Jinpachi Nezu

Three elite salarymen find themselves in a bar fight with a group of threatening but mysterious men. When the mystery men come looking for revenge,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Masaya Kato

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by...

Genre: Action

Cast: Koichi Sato

Teru Aoki (青木 輝) is on a train to Tokyo after a school trip. A disaster occurs which partially destroys the train and blocks a tunnel. When...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

In a desolate and dark world full of shadows, lives one little girl who seems to do nothing but collect water in jars and protect a large egg she...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Keiichi Noda

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Riona Hazuki

Some students decide to set up a play written by one of their classmates, who has commited suicide. The play is based on a tragic and mysterious...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Kyoko Fukada

Nami is a photographer on the set of a porn film. When photographing a rape scene between a teacher and a schoolgirl, she becomes uncomfortable,...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Maiko Kawakami

An undercover narcotics officer is killed, and after his funeral some yakuza break into his apartment and rape his wife, Nami, while looking for the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yui Natsukawa

A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two young sons, whose names he has had tattooed on...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jinpachi Nezu

As the great military commander Nobunaga Oda was consolidating his power across Japan, one of his actions was to wipe out a clan of assassins,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

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...

Genre: History

Cast: Tohru Emori

A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man does...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tamori

Kayo, who is famous for her beauty, own a bar in a port town. The establishment is always crowded with customers infatuated with her. For the past...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Tsukasa

Jinpachi Nezu who lost both his wife and daughter during a feud against the yakuza 10 years ago while he was an accountant for their organization....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jinpachi Nezu

A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo. The owner of the...

Genre: History

Cast: Yûko Natori

A Japanese police unit who use giant anthropomorphic robots (called Labors) is caught up in a political struggle between the civilian authorities and...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Mina Tominaga

In 1838, the prisoners on Hachijo Island represent the furthest extreme of Japanese society. Instead of execution, they have been forced to eke out a...

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Cast: Keiko Matsuzaka

A film based on two short stories by Shiina Makoto. Tadon is the story of a cab-driver who spends his days listening to his passengers'...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Yukihiko's first film.

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Cast: Mariko Fuji

Eiji Kawano (Kunie Tanaka) has recently broken from the Japanese company he used to work for. As an immigrant to Tasmania, he has been won over by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kunie Tanaka

Actress Moeko comes to Singapore to look for Kariya, the man she loves. She checks in at Raffles Hotel and finds out that he lives in a big house...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miwako Fujitani

Jiro is a Tokyo man who offers a stand-in service where he'll do "anything". A woman claiming to be from Fukuoka wants to be shown around Tokyo and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Naoto Takenaka

Prostitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third of their money for a proposed dancehall to be named...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rino Katase

Seiji is a third generation "Gosei kai" gang member. He works to build up the group's strength. Meanwhile, a journalist investigates a case that...

Genre: Action

Cast: Masahiro Higashide

After his father figure - a yakuza boss, is murdered, Azusa Moribe goes on a killing spree to exact revenge.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Masaya Kato

"GHOST HOUSE" Cast: Jinpachi Nezu ("Castle of the Owls", "Red Shadow"), Natsuo Ishido, Masako Izumi Synopsis: A young girl is forbidden by her...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Jinpachi Nezu

Life and love stories of stunt men and women.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nakamura

Also known as: For My Daughter's 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother’s suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them, for...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Bobby is an underachieving high school kid with a deep love for motorcycles. His most recent achievement seems to have been getting photos of himself...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Hironobu Nomura

Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean women, meet a stowaway on Japanese soil from across...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Noboru Andō

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Kagemusha" (1980).

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Masayuki Yui

Maiko is a recently widowed young woman travelling to Bali to distract herself from the loss of her husband, Esau. At the airport she meets Kioko,...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kaho Minami

Based on the comic of the same name that ran in Manga Pachinkā.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jinpachi Nezu

Japanese action film directed by Hiroshi Ando.

Genre: Action

Cast: Show Aikawa

A rowdy, young yakuza takes revenge against a gang of thousands for the death of his boss.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuya Fuji

Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jinpachi Nezu

The head of a psychological research institute and a lieutenant in the Japanese Air Force are both investigating a mysterious cult known only as...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Miki Mizuno

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Immoral Affairs (Fukigen na kajitsu) is a Japanese film made in 1997 and directed by Katsuo Naruse.It centers on two characters: Mayako, played by...

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Cast: Kaho Minami

Film adaptation of three short stories by horror mangaka Junji Ito: The Devil's Logic, The Long Hair in the Attic, and The Hanging Balloons.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Eriko Hatsune

The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma is a movie about a haunted blood-thirsty Bakufu officer who might have killed Ryoma Sakamoto.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

Two former teammates on a college relay team, find themselves pitted against each other in track competition and in love when they enter rival...

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Cast: Takashi Itō

Takashi and four of his classmates, fourth-grade students, cannot succeed in doing a back pullover around a horizontal bar. Their gym teacher warns...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidaka Yoshitomo

The detective with the highest arrest rate. In fact, he was a vicious detective who communicated with the gangsters!

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Cast: Jinpachi Nezu

An alien with super powers fallen from the sky is befriended by some people who help him stop an evil group out to get him.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peter Fonda

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Cast: Mio Takaki

A young office lady navigates the ins and outs of modern life in this light romp.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Miho Aida

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Cast: Yûko Natori

What is the clue that connects the police dormitory bombing case & Keihin canal murder case with the corporate bombing case 17 years ago? Detective...

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Cast: Tamori

The second 'Gotoshi' film.

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Cast: Jinpachi Nezu

The third 'Gotoshi' film.

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Cast: Jinpachi Nezu

The fourth 'Gotoshi' film.

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Cast: Jinpachi Nezu

Naito is serving time for his aggressive fundraising in the securities world, but returns to Osaka after completing his sentence. Although he wants...

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Cast: Show Aikawa

A romantic film about the spiritual exchange between a gangster and a Chinese woman who got married to him under false pretenses.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

Genre: Crime

Cast: Show Aikawa

A 1981 TV movie based on a short story by Kuniko Mukoda, starring Kaori Momoi and Jinpachi Nezu. A housewife is slowly tempted by a mysterious man...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaori Momoi

The secret warriors of feudal Japan were the ninja. Sent on impossible missions, the ninja were trained to work in shadows, gather information and...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Masanobu Ando