Satoshi Tsumabuki
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1980-12-13
Locus Natus: Yanagawa, Fukuoka, Japan
Et ut: 츠마부키 사토시, つまぶき さとし, 妻夫木聪
Waterboys
In a Japanese school, 5 adolescent geeks join the new sport teacher and take up the challenge to take part in the synchronised swimming competition,...
release : 2001.09.15popularis : 7.273
Tokyo!
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians....
release : 2008.08.16popularis : 8.348
Dragon Head
Teru Aoki (青木 輝) is on a train to Tokyo after a school trip. A disaster occurs which partially destroys the train and blocks a...
release : 2003.07.30popularis : 2.531
Pandemic
ER doctor Tsuyoshi Matsuoka receives a patient with a virus unlike anything he's seen before. His symptoms include high fever, convulsions, vomiting...
release : 2009.01.17popularis : 2.215
Villain
Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services and...
release : 2010.09.11popularis : 4.209
No Boys, No Cry
A couple of smugglers don't know what to do when one day their boss gives them a kidnapping job.
release : 2009.05.28popularis : 3.606
Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean
A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on...
release : 2005.03.05popularis : 9.223
Dororo
Hyakkimaru, a warrior on a quest to reclaim 48 of his body parts which were each taken by a demon, is joined by Dororo, a thief on a quest to avenge...
release : 2007.03.15popularis : 11.917
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
Tomie: Rebirth
Young art student Hideo paints an unnerving portrait of Tomie, who whispers that she loves him. Inexplicably, he reacts by stabbing her to death with...
release : 2001.03.24popularis : 7.612
Surely Someday
Drawing influence from the street musicians of Miyagi, four high school students form a band and spend their free time practicing for their school's...
release : 2010.07.17popularis : 3.078
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
Tsuneo is a university student working part-time in a mah-jong parlour. Lately the customers have been talking about an old lady who pushes a baby...
release : 2003.12.13popularis : 5.337
Tears for You
A love story about two step-siblings, Yota and Kaoru. Long ago, Yota's mother married Kaoru's jazz-playing father, effectively merging the two...
release : 2006.09.30popularis : 3.504
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
Children of the Dark
A Middle-aged Japanese ex-pat journalist investigates child organ trafficking in Thailand and he uncovers a sinister network. In the darkest corners...
release : 2008.08.02popularis : 4.012
For Love's Sake
Troubled high school student Makoto arrives in Tokyo to exact revenge from a past incident. He then falls in love at first sight with Ai, a daughter...
release : 2012.06.16popularis : 7.073
Sabu
When a young man is sent to a prison workhouse for a crime he did not commit his friend on the outside must find evidence to clear his name.
release : 2002.05.14popularis : 1.329
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,...
release : 2004.07.10popularis : 5.976
A Day on the Planet
Seven friends gather at a party in Kyoto to celebrate Masamichi's entry to graduate school. Maki & her boyfriend Nakazawa join the party and get...
release : 2004.02.05popularis : 2.238
Chûshingura 1/47
During Japan's feudal period, a noble lord was treacherously killed by a rival. His 47 samurai retainers took their revenge on their master's killer...
release : 2001.12.28popularis : 5.355
Tokyo Family
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.
release : 2013.01.18popularis : 3.627
My Back Page
In 1969, Sawada is filled with idealism that permeated that era and starts working as a gonzo journalist for a weekly magazine. Two years later,...
release : 2011.05.28popularis : 3.38
School Days with a Pig
A sixth grade teacher raises a pig with his class.
release : 2008.10.31popularis : 3.235
The World of Kanako
When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his...
release : 2014.07.04popularis : 11.263
Farewell, Kuro
Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high school's grounds. The dog, named Kuro, stays at...
release : 2003.07.01popularis : 3.607
The Assassin
9th century China. Ten year old general’s daughter Nie Yinniang is abducted by a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, transforming her...
release : 2015.08.27popularis : 13.895
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...
release : 2003.03.28popularis : 1.795
Villon's Wife
This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo....
release : 2009.10.10popularis : 2.126
Scary Fairy Tales: Alice in Wonderland
Arisugawa is a businessman who has been transferred to a local branch office. However, the people at the branch office are all peculiar...
release : 1999.09.24popularis : 0.575
Judge!
After taking the blame for another disastrous advertising campaign, Ota Kiichiro is asked by his arrogant boss Otaki Ichiro to take his place as a...
release : 2014.01.11popularis : 3.165
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
Our Family
The emotional journey of a four-member family that fails to recognize that it is rapidly growing apart until the mother is diagnosed with terminal...
release : 2014.05.24popularis : 1.777
The Little House
Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which...
release : 2014.01.25popularis : 4.568
The Vancouver Asahi
In pre-WWII Vancouver, second-generation Japanese immigrants had it tough. Daily, they faced discrimination, hatred and injustice at the hands of...
release : 2014.09.29popularis : 3.649
Fly with the Gold
Kota hears about an impending 1.5 billion yen gold bar heist from his friend Kitagawa, a former college classmate, and decides to take part. The gold...
release : 2012.11.03popularis : 3.176
Lady Maiko
Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed for lack of references, Haruko's strong accent...
release : 2014.09.13popularis : 3.498
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...
release : 2005.10.09popularis : 9.665
Paco and the Magical Book
Onuki asks people in a hospital to perform a play for Paco, who suffers from memory disorder. His only hope is to help Paco survive from her illness.
release : 2008.09.13popularis : 2.262
It's Only Talk
Based on an award winning novel, It's Only Talk is about the life of Yuko, a 35-year old woman. She is single and unemployed, and suffers from manic...
release : 2006.06.10popularis : 1.604
The Haunted Samurai
A lowly but academically diligent warrior named Bessho Hikoshiro finds himself unable to move up in the world due to the stifling caste system of the...
release : 2007.06.22popularis : 1.623
Jam Films
Jam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse.
release : 2002.12.28popularis : 4.169
Tokyo Rhapsody
"Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as "Kayokyoku". Kayokyoku is a catch-all term to describe the...
release : 2007.05.12popularis : 2.297
Welcome to the Quiet Room
28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protected room located in an isolated ward of a...
release : 2007.10.20popularis : 5.062
All Lives
TV Tokyo's 60th anniversary special drama. This is a human drama about a doctor struggling with his life and a patient who has been told he has...
release : 2024.05.06popularis : 4.935
High and Low
At a crucial point in his business life, executive Gondo learns that his son has been kidnapped and that the ransom demanded is near the amount Gondo...
release : 2007.09.08popularis : 1.232
Stand by Me Doraemon
Sewashi and Doraemon find themselves way back in time and meet Nobita. It is up to Doraemon to take care of Nobita or else he will not return to the...
release : 2014.08.08popularis : 35.11
Rage
A man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their blood. The killer undergoes...
release : 2016.09.17popularis : 5.888
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
Tokyo Family
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.
release : 2013.01.18popularis : 3.627
Hero's Island
Set in post-war Okinawa, Japan, Gusuku had 3 close childhood friends: On, Yamako and On's younger brother Rei. On was the oldest of the group and he...
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 3.816
The Magnificent Nine
Residents in a town have a hard time due to the land tax and forced labor. 9 people, including Juzaburo Kokutaya (Sadao Abe), worry about the future...
release : 2016.05.14popularis : 1.072
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
In order to avoid a jail sentence, Sean Boswell heads to Tokyo to live with his military father. In a low-rent section of the city, Shaun gets caught...
release : 2006.06.03popularis : 14.425
Kidnap Tour
Haru is a rather cool fifth-grade elementary school student who shares the same tastes as her mother’s younger sister Yuko (Kaho) and can tell...
release : 2016.08.02popularis : 2.777
Traces of Sin
Tanaka is going through a tough time trying to support his younger sister Mitsuko, recently arrested and hold up in jail. As an investigative...
release : 2017.02.18popularis : 3.624
Heart of Hearts
Desperate to know his mother's real intention for having wanted to end her life, Sakuya requests a cutting-edge AI company to create her virtual...
release : 2024.11.08popularis : 4.26
GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka
Tohru Fujisawa's popular manga about a wildly irreverent high school teacher comes to the screen in this live-action comedy drama. Eikichi Onizuka...
release : 1999.12.18popularis : 6.919
Museum
In Tokyo, Japan, several grotesque murders take place on rainy days. Detective Sawamura, who is in charge of the case, soon discovers that his own...
release : 2016.11.12popularis : 5.3
What a Wonderful Family!
A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present. She replies...
release : 2016.03.16popularis : 5.532
What a Wonderful Family! 2
Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new...
release : 2017.04.20popularis : 7.932
Tornado Girl
Koroki is a 35-year old man who admires Japanese singer-songwriter Tamio Okuda and aspires to live like him. He works as an editor at the lifestyle...
release : 2017.09.16popularis : 3.783
What a Wonderful Family! 3
At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one afternoon, housewife Fumie falls asleep and wakes up to...
release : 2018.05.25popularis : 4.232
Detective Chinatown 2
Driven by the desire for the huge reward, Tang Ren (by Wang Baoqiang) tricked Qin Feng (by Liu Haoran) to New York, to attend the World Detective...
release : 2018.02.16popularis : 10.121
It Comes
To protect his family from a mysterious being, a man joins forces with a journalist and an exorcist - but they come to learn what they are dealing...
release : 2018.12.07popularis : 4.959
Thirty Lies or So
Takarada, a member of a group of swindlers which has reunited to pull off a big caper involving down comforters, shoddy encyclopedias, and a panda...
release : 2004.12.18popularis : 0.971
The Asadas!
Masashi is a photographer. He has his parents and an older brother Yukihiro. Through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Masashi begins to take...
release : 2020.10.02popularis : 6.035
Paradise Next
Wisecracking Makino shows up from Japan and meets Shima, a yakuza living quietly in Taipei. Makino says he knows about the incident that prompted...
release : 2019.06.06popularis : 0.645
Detective Chinatown 3
Following the excitement of first Bangkok and then New York, a big murder case takes place in Tokyo. Chinatown master detectives Tangren and Qinfeng...
release : 2021.02.12popularis : 9.745
When a Tree Falls
A young couple is devastated when their son is killed by a falling tree during a windstorm. As the distraught father begins to look for answers into...
release : 2019.09.21popularis : 2.512
The 47 Rōnin in Debt
Feudal lord Takuminokami Asano has been led to kill himself due to a scheme by Kozukenosuke Kira. Having no time to mourn his death, samurai...
release : 2019.11.22popularis : 2.735
Red
A married woman with a lovely daughter lives a carefree life, until she meets her ex-lover at a friend’s wedding. They haven’t seen each...
release : 2020.02.21popularis : 20.007
Tales of the Bizarre 25th Anniversary Autumn Special: Film Directors Collection
"Box" Shuko Yoshino (played by Yuko Takeuchi), a researcher at a medical university, was suddenly hit in the head while working. When she woke up,...
release : 2015.11.28popularis : 2.527
The Dimension Travelers
A teenage girl makes a new friend at her school who tells her that she has the ability to travel between worlds.
release : 1998.12.26popularis : 0.929
A Chair on the Plains
Four people decide to travel to Hunza, Pakistan to find paradise. Kentaro Tooma works as head of sales for a camera company. One of his clients is...
release : 2013.02.23popularis : 4.021
Tetsujin 28: The Movie
One of the true classic's of anime's much-loved robot genre.
release : 2005.03.19popularis : 2.694
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
Shoji Segawa was a quiet and inconspicuous boy, but, for the first time, he is recognized by people after winning the National Middle School Shogi...
release : 2018.09.07popularis : 4.831
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...
release : 2020.07.03popularis : 2.495
Not Quite Dead Yet
After Nanase's father drops dead due to a drug that causes temporal death for 2 days, she is named the president of his pharmaceutical company....
release : 2020.03.20popularis : 3.44
Shikatanakatta to Yuute wa Ikan Nodesu
An medical student unwillingly assists in human experiments on American POWs during WWII and gets sentenced to death in the Yokohama War Trials. His...
release : 2021.08.13popularis : 0.874
A Man
Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.
release : 2022.11.18popularis : 5.042