Susumu Terajima
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1963-11-12
Locus Natus: Tokyo, Japan
Et ut: 寺島 進, Susumu Terashima
Brother
A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his...
release : 2000.12.13popularis : 15.733
Helter Skelter
Top model Lilico, having recently undergone multiple cosmetic surgeries, begins to experience troubling side effects. As she desperately tries to...
release : 2012.07.14popularis : 16.148
Funky Forest: The First Contact
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the...
release : 2005.10.25popularis : 5.186
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...
release : 1999.11.27popularis : 11.08
Sonatine
Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war,...
release : 1993.04.10popularis : 10.061
A Scene at the Sea
A deaf garbage collector happens upon a broken and discarded surfboard. The discovery plants in him dreams of becoming a surf champion. Encouraged by...
release : 1991.10.19popularis : 11.155
Distance
On the eighth anniversary of a cult's failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suicide, family members of those affected gather at...
release : 2001.05.26popularis : 5.511
Steamboy
After receiving a package from his grandfather, Ray, a young inventor who lives in England during the mid-19th century, finds himself caught in the...
release : 2004.07.17popularis : 13.803
Noise
Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing population and declining industries. Keita Izumi...
release : 2022.01.27popularis : 2.703
Violent Cop
A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and Yakuza activities.
release : 1989.08.12popularis : 12.798
Kids Return
Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time...
release : 1996.07.27popularis : 9.734
Ichi the Killer
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to...
release : 2001.12.22popularis : 18.431
The King of Kita: Roar of Darkness
The mysterious death of the perpetrator of sexual violence against women continues. Former lawyer Toshisuke Honmoto begins to work on solving the...
release : 1997.01.01popularis : 1.916
Monday
A simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what...
release : 2000.04.29popularis : 4.592
Deka Matsuri
12-part omnibus made under the rules: "the main character is a detective" "at least one gag per minute" "the length must not exceed 10 minutes"
release : 2003.01.11popularis : 1.123
Hana
In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn't an accomplished...
release : 2006.06.03popularis : 5.363
Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
In dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexually warped Uncle Sonezaki. Fortunately, she met Samehada as she runs for...
release : 1998.09.15popularis : 8.309
Thirteen Steps
A released inmate is hired to solve a murder case.
release : 2003.02.08popularis : 4.45
Gamera the Brave
A young boy in a peaceful seaside town gets more than he bargained for when he takes home a mysterious egg. When it hatches, out comes a baby turtle...
release : 2006.11.11popularis : 8.648
Lovely Complex
Koizumi Risa an unusually tall high school girl, meets the "vertically challenged" young man Otani Atsushi. They find common ground in height...
release : 2006.07.12popularis : 4.525
The Taste of Tea
A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film...
release : 2004.07.17popularis : 21.977
Cursed
Employees at a convenience store must get to the bottom of supernatural goings-on occurring within their workplace.
release : 2004.03.28popularis : 2.751
Otoko Michi 3
A lone wolf hits the sneaky plot of a lone organization that is aiming to expand it's power over traces of Ninryukai!
release : 2000.10.13popularis : 1.145
Be-Bop High School 6
This is a quarrel of abandoned gangsters and stubbornness.
release : 1996.11.08popularis : 1.171
Hula Girls
Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.
release : 2006.09.09popularis : 9.222
Drive
Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his van. They are in hot pursuit of their fellow robber...
release : 2002.08.24popularis : 3.417
Kubi
Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a...
release : 2023.11.23popularis : 8.379
The Magic Hour
A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a...
release : 2008.06.07popularis : 5.45
Getting Any?
While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.
release : 1995.02.11popularis : 10.151
After Life
On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently...
release : 1998.09.11popularis : 15.538
Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose
After Detective Shunsaku Aoshima is promoted to section chief he has the daunting task of dealing with eight cases at the same time, which includes a...
release : 2010.07.03popularis : 4.404
Isola: Multiple Personality Girl
When a woman, able to read the thoughts of others, comes to help survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, she encounters a girl with Multiple...
release : 2000.01.22popularis : 5.968
Jump
An ordinary salary man, Junosuke, goes in search of his lover, Miharu, who disappeared one night when she handed him the key to her room, and...
release : 2003.08.21popularis : 1.349
Hole in the Sky
The film tells the story of a Drive-In worker and a young tramp who has been left alone by her boyfriend somewhere in Hokkaido. Things seem to work...
release : 2001.09.29popularis : 2.584
New Gokudo Legend: Three Dragons
A full-scale drama that visualizes a feature-length novel by Koichi Iiboshi from "Battle Without Honor and Justice." It depicts a shocking rivalry...
release : 1999.01.01popularis : 1.924
Smuggler
To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one live elite assassin – in the...
release : 2011.10.22popularis : 3.406
Twilight Mystery Murder Game
A murder game with four men and three women has begun on an uninhabited island. It's a substitute for killing each other and raping each other....
release : 1991.12.21popularis : 1.447
The Face of Minami
Shortly after his release, Katsurakawa begins working under Yamanaka, who is known as a businessman. Yamanaka, who did not make a backing, continued...
release : 2010.10.20popularis : 1.494
Negotiator
Japan's #1 negotiator Mashita Masayoshi is called into action again as a mysterious train terrorizes Tokyo's underground railway network. But this...
release : 2005.05.07popularis : 2.082
Nagashiya Teppei
Teppei Mihogawa (Susumu Terajima), is a man who plays a "lavabo" with a guitar in the night city. a girl who was attracted by Teppei's song fell in...
release : 2015.01.23popularis : 3.213
Unlucky Monkey
A dark and strange comedy about a bank robber with bad luck. Bungling a bank robbery turns out to be a profitable mistake for Yamazaki, an amateur...
release : 1998.07.18popularis : 2.829
Shura's Blood
A yakuza war breaks out in a small peaceful town in the northern region of Kanto.
release : 2004.03.10popularis : 1.022
Vanishing Glow
Tony, Max, and Rei, who are mixed-race children of Japanese and Filipino, have lived together as brothers and sisters with no blood connection from a...
release : 2007.11.10popularis : 0.944
Suite Dreams
New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment and a...
release : 2006.01.14popularis : 4.825
The Quiet Don: Chapter 1
Shizuya (Ito Kentaro), the only son of the Kanto region’s largest gang, the Shinshu Clan, which he hates being associated with, works instead...
release : 2023.05.12popularis : 3.755
The Man With No Name
A detective infiltrates the yakuza
release : 1991.09.13popularis : 1.799
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...
release : 2004.02.07popularis : 1.604
Welcome Home
Yuriko, once a concert pianist, now practices home-making while husband Takashi stays out late with co-workers, leaving her to decay into severe...
release : 1995.02.10popularis : 1.672
巡査鉄兵の推理日誌
An officer struggles to solve a murder case despite being at odds with his lieutenant. Officer Tetsubei discovers the body of a man whose face has...
release : 2000.08.05popularis : 0.927
Chogokudo
Togashi, the leader of Togashi-gumi, boasts enormous power. The leader of the Ryuokai is sent to prison because he distrusts him who controls the...
release : 2001.01.01popularis : 1.123
Kiss & Hurt
Shun Kosaka has a dream of becoming a novelist and lives in a byte at convenience stores at night. He happened to meet Natsuki, and his life began to...
release : 2004.10.30popularis : 1.639
The Catch Man
Takashi, an unemployed young man, is entrusted with a "catch ball shop" by a stranger he meets in the park. While accepting people's feelings through...
release : 2006.10.21popularis : 2.426
The Kiyosu Conference
After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and...
release : 2013.11.09popularis : 3.086
When Marnie Was There
Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an...
release : 2014.07.19popularis : 22.918
Fugoh Keiji Deluxe
What do you get when you mix a granddaughter from an extremely rich family with crime, murder, and a passion for law and justice? Kanbe Miwako...
release : 2005.01.14popularis : 1.047
Bu-ra-i no onna
A group of friends get together to remember a decessed classmate. One of them is a detective who loves one of the women. But the woman is in love the...
release : 1988.04.28popularis : 1.926
In the Hero
48-year-old Wataru Honjo is a big fan of Bruce Lee and works as a suit actor (stunts performer wearing costumes). Even though he doesn't have the...
release : 2014.09.06popularis : 2.274
Unfair: the movie
When a devoted detective probes the suspicious death of her father, she uncovers massive corruption and finds herself in grave danger.
release : 2007.03.17popularis : 2.983
Nanmin Road
The story of four Vietnamese people moving to Japan.
release : 1992.06.13popularis : 0.64
Dead Run
Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes...
release : 2005.12.17popularis : 2.94
All Around Us
Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure...
release : 2008.06.07popularis : 3.827
Kakuto
A very energetic, fresh and skilful début in DV from young Tokyo actor and model. Hanging out, clubbing and drugging, a young band of friends...
release : 2003.07.26popularis : 0.75
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...
release : 2011.07.23popularis : 3.059
April Fools
Ayumi Nitta is a member of a hospital cleaning staff and suffers from extreme social anxiety. After having a one-night stand with genius surgeon and...
release : 2015.04.01popularis : 3.416
Misuzu
Tells the life story of Teru Kaneko, who was born and raised in a small coastal town. While working as a clerk in a book shop, Teru starts writing...
release : 2001.10.27popularis : 2.882
Chosyu Five
Fictionalised account of the story of the he Chōshū Five (長州五傑 Chōshū Goketsu) who travelled to and...
release : 2006.10.22popularis : 3.746
Hazan
Biopic of ceramic artist Hazan Itaya (1872-1963).
release : 2004.01.02popularis : 0.758
Traveling Sandwich
Ito Marika stars as the lead in this 2022 SP that tells the story of a group of friends, who run a food wagon serving sandwiches made with local...
release : 2022.09.23popularis : 2.006
Odayaka
Saeko and Yukako live together in a small apartment complex in Tokyo. After the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, both live in a state of unease. Saeko, who...
release : 2012.12.22popularis : 2.404
Hard Luck Hero
The story of three pairs of characters involved one way or the other with the yakuza and a rigged boxing match and fleeing the thugs one way or the...
release : 2003.01.01popularis : 3.144
Blessing Bell
Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other characters' lives.
release : 2002.12.08popularis : 7.531
Antenna
Yuichiro is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs over him like a pall as he wanders Japan's S&M...
release : 2004.01.10popularis : 2.037
Yudo: The Way of the Bath
Two estranged brothers inherit Marukin Hot Springs, a small-town bathhouse. One sees it as an homage to their late father; the other—a...
release : 2023.02.23popularis : 3.707
LoveDeath
A man and a woman are together on the 'Chrysalis Day', the fatal day everything in your life will be decided depends on how you spend the day. A...
release : 2006.02.24popularis : 2.292
Moon Child
Moon Child follows a group of childhood friends as they advance in a futuristic criminal underworld. Sho feels he is doomed to walk in his idol Kei's...
release : 2003.04.19popularis : 2.992
Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya,...
release : 2007.04.14popularis : 5.555
MARKS
Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later...
release : 1995.04.22popularis : 1.197
Harmful Insect
13-year-old Sachiko is about to encounter the most difficult moments in her young life. Her father abandons her and her mother attempts to commit...
release : 2001.03.16popularis : 5.35
Wild Berries
A portrait of an ordinary family that turns unstable when their frivolous son Shuji returns home after a long absence.
release : 2003.09.06popularis : 2.807
Black Angel 2
Mayo, the Black Angel, is ordered to assassinate a powerful syndicate leader. The hit goes awry, however, as the crime boss' bodyguard steps in the...
release : 1999.11.13popularis : 3.151
Green Mind, Metal Bats
The film follows Nanba, a shunned outcast who doesn’t have a girlfriend, any money or prospects, a turnaround from his glory days in high...
release : 2006.08.26popularis : 3.654
Postman Blues
Sawaki is a postman who's not quite thrilled about his boring way of life. But his life is about to change when he delivers mail to his old...
release : 1997.08.16popularis : 4.529
Rampo Noir
An anthology film consisting of four segments based on literary works by Edogawa Ranpo.
release : 2005.05.11popularis : 9.619
A Boy's Summer in 1945
Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki's sixth decade behind the camera, "A Boy's Summer in 1945" (literally "A Beautiful Summer in...
release : 2002.12.14popularis : 2.929
Hysteric
In this startling psychological thriller from Japan, Mami (Hijiri Kojima) is a teacher who meets Tomo (Koji Chihara), a psychotic criminal with a...
release : 2000.05.07popularis : 1.971
Takeshis'
Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience...
release : 2005.09.02popularis : 7.145
Hiroshima Yakuza War 2
A new yakuza war erupts in Hiroshima
release : 2001.10.11popularis : 1.187
Shura Group
Remake of The Story of a Man Among Men (1984)
release : 2002.02.16popularis : 2.716
Chasuke's Journey
Things are hectic in heaven. Dozens of scribes sit before a long scroll incessantly scribbling away. They are composing the biographies of...
release : 2015.02.13popularis : 2.202
Glory to the Filmmaker!
Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete...
release : 2007.06.02popularis : 5.948
Smile
Heartwarming human drama about a former tap dancer who trades in his tap shoes to woo a figure skating instructor. But by a twist of fate, he finds...
release : 2007.12.15popularis : 1.471
Year One in the North
In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of...
release : 2005.01.14popularis : 3.445
Eyes of the Spider
Nijima, a white-collar worker, finds the man responsible for his young daughter's murder. He tortures and interrogates the man, who maintains his...
release : 1998.04.11popularis : 2.355
Achilles and the Tortoise
Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife...
release : 2008.09.20popularis : 9.402
Ran
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic...
release : 1985.06.01popularis : 22.203
Yakuza Taxi
The Yakuza clan Inoshika decides to help a small family business, Taxi Tanaka, lured by the clan Jinryûkaï and deeply in debt.
release : 1994.01.01popularis : 4.077
Unfair: the end
Natsumi Yukihira (Ryoko Shinohara) receives secret documents of an organization that controls the country from the shadows. Because of this,...
release : 2015.09.05popularis : 1.863
Elephant Song
Coffee-shop waitress Kanako, divorced with a young son, finds herself obliged to honour a rash promise she made to a long-time customer. He always...
release : 1994.10.15popularis : 1.127
Unfair: the answer
After detective Natsumi Yukihira brings an end to the police hospital terrorist case, Natsumi is transferred to the Nishimonbetsu Police Station in...
release : 2011.09.17popularis : 1.905
Disregarded People
Young man, Yusuke Mamiana, fed up with his life meats a unattractive ugly girl, Kyoko, at his hometown. Out of his impulsive desire, he had a...
release : 2013.10.20popularis : 3.499
Delivery of Death
Reporters Takehara and Tsumura Aki work for the magazine "Shukan Dodongo". Their chief editor tells them to monitor Okase Shohei who is an...
release : 2014.05.30popularis : 1.136
The Road to Sirius
Tatsumura Yusuke, Toho Advertising's deputy sales manager was a childhood friend of Akiko and Katsuya. In fact, there is a secret that cannot be...
release : 2008.09.14popularis : 0.848
The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji
Reiji Kikukawa, who has a strong sense of justice, graduated from the police academy with the lowest score ever. He becomes a police constable, but...
release : 2013.11.15popularis : 3.961
Partner in Crime
For the past 15 years, Fuyukawa Misaki has lived a quiet, reclusive life while keeping her secret well-hidden. With just two months left before the...
release : 2015.09.30popularis : 1.953
Be-Bop High School 12
A masterpiece that makes a mans heart cry
release : 1997.09.12popularis : 1.499
Gonin 2
Five women snatch one billion yen in jewellery from the yakuza, while construction manager Toyama burns for revenge against the mobsters who raped...
release : 1996.06.29popularis : 5.362
Will You Die in the Chimpira Dream Chara!
Three mean and a woman connected by a strange encounter.
release : 1995.08.04popularis : 1.557
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...
release : 2004.03.13popularis : 13.436
Hot Blooded Yakuza at the Shopping District! - Chapter 1: The Rage
"A wave of recession hits the Kirigaoka Central Shopping Street in a certain town. One by one, the shops succumb to Angel A's pressure. Finally, the...
release : 1999.06.15popularis : 1.046
Two Punks
Centering on a young drifter almost casually drawn into violence--a crime drama about a boy and a man equally ill-equipped for criminal life and...
release : 1996.12.21popularis : 1.321
Memories of the Womb: You Are Here
Born into a wealthy family, 17-year-old Masato (Emoto Tasuku) has never been deprived of material comforts, but his distant relationship with his...
release : 2007.06.20popularis : 2.538
Go, Masao!
Go, Masao! describes the relationship between people and their dogs. Comedian Hideki Matsumoto and a labrador retriever named Masao are selected to...
release : 2012.06.04popularis : 3.2
Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims
Yaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, while Kita is an actor addicted to various drugs.
release : 2005.04.02popularis : 2.156
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...
release : 2013.10.19popularis : 2.109
Blood and Bones
In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent...
release : 2004.11.06popularis : 4.906
Shura Group Part 1
Denzaburo Kato, the third generation leader of the Horii family whose territory encompasses the Yokohama area, has a dramatic encounter at a certain...
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 2.498
Shura Group Part 2
Ryuji Inahara, the heir to the Atami Yamazakiya family, subsequently placed the group under the control of the influential members of the Guretai,...
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 2.051
Lustful Revenge
After reading about beautiful women killed in a gruesome manner during the recent months, Akiko tries to nail down the sick serial killer herself....
release : 1996.06.07popularis : 5.382
Samurai Justice: The Female Bodyguard
A chance encounter on the road leads to the unusual need for a female bodyguard to protect the granddaughter of an old friend of Akiyama Kohei, a...
release : 2006.01.30popularis : 2.817
KYOTO BLACK: Black Samurai
Oda (Yasukaze Motomiya), a respected businessman working in the construction industry, also has a secret life as the leader of a vigilante group in...
release : 2015.01.25popularis : 1.166
KYOTO BLACK 2: Black Purity
Oda (Yasukaze Motomiya) is a respected businessman working in the construction industry, who is also secretly the leader of a vigilante group in...
release : 2015.02.25popularis : 1.406
The Quiet Don: Chapter 2
The Kishu clan loses its leader Sakamoto (Terajima Susumu) in a conflict with the rival Shinshu Clan, and a battle for succession breaks out....
release : 2023.05.19popularis : 1.573
Many Happy Returns
Kazuo encounters a religious group travelling around Japan performing "miracles". He discovers they are fakes, but is intrigued by the showmanship of...
release : 1993.11.20popularis : 1.519
Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger the Movie: The Heart Pounding Circus Panic!
Step right up, everybody, the Space Circus Troupe is in town! Their ringleader, Domidoll, wants to turn all Zyumen evil and have them join his...
release : 2016.08.06popularis : 2.352
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Detectives Shintarou Sakurai (Sho Aikawa) and Koichi Hikage (Susumu Terajima) are partners. They are also corrupt and often blackmail criminal groups...
release : 2014.11.01popularis : 0.847
Still Walking
A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.
release : 2008.06.28popularis : 13.622
Taboo
Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of...
release : 1999.12.18popularis : 12.004
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.
release : 1986.10.10popularis : 1.456
Prison Break
One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cell in Akita Prison. He forces open the glass...
release : 2017.04.12popularis : 2.673
Out Burn
Eiko Yagami (Ryoko Yonekura) is a "Marubo", a unit of Ueno Central Police Station's Organized Crime Division which deals directly with organized...
release : 2014.08.09popularis : 1.157
Summer of Ubume
Kyogokudo is a used book seller who doubles as an onmyouji, or Heian style occultist. His friend Sekiguchi brings him the story of a woman who has...
release : 2005.07.15popularis : 3.813
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.
release : 1988.07.16popularis : 1.316
Yakuza Ladies: Burning Desire
Tamaki's (Iwashita) husband is the head of the Idei clan, based in southern Osaka. As the film opens, punch-permed lieutenant Ginji (Riki Takeuchi)...
release : 2005.03.26popularis : 3.683
The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
A man and a woman committed double suicide in Kanazawa City. Immediately after the incident, Yoshiko Shiota, a woman living in Tokyo, contacts the...
release : 2016.03.12popularis : 2.336
Yakuza Don
Kazuki moves to Tokyo, aspiring to rise to the top in his Yakuza group. Working directly under his group's kumicho (the Yakuza don) and surviving the...
release : 2006.09.25popularis : 1.681
The Heartbreak Yakuza
A hardened gangster encounters by chance a woman he hasn't seen since childhood. They are both engulfed in the underground world of intergang warfare.
release : 1987.01.01popularis : 3.52
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Hero
Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a brother and sister who want to drive a local yakuza gang member out of their neighborhood.
release : 1996.09.21popularis : 1.653
Yakuza War: Chalice of Shura
In this gritty Yakuza drama about the struggles between the Kanto Yakuza forces and Tohoku forces, a newcomer of the Kishimori Group takes on the...
release : 2003.10.25popularis : 0.889
Casshern
Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have taken their toll on planet Earth. As a result of...
release : 2004.04.24popularis : 12.31
Double Meaning: Yes or No?
A new female detective joins the special investigations team and dives into some of their hardest cases in this follow-up to the series 'Unfair.' The...
release : 2013.03.01popularis : 1.844
10 Years - A Wife's Betrayal
Urushibara Kazuki heads to Kyoto to explore the secret of his wife, Saeko, who is hospitalized for terminal cancer.
release : 2004.01.25popularis : 0.889
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....
release : 2004.09.07popularis : 7.091
Making-of Kids Return
Making of Takeshi Kitano's movie Kids Return.
release : 1996.12.31popularis : 2.178
Nobody Knows
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
release : 2004.08.07popularis : 15.507
Imagination Game
Makiko Hayami works hard at a large company and she is single. She has a secret that she can't tell anyone. Her secret is that she is known as a...
release : 2018.07.28popularis : 1.33
Custom Made 10.30
Sisters "Manamo" and "Minamo" live separately in Hiroshima and London since the divorce of their parents. The elder sister Manamo lives in Hiroshima...
release : 2005.10.29popularis : 1.753
The Soup of Heaven
Follows the life of an Office Lady who gets through her tedious work days by dreaming of a legendary soup and soup chef she's heard of. She decides...
release : 2008.10.19popularis : 1.975
Kiyamachi Daruma
Shigeo Katsuura once led the yakuza that dominated the town of Kiya. Due to an accident, he lost both his arms and legs. 5 years later, to make a...
release : 2015.10.03popularis : 1.608
4Teen
Naoto, the son of a wealthy family, suffers from Werner syndrome, a premature aging condition; Dai is an overweight child troubled by his penniless...
release : 2003.07.25popularis : 1.94
Winning Pass
This is a story about a high school student who had it all going for him. He was great at basketball, he had a love like no other, until a day where...
release : 2004.01.24popularis : 1.241
Hit Me Anyone One More Time
Keisuke Kuroda wakes up in a hospital bed unable to remember who he is. While sneaking out of the hospital, he sees a glimpse of the news and...
release : 2019.09.13popularis : 3.506
Dr. Hikojiro
One day, Hikojiro receives an emergency call from inn proprietress Shino Ogawa to examine Tadahiko Mori, a guest complaining of stomach pain. Mori,...
release : 2015.10.03popularis : 0.559
Dr. Hikojiro 2
One day, Hikojiro goes to visit Sayo Kujo, an old lady who has been hospitalized. Sayo has been told that she has a year to live by assistant...
release : 2016.10.01popularis : 1.362
As a Father of Murderer Son
Keiichi Yoshinaga, who works for a major construction company receives a sudden phone call from his ex-wife, Junko Aoba. She tells Keiichi that their...
release : 2018.09.21popularis : 1.771
Go for Broke
At a Japanese school, a desperate student council struggles with a recurring problem. The aggressive and relentless members of the Yagyu biker gang...
release : 1985.07.13popularis : 2.072
Zatoichi: The Last
A blind master swordsman attempts to lead a quiet life with his wife but he is provoked back into battle.
release : 2010.05.29popularis : 2.409
Love's Twisting Path
Set in Kyoto in the last days of the Edo Period, the bloody conflict continues between local feudal domains, which aim to overthrow the Tokugawa...
release : 2019.04.12popularis : 1.782
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...
release : 2008.12.06popularis : 0.906
Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger Returns: Life Theft! Champion of Earth Tournament
Taking place after the end of the series, Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger Returns will focus on Zyumans and humans peacefully co-exist on Earth. It is then...
release : 2017.06.28popularis : 2.91
Fireworks
Detective Nishi is relieved from a stakeout to visit his sick wife in hospital. He is informed that she is terminally ill, and is advised to take her...
release : 1997.10.30popularis : 12.605
Aka Medaka
One of the hottest selling tickets in town is to see the hugely popular “rakugoka”, or comic storyteller, Danshun. Danshun himself was...
release : 2015.12.28popularis : 3.707
Cabaret
A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist...
release : 1986.04.26popularis : 2.765
A Snake of June
A woman is being stalked by a stranger. His stalking turns to blackmail when he sends her copies of photos of her in an embarrassing position. Now he...
release : 2003.06.13popularis : 7.097
Kamihate Store
A woman run a store in a tiny seaside hamlet near the cliffs where people come to commit suicide.
release : 2012.11.10popularis : 1.882
Music Box
A former yakuza returns to gangster life after an old enemy threatens his son.
release : 1989.03.11popularis : 1.59
The Yagyu Conspiracy
The classic tale retold. This is one of Japan’s most popular stories in a brand new version starring the great Matsukata Hiroki following in...
release : 2008.09.28popularis : 2.639
Air Doll
A life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she goes for a walk around town and falls in love with...
release : 2009.09.26popularis : 8.868
Chuzai Keiji 2021 SP
Terajima Susumu VS Dan Rei! "Chuzai San" is back with a special drama that involves a huge "parent-child" secret and bone mystery.
release : 2021.05.24popularis : 5.386
Last of the Wolves
After Shogo Ogami’s death in Hiroshima, Detective Shuichi Hioka successfully implemented Shogo Ogami’s plan, which was to control the...
release : 2021.08.20popularis : 5.368
Go Find a Psychic!
Once a year, on Christmas Eve, Cafe Telekinesis holds a real psychic party. At the party, psychics gather together to show off their abilities while...
release : 2009.10.20popularis : 2.22
Nōhime: Wife of a Samurai
The mysterious life of Princess Nouhime.
release : 2012.03.17popularis : 1.488
Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger vs. Ninninger the Movie: Super Sentai's Message from the Future
The chronology of Super Sentai may, at last, be at an end. A boy has arrived from the future to save the earth from catastrophe. Yamato and his team...
release : 2017.01.14popularis : 2.834
Revenge
Detective Tsukimoto kills his partner following a botched robbery and falls deep into debt and despair. After losing everything at the horse races,...
release : 1999.05.14popularis : 3.493
Crime Hunter - Bullets of Rage
After his parter Ahiru is gunned down in the process of arresting criminal Bruce Sawamura, cop Joe "Joker" Kawamura goes rogue and tries to get...
release : 1989.03.10popularis : 1.007
Double Meaning
A new female detective joins the special investigations team and dives into some of their hardest cases in this follow-up to the series 'Unfair.'...
release : 2011.09.23popularis : 1.556
Double Meaning: Chain Reaction
Akira Mochizuki survived a kidnapping as a child. Now, she's a detective, and there are signs that the kidnapper may be back again after 20 years.
release : 2015.09.15popularis : 2.29