Rena Tanaka

Tohru Fujisawa's popular manga about a wildly irreverent high school teacher comes to the screen in this live-action comedy drama. Eikichi Onizuka...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Takashi Sorimachi

One day a puppy comes to the house of Akari, who has just turned twelve, and was trying hard to act strong after her mother suddenly fell ill. She...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rena Tanaka

A released inmate is hired to solve a murder case.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Sorimachi

Pharmaceutical student, Keiko witnesses her boyfriend having an affair. Shocked and disappointed, she jumps on a train ("destination anywhere, east...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Rena Tanaka

One day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is arrested to take responsibility for a botched...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshiro Yanagiba

Flowers examines the lives of six women across three generations, from the Show period all the way through to the present day.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yu Aoi

This coming-of-age story from Japan opens just after 17-year-old Sataka has gotten dumped by her boyfriend. When her mother is hospitalized with a...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Rena Tanaka

Kitaro is a half human, half creature who keeps an eye on the human society to save them from the evil attacks from another world. He finds that a...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Eiji Wentz

Kanzo Hattori, an apprentice Ninja, leaves his home town of Iga for his final training. He must go to the city of Edo (Tokyo), and the first person...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shingo Katori

"Genji Monogatari" focuses on the love and hate relationships surrounding Genji Hakaru. Lady Fujitsubo is Genji's first love. Ryokuzono Miyasutokoro...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Toma Ikuta

The arrival of a bride-to-be shakes a hapless ski resort and proves to the three young down-and-out local skiers that there is much more to life than...

Genre: Action

Cast: Eita Nagayama

Seven friends gather at a party in Kyoto to celebrate Masamichi's entry to graduate school. Maki & her boyfriend Nakazawa join the party and get...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rena Tanaka

Michiru has lost her eyesight, and to make matters worse, her father dies shortly afterwards. She is now all alone and spends most of her day...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rena Tanaka

Young women disappear one after another in drizzling rain. They all hear the “cursed song” of the Cage Song before they vanish into thin...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Eiji Wentz

Eriko – lonely, aimless and self-absorbed – falls for Tamura. Despite knowing that he is waiting for his girlfriend to return from...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Rena Tanaka

Etsuko - a typical Japanese high school student, who's unlucky in love, an academic failure, and plain bored with life. That's until one day, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rena Tanaka

It may sound cliché, but Japanese people really do love their fish. If Japan has the best and freshest fish in the world, then Tokyo's Tsukiji...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Takao Osawa

A series of murders of beautiful girls occur in Tokyo not long after the end of the war. Also the daughter of a retired actress, Yuzuki Yoko, has...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Shinichi Tsutsumi

Set in a toy store specialized in antique toys, a boy works in the toy store and is obsessed with tin toys. There's one particular tin toy he loves...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Shugo Oshinari

A man's body is found under the statue of a winged kirin in the Nihombashi area of Tokyo. A suspect named Yashima has a car accident and falls...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Abe

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Cast: Rena Tanaka

Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order he was duty bound to...

Genre: History

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Kyogokudo is a used book seller who doubles as an onmyouji, or Heian style occultist. His friend Sekiguchi brings him the story of a woman who has...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Shinichi Tsutsumi

Thirteen years afterward, I wonder if those who bombed Hiroshima are looking at me and saying: 'We did it! We were able to kill another person!' They...

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Cast: Rena Tanaka

After losing their restaurant in a fire, a husband and wife come up with a strange plan to rebuild their shattered finances: marrying the husband off...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takako Matsu

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...

Genre: History

Cast: Rena Tanaka

It's the story of a rebellious Japanese-Taiwanese girl (played by Rena Tanaka from “Kitaro”) who gets transported back to ancient times...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Chen Bolin

The Katsuragi Household that runs a small store may appear serene. But as the younger son Minoru commits a murder on the street, the family is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hirofumi Arai

Natsuko Kotani was born to be a swindler. Meanwhile, Tetsuko Ishida is Natsuko’s distant relative. Unlike Natsuko, Tetsuko is an attorney with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yoh Yoshida

The hotel Chateau de la Reine is located in Paris, France and it is considered the finest hotel there. The hotel has been in existence for 300 years....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yutaka Mizutani

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rena Tanaka

Akinori Kimura (Sadao Abe) and his wife Mieko (Miho Kanno) opens an apple orchard in their hometown of Hirosaki in Aomori Prefecture. Due to Meiko's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sadawo Abe

Makoto Tanaka is 40-years-old and has remarried. His wife is Nanae and they care for 2 daughters from Nanae's prior marriage. Makoto tries to have an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Michiko Oshitani, who lived in Shiga Prefecture, is found dead at an apartment in Tokyo. She was strangled to death. Mutsuo Koshikawa is the owner of...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Hiroshi Abe

Cultures meet and values are learnt through the renovation of an inn.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wang Bo-chieh

The story is set in the 70s where Ishihara plays Fumiko, an university student, who gets involved romantically with her assistant professor Katase...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Satomi Ishihara

Aruku, Aruku, Aruku ~Shikoku Henro-michi~ (NHK Drama Special, Winter 2013) is about Hayama Misa (Tanaka Rena), a down-on-her-luck free-lance writer....

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Cast: Rena Tanaka

Yamamura Shuji (Tamaki Hiroshi) runs staffing "Family Romance Company" - a company that rents out people to act like their client's family members...

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Cast: Hiroshi Tamaki

Rintaro directs a tale of three children who visit a land of wonder. This is the first "3D anime" that Madhouse has produced. Oh, and there are...

Genre: Family

Cast: Ei Morisako

Kinjiro, an official with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, is a good-natured fellow who goes around the country helping farm...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rena Tanaka

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tamori

Two former teammates on a college relay team, find themselves pitted against each other in track competition and in love when they enter rival...

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Cast: Takashi Itō

After learning her boyfriend and colleague was already in a relationship and about to marry another colleague, Takako quits her job and falls into a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akiko Kikuchi

Hana, 21-year old, is sent to a mental hospital for attempting a suicide. She suffers from hearing a deep male voice in her head almost everyday that...

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Cast: Minami

One of the true classic's of anime's much-loved robot genre.

Genre: Action

Cast: Sosuke Ikematsu

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryo Nishikido

In Japan in the 1590s, the wandering samurai gathered to fight the nobles of the Skull Castle. In the performance of the "Wind" version that is shown...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Takaya Yamauchi

Sawa lives in a small port town called Hososhima in Hyuga City. He is a cheerful person who supports a single mother, Yoshiko, and also takes care of...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Natsumi Ikema

Hanai Sota is 22-years-old and a university student in the veterinary department. Since he was little, he has always loved animals. His apartment is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kento Hayashi

Acclaimed director of Summer of Chirusoku, Half a Confession and Yunagi City, Sakura Country Kiyoshi Sasabe casts Rin Takanashi and Takumi Saitoh as...

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Cast: Rin Takanashi

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Cast: Takumi Saitoh

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rena Tanaka

Based on the murder of nine street peddlers in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake.

Genre: History

Cast: Arata Iura

Sequel to "Dare to Stop Us"

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arata Iura

One family changes as they join a religious group. Kinoshita Haruka is forced to engage in her religious activities by her mother, Aiko, who is an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuumi Kawai

Post-war Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. Adults who are swayed by the US military stationed in the country and swayed by US intentions cannot afford...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keito Akutsu