Ren Osugi
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1951-09-27
Locus Natus: Komatsushima, Tokushima, Japan
Et ut: Ren Ohsugi, 大杉孝, Ren Ôsugi, Ren Oosugi, 佐伯恭司, Kyoji Saeki, Takashi Osugi, Рэн Осуги, 大杉 漣, Ren Ósugi
Brother
A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his...
release : 2000.12.13popularis : 10.989
La Sombra del Verano - Ilusion in Andalusia
Set in Andalusia, Spain, the film depicts the fantastic journey of an ordinary housewife who leads an uneventful life in search of a missing writer....
release : 1996.03.09popularis : 1.429
Woman of the Rumor: Hold Me Until Morning
The wife of a wealthy manager returns to her suburban house and is suddenly attacked by an intruder. As she suffers through the aftermath of her...
release : 1980.03.13popularis : 0.635
MPD-PSYCHO/FAKE
A reworking of MPD Psycho by the author of the original manga Eiji Otsuka edited from the TV show and newly-filmed scenes.
release : 2002.07.06popularis : 0.526
Lady Joker
Men and women caught up in a downward spiral of corruption, discrimination, poverty and death are the focus of this detective-thriller/social-drama...
release : 2004.12.11popularis : 0.929
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Loot
Yûji and Kosaku are hired to track down an old man. But when he suddenly dies, his granddaughter surfaces with a map to his buried fortune,...
release : 1996.02.16popularis : 1.046
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...
release : 2000.03.03popularis : 24.747
Uzumaki
The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.
release : 2000.02.11popularis : 14.466
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...
release : 1999.11.27popularis : 6.265
Exte: Hair Extensions
An aspiring hair dresser becomes the infatuation of a tricophilic man who sells hair extensions to nearby hair salons. The source of the hair is the...
release : 2007.02.17popularis : 5.413
Party 7
Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from...
release : 2000.09.27popularis : 1.423
Sonatine
Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war,...
release : 1993.04.10popularis : 8.359
Scarlet Prostitute: Stabbing
A gang boss orders the execution of a prostitute who witnessed a murder. When the boss' henchman discovers the prostitute is actually blind, he falls...
release : 1981.03.01popularis : 1.177
Ikiru
In a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe finds that he has a terminal cancer, he decides to...
release : 2007.09.09popularis : 1.192
Devoted Cookbook
The film is set in Edo period. As an orphan child Mio starts working at a restaurant in Osaka where she learns how to cook. When she turns 18, she...
release : 2012.09.22popularis : 2.025
Give It All
Etsuko - a typical Japanese high school student, who's unlucky in love, an academic failure, and plain bored with life. That's until one day, the...
release : 1998.10.09popularis : 2.762
Semi-dokyumento: Tokkun Meiki Dukuri
The mother is unfulfilled, the father has affairs, the son fantasizes and the budding daughter is growing curious. Just your normal family until a...
release : 1981.02.20popularis : 3.319
The Twilight Samurai
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles...
release : 2002.11.02popularis : 13.424
Kids Return
Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time...
release : 1996.07.27popularis : 7.064
Train Man
The purportedly true story of a 23-year-old otaku (Japanese geek) who intervened when a drunk man was harassing a woman on a train. The otaku...
release : 2005.06.04popularis : 8.788
Séance
A psychic housewife and her husband accidentally find a kidnapped girl. But instead of informing the police, they hatch a scheme to get famous by...
release : 2000.08.07popularis : 5.487
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,...
release : 2000.11.03popularis : 2.531
Dead or Alive 2: Birds
Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and...
release : 2000.12.02popularis : 8.581
Cure
A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and claims to have had no control over their...
release : 1997.12.27popularis : 16.838
Full Metal Yakuza
After being brutally murdered in a gangster-style execution, Kensuke Hagane finds himself brought back to life by a mad scientist and rebuilt as a...
release : 1997.12.05popularis : 3.157
Postman Blues
Sawaki is a postman who's not quite thrilled about his boring way of life. But his life is about to change when he delivers mail to his old...
release : 1997.08.16popularis : 3.627
Time Slip
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's segment from 'A Story of Love, Wonder and Horror.'
release : 2005.10.21popularis : 0.854
Shinjuku Triad Society
Tatsuhito, a cop, pursues Chinese warlord Wang through the underworld of Shinjuku and over to Taiwan.
release : 1995.08.26popularis : 4.46
Monday
A simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what...
release : 2000.04.29popularis : 3.108
The City of Lost Souls
Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in...
release : 2000.09.15popularis : 3.547
Cop Festival: New Beginning
Fourth installment in Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 8 films.
release : 2003.05.24popularis : 1.794
Baton
Baton is a collection of three 20-minute Sci-fi anime films dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the establishment of Yokohama city. On Planet Abel,...
release : 2009.04.28popularis : 1.291
Thirteen Steps
A released inmate is hired to solve a murder case.
release : 2003.02.08popularis : 2.437
Origin: Spirits of the Past
It is 300 years into the future. Earth's environment had been devastated by mankind's own foolish plans and humankind is beleaguered by the sentient...
release : 2006.01.07popularis : 9.884
Can you collect it? 2
Jin, who has killed is worried about his younger brother Jiro and has returned to the world as a ghost!
release : 1993.08.13popularis : 1.683
Can you collect it? Complete
Jiro becomes a happy instructor but a shocking suspicion was raised by Owada who took the place of his parents.
release : 1994.09.09popularis : 1.189
Nightmare Detective
When a number of suicide victims slash themselves in their sleep, detective Keiko Kirishima is called to investigate.
release : 2007.01.13popularis : 6.101
It's More Radical!
A yakuza's woman got in a car with Ida, a salesman who has no choice!
release : 1994.04.08popularis : 0.895
Chimpira Life
The chimpira 'Katsuichi' got his hands on the only daughter of the largest daughter in the Kanto region.
release : 1998.02.13popularis : 1.156
Will You Die in the Chimpira Dream Chara!
Three mean and a woman connected by a strange encounter.
release : 1995.08.04popularis : 0.619
Assault Rakugaki Fools
This exciting work is full of dangerous behind the scenes stories from the sex industry.
release : 1997.09.12popularis : 1.015
Known As! Pissken
The thug is now back in Shaba as a legendary hitman!
release : 1996.05.10popularis : 0.841
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...
release : 2018.06.30popularis : 1.047
Drive
Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his van. They are in hot pursuit of their fellow robber...
release : 2002.08.24popularis : 1.838
Tripping
It's the story of a rebellious Japanese-Taiwanese girl (played by Rena Tanaka from “Kitaro”) who gets transported back to ancient times...
release : 2006.01.01popularis : 1.761
Vacation
The prison guards working in penitentiaries where death row inmates are locked up are forced to spend their daily lives constantly facing death.
release : 2008.06.07popularis : 1.121
Eyes of the Spider
Nijima, a white-collar worker, finds the man responsible for his young daughter's murder. He tortures and interrogates the man, who maintains his...
release : 1998.04.11popularis : 2.427
Getting Any?
While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.
release : 1995.02.11popularis : 5.914
Space Travelers
Three bank robbers, who declare themselves to be Space Travelers, take six persons as hostages when they are surrounded by the police. Among the...
release : 2000.04.08popularis : 1.817
The Exam
Togashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi's grade school entrance examinations, but he becomes...
release : 1999.07.03popularis : 1.8
Love of Sawako
Sawako, working in a bank, tired of the usual everyday life, once she met the chef of French cuisine Yukio Goto and spent the night with him. Sawako...
release : 1990.10.17popularis : 5.954
Apartment wife tied up
An erotic drama reflecting the painful lust of two couples living in a residential complex. When a man got drunk, he undressed his wife and tied her...
release : 1980.05.01popularis : 1.567
Maborosi
A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.
release : 1995.10.01popularis : 10.856
Scan Doll
Katsumi, a man who lives a lazy and uninspired life, suddenly becomes addicted to "peeping" to uncover the true identity of his unknown neighbors in...
release : 1996.07.12popularis : 2.702
Shikoku
Years after moving to Tokyo with her parents, Hinako returns to her hometown in rural Shikoku. She soon learns that her childhood friend, Sayuri,...
release : 1999.01.23popularis : 2.257
Tokyo Eyes
The police are tracking a man who shoots at people. But the young sister of a detective finds that he's not the mad vigilante portrayed in newspapers.
release : 1998.09.09popularis : 2.113
Neck Bowed in the Rain
Baijaku Nakamura takes the lead in a film where he has to dodge pursuit from a hostile gang whilst also helping out a family of innocent people who...
release : 2018.07.21popularis : 1.141
Box: The Hakamada Case
Based on the true story of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada who has spent over 40 years incarcerated on death row. Iwao Hakamada was arrested...
release : 2010.05.29popularis : 1.988
Dear Friends
High school student Rina has a bad attitude and thinks that friends are something that you use when you need them. She doesn't have any real...
release : 2007.02.03popularis : 3.001
New Gokudo Legend: Three Dragons
A full-scale drama that visualizes a feature-length novel by Koichi Iiboshi from "Battle Without Honor and Justice." It depicts a shocking rivalry...
release : 1999.01.01popularis : 1.225
Heisei Zankeiden : Battered Slash!
A man who was trapped by a gangster who was taken over by a sneaky means of life, such as a gangster and a gangster who disappeared from the screen...
release : 1996.07.12popularis : 0.568
Weather Woman
Keiko, a young, newly hired weather woman, is eager to give her channel's flagging ratings a boost. She decides a panty shot might do the trick, so...
release : 1996.08.16popularis : 1.292
Fuckin' Runaway
Hana, 21-year old, is sent to a mental hospital for attempting a suicide. She suffers from hearing a deep male voice in her head almost everyday that...
release : 2007.10.20popularis : 0.566
Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker
Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker is the film adaptation of the 2009 Kamen Rider Series Kamen Rider Decade. As Decade is billed as the...
release : 2009.08.08popularis : 3.859
Smuggler
To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one live elite assassin – in the...
release : 2011.10.22popularis : 2.475
Tales of the Bizarre: 2003 Fall Special
Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2003 Fall Special" presents five tales. 1. *Kagi (The Key) - starring Eguchi Yosuke. 2. Perfect...
release : 2003.09.18popularis : 0.948
Tales of the Bizarre: 2003 Spring Special
Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2003 Spring Special" presents five tales. 1. Kao wo Nusumareta (My Face was Stolen) - starring...
release : 2003.03.24popularis : 0.666
About Love
Three stories are told, respectively set in Tokyo, Taipei, and Shanghai. The first two stories are about a Japanese person and a Taiwanese person....
release : 2005.04.12popularis : 1.654
The King of Minami: Sham Marriage
#11 in the series, after "Sweet Trap."
release : 1995.03.11popularis : 1.533
The Guard from Underground
A former sumo wrestler, now working as a security guard, goes on a murderous rampage.
release : 1992.06.16popularis : 1.989
Unlucky Monkey
A dark and strange comedy about a bank robber with bad luck. Bungling a bank robbery turns out to be a profitable mistake for Yamazaki, an amateur...
release : 1998.07.18popularis : 3.588
A New Love in Tokyo
A look a the lives of two sex workers in Tokyo: Rei, who works as an S&M dominatrix, and Ayumi, in the more straightforward profession of call girl....
release : 1994.12.17popularis : 12.227
Running on Empty
The beautiful Azami is tired of her penniless and lazy boyfriend, Hideji. Determined to break up with him, she must first get back all the money she...
release : 2010.02.20popularis : 2.745
Wandering Brain
A psychological suspense based on the novel of the same name by Naoki Prize-winning author Tsuyoshi Osaka. Psychiatrist Aiko Minamikawa was asked to...
release : 1993.12.04popularis : 1.969
Doing Time
A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon...
release : 2002.05.14popularis : 1.988
Bodyguard Kiba
Naoto Kiba takes on the task of protecting thug Junpei who embezzled 500 million yen from Okinawa's largest gangster gangs, Soryu-kai.
release : 1993.06.25popularis : 3.529
Harlem Valentines Day: Blood Is Sex
Set in the near future after a nuclear war, the film portrays a man who is searching for his former lover.
release : 1982.11.20popularis : 0.949
Tokyo Mafia 2: Wrath of the Yakuza
Yabuki's old friend returns as a deadly enemy. Blood brothers are driven to bitter hatred as betrayal rips mafia loyalties apart! Only the strong...
release : 1996.04.05popularis : 0.668
Hitozuma ryôjoku
Pink film by Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu.
release : 1984.09.01popularis : 1.213
Onihei Crime Files Special: Bandits
An old thief, Kuhei Sagiwara, used to visit his hometown at the foot of the Kurikara Pass in Kaga Province. Hiding from the rain, he overheard a...
release : 2006.02.17popularis : 1.574
Hole in the Pants 5: I Found a Glittering Star in my Pants!
5th installment of the Pantsu no ana video series released by BOMB magazine
release : 1990.12.08popularis : 1.613
GTO: New Year's Special
A mother leaves three kids in the care of Saejima and it's up to Onizuka and the gang to track her down. Meanwhile Miki is having some problems with...
release : 2013.01.02popularis : 2.145
Lady Poison: Beasts of the Underground
A female photographer seduces men to kill them for her pleasure.
release : 1994.01.01popularis : 2.408
Arigato, Okan
Hanako is a mother, who was not enthusiastic when her husband took in two foster children some years ago. He died not long afterward, leaving her...
release : 2008.10.06popularis : 2.305
XX: Beautiful Prey
This Japanese thriller finds a sexy policewoman becoming entangled in Japan's S&M underground while investigating a gruesome murder. Soon, her...
release : 1996.05.17popularis : 8.031
Bayside Shakedown The Final: The New Hope
Set 2 years after prior film "Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose," a major case occurs that has the potential to take down the entire police...
release : 2012.09.06popularis : 3.388
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...
release : 2002.07.20popularis : 3.465
Ushijima the Loan Shark Part 3
Sawamura, a contract part-timer dragged into a multi-million yen internet business, and Kamo, an office worker who lavished money on a beautiful club...
release : 2016.09.22popularis : 2.548
I Am an S+M Writer
Kurosaki is an erotic novelist who uses his editor and a hired model to act out scenarios in his living room to use for inspiration in his writing....
release : 2000.09.02popularis : 2.835
Sunday's Dream
Kazuya goes to live with his mother Shinobu because his father, Yoshiki, who works in the same company, has fired him according to the company policy...
release : 2005.10.22popularis : 1.054
The Unbroken
Onchi was exiled to posts around Asia and Africa due to his work as head of a labor union for National Air Line. He is ordered to return to head...
release : 2009.10.23popularis : 3.441
Bayside Shakedown
Aoshima, a police detective working in the Bayside Precinct, is continually frustrated by the hierarchy and red tape that plague the system. His...
release : 1998.10.31popularis : 3.942
School Days with a Pig
A sixth grade teacher raises a pig with his class.
release : 2008.10.31popularis : 3.764
Blindly in Love
Kentaro is an unsocial 35-year-old who lives with his parents and has never dated a woman. When Kentaro’s parents set up an arranged marriage...
release : 2013.06.08popularis : 2.328
Jingi 13: Hell's Tomb Mark
After the internal conflict in the Kanto Ichienkai that was once caused by the Takayama group, until the reconstruction of the Takayama group, the...
release : 1997.12.27popularis : 0.935
The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji
Reiji Kikukawa, who has a strong sense of justice, graduated from the police academy with the lowest score ever. He becomes a police constable, but...
release : 2013.11.15popularis : 3.769
Gappie, Wear a Tie this Summer
It is a youth group of third-class university students struggling to get a job at a first-class company.
release : 1990.03.31popularis : 0.639
Loft
A writer retreats to a secluded suburban house to work on her new novel. But her attention is instead occupied by her archaeologist neighbor's newly...
release : 2005.10.07popularis : 4.057
Tales of the Bizarre: 2002 Spring Special
Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2002 Spring Special" presents five tales. 1. Mushi Game (Ignore the Game) - starring Uchiyama Rina...
release : 2002.03.27popularis : 0.566
Kuma-chan
Kuma-chan, an alien who looks just like a stuffed bear, helps a middle-aged sculptor fall in love with a young actress from a theater company.
release : 1993.04.24popularis : 0.946
My SO Has Got Depression
Mikio is a married man and works hard for the company where he is employed. Then one day Mikio is diagnosed with depression. Mikio's wife is Haruko....
release : 2011.10.08popularis : 2.787
Devoted Cookbook
It is the Spring of 1814. The restaurant “Tsuru-ka” is gaining much popularity after its chef, Mio, won the prestigious cooking...
release : 2014.06.08popularis : 1.476
Rookies the Movie: Graduation
Futakotamagawa High School had a Baseball Club, but because of a fight during one of their games, they were suspended for a year from all games....
release : 2009.05.30popularis : 2.068
April Bride
On April 5, 2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The bride, however, was suffering from late-stage breast...
release : 2009.05.09popularis : 2.491
Flying Rabbits
Yukari always wanted to become a flight attendant and has just been hired by Japan Airlines. However, due to an unexpected mistake, she has also been...
release : 2008.09.13popularis : 0.972
What I Long For
High school student Juri leaps to her death. Afterwards, Juri wanders to her house, school and street. She feels loneliness as nobody else is able to...
release : 2013.12.31popularis : 2.47
Hana's Miso Soup
Yasutake Shingo works as a newspaper reporter but his life is stiffled and lifeless. That changes one day when he meets the irrepressible Matsunaga...
release : 2014.08.30popularis : 0.658
L'amant
When three older men buy a 17-year-old schoolgirl named Chikako for a year's-worth of sexual services -- her motivation, aside from money, is never...
release : 2004.02.05popularis : 3.16
Unfair: the movie
When a devoted detective probes the suspicious death of her father, she uncovers massive corruption and finds herself in grave danger.
release : 2007.03.17popularis : 1.973
Crying 100 Times - Every Raindrop Falls
Shuichi had a motorcycle accident 4 years ago. Because of the accident, he lost the last year of his memory. One day, at a friend's wedding, Shuichi...
release : 2013.07.22popularis : 3.345
Dead Run
Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes...
release : 2005.12.17popularis : 2.79
License to Live
Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is...
release : 1999.01.23popularis : 5.536
Black Angel
Tokyo is a dark technopolis, a city of faceless chrome and cold marble. It is ruled by Nogi, a yakuza boss specializing in drugs and murder. He...
release : 1998.05.30popularis : 4.312
Charisma
A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for...
release : 1999.11.10popularis : 5.251
The Goofball
Hisashi gets fired from his temp job due to his impulsiveness. One day he meets Chikako, a housewife who constantly shoplifts at the supermarket he...
release : 1998.06.27popularis : 0.631
GO
Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.
release : 2001.10.20popularis : 6.235
Kanikôsen
On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not...
release : 2009.07.04popularis : 2.417
Dangan Runner
A would-be bank robber forgets his mask on his first big heist, and then botches an attempt to shoplift a replacement mask from a nearby convenience...
release : 1996.11.09popularis : 3.475
Fireworks from the Heart
On September 9th, the day of the Katakai Fireworks Festival, high school student Hana comes home from the hospital after six months of treatment for...
release : 2010.09.25popularis : 1.642
The Lightning Tree
Set during the Edo Period, a young man from a noble family meets a young woman under a special tree called "Raiou" (the tree was struck by lightning...
release : 2010.10.22popularis : 2.655
Yellow Elephant
Married couple Aiko Tsumari and Ayumu Muko live a happy and peaceful life. Aiko is bit naive, while Ayumu works as a not so popular novelist. One...
release : 2013.02.02popularis : 3.419
Abnormal Family
The film tells a story about a woman and her relationship with the family of her husband's, in particular her husband's younger brother and...
release : 1984.06.05popularis : 7.683
Beautiful Mystery
Shinohara, a young bodybuilder, joins a para-military sect in northern Japan. His instructor, Takizawa, takes a liking to the new recruit. After an...
release : 1983.04.01popularis : 3.562
The Hit-and-Run Family
Set in the 1990s, this film uses black humour to cast a sharp, satirical eye at the problems facing modern Japanese families. Hiroshi accidentally...
release : 1992.12.19popularis : 1.622
Empire of Kids
Following a stint in reform school, Ryu (Shinsuke Shimada) returns to his home, the Minami area of Osaka, accompanied by his new friend Ko (Takeshi...
release : 1981.07.04popularis : 3.349
Beauty Rope Cosmetology
A wealthy college girl is snatched off the streets by a pair of S&M professionals. They methodically break her will with the extensive use of bondage...
release : 1983.12.02popularis : 34.17
XX: Beautiful Weapon
A blind female assassin lives alone in a remote house; her superiors occasionally send her "clients" / targets that she shoots right after having sex...
release : 1993.12.22popularis : 2.514
MARKS
Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later...
release : 1995.04.22popularis : 2.779
We're No Angels
Rikiya Yasuoka, Ren Ōsugi and Junji Inagawa star in this early straight to video effort from Takashi Miike. Joe (Yasuoka), a lumbering tough guy...
release : 1993.10.29popularis : 0.713
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist
Two petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members, fortunately they are rescued by a kindly Kindergarten teacher.
release : 1995.04.22popularis : 3.137
Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Wars
After being excommunicated from the yakuza, Ginya Yabuki returns from the shadows as leader of his own crime syndicate known as the Tokyo Mafia.
release : 1995.07.23popularis : 2.632
Falling into the Evening
Rica and Kengo have been living together for the past four years. It's been a very happy time for Rica; the only dark spot being an accident she...
release : 1998.11.07popularis : 2.467
Fishes in August
A refined psychological portrait of youths on their way to maturity
release : 1998.01.01popularis : 0.978
Kewaishi
Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of a manga by Shotaro Ishinomori was an official selection at the 5th Shanghai International Film Festival...
release : 2002.02.09popularis : 2.137
Tracing Jake
Inuyama is intrigued by the existence of "Jake," a mysterious crocodile that has been sighted in many countries around the world. He continues to...
release : 2004.02.07popularis : 1.26
Stereo Future
Keisuke, an aspiring samurai-movie actor lands a major role in a new film, but must contend with a director who has nothing but scorn for him, but...
release : 2001.06.05popularis : 1.813
Red Moon
Namiko Morita, who lived in Otaru, moved to this area with her husband, Yutaro, and opened the brewery "Morita Brewery". Eventually, they succeeded...
release : 2004.02.07popularis : 0.868
Takeshis'
Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience...
release : 2005.09.02popularis : 6.071
R246 STORY
The anthology film R246 Story centers around the major Japanese highway Route 246. Originating in Chiyoda Ward's Miyakezaka district, the 122.7...
release : 2008.08.23popularis : 1.188
The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming
Remake of a hit film from 1990, "The Cherry Orchard" which Nakahara himself directed, based on a popular comic book from Akimi Yoshida. The story...
release : 2008.11.08popularis : 2.276
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...
release : 2008.11.01popularis : 3.627
GS Wonderland
"GS Wonderland" is about the 1960's Group Sounds bands - A Japanese pop movement inspired by the Beatles and other mid-1960's Brit Pop. Three young...
release : 2008.11.15popularis : 1.334
Tokyo Rhapsody
"Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as "Kayokyoku". Kayokyoku is a catch-all term to describe the...
release : 2007.05.12popularis : 2.271
Making of Zebraman
A documentary on the making of “Zebraman” directed by Takashi Miike.
release : 2004.08.15popularis : 1.35
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and...
release : 2001.08.18popularis : 1.403
Utsutsu
A mysterious woman approaches a salaried man who leads a peaceful family life and tells him, "Your wife is having an affair with my husband." From...
release : 2002.06.01popularis : 0.963
Chasuke's Journey
Things are hectic in heaven. Dozens of scribes sit before a long scroll incessantly scribbling away. They are composing the biographies of...
release : 2015.02.13popularis : 1.963
The River with No Bridge
A widow and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku people are forced to reside. The two boys are...
release : 1992.05.23popularis : 1.263
Nekonade
The highly disciplined human resources manager Taro Onizuka starts to heal and change as he raises the kitten he found in a park.
release : 2008.06.28popularis : 1.54
Glory to the Filmmaker!
Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete...
release : 2007.06.02popularis : 2.966
Sabu
When a young man is sent to a prison workhouse for a crime he did not commit his friend on the outside must find evidence to clear his name.
release : 2002.05.14popularis : 1.116
Fancy Dance
Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic...
release : 1989.12.23popularis : 3.183
Achilles and the Tortoise
Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife...
release : 2008.09.20popularis : 10.282
Tattoo
An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.
release : 1982.06.05popularis : 2.062
Blessing Bell
Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other characters' lives.
release : 2002.12.08popularis : 1.615
Yakuza Taxi
The Yakuza clan Inoshika decides to help a small family business, Taxi Tanaka, lured by the clan Jinryûkaï and deeply in debt.
release : 1994.01.01popularis : 2.698
Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary
Warriors called "Saints" are the champions of hope who have always appeared since the Age of Myth whenever evil threatens the world. In this present...
release : 2014.06.21popularis : 32.897
Kagura Me
A woman bears a 13 year grudge with her father over the traditional dance he was performing that caused him to be absent from her mother's death,...
release : 2015.10.24popularis : 0.725
Maji! 6: Raging Fire
Shirogane Maji (Tamotsu Ishibashi), now the head of the Kozugumi, is summoned by Akame Shinzan, the Kozugumi's substitute lender, and is told that...
release : 1997.06.26popularis : 1.503
Delivery of Death
Reporters Takehara and Tsumura Aki work for the magazine "Shukan Dodongo". Their chief editor tells them to monitor Okase Shohei who is an...
release : 2014.05.30popularis : 0.828
Aoi byoten
The sudden death of a journalist stirs up young editor Noriko's curiosity. While investigating the case, Noriko uncovers the dark secrets hidden...
release : 2006.09.08popularis : 0.857
Japan Lies: The Photojournalism of Kikujiro Fukushima, Age 90
Documentary on photojournalist Kikujiro Fukushima
release : 2012.08.04popularis : 0.71
Meikyu Sousa
Detective Yoichiro arrives at a crime scene involving the brutal murder of three family members to find a young five-year-old boy hiding in the...
release : 2015.05.10popularis : 0.975
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape
Hapless gangsters are hired by the yakuza to tail his daughter. Once the identity of the boy she's dating has been unveiled, the boss offers a reward...
release : 1995.08.12popularis : 1.871
Love Letter
A romantic film about the spiritual exchange between a gangster and a Chinese woman who got married to him under false pretenses.
release : 1998.05.23popularis : 1.176
The Interrogator Special
Yukiko Makabe is the only female interrogator in a department full of men. Their job is to question suspects immediately after a crime, using...
release : 2015.09.27popularis : 1.254
Hypnosis
Three apparently unrelated suicides occur on the same day in Tokyo. One involves a young athlete, one a groom at his wedding reception, and the third...
release : 1999.06.05popularis : 2.597
Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown
A bizarre mystery created under the direction of director Jissoji. The mysterious and strange world of Jissoji is brought back to life here!
release : 1992.04.23popularis : 0.561
Persona
Into the bully-infested home room class struts a fearless, ceramic-masked student. Squarely confronting a gang of ruffians, it is soon discovered...
release : 2000.08.05popularis : 1.373
Jam Films S
Jam Films S is a Japanese omnibus movie. It was released by Phantom FIlm in Japan on January 15, 2005. The movie follows 2002’s Jam Films and...
release : 2005.01.15popularis : 3.042
USB
Yuichiro wants to be an film director but his widowed mother wants him to become a doctor. As radiation leaks permeate the city, he tries to clear...
release : 2009.06.06popularis : 1.479
Love or Duty: Samurai Rebellion
In the Edo period of Japan, a samurai’s life belonged to his lord. On the battlefield or in the home, a loyal samurai must always obey his...
release : 2013.02.09popularis : 2.454
Akko's Secret
Young Atsuko Kagami comes into possession of a magical mirror that lets her transform into anything she wishes. Atsuko Kagami then attempts to save a...
release : 2012.08.31popularis : 2.101
Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story
Keisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan’s most respected legends of cinema. Made to commemorate the...
release : 2013.06.01popularis : 1.42
Bitter Honey
Akako, a shape-shifting goldfish in the form of a coquettish nymphet clad in diaphanous red dresses, naively plays the role of erotic muse and...
release : 2016.04.01popularis : 2.195
1778 Stories of Me and My Wife
Sci-fi writer Sakutaro (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and bank employee Setsuko (Yuko Takeuchi) met at as high school freshmen during their summer vacation....
release : 2011.01.16popularis : 1.461
Nowhere Man
Sukezo, a farmer manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but...
release : 1991.11.02popularis : 2.942
Gene Waltz
Doctor Rie (Miho Kanno) is know as the Joan of Ark of Obstetrics & Gynecology. She works in a challenging environment with clinics shutting down...
release : 2011.02.05popularis : 0.578
Shin Godzilla
When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of...
release : 2016.07.29popularis : 24.399
The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
One day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is arrested to take responsibility for a botched...
release : 2005.08.27popularis : 1.914
The Land of Rain Trees
Nobuyuki Sakisaka (Yuta Tamamori) is a salaryman. When he was in middle school student, he read light novel "Fairy Game”. He still has that...
release : 2015.10.21popularis : 2.948
A Drop of the Grapevine
After a symphonic music career in Europe cut short by hearing loss, Ao (Oizumi Yo) returns home to run his family's farm in Hokkaido alongside...
release : 2014.10.11popularis : 0.985
Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Blood
Ten years after his greatest triumph, Yabuki has lost the Mafia that was once his to rule. But when a young gangster comes to him for guidance, he...
release : 1997.10.24popularis : 1.628
The Revenge: A Visit from Fate
Sho Aikawa plays a police detective whose dark personal history makes it impossible for him to stay within the limits of the legal system. But he is...
release : 1997.03.01popularis : 1.114
Subway Serial Rape: Lover Hunting
A woman is raped on a crowded subway but no one reports it to the police. A TV studio exploits the incident to boost ratings. Even the reporter sent...
release : 1988.05.07popularis : 2.304
Snake Hole
Due to a past trauma an elegant wife cannot enjoy her husband attentions in bed. Undeterred he hires a B&D master to give him a few pointers on how...
release : 1983.02.25popularis : 2.923
Hatsuko's World
15-year-old Hatsuko (Higashi Ayu) lives with her elder brother in a humble town house. Their mother died when they were young, and the father...
release : 2007.05.12popularis : 2.404
Door III
Miyako is a frustrated insurance saleswoman stuck in a major dry spell. She tries every trick in the book, including aggressive flirting, which gets...
release : 1996.04.13popularis : 2.902
Dolls
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales...
release : 2002.10.12popularis : 9.061
Shall We Dance?
A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near...
release : 1996.01.27popularis : 8.874
Dance till Tomorrow
Live action adaption of Naoki Yamamoto's romantic comedy manga series.
release : 1991.06.22popularis : 1.211
Kamen Rider #1
45 years ago, a man was subjected to the experiments of the secret organization Shocker and became a cyborg. Since that day, the man's sole mission...
release : 2016.03.26popularis : 5.828
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Detectives Shintarou Sakurai (Sho Aikawa) and Koichi Hikage (Susumu Terajima) are partners. They are also corrupt and often blackmail criminal groups...
release : 2014.11.01popularis : 0.744
MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming
Musical band "Yajima Biyoshitsu" comes to Japan from Nevada, USA to debut their CD.
release : 2010.04.29popularis : 1.727
Wangan Midnight
Direct to video adaptation of the comic by Michiharu Kusunoki.
release : 1992.03.13popularis : 1.533
Don't Look Up
On the set of a dark war time drama at an old movie studio, a young director, Toshio Murai, is trying to complete his debut film. The two starring...
release : 1996.03.22popularis : 5.28
Girl Mistress
An older yakuza man falls in love with Seru, a high school girl. When he is put in prison, Seru begins working as a prostitute to earn money for the...
release : 1980.10.01popularis : 0.965
Rush!
A wacky tale of two guys, one Korean and one Japanese who, mistaken for a couple of murderers, take to their heels, thus starting off a...
release : 2001.06.23popularis : 1.589
Outrage Coda
Five years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a noted...
release : 2017.10.07popularis : 8.038
Will You Marry My Wife?
Shuji Mimura works as a broadcast writer. He learns that he doesn't have much time left to live. He decides to concentrate on the future of his...
release : 2016.11.05popularis : 1.147
What the War Meant
The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and was later executed as a war...
release : 2008.12.24popularis : 0.885
Kaze no Tayori
Kurumi suddenly gave up opening a cafe with her friend. She hears that her grandfather Takeshi collapsed and goes to visit him in her hometown of...
release : 2016.01.30popularis : 1.746
Yakuza Ladies: Decision
Kasuga’s husband gets arrested for a murder of his beloved protégé. She and her family investigate and find out he was trapped by...
release : 1998.01.17popularis : 1.428
Monster
A woman has an ugly face. She has been called 'monster' since childhood. A case occurs in her town that leads to her being ejected and a relocation...
release : 2013.04.27popularis : 2.061
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...
release : 2013.06.08popularis : 2.033
Crazy Lips
After her brother is accused of murdering four people, his sister, desperate to prove his innocence, goes to a psychic for help. The price they ask,...
release : 2000.02.26popularis : 2.149
Teacher and Three Children
The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on a teacher he had when he was a child.
release : 2008.09.27popularis : 1.196
It's a Beautiful Life - Irodori
A group of elderly women come together to sell vegetable leaves.
release : 2012.09.15popularis : 1.699
Dog Race
Ethnically Korean Japanese filmmaker Yoichi Sai directs this madcap crime comedy. Nakayama (Goro Kishitani) is a suave police detective who doesn't...
release : 1998.09.26popularis : 1.435
The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
A man and a woman committed double suicide in Kanazawa City. Immediately after the incident, Yoshiko Shiota, a woman living in Tokyo, contacts the...
release : 2016.03.12popularis : 2.231
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Hero
Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a brother and sister who want to drive a local yakuza gang member out of their neighborhood.
release : 1996.09.21popularis : 1.552
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Gamble
Having lost everything to horse racing, Yûji accidentally gets 10 million yen. But this sum belongs to a Yakuza.
release : 1996.03.01popularis : 1.642
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Nouveau Riche
A duo get mixed up with a girl who finds a trunk load full of heroin.
release : 1996.09.07popularis : 2.651
The Chaplain
Saeki works with death-row convicts as a prison chaplain. He tries to instill the prisoners with a sense of morality and help them become a better...
release : 2018.10.06popularis : 0.37
Specialist 2
A mysterious code written with letters and numbers is found on a street in Kyoto. Yoshito Takuma (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and Chinami Anekoji (Kaho...
release : 2014.03.08popularis : 1.771
Specialist
Kusanagi plays a police detective who gets framed for a crime he didn't commit and had to spend the last 10 years in prison. However, he regains his...
release : 2013.05.18popularis : 1.642
Specialist 3
Shu Kubota is killed by someone with a baseball bat. A metal bat and an old toy are found at the crime scene. Detective Yoshito (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi)...
release : 2015.02.28popularis : 1.27
Specialist 4
Yoshito (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) becomes famous in Kyoto because of his ability to solve cases. The special investigation unit receives a request to...
release : 2015.12.12popularis : 1.456
Avec mon Mari
Mitsuko has a prestigious job as an editor at a publishing company, while her husband Tomatsu works as a freelance photographer, but he spends all of...
release : 1999.03.06popularis : 0.967
Travail
Asami and Rina are two sisters who are both professional shogi players in the same B League. Both are also unsatisfied with their partners —...
release : 2002.03.23popularis : 2.145
1990 botan-dôrô
Adaptation of the traditional Japanese ghost story The Peony Lantern.
release : 1990.10.13popularis : 1.242
Her Island, My Island
A young woman returns to the island where she grew up.
release : 2003.02.15popularis : 2.087
Our Season
A gay couple is on good terms with each other. They run a shot bar together and are enjoying their love. Their father was also once a lover, and they...
release : 1983.11.01popularis : 2.333
The Rape
Saeko works at a bar, and she is waitng for her lover Huyuhiko who was jailed. One day, Huyuhiko comes back. He starts working, but soon he quit the...
release : 1982.01.01popularis : 2.425
Teacher, Don't Turn Me On!
Two high school girls, an older sister and a married woman all vie for the attention of a tutor. Needless to say not much studying gets done.
release : 1984.10.20popularis : 1.17
For Love's Sake
Shiori is a star university student with an incredible palate for wine who dreams of studying winemaking in France. However, to her dismay she is...
release : 2018.10.20popularis : 1.588
The Wicked Reporter
More than his indie debut Skinless Night, this was the film that launched Mochizuki on his distinctive trajectory through the crime and yakuza...
release : 1993.07.19popularis : 1.566
Subway Serial Rape
A man with a briefcase is being pursued by a small yakuza gang. After abandoning his vehicle, the man boards a train where he and the other...
release : 1985.05.22popularis : 1.104
Prime Minister's Office Lady
A woman, disguised as an office lady, takes revenge for her dead lover.
release : 2001.09.21popularis : 0.891
Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
Junko (Sho Aikawa) is a low-level yakuza in the service of Yoshikawa (Toru Minegishi), despite the misgivings of his uncle (Jo Shishido). He lives...
release : 1990.05.11popularis : 20.815
Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet
In the sequel to 1990's classic Neo Chinpira, Junko (Sho Aikawa) attempts to take out Kazama and then goes on the run. However, he quickly begins to...
release : 1991.04.12popularis : 13.066
The Vancouver Asahi
In pre-WWII Vancouver, second-generation Japanese immigrants had it tough. Daily, they faced discrimination, hatred and injustice at the hands of...
release : 2014.09.29popularis : 2.984
Secret
A man is shocked to find out that after a deadly car accident involving his wife and daughter, his wife died, but her mind somehow got transfered...
release : 1999.09.15popularis : 4.246
10 Years - A Wife's Betrayal
Urushibara Kazuki heads to Kyoto to explore the secret of his wife, Saeko, who is hospitalized for terminal cancer.
release : 2004.01.25popularis : 1.478
The Serial Rape Murderer
12 Years ago, Fuyuko, was 7 years old, watched her sister, a high school student, raped and choked to die. Fuyuko never forgets that the man who...
release : 1983.10.10popularis : 1.091
Majutsu wa Sasayaku
A woman named Kazuko (Kimura) who was guilty of a “serious crime” in the past, along with three of her friends. Those friends suddenly...
release : 2011.09.09popularis : 3.507
Passion
A man tries to mend his past by helping his best friend’s sister.
release : 1992.04.25popularis : 2.217
Back Street Girls: Gokudols
Three male gangsters are forced by their boss into becoming a trio of female pop singers.
release : 2019.02.08popularis : 3.111
Rain of Light
This documentary-style film recreates the infamous Asama Sanso Incident of 1972 wherein an extreme faction of the Students Allied Red Army holed...
release : 2001.12.08popularis : 2.331
Saraba Itoshi no Daitoryo
With the recession still occurring in Japan and the area of Osaka thought to be hit hardest by the economic downtown, Osaka's gubernatorial election...
release : 2010.11.06popularis : 0.863
Ley Lines
The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they...
release : 1999.05.22popularis : 2.88
The Village Album
Hanatani Village in the valley of Tokushima Prefecture is going to be submerged when a dam is constructed. In order to preserve the beauty of the...
release : 2004.04.23popularis : 1.333
Blossoms Bloom
Work life for Shunsuke Osaki has been success after success, but at some point his family began to slip by the wayside. As his elderly father begins...
release : 2014.04.05popularis : 1.592
Pink Physical Examination
In a hospital with a near sighted doctor, horny nurses, cosplaying patients and stiffs in the basement the only healing taking place is sexual.
release : 1985.02.23popularis : 3.403
Yoshiko & Yuriko
Based on a true story, Yoshiko and Yuriko relates the journey and great love affair of Yoshiko, who was a renowned translator of Russian literature...
release : 2011.09.07popularis : 1.078
Mo-Ruerani
The owner of an established photo studio, collapses from illness. His son Shinta, who was raised by his divorced wife, comes home. One day, an...
release : 2021.02.06popularis : 0.855
The Nearest Place to the Sky
Kitagawa, a top salesman with an impressive record, is hiding a dark secret—he borrowed the 9 million yen of his record from loan sharks. One...
release : 1994.10.15popularis : 0.598
Chinpira
Osamu rescues a girl who was being chased by two punks and is soon mixed up with the Yakuza
release : 2000.11.11popularis : 1.448
Asako in Ruby Shoes
Asako in Ruby Shoes succeeds in providing yet another challenge to views of a homogeneous South Korea by presenting to us the Asian side of modern...
release : 2000.12.09popularis : 2.553
Aiyoku no hibi: Ekusutashī
Two people who have suffered the loss of a loved one meet by chance at a train station and lose themselves in a melancholy affair.
release : 1984.05.25popularis : 1.718
Hitozuma gōmon
Pinku from 1980. A young man seeks to exact revenge against a group of men that violated his sister.
release : 1980.05.01popularis : 1.213
Boys, Be Ambitious
Chunba and Kotetsu, grows up in the working class neighborhood of Kishiwada in Osaka in the mid-seventies. Their life in school is a never-ending...
release : 1996.03.09popularis : 1.915
The Taste of Fish
It may sound cliché, but Japanese people really do love their fish. If Japan has the best and freshest fish in the world, then Tokyo's Tsukiji...
release : 2008.06.07popularis : 3.623
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...
release : 1995.06.03popularis : 2.124
Samulife
Nagaoka is a former high school teacher. He decides to start a school with an ideal learning environment. To achieve this goal, he struggles to make...
release : 2015.02.07popularis : 1.885
Fireworks
Detective Nishi is relieved from a stakeout to visit his sick wife in hospital. He is informed that she is terminally ill, and is advised to take her...
release : 1997.10.30popularis : 9.099
Goddamn!!
When yakuza member Okamoto (Hitoshi Ozawa) begins to search for Nami (Reiko Yasuhara), a woman he saw in an underground porn video, he finds himself...
release : 1991.11.22popularis : 1.427
Farewell, Friend
Wataru and Makoto are two singers and on their way from a performance to an interview when they are ambushed. Their attackers, who identify...
release : 1986.01.01popularis : 0.637
High School Teacher
Hamura entered a high school as a biology teacher. Unexpectedly, one of his students, Mayu, fell in love with him. The forbidden love between the...
release : 1993.11.06popularis : 1.759
Part-Time Detective
Noriko Yamada is a housewife and mother of five children, she and her husband go through an economic crisis that causes them to have problems with...
release : 2002.12.01popularis : 0.362
Part-Time Detective 2
The housewife and part-time private detective Noriko Yamada plays her old tricks again, uncovering mysterious corruption cases. But this time she...
release : 2004.02.22popularis : 0.712
Foreboding
Miyuki Asakawa tells her colleague Etsuko Yamagiwa that she has a ghost in her home. When Etsuko goes to Miyuki's home, there is only Miyuki's father...
release : 2017.11.11popularis : 1.834
Door II: Tôkyô Diary
Ai is a call girl that makes good money for what she does but there’s always at risk no matter how good the money is. The job makes her feel...
release : 1991.01.03popularis : 6.508
Great Prophecy: The Revival of the Giant
A V-Cinema tokusatsu movie released by TOEI and Bandai Visual. Creature design by Keita Amemiya. It was originally planned to include Space Sheriff...
release : 1992.04.28popularis : 0.746
Demon Fighter Kocho
First live action adaptation of Demon Fighter Kocho
release : 1997.04.25popularis : 1.477
The Way: Man of the White Porcelain
The movie is based on the true story of Takumi Asakawa - a Japanese man who entered Korea during the country's occupation by Japan. Takumi Asakawa...
release : 2012.06.09popularis : 0.56
Collage of Our Lives
A young cameraman receives a letter from an old girlfriend, announcing that she is to hold a photo exhibition in the United States. Having heard...
release : 2003.05.16popularis : 2.468
Parasite Eve
Toshiaki Nagashima is a biologist who is doing major research on mitochondria. When his beautiful young wife is tragically involved in a car accident...
release : 1997.02.01popularis : 3.464
Sexual Beast Sacrifice
Tomio, a college student, lives in a Western-style house where strange people live, such as his landlady Yukiko and her older brother Kishi, the...
release : 1984.07.01popularis : 0.866
Zebraman
A failure as a teacher and a familyman, Shinichi tries to escape everyday live by dressing up as the superhero "Zebraman". Although the TV series was...
release : 2004.01.30popularis : 5.771
Postcard
Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the...
release : 2010.10.27popularis : 1.274
Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3
Kai, Mei, and Yui are high school students. The three girls are also detectives and they solve cases using their reasoning abilities. It's also a...
release : 2011.02.05popularis : 1.769
Life on the Longboard
A depressed middle-aged man takes up surfing after he retires.
release : 2005.09.10popularis : 1.213
Wordholic Prisoner
A wordholic man, acting as the chief editor by a certain publishing company, is confined by the writer who wishes to publish.
release : 1990.01.01popularis : 1.984
Last Scene
Young film star Ken Mihara is about to fall from stardom. His rise as a celebrity is solely credited to his onscreen counterpart, Keiko, who recently...
release : 2001.11.09popularis : 2.597
A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth
Four strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket, and a woman with a preternaturally precise sense of time) are brought...
release : 2006.05.13popularis : 1.435
Chichi kara no tegami
Inuzuka (Hirotaro Honda), who asked about Mamiko (Rei Dan)'s disappeared father, Shinkichi (Ren Osugi), and her lover, Keiichi (Tetta Sugimoto), was...
release : 2007.12.23popularis : 0.898
Wolf: Running Is Sex
First production by Directors' Company. A man stripped bare of all modern values lives in a pure form, like a beast, feeding and satiating his every...
release : 1982.11.20popularis : 0.672
Kyouju Luger P08
A man's life is altered when he comes into possession of a gun.
release : 1994.01.29popularis : 1.545
Yakuza Blood Wind Record Unreliable Crest
Tachibana, who was once regarded as the next young leader of the gangster group but lost the promotion battle to rival Yamamoto, is now a central...
release : 2000.01.07popularis : 1.451
Violent Island: Dirty Money Hijack
In the scorching heat of Okinawa, former lovers meet. Now, he is a gangster on a mission, she is a window trying to protect what is hers. Together,...
release : 1992.09.11popularis : 0.485
Eiko
Eiko Akimori is a 23-year-old woman who lives alone in an apartment. One day, Eiko is made to buy a big stone ring that brings happiness from a catch...
release : 2004.02.28popularis : 1.36
Subway Serial Rape: Uniform Hunting
On their way to school two sisters are raped by a gang of punks in full view of the passengers on the subway. When one sister commits suicide the...
release : 1987.04.28popularis : 1.82