Jun Murakami

AKA: 村上淳
0.9973

1973-07-23

Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Biography

Crew Roles

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Battle Motion Coordinator
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {170}

Seiji Hayami

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

Morimoto

2011-03-17 5.429

The Depths

After a failed wedding shoot, Bae-hwan meets Ryu—a callboy tangled in a murder case—and offers him a way out. ...
Genre :Drama

2010-01-23 0

All to the Sea

Natsuki, a sales clerk of a bookstore, and Koji. a high school student. Seemingly nothing in common, they have one thing they can share: books. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

2022-01-28 7.4

Pure Japanese

Action actor Tateishi Daisuke who struggles with loneliness after suffering a traumatic experience due to an accident during filming. One day, he comes across a senior high school girl Ayumi who is be ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Sap

1997-10-18 6.6

Bounce Ko Gals

Filmed somewhat in documentary style, it follows three girls over the span of one day and night in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Jonko runs a group of high school girls involved in paid dating, Raku ...
Genre :Drama

Young Patient

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

Jun Murakami

2002-02-02 4.214

Concent

In her brother's apartment where he died, Yuki finds a vacuum cleaner with its cord still hooked up to the outlet. She discovers that the circumstances surrounding her brother's supposed suicide are s ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Aoyama

2008-04-22 7

Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death

Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days then decide either to ‘execute’ or ‘pass over’. Today, again, in the rain, he waits. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Sawada

2021-12-10 5

Impulse

Set in 2020 in the Shibuya neighborhood of Tokyo, the story revolves around Hachi, a boy who fled to the Japanese capital from his hometown of Fukushima and now lives away from society as an illegal d ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

2013-05-16 0

L et M: The Reason I Love You, Other Stories

Eru is a 28-year-old woman, good at working but scared of dating. Emu is a 25-year-old woman who enjoys love but does not know what real love is. This drama series depicts the two different love style ...
Genre :Romance

2003-05-24 0

Cop Festival: New Beginning

Fourth installment in Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 8 films. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Aokage

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

1995-05-13 0

Nozokiya

Genre :

Hata

2022-11-11 4

2 Women

Modeled on Setouchi Jakucho, Inoue Mitsuharu, and his wife, 2 women depicts the special relationship between a man and two women, based on the novel by Inoue Areno, the eldest daughter of Inoue. ...
Genre :Drama

Matsudo

1999-08-02 0

trancemission

Matsudo leads a normal life working in the futures market. But after receiving a promotion, he loses consciousness. He finds that he has become part of some wicked human experiment. As the scalpel is ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Mystery

Toru

2000-07-01 0

Rendezvous

After attending the funeral of Yu, a childhood friend, Toru gets drunk and misses the last train home. He saves a girl, Nao, after hearing her jump into the river, and finds that she was also a friend ...
Genre :Drama

Toji Shishibe

2000-10-28 0

Swing Man

A man is assaulted by someone with a bat and attempts to figure out why. ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

Older Man

2003-03-29 6.207

Blue

An introverted schoolgirl falls in love and starts a relationship with one of her classmates. Set in a small seaside town in Japan. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Yoichi Ono

2012-10-20 6.1

The Land of Hope

An old couple, their only son, the son's wife, a young man and his lover live peacefully in a village. Then, a terrifying earthquake strikes that causes a nearby nuclear station to explode. The reside ...
Genre :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

Murata

2022-04-08 8.2

Tonbi

Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (later played by Takumi Kitamura). Yasuo's life seemed great at the time, but his life totally changed af ...
Genre :Drama

Alien

1999-01-30 0

謎のFLYING SAUCER 2

Genre :Science Fiction, Comedy

Alien

1998-10-10 0

謎のFLYING SAUCER FAKE OR LOVE?

Genre :Science Fiction, Comedy

Akira

2012-10-13 0

A Road Stained Crimson

Professional killer Ken is trying to break away from the yakuza. Taking up work at a local motorcycle shop, he forges a new life under the motherly eye of Yoko, an older woman who owns the shop. Howev ...
Genre :Drama

(voice)

2019-02-15 7.2

BON-UTA, A Song from Home

Taiko drummer, Hisakatsu Yokoyama, and fellow evacuees of Futaba, Fukushima fight to keep their beloved “Futaba Bon-Uta” alive after their hometown, is wiped out by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami tha ...
Genre :Documentary

2004-02-07 7

Tracing Jake

Inuyama is intrigued by the existence of "Jake," a mysterious crocodile that has been sighted in many countries around the world. He continues to travel around the world, listening to the testimonies ...
Genre :Animation

Taizo Arai

2022-07-22 7.6

Shimamori Tower

Together with Shimada Akira (Hagiwara Masato), the last appointed governor of Okinawa during the war, Arai Taizo (Murakami Jun), the chief of police of Okinawa Prefecture, goes beyond his duties and s ...
Genre :Drama, War

Ohira

2013-04-27 4.2

The War and a Woman

Set towards the end of World War II, Nomura (Masatoshi Nagase) is a writer who is in despair. A woman works in bar and is a former prostitute. Many years ago, her father sold her to a brothel due to t ...
Genre :Drama

Masami Akiba

2005-11-19 4

Desire

Yokubo from director Tetsuo Shinohara is based off of the award-winning love story by Mariko Koike. A young man searching for physical comfort and dumb lust, and the world-weary woman drowning in a se ...
Genre :Drama

Monk

2008-11-01 7

Nanayo

Saiko travels to Thailand but she jumps out of the cab after knowing the driver's intentions. However, her life changes after she meets Greg. ...
Genre :Drama

Tanimura

2011-09-05 7.021

Himizu

After two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Fukunosuke

1999-12-04 7.6

Nabbie's Love

Nanako returns to her hometown on the tiny island of Aguni to meet her grandmother Nabbie. However, when Nanako's ferry arrives, it is also carrying Nabbie's former lover, who has returned to Aguni af ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

1993-12-29 0

Puru Puru Angelic Holiday

A fantasy comedy in which Fumie Hosokawa and Ai Iijima play angels. The angel Elle arrives on earth completely naked. She had escaped from heaven to fall in love with a human man on earth. Pure and un ...
Genre :

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

Atsushi

2014-06-01 6.779

Still the Water

On the Japanese island of Amami, despite lacking parental guidance, Kaito and his girlfriend Kyoko try to find their place in the world. While Kaito suffers from the absence of his father, who moved t ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

J

2006-11-04 0

Humoresque

Amy and Sonny are two girls with contrasting personalities. Their "secret hideout" is an antique shop. One day, Amy falls in love at first sight with an older man named 'J' ...
Genre :Drama

Kanichi Hasunuma

2022-09-16 7

Silent Parade

Physicist Manabu Yukawa returns to Japan from America. Detective Kaoru Utsumi visits him and talks about a case. The case is about a popular girl in a town who disappeared and, several years later, he ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

2001-08-25 0

Labyrinth of Leg Fetishism

Another psychodrama, this time revolving around an SM club. ...
Genre :

Yoshio Yoshida

2022-02-04 5.5

You've Got A Friend

Yoshio is a man who works for the city's water department and live with his mother. He regularly visits to the SM Queen Miho, but he still cannot forget the legendary SM Queen Yukiko. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Banken

2022-09-16 7.2

Hell Dogs

Bent on revenge, a traumatized ex-police officer must infiltrate a yakuza organization by befriending one of the group's most unhinged members. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Mamoru

2014-05-24 5.5

Oh! Father

Yukio is a typical high school student in every way except that he's an only child in a family of five. This is because he has four fathers, each with their own unique personalities and interests. The ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

B

2004-02-05 4.8

L'amant

When three older men buy a 17-year-old schoolgirl named Chikako for a year's-worth of sexual services -- her motivation, aside from money, is never explained -- the relationships among the men (whom s ...
Genre :Drama

Takeo Kawaguchi

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

2011-05-14 5.7

Three☆Points

Three stories, depicted in three different styles, unfold in three locations: "Kyoto", a lyrical improvised drama based on documentar y footage following local rappers, which is blended with fiction; ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama

Boxing Gym Man

2002-10-28 6.9

Hotel Hibiscus

Hotel Hibiscus is the story of one very young energetic girl named Mieko and her internatioanl family who live in Okinawa. They live in a run down old hotel called Hotel Hibiscus with only one room fo ...
Genre :Comedy

2023-12-14 6.5

Ami Is a Ghost

Ami and her father were sitting around the dinner table, where her mother Mikako, who had died a year earlier, was reflected in an enclosure-shaped machine. Ami, who carries the enclosure to school, i ...
Genre :Fantasy

Ken Igarashi

2012-09-08 0

Blazing Famiglia

"Blazing Famiglia" centers around a family of former teenage gangsters. Tetsu Hino (Yoshimi Tokui) was once the leader of the most feared motorcycle gang in the Kanto area. Now, Tetsu Hino is middle- ...
Genre :Drama

Kawada

2000-09-02 4.5

I Am an S+M Writer

Kurosaki is an erotic novelist who uses his editor and a hired model to act out scenarios in his living room to use for inspiration in his writing. His wife Shizuko calls him a pervert but on the insi ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Juno

2012-07-01 6

Our Homeland

From the late 1950s through the '70s, more than 90,000 of the ethnic Koreans in Japan emigrated to North Korea, a country that promised them affluence, justice, and an end to discrimination. KAZOKU NO ...
Genre :Drama

Tetsu

2011-02-27 4.3

Yakuza Weapon

After four years overseas, Shozo returns to Japan to avenge his yakuza boss who was assassinated by his own treacherous top man, Kurawaki. The resulting battle leaves both men severely injured, and Sh ...
Genre :Action, Thriller, Science Fiction

Ito

2011-06-04 4.143

The Egoists

Kazu attacks a bar in Kabukicho, a Tokyo red-light district, and flees to his hometown with abducts Machiko, a pole dancer he's been stuck on. They begin living together, but their happiness is short ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

2003-12-06 5.857

Vibrator

Rei is a freelance writer embattled by personal demons. She hears voices in her head, and has sleeping problems, eating disorders and drinks excessively. On Valentine's Day, she meets truck driver Ta ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Bicycle Man

2000-12-07 7.7

Ritual

A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young woman who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorrow is my birthday" everyday. He tries to communicate with her through his video camera. ...
Genre :Drama

Akira Amano

2004-02-07 6.5

Out of This World

Five young musicians, each harboring painful memories, are assembled to entertain American soldiers at an Enlisted Men's Club. Tensions emerge between the tenor saxophonist, a disillusioned ex-soldier ...
Genre :

Kenji

2005-06-11 6

Into a Dream

Low-profile theater troop actor Mutsugoro Suzuki begins an oneiric journey back to his hometown, marked by his quest to find the one responsible of infecting him with a STD. ...
Genre :Drama

Seijuro Sakamoto

2001-03-31 0

Human Trash

A washed-up former punk rocker is frustrated by his work at his grandmother's hot spring. He returns to Tokyo and finds himself entangled in a web of crime. ...
Genre :Drama

(segment "Muse")

2019-02-08 7.3

21st Century Girl

21st Century Girl is an omnibus feature that is of the girls, by the girls and for the girls. The work of 15 women directors under the age of 30, each of whom contributed an 8-minute film, the package ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

2006-11-23 0

The Happiness

the story of a vagrant (Ishibashi) who arrives in a town in Hokkaido. With only a threadbare suit, an old pair of sneakers and a bag containing all his worldly possessions the proprietors of a local c ...
Genre :Drama

2013-07-22 7

Crying 100 Times - Every Raindrop Falls

Shuichi had a motorcycle accident 4 years ago. Because of the accident, he lost the last year of his memory. One day, at a friend's wedding, Shuichi has a fateful meeting with Yoshimi. They enjoy happ ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Toshio Shimizu

2014-09-29 5.4

The Furthest End Awaits

Set at the edge of the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, with its beautiful scenic views, the film revolves around two women from different backgrounds who develop a friendship, and how th ...
Genre :Drama

Shiraki

2001-06-19 5.769

Desert Moon

A successful businessman and his alcoholic wife attempt to piece together their unhappy lives and shattered marriage. Little do Nagai and Akira know that their precarious relationship will soon be tra ...
Genre :Drama

2009-01-10 7.1

Zen

In the early 1200s, Dogen brought Chinese Zen philosophy to Japan, and established the Japanese Zen school of Buddhism. He taught that a person was capable of realizing Buddhahood within himself, by w ...
Genre :Drama, History

Rokurouhutoshi Ikanai

2010-10-22 6.4

The Lightning Tree

Set during the Edo Period, a young man from a noble family meets a young woman under a special tree called "Raiou" (the tree was struck by lightning at one time with the broken part eventually sprouti ...
Genre :History, Drama, Romance

Kiyota Hashimoto

2009-03-22 0

Counterfeit

Kageko, a teacher in a small mountain village with a thriving Japanese paper industry, is visited by a former student, who proposes a plan to manufacture counterfeit money. She initially refuses, but ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Crime

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

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

2000-05-07 0

Hysteric

In this startling psychological thriller from Japan, Mami (Hijiri Kojima) is a teacher who meets Tomo (Koji Chihara), a psychotic criminal with a short temper and no visible means of support. Amour fo ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Thriller

Kagehisa Amemiya

2014-09-07 6.295

Kabukicho Love Hotel

This erotically charged drama traces the intersecting stories of a group of employees and visitors at a notorious "love hotel" in Tokyo's red-light district. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Pervert

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

2006-10-21 0

Have a Nice Day

Compilation film featuring short works from directors Hitoshi Yasaki ("Short Cakes"), Yuki Tanada (scriptwriter "Sakuran," "Tsuki to Cherry"), Hiroyuki Nakano ("Stereo Future," "Samurai Fiction"), Mas ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Comedy

AKAO

2014-08-30 6

The Voice of Water

A sect is threatened to fall apart, when its leader, a young Korean woman, develops doubts regarding her alleged psychic powers. ...
Genre :Drama

Shimizu

2024-02-01 7.3

Sin and Evil

One day, a boy's body is found again under the same bridge. The case is eerily similar to Masaki's case from 22 years ago. Haru has a connection with the deceased boy. Akira meets Haru while investiga ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

2006-07-15 0

Colors

Genre :

Man at the Bar

2010-12-18 5.4

Sketches of Kaitan City

The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go up a mountain to see the first sunrise of the year ...
Genre :Drama

Yama

2012-02-18 6

Isn't Anyone Alive?

In a Japanese military hospital, a mysterious pandemic strikes and quickly kills seemingly at random. A group of unconnected individuals must come to terms with their own impending deaths, and the fra ...
Genre :Comedy

Rakuhiko Inogami

2015-05-27 5.4

That's It

Samao Daikoku seeks a way out of the underground life that he has led. He is tortured by a gang boss after stealing a hard disk containing personal information on runaways, homeless people and prostit ...
Genre :Crime, Action, Drama

Kaijima

2010-10-02 6.6

Heaven's Story

A young girl named Sato watches on television as a man named Tomoki states brazenly at a press conference that he hopes convicted murderer Mitsuo is eventually placed back into society so that he can ...
Genre :Drama

Tokimasa

2015-05-30 5.5

Shinjuku Swan

Shiratori Tatsuhiko works as a scout for Burst, a talent agency in Kabukichō, Shinjuku's red light district. In a business where money means everything Tatsuhiko finds himself in a constant struggle b ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

1995-10-28 0

Secret Liaisons

Movie adaptation of a novel by Rampo Edogawa. ...
Genre :Drama

Shuichi Miyanaga

2014-10-24 6.4

Chokolietta

Chiyoko's mother died when she was young. Since that time, Chiyoko has closed her heart to others. After her pet dies, Chiyoko feels loneliness. Her mother liked the Italian movie "La Strada." Due to ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Yakuza

2004-07-10 6.2

69

Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater, and rock music, and develop their project into a sch ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Moto

2013-12-01 5.7

Touching the Skin of Eeriness

After his parents die, a teenager goes to live with his older brother. As his loneliness grows, he becomes engrossed in practicing modern dance with his classmate. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Katsuya Okudera

2016-04-23 8

The Sun

The story is set in the early 21st century with the population decimated by bio terror. Two kinds of humans now exist. One is the Nokusu who were infected with a virus but survived and consequently th ...
Genre :Science Fiction

Iwanishi

2015-11-07 5.8

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

2021-11-26 0

Redder Than Yesterday, Bluer Than Tomorrow: Cinema Fighters Project

The fourth instalment of LDH Pictures, Cinema Fighters project. This time with all the main characters of the six short stories being portrayed by the members of Generations from Exile Tribe. ...
Genre :Drama

Umenosuke

2014-10-25 3

Shanti Days: 365 Days, Happy Breath

21-year-old Misora Honzawa went to Tokyo from Aomori. Misora Honzawa happens to see Kumi on TV who is a yoga Instructor and model. By chance, the two women begin to live together. At first Misora Hon ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

2005-03-19 6

Zoo

Five different directors adapt the works of Japanese author Otsuichi in this collection of unconventional live-action and animated shorts. A woman is murdered under odd circumstances in the title film ...
Genre :Horror, Animation

Tokimasa

2017-01-21 4.8

Shinjuku Swan II

Tatsuhiko Shiratori works as a scout, recruiting girls to work in the adult entertainment business. He movies to Yokohama from Shinjuku, Tokyo. He comes into conflict with Masaki Taki who is the CEO o ...
Genre :Action

Seiichi Motoya

2017-03-25 7.107

Policeman and Me

Kako, a 16-year-old high school girl, goes to a mixer pretending to be 22. While there, she meets Kouta who at first has a very intimidating aura. But once he saves her from an awkward situation, she ...
Genre :Comedy

1999-07-10 0

The Night the Angel Turned Away

Genre :Drama

Toru

1997-05-10 5.7

Lost Paradise

Kuki is a veteran newspaper reporter who has been shuffled off to a book-development branch and finds escape in an illicit relationship with Rinko. Together they find the passion no longer present in ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Tomoki Tada

2018-02-03 6.2

blank13

Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and never returning, deadbeat gambler Masato dies of stomach cancer. At his funeral, a motley crew of fel ...
Genre :Family, Drama

2013-04-27 5.3

Monster

A woman has an ugly face. She has been called 'monster' since childhood. A case occurs in her town that leads to her being ejected and a relocation to Tokyo. She obtains plastic surgery and begins wor ...
Genre :Drama

Shigeyoshi

2018-03-02 6.222

Dynamite Graffiti

When Suei was little, his mother had an affair with a young man who lived next door. Suei's mother and the young man killed themselves by using dynamite. After Suei graduated from high school, he work ...
Genre :Drama

Shiro Kanauchi

2010-11-20 0

The Wife of Gegege

A woman from rural Japan marries a struggling cartoonist in Tokyo. Their life is difficult before he finds success, but at least they're together. ...
Genre :Drama

Gosenro Manabe

2018-06-30 5.6

Punk Samurai Slash Down

Junoshin Kake is a ronin. To get hired by the Kurokaze Han, he lies and tells them that a religious group is trying to destroy them. He gets hired by the Kurokaze Han, but they learn that Junoshin Kak ...
Genre :Action, Comedy, History

1995-04-22 0

Migi muke hidari! Jieitai he ikô

Based on the manga of the same name by Buronson (Yoshiyuki Okamura). The story of a young man who volunteers to join the air force for selfish reasons, but grows through rigorous training and interac ...
Genre :Comedy

Hiroki Yajima

2002-03-23 6.8

Travail

Asami and Rina are two sisters who are both professional shogi players in the same B League. Both are also unsatisfied with their partners — Asami is in a slump and is danger of slipping into the C Le ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

2003-02-15 7

Her Island, My Island

A young woman returns to the island where she grew up. ...
Genre :Drama

Suga-san

2018-10-19 5.6

It's Boring Here, Pick Me Up

The first-person protagonist is a 27-year-old freelance writer who returns to her hometown from Tokyo, and she gets together with high school friend Satsuki and cameraman Suga to see Shiina, who they ...
Genre :Romance

Kenta Ikegami

2018-09-08 0

Hatsukoi Sukecchi: Maitchingu Machiko Sensei

10 years after Kenta graduated from high school he becomes a manga artist and lives in Tokyo. But lately he has been on a creative crises. One day one of his old classmates calls him saying that their ...
Genre :Comedy

1999-08-07 0

Dead Beat

Japanese action film directed by Hiroshi Ando. ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Dono

2019-03-15 6.6

Makuko

A 5th grade elementary school student meets a transfer student who has a mysterious charm about her. He then learns her big secret. ...
Genre :Drama, Science Fiction

Kazuhisa Nakane, Senior Officer of Ibuki

2019-05-24 6.1

Aircraft Carrier Ibuki

The story takes place over a 24 hour period. In the southernmost part of Japan, 20 fishing boats of an unknown nationality suddenly fire upon and occupy parts of the Hateruma archipelago. Members of ...
Genre :Drama

Yuichi

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

Ichikawa

2019-05-31 6.727

First Love

One night in Tokyo, Leo, a young boxer, meets his first love, Monica, an imprisoned sex worker. Caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme, they find themselves pursued by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, his nemes ...
Genre :Crime, Action, Comedy

2009-11-14 0

Carrasco Rider

Two filmmakers have to deal with a rogue mascot. ...
Genre :Comedy

Drunken Man

2020-02-07 7.65

It Stopped Raining

A young bioarchaeologist Yukisuke is attracted to a girl Koyomi, who runs a small stand of taiyaki pastry that he often buys. Koyomi is hospitalized, however, by a car accident on a rainy day after th ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Takeshi

2018-05-25 7.2

My Friend "A"

Masuda, an aspiring journalist, plans to write an article in order to expose his co-worker Suzuki, who is a psychopathic murderer according to Masuda. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery

Ukichi

2020-10-16 7.9

Mio's Cookbook

When Mio was young, she lost her parents in a great flood and also became separated from her best friend Noe. Afterwards, Mio found her talent in cooking and eventually became a cook. Meanwhile, Noe h ...
Genre :Drama

Haji

2012-11-10 7.7

Playback

Haji is an actor on the cusp of turning 40, who has gotten stuck in life. At the invitation of an old friend, he visits his hometown for the first time in ages. On the way Haji has an accident, and wa ...
Genre :

Takemura Rintaro

2019-03-24 6.735

We Are Little Zombies

Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This is the story of four 13-year-olds in search of their emotions. ...
Genre :Drama, Music

Shin Wakatake

2019-11-30 7

Haruka's Pottery

Koyama Haruka was an office worker who lived an unremarkable life, but one day she comes across a large platter of Bizen ware on display at a department store. Little by little, even at work and on he ...
Genre :Drama

Lord Tabu Ukyou

2010-07-10 6.8

Sword of Desperation

A talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Three years earlier, Kanemi killed a woman, Renko, the corrupt mistress of the powerful daimyo Tabu Ukyou. Unexpectedly, Kanemi received ...
Genre :Action, Thriller, Romance

2005-01-08 0

Oboeteiru

Genre :Horror, Mystery

Driver Nosaki

2010-07-29 6.2

Household X

The story takes place in a new residential area in the outskirts of Tokyo. A family photograph adorns the living room of the Hashimoto family. It is a heartwarming shot of the three family members fro ...
Genre :

2009-01-25 0

Tokyo Neo Mafia 2

Yabuki Ginya and a short run who jumped out of the Sanryu group and became stubborn in order to stick to their own goodwill. As they disappear and those who are fascinated by the darkness expose their ...
Genre :

2008-11-25 0

Tokyo Neo Mafia

A drama presented by Jun Murakami. Shimon and Short Run, who started walking on the road of the yakuza in Tokyo, were waiting for Yabuki Ginya. Ginya, who grew up together in his hometown, stabbed a l ...
Genre :

2009-03-25 0

Tokyo Neo Mafia 3

The third volume of the appointed drama starring Jun Murakami. It was a short run that was enlivening'Tokyo Mahouya'with his friends, but his friends were killed by the strategy of Yamaryu Gumi Wakato ...
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Merchant

2019-09-13 6.8

They Say Nothing Stays the Same

Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowing a boat for the villagers all day long, he barely communicates with anyone except Genzo, a young n ...
Genre :Drama

2018-07-23 6

Akuma ga Kitarite Fue wo Fuku

Eiso Tsubaki, a former aristocrat, was suspected in a murder case in Ginza and committed suicide. Detective Kindaichi Kosuke, who is commissioned by Tsubaki's daughter, Mineko, and believes in her fat ...
Genre :Drama, Horror, Mystery, Crime

Keisuke's Father

2021-08-20 6.935

A Girl on the Shore

Keisuke Isobe and Koume Satou live a rather dull life. But when Koume's crush breaks her heart, their situation becomes quite unordinary. She starts a "no-strings-attached" relationship with Keisuke, ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

2018-01-01 0

YACHIMUN

The studio of potter Seisho Kuniyoshi is deep in the mountains, surrounded by greenery, where he devotes every day to making pottery. One day, a girl appears and begins to destroy the pottery. ...
Genre :Drama

1997-09-26 6

pierce LOVE&HATE

Naho repeatedly enters hotels with random men and kills them before having sex with them. A man, Manabu, stays with her and performs piercings on her breasts. One day, Naho invites a middle-aged man t ...
Genre :Drama

2021-05-28 0

Ryūko no ri

Genre :Crime, Drama

2020-02-29 0

Don't Forget the Kids

Yukina, who works as a call girl in the burbs just north of Tokyo, was sexually abused by her stepfather. Her younger stepbrother Minoru was also abused, but meanwhile he harbors feelings for her. He ...
Genre :Drama

2004-05-26 0

Making of Cutie Honey

Behind the scenes of the 2004 film "Cutie Honey". Extra on Blu-ray Box. ...
Genre :Documentary

Policeman

2020-11-20 6.7

Wonderful Paradise

In consequence of his professional mistakes and declining career, Shuji and his family, the Sasaya’s, are forced to leave the wealthy suburb of Tokyo. The move is slow, long and heartbreaking, and the ...
Genre :Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

2021-08-27 7.1

Every Trick In The Book

Shinichi Tsuda, a Naoki Prize winning author, is working to publish his newest story. It revolves around Tsuyama, a driver for a call girl business in Toyama Prefecture, who comes across a mysterious ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

2018-11-17 6.5

The Gun

An aimless college student comes upon the aftermath of a murder scene one night, and without thinking, grabs the titular weapon. He takes it home and keeps it safely hidden away, but curiosity gradual ...
Genre :Drama

Ken

2025-08-29 0

Seaside Serendipity

In a coastal town attracting artists, 14-year-old Sosuke and his friends stay busy painting and helping with school projects. As carefree children interact with secret-laden adults, the sunlit ocean r ...
Genre :Drama

2017-10-07 2

Moon and Thunder

When Yasuko (Eriko Hatsune) was a child, her mother left their home. She grew up not knowing what an ordinary family is. Satoshi's (Kengo Kora) mother was the girlfriend of Yasuko's late father. One ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

2000-11-25 5.75

Another Battle

Former childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu cross paths again. Kaneo is now a yakuza member, while Masatatsu is a nightclub owner with a distaste for crime gangs. When a yakuza boss di ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Crime

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

2002-03-09 0

Crimson Dream

Based on the novel of the same name by Akutagawa Prize-winning author Mangetsu Hanamura. This film vividly and sensually portrays the forbidden feelings born between real sisters through raw imagery. ...
Genre :Drama, Horror

2018-03-25 0

Ashita e no Chikai

A human drama about a former detective pastor and people with conflicts. Shotaro (Kenichi Hagiwara), who quit his job as a detective after losing his wife and became a pastor, is confronted by Murata ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

2021-07-09 0

A Copywriter Takes Paternity Leave

Yōsuke works as a copywriter for an advertising agency. His wife, Aiko, informs him that she is pregnant. Due to a case, Yōsuke asks for an unusually long six-month paternity leave. Nobody at his work ...
Genre :Drama, Family

Soldier

1981-02-07 8.4

Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan

Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan is the fifth season in Toei Company's Super Sentai tokusatsu television series. It was broadcast from February 7, 1981, to January 30, 1982, and is the only Super Sentai series ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Kids

Shinsuke Rodriguez (voice)

2008-10-16 6.588

Michiko & Hatchin

Hana is a nine-year-old girl who lives in constant fear of her abusive family; Michiko is a sexy woman who has just done the unthinkable: broken out of the impenetrable Diamandra Penitentiary. After H ...
Genre :Animation, Action & Adventure

Joji

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

Hanamoto Shuji

2008-01-08 7.3

Honey and Clover

The series depicts the relationships and lives of a group of five art school students. This is a live-action television drama based on the manga and anime series with the same name. ...
Genre :Comedy

Goto

2007-04-10 8

Sexy Voice and Robo

Hayashi Niko is a mature middle school student with heightened hearing and the ability to mimic the voice of anyone she encounters. Sudo Ichiro is an immature Otaku who is obsessed with toy robots. To ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery, Drama

2014-08-30 6

Osoroshi

Genre :Mystery

Kataoka Ainosuke

2022-02-03 7

Yuagari Sketch

Sawai Honami is an illustrator who is addicted to the charm of public baths. While drawing illustrations, she meets women from different walks of life at a public bath. ...
Genre :Drama

2017-07-08 7

Izakaya Fuji

In Nakameguro, Tokyo. An unknown young actor, Eiichi Nishio learns some important things while he communes with his elder actors and actresses in Japanese pub named Fuji where an atmosphere of Shôwa p ...
Genre :Drama

Masashi Funada

2017-01-07 6.7

Silver and Gold

Morita, a man who never succeeds in anything, takes his anger out in gambling. He meets an underworld fixer named Ginji Hirai, who introduces him to the underworld trade, where billions of yen changes ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

2017-07-19 6.7

Swimming in the Dark

Yuji Tomioka is a 38-year-old single man who has never dated a woman. He works the night shift as a security guard at a supermarket. He experiences loneliness during this time. One night, during a sho ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Tsuyoshi Wanibuchi

2017-04-14 0

Bouncer

Shishido Joichiro, a 19-year-old man whose frank honesty has cost him 26 part time jobs. One night, he runs into a group of muscular bodyguards who protect the streets at night, members of a private s ...
Genre :

Kenzo Kurata

2014-07-27 8

Transformation

Somebody’s brain is living inside of me. Medical thriller based on the novel by Keigo Higashino which has sold over 1,250,000 copies. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Andre Hayashi

2020-10-09 7.3

24 JAPAN

Japanese adaptation of the American TV Series "24". Genba Shido is the director of Team A in the Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU). He is excellent at his job and a reasonable person, but he often has to m ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure, War & Politics

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

Kuroki

2013-01-12 9.2

Neo Ultra Q

Ultra Q has returned, and continues investigations of monstrous appearances and strange ecological phenomenons. ...
Genre :Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

2017-03-25 6.5

Hokuto: Some Murderer's Conversion

Why did an abused solitary boy become a murderer? A sad but powerful gut-wrenching drama portraying the destiny of humans seeking love, starting up-and-coming actor Yuma Nakayama. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

2019-07-16 7.7

Two Weeks

Daichi has served time for murder, and is now living a life without hope. One day he is suddenly told by his former love that he has an 8 year old daughter called Hana, who is suffering from leukemia. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime

Oishi

2018-07-12 8.1

Good Doctor

Minato Shindo has savant syndrome. His memory is amazing, but he has difficulty communicating with other people. When Minato was little, he dreamed of becoming a doctor. He met Doctor Akira Shiga and ...
Genre :Drama, Family

Koji Shimizu

2018-01-13 6.167

Ai the Video Girl

The story is set in 2018, 25 years after the original manga's "Video Girl Ai" arc ("Video Girl Len" arc was set seven years after the first arc). Sho Moteuchi (Shuhei Nomura) is a high school student. ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

2022-02-06 8

Ningen Kowai

Rakugo has the image of a humorous story, but it is also a treasure trove of “scary stories”. Among them, this work boldly arranges a performance in which "human fear" stands out, and does it in an om ...
Genre :Mystery

2022-04-05 8

Hoshi Shinichi no Fushigina Fushigina Tanpen Dorama

Hoshi Shinichi is the "God of Short Stories" who published more than 1001 short stories during his lifetime, some of which are included in textbooks and continue to be read today. His stories often fe ...
Genre :Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery

Hiroto Yuki

2018-12-02 6.8

Is this Love Checkmate!?

A love story between a 24-year-old office worker who has neither love experience nor communication skills and a 32-year-old female shōgi player he meets on his daily commute. ...
Genre :Comedy

Kenji Takebe

2020-10-31 8

The Mystery Collection of Enmado Sara

Enmadou Sara is the judge of the world who decides whether to send the deads to heaven or to hell. Victims who were killed by someone went to her and told her that they still have their thoughts left ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Saeki Shinji

2013-03-23 8.5

Apple of Sodom

After her ex-boyfriend dies, an editor becomes obsessed with his fiancée, a woman accused of swindling multiple men out of money before killing them. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

2018-10-12 0

Sakanoue Animal Clinic Story

Genre :Drama

2012-03-24 0

Innocent

Genre :

Makoto Suwa

2023-01-14 7

Captured Hospital

The story is set in a big hospital which is infiltrated and taken over by an armed group wearing devil masks. Musashi Saburo a police officer on leave of absence has to save the hostages within a set ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Crime

Shintaro Nishijima

2018-05-06 7.2

60 JUSTICE PROJECT

Eiji Arima is a veteran detective who is about to retire. Shoichi Sera is a young lawyer and Misuzu Haruna is a prosecutor. These three people belong to the Gohan Taisakushitsu ("Misjudgment Counterme ...
Genre :Mystery

大村和己

2012-10-21 7.2

Hitori Shizuka

In a residential area, a man is murdered by another man, who broke into his apartment. Sergeant Kizaki, who is working near the area, hears a gunshot and runs towards the apartment. Detective Oomura a ...
Genre :Drama

Takashi Matsunaga

2024-09-19 6.5

The Queen of Villains

During the heyday of women's pro wrestling in bubble-era Japan, Dump Matsumoto bursts into the ring, shattering norms and turning the nation against her. ...
Genre :Drama

Matiram Misra

2010-02-15 9

Bungo Japanese Literature Cinema

Six riveting short episodes that have been adapted from original literary short novel classics from famed authors. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Zenichi Wagatsuma

2024-12-09 7.769

Nevertheless: The Shapes of Love

After a painful breakup, Miu vows to focus on art and avoid love — until an encounter with an aloof, charming artist stirs her deepest instincts. ...
Genre :Drama

Fujitani Keisuke

2021-04-15 0

DIVE!!

Tomoki Sakai is a first-year high school student. He has talent for diving and has been partaking in the sport for six years. He is also member of the dive club MDC, but the club is on the verge of sh ...
Genre :Drama