Akira Emoto
Old good "Emo-chan" of modern Japanese cinema. Emo's father was a close friend of legendary episode player Taji Tonoyama in elementary school days. His mother's grandfather ran a shamisen store in Ginza, Tokyo. Both parents like movies and theaters. After graduating from Machinery Department of Tokyo Industrial High School, Emoto got a job at a trading company. However, he became an actor and became a student of the acting classes of the theater company "Marui", which is headed by Nobuo Kaneko, and met Yusaku Matsuda who was in the same class. In 1999, he won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Dr. Akagi. He also won the award for best supporting actor at the 7th Hochi Film Award for Dotonbori River and Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san.
Shin Godzilla
as Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet SecretaryWhen a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government...
Movie pageShoplifters
as Yoritsugu KawadoAfter one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the...
Movie pageHard Days
as Yutaka SenbaAfter going to extremes to cover up an accident, a corrupt cop's life spirals out of control...
Movie pageLu Over the Wall
as Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice)In a small fishing village, a gloomy middle school student named Kai meets a mermaid named Lu.
Movie pageZatoichi
as Pub OwnerBlind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice...
Movie pageIt Feels So Good
as Kenji's father (voice)When it rains it pours. Kenji divorced his wife, lost his job and his old squeeze Naoko is...
Movie pageMaborosi
as YoshihiroA tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while...
Movie pageBedtime Eyes
as uncreditedBased on a polemic novel by Amy Yamada, Bedtime Eyes is about the intense love relationship...
Movie pageGodzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
as Major Akira YukiA mysterious extraterrestrial being resembling Godzilla rapidly approaches Earth. The monster,...
Movie pageJohn Rabe
as Matsui IwaneA true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the...
Movie pageSurvival Family
as Sasaki ShigeomiA world wide electrical outage occurs. Everything that requires electricity comes to a stop....
Movie pageThe Key
as Soichiro AnzaiIkuko is a mature, reserved Kyoto woman married for many years to a respectable, now-middle-aged...
Movie pageThe Eel
as Tamotsu TakasakiA businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a...
Movie pageMemories of Matsuko
as Tsunehiro KawajiriWhile combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces...
Movie pageThe Great Yokai War
as uncreditedA young boy with a troubled home life becomes "chosen," and he stumbles into the middle of a...
Movie pageUnforgiven
as Kingo BabaAn old swordsman, his former comrade and a young braggart are hired by prostitutes to track down...
Movie pageColor Me True
as Tadashi HondaKenji is a young aspiring movie director. He falls in love with Princess Miyuki, who came from a...
Movie pageICHI
as uncreditedIchi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar...
Movie pageIsoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
as YoneuchiAdmiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to...
Movie pageRecall
as Seiji NomuraA woman was killed by a truck wheel, which flew off while the vehicle was in motion. As the...
Movie pageWood Job!
as Toshiro YamaneAfter failing his university entrance exam, Yuki Hirano sets his eyes on the role of a forestry...
Movie pageJourney to the Shore
as Mr. HoshitaniMizuki’s husband Yusuke went missing for 3 years. He suddenly comes back home one day and asks...
Movie pageThe City of Lost Souls
as KuwataBrazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be...
Movie pageThe Great Yokai War: Guardians
as old manKei Watanabe is a fifth grade elementary school student. He has inherited the hunter's blood to...
Movie pageAce Attorney
as Saibancho (Judge)Based primarily on the first game in the series, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the film focuses...
Movie pageLovers Lost
as IshizukaA poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the...
Movie page11'09''01 September 11
as Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine...
Movie pageSailor Suit and Machine Gun
as Detective KurokiA high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes...
Movie pageAll Around Us
as kunimasa YasudaKanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values...
Movie pageShall We Dance?
as Detective MiwaA bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He...
Movie pageZebraman
as uncreditedA failure as a teacher and a familyman, Shinichi tries to escape everyday live by dressing up as...
Movie pageDr. Akagi
as Dr. Fuu AkagiAt the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the...
Movie pageGolden Slumber
as Hodogaya YasushiWhen easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for...
Movie page0.5 mm
as Takeshi SasakiSawa, a home helper for a middle class family with an elderly infirm grandfather, is forced to...
Movie pageBaragaki: Unbroken Samurai
as Shop OwnerSet in the 19th century, "Moeyo Ken" follows the life of Toshizo Hijikata. He was the...
Movie pageYona Yona Penguin
as Jii (voice)Rintaro directs a tale of three children who visit a land of wonder. This is the first "3D...
Movie pageSeptember 1923
as Teiji IgusaBased on the murder of nine street peddlers in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake.
Movie pageThe Whispered City
as ArtistDirector Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa,...
Movie pageHappy Flight
as SaitoA variety of aviation professionals such as pilots, flight attendants, the ground crew,...
Movie pageHutch the Honeybee
as uncreditedHutch the Honey Bee and friends set on an adventure to find Hutch's missing Queen Bee Mother,...
Movie pageIkigami: The Ultimate Limit
as CounselorIn an attempt to spur citizens into taking more productive roles in society, the Japanese...
Movie pageBeijing Watermelon
as Mr. TeramotoShunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi,...
Movie pageLife Back Then
as Masashi InoueKyohei Nagashima (Masaki Okada) has shut away the world. During his high school days he was the...
Movie pageThe Life of Budori Gusuko
as Narrator / Dr. Kūbō (voice)The fairy tale follows a young man named Gusukō in the Tōhoku forests of northeastern Japan in...
Movie pageThe Lakeside Murder Case
as Tomoharu FujimaThree couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare...
Movie pageOz Land
as BossKurumi is hired at a high-end hotel, but is instead dispatched to work at fun fair that is...
Movie pageCastle of Sand
as ChiyokichiA bruised and battered corpse in Shibuya, Tokyo has the attention of the local cops. A veteran...
Movie pageUmami
as SalarymanFollowing a near-death experience France's leading chef throws himself into a quest seeking the...
Movie pageProdigy
as Hisashi KikunaNaruse Uta is a "unique" 13 year old child. She possessed the talent to read sheet music even...
Movie pageIwane: Sword of Serenity
as UrakusaiIwane Sakazaki returns to his homeland and gets caught in the middle of an incident that results...
Movie pageSumo Do, Sumo Don't
as Professor Tokichi AnayamaA college senior, Shuhei, is blackmailed by a professor into joining the school's sumo team. He...
Movie pageAnother Heaven
as Doctor AkagiA pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim,...
Movie pageYellow Elephant
as ArechiMarried couple Aiko Tsumari and Ayumu Muko live a happy and peaceful life. Aiko is bit naive,...
Movie pageKarate-Robo Zaborgar
as Dr. AkunomiyaAn evil criminal organisation called Sigma kidnap prominment business leaders to harvest their...
Movie pageRipples
as Taro KadokuraYoriko Sudo believes in new religious group Midoriinochikai, that worships water. She lives...
Movie pageSuspicion
as Shigekazu AkitaniA car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the...
Movie pageDouble Bed
as Tôru YamazakiKato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a...
Movie pageDo Unto Others
as Shosaku ShibaA community is shocked when the bodies of an elderly man and the manager of a home-visit nursing...
Movie pageGARO -Gold Storm- Sho
as Priest SoutatsuRyuga and Makai Priest Rian attempt to cleanse the Golden Armor when they are confronted by...
Movie pageTokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
as Doctor from Sasazuka ClinicAdapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age...
Movie pageThe Silk Road
as uncreditedIn 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of...
Movie pageDoppelganger
as MurakamiHayasaki is an inventor working on an Artificial Body. It is not going well and he is stressed...
Movie pageTetsujin 28: The Movie
as Yunosuke OtsukaOne of the true classic's of anime's much-loved robot genre.
Movie pageYudo: The Way of the Bath
as regular customerTwo estranged brothers inherit Marukin Hot Springs, a small-town bathhouse. One sees it as an...
Movie pageWandering
as AgataIn a park on a rainy evening, a 19-year-old university student, Fumi, offers an umbrella to a...
Movie pageMuromachi Burai
as uncreditedSet in war-torn 15th century Kyoto, on the eve of the Onin War, the movie centers on a band of...
Movie pageCapone Cries a Lot
as UshiemonUmiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of...
Movie pageRain Fall
as Tatsu IshikuraA hit man looks to protect the daughter of one of his victims against CIA assassins.
Movie pageThe Mohican Comes Home
as Osamu TamuraEikichi left his hometown in Hiroshima for Tokyo. He tried to find success with his music band,...
Movie pageVillain
as Yoshio IshibashiShimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time...
Movie pageEgoist
as Yoshio SaitoAfter losing his mother at the age of 14, Kōsuke spent his depressed adolescence hiding his gay...
Movie pageThe Second Is a Christian
as KumashiroThe story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very...
Movie pageWaterboys
as MamaIn a Japanese school, 5 adolescent geeks join the new sport teacher and take up the challenge to...
Movie pageAngel Guts: Red Vertigo
as YakuzaNami is a nurse and the unwilling object of her patients' lust. When she is hit by a car whilst...
Movie pageMoon and Cherry
as SakamotoWhen an alluring young woman joins an erotic writing class, she begins a game of sexual cat and...
Movie pageHumanoid Monster, Bem
as Kao no nai otokoBem, Bela and Belo arrive at a new town plagued by a series of mysterious, unsolved cases which,...
Movie pageSleeping Forest
as Daisuke OtaA man is found dead in a office of Takayanagi Ballet Company. The suspect is a female dancer at...
Movie pageMukoku
as Seppo MitsumuraKengo was gifted in Kendo (Japanese martial art) but he quits after a tragic incident. He works...
Movie pageCasting Blossoms to the Sky
as Seijiro NoseIn the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a...
Movie pageJapan Sinks
as uncreditedIn the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As...
Movie pageRound About Midnight
as TotsukaKoji, a jazz musician, takes a cigarette break in between sets at a Tokyo nightclub. He...
Movie pageThe Go Master
as Kensaku SegoeThe life of Go master Wu Qingyuan from his meteoric rise as a child prodigy to fame and fortune...
Movie pageThe End of the Tiny World
as KawabataKida and Makoto grew up together because they have it in common that they don't have parents....
Movie pageA Man
as Norio KomiuraAkira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform...
Movie pageHaru's Journey
as Michio NakaiStuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao's grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo,...
Movie pageSakurada Gate Incident
as Magojiro KanekoMito Domain Samurai Seki Tetsunosuke must pay the consequences for his role in the assassination...
Movie pageNinja Kids!!!
as uncreditedThe film stars Seishiro Kato as Rantaro who is sent to a ninja training school by his parents....
Movie pageThe Pearls of the Stone Man
as Kumaji UedaAtsushi and Ryoko are a married coupled. They decide they want to live around nature and move...
Movie pageHeaven's Story
as SouichiA young girl named Sato watches on television as a man named Tomoki states brazenly at a press...
Movie pageI Never Shot Anyone
as Takashi RenjoRenji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two...
Movie pageShippu Rondo
as Masaomi TogoAn illegal biological weapon K-55 is stolen from a university lab. The university lab can't even...
Movie pageWorst by Chance
as Shigeharu KaneshiroHidenori is a Japanese-Korean man with no sense of belonging, destination or education. He...
Movie pageIt's Only Talk
as uncreditedBased on an award winning novel, It's Only Talk is about the life of Yuko, a 35-year old woman....
Movie pageLove Letter
as uncreditedA romantic film about the spiritual exchange between a gangster and a Chinese woman who got...
Movie pageAsahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
as Itsuro UsuiAsahiyama Zoo in Hokkaido, is the northernmost zoo in Japan. The unpopular zoo welcomes a new...
Movie pageLove Is Five Seven Five
as GrandfatherA haiku club comprised of five unlikely students aim to win the national high school haiku...
Movie pagePrivate Lessons II
as ObaAn insecure young Asian man meets an interesting sensual European woman who teaches him the...
Movie pageTime Trip App
as Ryuzo YanagitaIn 1868, a battle between new government forces and shogunate forces are about to take place in...
Movie pageThe War and a Woman
as client of womanSet towards the end of World War II, Nomura (Masatoshi Nagase) is a writer who is in despair. A...
Movie pageThe Chasing World
as DoctorA teenager is transported to a parallel world where everyone who shares his family name is being...
Movie pageFree and Easy 8
as YukawaWhen Su-san invites his late friend's daughter to come along on a fishing trip, she falls in...
Movie pageVampire in Love
as SojiroKiira seems like an ordinary young girl, who likes to talk with her friends and to dress up. Her...
Movie pageThe Shadow Spirit
as mimasaka koushirouA series of murders of beautiful girls occur in Tokyo not long after the end of the war. Also...
Movie pageFancy Dance
as Masoho's bossYohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though...
Movie pageThey Say Nothing Stays the Same
as ToichiToichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides...
Movie pageShow Me the Way to the Station
as uncreditedA young girl, Sayaka, develops a heartwarming friendship with an old man named Hasu. Based on an...
Movie pageA House on a Hill
as Yoshitarō TerashimaRieko Sugita, a young and beautiful hairdresser who happens to visit a bedding shop owned by...
Movie pageHearts and Flowers for Tora-san
as KondoDuring his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully...
Movie pageHoutei Yugi
as uncreditedKiyoyoshi Kuga attends law school, aiming to work in the legal field as a lawyer. His childhood...
Movie pageLiving in the Sky
as Concierge KondoIn the time after Naomi’s parents suddenly die, she happens to meet and bond with the popular...
Movie pageTouken Ranbu 2
as uncreditedIn the year 995, due to a secret talk between Michinaga Fujiwara (Akira Emoto) and Seimei Abe...
Movie pageAfter the Flowers
as Soan NagaiIto, daughter of a clan official, encounters Magoshiro Eguchi. Magoshiro is a low ranking...
Movie pageWonderful Paradise
as HomelessIn consequence of his professional mistakes and declining career, Shuji and his family, the...
Movie pageFarewell, Kuro
as Shuzo HanazonoBased on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a...
Movie pageTurn
as MatsubaraMaki is a talented copper plate artist, however, just before her first gallery show, she gets...
Movie pageKT
as Hiroshi UchiyamaThis movie is a political/espionage thriller, based on a real kidnapping incident of Korean...
Movie pageThe Motive
as Yoshifumi KatakuraFour people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims...
Movie pageThe Lightning Tree
as Kakunoshi EnokidoSet during the Edo Period, a young man from a noble family meets a young woman under a special...
Movie pageThe Heartbreak Yakuza
as uncreditedA hardened gangster encounters by chance a woman he hasn't seen since childhood. They are both...
Movie pageNoise
as ShojiShishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing...
Movie pageBlack Widow Business
as Jun SakuradaKozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi...
Movie pageThe Friends
as NagatomoA delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing...
Movie pageStardust Over The Town
as Kumabe RokuzoStory of the struggling chorus group "Yamada Osamu and the Hello Nights", who gain an unexpected...
Movie pageSniper
as Tatsuyuki MiyataDetective Ryoko Kozuki receives a demotion after having an affair with a superior. She succeeds...
Movie pageScrap Heaven
as Detective YabutaThe lives of a young cop, a sanitation worker and a brooding pharmacist violently intersect on a...
Movie pageA Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
as Kogoro KatsuraIn the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, there was a cute warrior, Souji Okita, who belonged...
Movie pageThe Dog Bridegroom
as Kenkichi OkumuraNinomiya Azusa is a depressed elementary school teacher in Tokyo, who has problems both at work...
Movie pageYamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
as uncreditedA comedy about a young woman who has terminal cancer.
Movie pageThe Yen Family
as Shinichi AmemiyaSet in Japan during the bubble era, this unique home comedy cheerfully and humorously depicts...
Movie pageEvil and The Mask
as Detective AidaKuki Fumihiro is a son from a wealthy zaibatsu (conglomerate) family. His father raises him to...
Movie pageDisciples of Hippocrates
as uncreditedThe story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between...
Movie pageApril Bride
as Teishi NagashimaOn April 5, 2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The...
Movie pageDance till Tomorrow
as uncreditedLive action adaption of Naoki Yamamoto's romantic comedy manga series.
Movie pageBarber's Sorrow
as uncreditedA S&M comedy about a masochist barber.
Movie pageRiver of First Love
as Hidejiro Tasaki8-year old boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother,...
Movie pageThe Taste of Fish
as Shojiro SanadaIt may sound cliché, but Japanese people really do love their fish. If Japan has the best and...
Movie pageThe Rainbow Seeker
as uncreditedA young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in...
Movie pageThe Promised Land
as Goro FujikiA girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same...
Movie pageA Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip
as wet guyAlthough Nobuyoshi and Saki just got married and moved into a new apartment, their relationship...
Movie pageMasked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
as Kantarô IwataA meek salaryman who gets no respect at home and is belittled at work gets inspiration from...
Movie pageA Living Promise
as Zenzo TakedaYuma Nakahara is the CEO of an IT company and he is a workaholic. He is focused only on...
Movie pageA Crowd of Three
as uncreditedA Crowd of Three tells the story of two men, Kenta & Jun, who grew up as almost brothers at...
Movie pageA Lone Scalpel
as Matsuo OkawaDr Toma, a skilled surgeon, starts work at a regional hospital in Japan. After performing an...
Movie pageThe Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
as MatashichiDepicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.
Movie pageRevolver
as Keisuke MineyaWhen a gun belonging to a police officer is stolen, it ends up in the hands of a student, who...
Movie pageThe Suspect: Muroi Shinji
as Seigo TsudaOne day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro...
Movie pageWill to Live
as DoctorIt is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the...
Movie pageKaza-hana
as Hot Spring Inn OwnerAn alcoholic civil servant wakes up under a cherry tree in Tokyo next to a bar hostess with whom...
Movie pageA Sower of Seeds
as Shuzo MorikawaKinjiro, an official with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, is a good-natured...
Movie pageUnderdog: Part One
as SakuroTells the story of three bottom-dog boxers who gets used as punching bags. Pro boxer Suenaga...
Movie pageThe Most Beautiful Night In The World
as JournalistBetrayed and disgraced, big-city reporter Kazuya Mizuno is banished to a desk at Kaname's boring...
Movie pageOwl
as uncreditedA mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order...
Movie pageI Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
as Hirofumi MaruyamaOn the night of August 19, 1980, a bus was set on fire by the vagrant Hirofumi Maruyama at the...
Movie pageI Can Hear the Duck Singing
as uncreditedA man fed up with city life moves to a village in the mountains
Movie pageNeko Ninja
as KariyazakiKagerota is a young ninja who embarks on his first mission: stealing the goldfish from a wealthy...
Movie pageLife Can Be So Wonderful
as HaeoFive short stories of life's joys and sorrows are brought together in this omnibus drama from Japan.
Movie pageFly, Dakota, Fly!
as uncreditedIn January 1946 a British military transport plane departs from Shanghai on its to Tokyo, Japan....
Movie pageNosari: Impermanent Eternity
as uncreditedA young man wanders and makes calls to elders who live alone. Saying “Granny, it’s me,” he lies...
Movie pageBanana, Gloves and Whale Shark
as uncreditedBanana, Gloves and Whale Shark
Movie pageLocation
as KonnoThe melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized...
Movie pageThe Great Department Store Robbery
as uncreditedKatsuyo plans her last gang robbery.
Movie pageBoku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha
as ShotaroTaishi lives with his father Kazushi. His mother left home when Taishi was very young and he...
Movie pageThe Man from Shimizu
as uncreditedOn the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never...
Movie pageIn His Chart
as DoctorThere is a degree of realism when a professional in the field writes about his vocation and such...
Movie pagePresent for You
as uncreditedShigeru Kajiwara (Joe Odagiri) works part-time at a company that sells mysterious health food....
Movie pageTora-san Goes to Vienna
as Hyoma SakaguchiDuring his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to...
Movie pageOh! Father
as Hayashi TomitaYukio is a typical high school student in every way except that he's an only child in a family...
Movie pageA Tale of Young Elopement
as MatsudaA 30-year-old man's life gets up-ended when his girlfriend accepts an arranged marriage meeting...
Movie pageFujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: Once More With Feeling
as Daigorô HatayamaThe Cycling Genius Is Coming!
as uncreditedTeru (Yuya Endo) has been brought up in a hill town and spent his childhood conquering the...
Movie pageTeacher and Three Children
as Yoshio IchikawaThe 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is...
Movie pageShikei Kijun
as Kyusaku TsushimaDo criteria exist for the death penalty? Yusuke Mito, a law faculty lecturer who did not become...
Movie pageNo Place to Go
as uncreditedMichiko used to work as a live-in part-timer at an izakaya, but suddenly lost her job and her...
Movie pageMaria's Stomach
as uncreditedA carnivorous monster lives on the island of Sipang. A group of office ladies band together to...
Movie pageWinning Pass
as uncreditedThis is a story about a high school student who had it all going for him. He was great at...
Movie pageNagisa
as uncreditedA coming of age story about a 13-year-old girl named Nagisa (Seashore) and the summer when she...
Movie pageKaizokuban Bootleg Film
as TatsuoTwo best friends—Tatsuo, a retiring Yakuza member, and Kiyoshi, a cop—travel to the funeral of a...
Movie pageKodokunogurume ōmisoka supesharu ~ tabe-osame! Setouchi shutchō-hen ~
as uncreditedMottomo Abunai Deka
as MaeoTaka and Yuji find evidence in a 15-year-old case, but the statute of limitations expires in...
Movie pageLegend of the Cat Monster
as Ryohei Shimura / Joji TamuraA legendary actress thought to be dead is discovered living in an isolated mansion. A...
Movie pageBON-UTA, A Song from Home
as (voice)Taiko drummer, Hisakatsu Yokoyama, and fellow evacuees of Futaba, Fukushima fight to keep their...
Movie pageTeacher's suitcase
as Sensei/Matsumoto HarutsunaTsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former...
Movie pageBattle Heater
as Riichi HamaFuruchi and Hama are two unsuccessful repair agents and electronic engineers. One day Furichi...
Movie pageStarfish Hotel
as Mr. TricksterOffice drone Arisu finds his own life imitating the mystery novels of his favourite writer when...
Movie pageThe Big Bee
as MurofushiSet in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant....
Movie pageThe Happiness
as uncreditedthe story of a vagrant (Ishibashi) who arrives in a town in Hokkaido. With only a threadbare...
Movie pageCast Me If You Can
as Homeless guyAn actor, who always plays supporting roles and lives in the shadow of his famous playwright...
Movie pagePostcard
as Yukichi Morikawa, the Father-in-LawToward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a...
Movie pageAbduction
as uncreditedThe film opens with kidnappers of a corporate executive making an unusual ransom demand: that a...
Movie pageRoar of the Crowd
as uncreditedBased on the non-fiction books by Takushi Ono (the NHK announcer, not the gymnast) and Yoshinari...
Movie pageCold
as Jin IchinoseGenius scientist Kikuo Himura (Yosuke Kubozuka) succeeds in developing a miracle cure for the...
Movie pageGoodbye Mama
as uncreditedA successful office lady, who has made herself sexually available to a doctor, has her routine...
Movie pageBody and Soul
as uncreditedYoshihiko now lives with a couple of old friends, a married couple, Ryosuke and Aya. They share...
Movie pageRandom Lives
as HanamuraQuestioning the meaning of people's lives, the multiple stories include the work of a manga...
Movie pageLiving Rights
as uncreditedThe fifth work of the "Kita-Shirakawa school movie" in which a student of Kyoto University of...
Movie pageA Grain of Wheat
as Honda“A Grain of Wheat” is a story of two bakeries in Yokohama. A French baker, Eriko, makes a sudden...
Movie pageOne Day in January
as uncreditedEvery year on the fourth of January, Shobei's soba restaurant serves "Sanada Soba"; soba noodles...
Movie pageUniversal Laws
as uncreditedA young man working as a first-class fashion designer decides to give up his business and return...
Movie pageDrugstore Girl
as Koji NabeshimaPharmaceutical student, Keiko witnesses her boyfriend having an affair. Shocked and...
Movie pageManten no Goal
as uncreditedA single mother who returned to her hometown at the lowest point of her life, and a doctor who...
Movie pageGodot of the Emotos
as uncreditedThe acting family, the Emotos, are the subject of this documentary following Emoto Akira and his...
Movie pageBetrayal tomorrow
as uncreditedA violent detective who can handle assault and blackmail in a straight forward manner.
Movie pageThe Last Frankenstein
as Prof. SarusawaProfessor Sarusawa and his psychic daughter Mai live together after the suicide of the...
Movie pageManhattan Kiss
as uncreditedAn adult love story written and directed by Yasushi Akimoto of "Goodbye Mama" and shot on...
Movie pageAIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
as Hyoue YarikuraDetective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner...
TV Show pageAbsolute Zero
as Sosuke KagamiIzumi Sakuragi is a new police sergeant with the Special Investigations Office, which was set up...
TV Show pageKumokiri Nizaemon
as uncreditedDuring the Kyoho period in the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, there is a gang of thieves active...
TV Show pageSegodon
as Ryu SaminSaigo Takamori, the hero of the Meiji Restoration, was born to a poor, low-ranking samurai...
TV Show pageThe Private Detective Mike
as uncreditedMike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the...
TV Show pageHanzawa Naoki
as Keiji MinobeHanzawa Naoki works as a loan manager at the Osaka Nishi branch of Tokyo Central Bank. One day,...
TV Show pageMoribito: Guardian of the Spirit
as SfarThe heroine Balsa is a skilled bodyguard and a masterful spear-wielder. One day she rescues...
TV Show pageThe Honest Realtor
as Tetsuo KishiSaichi Nagase is the number one salesperson at a real estate agency whose biggest fault is being...
TV Show pageLost Man Found
as HimselfSatoru Matsudo moves to Tokyo in hopes of becoming an actor. He has trouble breaking into the...
TV Show pageGenroku Ryoran
as GenshiroThe 38th NHK Taiga Drama is Genroku Ryoran. The "Forty-seven Loyal Samurai" is one of the most...
TV Show pageGet Ready!
as Hiroshi BojoThis dark medical drama examines the meaning of human life, centring on a team of unidentified...
TV Show pageGood Doctor
as Akira ShigaMinato Shindo has savant syndrome. His memory is amazing, but he has difficulty communicating...
TV Show pageThe Long Goodbye
as Heizo HaradaTamotsu is suspected of murdering his actress wife Shizuka Harada. He flees to Taiwan and...
TV Show pageIn Hand
as uncreditedTetsu Himokura is a parasitologist. He enjoys researching the lives of parasites at his home...
TV Show pageTaiheiki
as Moronao Kô-noThe drama centers on Ashikaga Takauji's rise to power, overthrowing the Kamakura shogunate and...
TV Show pageHumanoid Monster Bem
as Nameless ManBem, Bela, and Belo are not "monsters," nor "humans," but "humanoid monsters." They usually...
TV Show pageFolktales from Japan
as uncreditedHometown Rebuilding: Folktales from Japan is a Japanese anime television series that adapts...
TV Show pageLove That Makes You Cry
as Masahiko HayashidaFollows the story of love, friendship and growth of six young men and women who move from...
TV Show pageYanchakure
as 水嶋钦一The 59th NHK Asadora Drama is Yanchakure. Location includes Osaka. In Osaka, "yanchakure" is a...
TV Show pageThe New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors
as Yotaro BefunokamiA story about a high school full of delinquents, and its elite class that has clones of famous...
TV Show pageTies of Shooting Stars
as Togami MasayukiBased on a novel by mystery writer Keigo Higashino, Ryūsei no Kizuna tells the story of three...
TV Show pageLove and Glory
as Hideyoshi ToyotomiKazutoyo lived during the end of the Sengoku period (1546-1605). He was the first feudal lord of...
TV Show pageMori no Asagao
as Keizukuri HukahoriNew prison officer Naoki Oikawa is assigned to the death-row section. When he observes the death...
TV Show pageBlack Kite
as KaiunYasu's mother passed away when he was very young and his father abandoned him. Yasu's wife,...
TV Show pageHome Sweet Tokyo
as [Ramen Shop Owner]Englishman Bryan Jenkins was living peacefully with his Japanese wife Itsuki and daughter Alice...
TV Show pageSilver and Gold
as Hitoshi KuramaeMorita, a man who never succeeds in anything, takes his anger out in gambling. He meets an...
TV Show pageWater Boys
as Mama (of a bar)Water Boys is a Japanese television drama series aired in Japan on Fuji Television in 2003....
TV Show pageHaru and Natsu
as Kotaro NakayamaAs Haru emigrates from Japan with her family to the coffee plantations in Brazil, Natsu is left...
TV Show pageVillain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation
as 铃本茂树Saeki Shuichi was a detective, but he quit his job. He now works at a detective agency. One day,...
TV Show pageFrankenstein's Love
as TsurumaruA monster was created from an incident that took place 100 years ago. He possesses super...
TV Show pageHUNTER - Women After Reward Money
as Shogo OoiwaOn a return flight to Japan, cabin attendant Isaka Rei arrests a thief at Narita Airport’s...
TV Show pageTen Count to the Future
as Kenzo AshiyaWhen Kirisawa Shogo was a high school student, he was a brilliant amateur boxer. He won 4 boxing...
TV Show pageEighth Shogun Yoshimune
as Tokugawa MunenaoThe drama is depicting the life and times in 17th and 18th century Japan during the rule of the...
TV Show pageTeen Regime
as Washida TsuguakiIn the year 202X, Japan feels a deep sense of stagnation and has been branded by the world as a...
TV Show pageBullets, Bones and Blocked Noses
as Hadashi no Tyosuke(裸足のチョウスケ)Police dog handler Ippei Aoba has a problem. It's called Oliver. To others, Oliver is a genius...
TV Show page水曜ドラマスペシャル
as uncredited“Monday Drama Special” (Getsuyou Drama Special) is a long-running drama that aired on TBS every...
TV Show pageJapanese Style
as Hifuji Umekoshi30-year-old Kakioka Tetsuro returns home for the first time in 10 years to save his family’s...
TV Show pageRe: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later
as KawabataSix months ago, life went dark for the underworld negotiator Kida when his lifelong friend and...
TV Show pageGoodbye My Dear
as Hiroshi Yamawaki“Who is the last person you would like to see?” When junior high school teacher Sakuraba Ayako...
TV Show pageA Life
as Danjo ToranosukeWhen Okita Kazuaki was starting out as a doctor, he was forced to resign from the hospital. He...
TV Show pagePrince Shotoku
as Anahobe no mikoIn the late 6th century the leaders of the Yamato Dynasty had no clear plan for the creation of...
TV Show pageTokumei! Keiji Dongame
as uncreditedToshiyuki Nishida plays the role of Don Kameda, A.K.A “Don-Game”. Don-Game is a cafe owner who...
TV Show pagePlatinum Town
as uncreditedTetsuro Yamasaki returns to his hometown to find that it is in financial crisis. He quits his...
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