Ren Osugi

Ren Osugi

Рождение : 1951-09-27, Komatsushima, Tokushima, Japan

Смерть : 2018-02-21

История

Ren Osugi, born Takashi Osugi, was a Japanese actor. For his work on Cure, Hana-bi, and other films, Osugi received the Best Supporting Actor award at the 1999 Yokohama Film Festival. He often worked alongside Takeshi Kitano and Susumu Terajima

Профиль

Ren Osugi
Ren Osugi
Ren Osugi
Ren Osugi

Фильмы

Mo-Ruerani
Mikio Kobayashi
The owner of an established photo studio, collapses from illness. His son Shinta, who was raised by his divorced wife, comes home. One day, an elderly woman named shows up at the studio and beckons Shinta to come with her. They arrive at a grassy field where Shinta finds about the secret of the "singing voice" that keeps echoing in his memory and about his father's feelings.
Back Street Girls: Gokudols
Three male gangsters are forced by their boss into becoming a trio of female pop singers.
For Love's Sake
Shiori is a star university student with an incredible palate for wine who dreams of studying winemaking in France. However, to her dismay she is assigned to a rural sake brewery for her internship. To make matters worse, upon arrival she discovers that the brewery owners don’t exactly want her around. However, as it becomes clear that Shiori will be sticking around, she tries to make the best of things and begins to pitch in at the brewery, perhaps even warming up to the idea of drinking sake. And when the brewery owner falls gravely ill, and his upstart son Kanji is forced to take the lead, Shiori may provide the spark that can save the brewery and change her own life in the process..
The Chaplain
Producer
Saeki works with death-row convicts as a prison chaplain. He tries to instill the prisoners with a sense of morality and help them become a better person. He is a good communicator with the death-row convicts assigned to solitary cells. Saeki agonizes over whether his words really touches the prisoners and whether he is doing the right thing. Saeki also faces his past which he wants to forget. --asianwiki
The Chaplain
Saeki
Saeki works with death-row convicts as a prison chaplain. He tries to instill the prisoners with a sense of morality and help them become a better person. He is a good communicator with the death-row convicts assigned to solitary cells. Saeki agonizes over whether his words really touches the prisoners and whether he is doing the right thing. Saeki also faces his past which he wants to forget. --asianwiki
Neck bowed in the rain
Hanzo Yabutsuka
Baijaku Nakamura takes the lead in a film where he has to dodge pursuit from a hostile gang whilst also helping out a family of innocent people who run a noodle store. More importantly, this was one of Ren Osugi’s last films.
Foreboding
Nishizaki
Miyuki Asakawa tells her colleague Etsuko Yamagiwa that she has a ghost in her home. When Etsuko goes to Miyuki's home, there is only Miyuki's father there. Etsuko becomes worried about Miyuki's state of mind, and she takes Miyuki to the psychiatric hospital where her husband, Tatsuo, works. There, Miyuki receives a diagnosis that she lacks the concept of "family." Later, Etsuko tells Tatsuo that she is not comfortable with Dr. Jirō Makabe. Tatsuo introduced her to Dr. Makabe earlier at the hospital. Etsuko has a feeling of unease about her husband working with Dr. Makabe. One day, Etsuko hears Dr. Makabe state "I came to Earth to invade."
Последний беспредел
Nomura
После былых разборок Отомо залег на дно, однако ему приходится вернуться в жестокий мир якудзы…
War of Lie
Will You Marry My Wife?
Ichiro Kojo
Shuji Mimura works as a broadcast writer. He learns that he doesn't have much time left to live. He decides to concentrate on the future of his beloved family. Shuji Mimura's final plan is to find the best man to marry his wife Ayako.
Годзилла: Возрождение
Seiji Ookouchi : Prime minister
Загадочная авария в туннелях под мостом-шоссе Токио Бэй Аква Лайн ставит на уши все аварийные подразделения мегаполиса. Шеф МЧС Японии созывает всех, чтобы найти причину аварии, и возможные решения сложившейся проблемы. Они еще не знают, что это только начало. Огромное существо, известное как Годзилла, встало на путь разрушения...
Murder Credit - Final Destination Series
Toshifumi Igarashi
Bitter Honey
Old Writer
Akako, a shape-shifting goldfish in the form of a coquettish nymphet clad in diaphanous red dresses, naively plays the role of erotic muse and adoring pet for an aging writer seeking greatness. Things quickly get complicated for the odd couple, however, when the writer's deceased former student/lover enters the picture as a ghost and helps Akako realize her own desires, activating her agency and frustrating the one-sided male fantasy the writer is so keen to continue.
Kamen Rider 1
Ambassador Hell / Garagaranda
45 years ago, a man was subjected to the experiments of the secret organization Shocker and became a cyborg. Since that day, the man's sole mission has been protecting humanity and justice from the threat of Shocker. His name is Takeshi Hongo, the first Kamen Rider. After a long battle overseas, Hongo hears a certain girl is in danger and immediately returns to Japan. He then meets Takeru Tenkuji, Kamen Rider Ghost, who had been investigating the girl's whereabouts.
The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
Honma Seijiro
A man and a woman committed double suicide in Kanazawa City. Immediately after the incident, Yoshiko Shiota, a woman living in Tokyo, contacts the local newspaper of Kanazawa, saying she wants to read the novel serialized in it by Ryuji Sugimoto. How did this woman know the novel is serialized in the newspaper? And why does she want to start reading it in the middle of the story? Which article was she actually interested in? Sugimoto cannot help making his own investigations about Yoshiko, but the more he searches, the more astonishing facts come to light...
Kaze no Tayori
Kurumi suddenly gave up opening a cafe with her friend. She hears that her grandfather Takeshi collapsed and goes to visit him in her hometown of Sendai. Takeshi entrusts Kurumi to open a cafe which closed temporarily due to the earthquake, but Kurumi doesn't know what to do. Takeshi hopes Kurumi finds her own way to live. There's not much time left for Takeshi and Kurumi.
Specialist 4
Kiichiro Takakura
Yoshito (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) becomes famous in Kyoto because of his ability to solve cases. The special investigation unit receives a request to investigate a case revolving around the kidnapping of a costumed performer. He plays a non-official character of the Arashiyama area, located on the western outskirts of Kyoto. Nobody takes the kidnapping case seriously, but Yoshito says the case could be real and it might be related to a crowdfunding site.
Kagura Me
Kyoujiro Kikuchi
A woman bears a 13 year grudge with her father over the traditional dance he was performing that caused him to be absent from her mother's death, until they reconnect over the very same dance.
The Land of Rain Trees
Yutaka Sakisaka
Nobuyuki Sakisaka (Yuta Tamamori) is a salaryman. When he was in middle school student, he read light novel "Fairy Game”. He still has that light novel, because he was so shocked by the ending. One day, Nobuyuki Sakisaka browses the internet and comes across the blog "Rein Tsuri no Kuni.” He learns that the blog writer, Rika Hitomi (Mariya Nishiuchi), also was shocked by the ending in light novel "Fairy Game." Nobuyuki and Rika soon begin to exchange emails. Nobuyuki wants to meet Rika, but she refuses due to her secret.
The Interrogator Special
Yukiko Makabe is the only female interrogator in a department full of men. Their job is to question suspects immediately after a crime, using interrogation skills and psycho-analysis to solve crimes. As the only female in the department, Yukiko has a different perspective and style from her colleagues. This brings her success in her interrogations of suspects, but Yukiko continues to be troubled by an unsolved cold case from years ago.
Meikyu Sousa
Shigeki Makabe
Detective Yoichiro arrives at a crime scene involving the brutal murder of three family members to find a young five-year-old boy hiding in the closet. The discovery of the young boy takes Detective Yoichiro back to his own tragic childhood when his parents were killed in a fire. Without any real clues, the murder investigation continues unsolved. That is, until another murder takes place one year later, this time with a mother and son as the victims. And evidence found at the scene links the killer to the murder that took place a year ago.
Specialist 3
Kiichiro Takakura
Shu Kubota is killed by someone with a baseball bat. A metal bat and an old toy are found at the crime scene. Detective Yoshito (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) with the special investigation unit goes to the crime scene to investigate. There, Detective Yoshito realizes that he made the old toy about 10 years ago when he worked at the public relations divsion of the Kyoto Prefectural Police Department. Detective Yoshito decides to solve the case by himself and without the help of his partner Detective Chinami (Kaho Minami). --asianwiki
Chasuke's Journey
Junichi Taneda
Things are hectic in heaven. Dozens of scribes sit before a long scroll incessantly scribbling away. They are composing the biographies of earth-dwellers. What is invented by the men in heaven is lived out below. And their employer, God, is increasingly vehement in demanding avant-garde ideas. Take, for example, the beautiful Yuri, a girl who dies in a car crash. Some of the heavenly scribes find this very dull and send former gangster Chas, who has become a heavenly tea-boy, back down to earth with instructions to save Yuri no matter what. And so Chas ends up in Okinawa, gets to know the earth-dwellers, interferes in their fates, becomes celebrated as 'Mr Angel' and is hounded by brutal enemies. His falling in love with Yuri is of course a foregone conclusion. But no one could anticipate what happens next. Not even God himself
Samulife
Nagaoka is a former high school teacher. He decides to start a school with an ideal learning environment. To achieve this goal, he struggles to make money by running a bar and a publishing company.
25
Detectives Shintarou Sakurai (Sho Aikawa) and Koichi Hikage (Susumu Terajima) are partners. They are also corrupt and often blackmail criminal groups and seize their money. One day, the Chief of Police becomes aware that 2.5 million yen in seized money is missing. He orders Shintarou and Koichi to bring the money in by tomorrow morning. Shintarou and Koichi are in big trouble. They then read an article about a pension fund embezzlement case involving 6 billion yen. The prime suspect of the pension fund embezzlement case spent most of that money, but he has 2.5 billion yen left.
A Drop of the Grapevine
After a symphonic music career in Europe cut short by hearing loss, Ao (Oizumi Yo) returns home to run his family's farm in Hokkaido alongside younger brother Roku (Sometani Shota). Roku carries on the family legacy of wheat farming, but Ao becomes obsessed with starting a winery specializing in Pinot Noir. The brothers' troubled relationship is upset further when one day mysterious yet charming Erika (Ando Yuko) pitches camp in a neighboring field. A Drop of the Grapevine is the second of director Mishima Yukiko's Hokkaido Trilogy, an intended triptych that features the natural bounty and scenic landscapes of Japan's northern island.
Солнце, восходящее над Ванкувером
Zenkichi Ebata
Бейсбольная команда "Ванкувер Асахи" состоит из второго поколения японских эммигрантов, живущих в Канаде. Они играют в местной любительской бейсбольной лиге. Команда стала популярной благодаря своей приверженности честной борьбе. Но в обычной жизни игроки вынуждены противостоять дискриминации и бедности. Фильм основан на реальных событиях и повествует о бейсбольной команде "Ванкувер Асахи", существовавшей в Ванкувере до начала Второй мировой войны. Информация о ней и бейсболистах хранится в Ванкуверском музее бейсбола.
Hana's Miso Soup
Kazuomi Hasegawa
Yasutake Shingo works as a newspaper reporter but his life is stiffled and lifeless. That changes one day when he meets the irrepressible Matsunaga Chie by accident. Just as their relationship is blossoming however, Chie tells Shingo that she has breast cancer. Shingo determines to marry Chie right away, but she'll have to go through surgery and cancer treatments firs...
Рыцари Зодиака: Легенда о святилище
Mitsumasa Kido (Voice)
Простая девушка из не бедной семьи по имени Саори в день своего шестнадцатилетия узнаёт, что она воплощение богини Афины. Злые дядьки хотят её замочить, потому что она может им обломать всю малину. Но молодые парнишки, которых воспитывал дедушка Саори встают на её защиту. Они обладают силой "космо" и зовутся Рыцарями Зодиака! Не лёгкий путь им предстоит пройти через 12 домов Золотых рыцарей, чтобы доказать, что эта Афина настоящая, а та, что у злодеев - нет!
Delivery of Death
Torahei Tateyama
Reporters Takehara and Tsumura Aki work for the magazine "Shukan Dodongo". Their chief editor tells them to monitor Okase Shohei who is an ex-bureaucrat and was recently released from prison. 7 years ago, Shohei was arrested for embezzling 1 billion yen. The investigation seven years ago was able to track down 700 million yen but unable to locate the remaining 300 million yen. Now, the chief editor is sure Shohei will go to wherever the remaining 300 million yen is hidden.
Сакура в цвету
Жизнь в семействе Осаки наполнена заботами, ссорами и разногласиями. Ко всем неприятностям добавляется неожиданно возникшая болезнь дедушки, который теряет память и становится беспомощным. Семья в растерянности. Все пытаются помочь дедушке, и постепенно появляется надежда на то, что им это удастся.
Specialist 2
Kiichiro Takakura
A mysterious code written with letters and numbers is found on a street in Kyoto. Yoshito Takuma (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and Chinami Anekoji (Kaho Minami) begin to investigate. They discover that something happened at the place where the code was found on stickers and they also discover a dead body. A man known as "Writer" is suspected of being the culprit. To find the man known as "Writer," Yoshito Takuma infiltrates into Shiga central prison. --asianwiki
What I Long For
Bugmen (voice)
High school student Juri leaps to her death. Afterwards, Juri wanders to her house, school and street. She feels loneliness as nobody else is able to see her. She talks to those that she comes across including her mother and classmates, but nobody responds to her comments. Juri then sees a horrifying monster, which she never saw prior to her suicide. She calls the scary monster "Bug Man". When the mind of humans become weak, the Bug Man tempts those to commit suicide. One day, Juri walks along the street as usual. She then meets a girl that is able to see Juri. Juri names the girl Ringo-chan and plays at the park with her. Their happy moments does not last long. When they come back from the park, Juri sees Ringo-chan's mother with a grim face. The Bug Man is standing behind her mother.
The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji
Masayoshi Ako
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 is suddenly fired by the Police Chief due to "disciplinary" issues. In actuality, the firing is part of a carefully orchestrated plan. Reiji is ordered to become a "mole," an undercover cop. His target is Shuho Todoroki, the boss of the Sukiyakai gang. The group is the largest crime group in the Kanto area. Masaya Hiura, who works as a young boss of a Sukiyakai affiliated gang likes Reiji. While going through various hardships, Reiji works his way towards Shuho Todoroki.
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 happy times together and Shuichi thinks about marrying Yoshimi. Then Yoshimi becomes sick. A sad truth is hidden in the lost memory of Shuichi.
Yakuza Ladies Neo
Kotone (Tomoka Kurotani) is the wife of Mitsuru Kiba (Kazushige Nagashima), boss of the Kiba gang in the Saikyo Alliance. She hides a girl named Sakura Nishizawa (Rina Koike), who is chased by Azami (Natsuki Harada). Azami is the wife of Kato (Masayuki Imai), boss of the Kato gang in the Saikyo Alliance. Years ago, Azami's lover was murdered by Mitsuru Kiba. To get revenge, she married Kato. Through the girl Sakura Nishizawa, Kotone and Azami unexpectedly meet and become involved in a large conspiracy.
Любовь слепа
Nahoko's father
35-летный Кэнтаро за всю жизнь ни разу не ходил на свидание с девушкой. Он живет с родителями и занимает скромную должность в мэрии. У Кэнтаро нет друзей, и он уже 13 лет работает без повышения. Его родители обеспокоенные тем, чтобы он не остался одиноким до конца своей жизни, решают вмешаться.
Кэйсукэ Киносита: В начале пути
Shiro Kido
Несколько решающих дней из жизни классика японского кино Кэйскэ Киносьта (1912 - 1998). В конце войны он разочаровывается в кино и возвращается в родной дом в Хамамацу. Последующие события укрепляют его веру и помогают вернуться к любимому делу. Фильм посвящен 100-летию со дня рождения режиссера.
Specialist
Kiichiro Takakura
Kusanagi plays a police detective who gets framed for a crime he didn't commit and had to spend the last 10 years in prison. However, he regains his job as a police officer and makes use of his specialized knowledge on criminal psychology to solve difficult cases.
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 working as a prostitute. She makes some dough and extends the plastic surgery to her entire body. She changes her name and begins a new life. The perfect body leads her to think about men and her hometown.
Love or Duty: Samurai Rebellion
Tadashi Matsudaira
In the Edo period of Japan, a samurai’s life belonged to his lord. On the battlefield or in the home, a loyal samurai must always obey his lord’s commands. This is the tragic story of one such loyal samurai, whose love for his family forced him to make the ultimate choice of disobeying the wishes of his lord.
Yellow Elephant
Sotetsu (voice)
Married couple Aiko Tsumari and Ayumu Muko live a happy and peaceful life. Aiko is bit naive, while Ayumu works as a not so popular novelist. One day, a letter arrives for Ayumu. Because of this letter, the couple become estranged...
Villain
みをつくし料理帖
The film is set in Edo period. As an orphan child Mio starts working at a restaurant in Osaka where she learns how to cook. When she turns 18, she moves to Edo (today's Tokyo) where she opens her own restaurant.
It's a Beautiful Life - Irodori
Hariki
A group of elderly women come together to sell vegetable leaves.
Bayside Shakedown The Final: The New Hope
Kunikazu Yokoyama
Set 2 years after prior film "Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose," a major case occurs that has the potential to take down the entire police organization. For the next 3 days, Shunsaku Aoshima and his colleagues struggle to unravel the case...
Секрет Акко-тян
Ex-president of cosmetics co.
Молодая Ацуко Кагами становится обладательницей волшебного зеркала, которое позволяет ей превращаться в кого она пожелает. Ацуко знакомится с 27-летним Наото, чья компания находится под угрозой поглощения, и пытается помочь сохранить компанию, используя свои способности…
Nippon no uso: Hôdô shashinka fukushima kikujirô 90 sai
Narrator (voice)
Documentary on photojournalist Kikujiro Fukushima
The Way: Man of the White Porcelain
The movie is based on the true story of Takumi Asakawa - a Japanese man who entered Korea during the country's occupation by Japan. Takumi Asakawa became captivated by Korean culture and championed the value of such items as the traditional white Korean porcelain.
Контрабандист
Cop #1
История рассказывает о Рюске Кинуте, неудавшемся актёре с серьёзными долговыми проблемами. Его ростовщик поручает ему работу в команде, работающей с одной из бандформирований города. Однако, когда команда начинает работать на обе банды, то оказывается втянутой в небольшую войну. С этих пор жизни Рюске и его коллег грозит опасность, и адвокат им не поможет.
My SO Has Got Depression
Yasuo Kurita (Haruko's dad)
Mikio (Masato Sakai) is a married man and works hard for the company where he is employed. Then one day Mikio is diagnosed with depression. Mikio's wife is Haruko (Aoi Miyazaki). They have been married for 5 years. Haruko draws comics for work, but they do not sell well. She mainly relied on Mikio for support. Meanwhile, Haruko did not notice any changes in her husband. She begins to blame herself for not noticing any signs. Mikio's depression derived from his work. His company has been pressing him to quit the company. After Mikio quits his job his condition improves, but the dynamics of their relationship changes.
Majutsu wa Sasayaku
A woman named Kazuko (Kimura) who was guilty of a “serious crime” in the past, along with three of her friends. Those friends suddenly begin to die one by one. Kazuko learns that one of those deaths is somehow connected to Mamoru (Nakamura Aoi), her younger brother from whom she has been separated ever since their father disappeared 15 years earlier. Although Mamoru knows nothing of his sister, Kazuko is determined to find the killer in order to protect Mamoru and herself.
Yoshiko & Yuriko
Based on a true story, Yoshiko and Yuriko relates the journey and great love affair of Yoshiko, who was a renowned translator of Russian literature and drama, and Yuriko, who was a feminist novelist and great activist of the post-war democratic literature movement. Both have left huge marks on Japanese literary history. The two women shared a strong attraction to each other from their first meeting and enjoyed a powerful love affair. Yoshiko reveals that she's an out lesbian, whilst Yuriko is married (not altogether happily) to a well-known scholar - a situation she can't walk away from with ease.
Saigo no Kizuna
ケータイ刑事 THE MOVIE3 モーニング娘。救出大作戦!〜パンドラの箱の秘密
Gene Waltz
Takashi Araki
Doctor Rie (Miho Kanno) is know as the Joan of Ark of Obstetrics & Gynecology. She works in a challenging environment with clinics shutting down due to lack of doctors and the system itself breaking down. Dr. Rie then helps an infertile woman conceive with a surrogate mother which is prohibited in Japan...
1778 историй обо мне и моей жене
Setsuko's doctor
В счастливую семейную жизнь инфантильного писателя-фантаста Сакутаро и доброй и заботливой Сэцуко вторгается беда: заболевает супруга. Чтобы хоть как-то поддержать жену, Саку решает каждый день писать для неё по одной смешной истории. Трогательная картина режиссёра Мамору Хоси не оставит равнодушными поклонников хороших японских драм.
Saraba Itoshi no Daitoryo
With the recession still occurring in Japan and the area of Osaka thought to be hit hardest by the economic downtown, Osaka's gubernatorial election occurs. The surprise winner of the election is Sekai no Nabeatsu (Atsumu Watanabe). Three months into his gubernatorial term and with little help from national government, Sekai no Nabeatsu declares Osaka an independent country and takes office as its first President. The Osaka Police then receives a message warning of an impending assassination attempt on the President of Osaka. Police Detectives Hayakawa (Daisuke Miyagawa) and Banba (Kendo Kobayashi) then set out to search for the criminal group. Can the bumbling detectives protect the president? Will there be a future for the country?
Открытка
Kichigoro Izumiya
Кэйта Мацуяма вернулся с войны живым, но его преследуют тени погибших товарищей. Ему нет места в новой возрождающейся после войны Японии. Он решил уехать из страны. Покидая родину, он, выполняя волю своего товарища Сададзо Морикава, посещает его жену Томоко, и передает ей открытку, которую она сама написала мужу.
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 sprouting out cherry blossoms). The young woman lived freely in the mountains after she was abducted as a young child. The couple soon fall in love under the Raiou tree, but become acutely aware of their different social positions & the ramifications it has on their relationship.
Fireworks from the Heart
Kuniakira Sudo
On September 9th, the day of the Katakai Fireworks Festival, high school student Hana comes home from the hospital after six months of treatment for leukemia. She then discovers that her older brother Taro has become a social recluse. Taro used to be tender, smart and proud of his younger sister, but now he even turns his back on her and stays in his room. With Hana's help Taro slowly opens up to the world again. Then, with winter approaching, Hana has a relapse with her leukemia. Taro comes to the hospital everyday to visit Hana and soon learns that the Katakai Fireworks Festival is a symbol of happiness for Hana. Taro then takes the initiative to make Hana happy and approaches the town's youth group once more for admittance.
Perfect Blue
Box: The Hakamada Case
Prosecutor Yoshikawa
Based on the true story of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada who has spent over 40 years incarcerated on death row. Iwao Hakamada was arrested for the June 10, 1966 murder of a family in Shizuoka . Iwao Hakamada has always insisted on his innocence and many others also believe Iwao Hakamada has been falsely accused ...
MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming
Musical band "Yajima Biyoshitsu" comes to Japan from Nevada, USA to debut their CD.
Running on Empty
The beautiful Azami is tired of her penniless and lazy boyfriend, Hideji. Determined to break up with him, she must first get back all the money she has given him over the years. She hatches a plot in which she fakes her own kidnapping to get Hideji to pay a ransom. Things get hilariously complicated when all parties involved act to their own agendas.
The Unbroken
Wako
Onchi was exiled to posts around Asia and Africa due to his work as head of a labor union for National Air Line. He is ordered to return to head office after ten years, and continues to struggle. When a National Air Line plane is involved in the worst air disaster in Japanese history, he is assigned to console and provide restitution to the families of the victims.
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 cope with conditions and even death from malnutrition, and is also the supervisor of the more vicious variety. Shinjo, one of the employees, trying to convince the others that they will get good luck and fortune in his next life, and persuades them because they commit suicide to get there faster. It ends, however, in a single major failure. Rather than flee Shinjo being picked up by a Russian ship. Once there, he is overwhelmed by the social conditions that are completely different from those he has just left and decided therefore to return to Kanikosen to save their employees.
USB
Yuichiro wants to be an film director but his widowed mother wants him to become a doctor. As radiation leaks permeate the city, he tries to clear his debts by signing up for a dangerous medical experiment...
Rookies the Movie: Graduation
Akihiro Fujimura
Futakotamagawa High School had a Baseball Club, but because of a fight during one of their games, they were suspended for a year from all games. Composed of student delinquents, Futakotamagawa High's new Literature teacher Kawato Koichi inspires the Baseball Club to believe in a dream goal once again. For them, it is to play at the Koshien - Japan's National High School Baseball Championship. But, Kawato Koichi and the newly reformed baseball team run into plenty of obstacles along the way...
April Bride
Toshiro Akasu
On April 5, 2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The bride, however, was suffering from late-stage breast cancer and had been given only a month to live. A young woman is diagnosed with breast cancer but keeps the information from her boyfriend. When he finds out, he decides to plan a wedding even though she only has one month to live. Based on the true story of Chie Nagashima, a women afflicted with breast cancer and her husband Taro Akasu.
Baton
Dr. Newton (voice)
Baton is a collection of three 20-minute Sci-fi anime films dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the establishment of Yokohama city. On Planet Abel, human-like robot Apollo (Ichihara Hayato, Rookies) and robot-like human Mikaru (Ueto Aya, Azumi) come upon a stowaway robot with a mysterious "Cipher" chip. Not knowing Cipher's powers, Apollo takes the chip for fun, throwing both him and Mikaru headfirst into a mind-boggling mystery that affects the past, present, and future.
What the War Meant
Teichi Suzuki
The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and was later executed as a war criminal. The story's theme is said to be a look at how the Pacific War began, focusing mostly on the three month period between the Imperial Conference (Gozen Kaigi) on September 6, 1941, and the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
GS Wonderland
Kenichi Kamata
"GS Wonderland" is about the 1960's Group Sounds bands - A Japanese pop movement inspired by the Beatles and other mid-1960's Brit Pop. Three young men set out to start their own band "The Diamonds" when they are signed to a recording contract during their very first rehearsal. Things turn for the unexpected when their agent brings Mick (Chiaki Kuriyama) into the group as their keyboardist.
Вишнёвый сад
Nisaburo Suzuki
Момо Юки с раннего детства учившаяся играть на скрипке, в силу ряда обстоятельств решает прекратить свое музыкальное образование. Благодаря связям ее отца, ее без экзаменов принимают в выпускной класс помпезной старшей школы для девочек Оока, которую ранее с отличием закончили ее мать и старшая сестра. В школе ей становится скучно, и она ищет занятие, которое помогло бы ей и ее одноклассницам скрасить однообразие повседневной жизни. Забравшись в старое здание школы, она обнаруживает в одном из помещений сценарий и декорации пьесы Чехова «Вишневый сад», без которой раньше не обходилась ни одна праздничная церемония в честь дня основания их учебного заведения. Но ныне по каким-то причинам «Вишневый сад» не ставят… Момо собирает группу единомышленниц и решает, несмотря на запрет, во что бы то ни стало возродить постановку этой пьесы…
Where The Legend Lives
Kohei Miyazaki (Naoto Takenaka), a former railroad worker, has become obsessed with discovering the ancient country of Yamataikoku. His obsession sprouted from a day when he discovered ancient ceramics while repairing railroad tracks. Now completely blind, Kohei relies on his wife (Sayuri Yoshinaga) to guide him through the country and read the maps in their pursuit of Yamataikoku.
Класс, в котором был поросенок
Vice Principal Nishina
Однажды учитель приносит в школу поросенка. «Мы вырастим поросенка, а потом вместе съедим его!» Он уверен, что уход за ним поможет детям узнать больше о жизни. Дети устраивают для поросенка жилище, организуют дежурство. С каждым днем они все сильнее привязываются к своему проказливому питомцу. Но вот приходит время окончания учебы в младшей школе. Что делать с поросенком? Передать младшему классу? Или – съесть?..
Arigato, Okan
Hanako is a mother, who was not enthusiastic when her husband took in two foster children some years ago. He died not long afterward, leaving her alone to care for the youngsters, Koya and Torataro, a task that she rose to with a passion. As the two boys graduate from high school, Hanako has become not only a devoted parent but the neighborhood's most reliable mother in the Osaka style: strong, responsible, irreverent. After the two boys leave school they also leave home, though Torataro continues to work in the family factory. Koya secures employment at a restaurant, where he is forced to put up with the bullying of an older colleague. Unable to take it any more, he runs away, and Hanako and Torataro look for him. They eventually find him pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician.
Даже если цветы помяты...
Учитель Ёсио Итикава отдал школе всю свою жизнь. Ученики помнят его уpoки и через 30 лет после окончания школы встречаются вновь. Позади годы войны и разрухи. Смогли ли они воплотить в жизнь то, о чем мечтали? Смогут ли они исправить ошибки, которые совершили?
Ахиллес и черепаха
Tomisuke Kuramochi
Фильм рассказывает о жизни живописца по имени Матису, который не отказывается от своей мечты быть художником, несмотря на отсутствие успеха.
Flying Rabbits
Yukari always wanted to become a flight attendant and has just been hired by Japan Airlines. However, due to an unexpected mistake, she has also been recruited to the company's basketball team (the JAL "Rabbits") despite being a lousy at basketball. Forced to divide her time between job training and playing basketball, Yukari makes an increasing amount of mistakes in both areas. Frustrated, she nearly gives up on her dream career, but somehow finds the strength to keep trying both in the skies and on the court.
R246 STORY
The anthology film R246 Story centers around the major Japanese highway Route 246. Originating in Chiyoda Ward's Miyakezaka district, the 122.7 kilometers long Route 246 passes through Japanese trendsetting areas such as Aoyama, Omotesando, Harajuku, and Shibuya, on its way to Numazu City in Shizuoka Prefecture.
Nekonade
Taro Onizuka
Ren Osugi plays a middle-aged salaryman whose life falls apart when he’s laid off from his job, but finds solace in adopting a stray cat.
The Taste of Fish
It may sound cliché, but Japanese people really do love their fish. If Japan has the best and freshest fish in the world, then Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market is where you're most likely to find them. It's the home of Japan's biggest daily fish auction, and it's a place of fierce competition between fish merchants that have been in the business for generations. Based on a comic series, The Taste of Fish follows businessman Shuntaro, who has a successful career in a trading company and is in a steady relationship with girlfriend Asuka. One day, Shuntaro has to help out at the fish wholesaler store run by Asuka's father, and he immediately falls in love with the world of Tsukiji Fish Market. Soon, Shuntaro quits his job and devotes all of his time to running the business while learning about the market's fascinating set of long-standing traditions. However, he must first also learn to distinguish the tastes of different fishes before he can survive in the competitive world of Tsukiji.
Vacation
Tatsuro Mishima
The prison guards working in penitentiaries where death row inmates are locked up are forced to spend their daily lives constantly facing death.
Chichi kara no tegami
Inuzuka (Hirotaro Honda), who asked about Mamiko (Rei Dan)'s disappeared father, Shinkichi (Ren Osugi), and her lover, Keiichi (Tetta Sugimoto), was murdered. A "letter" from her disappeared father holds the key.
生きる
Remake of Kurosawa Akira‘s Ikiru
Банзай, режиссер!
Astronomer Yamamoto
Виртуозная клюква. Суп и алкогольный коктейль в одном флаконе от пожилого и талантливого японского парализованного клоуна, жонглирующего семью чудесными жанрами одновременно. Китано упорно, входя в ту же воду (комедия) доказывет, что его чувство юмора универсально, а талант в его возрасте смешивается с самоироничным живительным шоу-маразмом естественным человечным способом.
Akai bunka jutaku no hatsuko
Hatsuko's father
15-year-old Hatsuko (Higashi Ayu) lives with her elder brother in a humble town house. Their mother died when they were young, and the father disappeared. The brother (Shioya Shun) left high school before graduation to work at a factory, but spends their meager house-keeping money on adult entertainment. Hatsuko, who is poor and has no friends, finds emotional support in Mishima (Sano Kazuma), a boy in her class, who helps her with her study to go to a high school together. However, Hatsuko's brother causes trouble at the factory and gets the sack. Hatsuko gives up her dream of going to high school. In spring, the modest relationship continues between Mishima, now a high school student, and Hatsuko who works at a biscuit factory. One day, Hatsuko's long-gone father reappears. In a drunken frenzy, he sets fire to the house to go and rejoin the mother, leaving Hatsuko without a place to live. Hatsuko leaves the town on her own, drawing strength from the promise of marriage with Mishima.
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 music that defined two generations of post-war Japan. Although the term survives, it has a strong connotation with a simpler, pre-"Economic Bubble" era when Japanese people shared a common identity in the reconstruction of their nation.
Unfair: the movie
Assistant Director Irie
When a devoted detective probes the suspicious death of her father, she uncovers massive corruption and finds herself in grave danger.
Наращивание волос
Gunji Yamazaki
Когда вы приходите в салон или парикмахерскую, внимательно присмотритесь к вашему мастеру. Его движения плавные или порывистые, а в руках у него что: ножницы с феном или скальпель? Вы доверяете этому человеку едва ли не самую важную часть своего тела. А с накладками будьте особенно осторожны…
Dear Friends
Rina's Father
High school student Rina has a bad attitude and thinks that friends are something that you use when you need them. She doesn't have any real relationships and is not even on good terms with her parents. Rina is the clubbing queen and could get any guy she wants with her stunning looks. One day, Rina suddenly collapses and her world falls apart. She finds out that she has cancer. The only one who starts to support her is her classmate Maki. Maki tells that they were friends in primary school even though Rina doesn't remember. Maki wants to get close to Rina and help her like Rina had helped Maki when she had hard times.
Кошмарный детектив
Detective Sekiya
Детектив Кейко Кирисима сталкивается с двумя загадочными случаями самоубийств. Кажется, каким-то образом оба эти происшествия связаны между собой: жертвы набирали на своих мобильных телефонах один и тот же номер - «0», перед самой смертью. Позже, жена одной из жертв рассказывает, что когда они спали вместе, было похоже, что во сне на ее мужа кто-то нападал. Кейко и ее коллеги посещают комнату, в которой все это происходило, ища ключ к разгадке тайны этих двух самоубийств. Там они находят информацию о человеке, так называемом «кошмарном детективе», который может попасть в сон другого человека. Кейко просит его помощи в расследовании, но он отказывается. Зная, что нет никакого другого выхода, Кейко приближается все ближе к правде и решает сама набрать смертельный «0»...
Aoi byoten
田倉義三
The sudden death of a journalist stirs up young editor Noriko's curiosity. While investigating the case, Noriko uncovers the dark secrets hidden behind the journalist's death and its relationship to a popular female novelist.
A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth
Kunimoto
Four strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket, and a woman with a preternaturally precise sense of time) are brought together by chance when they inadvertently team up to thwart a bank robbery. Recognizing the potential of their combined talents, they decide to form a bank-robbing gang themselves, just for the fun and romance of it. Their heists are played out swiftly and coolly, less like robberies than performance art. Eventually, the foursome's good-natured crime streak is interrupted when a man from one of their pasts creates a whirlwind of extortion and double crossing.
Requiem from the Darkness: Hinoenma
Onihei Crime Files Special: Bandits
Jingoro Amikiri
An old thief, Kuhei Sagiwara, used to visit his hometown at the foot of the Kurikara Pass in Kaga Province. Hiding from the rain, he overheard a secret conversation between three men, just like him, hiding from the rain. These three conspired to kill Heizo Hasegawa, the head of the arson and robbery police squad, and the head of these three is the outrageous villain, thief and murderer Jingoro Amikiri...
Исток: Серебряновласый Агито
Agashi (voice)
Три века назад Лес пробудился, и Луна низвергла на Землю зловещего Зверя. Род людской обратился в ужас… Ныне мир совсем не похож на то, чем он был до катастрофы. Остатки человечества малочисленны и разобщены: часть пытается сосуществовать с Лесом, другая часть ищет способы покорить то, чего не способна понять.
Tripping
Shaodea's father
It's the story of a rebellious Japanese-Taiwanese girl (played by Rena Tanaka from “Kitaro”) who gets transported back to ancient times and embarks on an adventure with a Taoist priest and a thief. On the road, the group encounters numerous dangers, stumbling upon a conspiracy involving a powerhungry sorcerer and the corrupt court.
Dead Run
Arata
Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes increasingly isolated at school and drifts into criminal activity.
Sunday's Dream
Kazuya goes to live with his mother Shinobu because his father, Yoshiki, who works in the same company, has fired him according to the company policy regarding redundancy. However, Shinobu soon gets remarried to Sakamoto depriving Kazuya of a place to stay. He then meets Sachiko who works in a salon where sexual pleasure is offered to men. They promise to have a date on the next Sunday by the sea.
Life on the Longboard
A depressed middle-aged man takes up surfing after he retires.
Такешиз
Takeshi's Manager / Taxi Driver
Брюнет Китано - телевизионная звезда бандитских сериалов, разъезжающая с молоденькой ассистенткой-любовницей в Rolls-Royce. Блондин Китано - владелец маленького магазинчика всякой мелкой всячины, неудачник безнадежно приходящий на ТВ-кастинги. Каждому снится сон про себя и другого Китано. Сны перемешиваются друг с другом в хаотическую феерию, образы повторяются и сталкиваются. Китано реальный цитирует собственные фильмы, вспоминает свои клоунские телевизионные шоу, его мучают навязчивые образы, преследующие стереотипы якудза-имиджа. Переживания режиссера на темы его восприятия окружающей средой выражены той самой беспорядочной избыточностью стрельбы, с которой массовое сознание связывает его имя и образ.
Wish Upon a Star
Shinya Yamazaki
Japanese TV film
Train Man
Middle-aged man in train
The purportedly true story of a 23-year-old otaku (Japanese geek) who intervened when a drunk man was harassing a woman on a train. The otaku ultimately started dating with her and chronicled his event and his dates with the woman (who became known as "Hermès") on the Japanese mega-BBS 2channel.
About Love
Shop owner (segment "Tokyo")
Three stories are told, respectively set in Tokyo, Taipei, and Shanghai. The first two stories are about a Japanese person and a Taiwanese person. The last one is set in Shanghai with a story about a Japanese man and a Chinese woman. Some of the characters can speak Japanese and some of them Mandarin. Each story encompasses an experience of a foreigner, either from Japan ,Taiwan or China, with a native of the opposite country.
Requiem from the Darkness: Kowai
Jam Films S
Jam Films S is a Japanese omnibus movie. It was released by Phantom FIlm in Japan on January 15, 2005. The movie follows 2002’s Jam Films and its 2004 sequel Jam Films 2. This time around, the overall theme is “S” which stands for succession, success, and special. There are seven shorts, all produced by Ryuhei Kitamura. Included are the shorts Tuesday by Kenji Sonoda, Heaven Sent by Ryuichi Takatsu, Blouse by Hitoshi Ishikawa, New Horizon by Ryo Teshima, Suberidai by Yuichi Abe, Alpha by Daisaburo Harada, and Suit by Masaki Hamamoto.
Lady Joker
Junichi Nunokawa
A Japanese film by Hideyuki Hirayama, Lady Joker is a detective thriller with elements of social commentary on Japanese society that is based on the 1997 bestselling novel by Kaoru Takamura.
The Village Album
Hanatani Village in the valley of Tokushima Prefecture is going to be submerged when a dam is constructed. In order to preserve the beauty of the place for future generations, the villagers decide to take photographs of all the families in the village. Kenichi, the only photographer in the village, is put in charge of the project. He calls his son Takashi, an aspiring photographer, to help him with the task. Takashi is puzzled since his father and he are not at all close, but as they visit each family in turn and Takashi sees his father working, Takashi's feelings towards his father begin to change.
Eiko
Hirai
Eiko Akimori is a 23-year-old woman who lives alone in an apartment. One day, Eiko is made to buy a big stone ring that brings happiness from a catch sales on the way home from work.
Part-Time Detective 2
Kazuo Yamada
The housewife and part-time private detective Noriko Yamada plays her old tricks again, uncovering mysterious corruption cases. But this time she will solve it adopting the style of "Beatrix Kiddo" from Kill Bill.
Красная луна
Семья Морита переехала с Хоккайдо в Маньчжурию, завоёванную японской армией, и открыла в Муданьцзяне крупное предприятие по производству сакэ. Успеху дела способствует поддержка японской армии. Но в Маньчжурию входят советские войска, война близится к трагической развязке, и людям приходится выбирать между спасением чести и спасением жизни.
Любовник
C
Трое братьев — Тамиро, Таро и Сабуро с детства имели все, что хотели. Но есть ли предел человеческих желаний, если возможности не ограничены? Каким подарком отец может удивить своих уже взрослых сыновей? Он дарит им на один год 17-летнюю школьницу для удовлетворения прихотей. Теперь ее тело — это их вещь. Все трое владеют ее телом, но не душой. Тот, кто овладеет ее душой, тот и будет настоящий любовник.
Зебрамен
Огромной ошибкой стала идея учителя и простого семьянина Синъити одеться супергероем Зебраменом, пытаясь спастись от скучной жизни. Телесериал о подвигах этого супергероя был прекращен после шестой серии, но Синъити продолжал действовать в мире своих фантазий в самодельном костюме зебры. Он получил больше, чем мог желать, но, похоже, что именно его одетое в черно-белый костюм альтер-эго стоит между абсолютным злом и счастливым концом.
10 Years - A Wife's Betrayal
Kazuki Urushibara
Urushibara Kazuki heads to Kyoto to explore the secret of his wife, Saeko, who is hospitalized for terminal cancer.
Tracing Jake
An elusive alligator named Jake leads you on a worldwide psychedelic journey in this animation / live action combo. Play name that celebrity as 24 top Japanese stars (including cast members of Battle Royale and several cult film directors) recollect their stream of consciousness encounters with the cuddly croc.
Blessing Bell
Loudspeaker Person in Prison (voice)
Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other characters' lives.
Tales of the Bizarre: 2003 Fall Special
Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2003 Fall Special" presents five tales. 1. *Kagi (The Key) - starring Eguchi Yosuke. 2. Perfect Couple - starring Yada Akiko. 3. Toosugita Otoko (The Man Who Was Too Far Away) - starring Nakamura Shido. 4. Meiro (The Maze)- starring Tanihara Shosuke. 5. Kage ga Omonaru Toki (When Shadows Accumulate) - starring Yashima Norito. * Adapted from a novel by Tsutsui Yasutaka.
Revolver - Aoi haru
Collage of Our Lives
Director
A young cameraman receives a letter from an old girlfriend, announcing that she is to hold a photo exhibition in the United States. Having heard rumors that she has died, he follows his curiosity to New York City.
Tales of the Bizarre: 2003 Spring Special
Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2003 Spring Special" presents five tales. 1. Kao wo Nusumareta (My Face was Stolen) - starring Inagaki Goro 2. Rental Love - starring Iijima Naoko 3. Oikaketai (I want to Chase [Him/Her]) - starring Kyono Kotomi 4. Chozeikin Taisaku Satsujin Jiken (Countering Excessive Taxation Murder Case) - starring Nishimura Masahiko 5. Kage no Kuni (The Country of Shadows) - starring Sakurai Sachiko
Her Island, My Island
A young woman returns to the island where she grew up.
Thirteen Steps
Norio Ando
A released inmate is hired to solve a murder case.
Part-Time Detective
Kazuo Yamada
Noriko Yamada is a housewife and mother of five children, she and her husband go through an economic crisis that causes them to have problems with the bank. But while looking for work will Hitoshi befriending Hibino, president of "K & D Research" a detective agency. This will give you the opportunity to spend a trial investigating an infidelity. So get to be a part-time detective Noriko.
Сумрачный самурай
Toyotaro Koda
История Сейбея — скромного самурая низшего ранга и его семьи, живших в эпоху смуты. Сейбей победил в поединке противника деревянным мечом, и когда об этом распространилась молва, он против своей воли оказался вовлеченным в конфликт внутри самурайского клана и получает приказ сюзерена убить такого же, как и он сам, вассала…
Куклы
Haruna's Manager
Мацумото и Савако еще недавно были счастливой парой, но молодой человек решил оставить любимую и жениться по расчету. Накануне свадьбы Мацумото узнает, что Савако потеряла рассудок.Старик Хиро — босс якудзы. Он богат и окружен почтением, но болен и одинок. Когда-то он был бедным рабочим, и любимая девушка каждый день приносила ему в парк завтраки. Но он бросил ее, погнавшись за мечтой стать важным человеком. Теперь, спустя 30 лет, он возвращается в парк, где они когда-то встречались…
Drive
Nishi Goro
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 who has snatched the money. Unfortunately for the bank robbers, Asakura never drives over 40 km/h speed limit even under the extreme situation.
MPD-PSYCHO/FAKE
A reworking of MPD Psycho by the author of the original manga Eiji Otsuka edited from the TV show and newly-filmed scenes.
Utsutsu
Nagata Tsutomu
Sabu
Heizo
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.
Doing Time
Takahashi
A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon their individuality.
Tales of the Bizarre: 2002 Spring Special
Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2002 Spring Special" presents five tales. 1. Mushi Game (Ignore the Game) - starring Uchiyama Rina 2. Okashina Machi (Funny Town) - starring Yanagiba Toshiro 3. Tokage no Shippo (Lizard's Tail) - starring Kashiwabara Takashi 4. Yogisha no Otoko (Man's Night Train) - starring Osugi Ren 5. Manhole - starring Kagawa Teruyuki
Kewaishi
Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of a manga by Shotaro Ishinomori was an official selection at the 5th Shanghai International Film Festival and won the award for Best Screenplay at the 14th Tokyo International Film Festival.
Rain of Light
This documentary-style film recreates the infamous Asama Sanso Incident of 1972 wherein an extreme faction of the Students Allied Red Army holed themselves up in a mountainous cabin in the dead of winter. By the time the police finally caught up with them, it was discovered that they had murderously turned upon themselves in a bizarre extension of their radical philosophy. This event virtually marked the end of the Student Revolution.
Last Scene
Young film star Ken Mihara is about to fall from stardom. His rise as a celebrity is solely credited to his onscreen counterpart, Keiko, who recently announced her retirement from acting in order to get married. Feeling frustrated and helpless, Ken turns to alcohol as he begins to provoke fights, attempts to lure a girl into bed, and argues with his wife, who came to visit him at the studio. All she says is thank you and leaves Ken puzzled. Ken Mihara, once a budding young star, takes a job as an extra. Although he's past his prime, he still manages to infuse a young filmmaker with the motivation to pursue her dreams as a director.
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Taxi Driver
Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.
Prime Minister's Office Lady
A woman, disguised as an office lady, takes revenge for her dead lover.
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and Hama-chan envy his decision, and Hama-chan conspires to visit Takano, even though he has no vacation time left.
Rush!
A wacky tale of two guys, one Korean and one Japanese who, mistaken for a couple of murderers, take to their heels, thus starting off a adrenalin pumping (and often zany) adventure with a distorted sense of time
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 of a star.
Kumamoto Stories
Naka-no-Ooe-no-Ôji
Jidai-geki period / folklore type stories that were comissioned by the Kumamoto prefacture of Kyushu island in 1996 and filmed over a period of three years. Kumamoto Monogatari is a 2002 omnibus which includes the three short films: Zuiketsu Genso: Tonkararin Yume Densetsu, Kikuchi-jo Monogatari: Sakimori-tachi no Uta, Onna Kunishuu Ikki.
Брат Якудзы
Harada
После разгрома родного мафиозного клана боевик Аники Ямамото по прозвищу Старший Брат бежит из Японии в Америку. Здесь его встречает чужой, но не менее жестокий мир безжалостной борьбы за власть в преступной среде, в которой Ямамото решительно отвоевывает себе место, следуя древнему кодексу «якудзы».Полагаясь только на свои силы и дорожа верными друзьями, он в одиночку ведет войну с врагами, зная, что в самом конце кровавого пути его ждет триумф или смерть.
Асако в рубиновых ботинках
Aya's Father
Молодой госслужащий У-ин скучает от работы в офисе и от своей жизни. К тому же он влюблен в красноволосую Мию, которая не обращает на него никакого внимания. Блуждая по порносайтам, У-ин находит видеочат с красноволосой девушкой по имени Асако и начинает общаться с ней.
Живым или мертвым 2
Mizuki's Stepfather
Двое наемных убийц, друзья детства, случайно оказываются в родных местах после неудачного покушения. при этом обоих разыскивают якудза с одной стороны и, наркодилеры, с другой.
Chinpira
Osamu rescues a girl who was being chased by two punks and is soon mixed up with the Yakuza
Tales of the Bizarre: The Movie
Yoshiaki Yamauchi (segment "One Snowy Night")
A four-part anthology in the spirit of The Twilight Zone, this film starts off with a group of commuters stranded at a train station in the rain, listening to stories told by one of the group. These include tales of a group stranded in the mountains and haunted by guilt over a death they inadvertantly caused, an emotionally broken chessmaster pressed into playing a real-life game for an eccentric millionaire, a wandering medieval samurai who finds a modern-day cell phone on the ground and a person on the other end asking questions about the past, and a young couple who agree to try a computer simulation of what their future as husband and wife would be like.
Party 7
Doctor
Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from the mob, his ex-girlfriend, her obsessive boyfriend, the mob soldier sent to retrieve the briefcase, another mobster sent to kill them, master voyeur Captain Banana and his new apprentice, The Mister Yellow. Who will end up with the money?
The City of Lost Souls
Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo's booming Japanese-Portuguese community and seeks passage from the country from a Russian mobster. To meet his price, they hold up a bigtime drug deal between the Chinese Mafia and the local Yakuza.
I Am an S+M Writer
Kurosaki
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 inside, she feels physically neglected. She tries to make him jealous, while also going after what she desires with someone else.
Séance
Restaurant Customer
A psychic housewife and her husband accidentally find a kidnapped girl. But instead of informing the police, they hatch a scheme to get famous by working with the police as a psychic consultant to "find" the girl. And then, things start to go terribly wrong.
Persona
Yuichiro Jonouchi
Into the bully-infested home room class struts a fearless, ceramic-masked student. Squarely confronting a gang of ruffians, it is soon discovered that behind the mask is none other than Danta, an otherwise weakling student who has heretofore been picked on relentlessly by these same bullies. Donned with his mask, however, Danta exhibits a totally other personality, lacking fear and intimidation. The other students, looking on, soon experiment with the power of masks and find to their glee that behind a facade of anonymity, they experience an overwhelming power to act without the confines of self-consciousness.
Monday
Murai Yoshio
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 happened a day before.
Space Travelers
Shinichi Tsuneda
Three bank robbers, who declare themselves to be Space Travelers, take six persons as hostages when they are surrounded by the police. Among the hostages, there is a terrorist with a hidden bomb. In order to escape, the robbers ask the hostages to pretend to be part of the gang. Surprisingly, the hostages soon enjoy doing so. On that strange day, the bank becomes a tropical paradise...
Crazy Lips
Colonel
After her brother is accused of murdering four people, his sister, desperate to prove his innocence, goes to a psychic for help. The price they ask, however, is far more than she expected, and the answers they give her are nothing she could ever have imagined. And what is the FBI doing investgating a murder in Japan?
Спираль
Toshio Saito
Небольшой городок внезапно буквально заражется спиралью. Сначала она превращается в навязчивый бред одного из жителей, но потом она захватывает все больше и больше людей. Она скручивает тела, делая из них спираль. Она завивает волосы девочек в спираль. Она убивает. Она распространяется!
Yakuza Blood Wind Record Unreliable Crest
Tachibana, who was once regarded as the next young leader of the gangster group but lost the promotion battle to rival Yamamoto, is now a central figure in a group of outlaws who have been banished from yakuza society. He was repeating the wrongdoings of. One day, in exchange for 100 million bounties from Yamamoto, he receives a request to crush the Kanto Wide Area Gangster Association and Iron Heart.
Story of Kikuchi Castle: Song of the Defenders
Naka-no-Ooe-no-Ôji
Kikuchi-jo Monogatari: Sakimori-tachi no Uta is a 2001 Japanese historical drama directed by Takashi Miike. It is one of three historical films included in the 2002 DVD compilation, Kumamoto Monogatari. The other two are Zuiketsu Genso: Tonkararin Yume Densetsu and Onna Kunishuu Ikki, both also directed by Miike.
Живым или мёртвым
Yan
Банда Рюичи стремится обрести свое место под солнцем: грабит банки, устраивает разборки с китайскими и японскими гангстерами, пытается взять под контроль пригороды Токио и поставку наркотиков с Тайваня.
Харизма
Satoshi Nakasone
Благоволит ли к людям мать-природа? Или может она относится к своим детям так безжалостно и непримиримо из-за того, что они так жестоко и безразлично обращаются с ней. Картина описывает историю странного конфликта, причиной которого стало нелепое, старое и кривое дерево. Это дерево вызывающе возвышается напротив научной лаборатории, где работает героиня фильма. Она уверена, что дерево — ядовито и опасно. Защитники же дерева убеждены в обратном, полагая, что древо сие — величественно и прекрасно. А ещё одна компания «любителей природы» просто хочет срубить его, чтобы заработать денег. Нам предстоит понаблюдать за игрой нешуточных страстей, развернувшихся вокруг одинокого и безмолвного растения.
Кинопроба
Shimada
Мужчина, семь лет назад потерявший жену, решает найти себе подругу жизни. С помощью приятеля, близкого к шоу-бизнесу, он организовывает кинопробы, которые, на самом деле становятся смотринами девушек разных возрастов и их вредных привычек. И находит, что искал…
Secret
Hiroyuki Kajikawa
A man is shocked to find out that after a deadly car accident involving his wife and daughter, his wife died, but her mind somehow got transfered into their daughter's body.
The Night the Angel Turned Away
Akihiko Tomobe
The Exam
Yoshimoto
Togashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi's grade school entrance examinations, but he becomes jobless when his company folds. To regain his confidence Togashi decides to join the marathon that is taking place on the very day of his daughter's examination and the all important interview.
Ley Lines
The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befriend a troubled Shanghai prostitute and fall foul of a local crime syndicate. Like many of Miike's works, the film examines the underbelly of respectable Japanese society and the problems of assimilation faced by non-ethnically Japanese people in Japan.
Avec mon Mari
Nakazaki
Mitsuko has a prestigious job as an editor at a publishing company, while her husband Tomatsu works as a freelance photographer, but he spends all of his time taking care of housework. One day, Mitsuko suspects Tomatsu is having an affair with Mayu, a model, and immediately throws him out. With no place to go, he moves in with Mayu, disrupting her affair with Nakazaki, who happens to work with Mitsuko.
Страна мёртвых
Yasutaka Hiura (Sayori's father)
Главная героиня возвращается в село, где прошло её детство, и узнает, что её подруга умерла, а мать подруги пытается вернуть свою дочь к жизни, осуществляя в обратном порядке паломничество в 88 буддийских храмов острова Cикоку. Дочь, в свою очередь, тоже хочет вернуться в мир живых, чтобы найти своего любимого, у которого возникла любовь с главной героиней.
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 set in Shinjuku, the largest entertainment district in Asia, such as robbery, kidnapping, theft, and the murder of a blue dragon sword. Show Aikawa enthusiastically plays a lone wolf gangster. Co-starring Hitoshi Ozawa and others.
Falling into the Evening
Nakajima (Hanako s father)
Rica and Kengo have been living together for the past four years. It’s been a very happy time for Rica; the only dark spot being an accident she caused during a shoot for a commercial in which Kengo’s good friend, Shibata, nearly lost his life. The memory of this event weighs heavily on Rica’s conscience. One night Kengo tells Rica that he has fallen in love with a charming but „inscrutable“ woman named Hanako.
Ордер на жизнь
Murota
Главный герой Ютака, когда ему было 14 лет, попал в автокатастрофу и 10 лет пролежал в коме. В 24 года, он прошёл курс реабилитации и вышел из больницы. Вернувшись, домой, он никого там не нашёл, кроме «друга семьи» Фудзимори, который занимается разведением рыбы. Ютака долго не может решить, как ему жить дальше, чем заняться. Однажды он, катаясь верхом на лошади, принимает решение восстановить семейную конюшню и разводить пони.
Bayside Shakedown
Kunikazu Yokoyama
Aoshima, a police detective working in the Bayside Precinct, is continually frustrated by the hierarchy and red tape that plague the system. His friend Muroi is climbing the ladder of the police bureaucracy. Muroi has made a pact with Aoshima that while Aoshima looks after the streets, Muroi would make life easier for the cops on the beat. One day in Bayside, a series of events turns the small station upside down.
Я смогу!
Что может быть печальней, если тебе пятнадцать и до тебя никому нет дела? Если ты завалила школьные экзамены, а мальчишки не обращают на тебя внимания? Девочке по имени Эцуко тоскливо и одиноко… До поры до времени. Однажды, увидев лодку, грациозно скользящую по морю, она понимает, что должно ее спасти…
Dog Race
Hideyoshi (as Ren Ôsugi)
Ethnically Korean Japanese filmmaker Yoichi Sai directs this madcap crime comedy. Nakayama (Goro Kishitani) is a suave police detective who doesn't play by the rules. He busts a drug ring, but not before sampling a few of the wares, and he closes down an underaged prostitution ring after enjoying the company of a school girl hooker. One of duties is to shake down sniveling Korean gangster Hideyoshi (Ren Osugi) for information. In spite of their positions on opposite sides of the law, the two discover that they share a fair amount in common. A disregard for the law and the love of a comely prostitute from China named Momo-chan (Makoto Togashi). Though Hideyoshi is running an illegal alien smuggling ring with her and has lusted for her from a far for quite a while, Nakayama manages to bed her first. When she does finally appear in Hideyoshi's bed, she's unfortunately a corpse.
Глаза Токио
Bus driver
Все газеты пишут о загадочном убийце по прозвищу Четырехглазый — из-за его запоминающихся очков. Полиция сбилась с ног, а вот выследить убийцу посчастливилось Хинано, сестре одного из полицейских. Впрочем, что-то удерживает ее от того, чтобы пустить полицию по следу убийцы. Может быть, это любовь?
Unlucky Monkey
Tachibana
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 crook who ends up with 80 million yen after a string of improbable accidents. But having so much cash doesn't make his life is any easier. In fact, it gets much more complicated when Yamazaki stabs a hairdresser by mistake and instantly becomes a hunted fugitive. He's just one unlucky monkey but can he turn his luck around?
The Goofball
Hisashi gets fired from his temp job due to his impulsiveness. One day he meets Chikako, a housewife who constantly shoplifts at the supermarket he regularly goes. He somehow agrees to help her to look for her run-away son, Masaru. Unfortunate to Hisashi, Masaru starts following his around instead of returning home, after he was found by Hisashi. Then they end up stealing a gun from a police officer! In their course of running away, the similar two who cannot adapt to society very well start to develop a mutual friendship…
Черный ангел
Kusakabe
На глазах шестилетней Икко, дочери босса якудзы, были зверски убиты ее отец и мать. Она тоже должна была разделить судьбу родителей, но благодаря таинственной женщине-киллеру по прозвищу «Черный ангел» Икко удается ускользнуть от убийц. Девочку переправляют в США, где она воспитывается под надзором американской якудзы. А когда ей исполняется 20 лет, она возвращается в Японию, чтобы отомстить убийцам своих родителей. Теперь уже ее зовут «Черным ангелом»…
Глаза паука
Yoda
С того дня, как простой офисный служащий Нидзима нашёл труп своей 10-летней дочери, прошло долгих шесть лет... Вместе с женой они пробовали преодолеть боль утраты, сохраняя детскую комнату нетронутой и делая вид, что дочь жива... Жене казалось, что всё течёт складно, однако Нидзима в душе жаждал мести... После шести лет тайных поисков, ему наконец удаётся найти парня, который мог быть причастен к убийству его дочери. Сперва Нидзима надеется легко добиться от него раскаяния, но в конце концов пытками доводит парня до смерти...
Chimpira Life
The chimpira 'Katsuichi' got his hands on the only daughter of the largest daughter in the Kanto region.
Yakuza Ladies: Decision
Kasuga’s husband gets arrested for a murder of his beloved protégé. She and her family investigate and find out he was trapped by greedy Nagoshi, the boss of their rival yakuza family. She has to make a decision to revenge Nagoshi.
Fishes in August
A refined psychological portrait of youths on their way to maturity
Jingi 13: Hell's Tomb Mark
After the internal conflict in the Kanto Ichienkai that was once caused by the Takayama group, until the reconstruction of the Takayama group, the Shima of the Takayama group was kept by the sand group led by Hitoshi Yoshiro. There was a group that was aiming at the sima. The Wuryukai under the same Kanto Ichienkai. After the death of his predecessor, this group, who made a name for himself as a servant, began to repeat dirty business after the young head Tange took over his mark. The sand group and the Wuryukai are in conflict over the Shima of the Takayama group. At that time, Kihara, an old friend of the dragon society, comes from Jin.
Исцеление
Fujiwara
Детектив Такабэ и психиатр Сакума привлекаются к расследованию серии загадочных убийств. Общение с подозреваемыми не приносит никакого результата, пока в руки полиции не попадает странный молодой человек…
Full Metal Yakuza
Nakame
After being brutally murdered in a gangster-style execution, Kensuke Hagane (Tsuyoshi Ujiki) finds himself brought back to life by a mad scientist and rebuilt as a robot-human hybrid with a serious thirst for vengeance and the tools to carry it out. Takashi Miike directs this action-packed sci-fi thriller that takes its cues from the more mainstream Robocop but amps up the violence for maximum effect.
Фейерверк
Horibe
Это история бывшего полицейского детектива Ниши, который сам идет на преступление и вступает в кровавый конфликт с якудза — японской мафией, ради того, чтобы помочь самым важным людям в его жизни — вдове убитого коллеги, тяжело раненому и парализованному другу, и своей смертельно больной жене.Вместе с ней он отправляется в последнее идиллическое путешествие по Японии, безжалостно и хладнокровно расправляясь со всеми, кто пытается встать у него на пути.Японское слово hanabi означает «фейерверк», но написанное через дефис оно делится на составные части. Hana — «цветы», символ жизни и любви, и bi — «огонь», символ жестокости и насильственной смерти.
Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Blood
Vagrant
Ten years after his greatest triumph, Yabuki has lost the Mafia that was once his to rule. But when a young gangster comes to him for guidance, he discovers that the old rage still burns. It's time for Yabuki's final stand and one last blaze of glory!
Assault Rakugaki Fools
This exciting work is full of dangerous behind the scenes stories from the sex industry.
Postman Blues
Joe
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 schoolmate Noguchi, who's now a member of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia, and just finished cutting his little finger off.
Demon Fighter Kocho
First live action adaptation of Demon Fighter Kocho
The Revenge: A Visit from Fate
Police Chief
Sho Aikawa plays a police detective whose dark personal history makes it impossible for him to stay within the limits of the legal system. But he is not just a detective; he is also a husband who has to explain to his wife how he got blood on his sleeve. And the criminals he pursues turn out to be as imperfect and oddly human as he is-and just as determined to protect their own families. This is the first of Kurosawa's films to pay homage to 1970s American gunslingers like Dirty Harry and reinvent them for modern Tokyo.
Паразит Ева
Man burning
Открытие учёного Тосиаки Нагасима обещало служить на благо человечеству. Но вскоре выяснилось, что вековой паразит всего лишь ждал своего часа, чтобы восстать и зажить самостоятельной жизнью. Они живут в каждом из нас, но только та митохондрия, что родом из Африки, которую назвали Евой, может управлять всеми остальными, как армией, где бы они не находились.
Dangan Runner
An unemployed man trying to steal from a convenience store, and the store clerk catches him in the act. the thief runs away with the store-clerk right after him. All the while, the store clerk is in trouble with a low-rank yakuza. Along the chase for the thief, they catch the eye of the Yakuza who's been looking for the convenience store clerk.
チンピラ仁義 新・極楽とんぼ
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.
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Nouveau Riche
A duo get mixed up with a girl who finds a trunk load full of heroin.
Weather Woman
Yoichi Hamamoto
Keiko, a young, newly hired weather woman, is eager to give her channel's flagging ratings a boost. She decides a panty shot might do the trick, so during her forecast she lifts her skirt, thereby capturing the attention and the hearts of viewers. Keiko's stunt creates such a stir of excitement over the weather report that viewers begin religiously turning in to see what she'll do next. However, this showboating routine earns the ire of Kaori, the beautiful and ambitious daughter of JTV's chairman. Jealous of her success and aching to take over the weather report, Kaori is willing to do just about anything to get what she wants.
Ребята возвращаются
Taxi Passenger
Синдзи и Масару не принадлежали к числу самых прилежных учеников. Они были из тех ребят, которых даже спустя долгие годы после окончания школы многие из нас вспоминают со страхом. Любимым делом неразлучной парочки было издеваться над учителями, изводить одноклассников и отбирать у них деньги. Преподаватели махнули рукой на нелегкое дело перевоспитания юных оболтусов, но ни что не длится вечно. Теперь Синдзи стал боксером, а Масару — якудза.
Heisei Zankeiden : Battered Slash!
A man who was trapped by a gangster who was taken over by a sneaky means of life, such as a gangster and a gangster who disappeared from the screen with the era of his work. With the trampled step-in-law and streaks as shields, the last princes of Heisei who sought a place to die at the end show a fierce way of life!
Scan Doll
Katsumi, a man who lives a lazy and uninspired life, suddenly becomes addicted to "peeping" to uncover the true identity of his unknown neighbors in the same apartment building, i.e. their abnormal daily lives. In the midst of this, a mysterious high school girl named Mika suddenly jumps into Katsumi's eye. In order to find out what's going on with Mika, who regularly comes to the room of a middle-aged man with no luck, Katsumi uses his high-tech skills to peep into the girl's life, but he soon becomes obsessed with the girl's mysterious charms. What is Mika's true face that he finally sees?
Прекрасная жертва
Tagari
This Japanese thriller finds a beautiful policewoman becoming entangled in Japan's S&M underground while investigating a gruesome murder. Soon, her investigation has led her to a seductive sadist and his equally appealing masochist victim. Falling prey to her suspects' powerful allure, she struggles to extricate herself from an increasingly torrid affair to solve the mystery she set out to investigate.
Known As! Pissken
The thug is now back in Shaba as a legendary hitman!
Дверь 3
Мияко работает в страховом агентстве и бегает по городу в поисках клиентов, пока однажды на тёмных лестничных пролётах не сталкивается с Фудзиварой, до неприличия юным директором какой-то мутной конторы. После легкого флирта и совместного ужина в ресторанчике, Мияко начинает замечать странную инфернальность всего с ней происходящего - молчание в телефонной трубке, тяжелые взгляды соперниц, залитая какой-то дрянью входная дверь, то тут то там возникающий призрак жены Фудзивары, да и сам Фудзивара, манеры которого больше похожи на звериные повадки.
Tokyo Mafia 2: Wrath of the Yakuza
Iwagami
Yabuki's old friend returns as a deadly enemy. Blood brothers are driven to bitter hatred as betrayal rips mafia loyalties apart! Only the strong will survive the wrath of The Yakuza.
Don't Look Up
Ootani
On the set of a dark war time drama at an old movie studio, a young director, Toshio Murai, is trying to complete his debut film. The two starring actresses, Hitomi Kurokawa and Saori Murakami, play sisters in his film. Murai has a crush on Hitomi, the seasoned leading actress, and keeps a photo of her by his bed. The younger and less experienced actress, Saori, is annoying and likes to have recess on the set. The production of the movie is consistently interrupted by strange occurrences and the cast and crew begin to get spooked.
幻想・アンダルシア
Пацаны из Кисивады
Кисивада — пригород Осака, где живут главные герои фильма — два друга-старшеклассника Тюмба и Котэцу, а также их друзья и враги. Кисивадские пацаны дерутся… потому что дерутся. Потому, что не знают другого способа проявления гормонального всплеска. Потому что для их возраста это норма, одно из главных правил повседневной жизни.
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Gamble
Having lost everything to horse racing, Yûji accidentally gets 10 million yen. But this sum belongs to a Yakuza.
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Loot
Sakai Suzuki
Yûji and Kosaku are hired to track down an old man. But when he suddenly dies, his granddaughter surfaces with a map to his buried fortune, which the yakuza and a dirty cop are determined to find.
Давайте потанцуем?
Sugiura
42-летний господин Сугияма жил в благоустроенном пригороде с преданной женой и восхитительной дочерью. Всё в его жизни было хорошо, но он чувствовал, что чего-то ему всё-таки не хватает… Каждый вечер, возвращаясь с работы, он видел прекрасную женщину в окне одного из зданий. И однажды он вышел на этой станции…
Призрачный свет
Hiroshi
Трагическое происшествие нарушает спокойную жизнь молодой женщины.
Тайный мир Синдзюку
Yakuza boss
Одна семья японской якудза бьется с другой из-за бизнеса. Один полицейский решает остановить кровопролитие. При этом он действует нестандартными методами: насилует мужчин и женщин, от которых хочет добиться показаний.
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape
Suzuki
Hapless gangsters are hired by the yakuza to tail his daughter. Once the identity of the boy she's dating has been unveiled, the boss offers a reward for his capture.
Will You Die in the Chimpira Dream Chara!
Three mean and a woman connected by a strange encounter.
Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Wars
Iwagami
After being excommunicated from the yakuza, Ginya Yabuki returns from the shadows as leader of his own crime syndicate known as the Tokyo Mafia.
Голоса павших студентов: Последние друзья
Фильм начинается с современного игрока в рэгби, Цуруи, который получает сильный удар во время игры и просыпается в 1943 году, в униформе, готовым отправиться на фронт. Он теряет всякие воспоминания о комфортных 90-ых.
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist
Suzuki
Two petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members, fortunately they are rescued by a kindly Kindergarten teacher.
MARKS
Yoshikatsu Katagiri
Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later in a similar manner, he begins to suspect that something bigger is going on...
Снял кого-нибудь?
Head Yakuza 3
Герой фильма одержим сексом. Но, несмотря на одержимость и страстное желание, его успехи в этой щекотливой области — равны нулю. Следовательно, возникает самый главный вопрос: как «снять» девушку? Что для этого нужно? Супергерой комиксов Бэтмен полагал, что представительницы прекрасного пола, прежде всего, обращают внимание на автомобиль своего будущего потенциального партнёра. Но, чтобы купить приличное авто, нужны деньги! Где их раздобыть? Нужно ограбить банк! Но, чтобы ограбить, банк потребуется пистолет! Где, в таком случае, взять его? К сожалению, наш не очень сообразительный герой уже не может больше терпеть и решает покончить со всеми досадными проблемами сразу. На пути к воплощению заветной мечты сексуального неудачника ждут невероятные метаморфозы…
Men of Rage
The Nearest Place to the Sky
Can you collect it? Complete
Jiro becomes a happy instructor but a shocking suspicion was raised by Owada who took the place of his parents.
It's More Radical!
A yakuza's woman got in a car with Ida, a salesman who has no choice!
Wangan Midnight 4
Kyouju Luger P08
A man's life is altered when he comes into possession of a gun.
Yakuza Taxi
Manager
The Yakuza clan Inoshika decides to help a small family business, Taxi Tanaka, lured by the clan Jinryûkaï and deeply in debt.
Lady Poison: Beasts of the Underground
Sogabe
A female photographer seduces men to kill them for her pleasure.
XX: Beautiful Weapon
A blind female assassin lives alone in a remote house; her superiors occasionally send her "clients" / targets that she shoots right after having sex with them in her completely darkened bedroom.
High School Teacher
The Story of Untouchable Passion In a rugby match, disaster strikes as player kazuki causes serious injury to his friend Takeshi, and as a result he is left as a vegetable. Kazuki is so plugged with guilt that he quits the team and settles in a remote kamakura Girl's high School as a sport teacher. During a hot summer holiday, Kazuki has fallen into a love relationship, albeit unacceptable to the outsiders, with one of his student Moe. Later, he realizes that his attraction to her comes from nothing other than her loneliness and a crime labelled as grossly unforgivable.
We're No Angels
Rikiya Yasuoka, Ren Ōsugi and Junji Inagawa star in this early straight to video effort from Takashi Miike. Joe (Yasuoka), a lumbering tough guy with a heart of gold, is fresh out of prison, but it's not long before he lands himself in trouble again. The courier company he works for is attacked by a local yakuza gang. Joe takes matters into his own hands.
Can you collect it? 2
Jin, who has killed is worried about his younger brother Jiro and has returned to the world as a ghost!
The Wicked Reporter
More than his indie debut Skinless Night, this was the film that launched Mochizuki on his distinctive trajectory through the crime and yakuza genres. Matsuzaki (Eiji Okuda) is a racing tipster for a sports paper, a lowlife who spends half his time drunk, hangs out with yakuza and other riff-raff and complicates his sex life by succumbing to advances from his girlfriend's sister. As played by Okuda, he's also a figure of considerable hangdog charm. Less a plot-based movie than a guide to the several forms of high stakes gambling in Japan, this centres on his attempt to help a friend swindled in a bent mahjong game. Hakuryu appears (memorably) as an inscrutable yakuza in a black leather jacket. The film's success led to two sequels.
Bodyguard Kiba
Naoto Kiba takes on the task of protecting thug Junpei who embezzled 500 million yen from Okinawa's largest gangster gangs, Soryu-kai.
Сонатина
Katagiri
Герой фильма — гангстер Муракава, руководитель среднего звена Токийской якудзы. Когда на Окинаве начинается жестокая война между бандитскими кланами, большой босс принимает решение послать «бригаду» Муракавы для урегулирования конфликта. В последний раз, когда Муракава выполнял подобную работу, трое из его ребят погибли. Но делать нечего: приказы в якудзе не обсуждаются. Однако, интуиция опытного и бывалого гангстера подсказывает Муракаве, что на этот раз тремя мертвецами он не отделается…
The Hit-and-Run Family
Set in the 1990s, this film uses black humour to cast a sharp, satirical eye at the problems facing modern Japanese families. Hiroshi accidentally hits a young woman with his car and flees in panic. He confesses to his wife, Yoko, who persuades him to keep quiet as his arrest would mean the end for their already troubled family. Their daughter is having an affair with a married man, their son is being bullied and refusing to go to school and their grandfather is becoming more difficult. Yoko urges the family to move the car into the living room in order to destroy the evidence by taking it apart. Hiroshi finally decides to do the honest thing but a series of bizarre incidents then ensues...
続・こちら凡人組
Violent Islands Dirty Manager
A former lover who reunited in Arashi's Okinava The woman was a widow , and the man was a yakuza Tatsuo Nadaka and Seiji Matano have teamed up to develop a hard action set in the scorching Okinawa !
Violent Island: Dirty Money Hijack
In the scorching heat of Okinawa, former lovers meet. Now, he is a gangster on a mission, she is a window trying to protect what is hers. Together, they get caught in the crossfire.
Адская стража
Kurume
Юную Акико берут на должность арт-менеджера в новый 12-й отдел корпорации Акэбоно, занимающей огромное здание где-то на окраине. В тот же день на вахте появляется новый охранник, угрюмый бугай под 2 метра ростом, по слухам, когда-то бросивший сумо. А по радио то и дело пугают страшилками про убийцу-психопата в бегах и, как на грех, тоже бывшего сумоиста. Нечеловеческие страсти тихо тлеют в мрачных коридорах компании Акэбоно, как в кривом зеркале отражая закоулки психики инфернального мессии-дегенерата.
Great Prophecy: The Revival of the Giant
Shunsuke Kurokawa
A V-Cinema tokusatsu movie released by TOEI and Bandai Visual. Creature design by Keita Amemiya. It was originally planned to include Space Sheriff Gavan, but those plans fell through.
Passion
A man tries to mend his past by helping his best friend’s sister.
Akio Jissoji's Wonder Museum 1
Wangan Midnight
Direct to video adaptation of the comic by Michiharu Kusunoki.
こちら凡人組
Goddamn!!
When yakuza member Okamoto (Hitoshi Ozawa) begins to search for Nami (Reiko Yasuhara), a woman he saw in an underground porn video, he finds himself on a path to his own destruction. Action film based on a manga by Takashi Ishii.
Никчемный человек
Kurahara
Сукэдзо Сукэгава довольно успешно рисовал комиксы, но его работы отстали от моды. Он пытался заняться бизнесом, но всегда терпел неудачи, после чего и решил торговать камнями, найденными им в реке Тамагава, делом, не требующим вложения капитала. Он загорается идеей участвовать в аукционе камней, но его ждёт полный провал. Единственный источник дохода его семьи — деньги, которые зарабатывает жена Момоко, разнося вместе с сыном Сансукэ по домам рекламные листовки. В конце концов, чтобы заработать хоть какие-нибудь деньги, он начинает переносить людей на спине через реку. Человек-неудачник не может приспособиться к современному обществу и полностью падает в глазах жены и сына. Отношения в семье разладились.
Dance till Tomorrow
Live action adaption of Naoki Yamamoto's romantic comedy manga series.
Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet
Kozo Yamamoto
In the sequel to 1990's classic Neo Chinpira, Junko (Sho Aikawa) attempts to take out Kazama and then goes on the run. However, he quickly begins to feel homesick, and returns home to find that almost everything has changed. Noriko is now a bar mama with a lavish lifestyle, Yumeko is nowhere to be found, and his boss (Toru Minegishi) seems to have sinister plans involving Junko and his uncle (Jo Shishido).
Door II: Tokyo Diary
Ai is a call girl. If her work involves a great deal of risk, she feels free and like fun situations that may seem dangerous ... Ai likes to play. she met many customers, sometimes violent, sometimes very sweet , but often crazy... Among these clients, Mr.Mamiya, a strange and captivating artist who gradually will initiate her into SM pleasures. Despite everything, her attraction to him is growing and one day she told him " I love you ", Next day Ai receives a letter of invitation sent by Mamiya.
Love of Sawako
Magazine editor
Sawako, working in a bank, tired of the usual everyday life, once she met the chef of French cuisine Yukio Goto and spent the night with him. Sawako pretends to be the daughter of an upscale hotel owner and has an affair with Yukio.
1990 botan-dôrô
Adaptation of the traditional Japanese ghost story The Peony Lantern.
Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
Kozo Yamamoto
Junko (Sho Aikawa) is a low-level yakuza in the service of Yoshikawa (Toru Minegishi), despite the misgivings of his uncle (Jo Shishido). He lives off of the money earned by his girlfriend and is more interested in trying to look cool than anything else. He meets Yumeko (Chikako Aoyama), an innocent but dangerous narcoleptic runaway, after she steals his car, and she soon moves in with him. Following the assassination of a high-ranking member by the Kazama Family, Junko is called on to be the lookout while the family gets revenge. However, the other men quickly "zoom", or escape from their duty, leaving the task to Junko. Will he take out Kazama, or will he zoom?
Gappie, Wear a Tie this Summer
It is a youth group of third-class university students struggling to get a job at a first-class company.
Wordholic Prisoner
A wordholic man, acting as the chief editor by a certain publishing company, is confined by the writer who wishes to publish.
Fancy Dance
Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline, he learns to adjust. Then his girlfriend shows up, enticing him to return to his rock 'n' roll roots.
Subway Serial Rape: Lover Hunting
A woman is raped on a crowded subway. No one reports it to the police. A TV studio exploits the incident to boost ratings, with tragic results, including the victimization of the reporter sent to harass the gang members who committed the crime.
Subway Serial Rape: Uniform Hunting
Shunsuke Nozawa
Two sisters are raped on the morning commute on their way to school on the subway, in full view of the passengers, by a bunch of chinpira. One sister commits suicide, so the other quits school and picks up a yakuza boy friend who teaches her how to shoot. The boyfriend is killed by his old gang and the girl becomes a cab driver hunting the chinpira who raped her and her sister. Along the way, she dispatches various yakuzas and rapists with her 45.
Farewell, Friend
Wataru and Makoto are two singers and on their way from a performance to an interview when they are ambushed. Their attackers, who identify themselves as the "Noblemen Squad" take Makoto hostage and leave Wataru and their female manager behind. Luckily, the manager's brother (Ren Osugi, here working under the pseudonym Kyoji Saeki) drops by and starts training Wataru so he can rescue his partner.
Subway Serial Rape
Nozawa Shunsuke
A man with a briefcase is being pursued by a small yakuza gang. The man resembles one of the gang's leaders. After abandoning his vehicle, the man boards a train where a woman is being raped by three thugs. Intimidated by the rapists, the other commuters do nothing to help the woman. Neither does the man. Later, however, the raped woman, a hot lesbian, reports the rape to the police and a witness comes forward. This complicates things for the man on the run and he is forced to take steps to protect his own identity.
Pink Physical Examination
It is a sexy hospital. After all, how many hospitals do you know where the nurses prostitute themselves to their patients? A cute nurse is asked to offer sexual services to her patients and resists at first. After all, she has a husband back at home. The hospital offers its patients additional amenities and services like you would never believe.
Kuroi Shitagi no Onna
Munehisa Ito
Bijo SM Technique
Gekisatsu Game! Bôjoku
Teacher, Don't Turn Me On!
A film debut work by Mr. Sokkuri, Toe Chie, who was talked about as a parody version adult video "Stewardess story" etc. Other performances include Akira Mano , Takeshita Yukari etc., the director is Ryuichi Hiroki , the steel is Kinichi Tanaka .
Hitozuma ryôjoku
Pink film by Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu.
Sexual Beast Sacrifice
Tomio, a college student, lives in a Western-style house where strange people live, such as his landlady Yukiko and her older brother Kishi, the crook Hosoda, and his idiot wife Tamae, Miyamoto, who lost both legs in the war, his mistress with tattoos, Nozawa, who has no energy, and Shizue, a lover with heart disease. Detective Harada recently discovered the strangled corpses of four women, and while the local residents are suspicious and conducting a secret investigation, a strange incident has occurred, and suspicion falls on Tomio...
Abnormal Family
Shukichi / Father
The film tells a story about a woman and her relationship with the family of her husband's, in particular her husband's younger brother and father-in-law. Her husband, on the other hand, has an affair with a dominatrix and is obsessed in S&M games.
Aiyoku no hibi: Ecstasy
General manager of a hotel
A man and a woman in mourning clothes meet on a train platform by chance...
Chikan to skirt
1984 film.
Kahanshin Shôkôgun
Shigeru Mimura
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Sukyanti dōru: nugitate no kaori
Shûkichi Yajima
Beauty Rope Cosmetology
Miki is the daughter of an affluent family. She's an elegant and sophisticated girl who gets captured by a secret admirer.
Our Season
Joji Goda
A gay couple is on good terms with each other. They run a shot bar together and are enjoying their love. Their father was also once a lover, and they vowed to be together in the future, but they split up due to the barriers of the world. They are determined not to follow in the footsteps of their father. One day, at their restaurant, the two fathers meet again for the first time in decades. At first they are at odds with each other, but then the love they once had for each other comes back to life...
The Serial Rape Murderer
Katsuzô
12 Years ago, Fuyuko, was 7 years old, watched her sister, a high school student, raped and choked to die. Fuyuko never forgets that the man who killed her sister has a red snake tattoo on his thigh. Suffering from the memory and deeply being traumatized, Fuyuko meets the tattooed man by accident and tries to hunt down...
Beautiful Mystery
Shinohara, a young bodybuilder, joins a para-military sect in northern Japan. His instructor, Takizawa, takes a liking to the new recruit. After an early “special” training session the two develop a lasting and loving relationship. “Beautiful Mystery” was the first gay “adult” film to come out of Japan. Although tame by U.S. standards, it is ground–breaking nonetheless.
Snake Hole
An abusive husband subjects his wife to different forms of sexual abuse and torture, including upside down rope bondage, hot candle wax and walking her around with a collar in public.
Toruko Document: ogon no kuchibiru
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Wolf: Running Is Sex
First production by Directors' Company. A man stripped bare of all modern values lives in a pure form, like a beast, feeding and satiating his every primal desire whenever they may arise. He takes on a mate, a woman intrigued by his personage or lack thereof, and they live in his den in central Tokyo. As time goes on, we see how this animal clashes with modern man, and the consequences of their coexistance.
Tattoo
Drunk at the ferry terminal
An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.
Porno document: Toruko tokkyû bin
Pinku from 1982.
Document porno: Shufu baishun o oe!
Pinku from 1982, distributed by Nikkatsu.
The Rape
Saeko works at a bar, and she is waitng for her lover Huyuhiko who was jailed. One day, Huyuhiko comes back. He starts working, but soon he quit the job and grow desperate. Saeko supports Huyuhiko, but because of the debt, she was raped...
Document porno: Chikan jôshûsha
Pinku from 1981, distributed by Nikkatsu.
Empire of Kids
Following a stint in reform school, Ryu (Shinsuke Shimada) returns to his home, the Minami area of Osaka, accompanied by his new friend Ko (Takeshi Masu). He's greeted by his friends, Chabo (Ryusuke Matsumoto) and Ken (Bang-ho Cho). They seek to forge their own path through a multitude of rival gangs in Kita and Minami, including the Hokushin Alliance, backed by the yakuza, the Hope Association, and various other minor factions, including Zainichi Korean groups. What follows is a wild, fast-paced story of violence, revenge, betrayal, and discrimination, that never loses its sense of humor.
Document porn: Zetsugi ni naku
Pinku from 1981, distributed from the Nikkatsu.
Kahanshin report: Atsuku kanjiru
Pinku from 1981, distributed by Nikkatsu
Scarlet Prostitute: Stabbing
A gang boss orders the execution of a prostitute who witnessed a murder. When the boss' henchman discovers the prostitute is actually blind, he falls in love with her and protects her. The prostitute regains her sight just in time to see the death of her boyfriend. At his funeral, overcome with feelings of mixed joy and grief, she secretly masturbates.
Semi-dokyumento: Tokkun Meiki Dukuri
Seifuku baishun: Shôgeki no technique
Pinku from 1981, distributed by Nikkatsu
Married Woman, Office Lady, School Girl - Take Aim and Attack
Japanese pink film
Girl Mistress
An older yakuza man falls in love with Seru, a high school girl. When he is put in prison, Seru begins working as a prostitute to earn money for the gangster's parole. During her yakuza lover's incarceration, Seru gains a new, young boyfriend. The yakuza discovers the new boyfriend after he is released from prison. Realizing that she will have a better life with her new boyfriend who is not associated with the yakuza, he sacrifices his love for Seru and gives her up.
Apartment wife tied up
An erotic drama reflecting the painful lust of two couples living in a residential complex. When a man got drunk, he undressed his wife and tied her up, and was a pervert who enjoyed insidious pleasures. The wife also experienced the joy of abnormal guilt, but was not satisfied with this one and started an affair with a man from the next room.
Hitozuma gōmon
Pinku from 1980. A young man seeks to exact revenge against a group of men that violated his sister.
Woman in the Rumor: Sleep with Me Until Morning
Yumi, the wife of elite employee Keiji Suzuki, lives in a nice house and enjoys an affluent life. Yumi's peaceful life is suddenly interrupted by an intruder.
Bondage Sacrifice