary, the beautiful wife of a small-town doctor in 19th century France, who engages in extra marital affairs in an attempt to advance her social status.

Mr. Emmanuel
68%

Mr. Emmanuel(en)

1944-08-02

An elderly Jewish man from Manchester, travels to Nazi Germany to seek the mother of a young German refugee that has attempted suicide. In Germany, Mr. Emmanuel’s efforts to seek out Hertha Rosenhein are greeted by a wall of silence from the scared Jewish community and anti-Semitic hatred from many Germans.

Field of Dreams
71%

Field of Dreams(en)

1989-04-21

Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.

Topaz
60%

Topaz(en)

1969-12-17

Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.

Le Pion
65%

Le Pion(fr)

1978-10-25

Humiliated and down on his luck, a superintendent turns his life around when he decides to write a book.

The Bear
71%

The Bear(fr)

1988-10-21

An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.

Cape of the North
0%

Cape of the North(ja)

1976-04-03

A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.

Ask the Dust
54%

Ask the Dust(en)

2006-02-02

Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.

1984
65%

1984(en)

1956-03-06

In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
76%

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly(fr)

2007-05-23

The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.

Secret Sunshine
72%

Secret Sunshine(ko)

2007-05-23

Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamiliar and too-normal place, she finds that she can’t fit in. After a sudden tragedy, Shin-ae turns to Christianity to relieve her pain, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.

Solaris
59%

Solaris(en)

2002-11-27

A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.

Payback
68%

Payback(en)

1999-02-05

With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.

L.A. Confidential
78%

L.A. Confidential(en)

1997-09-19

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.

The Perfect Storm
65%

The Perfect Storm(en)

2000-06-29

In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail.