Taro Suwa Filmography

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Machine Girl

Actors: Minase Yashiro, Honoka Asami, Yûya Ishikawa, Asami, Kentaro Shimazu, Noriko Kijima, Ryosuke Kawamura, Nobuhiro Nishihara, Taro Suwa

Synopsis: A teenage girl shows the mob who's boss in this over-the-top blend of action, horror, and comedy. Ami (Minase Yashiro) is a seemingly ordinary Japanese schoolgirl who refuses to turn a blind eye when thugs at her school subject her little brother to needless cruelty. Ami retaliates against the Read More

5/23/08
Chanbara Beauty

Actors: Eri Otoguro, Chise Nakamura, Manami Hashimoto, Taro Suwa

Synopsis: The dead have risen to feast on the flesh of the living, and just when it seems that all hope for humanity has been lost, bikini girls with machine guns take one last shot at saving mankind from certain extinction. In the near future, a deranged scientist named Sugita has conducted a series of Read More

2008
Strawberry Shortcakes

Actors: Chizuru Ikewaki, Noriko Nakagoshi, Yuko Nakamura, Toko Iwase, Ryo Kase

Synopsis: Four very different women search for love and meaning in their lives in the hustle and bustle of downtown Tokyo in this comedy-drama. Satoko (Chizuru Ikewaki) is a bright woman who has somehow ended up working as the front desk clerk at an upscale bordello. While she's bubby and optimistic, Satoko Read More

2007
Black Belt

Actors: Akihito Yagi, Tatsuya Naka, Yuji Suzuki, Hakuryu, Yasuto Kosuda, Shinya Ohwada

Synopsis: Director Shunichi Nagasaki and screenwriter George Iida ponder the delicate balance between fierce confrontation and moral reflection as related to the realm of defensive martial arts in this thoughtful tale of two students divided by their disparate beliefs. The decade is the 1930s, and the Read More

2007
Meatball Machine

Actors: Issei Takahashi, Aoba Kawai

Synopsis: A race of alien parasites that has discovered the secret of transforming human flesh into biomechanical weaponry stages a grotesque invasion of planet Earth, only to discover just how mighty the power of love truly is in directors Yudai Yamaguchi and Junichi Yamamoto's unhinged, experimental Read More

2005
Stupeur et Tremblements

Actors: Sylvie Testud, Kaori Tsuji, Taro Suwa, Bison Katayama, Yasunari Kondo

Synopsis: French director Alain Corneau delves into the painfully irrational world of office politics, which are further complicated by a severe case of culture clash in his 2003 comedy, Stupeur et Tremblements (Fear and Trembling). Based on the similarly titled memoirs of author Amélie Nothomb and her Read More

11/19/04
Yawarako na Hoo

Actors: Yuki Amami, Tomokazu Miura, Shunsuke Matsuoka, Taro Suwa

2001
Tsumetai Chi

Actors: Ryo Ishibashi, Kazuma Suzuki, Kyoko Tohyama, Eiko Nagashima, Taro Suwa

Synopsis: Shinji Aoyama (Two Punks) directed this Japanese cop drama about assistant police inspector Saga (Ryo Ishibashi), who is guarding a religious cult leader when the man is shot and killed. In pursuit of the hitman (Yu-rei Yanagi), Saga is also shot, and he's only half-conscious when his gun is Read More

1997
Okaeri

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

1995