Ryudo Uzaki

Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

Godzilla has become a distant memory for Japan when the destruction of a US submarine raises alarms for Admiral Tachibana. His estranged daughter...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiharu Niiyama

A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Two men and a woman plan to steal 1.5 Billion yen.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Harada

An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryudo Uzaki

A young ad executive's life has been turned upside down when a vicious client ruins his three billion yen project. Through his chance meeting with...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Naohito Fujiki

An odd journey starts as Mitsuru, a private detective, and a boy, whom a dying mobster entrusts to him, decide to go to northern Japan in search of...

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Cast: Etsushi Toyokawa

Naoko returns home with her young daughter, where her mother Masako runs the only beauty parlor in town. The local women go there to pass the time...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Miho Kanno

A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Yuichiro is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs over him like a pall as he wanders Japan's S&M...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryo Kase

Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Meiko Kaji

A low-key private detective agency in Paris is run by Rie and her lover and partner Kishin, two ex-pats who tick along between cases by giving guided...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Rie Miyazawa

Based on the short story from the best-selling collection "Poppoya" by Jiro Asada, "The Invitation from Cinema Orion" tells the story of a couple's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rie Miyazawa

A scientific exploration in search of a new energy source unleashes a group of powerful demons who begin possessing human bodies and destroying...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hisato Izaki

When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

A gangster runs a budget nursing home.

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Cast: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi

Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (Ryosuke Yamada). Suzuki is a former middle school...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Keisuke Ninomiya (Yu Yokoyama) works as a construction consultant. Through his work, he becomes acquainted with yakuza Yasuhiko Kuwabara (Kuranosuke...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kuranosuke Sasaki

Set in the 1930s in the international city of Shanghai, the film follows the extravagant life and times of a group of jazz musicians, living from one...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiko Matsuzaka

Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Aki Asakura

Anarchic parody of the crime genre set around a bank robbery.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Masayuki Shionoya

BJ is a relatively unknown blues singer who scraps some bars in Yokohama. He does not earn much with it and to make ends meet he also acts as a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda

Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jinpachi Nezu

Kenshi Tokunaga runs an IT company in Tokyo. Due to a big company, he has a hard time in hiring engineers. He decides to find engineers for his...

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Cast: Sekiguchi Tomohiro

First production by Directors' Company. A man stripped bare of all modern values lives in a pure form, like a beast, feeding and satiating his every...

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Cast: Jugatsu Toi

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Cast: Ryudo Uzaki

Set in a spa town, Akira Takasu (Masatoshi Nagase) is a carver and a mailman. He keeps in touch with poet Penguin (Masataka Kubota). Penguin has a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Masatoshi Nagase

14-year-old Takuya lives in a rural town near mountains and rivers. His 29-year-old uncle Koji works as a graphic designer in urban Tokyo. Koji's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michitaka Tsutsui

A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hironobu Nomura

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Tokoro

Even while having tremendous technology, now have a funeral shop walk picking up the car was retired in the desert Honma (Ken Takakura) is invited...

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Cast: Ken Takakura

Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago.The case involved a group of people extorting...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shun Oguri

Set in the near future after a nuclear war, the film portrays a man who is searching for his former lover.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Izumi Asuka

Based on an autobiography by Hiroshi Tamura, the film follows story of the author's experience of homelessness when this father suddenly decides to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teppei Koike

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tasuku Emoto

"Why Yakuza still grows in this nation? The secret is in its soil." Starring Koji Matoba,this is the third story of this series. The former head of...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Koji Matoba

In this direct continuation of the earlier special, Godai tries to figure out what to do with his life after college while competing with Kyoko's...

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Cast: Misaki Itō

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yui Ichikawa

This exciting work is full of dangerous behind the scenes stories from the sex industry.

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Cast: Shigeru Izumiya

After working as a reporter and an assistant at a radio station, Watanabe Yoshimitsu, former leader of the bosozoku gang Black Emperor, returned to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ryudo Uzaki

A magazine publisher called Out Of Focus hires a new female camerawoman. This company is located in Tokyo. The new photographer moves from outside...

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Cast: Ryudo Uzaki

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Cast: Yosuke Eguchi

Sou Makimoto works in the "send-off" department at the city hall. The department's main responsibility is to hold funerals for people who die alone...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sadawo Abe

For his first film in fourteen years animation director Isao Takahata embarked on a visually sumptuous adaptation of "The Tale of the Princess...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Isao Takahata

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Cast: Ryudo Uzaki

9th entry in the series

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Cast: Koji Matoba

10th entry in the series

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Cast: Koji Matoba

A docudrama about the boxer Jôichirô Tatsuyoshi. The documentary part follows Tatsuyohi for 18 months, from his comeback from an eye...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jôichirô Tatsuyoshi

The first 'New Gang Emblem' film.

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Cast: Koji Matoba

Sequel to 'New Gang Emblem'.

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Cast: Koji Matoba

The fourth 'New Gang Emblem' film.

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Cast: Koji Matoba

The fifth 'New Gang Emblem' film.

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Cast: Koji Matoba

The sixth 'New Gang Emblem' film.

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Cast: Koji Matoba

The seventh 'New Gang Emblem' film.

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Cast: Koji Matoba

The final 'New Gang Emblem' film.

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Cast: Koji Matoba

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mahiro Takasugi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mahiro Takasugi

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Cast: Mahiro Takasugi

A grifter and her loose-cannon brother get their hands on a massive amount of money, but their ill-gotten gains puts a huge target on their back.

Genre: Action

Cast: Sakura Ando

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Cast: Yoshio Harada

Genre: Animation

Cast: Tomoyo Harada

Genre: Crime

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Naito

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryudo Uzaki

Genre: Animation

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshiaki Karasawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takuzō Kawatani

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Noriko Watanabe

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yuya Uchida

Genre: Romance

Cast: Naoko Ohtani

Genre: Action

Cast: Saburo Tokito

Genre: Action

Cast: Shin Ishikawa

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Cast: Jugatsu Toi

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Cast: Mitsuko Baisho

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoko Morimura

Genre: Crime

Cast: Meiko Kaji

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

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Cast: Ryudo Uzaki

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Cast: Ken Takakura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eikichi Yazawa

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Cast: Ryo Ishibashi

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Cast: Ryo Ishibashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Manami Higa

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Cast: Jō Shishido

Genre: Action

Cast: Keiji Matsuda

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryoko Hirosue

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kantarô Nakamura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Genre: History

Cast: Keiko Kishi

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Cast: Yoshio Harada