Yoji Tanaka

AKA: Yôji Tanaka, BoBA, Youji Tanaka
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1963-08-08

Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Biography

Yoji Tanaka (田中 要次, Tanaka Yoji, August 8, 1963) is a Japanese actor and talent. Also known as BoBA.

Crew Roles

Locodol Dorama Documentary
Director
Cop Festival: New Beginning
Director
Hakui honban: Hageshii aegi
Associate Producer
Director
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {302}

2012-01-14 7

Dokurogeki: atoaji no warui sasupensu

An omnibus drama that delivers suspense with a bad aftertaste, a number of bad endings with a hopeless aftertaste, and indescribable "unbearable" emotions, this feeling will surely become a habit. ...
Genre :Horror

2019-10-18 6

The Promised Land

A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in similar circumstances a suspect is identified leading to the accused running away and going ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Yakuza Henchman #3

1999-06-05 7.5

Kikujiro

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two begin a series of adventures which soon turns out to be ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

2004-05-29 6.3

Cutie Honey

When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation to save him. Meanwhile the same crime group has been responsible ...
Genre :Action

2021-04-21 6.143

Ura Aka: L'Aventure

Machiko can't shake the feeling of emptiness in her day-to-day life as a manager of a clothing store in Aoyama, Tokyo. One day, the casual words of Sayaka, a younger and charismatic store staff, stirs ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

2002-07-03 3.7

Kamaitachi no Yoru

Fans of Kamaitachi no Yoru gather to shoot a film based on the game until one of the cast members is killed. ...
Genre :TV Movie, Thriller, Mystery, Horror

Relative

2000-09-27 6.5

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 the mob, his ex-girlfriend, her obsessive boyfriend, ...
Genre :Action, Comedy, Crime

Yakuza

2003-08-03 7.2

Last Life in the Universe

An obsessive-compulsive Japanese librarian living in Bangkok spends most of his days contemplating suicide in his apartment. His life changes when he witnesses the death of a young girl and becomes ac ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Thriller

2017-11-11 0

Yellow Guitar (I think It’s time for me to quit music)

Genre :Drama

2021-01-08 0

Go! Go! Stupid Woman!

Student Yuko is a vain person who appears to be carefree and aggressive on the outside, but her personal life is reserved and simple. One day she meets Setsuko, who wears the same clothes as her. At f ...
Genre :Comedy

Yakuza

2000-04-29 6.9

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 happened a day before. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Okijima Gang Member

2000-09-15 6.1

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 Tokyo's booming Japanese-Portuguese community and seeks ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Eisuke Mita

2009-01-17 6.4

Pandemic

ER doctor Tsuyoshi Matsuoka receives a patient with a virus unlike anything he's seen before. His symptoms include high fever, convulsions, vomiting of blood and multiple organ failure. Could this be ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

2003-05-24 0

Most Dangerous Deka Matsuri

Third installment of the Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 11 films made under the conditions: "the main character must be a detective" "the length must not exceed 10 minutes" "at least five gags must be i ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Action

Rokuyama

2001-08-18 4.5

Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies

Girls surrounding 17 years old are affected by an illness that make her to be 'Stacies': they feel a strange and momentary happiness until they become zombies. ...
Genre :Horror, Comedy

Asahina

1999-02-06 6.8

Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl

In dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexually warped Uncle Sonezaki. Fortunately, she met Samehada as she runs for her life, which is also escaping from some slayers. ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy, Thriller, Action

Detective Yamashita

2002-11-09 0

Swan's Song

Mina and Mizuki sisters attended a ballet class in Tokyo. One day, the sisters return home separately, but younger sister, Mizuki, is kidnapped on the way home and discovered as a corpse. On that day, ...
Genre :Horror

Keisuke Ukita

2021-12-10 5.3

Your Turn to Kill: The Movie

Newlyweds Nana and Shota move into an apartment. Two situations, different from the drama series, take place: "What if Shota attends the resident's meeting and not Nana?" and "What if exchange murder ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller

Tanaka

2002-07-03 3

Better Left Unsaid / Mr. Yamaoka

A middle-aged push-over has an argument with two friends at the hotel he reserved for their holiday. They pick on him until an unexpected protector starts defending him. / An alien homeroom teacher gi ...
Genre :

2000-09-30 0

Street of Gravestones

A pair of siblings visit a friend in a remote town with a strange effect on its inhabitants; when they die, they transform into gravestones. ...
Genre :Horror, TV Movie

Junsa (uncredited)

2001-09-13 5.4

Kakashi

The search for her vanished brother Tsuyoshi leads Kaoru to the lonesome village Kozukata in the Japanese back-land. The locals react repelling to her, which the exception of the Chinese girl Sally. A ...
Genre :Horror

1999-06-05 7

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 is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a ...
Genre :Drama

Kuzu

2020-07-11 1

Blood-Club Dolls 2

This gruesome tale depicts a fantasy-fulfilling club which houses deadly fights where winners are rewarded, and losers meet their ultimate fate. ...
Genre :Action

1998-12-12 0

Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: The Black Sunflower Woman

Genre :

2002-12-04 0

Frog River

Record shop clerk and aspiring DJ Tsutomu searches for his masculinity when challenged to a kendo duel. ...
Genre :Comedy

2023-04-07 0

ヌーのコインロッカーは使用禁止

Nasu Kano, known as Nu, has a developmental disability. As soon as she was born, her mother abandoned her in a coin locker. One day, Nu meets Kazuma Kurosako, who has just been released from prison an ...
Genre :Drama

2022-02-05 0

D-river

Genre :

2009-12-26 0

Monoroi

A long time ago, dozens of prostitutes were murdered in the deep countryside. Even today, the inhabitants sometimes hear the cruel laments of the tortured ... but it is especially foreigners, passing ...
Genre :Drama, Horror

Passenger Next to Ryusei

2002-05-02 7.2

Ryusei-Kacho

Ryusei-Kacho is renowned for his unmatchable skills in securing a seat on the infamous Japanese commuter trains. Never once has he failed until he meets the beautiful and talented Automatic Maria. ...
Genre :Fantasy, Comedy

2002-08-24 6.4

Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete

A girl named Ai gets a major record deal to sing a song written by a friend of hers who is deceased. However an obsessed stalker fan slowly starts becoming more like her and tearing her world apart. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Thriller

2021-07-10 0

Nebagiba New World

A former boxing gym owner and his younger brother rise up to help a boy and his teacher's daughter from a vicious religious group that preys on good people. ...
Genre :Drama

2011-10-15 5

The Warped Forest

Settle into your chair and be transported to a place both familiar and alien; where a giant shop-girl can barely fit in her store, there's a weird green pod in every bedroom, and terrifying wood nymph ...
Genre :Comedy

Citizen Convention Member

1998-07-18 6.533

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 crook who ends up with 80 million yen after a string ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

2003-03-08 0

SHORT FILMS

Omnibus of six short films: Return; Ken-do star; Hana to oji-san; Adagietto Sehr, langsam; Nakayoki koto wa yoki koto ka na; Slow is Beautiful. Third installment of "SF" series produced by Hiroyuki Na ...
Genre :Drama

2022-10-21 0

Whisper in a Whisper as Important

Tetsuo Gonda, nicknamed Gon-mama, is a big, macho gay man. During the day, he works out at the gym, and in the evening, he runs his Snack Hibari bar, has various customers, who are also his gym buddie ...
Genre :Drama

2009-09-26 4.7

Noriben - The Recipe for Fortune

Komaki is a thirty-something woman that has had it with her perpetually unemployed aspiring writer husband. Following the divorce, she moves back to her Tokyo-area hometown of Kyojima along with her y ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

2020-10-09 10

Minori yuku

Genre :Drama

2006-12-22 7

SOUL TRAIN

Genre :Comedy

Kazuhiko Igawa

2008-01-12 8

The Silver Season

The arrival of a bride-to-be shakes a hapless ski resort and proves to the three young down-and-out local skiers that there is much more to life than they think. ...
Genre :Action, Drama

2008-06-12 5.9

Reigo: King of the Sea Monsters

Set in World War II, the film depicts the story of the real-life Japanese battleship, the Yamato, which is confronted in the Pacific Ocean by giant monsters, including the most fearsome of them all, R ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Fantasy

Tsukishima

2018-09-01 0

Until I, Who Was Unable to Go to School, Wrote "anohana" and "The Anthem of the Heart"

Akiko Sakata was a hikikomori during her school days. She was withdrawn from social life and isolated. She goes to Tokyo and becomes a scriptwriter. ...
Genre :Drama

Hayato Nakajima

2022-02-04 4.523

What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?

A large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief, the giant corpse left behind begins to slowly rot and bloat. If it explodes, the nation will be destroyed ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Action, Romance

Shioya

2022-02-19 9.2

Ring Wandering

In central Tokyo, a young man, Sosuke, aspires to be a manga artist. His current work is about a battle between a hunter and a Japanese wolf. He can’t draw the extinct wolf well and struggles to devel ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy

Asai Ginji

2019-11-11 0

Ten: Akagi Shigeru Funeral Arc

Three years after Tozai Ikusa (mahjong tournament), Hiroyuki Igawa receives a letter that Shigeru Akagi’s funeral ceremony will be held. Hiroyuki Igawa attends the funeral, but he is surprised when Sh ...
Genre :Family

Shinichi Inoue

2024-03-15 9

Hijacked Youth – Dare To Stop Us 2

Nagoya, 1983: Legendary filmmaker Koji WAKAMATSU decides to open a cinema – not least to show his own films. The Cinema Skhole quickly turns into a hot spot for local cinephiles. Junichi INOUE tells a ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

2023-10-06 7

The Pearl Legacy

Harumi comes to terms with her mother’s passing and gets embroiled in the hunt for a legendary 600 million yen pearl. ...
Genre :Drama

Taxi Driver

2023-10-12 6.747

Jigen Daisuke

Feeling unhappy with his gun, Jigen is looking for the world’s best gunsmith. He finally finds out that Chiharu, who runs a watch shop, is the person he’s been seeking. Then, Jigen meets Oto, who come ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Sekihara

2012-06-01 0

Sado Tempest

Arashi mixes Japanese rock, Noh Masks and the weird volcanic landscapes of Sado Island in a radical reworking of The Tempest. In this Tempest the storm has gone badly wrong and ruined the island, Cali ...
Genre :Music, Fantasy

Koroshi-ya No. 7

2001-10-27 6

Pistol Opera

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition. ...
Genre :Crime, Action

Azechi Genichiro

2023-10-13 0

Detective of Joshidaikoji

Daiki, who works part-time as a bartender at joshidaikoji (meaning Women's college alley), discovers a junior high school student in cardiopulmonary arrest in a park while wearing a cosplay costume. S ...
Genre :Drama

2014-03-01 5.7

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 village is abandoned after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake ...
Genre :Drama

2017-10-01 0

Lemmings no Natsu

The urban legend that "Scissors-san", who cuts elementary school students with scissors, appears in Toride, Ibaraki Prefecture, has become a hot topic. Around the same time, fellow junior high school ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

1998-08-04 3.333

Just Like Starting Over

Asako and Yamada, after getting drunk for the first time and going straight to the hotel, spend a hot night, but they are separated by a fire that has started. The fireman Sudo saved Asako and fell in ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

2004-01-23 0

Making-of１７才

Behind-the-scenes footage of Houka Kinoshita's film １７才 (Age 17). ...
Genre :Documentary

Yamamoto

2021-08-13 7

Welcome to Toei Slaughterhouse

The film follows Saki (Momotsuki), Mei (Kudo), and Kaho (Teramoto), the members of the budding idol group called Wish as they are set to appear in the sequel of Toei's hit movie, Yugami. Toei Movie St ...
Genre :Horror, Comedy

Koichi Takizawa

2020-03-01 7

The Smiling Man

Based on a novel of by Nukui Tokuro, Hohoemu Hito tells the story of Nito Toshimi who, after graduating from Japan’s most difficult university and founding a job at a major city bank, marries Shoko an ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama, Mystery

2000-11-25 4.2

Enclosed Pain

Yuri and Takumi are brother and sister who faced unusually harsh treatment by their father. An act of brutality keeps them extremely close together until an older couple occupy the house where their s ...
Genre :Drama

Izawa

2014-01-11 7.2

Judge!

After taking the blame for another disastrous advertising campaign, Ota Kiichiro is asked by his arrogant boss Otaki Ichiro to take his place as a judge at the world's biggest advertising competition ...
Genre :Comedy

Junichiro Kishida

2019-05-24 5.5

Hydra

An assassin for a secret organization keeping Japan safe from underworld threats finds himself targeted by evil forces aiming to unleash an unstoppable criminal syndicate upon Japan. ...
Genre :Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama

Crazy 88 #3

2003-10-10 7.97

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance. ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Crazy 88

2004-04-16 7.875

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former associates one-by-one, ch ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller

1999-09-20 5.6

One Piece! 水玉 COLLECTION

Made under the restrictions of "no zoom, pan, editing or post-sound", directors Shinobu Yaguchi and Takuji Suzuki skewer Japanese social conventions in 14 short episodes. In one segment a woman misrea ...
Genre :Comedy

The Patron

1998-03-02 6.8

The Fetist

In the district of Shinjuku, a cut-throat rōnin student crosses paths with an uninspired painter who does the utmost for his envisioned muse. ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama, Horror

2007-09-15 6.193

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. ...
Genre :Adventure, Action, Comedy, Western, Thriller

2008-06-07 7.4

All Around Us

Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure the tragedy of their first child’s death, hope slo ...
Genre :Drama

Sugishita

1999-11-10 6.6

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 action. Leaving his job and family without explanation, h ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, Thriller

2009-06-20 6.2

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. ...
Genre :Drama

2004-09-10 8.7

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 secrets lie in each resident's heart. Torturing secrets tha ...
Genre :Drama

1998-06-27 0

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 regularly goes. He somehow agrees to help her to loo ...
Genre :

Henchman of Kato's Father

2001-10-20 7.4

GO

Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

2013-02-02 5

Love Bombs

A mysterious city woman named Kiyomi is cared for by an old village woman. The male villagers are intrigued by Kiyomi, especially Masaru, a young man who the surrogate grandson to the old woman, eats ...
Genre :Drama

2003-01-01 8

Iden & Tity

If you loved movies such as Shonen Merikensack and GS Wonderland, then this one, which predates the former, will impress you as well. The story is set in the 80s rock scene and revolves around Nakajim ...
Genre :Music, Drama

2008-05-24 6.4

My Darling of the Mountains

In the mountain hot springs of Izu, Japan, a love triangle is waiting to happen. It is the late 1930s when the paths of a stunning woman fleeing Tokyo, a handsome bachelor and a blind masseur cross. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1996-11-09 5

Atlanta Boogie

"Atlanta Boogie" centers around a mock track meet between the "normal" and "good" citizens of Yokohama and those they want to expel from the neighborhood: the illegal foreign workers, the deadbeats, t ...
Genre :

Customer

2001-03-31 0

Quartet for Two

Shotaro and Minako are arguing. Minako has confessed her infidelity to her husband and informs him of her intention to leave him. She has ceased to enjoy living with a submissive husband. Minako, who ...
Genre :Drama, Family

Kinta

2001-10-07 6.8

Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle

Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism. His faith in pacifism, however, is shaken and ultimately broken by the attacks from a trio of fig ...
Genre :Action, History

Bartender / 酒保

2007-09-08 6.7

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 time for a brewing storm. Kohei's first case starts ...
Genre :Mystery

2000-10-06 0

House of the Ghosts ~Kanako Inuki's World of Fear~

Ghostly horror film based on the original story by horror manga artist Kanako Inuki, adapted from various horror episodes. ...
Genre :Horror

2004-06-12 0

Believer

Genre :

Man 2

2003-06-21 0

Age 17

Seventeen-year-old Ako works part-time in a cabaret club late at night. Because of this, she falls asleep in school every day. In the new semester, she becomes enamored with her classmate Ryou, who is ...
Genre :Drama

2001-06-05 7.6

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 who continually fawns over the film’s obnoxious ham o ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

1990-10-20 0

Bakayarô! 3: Weird Bunch

Genre :Comedy

2002-05-11 8

The Choice of Hercules

When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its chal ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Crime

2004-05-15 0

Jenifa

Jennifer is a European girl who speaks Japanese a little. She arrives to the funeral in temple in Japanese countryside and meets a boy there. The boy is a juvenile delinquent and works his punishment ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

2013-10-30 5.6

The After-Dinner Mysteries

Kageyama (Sho Sakurai) works as the butler for rich heiress Reiko Hosho (Keiko Kitagawa). Reiko happens to be a novice detective but lacks certain deductive skills needed by detectives. Because of thi ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

2022-06-03 6

Sun and Bolero

Starring Rei Dan, this is the third film directed by Yutaka Mizutani. Riko Hanamura (Rei Dan) is the leader of a local amateur symphony orchestra, which has been active with members who love music ve ...
Genre :Drama, Music

1997-11-28 2

Akai yokujô: Hame jôzu

Pink film directed by Toshiya Ueno. ...
Genre :

Salon manager

2005-02-05 1.5

Animus Anima

Tokio (Shugo Oshinari) and his sister Sui (Shiina Eihi) fall in love. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

2006-07-12 6.044

Lovely Complex

Koizumi Risa an unusually tall high school girl, meets the "vertically challenged" young man Otani Atsushi. They find common ground in height anxieties and interests. Risa, a tall Japanese girl, gets ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

2005-09-03 0

Nagurimono: Love & Kill

A foppish English businessman (Christian Storms) stages a martial-arts contest between champions of two rival yakuza gangs to resolve a dispute over a wonder drug he is dealing and that both sides wan ...
Genre :Action

2006-03-11 6

Route 225

Two kids, fourteen-year-old Eriko and her thirteen-year-old brother Daigo, suddenly find themselves trapped in a parallel universe. Most things are the same as in their own world, but their parents ar ...
Genre :Comedy, Fantasy, Family

Toku

2002-05-14 6.5

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. ...
Genre :Drama, Action

Bus Driver

2019-08-16 7

Dance with Me

Suzuki Shizuka is an office lady at a conglomerate who is hypnotized at a local amusement park and left under the spell. Now she is compelled to sing and dance whenever she hears any melody whatsoever ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

2003-06-28 5

BORDER LINE

Three storylines interweave in Border Line. Kurosawa (Murakami Jun) finds himself driving a taciturn young man named Matsuda (Sawaki Tetsu) halfway to Hokkaido, after accidentally knocking him off his ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

2022-07-08 7.25

The Broken Commandment

At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area of low-class “untouchables,” leaving his hometown to serve as an elementary school teacher where he e ...
Genre :Drama, History

Instuctor

2014-05-10 7.361

Wood Job!

After failing his university entrance exam, Yuki Hirano sets his eyes on the role of a forestry trainee. Setting off for training he doubts his decision many times, but eventually after passing the tr ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Yakuza

1994-03-05 6.7

Tokarev

A school bus driver's life is irrevocably altered when his young son is kidnapped and murdered. ...
Genre :Action

Masakazu Asada

2005-10-29 0

Sleeping Flower

Genre :Drama

2001-10-06 8.1

Go Heat Man!

17 year old Tokyo pizza delivery boy Kosuke crashes his bike into photographer Reiko and breaks her expensive camera. He promises to deliver homemade pizza to make up for her broken camera. After disc ...
Genre :Drama

Bartender / 酒保

2015-07-18 6.1

Hero

Prosecutor Kohei Kuryu takes charge of a case with a foreign embassy possessing the key to solve the case. Due to the extraterritoriality involving the case, the investigation has not gone anywhere. A ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama, Crime

Hair Cut Guard

2003-06-21 5.814

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 presented with an option: face another execution attempt ...
Genre :Action, Science Fiction, Horror

Iwata

1997-02-15 6.542

My Secret Cache

Sakiko, a young bank teller, has an unhealthy obsession with money. Thieves hold up the bank, kidnapping Sakiko in the process, but eventually crash their car, resulting in a suitcase stuffed with cas ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Bar patron

1991-11-02 5.4

Nowhere Man

Sukezo, a former 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 business does not go well and the family becomes pr ...
Genre :Drama

Takano's boyfriend

1994-04-19 3

I Like You, I Like You Very Much

A tense love triangle unfolds as You struggles with his affair, questioning his identity and desires while caught between two men who change his life forever. ...
Genre :Drama

cameraman

2015-10-16 5

Glory of the Expedition

Sugisaki (Tatsuya Fujiwara) is an actor already past his prime. He lands a job as the lead in a TV program. The television program ventures into unexplored territories to locate a legendary UMA (unide ...
Genre :Adventure

Yoshino

1995-05-02 4

Hunters' Sense of Touch

A police detective investigating a vicious string of homosexual murders discovers that the latest victim appears to be the married executive who was his college lover ten years before. ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Horror

2000-11-22 0

Seikimatsu no noroi Zoshoku

A female documentary writer approaches the case of a hikikomori boy's murder of a young girl and a high school girl's classmate. ...
Genre :Horror

2003-06-21 0

Life Is Journey

LIFE IS JOURNEY is an anthology of four stories about people who live in solitude, but who yearn for togetherness. Each day brings chance meetings and reluctant partings, joy and pain. The first vigne ...
Genre :Drama

foreman

2016-11-26 6.2

Shippu Rondo

An illegal biological weapon K-55 is stolen from a university lab. The university lab can't even call the police because the secret nature of the weapon. The school lab then receives a message stating ...
Genre :Drama

2003-10-18 6.5

Dead End Run

A collection of three short films by Japanese visual genius Sogo Ishii. Each short focuses on the protagonists running away from a threat. ...
Genre :Thriller, Action, Music

Bubaigawa

2009-08-01 8

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. Kachi, plans a mandatory club trip to a small village ca ...
Genre :Comedy, Horror

1999-04-23 3.8

Anarchy in Japansuke

A middle-aged man walks up to young man who is sitting under a tree and shoots him. The film then flashes back to 1981, where a young woman steals a car with a baby strapped inside. She decides to rai ...
Genre :Drama

2001-10-20 5.107

Platonic Sex

When Aoi is gang-raped by her classmates and kicked out of her home by her own parents she sees no reason to continue living. Before she commits suicide, however, she receives an email on her cellphon ...
Genre :Drama

(segment "Yuki ni saku hana")

2004-12-04 7

A Perfect Day for Love Letters

A live-action adaptation of George Asakura’s manga, consisting of interwoven romantic vignettes centered around heartfelt letters exchanged between lovers. ...
Genre :Romance

Yuji Noda

2017-08-19 5.952

Meatball Machine Kodoku

Nobody knows where they came from. They parasitize in human beings, take control of them and change their bodies into hideous monsters (Necro-borg). The Necro-borg fight each other until the other die ...
Genre :Horror, Science Fiction, Action, Comedy

Haibara Genjiro

2017-12-23 7.917

My Long Awaited Love Story

Riko is 27, working as a love simulation game designer, and she no longer has big expectations for a man in her life. One day app company TIMEIS, lead by Soichiro, hires her to work on their latest ga ...
Genre :Romance

Security Guard

2001-09-15 6.5

Waterboys

In a Japanese school, 5 adolescent geeks join the new sport teacher and take up the challenge to take part in the synchronised swimming competition, in-spite of the mockeries of the real sportsmen. ...
Genre :Comedy

1999-07-10 0

The Night the Angel Turned Away

Genre :Drama

1995-02-24 0

Forever with You

In a room with only a bed, Shizumi's left hand was somehow fixed to the bed by handcuffs and chains. "Who is this man?", "Why am I sleeping like this?" Shizumi who woke up with a terrible headache sta ...
Genre :Fantasy, Drama

1995-02-10 3.333

Blissful Genuine Sex: Penetration!

Shuji, an unemployed young man, has been living a haphazard and lethargic life, cheating on his wife with his girlfriends and constantly asking his best friend for loans. Then one day, Shuji takes a t ...
Genre :

2010-04-28 0

What a Wonderful Life!!

Shuichi Furukawa receives a phone call from his mother. She reminds him that they are moving the next day. The following day, Shuichi takes a train ride back to his hometown. He arrives at his parents ...
Genre :Comedy, Family

1995-11-18 0

Suddenly Arriving

The tale follows the intentional non-adventures of quiet Tachibana (Takeshi Ito), a Tokyo drifter who has worked in a suburban sausage shop for several years without forging any real friendships. ...
Genre :Drama

2016-07-02 4.5

Unrequited Love

Childhood best friends. Cousins. Housemates. Coworkers. Eight stories of unrequited love, eight sets of people who weren't meant to be together. Several short films put together under the common them ...
Genre :Romance

2001-01-20 8

Stake Out

The fourth chapter in the Love Cinema series, is a story of a cloistered and obsessive character who is confining and closed. When many suicides occur in an apartment building the police are by to que ...
Genre :

2016-11-25 7

L

L stopped enjoying life as a little girl. She flees abuse at the hands of her adoptive parents and heads for the big city. There, L's life is wrecked by a string of bad relationships, and she takes th ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Morisaka

2017-07-02 0

My Cactus

My Cactus is a film from writer/director Koto Nagata that tells the story of unrequited love between its two main characters. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Minami's father

2014-02-08 6.8

The Tale of Nishino

Yukihiko Nishino is very popular with women, but, in the end, he is always dumped by a woman. Yukihiko seeks out his true love. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

2017-10-14 7

Ringside Story

Kanako is dating Hideo. He is an unpopular actor. They have dated for 10 years with Kanako supporting him. She has worked at a bento factory, but she loses her job. Kanako begins to work as a staff me ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Bus Driver

1999-02-18 7.1

Adrenaline Drive

A gas leak explosion at a yakuza hideout provides a shy nurse and a rental car clerk with the opportunity to take a briefcase full of money. A cross-country chase ensues. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Romance

Fuyuki Tohjoh

2001-08-04 6

Body Drop Asphalt

Eri Manaka lives alone in the big city. She writes a romantic novel on impulse and is startled when it gets rave reviews and makes her a literary celebrity. But doubts soon kick in, and Eri begins wor ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1998-06-05 6

The Outer Way

The cop Himuro is picked as scapegoat by his superiors because of their own involvement in sokaiya gangster practices. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Enzo Zeniya

2015-02-28 0

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) with the special investigation unit goes to the cri ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime

Enzo Zeniya

2015-12-12 0

Specialist 4

Yoshito (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) becomes famous in Kyoto because of his ability to solve cases. The special investigation unit receives a request to investigate a case revolving around the kidnapping of a ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Enzo Zeniya

2013-05-18 6

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 job as a police officer and makes use of his specia ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Sasaki

2008-02-07 6

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 only 23 days left and without his best partner Watari ...
Genre :Fantasy, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction, Mystery

Parco Officer

2002-07-20 10

Parco Fiction

Witness a bizarre job interview and a dotty grandma in these five short surreal stories revolving around legendary Japanese department store Parco. ...
Genre :Comedy

Security guard

2008-05-31 6.6

Nagai Nagai Satsujin

A man’s body is found in the suburbs of Tokyo. The dead man was hit by a car and his head beaten by the reckless driver after the accident. The dead man had a wife named Noriko. She likes fancy things ...
Genre :Mystery, TV Movie

1995-08-26 6.3

Shinjuku Triad Society

Tatsuhito, a cop, pursues Chinese warlord Wang through the underworld of Shinjuku and over to Taiwan. ...
Genre :Action, Thriller, Crime

2010-12-01 6.463

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 fled underground to escape the irradiated surface. On ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Drama

Boss of agency

2009-02-28 7.3

Crime or Punishment?!?

Riko Narumi plays an unpopular idol who in an attempt to boost her faltering career becomes police chief for a day. During the day a robbery occurs at a convenience store and instead of letting a real ...
Genre :Comedy

Home Delivery Worker

1997-10-10 0

Romantic Mania

A love story in the style of a psycho-thriller, depicting the relationship between a female police officer who continues to have an affair and the men who surround her, along with the progress of a bi ...
Genre :Romance, Crime, Horror

Vagrant Who Captures Carp

2017-02-11 7.3

Survival Family

A world wide electrical outage occurs. Everything that requires electricity comes to a stop. Tokyo is nearly ruined. Yoshiyuki Suzuki decides to escape from Tokyo with his family. ...
Genre :Comedy, Family, Drama, Adventure

2008-10-19 0

The Soup of Heaven

Follows the life of an Office Lady who gets through her tedious work days by dreaming of a legendary soup and soup chef she's heard of. She decides to go in search of it. ...
Genre :Drama

Singer

2001-10-06 0

Quartet

"Quartet" tells the story of four young musicians as they form a string quartet and pursue fame. ...
Genre :Drama

Pinball Parlour Manager

2004-09-11 7.8

Swing Girls

A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the school's brass band. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Police Officer

2012-01-14 7.2

Robo-G

Three engineers cannot make a robot work in time for a science show, and hire a man to inhabit the robot's shell to save their jobs. The robot's performance at the show attracts media attention and sc ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

2006-10-14 8

Switch of Happiness

Through this movie, you can find Your own 'Switch to Happiness'. Heartwarming story of stubborn father and his three daughters at a small electric appliance store in a country town of Japan, finding t ...
Genre :Drama

Tatsuno

2018-09-14 5.7

Come On Irene

Iwao Shishido has found a wife. After paying three million yen for a bridal tour to the Philippines, he comes home with Irene, who is promptly confronted by Tsuru—Iwao’s freshly widowed mother, who’s ...
Genre :Drama

Cameraman

2008-04-05 5.6

Sing Salmon Sing

High school student Kasumi Ogino is a member of the school choir and after years of praise for her singing voice thinks she is the absolute bee’s knees. When the object of her desires, classmate and p ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

1998-07-11 8

The Cold-Blooded Trap

Psycho-mystery in which two men confront each other over the murder of a woman in Shibuya. ...
Genre :Thriller

Yakuza boss

1999-08-14 2.7

Tokyo Elegy

Fugitive Jack is doing everything in his power to evade both the police and gangsters. Assuming he’s in the clear, he moves in with Keiko, a pornstar whose early life in an abusive family still haunt ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Romance, Crime

2003-08-17 6.8

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 negotiations while one of their colleagues, Lt. An ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller, Drama, TV Movie

1999-06-25 2.667

Lustful Wife

A disappointed married woman who was told by a doctor that she could not have children. Her husband drowned in affair with a young woman while treating her gently. She felt uneasy about unfortunate ci ...
Genre :Drama

Takiji

2017-08-26 6.333

Asura Girl: A Blood-C Tale

In prewar Japan under the military regime, a bloody battle between the extremely oppressive Special Higher Police and villagers begins! ...
Genre :Action, Horror

Police Officer

1999-11-06 6.8

Round About Midnight

While on a cigarette break in between sets, Koji, a jazz musician, witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Linda, who is being pursued by the killers. Mistakenly identified as prime suspects, they ha ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller, Drama

Prep School Teacher

2000-04-01 6.9

First Love

This coming-of-age story from Japan opens just after 17-year-old Sataka has gotten dumped by her boyfriend. When her mother is hospitalized with a malignant stomach ulcer, Sataka is left alone with he ...
Genre :Romance

Police Officer

1998-09-11 5.7

Sunday Drive

A pair of friendly coworkers at a rental video store accidentally become murderers. Borrowing a station wagon, they flee with no particular destination in mind. ...
Genre :Drama

2001-08-11 4.8

Red Shadow

The secret warriors of feudal Japan were the ninja. Sent on impossible missions, the ninja were trained to work in shadows, gather information and defeat the enemy to build a world of peace. Akakage, ...
Genre :Adventure, Action, Comedy, Romance

2001-08-25 0

Hotoke

Rai pedals his bike and trailer about town, collecting old iron and sowing flower seeds. Because his face never seems to show emotion, everybody calls him Hotoke - meaning Buddha. His elder brother Sh ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

2002-02-19 0

Pakodate-jin

One morning Hikaru Hino, a high school student living in Hakodate, wakes up to find she has grown a tail. She quickly cancels her first date with classmate Hayato, complicating their relationship. Hik ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

1994-11-05 6

119

In Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for nearly twenty years. Each day passes eventlessly... until one day. The monotony of their daily lives is i ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Driver

1999-08-21 6.2

Messengers

Naomi Shimizu is a young career woman working for Enrico Dandolo, an Italian fashion house. That is until one day the company declares bankruptcy. Accustomed to living in luxury she tries to make a ru ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Drama

Junya Aoki

2001-03-17 6.5

Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius

A young, good-hearted doctor Kenichi suffers from a rare syndrome whereby his feelings cannot be hidden. Such people are known as "satorare" and their well-being come under special government protecti ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy

Samurai executed by Kanô

1999-12-18 6.496

Taboo

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, al ...
Genre :Drama, History, Thriller

Cab driver

2000-06-10 6

Senrigan

The head of a psychological research institute and a lieutenant in the Japanese Air Force are both investigating a mysterious cult known only as ‘Midori no Saru’ (The Green Monkey). Members of this gr ...
Genre :Thriller, Horror

Gay makeup artist

1998-11-28 7

Shomuni

Based on the comic by Hiroyuki Yasuda ...
Genre :Comedy

Dansei Kyôyu (uncredited)

2000-01-22 6.1

Ring 0

Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit. ...
Genre :Horror, Thriller, Drama

2002-05-03 5.5

KT

This movie is a political/espionage thriller, based on a real kidnapping incident of Korean politician, Kim Dae-Jung. ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Thriller

Killer

1997-08-16 7.3

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 schoolmate Noguchi, who's now a member of the Yakuza, the Ja ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Comedy

2000-12-02 8

By Player

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is addressing Tonoyama himself, rec ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Tamaki Sensei

2001-11-24 0

Toki no kaori: Remember me

Remake of the Korean film Ditto about a college student in the past who falls in love with a boy from the future. ...
Genre :

Teru Onda

2001-10-06 7.4

All About Lily Chou-Chou

Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the d ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Biker police

2006-08-26 6.5

Udon

Kosuke is 31, and tired of his hometown where nothing happens. On a whim, he departs for New York with dreams of making it big. 6 months later, he straggles home... defeated, and saddled with debt. Aw ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Kurata

2006-11-03 6.5

The Letters

How have you been? Takeshi's letter is delivered one each month to his younger brother, Naoki. Takeshi is serving a life term in prison for the crime that he had committed to save his brother. But the ...
Genre :Drama

2015-09-19 0

Lingering Memories

One summer day, Tokiko, whose life in Tokyo is going nowhere fast, gets on an overnight bus to the countryside. When she arrives, she meets Yohei, a high school student struggling to deal with the sud ...
Genre :Drama

2005-05-21 7.2

In the Pool

A free-spirited psychiatrist exudes a magnetic attraction for patients with out-of-the-ordinary neuroses and odd conditions brought about by stress. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

2009-05-23 4

Baby, Baby, Baby!

30 year old Yoko Sasaki (Arisa Mizuki) works diligently at a publishing company. She then receives the unexpected news that she is pregnant. Having now to chose between having a baby and or her career ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Repair man

2009-09-12 4.9

Killer Bride's Perfect Crime

Hiroko is about to get married to the handsome Kenichiro when disaster strikes. Her landlord stops by the happy bride-to-be’s apartment where a pair of wayward scissors falls from a shelf and stabs hi ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

Funahachi Family Henchmen

2003-09-06 7.235

Zatoichi

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Action

Man In Supermarket

2004-01-30 6.3

Zebraman

A down-and-out schoolteacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old television superhero, Zebraman. ...
Genre :Comedy, Action

(uncredited)

2004-12-04 7.073

Godzilla: Final Wars

Humanity finally rids themselves of Godzilla, imprisoning him in an icy tomb in the South Pole. All is peaceful until various monsters emerge to lay waste to Earth's cities. Overwhelmed, humanity is s ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Thriller

TV Actor

2006-05-27 7.794

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 into a despairing tragedy. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

2007-05-12 0

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 music that defined two generations of post-war Japan ...
Genre :Drama

Detective Higashino

2009-01-30 6.7

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 Friend's increasing influence over the world and continu ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Adventure, Mystery

Man of Prosecution Section

2004-07-17 7.484

The Taste of Tea

A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano, a successful music producer, is loo ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

2004-10-31 3.6

Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw

A Japanese teenager bicycles aimlessly through the countryside after killing his mother. ...
Genre :Drama

2006-04-04 5

Mobile Detectives: The Movie

Although they are still teenagers, the Zenigata Sisters are detectives, and have a grandfather in the Inspector General. They possess an uncanny knack for solving crimes, but no one knows that they ar ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

2015-11-07 7

Fade

22-year-old Kanami is constantly conscious of people's gaze due to the birthmark on her face. Upon coming in to contact with the eccentric people at the beauty salon where she has begun working, Kanam ...
Genre :Comedy

2002-11-29 4.3

Aiki

When a promising young boxer is crippled in a car accident, he falls into a life of dissipation and depression. No boxing ring or martial arts club will take him on -- that is, until an aiki jujitsu m ...
Genre :Drama

Juzo Inada

2010-10-16 7.25

Sakurada Gate Incident

Mito Domain Samurai Seki Tetsunosuke must pay the consequences for his role in the assassination of Great Elder Ii Naosuke. Based on true events. ...
Genre :History, Drama, Action

2003-04-26 4.727

Samurai Resurrection

Shiro Amasuka, dead leader of the Shimbara Revolt is resurrected from hell with the desire of overthrowing the shogunate for killing his companions. To do this , he resurrects an army of living dead s ...
Genre :Fantasy, Action, History, Thriller, Science Fiction

Yoichi's father

2005-08-06 6.3

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 creatures), where he meets a group of friendly yōkai who become ...
Genre :Comedy, Fantasy, Action

AV actor

2002-03-16 2

Bastoni: The Stick Handlers

Kazuhiko Nakamura directs this sexually charged wacky comedy set in the world of the Japanese adult video industry. The story follows a young woman's (Amiko Kanetani) foolish attempts to win back a lo ...
Genre :Comedy

2002-04-27 7.5

Dog Star

A seeing-eye dog (Shiro) is granted one wish by his former owner. He chooses to become a human for a short time so he can find the girl who trained him as a puppy. While attempting to get to know her ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Akita

2003-08-23 7

The Battling Angel

Police struggle to uncover Klein, a powerful criminal organization. Asuka, a young detective, is assigned to contact and escort Hatsumi, a mistress of the drug lord Kimikuni, but they are ambushed, le ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Science Fiction

2004-12-25 6

Install

High school student Asako moves all of her belongings to the refuse area of her apartment complex and stops attending school. Kazuyoshi, a precocious young boy, invites her to join him in an online ch ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

2006-09-08 6

Backdancers!

A cadre of backup dancers is left astray when their star singer moves on with her life and marriage. They each had their own ambition and hope, which subconsciously rested on the star power of the sin ...
Genre :

2007-10-10 7

Pacchigi! Love & Peace

In 1974, during the height of the recession, a Japanese Korean family relocates to Tokyo to raise money and seek better treatment for their ill son. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

2011-11-03 4

Japanese Salaryman NEO

Shinjo is a new employee at NEO Beer, which is currently ranked fifth in the industry. When NEO’s president demands that they figure out a way to capture the top market share, Sales division chief Nak ...
Genre :Comedy

Robin

2009-11-14 0

Randies

In Ikebukuro, unbeaten street fighter Ran Sakurai (Yosuke Kawamura) and his friend Kenji (Yosuke Asari) run a benriya operation called "Randys" to earn enough money to buy a haka for their dead friend ...
Genre :

2005-10-01 7.346

The Samurai I Loved

A young samurai stuck at the bottom of the hierarchical order attempts to rescue his childhood sweetheart from an evil clan lord after learning of a plot to kill her and her infant child. Bunshiro Mak ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, History

Takashima

2007-02-17 5.9

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 corpse of a girl whose dead body continues to grow ...
Genre :Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Kuzuu

2018-10-13 10

Blood-Club Dolls 1

Following the news of a heinous tragedy, a young woman searches the streets for her missing brother, the person accused of committing the incident. Unaware of his true status or location, he finds him ...
Genre :Action, Fantasy, Horror

2002-10-05 0

Sensen fukoku

War between North Korea and Japan ...
Genre :War

Kaneda

2002-10-19 5.3

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 body parts, piece by piece. She's soon joined by three ...
Genre :Drama

Kentaro Maruyama

2005-03-19 6.2

All About My Dog

A series of short stories all about dogs. ...
Genre :Family, Drama

Manager

2013-04-06 3.5

The Rakugo Movie

Rakugo Eiga is a film featuring Japan's traditional art, 'rakugo' as its theme. It is a modern adaptation of three rakugo tales presented in three short films. ...
Genre :Drama

2015-07-25 0

Obon Brothers

A failed director is trying to get his next movie off the ground, while dealing with his cranky brother and his estranged wife. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Officer

2013-05-18 0

SPINNING KITE

Jun, Bunji, Kido and Maki spend their days wandering aimlessly in the city of Kisarazu where sense of dread rules the streets while the adults around them desperately wish them to change. One day,they ...
Genre :Drama

2003-08-30 0

Be in Happiness

Against the backdrop of Hime Island in the Genkai Sea, the film calmly depicts the daily life of the island woven by a pure-hearted young man aspiring to become an actor, a mediocre actor who comes f ...
Genre :Comedy

Crazy 88 #3

2011-03-27 8.026

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

A former assassin—known only as The Bride—wakes up from a coma after her former boss and lover, Bill, shoots her in the head and steals her unborn child during her wedding rehearsal. She soon embarks ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Yuji Toyama

2002-10-18 6.742

Ju-on: The Grudge

When a social worker is sent to check on a traumatized elderly woman whose family have moved in at the site of a notorious murder case, she unwittingly unleashes a cycle of terror that transmits via i ...
Genre :Horror

Sasaki

2006-06-17 7.07

Death Note

Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find ...
Genre :Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller

2019-12-21 5.5

Farewell: Comedy of Life Begins with a Lie

The editor-in-chief of a literary magazine who is popular with women sets up a fake wife and bids farewell to his mistresses. ...
Genre :Comedy

Yorihiko Jinnouchi (voice)

2009-08-01 7.456

Summer Wars

Teenage math whiz Kenji Koiso agrees to take a summer job at the Nagano hometown of his crush, Natsuki. When he arrives, he finds that her family have reunited to celebrate the 90th birthday of their ...
Genre :Animation, Science Fiction

2002-08-24 1

Igyō no koi

A sensual coming-of-age drama direct — It depicts a precarious relationship between a homosexual woman and a man who was picked up by her and ends up living with her ...
Genre :Drama

2012-06-09 7

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 became captivated by Korean culture and championed th ...
Genre :

2003-03-05 0

Summer Breeze

A short film starring Miku Ishida, who is the most popular U-15 idol. Set in the ancient city of Ueda, Shinshu, it depicts a girl who grows up through the bond between parents and children. ...
Genre :

2010-01-30 7

Kazura

Bald Moriyama wants a new image and buys a wig. It works: suddenly he has a career and a girlfriend. But life is hard when you have to keep a secret. Perfect timing and handling of real-life anxieties ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

2020-06-05 6

Yan

A young man is sent from Japan to Taiwan in order to get his disenfranchised brother to sign away his inheritance rights. ...
Genre :Drama

2021-04-09 6.7

The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood

In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who get involved in misadventures while on set. ...
Genre :Comedy

Genjiro Tada

2019-01-25 4.7

The Nikaidos' Fall

After losing his son, Tatsuya is anguished by the danger of his ancient family line coming to an end. His mother Haru urges him to embark on a loveless second marriage, and meanwhile he secretly hopes ...
Genre :

2020-05-01 7.7

Mrs. Noisy

Maki Yoshioka is a novelist and mother. She has been experiencing writer's block. One day, she gets into a disagreement with her neighbor Miwako Wakata over a futon. Maki gets harassed by Miawako incr ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

2018-12-12 0

Stalking Vampire

An aspiring actor tries to find fans on YouTube to convince his beloved to marry him. But on his way to fame everything goes awry with the appearance of a mysterious white creature in the city… ...
Genre :Horror

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秀吉、スタートアップ企業で働く

Genre :

2025-01-31 8.5

Kaiju Guy!

Yamada, a good-for-nothing local civil servant who just loves monster movies, is suddenly given a huge mission to liven up the city! What unprecedented strategy will he take? ...
Genre :Comedy

2025-01-24 0

Demon Virus

YouTuber Tomoki Uchikawa, along with his friends Hinako, Souta, and Nanae, head to the former Ishio Village, where there are rumors of people being spirited away, to film a video investigating urban l ...
Genre :Horror

2010-02-27 0

月と嘘と殺人

Genre :Drama

2023-04-08 5.5

Onimanji

Ninja samurai Onimanji, who has been sealed in a cursed urn for 631 years and 59 days, is resurrected in the modern era by the assassin-for-hire company, Kika Company. The odd team of Kika, Shigeru, a ...
Genre :Drama, Horror, Comedy

2020-06-29 0

Last Line Detective Tsuyoshi Iwakura

Genre :TV Movie, Mystery, Crime

2005-10-11 6

Visas for Life

World Wat II broke out shortly after diplomat Chiune Sugihara was assigned to Lithuania. Nazi Germany occupied the western half of Poland and began persecuting the Jews. Lithuania was then annexed by ...
Genre :History, Drama

Hajime Shinjo

2025-04-23 6.872

Bullet Train Explosion

When panic erupts on a Tokyo-bound bullet train that will explode if it slows below 100 kph, authorities race against time to save everyone on board. ...
Genre :Action, Thriller, Crime, Drama

2009-11-19 0

The Night of Whirlwind Restaurant

Night after night, eccentric regulars gather at a quaint eating house located in the corner of a crossing in Tsukifune-cho ...
Genre :Drama

Yoji Tanaka

2017-03-04 0

Tantei wa, konya mo yūutsu na yume o miru.

Reiki Beni (Tomonori Hirose), the second head of the Beni Detective Agency, along with his partner Shoji Ai (Gentoku Aoki), underground idol Saori (Asuka Kishi), and Yayoi (Reiko Yakima), Reiji's gran ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

2010-08-24 0

Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi ~ 2010 Summer Special: AKB48 Marugoto Jourei Special

The one where they perform an exorcism on Minami Takahashi and stuff. Also the first segment here is Tsuruta remaking the earring story from the original trilogy, so that's pretty cool. ...
Genre :Horror, TV Movie

2011-11-27 0

Lessons

Genre :Drama

Shigeo Aihara

2013-03-29 10

Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo

At a high school entrance ceremony, high school student Kotoko Aihara, who isn't that smart, notices pretty boy Naoki Irie. She falls in love with him immediately. Kotoko initially doesn't express her ...
Genre :Romance

1998-10-23 0

Female Teacher 6

Satsuki Yamamoto, a teacher at Kairei High School. Satsuki had been secretly living with her student, Tsutomu, in a semi-cohabiting arrangement. When Tsutomu's junior female student, Riho, discovered ...
Genre :

Bartender / 酒保

2006-07-03 5.7

HERO SP

Five years have passed since Kuryu Kohei's transfer from Tokyo to Ishigaki, and then to Sapporo. He ends up in a small town of Nijigaura in Yamaguchi Prefecture. There, he investigates a murder case i ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Clean

0

Geisha War

Rival bosses of Japanese Yakuza and American Mafia fight for control. Blood is shed... like fountains. ...
Genre :

Pinky

2005-04-30 0

Monsieur Greenpeas

Genre :Animation

Okamura

2000-07-07 9

The Whispered City

Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses. ...
Genre :Drama

Yoshino

2012-01-04 8.9

Solitary Gourmet

Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments and experiences the various delicacies of Japanese c ...
Genre :Drama

Tatsumura

2006-01-19 4

Gachi Baka!

Former pro boxer Gondo Tetta has come to Kaki-no-ki-zaka High School as a beginning teacher. The school hopes to restore finances by improving the students' abilities and strengthening its baseball te ...
Genre :Drama

Cafe clerk

2022-01-06 9

Kamiki Ryunosuke's Filming Break

Depicts how Ryunosuke Kamiki spends his days off during breaks in shooting dramas and movies. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Kumakiri Yusaku

2019-04-09 5.5

His - I Didn't Think I Would Fall in Love

Nagisa is 17 years old and attends second grade in high school. He is apart from his parents and lives alone in the seaside town of Fujisawa in Kanagawa. He is passionate about surfing and works at a ...
Genre :Drama

Yasuo Kohara

2006-01-13 6.7

Time Limit Investigator

Shūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have reached the statute of limitations are destroyed. Getting bored of his job, he decides to find a hobby, bec ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

2017-03-19 0

Hitoya no Toge

Ryota Takeshima (Masataka Kubota) has followed in his father's footsteps and now works as a prison officer at Kitakanto Prison. He has witnessed corrupt prison officers who tolerates bullying and gamb ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

2021-09-25 7

The Scales of Justice

A genius lawyer who changed jobs from a doctor, while suffering from the tragedy of false accusations, leads an out-of-force team to uncover the truth of numerous difficult cases and save the souls of ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime

1990-10-04 9.5

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

Genre :Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Ishida Kazuo

2010-07-31 0

Tofu Sisters

A tv drama that fused mockumentary, drama, and animation. It was originally planned to be an original DVD drama in 2008. Three sisters live together (all played by Yoshitaka Yuriko) who are like tofu ...
Genre :Drama

Tetsuji Uchimoto

2021-10-18 7.4

Avalanche

Seiichi Habu is a member of the mysterious outlaw group Avalanche. The group exists at a time when moral hazards run rampant among politicians, bureaucrats, businesses, and even among ordinary people. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Action & Adventure, War & Politics, Crime

2002-07-01 8.4

The Private Detective Mike

Mike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the ladies and a soft spot in his heart, especially for his kid sister Akane. Mike's so down on his luck he ...
Genre :Crime

2003-12-21 0

川、いつか海へ 6つの愛の物語

NHK's 50th-anniversary memorial drama serial. This drama consisting of several short stories starring some of the well-known actors and actress of Japan today. A ball floats from the river's source to ...
Genre :

Ryuji Himuro

2010-07-09 0

Gakeppuchi no Eri - Kono yo de ichiban daiji na 'Kane' no hanashi

"Gakeppuchi no Eri" describes the turbulent life of Eriko (Yamada), who has been extremely poor since childhood, due to the debt left by her parents. Despite constant misfortune, she aims to achieve h ...
Genre :Comedy

Kappei Onimaru

2008-01-12 6.8

One-Pound Gospel

Hatanaka Kosaku is a talented boxer who turned pro at the age of 19, winning his debut match with a first round KO. He is talented, but he has no guts. His uncontrollable appetite is an even bigger pr ...
Genre :Comedy

Man after Kyoto’s love

2015-04-16 7.3

I'm Home

Ieji Hisashi, a salaryman who works for a securities company, has a fuzzy memory of the recent five years because of an accident at his job posting. His wife of five years, Megumi and their 4-year-old ...
Genre :Family, Drama, Mystery

2013-11-30 0

Olympic Ransom

Genre :

Masuoka Fumihiko

2009-04-20 7

Konkatsu!

Amamiya Kuniyuki is the unemployed son of a tonkatsu restaurant owner. He finds a job that requires a married person, so he lies by saying that he has plans to marry, and he is forced to keep up the c ...
Genre :Family, Drama

Policeman

2010-01-12 5.5

Mr. Straightforward

Matsushima Kenichiro is basically a straight guy because he hates dishonesty. He is an employee at a medium-sized building firm and works in design. However, he is inept when it comes to love. Kenichi ...
Genre :Drama

Bartender / 酒保

2001-01-08 8

Hero

Former delinquent turned unconventional prosecutor Kohei Kuryu shakes up the legal world with his street-smart instincts and unorthodox style, clashing with ambitious colleague Maiko Amamiya while his ...
Genre :Drama

2022-02-22 0

Kanban Neko

Takahashi Koume is a newbie magazine reporter. Takahashi Koume is a newbie reporter for a magazine and is being urged by the editor-in-chief, Sae Niimura, to come up with a plan for a new serial. It's ...
Genre :

Taro Momono

2015-04-10 7.8

Unhandy Handyman

The handymen in an obscure Hokkaido town shut out by the snow are the meddlesome owner Matsui Hideo, the thrice divorced Umemoto Soichi, and the young budding scriptwriter Takeyama Jun who has lost hi ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

旅人

2022-03-26 10

にっぽん！庭泊ひとり旅

Genre :

Takuro Hoshikawa

2018-10-08 6.2

Suits

Shogo Kai is a lawyer at one of the big 4 law firms in Japan. He is good at his job, but he is arrogant. Shogo Kai only thinks about winning and he thinks the only way to satisfy his clients is to win ...
Genre :Drama

2001-10-10 7

Handoku!!!

As a former gang member, Hazama Ichiban witnessed the worst side of the emergency medical system and vowed to become a doctor to change it. With the aggressive passion he learned on the streets, Ichib ...
Genre :Family

2016-04-17 6.8

99.9 Criminal Lawyer

Hiroto Miyama is an unconventional young lawyer who dances to his own tune and gets a little obsessive. For one thing, he’s only interested in criminal cases, and he will never give up in his pursuit ...
Genre :Crime

Ginji Asai（浅井 銀次）

2018-10-03 0

Ten: Tenhodori no Kaidanji

Takashi Ten is called to a mahjong club one night to play against Igawa Hiroyuki, a young mahjong player. Having just robbed Ten's friends blind at mahjong, Ten arrives to take back his winnings. Ten' ...
Genre :Drama

Takeshi Ogi（仰木 武司）

2018-05-25 0

Akagi: Washizu Mahjong Kanketsu-hen

Genre :Drama, Crime

Shogo Hashimoto

2018-08-04 8.4

Eerie: Invisible Face

Seiji Hirokawa works as a university professor. One day, his sick wife dies. Several days later, the intercom bell rings at his home and he sees a strange woman's face on the intercom screen. The woma ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Yoshiro Futami

2019-01-13 7.5

The Good Wife

Kyoko Hasumi (Takako Tokiwa) is a former lawyer who quit her job to become a housewife and a mother. Her husband is an elite prosecutor. He works as the leader of a special investigation department at ...
Genre :Family, Drama

Yajima Ichi

2022-07-01 8.6

Ryosangata Riko

Komukai Riko is a young single woman and works for an event planning company. She is considered average in regards to her personality and appearance. One day, her co-worker mentions person of a mass p ...
Genre :Drama

Umebayashi

2022-07-15 7.5

ISHIKO and HANEO: You're Suing Me?

A paralegal who graduated from a big-name school teams up with an offbeat lawyer, taking on oddball little cases out of a small, neighborhood law office. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Igarashi Hachiro

2009-01-24 6.5

Rescue: Pride of Orange

Kitajima Daichi has wanted to join the rescue squad and wear the same orange uniform ever since he was saved by them as a child. When the squad calls for young firefighters to join, he and some other ...
Genre :Drama

Mochizuki

2017-10-21 6.2

Unrequited Love

At a university football team reunion, former team manager Mitsuki Hiura confesses that she killed a person to quarterback Tetsuro Nishiwaki. She also reveals that as a result of a gender identity dis ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

Koike Kenji

2014-08-19 8

Saintly Woman

When I was 17-years-old, Maria was a college student and worked as a private tutor. Her student was me. She left a last message to me, "when you graduate from college and become an adult, can you beco ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Katsuji Ozawa

2016-10-04 6.3

Beppin-san

The 95th NHK Asadora is about Sumire, a girl born in the uptown of Kobe in the early Showa period. In the wake of wartime devastation, she works hard toward making children's clothes for a living, and ...
Genre :Family, Drama

Jesus Mikoshiba

2015-01-16 7.2

Ouroboros

"Ouroboros" is an ancient symbol that depicts a snake eating its own tail - meaning infinity. Based on a popular comic, a clumsy detective and a cool gang stand up to true evil. Ikuo and Tatsuya grew ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, Crime

Doi Yutaro

2008-11-16 6

Prisoner

Genre :Drama

Mineta Kohei

2012-07-16 6.5

Soumatou Kabushikigaisha

Genre :Mystery, Drama

2024-03-03 0

Plamo no Hanashi

A talk show featuring celebrities who love plastic models. ...
Genre :Talk

Richi Sudo

2015-10-07 5

Fake Marriage

45-year-old Hiro Kamon works as a librarian because she loves books. Although she is worshiped as the "aloof beauty" and "ideal female" for her beautiful, gentle smile and amiability, she actually dis ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Iwao Takada

2015-07-16 6.5

Saikyou no Futari

Shinonome Jinpachi has returned to the Kyoto Prefectural Police’s First Investigative Division as a specially commissioned detective. Meanwhile, Natsuki Asako, a team leader, has just been assigned to ...
Genre :Crime

Makoto Nakahara

2009-10-16 6

Untouchable

When reporter Narumi Ryoko loses her job at a first-rate publisher and ends up at a trashy tabloid called "Shukan Untouchable." She now chases celebrity scandals and sensational stories, but she hasn' ...
Genre :Mystery

Guest

2003-07-27 9.3

Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game

After participating to a previous show where they have to bet or be challenged to any kind of competitions, the losing members of the Gaki no Tsukai are selected to spend 24 hours in a setting which t ...
Genre :Comedy, Reality

Iwai Yuuzou

2008-01-11 5

Edison's Mother

The series focuses on Ayukawa Noriko, the teacher of a class of first-graders. One day, a boy named Kento transfers into her class from another school, where he was treated as a problem child. In real ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Yassan

2022-07-01 8.6

Ryosangata Riko

Komukai Riko is a young single woman and works for an event planning company. She is considered average in regards to her personality and appearance. One day, her co-worker mentions person of a mass p ...
Genre :Drama

Shigeo Aihara

2013-03-29 7.3

Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo

At a high school entrance ceremony, high school student Kotoko Aihara, who isn't that smart, notices pretty boy Naoki Irie. She falls in love with him immediately. Kotoko initially doesn't express her ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

金村

2019-01-12 7

The Funny Chef of South Polar

The Japanese 38th South Pole research expedition team are at the Dome base. Located 1,000 km away from the main Showa base at an altitude of 3,800 m, it is called the most inhospitable place on earth ...
Genre :

2019-04-21 7

It's Your Turn

Genre :Drama, Mystery

2021-01-08 10

Byplayers: 100 Days in the Forest of Supporting Actors

Set in "Byplaywood" a large film studio surrounded by forest, far from the city. The story depicts 100 days of turmoil caused by the gathering of serial dramas and movies from various TV stations at o ...
Genre :Comedy

2003-01-17 5

Sky High

Sky High is a live-action, supernatural Japanese television drama series, starring actress and model, Yumiko Shaku. It aired in Japan, first run, from 2003 to 2004, and was popular enough to spawn the ...
Genre :Drama

2005-10-14 7.1

One Missed Call

Yumi, a writer of a science magazine, witnesses a mysterious death of a high school girl who received a "one missed call" from her own cell phone, two weeks in the future. The disturbing message on th ...
Genre :Mystery

2023-01-08 7.8

Get Ready!

This dark medical drama examines the meaning of human life, centring on a team of unidentified black-market doctors who undertake any kind of surgery with superhuman surgical skills and exorbitant med ...
Genre :Drama

Takeshi Ogi（仰木 武司）

2015-07-18 7

Akagi

Akagi Shigeru is a young, white-haired mahjong genius. One summer in 1965, he ends up facing off against Washizu Iwao, Japan’s King of Darkness who has amassed enormous fortune and power, at the reque ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

磯川泰造

2020-11-21 0

オレの寿司物語

Genre :

Keisuke Ukita

2019-04-14 7.5

Your Turn To Kill

Nana and Shota are a newlywed couple and Nana is 15 years older than Shota. Nana works as a designer and Shota works as a gym trainer. They both enjoy mystery. The newlywed couple then move to an apar ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

Shizuka Nishimura's father

2007-07-03 8

Detective School Q

The city is filled with countless urban legends. Strange incidents that occur in the midst of these legends lead people into a labyrinth... It is the five young detective hatchlings who take on these ...
Genre :Mystery, Kids

2024-04-12 7.2

Yips

A detective drama produced by Fuji TV. ...
Genre :Mystery, Comedy, Drama

2023-04-09 0

Fujiko F. Fujio Sci-Fi Short Drama

Genre :Drama

Shigeto Kawada

2016-11-24 0

シリーズ・横溝正史短編集

Genre :

2015-09-25 0

あてなよる

Genre :Talk