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Actors: Yosuke Eguchi, Eiji Okuda, Arashi Fukasawa, Susumu Terajima
Synopsis: Japanese anime guru Kazuaki Kiriya ascended to prominence with his sprawling fantasy Casshern (2004), a tale that coupled post-apocalyptic visions with early 21st century design, and shared the success of the manga and anime from which Kiriya and his colleagues adapted it. Kiriya waited five years Read More
Actors: Bae Doo na, Arata, Itsuji Itao, Jô Odagiri, Sumiko Fuji
Synopsis: A special kind of toy is suddenly introduced to the real world around her in this artful fantasy from Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda. Hideo (Itsuji Itao) is a middle-aged man who doesn't have many friends, but he wards off loneliness with his companion Nozomi (Bae Du-na), who joins him for Read More
Actors: Hiroshi Abe, Yoshio Harada, Yui Natsukawa, Kazuya Takahashi, Shohei Tanaka, Hotaru Nomoto
Synopsis: Director Hirokazu Kore-eda writes and directs this family drama that unfolds over the course of a single summer day as the Yokoyama family gathers for a rare reunion held to commemorate the death of the one who was taken before his time. It was 15 years ago that eldest Yokoyama son, Junpei Read More
Actors: Koichi Sato, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Eri Fukatsu, Haruka Ayase, Fumiyo Kohinata
Synopsis: When an ambitious underworld thug proves incapable of tracking down a hit-man for his powerful boss as promised, he convinces a third-rate actor to accept a role for a film that will never get made. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Lily Franky, Tae Kimura, Akira Emoto, Susumu Terajima, Ryo Kase, Mitsuko Gaisyo
Synopsis: A courtroom sketch artists takes in the parade of sensationalist trials at work while simultaneously contending with a tragic loss at home in director Ryosuke Hashiguchi's affecting portrait of human fragility. Taciturn Kanao (Lily Franky) has recently wed his high school sweetheart Shoko (Tae Read More
Actors: Pistol Takehara, Masanobu Ando, Maki Sakai, Susumu Terajima, Koji Wakamatsu
Actors: Beat Takeshi Kitano, Toru Emori, Kayoko Kishimoto, Anne Suzuki, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Keiko Matsuzaka
Synopsis: A self-referential comedy that serves as prolific Japanese filmmaker Takeshi "Beat" Kitano's latest attempt at "creative destruction" (that process was set into motion with the release of 2005's Takeshis), Kantoku Banzai! follows an ageing filmmaker (Kitano) who is eager to revive his failing Read More
Actors: Koji Yakusho, Takako Matsu, Koichi Sato, Shingo Katori, Ryoko Shinohara
Synopsis: Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald director Koki Mitani continues to hone his screwball skills with this crowd-pleasing comedy about a hapless hotel accommodations manager juggling multiple responsibilities in preparation for the forthcoming New Year's Eve celebrations set to take place in the lavish Read More
Actors: Susumu Terajima, Tadanobu Asano, Chizuru Ikewaki, Kazue Fukiishi, Ryo Kase
Synopsis: Taste of Tea director Katsuhito Ishii collaborates with filmmakers Shinichiro Miki and Hajime Ishimine) for this outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother (Tadanobu Asano), his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian Read More
Actors: Yasuko Matsuyuki, Etsushi Toyokawa, Yu Aoi, Shizuyo Yamazaki, Ittoku Kishibe, Sumiko Fuji
Synopsis: As the Korean War draws to a close and the pressing demand for copious amounts of coal takes a sudden plunge, the remote Japanese mining town of Joban attempts to compensate for the devastating economic blow by transforming itself into a lavish Hawaiian retreat in an affectionate comedy inspired Read More
Actors: Ryo Tomioka, Kanji Tsuda, Susumu Terajima, Kaoru Okunuki, Shingo Ishikawa
Synopsis: The Gamera saga continues with this installment that finds the hero to children everywhere doing battle with an evil dino-lizard named Zedus. A young boy named Toru (Ryo Tomioka) is walking along the beach when he discovers a most unusual egg. When the egg hatches to reveal an adorable flying Read More
Actors: Junichi Okada, Rie Miyazawa, Tadanobu Asano, Arata Furuta, Teruyuki Kagawa
Synopsis: Director Hirokazu Koreeda turns the popularly held conventions of the typical samurai evenge tale on their head with this story of a man whose quest to avenge the death of his father gradually takes a back seat to his emerging role as a key figure in the community. The year is 1702, and young Read More
Actors: Anne Suzuki, Manami Konishi, Katsuo Nakamura, Masatane Tsukayama, Kiyoshi Kodama
Synopsis: Katsuhiro Otomo, director of the groundbreaking anime feature Akira (1988), returns with this visually striking fusion of the past and the future. It's the Industrial Age in England, reimagined, and various and sundry inventors and scientists are arriving in Britain to hawk their products Read More
Actors: Beat Takeshi Kitano, Kotomi Kyono, Kayoko Kishimoto
Synopsis: In the latest film by Japanese television comic-turned-cinema auteur Takeshi Kitano, a soft-spoken convenience store cashier named Takeshi Kitano finds his fate inexplicably intertwined with that of ubiquitous Japanese showbiz star Takeshi "Beat" Kitano. At times running parallel and at other Read More
Actors: Yusuke Iseya, Kumiko Aso, Toshiaki Karasawa, Akira Terao, Kanako Higuchi
Synopsis: A genetic discovery that could prove mankind's saving grace is instead used to create the very beings who threaten their existence in director Kazuaki Kirya's visionary sci-fi epic. The time is the late 21st Century; fifty years of war between Europa and the Eastern Federation have left the planet Read More
Actors: Hideto Takarai, Gackt Camui, Wang Lee Hom, Taro Yamamoto, Susumu Terajima
Synopsis: Combining yakuza, science fiction, and vampire elements may sound like an outlandish recipe for campy excess in the United States, but former pinku eiga director Takahisa Zeze plays things remarkably straight in this truly unique effort from Japan. In the near future, a group of desolate citizens Read More
Actors: Tasuku Emoto, Yoshio Harada, Tokie Hidari, Riho Makise, Junko Miyashita
Actors: Shinichi Tsutsumi, Kou Shibasaki, Ren Osugi, Masanobu Ando, Susumu Terajima
Synopsis: In Sabu's Drive, a group of bank robbers ends up in a panic when their driver, Mickey (Toshio Kakei), double-crosses them, taking off with all the loot and leaving them stranded. Meanwhile, Asakuru (Shinichi Tsutsumi of Sabu's Postman Blues) has just seen the doctor about his debilitating tension Read More
Actors: Asuka Kurosawa, Yuji Koutari, Yuji Kohtari, Shinya Tsukamoto, Fuwa Mansaku, Tomoroh Taguchi, Taguchi Tomorowo, Susumu Terajima
Synopsis: Shinya Tsukamoto's Rokugatsu No Hebi (A Snake of June) is an erotic drama abut a married couple. Rinko (Asuka Kurosawa) and her husband Shigehiko (Yuji Koutari) have seen their marriage become sexless, which frustrates Rinko. One day she receives a letter containing pictures of her pleasuring Read More
Actors: Danakan, Kanako Fukaura, Harumi Inoue, Saburo Ishikura, Hakase Suidobashe
Synopsis: Directed by Makoto Shinozaki, Asakusa Kid follows a fictional episode in the little known area of old fashioned Japanese vaudeville. When a college-age drifter lands at the door of a burlesque comedy troupe, he aspires to rise through the ranks of the business. He finds, however, that it isn't as Read More
Actors: Susumu Terajima, Naomi Nishida, Seijun Suzuki, Ryoko Shinohara, Toru Masuoka
Synopsis: From the Japanese cult-flick director known simply as Sabu, Koufuku No Kane (The Blessing Bell) follows Igarashi (Susumu Terajima) through the last 24 hours before the factory he works for closes down, leaving him unemployed. After a job hunt brings him no results, Igarishi ponders his fate at the Read More
Actors: Susumu Terajima, Shunsuke Sawada
Synopsis: Following up on his acclaimed debut feature, Kichiku Dai Enkai -- an intense portrait of a band of 1970s radicals who descend into morass of fratricidal blood lust -- Kazuyoshi Kumakiri shifts gears completely by offering this understated romantic drama. Ichio (Takeshi Kitano regular Susumu Terajima Read More
Actors: Tadanobu Asano, Arata, Yusuke Iseya, Yui Natsukawa, Susumu Terajima
Synopsis: Four people whose lives are connected by a common tragedy discuss the paths their lives have taken in this drama from Japan. Minoru (Susumu Terajima) is a businessman, Atsushi (Araka) is a disaffected post-modern teen, Kiyoka (Yui Natsukawa) is an educator, and Masaru (Yusuke Iseya) a quiet young Read More
Actors: Tatyana Ali, Joy Nakagawa, Beat Takeshi Kitano, Claude Maki, Omar Epps, Masaya Kato, Ren Ohsugi
Synopsis: Internationally acclaimed director and Japanese media phenomenon Takeshi Kitano follows up his well-regarded Kikujiro with this straight-ahead gangster saga with a cross-cultural twist. The film focuses on Yamamoto (Kitano), a yakuza forced out of the country when a gang war all but wipes out his Read More
Actors: Riki Takeuchi, Sho Aikawa, Renji Ishibashi
Synopsis: Takashi Miike takes a dime-a-dozen yakuza script and turns it inside out in this high-octane surrealist crime action thriller. The film's first ten minutes is a breathless montage depicting a naked woman clutching a bag of cocaine being thrown off a high-rise, a porcine Chinese gangster devouring Read More
Actors: Arata, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima, Takashi Naito, Kei Tani
Synopsis: Like his previous drama Maborosi (1995), Hirokazu Kore-eda's After Life is a brilliant meditation on death and memory. The premise of After Life is simple: over the span of a week, twenty-two souls arrive at a way station (which looks like an old junior high school) between life and death, where Read More
Actors: Yuki Amami, Takeshi Yamato, Reiko Kataoka, Yozaburo Ito, Daisuku Iijima
Synopsis: One-time cartoonist, screenwriter, 'roman porno' director Takashi Ishii continues his famous film-noir series with Black Angel Vol. 2. The protagonist is Mayo, the Black Angel, a top hit-woman who belongs to a secret gang of murderers. Her latest assignment is to kill Yakazi, a powerful Yakuza Read More
Actors: Sho Aikawa, Dankan, Ren Osugi, Shun Sugata, Susumu Terajima
Synopsis: When oddball auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa received an eccentric offer to make two films in two weeks, on a low budget and using the same cast, the result was the cinematic equivalent of fraternal twins. Though both Spider's Gaze and Serpent's Path are gangster films about the desire for revenge, and Read More
Actors: Shinichi Tsutsumi, Hiroshi Shimizu, Akira Yamamoto, Ikko Suzuki, Kimika Yoshino
Synopsis: Following up on his kinetic action-comedies Dangan Runner and Postman Blues, actor turned director Sabu spins this tale about a bank robbery gone laughably wrong. Yamazaki (played by Sabu regular Shinichi Tsutsumi) has spent days plotting a hit on a local bank, but when the time comes to do the 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
Actors: Beat Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi, Susumu Terajima, Tetsu Watanabe
Synopsis: Actor and auteur Takeshi Kitano (who in Japan also uses the stage name "Beat" Takeshi, primarily for his work as a television comedian) wrote, directed, edited, and starred in this unusual crime drama. Nishi (Takeshi Kitano) is a policeman whose emotions seem to run only on two extreme paths Read More
Synopsis: Following his 1995 brush with death in the form of a motorcycle accident, actor/comedian/writer/director Takeshi Kitano spins this wistful -- if bleak -- tale about a pair of high school buddies and their inevitable slide into adulthood. Bumptious Masaru (Kenichi Kaneko) and his quiet sidekick Read More
Synopsis: This charming Japanese drama follows the exploits of a Kanako, a dippy young waitress, who promised her old friend "Chestnut Uncle" that when he died, she would have him buried rather than cremated so his body could give something back to the earth from whence he came. Soon after his death, Kanako Read More
Actors: Susumu Terajima, Miho Uemura
Synopsis: Makoto Shinozaki makes his feature film debut with this understated character study about a young bride's descent into madness. A former classical pianist Yuriko (Miho Uemura) married her husband Takashi (played by Takeshi Kitano regular Susumu Terajima) a year previous and has found the Read More
Actors: Dannkann, Shouji Kobayashi, Tetsuya Yuuki, Yuuji Minakata, Ren Osugi
Synopsis: Takeshi Kitano made an international name for himself for directing films of great emotional subtlety and technical innovation such as Hana-Bi and Sonatine. This film displays none of those traits. Directed under his comedian moniker "Beat Takeshi," Kitano displays the bawdy schtick that made him Read More
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