Renji Ishibashi
Is eol do: Acting
Breithlá: 1941-08-09
Áit bhreithe: Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Ar a dtugtar:
The Bear Storm
An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the Taishō era. About 15 families who moved in...
Scaoileadh : 1980.11.27Coitianta : 2.38
The New Virgin Story
A love triange arises between a virgin, a stripper, and a mysterious girl
Scaoileadh : 1992.11.25Coitianta : 1.179
Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annual conference with the Lord, it is dictated that...
Scaoileadh : 2005.09.17Coitianta : 13.141
Magino Village: A Tale
The movie compiles footage taken by Ogawa Production for a period of more than ten years after the collective moved to Magino village. Unique to this...
Scaoileadh : 1987.12.01Coitianta : 1.091
Hana
In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn't an accomplished...
Scaoileadh : 2006.06.03Coitianta : 5.275
Audition
Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their...
Scaoileadh : 2000.03.03Coitianta : 23.235
Into the Faraway Sky
A vast wheat field, a straight road that has no end, a sky without a single building in sight – this is a town in the country where time...
Scaoileadh : 2007.08.18Coitianta : 1.749
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
The year is 2071. Following a terrorist bombing, a deadly virus is released on the populace of Mars and the government has issued the largest bounty...
Scaoileadh : 2001.09.01Coitianta : 16.423
Dead or Alive
Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries...
Scaoileadh : 1999.11.27Coitianta : 10.028
Life of Don Matsugoro
Children's movie about a dog that can type messages into a word processor. When his owner is kidnapped, the canine summons his fellow dogs to help in...
Scaoileadh : 1986.03.21Coitianta : 0.524
47 Ronin
Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal...
Scaoileadh : 1994.10.22Coitianta : 4.206
Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict
A noble samurai serving the Shogun as 'Kogi Kaishaku-nin' (Official Executioner) is the target of a plot by the evil Yagyu Clan to take away his...
Scaoileadh : 1993.02.06Coitianta : 4.033
Gozu
Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone,...
Scaoileadh : 2003.07.11Coitianta : 9.965
Spring Snow
Based on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows the troubled and illicit affair between two...
Scaoileadh : 2005.10.09Coitianta : 3.042
Nemuremitsu
Omnibus about three actresses from different generations
Scaoileadh : 1976.12.05Coitianta : 0.727
Gemini
When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.
Scaoileadh : 1999.09.15Coitianta : 6.666
Sukiyaki Western Django
A nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to join, chooses his own path.
Scaoileadh : 2007.09.15Coitianta : 13.996
Tales of the Unusual
A four-part anthology in the spirit of The Twilight Zone, this film starts off with a group of commuters stranded at a train station in the rain,...
Scaoileadh : 2000.11.03Coitianta : 2.241
The Bird People in China
Wada, a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After his arrival, Wada encounters a violent, yet...
Scaoileadh : 1998.06.10Coitianta : 7.651
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is...
Scaoileadh : 1989.07.01Coitianta : 12.429
Flower & Snake
The wealthy president of a company has built up an unpayable debt to a local crime lord, and to escape punishment he sells his famous dancer wife to...
Scaoileadh : 2004.03.13Coitianta : 11.938
One Missed Call 2
A Japanese restaurant cook/owner dies after answering his daughter's cellphone. Other people are getting strange, same ringtone calls as well and...
Scaoileadh : 2005.02.05Coitianta : 11.658
Deadly Outlaw: Rekka
After Kunisada's Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend go on a two-man mission to avenge his death, killing...
Scaoileadh : 2002.09.21Coitianta : 7.123
The Great Yokai War
A young boy with a troubled home life becomes "chosen," and he stumbles into the middle of a great war of yōkai (a class of mythological...
Scaoileadh : 2005.08.06Coitianta : 7.657
チンピラ仁義 極楽とんぼ2
The follow up to the very popular first instalment.
Scaoileadh : 1995.05.12Coitianta : 1.458
The Shootist: Final Episode
Matsushita decides to make a new journey by meeting a fateful woman, Askako, while being chased by a hitman and the police. What awaits him at the...
Scaoileadh : 1994.01.14Coitianta : 1.427
Outrage
When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a...
Scaoileadh : 2010.05.17Coitianta : 10.005
Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu
In 2010, while covering the issue of the "secret agreement" at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the author came across diplomatic documents relating...
Scaoileadh : 2018.06.30Coitianta : 1.173
Crossfire
Junko was born with a type of ESP called pyrokinesis which she can use to incinerate anyone and anything at will. Junko is secretly in love with...
Scaoileadh : 2000.06.10Coitianta : 2.583
Yakuza Demon
Seiji and Yoshifumi are the only members of the Muto branch of the Date Family. The two respect and love their leader, Mr. Muto, like a father and...
Scaoileadh : 2003.06.25Coitianta : 2.423
The Watcher in the Attic
A shiftless resident in a boarding house spends his days crawling in the attic and spying on the renters below. One day he spies an elegant lady...
Scaoileadh : 1976.06.12Coitianta : 3.786
20th Century Boys 3: Redemption
The final showdown, and the final reveal. who is Friend? How can he be stopped?
Scaoileadh : 2009.08.19Coitianta : 7.386
Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries....
Scaoileadh : 1972.12.30Coitianta : 7.353
Okiku and the World
Two rogue vagrants make their living as "manure men", turning the waste from the tenement toilets into fertiliser sold to local farmers. Enter Okiku,...
Scaoileadh : 2023.04.28Coitianta : 1.73
The Ramen Girl
An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a râmen chef...
Scaoileadh : 2008.02.08Coitianta : 11.904
Railroad Man
A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line...
Scaoileadh : 1999.06.05Coitianta : 9.745
Die Silbermaske
Sabine is able to transform into a silver superhero through the power of the Ring of Nibelungen. She travels to Japan where she searches for her...
Scaoileadh : 2006.12.23Coitianta : 1.457
Fruits of Passion
A girl named O loves a rich, and much older man. She is subjected to a variety of humiliating experiences to prove her unconditional obedience to him...
Scaoileadh : 1981.06.03Coitianta : 12.662
I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
On the night of August 19, 1980, a bus was set on fire by the vagrant Hirofumi Maruyama at the Shinjuku West Exit Bus Terminal. In the burning...
Scaoileadh : 1985.03.02Coitianta : 2.061
Shura's Barbarian King
Fumihiko Saizonoji , a man who lost everything in the plot of a bank and a general contractor when he was a child . Now , as Fumihiko Kanzaki , a man...
Scaoileadh : 2001.01.01Coitianta : 0.377
Oshûkatsu
Shinichi and Chikako Ohara have been married for 50 years. After Shinichi retired from his job, he has stayed at home, which Chikako stresses over....
Scaoileadh : 2021.05.21Coitianta : 2.114
Phone Call to the Bar
In the Susukino red light district of Sapporo, a private detective (Yo Oizumi) drinks alcohol with his driver Takada (Ryuhei Matsuda) in his...
Scaoileadh : 2011.09.10Coitianta : 2.756
Two Magical Nights
This 'Young V-Cinema' film was created for young people, turning from the action of Toei V-cinema. A pop love story featuring a veteran actor and a...
Scaoileadh : 1991.05.17Coitianta : 0.631
Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010
Serving as the true ending to Kamen Rider Decade and revealing the origins of Kamen Rider W, this movie is split into three parts. In "Kamen Rider...
Scaoileadh : 2009.12.12Coitianta : 7.148
Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker
Tsukasa travels to his home world of the World of Decade, where he discovers the origin of his powers and his true heritage as the leader of...
Scaoileadh : 2009.08.08Coitianta : 7.794
Jusei: Last Drop of Blood
After serving a jail sentence, a former leading yakuza (Takaaki Ishibashi) has gone straight. He has married and is now holding a regular job....
Scaoileadh : 2003.06.14Coitianta : 2.076
Marquis de Sade’s Prosperities of Vice
A decadent count in 1920′s Japan becomes obsessed with the life and works of the Marquis de Sade. He creates a theatre to show plays adapted...
Scaoileadh : 1988.08.27Coitianta : 2.23
White-Collar Worker Kintaro
Kintaro is a reformed delinquent, the former leader of a biker gang who has gone straight. Working at a construction company, his unorthodox tactics...
Scaoileadh : 1999.11.13Coitianta : 1.476
The Young Blood Typhoon
On the way home from a small assault incident at a love hotel in Tokyo, Shuntaro Katagiri playfully entered the love hotel with his friend Iwanaka. ...
Scaoileadh : 1995.05.13Coitianta : 0.795
Baian Fujieda the Assassin
An adaptation of the Shotaro Ikenami novels, set in the historical Edo period, and centered on Fujieda Bayan, a medicine man and doctor by day, but...
Scaoileadh : 2006.11.04Coitianta : 2.005
The Woman with Red Hair
Junko Miyashita plays a mysterious hitchhiker picked up by a brute of a construction worker named Kenzo who takes her back to his run-down and...
Scaoileadh : 1979.02.17Coitianta : 5.133
Sorrowful Hitman
A Hitman must protect a 15-year-old girl
Scaoileadh : 2008.03.07Coitianta : 0.909
The Machine Gun Dragon
Ryu, a low life thug, along with his mother, steals a shipment of drugs. Now with his machine gun and a gang of hoodlums, he must face the yakuza and...
Scaoileadh : 1976.02.28Coitianta : 1.771
The Assassination of Ryoma
Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), imperial loyalist who tried to unite the Choshu and Satsuma clans and...
Scaoileadh : 1974.08.02Coitianta : 1.991
The Triple Cross
Following the bloody aftermath of a heist, three robbers are double-crossed by a new accomplice, who is then tracked down amid escalating carnage and...
Scaoileadh : 1992.09.12Coitianta : 3.037
A Chorus of Angels
Teacher Kawashima Haru takes a position on a remote island off the coast of Hokkaido, where she takes charge of six students. However, she is later...
Scaoileadh : 2012.11.03Coitianta : 2.624
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 2 - The Assassination of the Shogun
Samon Kamiyama, a yoriki of the Minami-machi magistrate infiltrates the Denzū-machi prison disguised as Mushuku Sahēji. Samon is mistaken...
Scaoileadh : 1983.01.21Coitianta : 1.313
Ronin-gai
Near the end of Japanese civil war, several disgraced ronin living in Edo's red light district attempt to regain their honor by defending a brothel...
Scaoileadh : 1990.08.18Coitianta : 4.217
Detective Office 5
In a small nook of Kawasaki Private investigator 591 and adultry specialist investigator 522 embark on separate investigations that leads them both...
Scaoileadh : 2005.11.26Coitianta : 1.679
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.
Scaoileadh : 2009.06.20Coitianta : 2.94
Castle Under Fiery Skies
The year is 1575 in feudal Japan. Oda Nobunaga's (Kippei Shiina) forces defeat Takeda Katsuyori, when Nagashino Castle was besieged during the Battle...
Scaoileadh : 2009.09.12Coitianta : 4.073
An Artisan's Legacy: Tsunekazu Nishioka
In-depth look at the twilight years, spent training apprentices, of temple builder Nishioka Tsunekazu, who was called the "devil" as he devoted his...
Scaoileadh : 2012.02.04Coitianta : 1.599
The Code
For 60 years, the group of detectives known as "Detective Office 5" has raised the bar for detective work. The agents of Detective Office 5 are a...
Scaoileadh : 2009.05.09Coitianta : 3.072
Revolver LILY
In 1924 Yuri killed 57 people as a spy before going underground as the madam of a small brothel. There, she encounters an orphan whose family was...
Scaoileadh : 2023.08.11Coitianta : 3.424
Red Colored Elegy
Uninvolved with the political movements of the time, Ichiro and Sachiko hope for something better, but they’re no revolutionaries; their spare...
Scaoileadh : 2007.06.21Coitianta : 0.635
Kumamoto Stories
Jidai-geki period / folklore type stories that were comissioned by the Kumamoto prefacture of Kyushu island in 1996 and filmed over a period of three...
Scaoileadh : 2002.07.20Coitianta : 1.206
Lost Lovers
A rebel youth joins a duo of entertainers only able to communicate by gesturing; when the female performer is suddenly abducted, he and Takeru must...
Scaoileadh : 1971.11.05Coitianta : 0.825
The Oil-Hell Murder
The indolent son of an oil vendor becomes a regular customer of a prostitute, racks up a mountain of debt, and is disowned by his parents.
Scaoileadh : 1992.05.23Coitianta : 5.26
99.9 Criminal Lawyer: The Movie
Hiroto Miyama works with rookie lawyer Honoka Kono on a team that specializes with criminal cases for Madarame Law Firm. Atsuhiro Sada has become the...
Scaoileadh : 2021.12.30Coitianta : 3.808
The Hidden Trail of the Beasts
A star tennis player takes revenge on the blackmailers out to ruin his athletic career.
Scaoileadh : 1981.09.12Coitianta : 1.053
Strawberry Night
Reiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi) is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko doesn't come from an elite background, but she has...
Scaoileadh : 2013.01.25Coitianta : 3.462
The Law of Hell
At a restaurant called Anrakutei on an island is a wasteland surrounded by moat and swamp. The owner Ikuzo manages the restaurant with his daughter....
Scaoileadh : 1982.08.30Coitianta : 1.972
Kikaider REBOOT
In the near future, the “ARK Project” has initiated a program to increase the quality of human life through the peaceful use of robots....
Scaoileadh : 2014.05.24Coitianta : 3.777
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
Anthology film. "What's Wrong with Eating?" Numayama Kazuki is always complaining about his wife's, Atsugi Shizuka, body shape. Because of that...
Scaoileadh : 1988.09.15Coitianta : 2.034
The Enchantment
A Tokyo psychiatrist is hoping to better his career by marrying the daughter of a prominent doctor. The match is threatened however when an...
Scaoileadh : 1989.10.29Coitianta : 2.465
Winter Rose
Jun Wataguchi lives a lazy, half-hearted life, not going to school, hanging out with half-witted delinquents, and begging money from his friends. His...
Scaoileadh : 2022.06.03Coitianta : 1.429
Darkness in the Light
A middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture), wakes up one morning in the summer...
Scaoileadh : 2001.02.17Coitianta : 1.68
Shadow Hunters
In the middle of the Edo period, when the finances of the shogunate were in a desperate situation, the shogunate sent its shadow spies to each clan,...
Scaoileadh : 1992.04.08Coitianta : 0.852
99.9 Criminal Lawyer: SP
The super unconventional lawyer is back! Our new friends are comic book girls! And the biggest enemy of all! The strongest lawyer who manipulates...
Scaoileadh : 2021.12.29Coitianta : 2.403
Ikebukuro West Gate Park SP
This special takes place three years after the end of the original series. Makoto is homeless as a result of his mom selling out their shop and soon...
Scaoileadh : 2003.03.28Coitianta : 1.534
The Inferno
Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave.
Scaoileadh : 1979.06.03Coitianta : 6.082
Making of Gemini
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's film "Gemini".
Scaoileadh : 2000.05.12Coitianta : 1.596
Homeland
Jiro Sawada is a sophomore in high school when a false accusation drives him out his hometown: a small village in Fukushima Prefecture. The entire...
Scaoileadh : 2014.03.01Coitianta : 1.564
Mourning Recipe
A widower and his daughter deal with the death of the man's wife.
Scaoileadh : 2013.11.09Coitianta : 2.162
Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010 - Director's Cut
Director's cut of Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010.
Scaoileadh : 2010.09.21Coitianta : 1.866
Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II
Scaoileadh : 1995.09.02Coitianta : 1.499
Kamen Rider: The First
Takeshi Hongo is a man of extraordinary intellect, but his promising future is about to be maliciously snuffed out by and evil secret society known...
Scaoileadh : 2005.12.05Coitianta : 4.372
History of Jirocho Shimizu
A historical chivalric drama with tears and laughter, telling the story of Jirocho Shimizu's family, his confrontation with Katsuzo Kurokoma's...
Scaoileadh : 1995.03.03Coitianta : 2.46
Ginji - The Slasher
In prison for 50 years after massacring his corrupt workmates with a samurai sword in 1945, Ginji Sonesaki (Riki Takeuchi) is given the nickname of...
Scaoileadh : 2003.03.29Coitianta : 1.726
Cape Nostalgia
Etsuko's café in her peaceful little seaside town is where everyone gathers to gossip and taste her famous brew. But the winds of change are...
Scaoileadh : 2014.08.29Coitianta : 3.01
Someday
The annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However, Yoshi's life is thrown into disarray days before the...
Scaoileadh : 2011.07.16Coitianta : 1.561
Alive
Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is...
Scaoileadh : 2003.06.21Coitianta : 5.694
Silver Spoon
Ooejo Agricultural High School is located in Hokkaido. Most students are from families involved in agriculture and their dreams are to continue...
Scaoileadh : 2014.03.07Coitianta : 2.376
How to Find Happiness
Toshihide works as a doctor at a clinic located by the sea. One day, he meets Ako. She looks exactly like the woman he admires. Due to her, his heart...
Scaoileadh : 2022.10.14Coitianta : 3.305
Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
The second TV movie Obayashi Nobuhiko directed based on Akagawa Jiro's Mikeneko Holmes series.
Scaoileadh : 1998.02.21Coitianta : 1.854
Valley of Dreams
A laid-off designer returns to her home town after five years away.
Scaoileadh : 2011.11.12Coitianta : 1.317
Pale Moon
Daily, Rika Umezawa battles a nagging sense of emptiness and dissatisfaction. She works a tiring job, comes home to an unappreciative husband and has...
Scaoileadh : 2014.11.15Coitianta : 5.246
Haw
Tamio Akanishi works at a public office in Yokohama. He is going through one of the worst periods of his life, having been left by his...
Scaoileadh : 2022.08.19Coitianta : 1.653
War and Flowers
Japanese Drama film about the female experience during the war years.
Scaoileadh : 1989.05.11Coitianta : 0.706
The Fallen Angel
The story of a young man who has felt since childhood utterly alien from others around him. Since that time he has learned to put on a face to hide...
Scaoileadh : 2010.02.19Coitianta : 3.07
Sakuran
Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwara District, navigating brothel politics...
Scaoileadh : 2006.12.07Coitianta : 9.506
Strangers in the City
Former high school teacher Kazuo Hatano (Toru Nakamura) reunites 12 years later with Masako Tezuka (Manami Konishi). Masako Tezuka was his former...
Scaoileadh : 2010.11.20Coitianta : 2.269
The Brain Man
A seemingly random series of bombings in a provincial city. The latest target is a public bus route. Detective Chaya chased terrorists and arrested a...
Scaoileadh : 2013.02.09Coitianta : 5.961
A Good Husband
The heart wrenching love story between a married couple. The jobless husband cheats on his wife and has no love for her. The wife wants to go on a...
Scaoileadh : 2009.10.14Coitianta : 1.828
Climbing to Spring
Toru grew up in alpine countryside around Mount Tate. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the mountain with his father to prepare their...
Scaoileadh : 2014.06.14Coitianta : 2.464
Eight Ranger
Set within the devastated city of Eight City, the Eight Rangers protect the city and go against the evil Dark Kuruseido.
Scaoileadh : 2012.07.28Coitianta : 1.695
Dora-heita
A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own...
Scaoileadh : 2000.05.13Coitianta : 4.429
Ninja Kids!!!
The film stars Seishiro Kato as Rantaro who is sent to a ninja training school by his parents. During the summer, their teacher is invaded by a group...
Scaoileadh : 2011.07.23Coitianta : 5.174
Angel's Share
A strange duo, Minko and Hiroto, who believe themselves to be angels, throw out fashion massage leaflets called “Angel Dispatch” from the...
Scaoileadh : 1995.06.10Coitianta : 0.625
Half a Confession
Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a tale of morality with deeper insights into its...
Scaoileadh : 2004.01.10Coitianta : 1.897
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
A Japanese film that tells the tale of the birth of VHS. It follows Kagatani Shizuo, an electronics employee who rallies his coworkers to save their...
Scaoileadh : 2002.06.16Coitianta : 2.526
Miracle in Four Days
Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" wafts through a hospice recreation room. Sitting at the grand piano is a young girl, Chiori, with a...
Scaoileadh : 2005.06.04Coitianta : 2.355
Ready to Shoot
A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho. He quickly becomes aware that her life is in...
Scaoileadh : 1990.11.17Coitianta : 1.869
Hero
After six years away, D.A. Kuryu Kohei (Kimura Takuya) returns to his former Josai branch of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, just in...
Scaoileadh : 2007.09.08Coitianta : 4.301
Pickpocket
Kaido is a professional pickpocket who works the Tokyo subway with his young foster-daughter, Rei: She lets herself be groped while Kaido relieves...
Scaoileadh : 2000.11.03Coitianta : 1.822
Tokyo!
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians....
Scaoileadh : 2008.08.16Coitianta : 9.4
Parade
The story of a strange living situation in a 2LDK apartment in suburban Tokyo. There are five residents ranging in age from eighteen to twenty-eight....
Scaoileadh : 2010.02.20Coitianta : 3.441
Where The Legend Lives
Kohei Miyazaki (Naoto Takenaka), a former railroad worker, has become obsessed with locating the ancient country of Yamatai. His obsession sprouted...
Scaoileadh : 2008.11.01Coitianta : 1.855
I'll Give It My All ... Tomorrow
41-year-old Shizuo Daikoku (Shinichi Tsutsumi) suddenly quits his job at a company to become a mangaka. His family and friends become involved in his...
Scaoileadh : 2013.06.15Coitianta : 2.537
Graveyard of Honor
A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.
Scaoileadh : 2002.06.22Coitianta : 5.462
East Side Waltz Garden of Earthly Delights
Fukano, an elderly novelist who grew up in the mountains of Tokyo, met a young woman, Kana, for the first time in Fukagawa. Overcoming the age...
Scaoileadh : 1998.01.01Coitianta : 2.071
Why Do I Choose?
Who Do I Choose? is a Japanese film directed by Shūsuke Kaneko.
Scaoileadh : 1989.08.26Coitianta : 1.305
Perfect Education 6
Fumiya owes 5 million yen to a female load shark for a gambling debt, while having affair an with Mrs. Hosoi who offers him 5 million to murder her...
Scaoileadh : 2004.09.18Coitianta : 6.116
Bring Me the Head of Shichiemon!
During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head of the opposing lord to declare victory.
Scaoileadh : 1993.03.03Coitianta : 0.607
Time Trip App
In 1868, a battle between new government forces and shogunate forces are about to take place in Edo. Katsu Kaishu wants to avoid useless bloodshed...
Scaoileadh : 2014.07.26Coitianta : 3.889
A Samurai Movie Rhapsody: Filming the Ultimate Swordfight
This is a “Movie in a Movie” like no other ever before. Kyoei, a historical film studio in Kyoto (Modeled on Toei), is asked by NHK to...
Scaoileadh : 2019.03.23Coitianta : 1.734
The Whispering of the Gods
Rou has returned to the monastery he was raised in. As he listens to the whispering of the Gods through his germanium radio, Rou defies God in every...
Scaoileadh : 2005.12.17Coitianta : 2.576
Assassin's Target: Iemitsu
A vicious plot that would change the course of Japanese history is set in motion when assassins conspire to kill Iemitsu, the third shogun of the...
Scaoileadh : 1995.07.11Coitianta : 1.037
Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
The life story of Japan’s greatest leader, Tokugawa Ieyasu, whose shogunate ruled the nation for almost 300 years has never been told like this...
Scaoileadh : 1992.01.03Coitianta : 2.047
Torso
Hiroko is a young, alienated woman "in love" with a blow-up male torso. Tension rises when her sister discovers her secret desire.
Scaoileadh : 2009.11.13Coitianta : 2.843
Year One in the North
In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of...
Scaoileadh : 2005.01.14Coitianta : 2.28
Closed Note
Kae Horii moves into her new flat in an undisclosed area of Kyoto. While unpacking her belongings, she discovers a hidden compartment behind a...
Scaoileadh : 2007.09.09Coitianta : 1.704
A Story of Modern Chivalry
A hard-boiled man who lived in the world of the Yakuza, leaves everything behind in search of revenge for his great friend.
Scaoileadh : 1997.10.08Coitianta : 1.164
The Firefly
Japanese film icon Ken Takakura, who has starred in over 100 films, stars in this elegiac look at war and remembrance. Hideji Yamaoka (Takakura) was...
Scaoileadh : 2001.05.01Coitianta : 3.735
Moment of Demon
Filled with guilt over his forbidden desires, a young man leaves home and his studies. He finds a new smaller place to stay, a low-paying but...
Scaoileadh : 1985.01.26Coitianta : 3.725
The Homeless
Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths again in the nearest brothel. There they make the...
Scaoileadh : 1974.10.09Coitianta : 2.275
Agitator
When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub, it is not long before his dead body is found. Soon, inter-family...
Scaoileadh : 2001.10.28Coitianta : 4.321
Samurai Hustle
During the reign of the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Yunagaya Domain in the Tohoku region is a small han. But at the han, there is a...
Scaoileadh : 2014.06.21Coitianta : 3.528
Kamogawa Horumo: Battle League in Kyoto
The story is about a group of university students who inevitably gets involved in playing a game of "Horumo" - a combat match where each person...
Scaoileadh : 2009.04.18Coitianta : 2.422
The Broken Commandment
At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area of low-class...
Scaoileadh : 2022.07.08Coitianta : 1.897
森の石松
One day, Mori no Ishimatsu (Kankuro Nakamura
Scaoileadh : 1992.01.07Coitianta : 0.325
My Happy Marriage
An unhappy young woman from an abusive family is married off to a fearsome and chilly army commander. But the two learn more about each other, love...
Scaoileadh : 2023.03.17Coitianta : 10.623
Farewell to the Ark
A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among...
Scaoileadh : 1984.09.08Coitianta : 5.38
Kanei Chronicles
From all over Japan, the greatest warriors: Yagyu Jubei, Miyamoto Musashi, Araki Mataemon, and more came to test their blades in a tournament of...
Scaoileadh : 1991.07.19Coitianta : 1.4
Kitamura Tokoku: My Winter Song
This biopic is centered on New Year's Day of 1894, when Kitamura is recovering from a suicide attempt. Japan is then under the spell of fervent...
Scaoileadh : 1977.12.17Coitianta : 0.561
This Country’s Sky
Set in Tokyo, Japan near the end of World War II. 19-year-old Satoko (Fumi Nikaido) lives with her mother (Youki Kudoh) and her aunt. The war is...
Scaoileadh : 2015.08.01Coitianta : 2.238
No Grave for Us
A plot to steal money from gangsters leads to trouble...
Scaoileadh : 1979.05.26Coitianta : 2.022
The Lion Standing in the Wind
Koichiro Shimada is sent to a research facility in Kenya, Africa by a teaching hospital in Japan. He encounters a desperate situation and decides to...
Scaoileadh : 2015.03.14Coitianta : 3.924
Eros Eterna
Eros Eterna tells the story of a legendary immortal nun who wanders around encountering several people of various conditions.
Scaoileadh : 1977.06.25Coitianta : 4.171
The Goblin of Mt. Kurama
The year 1864: The Shinsengumi, the shogun’s armed force in Kyoto ripped the city apart, with blades in hand, searching for pockets of...
Scaoileadh : 2001.03.09Coitianta : 0.885
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
In May 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (or JAXA) launched an unmanned spacecraft of their own development to retrieve samples from an...
Scaoileadh : 2012.02.11Coitianta : 2.327
Sabu and Ichi's Detective Stories 4
During a gathering of detectives, Satake is the only one not indulging in the hospitality of a wealthy money exchanger. His senior, Yasuke, leaves...
Scaoileadh : 1982.12.10Coitianta : 0.788
The Human Trust
A professional scammer is hired by a wealthy young businessman to find a hidden treasure looted from the Bank of Japan and supposedly stashed away by...
Scaoileadh : 2013.10.19Coitianta : 1.369
Strayer's Chronicle
In the early 1990s, experiments were carried out secretly in Japan. Two different methods were used in the experiments. One method involved forcing...
Scaoileadh : 2015.06.27Coitianta : 2.541
The Notorious Bored Samurai 2
The Satsuma clan conspires with key figures in the shogunate to overthrow the government. However, the head inspector, Naito Yamashiro no Kami,...
Scaoileadh : 1988.12.29Coitianta : 1.504
Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must rejoin the Asahi gang family in order to pay back a...
Scaoileadh : 1965.10.31Coitianta : 1.586
Play it, Boogie-Woogie
A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. The film follows their subsequent...
Scaoileadh : 1981.04.07Coitianta : 4.021
Onihei's Detective Records
A criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill.
Scaoileadh : 1995.11.18Coitianta : 1.715
Village of Doom
An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II and is frowned upon...
Scaoileadh : 1983.01.15Coitianta : 9.464
Grasshopper
Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (Ryosuke Yamada). Suzuki is a former middle school...
Scaoileadh : 2015.11.07Coitianta : 6.782
The 8-Tomb Village
A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later.
Scaoileadh : 1996.10.26Coitianta : 2.26
Love in the Mud
This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tokyo, being with her friends and studying. Her...
Scaoileadh : 1977.07.30Coitianta : 2.483
The Projects
Whether it's someone mixing burnables and recyclables or noise from a neighbor's domestic spat, there's always something occupying the residents of a...
Scaoileadh : 2016.06.04Coitianta : 2.309
Moonlight Jellyfish
Seiji (played by Battle Royale’s Tatsuya Fujiwara) struggles to look after his younger brother Michio, who suffers from Xeroderma Pigmentosum...
Scaoileadh : 2004.08.07Coitianta : 1.466
We're Broke, My Lord!
Koshiro Matsudaira lives in Tanjousan Bun in Echigo as a commoner and surrounded by people that love him, including his father Sakubei, who works for...
Scaoileadh : 2023.06.23Coitianta : 2.236
Glorious Fights
A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He fiercely battles violent elements in southern...
Scaoileadh : 1966.10.29Coitianta : 1.824
Slaughter in the Snow
In feudal Japan, women are vulnerable, in need of protection, and capable of deception. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter, has not yet fully revenged...
Scaoileadh : 1973.06.08Coitianta : 1.961
Bullying is Costly
An office worker who releases his frustrations by maliciously bullying his good-natured boss has a bizarre experience in a mountain hut.
Scaoileadh : 1986.09.22Coitianta : 1.434
Cats on Park Avenue
A story about the lives of young aspiring dancers who strive to create their own musical about stray cats.
Scaoileadh : 1989.12.23Coitianta : 1.429
Tokyo Blackout
Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electromagnetic cloud for an unknown reason and is...
Scaoileadh : 1987.01.16Coitianta : 4.038
Goodbye, Flickmania
Set at the height of the Japanese student rebellion in 1968, the film tells the story of the friendship between two very different men—a...
Scaoileadh : 1979.05.26Coitianta : 2.471
She's In Love With Picasso
Kiriko is a curator at the Hakone Open-Air Museum. She gets caught up in a computer virus incident and fights for her life. This drama was produced...
Scaoileadh : 1970.01.01Coitianta : 1.407
Yamagata Scream
High school seniors Mikayo, Chuko and Kei are forced to join a historical research club to fulfill a graduation requirement. Their teacher, Mr....
Scaoileadh : 2009.08.01Coitianta : 1.856
Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex
Ando on the run, stopping in to service all the women in his life, with a bit of the old ultra-violence.
Scaoileadh : 1976.10.01Coitianta : 2.54
The Black House
A meek agent at the Showa Life Insurance company receives a phone call from a customer who says that she's planning to commit suicide and wants to...
Scaoileadh : 1999.11.13Coitianta : 4.417
Be Free!
Adventures of a young high school teacher and his oddball students.
Scaoileadh : 1986.08.09Coitianta : 1.69
Ichigo Chips
Ichigo no kakera deals with a female manga artist Ichigo Nekoda (Miyazawa), whose career is heading into a downward spiral as she can't reinvent the...
Scaoileadh : 2005.02.19Coitianta : 1.994
25
Detectives Shintarou Sakurai (Sho Aikawa) and Koichi Hikage (Susumu Terajima) are partners. They are also corrupt and often blackmail criminal groups...
Scaoileadh : 2014.11.01Coitianta : 1.708
Someday, Someone Will Be Killed
While trying to search for her missing father, Atsuko Moriya (Noriko Watanabe) meets a group of outcasts that help her. Having only an encrypted disk...
Scaoileadh : 1984.10.10Coitianta : 2.965
Chateau de la Reine
The hotel Chateau de la Reine is located in Paris, France and it is considered the finest hotel there. The hotel has been in existence for 300 years....
Scaoileadh : 2015.04.25Coitianta : 2.661
The Man in White
After his father figure - a yakuza boss, is murdered, Azusa Moribe goes on a killing spree to exact revenge.
Scaoileadh : 2003.03.29Coitianta : 4.157
A Homance
A homeless man suffering from memory loss is unbeatable in a fight. He becomes involved with the Yakuza. It is based on a manga by Carib Marley.
Scaoileadh : 1986.10.10Coitianta : 2.228
The Abe Clan
A Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the honor of an individual? In the spring of the 18th year of...
Scaoileadh : 1995.11.24Coitianta : 2.001
Nirvana Island: The Last 47 Days
The movie depicts the confrontation between younger brother Akira Miyamoto (Shunya Shiraishi) and older brother Atsushi Miyamoto (Ryohei Suzuki) on...
Scaoileadh : 2016.10.15Coitianta : 7.011
Samurai Hustle Returns
Masaatsu Naito successfully completes Sankin-kotai (required ritual to visit the shogun). On his way home, he hears that an insurrection by peasants...
Scaoileadh : 2016.09.10Coitianta : 4.992
Nemuri Kyôshirô 2: Conspiracy in Edo Castle
Sakai Nobunari an Elder in 'Honmaru' (or the main enclosure) and Mizuno Tadakuni an Elder in 'Nishinomaru' (or the south-east enclosure) have been at...
Scaoileadh : 1993.09.30Coitianta : 1.026
The Gentlemen’s Alliance
Etsuko, a female college student, tries to beat the con artists at their own game after she gets scammed one after another.
Scaoileadh : 1986.12.13Coitianta : 2.001
Psychic: Traveler to the Unknown
Hikaru, an ordinary man, discovers a way to unleash the supernatural powers hidden inside his soul, allowing him to cure others with his newfound...
Scaoileadh : 1994.06.11Coitianta : 0.902
The Man in White Part 2: Requiem for the Lion
A rowdy, young yakuza takes revenge against a gang of thousands for the death of his boss.
Scaoileadh : 2003.04.21Coitianta : 1.968
Falling Camellia
During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct of his leader. Years after, his dying wife wish...
Scaoileadh : 2018.09.28Coitianta : 3.72
Amagi Pass
Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A...
Scaoileadh : 1983.02.19Coitianta : 5.888
So What
In a small town, high school students in their final year try to balance their studies while also playing together in a rock band.
Scaoileadh : 1988.07.16Coitianta : 0.921
Nejirin bou
A woman as the main character, love and friendship, and one of the
Scaoileadh : 2004.11.27Coitianta : 0.907
The International Gang of Kobe
In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international...
Scaoileadh : 1975.10.14Coitianta : 2.353
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out.
Scaoileadh : 1974.04.24Coitianta : 15.573
The New Morning of Billy the Kid
All the protagonists move about in a Tokyo Bar that has an entire wall taken up with a black-and-white reproduction of a photo of Monument Valley....
Scaoileadh : 1986.08.01Coitianta : 1.27
Yakuza Ladies Neo
Kotone (Tomoka Kurotani) is the wife of Mitsuru Kiba (Kazushige Nagashima), boss of the Kiba gang in the Saikyo Alliance. She hides a girl named...
Scaoileadh : 2013.06.08Coitianta : 0.977
Star Sand
In the closing days of World War II, Japanese-American Hiromi, a girl age 16, encounters an American deserter, Bob, and a Japanese soldier, Iwabuchi,...
Scaoileadh : 2017.08.04Coitianta : 1.351
Summer of Demon
A former retainer to a noble family kills his wife's father when he tries to expose his past crimes. When he begins an affair with the daughter of...
Scaoileadh : 1981.05.23Coitianta : 1.502
Internal Sleuth
When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective criminal tries to find out the truth.
Scaoileadh : 1973.04.21Coitianta : 1.873
Super Kamen Rider Den-O & Decade NEO Generations: The Onigashima Warship
Under the impression that they saved the World of Den-O, Tsukasa Kadoya (Kamen Rider Decade) and company begin their journey to the World of Kabuto...
Scaoileadh : 2009.05.01Coitianta : 4.831
Crest of Betrayal
Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the second is a ghost story about a...
Scaoileadh : 1994.10.22Coitianta : 6.243
Sure Death 4
Having been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled by a group of masked thugs who are soon attacked in...
Scaoileadh : 1987.06.06Coitianta : 4.761
A Chaos of Flowers
Set in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan's Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story about fashionable people without impulse control. Much...
Scaoileadh : 1988.10.01Coitianta : 3.418
House on Fire
In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work
Scaoileadh : 1986.04.12Coitianta : 5.516
Yakuza Law
A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.
Scaoileadh : 1969.06.27Coitianta : 3.954
Cowboy Bebop: Don't Bother None
When three bounty hunters accidentally meet in a bar, their stark personalities begin to clash, turning into a three way gun fight.
Scaoileadh : 2012.12.12Coitianta : 1.413
Family Court Probation Officer, Akira Yamanobo
Tokyo Family Court judicial research official Akira Yamanobo is in charge of Tetsuo and Ayano Katase's divorce arbitration. Ayano, the wife, who...
Scaoileadh : 2016.05.07Coitianta : 1.66
Raiden
Based on the comic book series by Tadashi Ichinose and Kyouta Kita.
Scaoileadh : 1994.05.08Coitianta : 0.592
Shooting Stars in the Twilight
Hiromi works in a posh French restaurant. One day, he meets an ordinary-looking old man who has a discerning palate. He is no ordinary cook, and can...
Scaoileadh : 2002.05.18Coitianta : 0.362
Code of Wolves
In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of life changes after the Great Kanto Earthquake.
Scaoileadh : 1974.10.05Coitianta : 3.567
Death Note: L Change the WorLd
"The human whose name is written in the Death Note shall die." After making the hardest decision ever, another serious case confronts L. There are...
Scaoileadh : 2008.02.07Coitianta : 19.414
Lost in Ramen
A suicidal high school student, a ramen shop owner closing shop after the passing of his wife, and a cuisine researcher stranded in the Xinjiang...
Scaoileadh : 2018.03.03Coitianta : 1.211
Sweet Revenge
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo,...
Scaoileadh : 1977.12.17Coitianta : 1.637
Another World
Ko, a man in his late 30s, lives in the countryside with his wife and teenage son. Mitsuhiko, who runs a local car dealership, also stayed in his...
Scaoileadh : 2018.10.30Coitianta : 1.729
Tale of Young Drifter 2
Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigners.
Scaoileadh : 1960.08.16Coitianta : 1.772
Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky
A young tofu maker, Eikichi comes from Kyoto to open a tofu shop in a friendly neighborhood. He meets there a feisty local girl Ofumi who befriends...
Scaoileadh : 2007.03.31Coitianta : 0.962
The Sea of Genkai
Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean women, meet a stowaway on Japanese soil from across...
Scaoileadh : 1976.05.29Coitianta : 1.807
Pretenders
In Osaka, Shiromiya will soon turn 40 years old and he is unemployed. He lives with his daughter Yoyoko who is 5-years-old. Yoyoko has a secret. One...
Scaoileadh : 2018.10.20Coitianta : 0.897
Kingdom
Set in Qin Dynasty during the warring states period in ancient China. Shin was a war orphan. He has a dream of becoming a great general Shin has a...
Scaoileadh : 2019.04.19Coitianta : 31.454
Rolling on the Road
George is a washed-up middle-aged punk rocker, who divorces his wife and lives with his girlfriend, a soap massage parlor worker. His life becomes...
Scaoileadh : 1981.10.23Coitianta : 2.702
Evil Doers
Hiroki Matsukata plays Ogata, an Osakan restaurant worker that gets sent to prison for murder. The film details his subsequent attempts to escape. ...
Scaoileadh : 1975.12.06Coitianta : 1.126
Izo
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified....
Scaoileadh : 2004.09.07Coitianta : 7.815
A Sandcastle Model Family Home
An opportune salaryman moves his family into a model mansion for 12 months; unfortunately, they must allow prospective buyers to trek through their...
Scaoileadh : 1989.09.15Coitianta : 0.921
Memories of a Dog: Daido Moriyama's Journey to Photography
NHK documentary about the renowned Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama, with special focus and interview of Takuma Nakahira - the founder of...
Scaoileadh : 2010.08.13Coitianta : 0.822
The Sea Is Watching
O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the warnings of her fellow workers,...
Scaoileadh : 2002.07.27Coitianta : 4.103
Operation Plazma in Osaka
Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover.
Scaoileadh : 1976.01.31Coitianta : 2.918
Blade of the Immortal
Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows...
Scaoileadh : 2017.04.29Coitianta : 16.057
Lowly Ronin 5: The Teenage Orphan Girl
When the 'Lowly Ronin' helps an orphaned teenage girl avoid being turned into a prostitute, she then claims he is her father and they start a farm as...
Scaoileadh : 1983.04.08Coitianta : 1.002
The Boss' Wife
The widow of a murdered yakuza boss serves jail time for attacking the man she believes killed her husband. After her release, as she is shadowed by...
Scaoileadh : 1988.11.19Coitianta : 3.629
When My Mom Died, I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes
When Satoshi was little, his mother Akiko always took good care of him. She was gentle, but mentally strong. However, two years ago she was diagnosed...
Scaoileadh : 2019.02.22Coitianta : 0.602
Woman's Trail: Wet Path
A stripper reluctantly returns to her manager and husband with her new lover in tow. The lover tries to claim her but after escaping a beating he...
Scaoileadh : 1980.04.12Coitianta : 1.511
Spanking Love
Ryo Masuda is a washed up adult video director without a leading actress. Now, he has to find someone to re-place her quick, so he can produce his...
Scaoileadh : 1995.05.06Coitianta : 2.132
Another Side
This is Yamakawa's first feature film in 16mm. A group of university students who grew up in an era of rapid economic growth yearn for "another side"...
Scaoileadh : 1980.10.01Coitianta : 0.84
Playtime Never Ends
A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't...
Scaoileadh : 1991.10.05Coitianta : 2.187
Until Evening
Intellectual collegue professor Sasa becomes obsessed with beautiful Sugiko, a virgin. Eventually, luring her to a love hotel.
Scaoileadh : 1980.09.20Coitianta : 0.686
The Blood of Wolves
Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the...
Scaoileadh : 2018.05.12Coitianta : 5.255
Designated Lawyer
Suspicions fall on politician Tagane Seizo over the sale of nationally owned land to a social welfare service corporation back in 2010. Seizo Tagane...
Scaoileadh : 2018.09.23Coitianta : 1.397
It's Easier Than Kissing
After the death of her mother a young woman wants to meet her real father
Scaoileadh : 1989.01.28Coitianta : 0.944
Hissatsu Shigotonin 2007
A violent fire one evening kills a husband and wife couple and burns their Kazusaya rice shop to ashes. Their daughter Sachi manages to make it out...
Scaoileadh : 2007.07.07Coitianta : 0.608
Threads of Our Hearts
Akito has been the ears and voice of his mother, Reiko, since he was a child. Reiko was born deaf and has long dreamed that her son would become a...
Scaoileadh : 2010.11.27Coitianta : 1.351
Time Limit
Mizusawa (Takenouchi Yutaka), an explosives expert, is arrested and charged with a string of bank robberies. Because he is a flight risk, Detective...
Scaoileadh : 2003.06.25Coitianta : 1.763
Jubaku: Spellbound
When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to dig, breaking open a money-and-favours scandal...
Scaoileadh : 1999.09.18Coitianta : 1.102
Island of the Evil Spirits
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful twin sisters and tragic events unfold.
Scaoileadh : 1981.10.03Coitianta : 3.325
Break Out
An accidental shooting on the job and a recent divorce take a toll on the personal and professional life of a Japanese detective. Just as it seems he...
Scaoileadh : 1988.07.30Coitianta : 1.506
Yakuza Ladies Revisited
The wife of a yakuza lieutenant tries to keep the peace when the clan's heir suddenly dies and a succession conflict threatens to break out.
Scaoileadh : 1991.06.15Coitianta : 4.205
Walking Man
Atomu (Shuhei Nomura) was raised by his mother in a poor environment. He is now a young adult, but he stutters and has timid personality. To support...
Scaoileadh : 2019.10.11Coitianta : 2.036
Kagerô 2
An entertainment drama depicting the conflict of yakuza, centering on the female torso and her sister's feud.
Scaoileadh : 1996.02.10Coitianta : 0.599
Tomato No Shizuku
With their hair salon business now on track, longtime couple Sakura and Makoto mull over inviting Sakura's estranged father to their upcoming wedding.
Scaoileadh : 2017.01.14Coitianta : 2.495
Yakuza Ladies 11
When her husband is betrayed by his fellow yakuza and jailed, his wife takes over and fights to prevent his expulsion from the clan.
Scaoileadh : 2001.07.28Coitianta : 3.104
Wolves, Pigs & Men
Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh out of jail, and Sabu pointedly states that Jiro is...
Scaoileadh : 1964.08.26Coitianta : 2.605
Shimanto River
A young boy, Atsu, grows up along the banks of the Shimanto River in rural southern Shikoku. He comes to grips with the unfairness of life and the...
Scaoileadh : 1991.12.07Coitianta : 1.537
To the Bracken Fields
A poor village in the Tohoku area has a law that states when a resident becomes sixty years old, they must move to the place called Warabino, far...
Scaoileadh : 2003.02.01Coitianta : 1.5
Sada
The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis.
Scaoileadh : 1998.04.11Coitianta : 3.796
Trick: The Movie
Disaster befalls a village's inhabitants every 300 years. A popular self-styled magician named Naoko (Yukie Nakama) is summoned as a deity to rid the...
Scaoileadh : 2002.11.07Coitianta : 2.98
The Negotiator
After a convenience store robbery, three unidentified men hold a group of people hostage in a hospital. Inspector Ishida and Captain Tohno handle the...
Scaoileadh : 2003.08.17Coitianta : 3.489
Target
A business man visits his hometown to search for a missing employee
Scaoileadh : 1996.06.20Coitianta : 1.284
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling,...
Scaoileadh : 2006.02.11Coitianta : 7.384
The Big Bee
Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The power company, prefectural government and media...
Scaoileadh : 2015.09.12Coitianta : 3.137
The Most Dangerous Game
The first movie of Tôru Murakawa’s “Game” trilogy, in which an assassin hired to recover a kidnap victim becomes embroiled in...
Scaoileadh : 1978.04.07Coitianta : 4.045
The Black Hood
A horse-riding samurai fights villains.
Scaoileadh : 1981.12.03Coitianta : 1.639
Last Friends
Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Though they believe their service will help to...
Scaoileadh : 1995.06.03Coitianta : 3.81
The Gentle Japanese
A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle engineer.
Scaoileadh : 1971.03.05Coitianta : 1.436
Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso
A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.
Scaoileadh : 1989.01.28Coitianta : 1.364
I Want to Hear the Wind's Song
A heartwarming, based-on-true-story of how a hearing-impaired couple, Masahiro and Namiko, knew each other, got married and began participating in...
Scaoileadh : 1998.07.18Coitianta : 2.376
Zatoichi at Large
Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the...
Scaoileadh : 1972.01.15Coitianta : 5.978
Pretty Devil Yoko
Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl (Mako Midori) discovers partying in Tokyo is a ton of fun. Yakuza-to-be (Ichiro Araki) is...
Scaoileadh : 1966.03.19Coitianta : 1.451
Angry Rice Wives
In August, 1918, Matsuura Ito lives in a coastal village of Toyama with her husband and three children. During the summer, there wasn't much fish to...
Scaoileadh : 2021.01.08Coitianta : 2.876
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
An one hour made for TV special. Set in modern Japan, a journalist goes Insumasu to investigate people with deformation.
Scaoileadh : 1992.08.25Coitianta : 1.044
My Grandma
Home-design sales representative Tomohiro lives with his wife and their son. As his job involves houses, it is his motto to take great care of the...
Scaoileadh : 2008.12.06Coitianta : 1.372
Dangerous Stories
Three stories with horror and science fiction elements. 1st episode: "The Curse of Tutankhamen" (Tsutankâmen no noroï) by Kazuyuki Izutsu....
Scaoileadh : 1989.07.08Coitianta : 1.334
Shinsengumi
Produced for Fuji TV in 2000, the film reinterprets the story of a special samurai force - the Shinsengumi - at the end of the Edo period.
Scaoileadh : 2000.01.15Coitianta : 1.364
Kadokawa Mystery & Horror Tales Vol. 1
MEINICHI Directed By Tomoyuki Akashi Cast: Sayaka Yamaguchi, Asami Mizukawa "Maybe father was right. Maybe we should not have moved into that...
Scaoileadh : 2002.03.01Coitianta : 0.987
T.R.Y.
At the turn of the 20th Century amongst tension between China and Japan, a Japanese swindler in Shanghai plans to profit by selling weapons. He...
Scaoileadh : 2003.01.11Coitianta : 3.144
SHANAŌ: Les Garçons-Bonbons 3
The third movie in Léona Hirota's 'Candy Boys' series.
Scaoileadh : 2019.11.22Coitianta : 0.834
Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon
Biopic of Date Masamune. Young Masamune upon learning of the death of Nobunaga decides that he is the man to fill those sainted clogs. The fastest...
Scaoileadh : 1993.01.03Coitianta : 2.05
Another Battle/Conspiracy
Katsunori Takahashi and Ken Watanabe star in a modern yakuza tale in the classic Japanese film series, Battles Without Honor and Humanity, directed...
Scaoileadh : 2003.02.15Coitianta : 0.787
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
Kei Watanabe is a fifth grade elementary school student. He has inherited the hunter's blood to hunt yōkai. To save the world from being...
Scaoileadh : 2021.07.01Coitianta : 4.39
Ryuukou Kanbou
The novelist Shiga Naoya lives with his wife Haruko and their 4-year-old daughter Saeko. He is paranoid about Saeko’s health, making her wear...
Scaoileadh : 2021.04.10Coitianta : 1.448
One Missed Call
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent...
Scaoileadh : 2003.11.03Coitianta : 12.17
I Never Shot Anyone
Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, a dull novelist and a legendary killer. Susumu...
Scaoileadh : 2020.07.03Coitianta : 2.433
The Blue Danube
The soldiers no longer know why they are at war, and when it even started. Daily and dutifully they march to the river and shoot at the opposite...
Scaoileadh : 2021.03.26Coitianta : 1.33
The Motive
Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation...
Scaoileadh : 2004.12.18Coitianta : 3.225
Seraphim Night
Directed by Banmei Takahashi of "New Love in Tokyo." A drama centered around identity, with a half Korean/Japanese man and a hermaphroditic woman.
Scaoileadh : 1996.02.03Coitianta : 1.406
Youth Peony Lantern
Based on "Kaidan Botan Dango" by Sanyutei Encho, a rakugo storyteller who was active from the late Edo period to the Meiji era, Kara Juro was in...
Scaoileadh : 1993.08.21Coitianta : 1.383
The Central Quicksand
A tremor struck the Information Industry Bureau of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. The prosecution arrested a local contractor on...
Scaoileadh : 1998.08.04Coitianta : 0.743
The Dog Bridegroom
Ninomiya Azusa is a depressed elementary school teacher in Tokyo, who has problems both at work and in her personal life. One day, she suddenly hears...
Scaoileadh : 2017.05.13Coitianta : 1.71
Howling Village
After her brother goes missing, a young psychologist visits an infamous haunted and cursed location known as ‘Howling Village’ to...
Scaoileadh : 2020.02.07Coitianta : 13.323
Onihei Gaiden: The Night Rabbit
Bandit leader "Night Rabbit" Kakuemon has always kept the rule to "never kill, never rape, never steal from the poor", passed down to him by the...
Scaoileadh : 2011.01.03Coitianta : 1.372
Night Terror Ward
Yoko Mizutani, a nurse at Kikumisaka Hospital, a general hospital, is frightened by a series of bizarre incidents that occur at the hospital. One...
Scaoileadh : 1982.09.02Coitianta : 0.573
Tale of Young Drifter
Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigners.
Scaoileadh : 1960.07.26Coitianta : 0.972
偽りの花嫁
A young wife is frightened that her husband and her father's second wife may be in cahoots with each other and are after her fortune. And then,...
Scaoileadh : 1982.05.29Coitianta : 0.623
Eagle of the Decotora: Festival Music
First film in the 'Decotora no Eagle' series.
Scaoileadh : 2003.10.11Coitianta : 1.03