In a stark depiction of the dissatisfaction that followed the demise of '60s idealism, United Red Army follows the story of...
|
|
2011
|
|
|
2011
|
A mentally deficient farmer falls for a pretty teacher who's still struggling to cope with the recent death of her unfaithful...
|
|
2009
|
Director Hirokazu Kore-eda writes and directs this family drama that unfolds over the course of a single summer day as the...
|
Kyohei Yokoyama
|
2008
|
Acclaimed Japanese playwright and theater director Ryo Iwamatsu takes the helm for this family drama concerning a complacent...
|
|
2008
|
A fierce woman warrior joins a wandering demon hunter on his quest to recover the missing body parts and regain his natural...
|
|
2007
|
|
|
|
2007
|
Director Hirokazu Koreeda turns the popularly held conventions of the typical samurai evenge tale on their head with this...
|
|
2006
|
|
|
2006
|
Audition writer Ryu Murakami returns to shock and surprise movie lovers with this darkly satirical comedy about an absurd...
|
|
2003
|
|
|
|
2003
|
|
|
2003
|
Orphaned as a little girl, Azumi (Aya Ueto) is raised in the forest with a group of ten children by their master...
|
|
2003
|
|
Yuko
|
2002
|
Junji Sakamoto directs this taut spy thriller about the real-life abduction of Kim Dae Jung -- who would later be elected...
|
|
2002
|
|
|
2000
|
Another Heaven, a Japanese supernatural crime drama directed by Joji Iida (director of Rasen, the first Ringu sequel), begins...
|
|
2000
|
Director Macoto Tezka's harrowing drama is set in an alternate version of the 1990s in which World War II never ended and the...
|
|
1999
|
Veteran actor Yoshio Harada stars as world-weary gangster Noriyasu Kunihiro in this shaded character study by way of a...
|
|
1997
|
Based on a book by Nobel prize-winning novelist Yasunari Kawabata, this erotic drama is about aging and long-repressed...
|
|
1997
|
Ingmar Bergman meets Phillip Marlow in this brooding metaphysical work directed by veteran filmmaker Kaizo Hayashi. The film...
|
|
1995
|
This unfortunately titled work is a critically acclaimed look at sexual abuse, based on the real-life experiences of comic...
|
|
1995
|
In this international action thriller, Paul Racine (Christopher Lambert) is an American salesman with a computer firm who is...
|
Takeda
|
1995
|
|
|
Production Designer
|
1993
|
The final film in his acclaimed Taisho trilogy, maverick filmmaker Seijun Suzuki directs his bizarre, hallucinatory tale...
|
Wakiya Sokichi
|
1991
|
For real afficionados of the boxing game, this movie will be a treat, as it focuses almost exclusively on the sports career...
|
Makio Sajima
|
1990
|
Kazuo Kuroki's Ronin-Gai transpires during the final years of the time when samurais figured prominently in Japanese society....
|
|
1990
|
Jinta (Hiroshi Mikami) and Wataru (Shu Ken) are brothers in training to become circus performers. One of their specialties is...
|
|
1989
|
Comic Magazine is a powerhouse reenactment of a 1985 ethics scandal that rocked the Japanese journalistic world. Pop star...
|
|
1987
|
|
|
|
1985
|
Sensational tabloid journalism (if that is not a contradiction in terms) gets its own full exposure in this drama about a...
|
|
1985
|
A man who lives on the wrong side of the law shows he can do good and bad with equal enthusiasm in this action drama from...
|
|
1985
|
The style of this undistinguished action film follows a 1940s Sam Spade mode that is intriguing, but the story of Joe (Saburo...
|
Yanamine
|
1984
|
In a tale that is visually stunning in certain segments, director Shuji Terayama (who died before this movie was released)...
|
Daisaku
|
1982
|
Sachine (Atsuko Asano) is a young woman working in a bar who is caught between two lovers: one a jazzy biker and the other,...
|
Teruo Miyasato
|
1981
|
This is an enigmatic and challenging film in many ways. It is set in the 1930s and colored with nuances of the strange and...
|
Nakasago
|
1981
|
In Hideo Gosha's tale of organized crime in 18th-century Japan, a group of disenfranchised warriors decide to form an...
|
|
1979
|
This unsentimental Japanese tragedy chronicles the lonely life and quiet death of a blind Geisha girl whose desire for...
|
Big Man
|
1978
|
A young model discovers the dark side of fame in this grim tale fom cult film director Seijun Suzuki (Tokyo Drifter). When...
|
|
1977
|
|
|
|
1976
|
Vignettes of the village life endured by Tateo, a young and highly neurotic man who wants to leave both his mother and the...
|
Toshihiro
|
1975
|
The various factions opposing the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1860s Japan did not always work in tandem, as is made clear in this...
|
|
1974
|
A wandering yakuza solder seeking redemption finds that the only path out of the underworld leads the fiery inferno of hell...
|
|
1972
|
An assassination attempt renders Jokichi an outcast before setting him on a course towards a deadly confrontation with...
|
|
1972
|