Teruyuki Kagawa
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1965-12-07
Locus Natus: Tokyo, Japan
Et ut: かがわ てるゆき, 香川 照之, Ichikawa Chusha IX, 市川 中車, 九代目 市川中車
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...
release : 2006.06.03popularis : 3.66
John Rabe
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
release : 2009.04.02popularis : 9.888
Quiet Don 3
The news of Naruto's attack!! "Punching into the heavens"-Inokubi and Okita's anger has reached its peak, and it's finally time for an all-out war...
release : 1992.07.24popularis : 1.471
Quiet Don 4
Ken Sakamoto, a member of the Kishu-gumi, who is aiming to dominate the Kansai region and conquer the whole country, has come to crush the fresh...
release : 1992.09.10popularis : 1.016
Quiet Don 5
Ken Sakamoto, the 4th generation of Kishugumi, is disbanded in mid-career, and his wife, Kumi Sakamoto, succeeds to the name of Ryuko Sakamoto, the...
release : 1993.02.17popularis : 0.424
Quiet Don 6
Shizuya, who appeared on the first anniversary of Ken Sakamoto's death, the fourth Kishu-gumi. He again asks Ryuko to accept the sake cup. What about...
release : 1993.07.15popularis : 0.554
Quiet Don 7
I made the same mistake again... Bullets pouring down like rain! Love for Akino running through! Shinsengumi division! Kisu-gumi plotting...
release : 1995.06.13popularis : 0.506
Quiet Don 9
Shouldn't gangsters love stubborn people? To protect true love, the Shinsen-gumi gather at night in Tokyo!
release : 1996.10.28popularis : 0.606
Quiet Don 10
"I can't live for the Shinsen-gumi." Shizuya wanders between the yakuza and his love for Akino. What is the truth!?
release : 1996.12.03popularis : 0.511
Quiet Don 12
Kishu-gumi and the Hong Kong mafia will die in a trap set up?! Can Shizuya save this desperate situation?!
release : 2001.02.14popularis : 0.884
Tokyo Sonata
A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.
release : 2008.09.27popularis : 9.897
Devils on the Doorstep
During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the...
release : 2001.10.26popularis : 8.853
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 : 1.447
The Lawyer of Shimane
The story is set in the Shimane Prefecture, which supposedly has the fewest lawyers in all of Japan. Nakama plays the role of the hard-working and...
release : 2007.07.14popularis : 1.571
20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End
In 1969, Kenji, an elementary school kid and his friends built a secret base during their summer holidays. They fantasized that they had to fight...
release : 2008.08.19popularis : 9.684
Nagaremono Yokohama Yakuza War
The life and death of the men who are bound by violence.
release : 2000.03.10popularis : 1.188
Nagaremono Yokohama Gokudo War 2
A fierce outlaw shakes the gangster world!
release : 2000.07.14popularis : 1.919
Tales from Earthsea
Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange... What's even more strange is that...
release : 2006.07.29popularis : 16.784
Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler
Kaiji Ito moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with society at large, Kaiji spends his days...
release : 2009.10.10popularis : 15.301
Sway
A psychologically thrilling portrait of the severe dysfunction behind a family clinging to decorum and pride.
release : 2006.07.08popularis : 3.091
The Magic Hour
A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a...
release : 2008.06.07popularis : 4.9
20th Century Boys 3: Redemption
The final showdown, and the final reveal. who is Friend? How can he be stopped?
release : 2009.08.19popularis : 7.863
Bashing
Yuko is a Japanese girl who was taken hostage in Iraq while volunteering there as an aid worker. Finally released and back in her hometown, Yuko...
release : 2005.05.12popularis : 1.859
Golden Slumber
When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Minister's assassination, and on the run from...
release : 2010.01.30popularis : 3.815
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
A Labrador retriever named Quill begins specialized training as a guide dog from an early age, then the canine is paired with a blind man who is...
release : 2004.03.13popularis : 3.341
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...
release : 2021.12.30popularis : 2.641
Murder in a Hell of Oil
Based on a true incident, this is a timeless story of a hot-headed young man who rebels against his parents and is forced into desperate straits,...
release : 2019.11.08popularis : 2.411
The Bleep Brothers
Tatsuo and Ikuo have been raised by hard-working parents who run a funeral home. For relief, they practice games of manzai, a Japanese comic...
release : 2002.03.29popularis : 0.485
Tomorrow's Joe
Set in the 1960's, Joe Yabuki lives in a run-down low income ara. There, alcholic ex-boxer Danpei Tange notices Joe Yabuki's talents as a boxer. But...
release : 2011.02.11popularis : 4.014
From Up on Poppy Hill
Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympics—and the mood is one of...
release : 2011.07.16popularis : 18.433
Tormented
To his mute sister's dismay, a young boy puts a dying rabbit out of its misery with a brick -- and soon the siblings end up in a world of nightmares.
release : 2011.08.16popularis : 3.979
Dark Tales of Japan
Dark Tales of Japan is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Japanese film directors, which are told by a...
release : 2004.09.22popularis : 2.703
Sea Without Exit
Koji Namiki is a young pitcher who has shown great promise on the diamond by winning the National High School Basketball Championships. Shortly after...
release : 2006.09.16popularis : 2.921
Haru's Journey
Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao's grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a trip Tadao is reluctant to make.
release : 2010.05.22popularis : 2.161
Serpent's Path
Miyashita, a former low-level yakuza member, has tracked down and kidnapped his daughter's murderer with help of his friend Nijima. But others are...
release : 1998.02.21popularis : 9.577
I'm not Afraid of the Hospital. The Reason I got Sick 2!
DTV sequel to The Reason I got SIck, but this time it's a standalone instead of an anthology.
release : 1994.07.01popularis : 1.252
Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler
3 years after the ultimate life-or-death game with Teiai Group, Kaiji was entrapped by Teiai and again back in the underground, forced to do hard...
release : 2011.11.05popularis : 10.573
Dreams for Sale
After losing their restaurant in a fire, a husband and wife come up with a strange plan to rebuild their shattered finances: marrying the husband off...
release : 2012.09.08popularis : 2.963
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 : 2.512
Heaven's Bookstore
Kenta, a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar, when he meets a man in a Hawaiian shirt named Yamaki. He invites...
release : 2004.06.05popularis : 1.172
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.
release : 2012.08.25popularis : 22.579
Key of Life
A failed actor switches identities with a stranger at a bath house thinking it is his way out of his life of misery but only to find himself filling...
release : 2012.09.16popularis : 6.098
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order he was duty bound to...
release : 2011.12.23popularis : 9.026
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.
release : 2009.06.20popularis : 2.102
The Tale of Genji
TV movie based on the novel "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu, which tells about the life of Prince Hikaru Genji, who was nicknamed "Shining"...
release : 1991.12.27popularis : 3.385
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 : 3.858
Beautiful Sunday
A droll and formalistic comic drama about the various relationships among, and odd obsessions of, the residents of a Tokyo apartment block.
release : 1998.11.20popularis : 2.08
Beautiful World
A gangster runs a budget nursing home.
release : 2012.11.16popularis : 2.288
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...
release : 2005.01.14popularis : 3.714
Black Jack
Tatsumi, a young doctor who works at Teito University Hospital, will be witnessing the operation of Black Jack, who does not have a doctor's license....
release : 1996.04.25popularis : 1.052
20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope
Set 15 years after "Twentieth Century Boys," Kanna (Airi Taira) reunites with several main characters from the first film in an attempt to stop...
release : 2009.01.30popularis : 6.51
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 : 0.404
Boy's Choir
A young teen's father dies, and he is sent to an orphanage. He's teased because he stutters almost runs away, until a beautiful, androgynous boy,...
release : 2000.10.28popularis : 2.681
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...
release : 2021.12.29popularis : 2.336
Nuan
Like Huo's Postmen in the Mountains, Nuan is a rural drama. The film follows Lin Jinghe, a young man who, for the last ten years, has been living in...
release : 2004.05.18popularis : 1.637
父と子 市川猿翁・香川照之
The story follows the "father and son", actor Teruyuki Kagawa and his father, Kabuki grandee Ennosuke Ichikawa III (now Enno II, 73), who were once...
release : 2013.01.06popularis : 0.934
KT
This movie is a political/espionage thriller, based on a real kidnapping incident of Korean politician, Kim Dae-Jung.
release : 2002.05.03popularis : 4.448
Yah Chayka!
Renowned Japanese poet Shuntaro Tanikawa teams with former "rock chick" Wakako Kaku to craft this pensive love story told almost entirely in still...
release : 2008.10.15popularis : 2.054
Warau Iemon
Having put down his sword and given up the will to fight, the masterless samurai Iemon lives in solitude while being haunted by his violent enigmatic...
release : 2004.02.07popularis : 1.758
Quiet Don 8
The 8th installment of the series that depicts the activities of the main character, Shizuya, who has two faces: an office worker who works for a...
release : 1996.05.14popularis : 0.963
Quiet Don 11
Shizuya thought that he had won the deadly battle with Kaifu, the fifth generation of Kishu-gumi, and put an end to the long-standing conflict, but...
release : 2000.06.11popularis : 0.6
Man Walking on Snow
Mashike, a city on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Nobuo Honma is a 63-year-old sake producer. He has lived with Yasuo since his wife died two years...
release : 2001.01.01popularis : 2.374
Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021
One day during summer vacation, a palm-sized alien named Papi appears from a small rocket that Nobita picks up. He is the president of Pirika, a...
release : 2022.03.04popularis : 18.945
Dear Doctor
Osamu Ino is a great doctor who is beloved in his rural village. His knowledge and dedication make an equally strong impression on his reluctant...
release : 2009.07.27popularis : 1.753
Tea Fight
A descendant of an ancient tea tribe heads to Taiwan to look for the legendary black tea to break the curse of a tribal rivalry. Meanwhile, in an...
release : 2008.07.12popularis : 2.192
The Mystery of Rampo
Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be...
release : 1995.05.27popularis : 7.37
Fourteen
Sensitive and refined drama in which experiences from the puberty of a female teacher and a piano student reflected in the world of the younger...
release : 2007.01.27popularis : 1.438
Flic
Kazuo Murata is a detective who has lost his wife and eventually the meaning of his existence.
release : 2005.01.22popularis : 2.681
The Happiness
the story of a vagrant (Ishibashi) who arrives in a town in Hokkaido. With only a threadbare suit, an old pair of sneakers and a bag containing all...
release : 2006.11.23popularis : 1.136
Kakuto
A very energetic, fresh and skilful début in DV from young Tokyo actor and model. Hanging out, clubbing and drugging, a young band of friends...
release : 2003.07.26popularis : 0.932
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.
release : 2007.09.15popularis : 9.942
The Hotel Venus
In a strange alienated world there is a secret hotel in a shabby diner called the Venus Café, harboring some unusual people where compelling...
release : 2004.09.10popularis : 2.086
Snow Prince
10-year-old Sota lives with his grandfather and a dog named Chibi in a small snowy village. They live in such a poverty that Sota cannot even afford...
release : 2009.12.12popularis : 2.164
Memories of Matsuko
While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life...
release : 2006.05.27popularis : 7.268
The Go Master
The life of Go master Wu Qingyuan from his meteoric rise as a child prodigy to fame and fortune as a revolutionary strategic thinker, as well as the...
release : 2007.05.24popularis : 3.234
Portrait of the Wind
Portrait of the Wind centers on Tamio Murase, a world-traveling photographer who came home to take over the family business after his father’s...
release : 2005.10.15popularis : 0.944
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...
release : 2007.09.08popularis : 4.256
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...
release : 2000.11.03popularis : 1.933
A Boy's Summer in 1945
Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki's sixth decade behind the camera, "A Boy's Summer in 1945" (literally "A Beautiful Summer in...
release : 2002.12.14popularis : 3.505
Tokyo!
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians....
release : 2008.08.16popularis : 10.48
The Haunted Samurai
A lowly but academically diligent warrior named Bessho Hikoshiro finds himself unable to move up in the world due to the stifling caste system of the...
release : 2007.06.22popularis : 1.58
Unholy Women
Unholy Women (Kowai onna), is a composite of three unrelated half-hour horror movies. A compilation of 3 separate short horror films (Rattle Rattle,...
release : 2006.11.25popularis : 5.317
Roleless
Miyamatsu, who works as a cable-car operator, is also a film extra. Through his different characters he has been living the life of a stranger, only...
release : 2022.09.16popularis : 1.229
Penance
The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she...
release : 2013.05.29popularis : 6.85
Two-Headed Devil - You're the Culprit
Japanese detective video film adapted from the Jiro Egami series book by 90's mystery author Arisu Arisugawa. Sequel to 'Two-Headed Devil - Who is...
release : 1995.12.15popularis : 0.971
Unfair: the answer
After detective Natsumi Yukihira brings an end to the police hospital terrorist case, Natsumi is transferred to the Nishimonbetsu Police Station in...
release : 2011.09.17popularis : 2.786
The Tragedy of W
The lakeside at Lake Yamanaka is covered with snow. In the vacation house in such a quiet area owned by the chairman of Watsuji Seiyaku, one of the...
release : 2010.01.11popularis : 1.269
SP: The Motion Picture
At an event hall in Roppongi Hills, there is a charity event for landmine eradication. Kaoru does security with Security Police officers Soichiro...
release : 2010.10.30popularis : 2.303
SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
Documentary on the life of actor Yusaku Matsuda. This is a documentary film produced on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the birth of actor...
release : 2009.11.06popularis : 0.899
Mozu The Movie
Lone wolf detective with an enormous personal grievance seeks to connect the mysterious death of his daughter to an urban legend of a villain who...
release : 2015.11.07popularis : 3.049
Aka Medaka
One of the hottest selling tickets in town is to see the hugely popular “rakugoka”, or comic storyteller, Danshun. Danshun himself was...
release : 2015.12.28popularis : 1.515
The Milkwoman
Minako (TANAKA Yuko), begins her day running up and down the hills of her hometown delivering milk door to door. When that's done, she heads to her...
release : 2005.07.02popularis : 2.496
Creepy
After having narrowly escaped an attempt on his life at the hands of a psychopath, detective inspector Takakura quits active service in the police...
release : 2016.06.18popularis : 8.31
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 : 3.502
Kisaragi
The fanclub of a deceased Japanese idol gather together for the one year anniversary of her death. By combining forces they try to unearth the true...
release : 2007.06.16popularis : 2.616
Airport 2013
When there's a transfer flight delay, a put-upon ground staff worker at a small town airport has to deal with a family that has plenty of problems of...
release : 2014.05.02popularis : 1.788
SP: The Motion Picture II
After the attack on the Chief Cabinet Secretary, the next duty of the fourth office will be to guard the National Assembly building. In the midst of...
release : 2011.03.12popularis : 1.291
An Emblem Dedicated To You
Kazuya Takajo was a promising soccer player. At the age of 23, he was selected for the national A football team and he bought a house to live with...
release : 2017.01.03popularis : 1.302
One Piece Film: Z
Zephyr, now known as Z, rides the seas with only one goal: Destroy all pirates and their dreams at becoming King of Pirates. When Luffy and his crew...
release : 2012.12.15popularis : 28.705
Roppongi Banana Boys
A stylish light comedy about the “Banana boys”— two boys who were born and raised in Roppongi who are still growing up. It is based...
release : 1989.08.12popularis : 1.058
Out
When pregnant lunchbox factory worker Yayoi has finally taken all the abuse she can handle, she strangles her brutish husband and disposes of the...
release : 2002.10.19popularis : 2.152
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 : 1.025
Quiet Don
Part one of a twelve part direct to video film series. Based on the comic by Tatsuo Nitta.
release : 1991.05.31popularis : 0.53
The Disappearance of Conan Edogawa: The Worst Two Days in History
After slipping in a bath house, Conan appears to have lost his memory. Worse yet, it looks like he will be used in a hit job.
release : 2014.12.26popularis : 5.746
Whistleblower
A seemingly lazy salaryman is tasked with managing a company secret.
release : 2019.02.01popularis : 1.188
Double Face: gisō keisatsu-hen
This is the continuation and final part of Double Face SP, the Japanese remake of the highly successful 2002 Hong Kong film, Infernal Affairs. This...
release : 2012.10.27popularis : 0.969
Double Face: Sen'nyû sôsa hen
Two men, a detective and a gang member, infiltrate each other's organization. Soon they find their fates intertwined.
release : 2012.10.15popularis : 0.583
Space Battleship Yamato
In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have...
release : 2010.12.01popularis : 13.629
Yuriko's Picture Book
Onodera Yuriko sets off for Sweden where her husband, Major General Onodera Makoto, is stationed as a military attache in Stockholm during World War...
release : 2016.07.30popularis : 0.98
Memories of Tomorrow
After being stricken with Alzheimer's disease in the prime of his life, a successful young businessman slips slowly away from his loving family.
release : 2006.05.13popularis : 2.519
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
One of the true classic's of anime's much-loved robot genre.
release : 2005.03.19popularis : 1.358
Sinking into the Moon
Minamo is a patient at a mental institute who keeps having the same dream. In the dream, there’s a small lake with a big bright moon shinning...
release : 2002.10.26popularis : 1.682
What the Snow Brings
Following a tip, Manabu Yazaki loses his last money betting on the older "banba" horse "Unryu" (jockied by Makie, a legendary jockey's daughter) in a...
release : 2005.10.28popularis : 2.218
Sting
Shunsuke, a coach who hangs out at the gambling track, is in jeopardy at the bicycle race track. The place is saved by a "scammer", and he himself...
release : 1997.05.30popularis : 2.387
Tokyo.Sora
Six women attempt to make it in current day Tokyo, living their everyday lives the best and worst they can. For them, every little moment becomes a...
release : 2002.10.26popularis : 1.962