Go Riju
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1962-07-31
Locus Natus: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Et ut: Gô Rijû, 利重 剛, Rijyu Go, Go Rijyu, Gou Riju
Black Kiss
Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre...
release : 2004.10.01popularis : 5.523
Guinea Pig: Mermaid in the Manhole
An artist dealing with the grief of his wife leaving him finds solace in painting the squalor of the sewer. He discovers a trapped mermaid, whom he...
release : 1988.07.25popularis : 14.987
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of...
release : 1985.09.20popularis : 11.999
The Funeral
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three...
release : 1984.11.17popularis : 5.285
Vital
A young man awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook full of drawings of dissections, Hiroshi is drawn to...
release : 2004.12.11popularis : 9.543
Eureka
In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.
release : 2000.05.18popularis : 10.327
Lady in White
When a new employee from a well-off family begins working for the first she had understood that she is walking into a fabulous working environment....
release : 2018.11.23popularis : 6.035
Wandering Home
War photjournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children. Because of Yasayuki's drinking problems the couple...
release : 2010.12.04popularis : 1.53
Honey and Clover
Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as they...
release : 2006.07.22popularis : 3.098
Kitaro
Kitaro is a half human, half creature who keeps an eye on the human society to save them from the evil attacks from another world. He finds that a...
release : 2007.04.28popularis : 2.468
At This Late Date, the Charleston
A young man gets thrown into detention after an episode of sexual assault; he soon meets several impostors in the same situation.
release : 1981.12.19popularis : 1.524
Goggles
One morning, Haruki comes to school wearing goggles. His classmates make fun of him as usual, but the goggles are meant to hide the bruises from the...
release : 2005.03.05popularis : 1.459
Tokyo Rendezvous
A salaryman debates selling his grandfather's land to pay off his father's debt.
release : 2008.09.19popularis : 1.14
Jazz Daimyo
Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out a niche in the market with their musical talents.
release : 1986.04.19popularis : 1.922
Kamaishi Ramen Story
The eldest daughter, Masami, who ran away from home three years ago and hadn't heard from her father and sister who run the ramen shop "Kogawa...
release : 2023.07.08popularis : 1.323
Shadow of Fire
In the black market, a war orphan is confronted with the struggles of people living in the immediate aftermath of WWII.
release : 2023.11.25popularis : 5.491
Zen and Bones
The story of Henri Mitowa, a 93-year old Japanese monk, who wants to make a movie based on his own life.
release : 2016.08.26popularis : 1.373
Control Tower
In a remote area of Hokkaido, two lonely high school students meet and connect through a shared love of music.
release : 2011.04.09popularis : 0.801
Sweet Poolside
Two swim-team members, a hairless boy and a hirsute girl, discover the pangs and tangles of first love.
release : 2014.06.14popularis : 2.485
Tokyo Fair Weather
This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki.
release : 1997.10.18popularis : 3.466
Open House
A struggling model and a troubled divorcee face loneliness and desperation in Tokyo.
release : 1998.06.20popularis : 2.483
You Alone Can't See
During Muraishi's time in prison for fraud, he recalls his past and learns a power to penetrate and cure others. Upon release, he goes to Hakodate,...
release : 1998.07.25popularis : 1.623
Hot Road
Teenager Kazuki Miyaichi has always felt unloved by her mother due the circumstances surrounding her birth. Because she harbors anxiety and perceives...
release : 2014.08.16popularis : 3.031
Team Batista the Movie: The Portrait of Kerberos
Physician Kohei Taguchi and Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare investigator Shiratori soon become involved in major reforms to the death...
release : 2014.03.29popularis : 4.303
Kanikôsen
On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not...
release : 2009.07.04popularis : 2.515
Atlanta Boogie
"Atlanta Boogie" centers around a mock track meet between the "normal" and "good" citizens of Yokohama and those they want to expel from the...
release : 1996.11.09popularis : 4.39
Tokyo Noir
In this excursion into Tokyo's dark side, a sexually repressed woman finds liberation by turning tricks at night a sex worker is taken by surprise...
release : 2004.09.24popularis : 39.063
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...
release : 2005.11.19popularis : 3.543
Wonderful World End
Shiori's blog attracts the attention of Ayumi, a timid 13-year-old girl. Ayumi's growing infatuation takes an unforeseen turn when she runs away from...
release : 2015.01.17popularis : 2.492
This Country’s Sky
Set in Tokyo, Japan near the end of World War II. 19-year-old Satoko (Fumi Nikaido) lives with her mother (Youki Kudoh) and her aunt. The war is...
release : 2015.08.01popularis : 1.624
All Under the Moon
A Korean taxi-driver interacts both humorously and tragically with his customers and employers in '90s Tokyo.
release : 1993.11.06popularis : 7.067
Ataru: The First Love & The Last Kill
Ataru, who suffers from “savant syndrome,” has the power to discover, observe, see through, and deduct microscopic evidence of unsolved...
release : 2013.09.14popularis : 2.439
SPEC: Heaven
Saya Toma is a female detective with an IQ of 201. Takeru Sebumi is a career detective with a distinguished background. They work on cases by...
release : 2012.04.07popularis : 4.629
My Secret Cache
Sakiko, a young bank teller, has an unhealthy obsession with money. Thieves hold up the bank, kidnapping Sakiko in the process, but eventually crash...
release : 1997.02.15popularis : 3.83
Crime's Blank
Ando can't accept this his daughter Kana committed suicide. Kana fell from the ledge of a school building and died. Ando attempts to find out the...
release : 2015.10.23popularis : 5.086
Ice Cream and the Sound of Raindrops
In March, 2017, at a small town, six boys and girls are selected through auditions. They work hard to prepare for a play, but the play is suddenly...
release : 2018.03.03popularis : 2.733
Natural Woman
Based on the book of the same name by Rieko Matsuura, the film depicts an ultimate love between two women.
release : 1994.12.17popularis : 2.685
The Sin
A housewife was killed by a falling fire extinguisher, which a boy of seven years dropped from the top floor of an apartment. The offender, however,...
release : 2007.10.18popularis : 2.299
The Man of the Political Economy
Matsunaga Yasuzaemon was a man called “Electricity Monster”. The post-war recovery and high economic growth serve as the basis for him to...
release : 2015.09.19popularis : 1.288
Wolf Girl
When a new, smart and sweet Tokyo girl, Rumiko, starts at a rural elementary school, Akira finds himself smitten, like every other male pupil....
release : 2005.12.03popularis : 2.049
Body and Soul
Yoshihiko now lives with a couple of old friends, a married couple, Ryosuke and Aya. They share a past in several senses. It was Ryosuke who walked...
release : 1997.10.18popularis : 2.153
Yuriko's Picture Book
Onodera Yuriko sets off for Sweden where her husband, Major General Onodera Makoto, is stationed as a military attache in Stockholm during World War...
release : 2016.07.30popularis : 2.528
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...
release : 2019.03.24popularis : 4.378
Pineapple Tours
An anthology film consisting of three linked stories by different directors, all set on an Okinawan island. The first story, 'Aunt Reiko' concerns an...
release : 1992.04.25popularis : 0.639
True Mothers
After suffering through a long and unsuccessful series of fertility treatments, Satoko and her husband Kiyokazu make the decision to adopt a child....
release : 2020.10.23popularis : 9.734
Mienai
Deceptively real, and even described by Tony Rayns as a 'ciné-vérité essay'. Entirely in the tradition of the better...
release : 1985.01.01popularis : 0.846
Robinson's Garden
Kumi lives a hippie-like life in Tokyo's outskirts. One night while drunk she stumbles into an abandoned industrial site, except in addition to...
release : 1987.02.20popularis : 2.033
The Intermission
A unique black comedy set in Ginza Cinepathos, a long-established movie theater that closes at the end of March 2013 while being familiar to movie...
release : 2013.02.23popularis : 2.666
Love Dou Hua
Nao, who disagrees with her boyfriend often and tends to skip class, gets offered by her father, Hirokazu, to join Aya, who is about to be his third...
release : 2020.02.22popularis : 2.117
The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who...
release : 2021.04.09popularis : 3.548
Peeping Tom
Two holes appear suddenly on the walls of a cheap apartment where a piddling fiction writer, Makiguri, lives. What he wrote fiercely after that was...
release : 2008.10.18popularis : 2.646
The Sound of Grass
Kazuo Kudo returns to his hometown of Hakodate with his wife because of his autonomic ataxia. Kazuo, who is not able to work and has to attend the...
release : 2021.10.08popularis : 1.338