Yoriko Doguchi

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist....

Genre: Horror

Cast: Miho Kanno

A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Yakusho

A country girl visits Tokyo in search of her college heartthrob. Here she meets horny students, a psychology professor in search of the theory of...

Genre: Music

Cast: Yoriko Doguchi

Sakai's Happiness is a humorous and bittersweet portrayal of an ordinary family dealing with the challenges of everyday life.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Naoyuki Morita

In the mountain hot springs of Izu, Japan, a love triangle is waiting to happen. It is the late 1930s when the paths of a stunning woman fleeing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi

The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayumi Ito

Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

Japanese film directed by Masahiro Honda.

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Cast: Misa Shimizu

Two petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members, fortunately they are rescued by a kindly Kindergarten teacher.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Show Aikawa

A quiet killer is looking for a room. The real state agent, shy and expressionless, guides him through Tokyo, towards the ruins the decadent economy...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akaji Maro

During World War II, the Japanese military established a secret underground laboratory in Tokyo. Three Olympic-level athletes were selected to...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Hiroshi Atsumi

Kyohei Nagashima (Masaki Okada) has shut away the world. During his high school days he was the target of bullying and experienced horrifying...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masaki Okada

A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koji Yakusho

The ever versatile Kazuki Kitamura stars as masterless samurai Kyutaro Madarame, a feared swordsman who has fallen on hard times in old Edo. Caught...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kazuki Kitamura

2 almost inseparable friends. The talented painter recognized by all decided to leave the town where they live and become an artist and the shy poet...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamotsu Ishibashi

In January 1946 a British military transport plane departs from Shanghai on its to Tokyo, Japan. During the flight the airplane makes an emergency...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Manami Higa

Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andrew Garfield

High school student Tomoyuki (Hoshi Ishida), his father (Kazuhiro Sano), and Yuki (Miwako Wagatsuma), a girl that Tomyuki likes, gather together as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hoshi Ishida

Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a brother and sister who want to drive a local yakuza gang member out of their neighborhood.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Show Aikawa

Having lost everything to horse racing, Yûji accidentally gets 10 million yen. But this sum belongs to a Yakuza.

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Cast: Show Aikawa

Yûji and Kosaku are hired to track down an old man. But when he suddenly dies, his granddaughter surfaces with a map to his buried fortune,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Show Aikawa

Hapless gangsters are hired by the yakuza to tail his daughter. Once the identity of the boy she's dating has been unveiled, the boss offers a reward...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Show Aikawa

Shu Kubota is killed by someone with a baseball bat. A metal bat and an old toy are found at the crime scene. Detective Yoshito (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi)...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi

Ken, a newspaper carrier attends college without registering. Haru was watching Ken steal a piece of bone from an archeology laboratory, "Never...

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Cast: Shun Kaneko

Yuka, a troubled young woman who suddenly begins working part-time as a high-class call girl, finds unexpected romance while on the job.

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Cast: Sei Ashina

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Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

2004 film

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kimiko Yo

Based on a true story, Yoshiko and Yuriko relates the journey and great love affair of Yoshiko, who was a renowned translator of Russian literature...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nahana

Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult lead...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

The film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

The story centers around the communication between a man who abruptly appears in a world 10,000 years in the future and a boy who lives in that world.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kai Ato

Film director Mario Baba meets a mysterious gentleman, and realizes he is a important man from his boyhood. The two chase each other around, causing...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tomokazu Miura

When elementary school teacher Kobayashi investigates the absence of one of his young pupils from the classroom, he finds himself at the doorstep of...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Yûrei Yanagi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kunie Tanaka

People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaori Takahashi

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Cast: Rin Ogawa

An original, ethereal poem created from Junichiro Tanizaki's famous original work.

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Cast: Yoriko Doguchi

Shinku is a compelling drama that focuses on the strange relationship that develops between two people who find their lives irrevocably changed as a...

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Cast: Rina Uchiyama

After Japan's defeat in WWII, "Pandora no hako" follows a young man named Risuke (Shota Sometani) who has contracted tuberculosis. He travels to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shota Sometani

The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an "up-skirt" photographer in an offshoot of the porn...

Genre: Action

Cast: Takahiro Nishijima

Genre: Action

Cast: Keiji Matsuda

A haunted melody, a used record one must possess. At any cost. Adapted from Junji Ito's short story Used Record.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Yoriko Doguchi

A former sumo wrestler, now working as a security guard, goes on a murderous rampage.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Yutaka Matsushige

An old man falls into a coma and dreams about his childhood during WWII.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Maki Yoshioka is a novelist and mother. She has been experiencing writer's block. One day, she gets into a disagreement with her neighbor Miwako...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukiko Shinohara

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

A Crowd of Three tells the story of two men, Kenta & Jun, who grew up as almost brothers at a children's facility. Kenta & Jun now works as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kengo Kora

For no apparent reason, four strangers find themselves with a rope around their necks, balancing on an unstable chair. They will quickly realize...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Aimi Satsukawa

A duo get mixed up with a girl who finds a trunk load full of heroin.

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Cast: Show Aikawa

In an audacious reworking of the biopic, this ensemble drama sees jazz pianist Minami Hiroshi’s memoir cleverly reinterpreted into a surreal...

Genre: Music

Cast: Sosuke Ikematsu

The former legendary assassin, now living as a bartender after washing his hands of a violent past, unleashes the hidden violence within. Known as...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kippei Shiina

Noriko lost her mother Yoshie when she was only 10-years-old. Yoshie knew she would not be able to live long enough to see her children grow up and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ai Hashimoto

A romantic film about the spiritual exchange between a gangster and a Chinese woman who got married to him under false pretenses.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kiichi Nakai