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Actors: Satomi Kobayashi, Mikako Ichikawa, Ken Mitsuishi, Masako Motai
Synopsis: A prim and proper woman in search of serenity at a seaside inn finds her relaxing getaway interrupted in the most unlikely of manners in director Naoko Ogigami's minimalist entry into the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Massive suitcase dragging awkwardly by her side, bespectacled vacationer Taeko Read More
Actors: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Manami Konishi, Ken Mitsuishi, Sumiko Fuji, Takuya Ishida
Synopsis: As the rain falls gently on the streets of Tokyo, Death emerges from the supernatural realm to decide whether or not a pretty twenty-seven year old will die in seven days time as scheduled. Chiba is the Grim Reaper. Precisely one week before a person is scheduled to die, Chiba appears to observe Read More
Actors: Ryo Kase, Jô Odagiri, Chiaki Kuriyama
Synopsis: A violent and outrageous revenge comedy with a thoughtful undercurrent, director Lee Sang-il's Scrap Heaven opens with three characters united by fate on the same city bus: toilet cleaner Tetsu (Jô Odagiri); police department administrative assistant Kasuya (Ryo Kase), who wants to work his way up Read More
Actors: Kazue Fukiishi, Tsugumi, Ken Mitsuishi, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Shiro Namiki
Synopsis: Noriko's Dinner Table (2005) constitutes a follow-up with thematic similarities and loose narrative connections (though not a direct sequel) to Japanese filmmaker Shion Sono's dark 2002 satire Suicide Club. The time-fractured narrative weaves the gothic tale of the two backward Shimbara Read More
Actors: Tadanobu Asano, Eri Ishida, Aoi Miyazaki, Jô Odagiri, Yuka Itaya, Ken Mitsuishi
Synopsis: A damaged man experiences a series of odd coincidences that send his life careening down a path he never anticipated in director/screenwriter Shinji Aoyama's semi-sequel to his critically acclaimed 2000 drama Eureka. When Kenji was just a young boy, his mother abandoned the family and his father Read More
Actors: Chiaki Kuriyama, Ren Osugi, Tsugumi, Miku Sato, Megumi Sato, Mayu Sakuma, Ken Mitsuishi
Synopsis: Chiaki Kuriyama (Kill Bill, Vol. 1) and prolific character actor Ren Osugi (Nightmare Detective) star in Suicide Club director Sion Sono's alternately satirical and terrifying tale of hirsute horror. Yuko (Kuriyama) is a eager apprentice at the Gilles de Rais salon who dreams of one day becoming a Read More
Actors: Kaori Momoi, Hanako Yamada, Saburo Ishikura, Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa, Katsumi Takahashi
Synopsis: Japanese writer-director Kaori Momoi's feature Faces of a Fig Tree (AKA Ichijiku No Kao) observes the tragedies that begin to pull apart the ties of the Kadowaki family. The story opens with the clan rough-hewn but tightly-knit by the bonds of intimacy. Circumstances start to go awry when the Read More
Actors: Toru Nakamura, Jang Dong-gun, Ken Mitsuishi
Synopsis: Imagine the world and age that you live in unfolding under slightly different circumstances -- what would life be like if our familiar history took a different route? Instead of fighting each other, Japan and the United States have teamed with one another to bring down Hitler during World War II Read More
Actors: Tadanobu Asano, Gang Hye-jeong, Eric Tsang, Maria Elena Cordero, Toon Hiranyasup
Synopsis: A hit man takes a vacation and finds both danger and faulty workmanship follow him wherever he goes in this offbeat comedy from Thai filmmaker Pen-ek Ratanaruang. Kyoji (Asano Tadanobu) is a hired killer based in Macau who works for Japanese crime boss Wiwat (Toon Hiranyasup). Kyoji poses as a Read More
Actors: Aya Okamoto, Ryosuke Mura, Kimiko Yo, Ken Mitsuishi, Yoshinori Hiruma
Synopsis: Fujiro Mitsuishi's Ogya is about a pregnant teenager who is forced to confront her mother. Hana (Aya Okamoto) is a nineteen-year old expectant mother. She travels with her grandmother's ashes to her grandmother's house. Hana's mother (Kimiko Yo), who gave birth to Hana when she herself was a Read More
Actors: Yumi Asou, Tetsuya Chiba, Kanako Fukaura, Ayaka Maeda, Ken Mitsuishi
Synopsis: Directed by Lee Sang-II, Border Line chronicles the lives of convenience-store clerk Aikawa (Yumi Asou), as she struggles to pay the bills after her husband abandons her and their young son, and low-leval yakuza Miyaji (Ken Mitsuishi), whose aid to an associate may ultimately cost him his life. Read More
Actors: Koichi Sato, Kim Kab-soo, Kim Byong-se, Yoshio Harada, Choi Il-hwa
Synopsis: Junji Sakamoto directs this taut spy thriller about the real-life abduction of Kim Dae Jung -- who would later be elected president of South Korea -- from a Tokyo hotel in 1973. Major Tomita (Koichi Sato) is a Japanese intelligence officer specializing in Korean matters. While tailing a North Read More
Actors: Koji Yakusho, Ken Mitsuishi
Synopsis: One of the leading voices in the new Japanese cinema, Shinji Aoyama directs this saga about memory, grief, and redemption. Shot in stark black and white, the film opens with the sudden and inexplicably bloody hijacking of a bus in rural Kyushu. The crazed gunman (Riju Go) shoots two passengers in Read More
Actors: Ken Mitsuishi
Synopsis: A boy is torn between his desire to please his father and his need to rebel against him in this drama from Japan. Sadatomo (Yamato Okitsu) is the son of Kobayashi (Mikio Shimizu), a strict and dictatorial middle school teacher who believes all people fall into one of three categories: normal Read More
Actors: Teruyuki Kagawa, Ryoko Takizawa, Ken Mitsuishi
Synopsis: Former assistant director to Sogo Ishii, Akira Ogata makes his debut with this complex coming of age drama about a pair of orphans obsessed with choir singing. Set during the political tumult of the 1970s, the film focuses on Michio (Atsushi Ito), a stuttering, socially-inept 15-year-old. Michio's Read More
Actors: Toshiya Nagasawa, Miyako Yamaguchi, Toshiyuki Kitami, Ken Mitsuishi
Synopsis: Following up on her Camera d'Or-winning feature-film debut Suzaku and her understated documentary Somaudo Monogatari, Naomi Kawase spins this lyrical work about two troubled souls plagued by demons of their past. The film opens with Ayako (Yuko Nakamura) storming out of her tumble-down house after Read More
Actors: Takako Matsu, Seiichi Tanabe, Kaori Fujii, Rumi, Kazuhiko Kato
Synopsis: Following up on the phenomenal success of his Love Letter and Swallowtail Butterfly, Shunji Iwai spins this sweet tale about a young lass' first steps in the bustle of the big city. Uzuki Nireno (Takako Matsu) is leaving her rural home in the snowy north of Hokkaido for college in Western Tokyo. Read More
Synopsis: A courageous but naive boy from one of Japan's smaller islands goes to seek his fortune in Tokyo and ends up involved in Yakuza violence. Yoichi's descent into crime begins after he is befriended by the more worldly Michio who helps his new friend find work in a night club run by the Yakuza. Read More
Synopsis: Following up on his acclaimed Helpless and Chimpura, Shinji Aoyama directs this bizarre reworking of a yakuza flick. Hiroki Sakai (Kosuke Toyohara) adjusts pins in pachinko machines for a living. It's a dull existence, but Sakai seems to have made his peace with it. One day he runs into his former Read More
Actors: Barbara Lott, Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor, Yoshi Oida, Ken Ogata, Hideko Yoshida
Synopsis: Peter Greenaway directed this elliptical and visually intricate tale of the far side of erotic and intellectual attraction. As a girl, Nagiko would receive a special gift each year from her father: a calligrapher (Ken Ogata) who would carefully paint a poem on her face, as her aunt (Hideko Read More
Actors: Kenichi Hagiwara, Yumiko Fujita
Synopsis: The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the community's members who especially experience difficulties as modern Japan encroaches on their world. The setting is World War II, and conflicts have already arisen when the military Read More
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