Renji Ishibashi

AKA: Renji Ishibashi, Renji Ishida

1.4528

1941-08-09

Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {392}

1980-11-27 0

The Bear Storm

An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the Taishō era. About 15 families who moved in search of agricultural land to the land of the pioneers i ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller, TV Movie, Horror

1992-11-25 0

The New Virgin Story

A love triange arises between a virgin, a stripper, and a mysterious girl ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy

1992-01-01 0

Pinwheel Hamakichi's Spell

Genre :

Nankaibou Tenkai

2005-09-17 6.6

Shinobi: Heart Under Blade

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annual conference with the Lord, it is dictated that a competition--a fight to the death--will take plac ...

Genre :Action

1987-12-01 6.2

Magino Village: A Tale

The movie compiles footage taken by Ogawa Production for a period of more than ten years after the collective moved to Magino village. Unique to this film are fictional reenactments of the history of ...

Genre :Documentary, Drama

Shozaburo Aoki

2006-06-03 6.6

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 swordsman however, and he prefers sharing the life ...

Genre :Action, Drama, History, Comedy

Mr Shimada

2000-03-03 7.123

Audition

Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interv ...

Genre :Horror, Drama

2007-08-18 7

Into the Faraway Sky

A vast wheat field, a straight road that has no end, a sky without a single building in sight – this is a town in the country where time comfortably passes by. But this former paradise is now being st ...

Genre :Drama, Adventure

Renji (voice)

2001-09-01 7.7

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

The year is 2071. Following a terrorist bombing, a deadly virus is released on the populace of Mars and the government has issued the largest bounty in history, for the capture of whoever is behind it ...

Genre :Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Aoki

1999-11-27 6.3

Dead or Alive

Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to bring it down. ...

Genre :Action, Thriller, Crime

1965-08-12 0

Vermin

Genre :Action, Crime

1986-03-21 0

Life of Don Matsugoro

Children's movie about a dog that can type messages into a word processor. When his owner is kidnapped, the canine summons his fellow dogs to help in the rescue effort. ...

Genre :

Heihachirô Kobayashi

1994-10-22 7.5

47 Ronin

Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal followers (now Ronin, masterless Samurai) dedicate t ...

Genre :Action, Drama

Matsudaira

1993-02-06 7.6

Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict

A noble samurai serving the Shogun as 'Kogi Kaishaku-nin' (Official Executioner) is the target of a plot by the evil Yagyu Clan to take away his position and replace him with a member of their own fam ...

Genre :Action, Thriller

2005-10-09 4

Spring Snow

Based on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows the troubled and illicit affair between two youngsters amongst the aristocracy and rich of early twenti ...

Genre :Drama, Romance, History

Boss

2003-07-11 6.757

Gozu

Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, ...

Genre :Horror, Comedy, Crime, Thriller, Mystery

1976-12-05 0

Nemuremitsu

Omnibus about three actresses from different generations ...

Genre :

Beggar Monk

1999-09-15 6.472

Gemini

When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife. ...

Genre :Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Benkei

2007-09-15 6.2

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

Old Man (segment "Chess")

2000-11-03 6.6

Tales of the Unusual

A four-part anthology in the spirit of The Twilight Zone, this film starts off with a group of commuters stranded at a train station in the rain, listening to stories told by one of the group. These i ...

Genre :Horror, Comedy, Romance

Ujiie

1998-06-10 7.186

The Bird People in China

Wada, a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After his arrival, Wada encounters a violent, yet sentimental, yakuza, who takes the liberty of joining hi ...

Genre :Adventure, Drama

Tramp

1989-07-01 6.976

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his gi ...

Genre :Horror, Science Fiction

Ippei Tashiro

2004-03-13 5.54

Flower & Snake

The wealthy president of a company has built up an unpayable debt to a local crime lord, and to escape punishment he sells his famous dancer wife to the lecherous old man figuring a 90 year old can’t ...

Genre :Drama, Romance, Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Yusaku Motomiya

2005-02-05 6.105

One Missed Call 2

A Japanese restaurant cook/owner dies after answering his daughter's cellphone. Other people are getting strange, same ringtone calls as well and dying painfully. It happened in Taiwan as well. Can th ...

Genre :Horror, Mystery

Otaki

2002-09-21 6.5

Deadly Outlaw: Rekka

After Kunisada's Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend go on a two-man mission to avenge his death, killing other Yakuza leaders leading to a final confrontation ...

Genre :Action, Drama, Thriller

Ou Kubi

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

1995-05-12 0

チンピラ仁義極楽とんぼ2

The follow up to the very popular first instalment. ...

Genre :

1994-01-14 0

The Shootist: Final Episode

Matsushita decides to make a new journey by meeting a fateful woman, Askako, while being chased by a hitman and the police. What awaits him at the end? ...

Genre :Action

Murase

2010-06-12 6.865

Outrage

When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a brutal quest for revenge. ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama

2018-06-30 0

Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu

In 2010, while covering the issue of the "secret agreement" at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the author came across diplomatic documents relating to the reversion of Okinawa and was particularly im ...

Genre :

Police Sergeant

2000-06-10 6.1

Crossfire

Junko was born with a type of ESP called pyrokinesis which she can use to incinerate anyone and anything at will. Junko is secretly in love with Kazuki, a young man who works with her. His sister is k ...

Genre :Thriller, Horror, Action

Morozumi

2003-06-25 6

Yakuza Demon

Seiji and Yoshifumi are the only members of the Muto branch of the Date Family. The two respect and love their leader, Mr. Muto, like a father and the three share a firm bond. But their fate is sealed ...

Genre :Action, Thriller

Saburo Gouda

1976-06-12 5.7

The Watcher in the Attic

A shiftless resident in a boarding house spends his days crawling in the attic and spying on the renters below. One day he spies an elegant lady enter a room where a clown awaited her and watched as h ...

Genre :Romance, Thriller, Horror

Inshû Manjôme

2009-08-19 6.727

20th Century Boys 3: Redemption

The final showdown, and the final reveal. who is Friend? How can he be stopped? ...

Genre :Adventure, Mystery, Science Fiction

1972-12-30 6.21

Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice

Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries. His first adventure sees him investigating his supe ...

Genre :Action, Drama

2023-04-28 7.8

Okiku and the World

Two rogue vagrants make their living as "manure men", turning the waste from the tenement toilets into fertiliser sold to local farmers. Enter Okiku, the only daughter of a fallen samurai, and amongst ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Udagawa

2008-02-08 6.476

The Ramen Girl

An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a ramen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master. ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

Town Mayor

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

Dr. Caligari

2006-12-23 3

Silver Mask

Sabine is able to transform into a silver superhero through the power of the Ring of Nibelungen. She travels to Japan where she searches for her father and battles the forces of Dr. Caligari. ...

Genre :Action, Drama

1965-10-01 0

Dupe

Genre :Drama

Kato

1981-06-03 5.197

Fruits of Passion

A girl named O loves a rich, and much older man. She is subjected to a variety of humiliating experiences to prove her unconditional obedience to him in a Chinese brothel. A poor boy sees her and fall ...

Genre :Drama

Soroku Sugihara

1985-03-02 1

I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident

On the night of August 19, 1980, a bus was set on fire by the vagrant Hirofumi Maruyama at the Shinjuku West Exit Bus Terminal. In the burning flames, Mitsuko, who was exhausted by her affair, sudden ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

1998-04-16 0

Kizu Blood Apocalypse 4

The fourth 'Kizu Blood Apocalypse' film. ...

Genre :Crime

1999-07-21 0

Kunoichi Financial Road

Sacho the financial ninja saves the common folk from corporate villains with the use of her "financial ninjutsu." ...

Genre :

2001-01-01 0

Shura's Barbarian King

Fumihiko Saizonoji , a man who lost everything in the plot of a bank and a general contractor when he was a child . Now , as Fumihiko Kanzaki , a man with two faces , a bank clerk and a fraudster , he ...

Genre :Action

2021-05-21 0

Oshûkatsu

Shinichi and Chikako Ohara have been married for 50 years. After Shinichi retired from his job, he has stayed at home, which Chikako stresses over. They are on the verge of having a divorce. Meanwihle ...

Genre :Drama, Family, Romance

Kyosuke Iwabuchi

2011-09-10 7.2

Phone Call to the Bar

In the Susukino red light district of Sapporo, a private detective (Yo Oizumi) drinks alcohol with his driver Takada (Ryuhei Matsuda) in his favourite bar. There he receives a phone call from a woman ...

Genre :Action, Drama, Crime

1991-05-17 0

Two Magical Nights

This 'Young V-Cinema' film was created for young people, turning from the action of Toei V-cinema. A pop love story featuring a veteran actor and a unique female talent / model. ...

Genre :Romance

Eijiro Hikari / Doctor Shinigami

2009-08-08 6.3

Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker

Tsukasa travels to his home world of the World of Decade, where he discovers the origin of his powers and his true heritage as the leader of Dai-Shocker. The film features all ten of the lead Heisei K ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Eijiro Hikari / Super Doctor Shinigami

2009-12-12 6.2

Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010

Serving as the true ending to Kamen Rider Decade and revealing the origins of Kamen Rider W, this movie is split into three parts. In "Kamen Rider Decade: Final Chapter", Tsukasa Kadoya fully embraces ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

2003-06-14 5.5

Jusei: Last Drop of Blood

After serving a jail sentence, a former leading yakuza (Takaaki Ishibashi) has gone straight. He has married and is now holding a regular job. However, he is continually harrassed by a police inspecto ...

Genre :Action

Leading Man in Play

1988-08-27 4.125

Marquis de Sade’s Prosperities of Vice

A decadent count in 1920′s Japan becomes obsessed with the life and works of the Marquis de Sade. He creates a theatre to show plays adapted from the notorious writer’s novels and recruits thieves, pr ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller

1999-11-13 5.111

White-Collar Worker Kintaro

Kintaro is a reformed delinquent, the former leader of a biker gang who has gone straight. Working at a construction company, his unorthodox tactics cause trouble with his colleagues. He is transferre ...

Genre :Drama, Action, Thriller

1995-05-13 0

The Young Blood Typhoon

On the way home from a small assault incident at a love hotel in Tokyo, Shuntaro Katagiri playfully entered the love hotel with his friend Iwanaka. When I fell asleep, I screamed and screamed from th ...

Genre :Drama

2006-11-04 0

Baian Fujieda the Assassin

An adaptation of the Shotaro Ikenami novels, set in the historical Edo period, and centered on Fujieda Bayan, a medicine man and doctor by day, but ruthless killer for hire by night. His tools of the ...

Genre :Drama

Kozo

1979-02-17 5.875

The Woman with Red Hair

Junko Miyashita plays a mysterious hitchhiker picked up by a brute of a construction worker named Kenzo who takes her back to his run-down and cramped apartment in a not so good part of town. Claiming ...

Genre :Drama

Kojima

2008-03-07 0

Sorrowful Hitman

A Hitman must protect a 15-year-old girl ...

Genre :Drama

1976-02-28 6.3

The Machine Gun Dragon

Ryu, a low life thug, along with his mother, steals a shipment of drugs. Now with his machine gun and a gang of hoodlums, he must face the yakuza and the mafia. ...

Genre :Action, Crime

Shintarô Nakaoka

1974-08-03 4.6

The Assassination of Ryoma

Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), the imperial loyalist who tried to unite the Choshu and Satsuma clans and prepared the way for the Meiji Restoration (1868). ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Imura

1992-09-12 6.6

The Triple Cross

Following the bloody aftermath of a heist, three robbers are double-crossed by a new accomplice, who is then tracked down amid escalating carnage and spectacular car chases. ...

Genre :Drama, Action, Crime

2012-11-03 6.7

A Chorus of Angels

Teacher Kawashima Haru takes a position on a remote island off the coast of Hokkaido, where she takes charge of six students. However, she is later forced to leave after an accident occurs. 20 years l ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery

Gonbei

1990-08-18 5.9

Ronin-gai

Near the end of Japanese civil war, several disgraced ronin living in Edo's red light district attempt to regain their honor by defending a brothel from a hostile militia bent on wiping out local pros ...

Genre :History, Drama, Action

1983-01-21 8

Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 2 - The Assassination of the Shogun

Samon Kamiyama, a yoriki of the Minami-machi magistrate infiltrates the Denzū-machi prison disguised as Mushuku Sahēji. Samon is mistaken for a snitch and about to be beaten up when he was saved by th ...

Genre :Action, Drama, History

511

2005-11-26 0

Detective Office 5

In a small nook of Kawasaki Private investigator 591 and adultry specialist investigator 522 embark on separate investigations that leads them both to the same beautifician. ...

Genre :Crime

2021-01-02 0

Raijingu Jakuchu

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Sakichi Ogata

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

2009-09-12 8.5

Castle Under Fiery Skies

The year is 1575 in feudal Japan. Oda Nobunaga's (Kippei Shiina) forces defeat Takeda Katsuyori, when Nagashino Castle was besieged during the Battle of Nagashino. The next year Oda Nobunada decides t ...

Genre :Drama, History

Narrator

2012-02-04 6

An Artisan's Legacy: Tsunekazu Nishioka

In-depth look at the twilight years, spent training apprentices, of temple builder Nishioka Tsunekazu, who was called the "devil" as he devoted his life to temple architecture. His insistence on the g ...

Genre :Drama, History, Family, Documentary

Detective 511

2009-05-09 6.2

The Code

For 60 years, the group of detectives known as "Detective Office 5" has raised the bar for detective work. The agents of Detective Office 5 are a group of stellar detectives lead by the genius code br ...

Genre :Drama

Kunimatsu Tsutsui

2023-08-11 6.917

Revolver LILY

In 1924 Yuri killed 57 people as a spy before going underground as the madam of a small brothel. There, she encounters an orphan whose family was murdered and holds the key to finding a large sum of m ...

Genre :Action

Narrator

2007-06-21 0

Red Colored Elegy

Uninvolved with the political movements of the time, Ichiro and Sachiko hope for something better, but they’re no revolutionaries; their spare time is spent drinking, smoking, daydreaming, and sleepin ...

Genre :Animation, Drama

Nakatomi-no-Kamatari

2002-07-20 4

Kumamoto Stories

Jidai-geki period / folklore type stories that were comissioned by the Kumamoto prefacture of Kyushu island in 1996 and filmed over a period of three years. Kumamoto Monogatari is a 2002 omnibus whic ...

Genre :History

1971-11-05 0

Lost Lovers

A rebel youth joins a duo of entertainers only able to communicate by gesturing; when the female performer is suddenly abducted, he and Takeru must take action. ...

Genre :Drama

1992-05-23 5.667

The Oil-Hell Murder

The indolent son of an oil vendor becomes a regular customer of a prostitute, racks up a mountain of debt, and is disowned by his parents. ...

Genre :Drama

Shozo Wakatsuki

2021-12-30 6.6

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 director of the law firm. One day, the law firm re ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy, Crime

Setsuo Kishii

1981-09-12 8

The Hidden Trail of the Beasts

A star tennis player takes revenge on the blackmailers out to ruin his athletic career. ...

Genre :Drama, Action

Wada

2013-01-25 6.6

Strawberry Night

Reiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi) is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko doesn't come from an elite background, but she has risen fast through the ranks with hard work. Reiko ...

Genre :Thriller

1982-08-30 0

The Law of Hell

At a restaurant called Anrakutei on an island is a wasteland surrounded by moat and swamp. The owner Ikuzo manages the restaurant with his daughter. It’s customers who have a dark past have utmost res ...

Genre :Drama, Action, History

Shinnosuke Tanabe

2014-05-24 6.8

Kikaider Reboot

In the near future, the brilliant Dr. Komyoji is enlisted to lead the ARK Project—a scientific endeavor dedicated to forging a brighter tomorrow through robotics. However, the doctor’s mysterious deat ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Masao Atsugi (Episode 1)

1988-09-15 7

Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad

Anthology film. "What's Wrong with Eating?" Numayama Kazuki is always complaining about his wife's, Atsugi Shizuka, body shape. Because of that Shizuka tries her best to restrict her diet and please ...

Genre :Comedy

Tsuburagi

1989-10-29 2.667

The Enchantment

A Tokyo psychiatrist is hoping to better his career by marrying the daughter of a prominent doctor. The match is threatened however when an attractive but very troubled tourist guide comes to him for ...

Genre :Thriller, Mystery, Romance, Drama

Tatsuo Okishima

2022-06-03 5

Winter Rose

Jun Wataguchi lives a lazy, half-hearted life, not going to school, hanging out with half-witted delinquents, and begging money from his friends. His parents, who run a shipping business transporting ...

Genre :Drama

1993-11-20 0

Kogarashi Monjirō Returns

Genre :History

Detective Yoshida

2001-02-17 5.8

Darkness in the Light

A middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture), wakes up one morning in the summer of 1994 to find himself the prime suspect in the b ...

Genre :Drama

1992-04-08 0

Shadow Hunters

In the middle of the Edo period, when the finances of the shogunate were in a desperate situation, the shogunate sent its shadow spies to each clan, who secretly planned the abolition of the clans and ...

Genre :Drama, Action

2003-03-28 4

Ikebukuro West Gate Park SP

This special takes place three years after the end of the original series. Makoto is homeless as a result of his mom selling out their shop and soon becomes involved in a ‘bone smasher’ case, in which ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery, Crime, Action, Comedy

Shozo Wakatsuki

2021-12-29 5

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 the prosecution behind the scenes sets out to prove ...

Genre :Comedy, Mystery

Emma Daio

1979-06-03 6.6

The Inferno

Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave. ...

Genre :Horror

Self

2000-05-12 0

Making of Gemini

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's film "Gemini". ...

Genre :Documentary

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

Ryohei

2013-11-09 6

Mourning Recipe

A widower and his daughter deal with the death of the man's wife. ...

Genre :Drama

1995-09-02 0

Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident

Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II ...

Genre :Drama, History

2020-03-28 0

Izakaya Choji

Genre :TV Movie, Drama, Romance

Member of the House of Representatives

2005-12-05 6.7

Kamen Rider: THE FIRST

Takeshi Hongo is a man of extraordinary intellect, but his promising future is about to be maliciously snuffed out by and evil secret society known as Shocker. Reinvented against his will and transfor ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller

Boss Katsuzo Kurokoma

1995-03-03 0

History of Jirocho Shimizu

A historical chivalric drama with tears and laughter, telling the story of Jirocho Shimizu's family, his confrontation with Katsuzo Kurokoma's family, right up to the final battle on the Tenryu River ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

1998-02-07 0

I Don't Have a Grave!

An actress visits a university hospital for research and mistakenly believes she has only six months to live. Having grown up alone with no family grave, she is shocked by the words of a film crew mem ...

Genre :Comedy

Muneyasu Kuroda

2003-03-29 6.333

Ginji - The Slasher

In prison for 50 years after massacring his corrupt workmates with a samurai sword in 1945, Ginji Sonesaki (Riki Takeuchi) is given the nickname of Ginji the Slasher. On his release he finds himself o ...

Genre :Action, Drama, Thriller

Company Commander

2008-07-16 10

Kirato Saw Honorable Death With No Surrender ~ Mizuki Shigeru's War

Genre :War

Unkai

2014-08-29 6.333

Cape Nostalgia

Etsuko's café in her peaceful little seaside town is where everyone gathers to gossip and taste her famous brew. But the winds of change are beginning to blow. ...

Genre :Drama

Kensan Shigetake

2011-07-16 0

Someday

The annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However, Yoshi's life is thrown into disarray days before the performance when his estranged wife and former best frien ...

Genre :Drama

Chief

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

Aki's Grandfather

2014-03-07 6.7

Silver Spoon

Ooejo Agricultural High School is located in Hokkaido. Most students are from families involved in agriculture and their dreams are to continue working in agriculture. Meanwhile, Yuugo (Kento Nakajima ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Toshihide's Grandfather

2022-10-14 5.667

How to Find Happiness

Toshihide works as a doctor at a clinic located by the sea. One day, he meets Ako. She looks exactly like the woman he admires. Due to her, his heart flutters. Soon, Toshihide realizes that Ako is not ...

Genre :Drama

1998-02-21 0

Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel

The second TV movie Obayashi Nobuhiko directed based on Akagawa Jiro's Mikeneko Holmes series. ...

Genre :Mystery, Comedy

2011-11-12 0

Valley of Dreams

A laid-off designer returns to her home town after five years away. ...

Genre :

Kozo Hirabayashi

2014-11-15 6.4

Pale Moon

Daily, Rika Umezawa battles a nagging sense of emptiness and dissatisfaction. She works a tiring job, comes home to an unappreciative husband and has little opportunity to enjoy life. But things chang ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

2022-08-19 7.2

Haw

Tamio Akanishi works at a public office in Yokohama. He is going through one of the worst periods of his life, having been left by his fiancée. One day, his boss tells him to take care of a big, white ...

Genre :Drama

1989-05-11 0

War and Flowers

Japanese Drama film about the female experience during the war years. ...

Genre :

Hirame Hakuta

2010-02-19 6.5

The Fallen Angel

The story of a young man who has felt since childhood utterly alien from others around him. Since that time he has learned to put on a face to hide his alienation. He feels incapable of belonging to t ...

Genre :Drama

Owner

2006-12-07 6.455

Sakuran

Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwara District, navigating brothel politics while trying to cling to the man she loves. ...

Genre :History, Drama

Tadashiken Ikebe

2010-11-20 0

Strangers in the City

Former high school teacher Kazuo Hatano (Toru Nakamura) reunites 12 years later with Masako Tezuka (Manami Konishi). Masako Tezuka was his former high school student whom he married after her graduati ...

Genre :Drama

2013-02-09 6.235

The Brain Man

A seemingly random series of bombings in a provincial city. The latest target is a public bus route. Detective Chaya chased terrorists and arrested a mysterious man with keen intelligence and physical ...

Genre :Crime, Science Fiction, Action

Bunta Hara

2009-10-14 5

A Good Husband

The heart wrenching love story between a married couple. The jobless husband cheats on his wife and has no love for her. The wife wants to go on a trip to get pregnant. ...

Genre :Drama

Hisao Nozawa

2014-06-14 8.3

Climbing to Spring

Toru grew up in alpine countryside around Mount Tate. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the mountain with his father to prepare their mountain hut for the summer season of climbers. When Toru ...

Genre :Drama

2012-07-28 0

Eight Ranger

Set within the devastated city of Eight City, the Eight Rangers protect the city and go against the evil Dark Kuruseido. ...

Genre :Action

Saibei of Tsugimachi

2000-05-13 5.1

Dora-heita

A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own misperceptions and prejudices to defeat his enemies and uproot corru ...

Genre :Comedy

2011-07-23 5.8

Ninja Kids!!!

The film stars Seishiro Kato as Rantaro who is sent to a ninja training school by his parents. During the summer, their teacher is invaded by a group of rival ninjas culminating in a race to ring a be ...

Genre :Action, Drama, Family

1995-06-10 5

Angel's Share

A strange duo, Minko and Hiroto, who believe themselves to be angels, throw out fashion massage leaflets called “Angel Dispatch” from the roof of a building on Christmas Day in order to save unfortuna ...

Genre :Drama

2004-01-10 8

Half a Confession

Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a tale of morality with deeper insights into its characters than we had anticipated. It begins when Soic ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery, Crime

Kanezawa (Vice-President of Nippon Victor)

2002-06-16 7

Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS

A Japanese film that tells the tale of the birth of VHS. It follows Kagatani Shizuo, an electronics employee who rallies his coworkers to save their jobs by increasing sales. They do this by developin ...

Genre :Drama

2005-06-04 0

Miracle in Four Days

Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" wafts through a hospice recreation room. Sitting at the grand piano is a young girl, Chiori, with a prodigious ability to play any piece of music after on ...

Genre :Romance

Akikawa

1990-11-17 2

Ready to Shoot

A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho. He quickly becomes aware that her life is in his hands when he learns she is hiding from the yakuz ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Masahiro Oyabu

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

2000-11-03 6.3

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 the groper of his wallet. More often than not they're ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Advocate General (segment "Merde")

2008-08-16 6.9

Tokyo!

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out a ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance

2010-02-20 7.1

Parade

The story of a strange living situation in a 2LDK apartment in suburban Tokyo. There are five residents ranging in age from eighteen to twenty-eight. They are not in any way romantically involved with ...

Genre :Drama

2008-11-01 6

Where The Legend Lives

Kohei Miyazaki (Naoto Takenaka), a former railroad worker, has become obsessed with locating the ancient country of Yamatai. His obsession sprouted from a day when he discovered ancient ceramics while ...

Genre :Drama

Shiro Ohguro

2013-06-15 6.4

I'll Give It My All ... Tomorrow

41-year-old Shizuo Daikoku (Shinichi Tsutsumi) suddenly quits his job at a company to become a mangaka. His family and friends become involved in his new pursuit... ...

Genre :Comedy

Denji Yukawa

2002-06-22 6.2

Graveyard of Honor

A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

1998-01-01 6

East Side Waltz Garden of Earthly Delights

Fukano, an elderly novelist who grew up in the mountains of Tokyo, met a young woman, Kana, for the first time in Fukagawa. Overcoming the age difference, they are strongly attracted to each other. Ho ...

Genre :

Masuo Kodama

1989-08-26 7

Who Do I Choose?

A computer error puts entry level workers Nobuko (Miho Nakayama) and Junko (Chieri Ito) in charge of a toy company. It's now up to them to save the company from bankruptcy. ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy

2004-09-18 3.3

Perfect Education 6

Fumiya owes 5 million yen to a female load shark for a gambling debt, while having affair an with Mrs. Hosoi who offers him 5 million to murder her husband. Fumiya has no choice but to kill Mr. Hosoi. ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller

1993-03-03 0

Bring Me the Head of Shichiemon!

During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head of the opposing lord to declare victory. ...

Genre :Drama, Action, Comedy

Choei

2014-07-26 6

Time Trip App

In 1868, a battle between new government forces and shogunate forces are about to take place in Edo. Katsu Kaishu wants to avoid useless bloodshed and sends a peace envoy to Takamori Saigō, but Katsu ...

Genre :Science Fiction, Drama

2019-03-23 0

A Samurai Movie Rhapsody: Filming the Ultimate Swordfight

This is a “Movie in a Movie” like no other ever before. Kyoei, a historical film studio in Kyoto (Modeled on Toei), is asked by NHK to make a new samurai era program using the most advanced technology ...

Genre :TV Movie

Komiya

2005-12-17 5

The Whispering of the Gods

Rou has returned to the monastery he was raised in. As he listens to the whispering of the Gods through his germanium radio, Rou defies God in every which way and puts religion to the test. ...

Genre :Drama

1995-07-11 0

Assassin's Target: Iemitsu

A vicious plot that would change the course of Japanese history is set in motion when assassins conspire to kill Iemitsu, the third shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty. Things heats up as Iemitsu plans a j ...

Genre :Action, Drama, History

1992-01-03 0

Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan

The life story of Japan’s greatest leader, Tokugawa Ieyasu, whose shogunate ruled the nation for almost 300 years has never been told like this before. From the early days as a supporter of Imagawa Yo ...

Genre :Drama, History

Car Rental Man

2009-11-13 5.438

Torso

Hiroko is a young, alienated woman "in love" with a blow-up male torso. Tension rises when her sister discovers her secret desire. ...

Genre :Drama

2005-01-14 4.9

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 Hokkaido. These people once supported the now displa ...

Genre :Drama, History

Nakazawa Masamichi

2007-09-09 7.3

Closed Note

Kae Horii moves into her new flat in an undisclosed area of Kyoto. While unpacking her belongings, she discovers a hidden compartment behind a inconspicuous mirror. In that compartment, Kae finds a no ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

2001-05-01 7

The Firefly

Japanese film icon Ken Takakura, who has starred in over 100 films, stars in this elegiac look at war and remembrance. Hideji Yamaoka (Takakura) was a suicide pilot during the war who somehow survived ...

Genre :Drama

Tsuyoshi Kijima

1997-10-08 5.5

A Story of Modern Chivalry

A hard-boiled man who lived in the world of the Yakuza, leaves everything behind in search of revenge for his great friend. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Action

Nishikata

1985-01-26 4.75

Moment of Demon

Filled with guilt over his forbidden desires, a young man leaves home and his studies. He finds a new smaller place to stay, a low-paying but satisfying job and a girlfriend. Then his mother, unable t ...

Genre :Drama

Yusaku

1974-10-09 7.5

The Homeless

Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths again in the nearest brothel. There they make the acquaintance of a would-be prostitute. They help he ...

Genre :Crime, Action, Drama

Tattooist

2001-10-28 6.4

Agitator

When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub, it is not long before his dead body is found. Soon, inter-family retaliation follows, resulting in the death for a promi ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Action

Terusada Matsudaira

2014-06-21 6.8

Samurai Hustle

During the reign of the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Yunagaya Domain in the Tohoku region is a small han. But at the han, there is a gold mine. Suddenly, Masaatsu Naito of Yunagaya Dom ...

Genre :History, Comedy

bar manager

2009-04-18 6

Kamogawa Horumo: Battle League in Kyoto

The story is about a group of university students who inevitably gets involved in playing a game of "Horumo" - a combat match where each person manipulates 100 spirits (referred to as "oni") to fight ...

Genre :Fantasy, Comedy, Science Fiction

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

1992-01-07 0

森の石松

One day, Mori no Ishimatsu (Kankuro Nakamura ...

Genre :

Tei

2023-03-17 7.228

My Happy Marriage

An unhappy young woman from an abusive family is married off to a fearsome and chilly army commander. But the two learn more about each other, love may have a chance. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance, Fantasy

Yonetaro Tokito

1984-09-08 6.739

Farewell to the Ark

A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among them are two cousins who love each other and who get ...

Genre :Fantasy, Drama

Genyusai Negoro

1991-07-19 0

Kanei Chronicles

From all over Japan, the greatest warriors: Yagyu Jubei, Miyamoto Musashi, Araki Mataemon, and more came to test their blades in a tournament of swords. But behind the match a bloodthirsty plot is bor ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama, History, TV Movie

1977-12-17 5

Kitamura Tokoku: My Winter Song

This biopic is centered on New Year's Day of 1894, when Kitamura is recovering from a suicide attempt. Japan is then under the spell of fervent patriotism because the government wants to build up publ ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

2015-08-01 5.4

This Country’s Sky

In suburban Tokyo in 1945, years of war and concentrated air raids by US forces have left the city in tatters and the population poor, tired, and hungry. The 19-year-old Satoko and her mother bide the ...

Genre :Drama

Ko

1979-05-26 6

No Grave for Us

A plot to steal money from gangsters leads to trouble... ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller

Masayuki Murakami

2015-03-14 6.5

The Lion Standing in the Wind

Koichiro Shimada is sent to a research facility in Kenya, Africa by a teaching hospital in Japan. He encounters a desperate situation and decides to work there as a doctor, treating patients hurt in b ...

Genre :Drama

Old man

1977-06-25 3.8

Eros Eterna

A woman believing to be a legendary immortal nun attracts people looking for answers to their life struggles. ...

Genre :Drama, Horror, Fantasy

2001-03-09 0

The Goblin of Mt. Kurama

The year 1864: The Shinsengumi, the shogun’s armed force in Kyoto ripped the city apart, with blades in hand, searching for pockets of resistance, slaughtering the samurai who sought to bring down the ...

Genre :Action, Drama, Crime

Haruo Kinoshita

2012-02-11 6

Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home

In May 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (or JAXA) launched an unmanned spacecraft of their own development to retrieve samples from an asteroid. Seven long years later, Hayabusa achieved i ...

Genre :Drama

1982-12-10 0

Sabu and Ichi's Detective Stories 4

During a gathering of detectives, Satake is the only one not indulging in the hospitality of a wealthy money exchanger. His senior, Yasuke, leaves the gathering and warns Satake they will soon be targ ...

Genre :Drama

Detective Kitamura

2013-10-19 4

The Human Trust

A professional scammer is hired by a wealthy young businessman to find a hidden treasure looted from the Bank of Japan and supposedly stashed away by a group of men after WWII in various locations aro ...

Genre :Thriller, Drama, Crime

Osone

2015-06-27 5.3

Strayer's Chronicle

In the early 1990s, experiments were carried out secretly in Japan. Two different methods were used in the experiments. One method involved forcing stress upon expecting parents and when the baby was ...

Genre :Science Fiction, Action

1988-12-29 0

The Notorious Bored Samurai 2

The Satsuma clan conspires with key figures in the shogunate to overthrow the government. However, the head inspector, Naito Yamashiro no Kami, cannot find the sworn statement of rebellion and takes r ...

Genre :Drama, History, Action

Pinko

1965-10-31 7

Prison Walls of Abashiri 3

Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must rejoin the Asahi gang family in order to pay back a past debt. Trouble brews when the rival gang that was ...

Genre :Action, Crime

Detective

1981-04-07 6

Play it, Boogie-Woogie

A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. The film follows their subsequent chaotic relationships. ...

Genre :Drama

1995-11-18 8

Onihei's Detective Records

A criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Chuji Akagi

1983-01-15 6.6

Village of Doom

An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II and is frowned upon by his fellow villagers. ...

Genre :Horror, Crime, Drama

Terahara

2015-11-07 5.9

Grasshopper

Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (Ryosuke Yamada). Suzuki is a former middle school teacher. His girlfriend was killed, which led him ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller, Action, Drama

1996-10-26 5.7

The 8-Tomb Village

A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later. ...

Genre :Mystery, Horror

1977-07-30 6.6

Love in the Mud

This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tokyo, being with her friends and studying. Her biggest interest is ladies hats. She is rather well off ...

Genre :Drama

Shozo Gyotoku

2016-06-04 6.6

The Projects

Whether it's someone mixing burnables and recyclables or noise from a neighbor's domestic spat, there's always something occupying the residents of a housing project in the suburbs of Osaka. However H ...

Genre :Comedy, Science Fiction

2004-08-07 0

Moonlight Jellyfish

Seiji (played by Battle Royale’s Tatsuya Fujiwara) struggles to look after his younger brother Michio, who suffers from Xeroderma Pigmentosum – a rare disease that is fatal if exposed to sunlight. Mat ...

Genre :Action, Drama, Romance

Nishina

2023-06-23 7.4

We're Broke, My Lord!

A commoner inherits lordship of debt-ridden Tanjousan Bun. Officials inform him of new role and substantial debts. He learns he is son of retired Daimyo when position becomes vacant. ...

Genre :History, Comedy

Jiro

1966-10-29 7

Glorious Fights

A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He fiercely battles violent elements in southern Japan like there is no tomorrow. ...

Genre :Drama, Action

1973-06-08 6

Slaughter in the Snow

In feudal Japan, women are vulnerable, in need of protection, and capable of deception. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter, has not yet fully revenged the death of his wife and son. He searches for Kunisa ...

Genre :Action

1986-09-22 0

Bullying is Costly

An office worker who releases his frustrations by maliciously bullying his good-natured boss has a bizarre experience in a mountain hut. ...

Genre :Horror

Yukio Seki

1989-12-23 6.5

Cats on Park Avenue

A story about the lives of young aspiring dancers who strive to create their own musical about stray cats. ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

Miyoshi

1987-01-16 5.5

Tokyo Blackout

Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electromagnetic cloud for an unknown reason and is totally blocked and isolated from other parts of the wo ...

Genre :Science Fiction

Honma

1979-05-26 0

Goodbye, Flickmania

Set at the height of the Japanese student rebellion in 1968, the film tells the story of the friendship between two very different men—a fortyish film maniac who spends nearly all his time at the movi ...

Genre :Drama

0

She's In Love With Picasso

Kiriko is a curator at the Hakone Open-Air Museum. She gets caught up in a computer virus incident and fights for her life. This drama was produced by Fuji Television to promote its affiliated museums ...

Genre :

Narisada Itotanba

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

Koyama Hiro

1976-10-01 7

Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex

Ando on the run, stopping in to service all the women in his life, with a bit of the old ultra-violence. ...

Genre :Crime

1999-11-13 6

The Black House

A timid insurance agent investigates a possible insurance fraud case that involves a death. As the facts are slowly revealed, he becomes progressively more frightened. ...

Genre :Horror, Mystery

Doctor

1986-08-09 0

Be Free!

Adventures of a young high school teacher and his oddball students. ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

2005-02-19 7

Ichigo Chips

Ichigo no kakera deals with a female manga artist Ichigo Nekoda (Miyazawa), whose career is heading into a downward spiral as she can't reinvent the success of her 12 year old hit the Cherry Road. Now ...

Genre :Drama

2014-11-01 0

25

Detectives Shintarou Sakurai (Sho Aikawa) and Koichi Hikage (Susumu Terajima) are partners. They are also corrupt and often blackmail criminal groups and seize their money. One day, the Chief of Poli ...

Genre :Action, Crime

Shinosuke Tachibana

1984-10-10 4

Someday, Someone Will Be Killed

While trying to search for her missing father, Atsuko Moriya meets a group of outcasts that help her. Having only an encrypted disk in her possession and while being chased by unknown people, Atsuko t ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Nihachi Tanno

2015-04-25 5.3

Chateau de la Reine

The hotel Chateau de la Reine is located in Paris, France and it is considered the finest hotel there. The hotel has been in existence for 300 years. Tourists from all around the world want to stay at ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

2003-03-29 6.4

The Man in White

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

Genre :Crime, Drama

Dating Cafe's Customer

1986-10-10 7.2

A Homance

A homeless man suffering from memory loss is unbeatable in a fight. He becomes involved with the Yakuza. It is based on a manga by Carib Marley. ...

Genre :Drama, Action

Hayashi Geki

1995-11-24 7

The Abe Clan

A Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the honor of an individual? In the spring of the 18th year of Kanei, Hosokawa Tadatoshi, feudal lord of the Higo ...

Genre :History, Drama, Action

Ryunosuke Aoyama (voice)

2016-10-15 5.9

Nirvana Island: The Last 47 Days

The movie depicts the confrontation between younger brother Akira Miyamoto (Shunya Shiraishi) and older brother Atsushi Miyamoto (Ryohei Suzuki) on Higanjima. ...

Genre :Thriller

Terusada Matsudaira

2016-09-10 6.6

Samurai Hustle Returns

Masaatsu Naito successfully completes Sankin-kotai (required ritual to visit the shogun). On his way home, he hears that an insurrection by peasants has taken place in his hometown of Yunagaya. Masaat ...

Genre :Comedy

1993-09-30 8

Nemuri Kyôshirô 2: Conspiracy in Edo Castle

Sakai Nobunari an Elder in 'Honmaru' (or the main enclosure) and Mizuno Tadakuni an Elder in 'Nishinomaru' (or the south-east enclosure) have been at odds behind the scenes over the marriage of Tokuga ...

Genre :Drama, Action, TV Movie

1986-12-13 6

The Gentlemen’s Alliance

Etsuko, a female college student, tries to beat the con artists at their own game after she gets scammed one after another. ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy

1994-06-11 0

Psychic: Traveler to the Unknown

Hikaru, an ordinary man, discovers a way to unleash the supernatural powers hidden inside his soul, allowing him to cure others with his newfound “ki” healing power. ...

Genre :Drama

2003-04-21 6

The Man in White Part 2: Requiem for the Lion

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

Genre :Crime

2018-09-28 8.2

Falling Camellia

During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct of his leader. Years after, his dying wife wish was for him to go back to his clan. ...

Genre :Drama

Ryosaku Tsuchiya

1983-02-19 6.313

Amagi Pass

Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A mysterious murder took place afterwards, an Ozuka was held ...

Genre :Crime, Fantasy, Thriller

1988-07-16 0

So What

In a small town, high school students in their final year try to balance their studies while also playing together in a rock band. ...

Genre :Drama, Music

Tanakami

2004-11-27 0

Nejirin bou

A woman as the main character, love and friendship, and one of the ...

Genre :

Pochi / Yoko

1975-10-14 5.7

The International Gang of Kobe

In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international gangs. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Mumon

1974-04-24 7.1

Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell

With most of his family already dead at Ogami Itto's hands, Retsudo launches one final plot to destroy him, and when that fails, unleashes the fury of every remaining member of the Yagyu clan. ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama

Bartender

1986-08-01 6

The New Morning of Billy the Kid

All the protagonists move about in a Tokyo Bar that has an entire wall taken up with a black-and-white reproduction of a photo of Monument Valley. The action starts as Billy the Kid, in full living co ...

Genre :Crime, Comedy, Action

2013-06-08 4.5

Yakuza Ladies Neo

Kotone (Tomoka Kurotani) is the wife of Mitsuru Kiba (Kazushige Nagashima), boss of the Kiba gang in the Saikyo Alliance. She hides a girl named Sakura Nishizawa (Rina Koike), who is chased by Azami ( ...

Genre :Drama

Professor Shiroma

2017-08-04 7

Star Sand

In the closing days of World War II, Japanese-American Hiromi, a girl age 16, encounters an American deserter, Bob, and a Japanese soldier, Iwabuchi, living together in a cave on a small island in Oki ...

Genre :Drama, War

Naosuke

1981-05-23 5

Summer of Demon

A former retainer to a noble family kills his wife's father when he tries to expose his past crimes. When he begins an affair with the daughter of another clan's retainer, her father tries to poison h ...

Genre :Drama, Horror

Sugiyama

1973-04-21 7.5

Internal Sleuth

When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective criminal tries to find out the truth. ...

Genre :Action, Crime

Eijirou Hikari

2009-05-01 6.1

Super Kamen Rider Den-O & Decade NEO Generations: The Onigashima Warship

Under the impression that they saved the World of Den-O, Tsukasa Kadoya (Kamen Rider Decade) and company begin their journey to the World of Kabuto when they are halted by Sieg who presents them a man ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Kihei Itô

1994-10-22 5.6

Crest of Betrayal

Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the second is a ghost story about a beautiful woman who falls victim to passion and evil. ...

Genre :Horror, Drama, Action, History, Fantasy

Kohei Yasuda

1987-06-06 6.6

Sure Death 4

Having been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled by a group of masked thugs who are soon attacked in turn by an unseen force. He begins to suspect the w ...

Genre :Drama

Shojiro Sawada

1988-10-01 7.5

A Chaos of Flowers

Set in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan's Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story about fashionable people without impulse control. Much of the action centers on a popular woman writer, t ...

Genre :Drama

Kazuo's father

1986-04-12 4.3

House on Fire

In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work ...

Genre :Drama

1969-06-27 5.917

Yakuza Law

A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods. ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Renjy

2012-12-12 6.1

Cowboy Bebop: Don't Bother None

When three bounty hunters accidentally meet in a bar, their stark personalities begin to clash, turning into a three way gun fight. ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Western

1994-05-08 0

Raiden

Based on the comic book series by Tadashi Ichinose and Kyouta Kita. ...

Genre :Drama

Kenichi Yamanobo

2016-05-07 0

Family Court Probation Officer, Akira Yamanobo

Tokyo Family Court judicial research official Akira Yamanobo is in charge of Tetsuo and Ayano Katase's divorce arbitration. Ayano, the wife, who works for a boutique company, insists her husband is in ...

Genre :Mystery

2002-05-18 0

Shooting Stars in the Twilight

Hiromi works in a posh French restaurant. One day, he meets an ordinary-looking old man who has a discerning palate. He is no ordinary cook, and can pinpoint the exact problems with Hiromi's dishes. H ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

1974-10-05 7

Code of Wolves

In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of life changes after the Great Kanto Earthquake. ...

Genre :Crime, Action

Shin Kagami

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

Retsuto Akashi

2018-03-03 8

Lost in Ramen

A suicidal high school student, a ramen shop owner closing shop after the passing of his wife, and a cuisine researcher stranded in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region get connected due to a bowl of ...

Genre :Drama

Takeo Yamagami

1977-12-17 6.6

Sweet Revenge

Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal de ...

Genre :Mystery

Tamio Iwai

2018-10-30 6.4

Another World

Ko, a man in his late 30s, lives in the countryside with his wife and teenage son. Mitsuhiko, who runs a local car dealership, also stayed in his hometown. One day, their mutual friend Eisuke returns ...

Genre :Drama

Shiga

1960-08-16 0

Tale of Young Drifter 2

Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigners. ...

Genre :Drama

Seibe

2007-03-31 7

Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky

A young tofu maker, Eikichi comes from Kyoto to open a tofu shop in a friendly neighborhood. He meets there a feisty local girl Ofumi who befriends him as he sets up his shop, Kyo-ya and in spite of t ...

Genre :Drama

1976-05-29 5

The Sea of Genkai

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

Genre :Crime, Drama

Kenichi Yamanobo

2017-07-09 0

Family Court Investigator Akira Yamanobou 2

Genre :Mystery

2018-10-20 0

Pretenders

In Osaka, Shiromiya will soon turn 40 years old and he is unemployed. He lives with his daughter Yoyoko who is 5-years-old. Yoyoko has a secret. One day, Shiromiya's childhood friend Machi appears in ...

Genre :Mystery, Drama

Ketsushi (Jie Shi)

2019-04-19 7.273

Kingdom

Set in Qin Dynasty during the warring states period in ancient China. Shin was a war orphan. He has a dream of becoming a great general Shin has a fateful encounter with young King Eisei. King Eisei a ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, War, History, Fantasy

Guest in Bar(酒場の客)

1981-10-23 4.3

Rolling on the Road

George is a washed-up middle-aged punk rocker, who divorces his wife and lives with his girlfriend, a soap massage parlor worker. His life becomes even more of a mess when the nurse he raped moves in ...

Genre :Drama

1975-12-06 0

Evil Doers

Hiroki Matsukata plays Ogata, an Osakan restaurant worker that gets sent to prison for murder. The film details his subsequent attempts to escape. It's the third and final entry in the "Hiroki Matsu ...

Genre :

Kashiyama

1979-11-03 2

Faraway Tomorrow

Genre :Drama

Samurai

2004-09-07 6.071

Izo

Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him th ...

Genre :Action, Drama, Fantasy

1989-09-15 0

A Sandcastle Model Family Home

An opportune salaryman moves his family into a model mansion for 12 months; unfortunately, they must allow prospective buyers to trek through their home during business hours. ...

Genre :Drama

Himself / Narrator

2010-08-13 7.2

Memories of a Dog: Daido Moriyama's Journey to Photography

NHK documentary about the renowned Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama, with special focus and interview of Takuma Nakahira - the founder of avant-garde magazine "Provoke" in the late 60s. ...

Genre :Documentary

Zenbei

2002-07-27 5.7

The Sea Is Watching

O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the warnings of her fellow workers, particularly Kikuno and the brothel's owner, O-Shin falls i ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

1976-01-31 6.5

Operation Plazma in Osaka

Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover. ...

Genre :Action, Crime

Abayama

2017-04-29 6.693

Blade of the Immortal

Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He prom ...

Genre :Action, Fantasy, Adventure

1996-12-14 0

Ignatius

Genre :Drama

Itakura

1983-04-08 0

Lowly Ronin 5: The Teenage Orphan Girl

When the 'Lowly Ronin' helps an orphaned teenage girl avoid being turned into a prostitute, she then claims he is her father and they start a farm as father and daughter until fate steps in and he mus ...

Genre :Action, Drama, TV Movie

Tsuyoshi Tanokura

1988-11-19 5

The Boss' Wife

The widow of a murdered yakuza boss serves jail time for attacking the man she believes killed her husband. After her release, as she is shadowed by a hitman, she returns to thoughts of revenge. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Toshiaki

2019-02-22 7

When My Mom Died, I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes

When Satoshi was little, his mother Akiko always took good care of him. She was gentle, but mentally strong. However, two years ago she was diagnosed with cancer and now it's Satoshi's turn to comfort ...

Genre :Drama, Family, Comedy

Hirasan

1980-04-12 5.6

Woman's Trail: Wet Path

A stripper reluctantly returns to her manager and husband with her new lover in tow. The lover tries to claim her but after escaping a beating he takes to the road alone meeting several women along th ...

Genre :Drama

Ryusaku Owaki

1995-05-06 1.667

Spanking Love

Ryo Masuda is a washed up adult video director without a leading actress. Now, he has to find someone to re-place her quick, so he can produce his latest low budget S&M video. When the young Yukie app ...

Genre :Drama

1980-10-01 0

Another Side

This is Yamakawa's first feature film in 16mm. A group of university students who grew up in an era of rapid economic growth yearn for "another side" of life as they face romantic conflicts and the su ...

Genre :

Top of Police Branch

1991-10-05 7

Playtime Never Ends

A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't catch him. TV networks begin to broadcast the operati ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Man at Hotel

1980-09-20 0

Until Evening

Intellectual collegue professor Sasa becomes obsessed with beautiful Sugiko, a virgin. Eventually, luring her to a love hotel. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Shohei Ikago

2018-05-12 7.2

The Blood of Wolves

Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the yakuza. He is partnered with Detective Shuichi Hiok ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller, Drama, Horror

Seizo Tagane

2018-09-23 0

Designated Lawyer

Suspicions fall on politician Tagane Seizo over the sale of nationally owned land to a social welfare service corporation back in 2010. Seizo Tagane is then given immunity for his testimony, but peopl ...

Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Professor

1989-01-28 2

It's Easier Than Kissing

After the death of her mother a young woman wants to meet her real father ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Kagaya Hikozaemon

2007-07-07 3

Hissatsu Shigotonin 2007

A violent fire one evening kills a husband and wife couple and burns their Kazusaya rice shop to ashes. Their daughter Sachi manages to make it out alive, but she claims the fire was set by henchmen f ...

Genre :TV Movie

2010-11-27 10

Threads of Our Hearts

Akito has been the ears and voice of his mother, Reiko, since he was a child. Reiko was born deaf and has long dreamed that her son would become a professional pianist. Akito is studying to enter a pr ...

Genre :

2003-06-25 5

Time Limit

Mizusawa (Takenouchi Yutaka), an explosives expert, is arrested and charged with a string of bank robberies. Because he is a flight risk, Detective Kayama (Ogata Ken) is assigned to transport Mizusawa ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller, TV Movie

1985-10-10 0

Karate Cop 4

Genre :Action, Comedy, Romance

Nakazawa

1999-09-18 6

Jubaku: Spellbound

When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to dig, breaking open a money-and-favours scandal that threatens to rock the entire structure of busine ...

Genre :Drama

Kichitaro

1981-10-03 6

Island of the Evil Spirits

Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful twin sisters and tragic events unfold. ...

Genre :Drama, Horror, Mystery

Sakura

1988-07-30 6.8

Break Out

An accidental shooting on the job and a recent divorce take a toll on the personal and professional life of a Japanese detective. Just as it seems he can't go any lower, he is suspended from the force ...

Genre :Drama, Action

Detective Wakahara

1991-06-15 6.5

Yakuza Ladies Revisited

The wife of a yakuza lieutenant tries to keep the peace when the clan's heir suddenly dies and a succession conflict threatens to break out. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Hiroshi

2019-10-11 0

Walking Man

Atomu (Shuhei Nomura) was raised by his mother in a poor environment. He is now a young adult, but he stutters and has timid personality. To support himself, Atomu works part-time for a used junk coll ...

Genre :Drama, Music

1996-02-10 0

Kagerô 2

An entertainment drama depicting the conflict of yakuza, centering on the female torso and her sister's feud. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Tatsuo Haru

2017-01-14 0

Tomato No Shizuku

With their hair salon business now on track, longtime couple Sakura and Makoto mull over inviting Sakura's estranged father to their upcoming wedding. ...

Genre :Drama

2001-07-28 6

Yakuza Ladies: Companions in Hell

When her husband is betrayed by his fellow yakuza and jailed, his wife takes over and fights to prevent his expulsion from the clan. 14th installment of the 16-film franchise. ...

Genre :

Hiroshi

1964-08-26 8.1

Wolves, Pigs & Men

Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh out of jail, and Sabu pointedly states that Jiro is not invited. Jiro meanwhile is planning a big job ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

1991-12-07 6

Shimanto River

A young boy, Atsu, grows up along the banks of the Shimanto River in rural southern Shikoku. He comes to grips with the unfairness of life and the emotional pain involved in the loss of innocence. The ...

Genre :Drama

2003-02-01 9

To the Bracken Fields

A poor village in the Tohoku area has a law that states when a resident becomes sixty years old, they must move to the place called Warabino, far away from home. ...

Genre :History, Drama

1989-09-30 0

Business Trip

Genre :Comedy

Shinkichi

1998-04-11 7.031

Sada

The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis. ...

Genre :Drama

God No. 003

2002-11-07 6.7

Trick: The Movie

Disaster befalls a village's inhabitants every 300 years. A popular self-styled magician named Naoko (Yukie Nakama) is summoned as a deity to rid the people of their anxiety. But there are many would- ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime, Mystery

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

1996-06-20 5

Target

A business man visits his hometown to search for a missing employee ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

2006-02-11 6.417

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A

An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling, the story follows two detectives trying to uncover t ...

Genre :Fantasy, Drama

2015-09-12 5.7

The Big Bee

Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The power company, prefectural government and media all receive a fax. The fax contains a threat that i ...

Genre :Thriller

1978-04-07 5.962

The Most Dangerous Game

The first movie of Tôru Murakawa’s “Game” trilogy, in which an assassin hired to recover a kidnap victim becomes embroiled in a vicious power struggle between two large corporations over a sizable gov ...

Genre :Action, Crime

1981-12-03 0

The Black Hood

A horse-riding samurai fights villains. ...

Genre :Action

1995-06-03 5

Last Friends

Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Though they believe their service will help to benefit their loved ones back home, they are unprepared ...

Genre :War, Drama

Konishi

1971-03-05 0

The Gentle Japanese

A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle engineer. ...

Genre :Drama

Yoshirō Ōgaki

1989-01-28 0

Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso

A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee. ...

Genre :Comedy

Masayuki Takamori

1998-07-18 0

I Want to Hear the Wind's Song

A heartwarming, based-on-true-story of how a hearing-impaired couple, Masahiro and Namiko, knew each other, got married and began participating in the Triathlon. The story is told in flashbacks as Nam ...

Genre :Drama

Gonroku

1972-01-15 6.6

Zatoichi at Large

Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the baby in search of its father and finds the child's a ...

Genre :Adventure, Action, Drama

Naron

1966-03-19 3.3

Pretty Devil Yoko

Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl (Mako Midori) discovers partying in Tokyo is a ton of fun. Yakuza-to-be (Ichiro Araki) is an acquaintance who tries to rape her, and the typ ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Janken master

2011-11-26 6.5

Tales of the Bizarre: 2011 Fall Special

Genre :

2021-01-08 2.667

Angry Rice Wives

In August, 1918, Matsuura Ito lives in a coastal village of Toyama with her husband and three children. During the summer, there wasn't much fish to catch, so her husband has been far away from home t ...

Genre :Drama

Kichijiro Fujimiya

1992-08-25 6.2

The Shadow Over Innsmouth

A one hour made for TV special. Set in modern Japan, a journalist goes to Innsmouth to investigate people with deformation. ...

Genre :Horror, TV Movie

Genjiro Shigeta

2008-12-06 0

My Grandma

Home-design sales representative Tomohiro lives with his wife and their son. As his job involves houses, it is his motto to take great care of the family who live in the house. However, he has been wo ...

Genre :Drama

Ryoichi Takamori

2013-07-13 0

Under the Nagasaki Sky

Under the Nagasaki Sky ...

Genre :

Akihiko Sonoda

1989-07-08 0

Dangerous Stories

Three stories with horror and science fiction elements. 1st episode: "The Curse of Tutankhamen" (Tsutankâmen no noroï) by Kazuyuki Izutsu. With Naoto Takenaka. Two clans of Yakuza clash in a bar. 2nd ...

Genre :Crime, Science Fiction, Horror

2000-01-15 0

Shinsengumi

Produced for Fuji TV in 2000, the film reinterprets the story of a special samurai force - the Shinsengumi - at the end of the Edo period. ...

Genre :Action, Animation

2002-03-01 2

Kadokawa Mystery & Horror Tales Vol. 1

MEINICHI Directed By Tomoyuki Akashi Cast: Sayaka Yamaguchi, Asami Mizukawa "Maybe father was right. Maybe we should not have moved into that house..." When Minako loses her boyfriend in an acciden ...

Genre :Horror

2003-01-11 7

T.R.Y.

At the turn of the 20th Century amongst tension between China and Japan, a Japanese swindler in Shanghai plans to profit by selling weapons. He steals arms from the Japanese military and sells them to ...

Genre :Action, Comedy

Go-Shirakawa Hōō

2019-11-22 10

SHANAŌ: Les Garçons-Bonbons 3

The third movie in Léona Hirota's 'Candy Boys' series. ...

Genre :

1993-01-03 0

Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon

Biopic of Date Masamune. Young Masamune upon learning of the death of Nobunaga decides that he is the man to fill those sainted clogs. The fastest way to do this is to subjugate the neighboring warlor ...

Genre :History, Drama

2003-02-15 0

Another Battle/Conspiracy

Katsunori Takahashi and Ken Watanabe star in a modern yakuza tale in the classic Japanese film series, Battles Without Honor and Humanity, directed by Hajime Hashimoto. ...

Genre :Crime

Okubi

2021-07-01 6.2

The Great Yokai War: Guardians

Kei Watanabe is a fifth grade elementary school student. He has inherited the hunter's blood to hunt yōkai. To save the world from being destroyed, Kei Watanabe challenges a war against the yōkai. ...

Genre :Fantasy, Family, Adventure, Horror

Torayoshi

2021-04-10 7.3

Ryuukou Kanbou

The novelist Shiga Naoya lives with his wife Haruko and their 4-year-old daughter Saeko. He is paranoid about Saeko’s health, making her wear heavy clothes even in summer in order to prevent her from ...

Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Motomiya

2003-11-03 6.2

One Missed Call

People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their futu ...

Genre :Horror, Mystery, Fantasy

Susumu Ichikawa / Gozen Reiji

2020-07-03 7

I Never Shot Anyone

Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, a dull novelist and a legendary killer. Susumu Ichikawa, an obsolete writer with no manuscript at a ...

Genre :Comedy

2021-03-26 7.5

The Blue Danube

The soldiers no longer know why they are at war, and when it even started. Daily and dutifully they march to the river and shoot at the opposite village from 9 to 5 – orders are orders after all. They ...

Genre :Drama

Kazuki Hayakawa

2004-12-18 6.4

The Motive

Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens it is discovered that one of the victims isn't re ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery, TV Movie

1988-12-26 0

マルゴォの杯

Genre :Drama, Mystery

1996-02-03 0

Seraphim Night

Directed by Banmei Takahashi of "New Love in Tokyo." A drama centered around identity, with a half Korean/Japanese man and a hermaphroditic woman. ...

Genre :

1993-08-21 0

Youth Peony Lantern

Based on "Kaidan Botan Dango" by Sanyutei Encho, a rakugo storyteller who was active from the late Edo period to the Meiji era, Kara Juro was in charge of the script. A feature-length historical dram ...

Genre :Drama, Romance, Horror, TV Movie

1998-08-04 0

The Central Quicksand

A tremor struck the Information Industry Bureau of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. The prosecution arrested a local contractor on suspicion of bribery, and then the brunt was directe ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery

Yoshio Sawamura

2017-05-13 0

The Dog Bridegroom

Ninomiya Azusa is a depressed elementary school teacher in Tokyo, who has problems both at work and in her personal life. One day, she suddenly hears a voice saying "If you go to Imore Island, you wil ...

Genre :Drama

Hayato Nakamura

2020-02-07 5.8

Howling Village

After her brother goes missing, a young psychologist visits an infamous haunted and cursed location known as ‘Howling Village’ to investigate his disappearance and uncover her family’s dark history. ...

Genre :Horror, Mystery

2011-01-03 7

Onihei Gaiden: The Night Rabbit

Bandit leader "Night Rabbit" Kakuemon has always kept the rule to "never kill, never rape, never steal from the poor", passed down to him by the gang's previous leader. He has never been arrested, and ...

Genre :Drama, Action, History

1985-01-01 0

Yatsura wa konya mo yattekita

Genre :

2005-06-04 0

いらっしゃいませ、患者さま。

Genre :

1973-01-22 0

The Killing Game

A middle-aged office worker, Masao Okada (Eiji Okada), discovers that his worsening illness is terminal cancer. Shaken and resigned, he meets a mysterious man, Suzuki (Haruo Tanaka), who knows every d ...

Genre :Horror, TV Movie

1982-09-02 0

Night Terror Ward

Yoko Mizutani, a nurse at Kikumisaka Hospital, a general hospital, is frightened by a series of bizarre incidents that occur at the hospital. One night, a boy in the psychiatric department goes missin ...

Genre :TV Movie, Horror

1960-07-26 0

Tale of Young Drifter

Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigners. ...

Genre :

1996-08-10 0

不法滞在

Genre :

2024-05-31 0

お終活再春!人生ラプソディ

Genre :

Psychiatrist Sasaki

1982-05-29 0

偽りの花嫁

A young wife is frightened that her husband and her father's second wife may be in cahoots with each other and are after her fortune. And then, finally, a murder occurs. ...

Genre :

2003-10-11 0

Eagle of the Decotora: Festival Music

First film in the 'Decotora no Eagle' series. ...

Genre :

1976-02-14 0

A Cheerful Yakuza

Genre :Action, Comedy

1977-05-28 7

Japanese Humanity and Justice

When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to their limits as new alliances and enemies are formed. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Shojo Tsuruta

2007-05-12 6.2

For Those We Love

In 1943, as Japan's WWII effort falters, a vice-admiral proposes training squadrons of "volunteer" flyers to crash their armed planes into Allied warships. Yarn follows the lives of kamikaze pilots, a ...

Genre :War, Drama

1972-01-01 0

Dasshutsu

1972 Japanese movie ...

Genre :

2020-06-29 0

Last Line Detective Tsuyoshi Iwakura

Genre :TV Movie, Mystery, Crime

2014-08-08 0

Kenkaku Shōbai: Onikuma Izakaya

Genre :

1978-04-29 0

Double Clutch

Hiromi Go plays a high school student who needs a role model in his life badly. He's raised by his older sister played by Keiko Matsuzaka who is a hostess at a night club. She meets a man who becomes ...

Genre :Drama

1975-04-14 0

Bôkenshatachi

A group of young men go treasure hunting in the sea. ...

Genre :Drama

Woo Seong-Koo

2021-11-09 0

Nishinari Goro's 400 Million Yen: Deadly Battle

Genre :

1991-10-13 0

源氏九郎颯爽記　秘剣揚羽の蝶

Genre :

2018-04-14 0

京都人の密かな愉しみ Blue 修業中祝う春

Genre :

2019-08-17 0

京都人の密かな愉しみ BLUE修業中「祇園さんの来はる夏」

Genre :

1982-09-03 0

Evil Spirit Princess Sakurako

A beautiful girl, haunted by the evil spirit of a woman who was burned at the stake 17 years ago, begins to kill one person after another. ...

Genre :Horror

2007-04-12 4

Japan Ghost Stories 2

Genre :Horror

1988-06-25 0

墓場から生きかえった男

Genre :

Yagobee

2017-12-31 0

Issa

Movie depicts the later life of poet Issa Kobayashi. At the age of 50, he goes back to his hometown. Two years later, he marries 28-year-old Kiku. The couple go on to have three sons and one daughter, ...

Genre :History, Drama, Family

1989-07-01 0

tetsuo: the iron man FIRST CUT

first version of the movie ...

Genre :Science Fiction, Horror

2026-02-27 0

Revenge in Kobikicho

Genre :Mystery

Masahiro Oyabu

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

1984-04-14 0

The Street of Desire

A valet at a fancy nightclub hatches a plot to punish those responsible for his father's death. ...

Genre :Drama

1969-02-01 0

A Modern Yakuza: The Code of the Lawless

Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shinjuku and its lucrative prostitutes. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

2012-08-13 0

Shin Jidan Koshonin Ura File 2

Insurance firm “special investigations” (the Marutoku unit) tackles a tangled case sparked by a drunk-driving crash, probing family ties and hidden motives to determine what compensation, if any, shou ...

Genre :Drama

Minakuchi Kisirō

1980-04-01 8

Shadow Warriors

Shadow Warriors is a Japanese television jidaigeki show featuring Sonny Chiba that ran for four seasons in the early 1980s. Chiba played different ninja characters in each series. In the first series ...

Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure

1993-03-12 0

Kagi-shi

A locksmith who can open any kind of lock with his well-honed fingertip skills is caught up in a case in which his nephew is put in danger just because he played a role in exposing political bribery d ...

Genre :Drama, Family

2023-03-19 7.7

Grace's History

In her beloved car, "Grace", a wife is on her way to Narita. Following a bus accident that kills her, her husband, Kikuo, gets access to her GPS which contains the history of all the places she travel ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery

1993-04-16 0

Am I Unattractive?

Genre :

2006-07-08 8

My Boss, My Hero

Sakaki Makio, also known as "Tornado" is a tough 27-year-old high school drop-out. By academic standards, he's pretty dumb. His father decides to force Makio to return to high school to receive his di ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

2007-01-07 7.6

Samurai Banners

Fūrin Kazan was the 46th NHK Taiga drama beginning on January 7, 2007. It was aired throughout 2007. The four characters from left to right are wind, woods, fire, and mountain. The title is a referen ...

Genre :Drama, War & Politics

1999-01-13 0

Yonigeya Honpo

Genre :

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

2003-07-03 8.6

Dr. Coto's Clinic

Dr. Goto Kensuke transfers to a remote island clinic after an incident at his Tokyo hospital. His first task: winning over the wary locals. ...

Genre :Drama

1999-04-17 5

Hunt of a New Wolf

Asakura Tetsuya is a man who leads a double life. By day, he is a mild-mannered and affable salaryman in the Mogi Corporation. Come night, he takes on the persona of a hardened and violent individual ...

Genre :

Shigemitsu Tokuda

2014-11-15 0

Heisei Saru Kani Kassenzu

Bartender Junpei Hamamoto witnesses a hit-and-run incident, and knows the person arrested for that incident is not the person he saw driving. He believes the person responsible is world famous cellist ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

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

Eijiro Hikari

2009-02-15 7.5

Samurai Sentai Shinkenger

For eighteen generations, samurai of the Shiba Clan have suppressed the evil intentions of the Gedoushu, malevolent spirits that enter the world of the living from gaps between buildings and other str ...

Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Kids

2023-04-23 7.6

Last Man: The Blind Profiler

Minami Hiromi is an FBI agent visiting Japan from the US for a limited time. Minami lost his sight due to an accident in the past and he is called the "last man" in the FBI, referring him as the last ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery

2002-03-05 0

The Life of Bangaku

Master swordsman Bangaku Ajigawa is a Ronin with an honest heart, and hates deception. With no family or money, he lives by his own rules. Bangaku’s one treasure and reason to live is his master sword ...

Genre :Drama

Murase Masasuke

2023-01-10 7

Ooku: The Inner Chambers

In an alternative feudal Japan, a strange disease that only affects males caused a massive population reduction, leaving females to fill the vacant jobs, therefore changing the social structure. Now, ...

Genre :Drama

2007-10-05 0

Ganjisu-gawa de batafurai

Teruko, a third year university student, comes across as a forthright and sunny girl but is in truth a rather timid person. She's also the sort who easily gets carried away and does things impetuously ...

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2016-07-15 7.3

Denshichi Torimonocho

Denshichi of Kuromon-cho hates crime and hates people. He is a stylish and kind Okakitori. Denchichi is a chivalrous and gentle okabiki, and he will not tolerate bad people under the ten purple hands ...

Genre :

Gousan

2006-10-01 4

Lion-Maru G

Lion-Maru G is a Japanese tokusatsu series that aired from October 1, 2006 to November 24, 2006 in Japan, lasting 13 episodes. It is the third part in the Lion-Maru trilogy, following Kaiketsu Lion-Ma ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

2005-07-02 9.2

Ultraman Max

Ultraman Max was an Ultraman TV series which started airing on 7 July 2005, and produced by Tsuburaya Productions and Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Co., Ltd.. The show tried to return to the true formula ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Family, Kids, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Head of Agency

2014-04-18 8.9

River's Edge Investigative Agency Okawabata

Muraki works for a small detective office situated in downtown Tokyo. He takes frequent naps in between cases, during which he often have dreams with premonitions of his next client's case. Their clie ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery

Eijiro Hikari

1971-04-03 6.4

Kamen Rider

Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominat ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

511

2005-09-29 0

Detective Office 5: Another Story

This anthology-style mystery series is part of the D‑5 PROJECT, centered around Detective Office 5 - a long-running private detective agency in Kawasaki. Each detective is known only by a number rathe ...

Genre :Mystery

さいき大将

2012-01-04 8.854

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

2014-04-16 0

TEAM -警視庁特別犯罪捜査本部

Genre :Crime, Mystery

2023-12-03 9

Imaginary Ritual

Two unemployed men started a "service business" out of desperation - it was a "religion". ...

Genre :Drama

Nakahara

2022-04-07 7.854

Tokyo Vice

A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Based on Jake Adel ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Kajima（梶間）

2003-04-08 6.5

Kao

A drama set in a police department depicts how a woman grows and matures as a human being as she suffers from the gap between reality and ideals in an environment where women are looked down upon. Miz ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

1987-01-07 0

Iki no Iiyatsu

Set in a sushi restaurant in Tokyo shortly after the end of the war, the story follows a stubborn, old-fashioned master and his hot-tempered, brash apprentice growing up among the warm-hearted people ...

Genre :Drama

1992-05-20 0

Pinwheel Hamakichi's Spell

Nezu no Hamakichi used to be a renowned detective. He had lost his job and been banished from Edo after he was arrested for some reasons. Back in Edo for the first time in 5 years, he has just sold to ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure

2002-10-09 7.611

AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo

Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kamey ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery

1982-01-09 0

Kemono Michi

The drama sheds light on the dark side of Japan connected to the political and financial world by depicting the vicissitudes of women. ...

Genre :Mystery

Sashichi

2004-08-27 0

Keijirō Engawa Nikki

The time is the early 1800s. Keijiro Moriguchi loses his only daughter, Michiyo, in an unfortunate incident just before his wedding ceremony, and adopts Konosuke, who was supposed to be his son-in-law ...

Genre :Drama

渡辺政太郎

2022-09-04 6

The Wind, The Storm

Noe Ito. Women's liberation activist in the Taisho era. 100 years ago, with a stroke of her hand, she challenged the institution of marriage and social morality head-on. She uses her exuberant passion ...

Genre :Drama

2010-10-08 8.4

SPEC ~ First Blood

An eccentric genius and a demoted special forces officer team up in Tokyo's Unidentified Crimes Unit to tackle criminals with supernatural abilities. ...

Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Comedy

Tachibana Genji

2022-09-10 6

Hotel: Next Door

Set in the present era of intensified hotel competition and depicts the decline and crisis of Hotel Platon. ...

Genre :Drama

2019-02-03 0

Banjō no alpha: Yakusoku no shōgi

Newspaper journalist Shunsuke Akiba is transferred to the cultural desk and put in charge of shogi. He meets Nobushige Sanada, a 33-year-old aiming to be a professional shogi player by achieving the r ...

Genre :Drama

Minamotofutoshi Todoroki

2010-11-15 6

25-year-old Grandpa

46 years ago Kurihara Minoru went to the mountains to take pictures, but never returned. Fast forward to the present and he is discovered perfectly preserved in ice. He then miraculously wakes up. The ...

Genre :Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Family

Katagiri Saburoji

1975-04-06 0

Bounty Hunter

Continuing the adventures from the film series, Shikoro Ichibei is back with his cache of unique weapons and the quickest sword in all Japan. Having worked directly for the shogun in the past, he now ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Western

Kaku Kai

2014-11-23 7.7

Bad Money

One million yen in elaborate fake bills that no one can tell are not the real deal were picked up by a homeless person. The bills begin to circulate like the blood flowing through blood vessels. These ...

Genre :Mystery, Crime

1981-04-07 0

Pro Hunter

Genre :Comedy, Action & Adventure, Crime

1993-12-10 10

Historical Puppet Spectacle: The Tale of the Heike

A stop-motion animated TV series based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa, featuring puppet art by Kihachirō Kawamoto. This is a historical picture scroll depicting various human characters, breathtaking ...

Genre :Drama, War & Politics

2012-08-19 0

Platinum Town

Tetsuro Yamasaki returns to his hometown to find that it is in financial crisis. He quits his job and settles in his hometown to help the town get out of this crisis. ...

Genre :Drama

2004-01-02 0

竜馬がゆく

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Nobutaka Chūsonji

2020-05-24 7.9

The Sun Does Not Move

Kazuhiko Takano is an agent for spy organizatoin "AN Tsuushin." His rookie partner is Ryoichi Taoka and they sneak into the International City Fair, which will be held in three years in Tokyo. Various ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Drama

2007-09-01 0

Hadaka no Taishō

A new dramatization of "Hadaka no Taishō (The Naked General)" series about the wandering painter Kiyoshi Yamashita, starring Tsukaji Muga. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

2007-03-08 0

Did you quit again, husband? ~The famous magistrate of the late Edo period, Oguri Kozukenosuke~

Genre :Drama

1995-11-29 0

Kumokiri Nizaemon

A Japanese television jidaigeki that was broadcast in prime-time in 1995 on Fuji TV. It is based on Shōtarō Ikenami's novel of the same title and stars Tsutomu Yamazaki. In the Kyōhō period, there was ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Sakutarou Kijima

2025-01-05 8

TRUE COLORS

A top fashion photographer who, after being diagnosed with a life-altering illness, must overcome overwhelming challenges and find hope and strength in her journey of transformation. ...

Genre :Drama

2002-02-24 0

京都・琵琶湖・神戸・大阪へ魅惑のトラベルミステリー

Genre :

2003-08-22 0

Love & War of a Samurai

Based on the jidaigeki novel, Semishigure, written by Fujisawa Shuhei. Duty and honor were the principles of the samurai, but just like others throughout history, greed and power motivated some while ...

Genre :Drama

2025-04-13 8

News Anchor

Promoted to lead anchor of a struggling news program, a journalist pushes the boundaries to investigate and expose truths others want buried. ...

Genre :Drama

Kento Ishigami

2023-01-20 7.6

Informa

A Japanese tabloid reporter tired of working simply as a celebrity scandals writer accepts a new challenge when he is assigned to make contact with a former Yakuza informant. ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery, Crime

Ando Shuzo

2014-03-31 7.3

Hanako & Anne

A Japanese girl from a poor family named Hanako went on an adventure to study in a girl's Christian school in Tokyo. She found her passion in English and step by step made her dream come true. ...

Genre :Drama

Eijiro Hikari

1975-04-05 8.2

Super Sentai Series

A group of five (in some cases fewer, or more) people gain special powers (magical or technological), wear colored outfits, and use advanced weapons and martial arts skills to battle powerful beings f ...