Ren Osugi
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.
Subway Serial Rape: Uniform Hunting
as Shunsuke NozawaOn their way to school two sisters are raped by a gang of punks in full view of the passengers...
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Shin Godzilla
as Seiji Ookouchi : Prime ministerWhen a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government...
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Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary
as Mitsumasa Kido (Voice)Warriors called "Saints" are the champions of hope who have always appeared since the Age of...
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Beauty Rope Cosmetology
as uncreditedA wealthy college girl is snatched off the streets by a pair of S&M professionals. They...
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Audition
as ShibataSeven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new...
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Cure
as FujiwaraA detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly...
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Scan Doll
as uncreditedKatsumi, a man who lives a lazy and uninspired life, suddenly becomes addicted to "peeping" to...
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Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet
as Kozo YamamotoIn the sequel to 1990's classic Neo Chinpira, Junko (Sho Aikawa) attempts to take out Kazama and...
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Fireworks
as HoribeDetective Nishi is relieved from a stakeout to visit his sick wife in hospital. He is informed...
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The Twilight Samurai
as Toyotaro KodaSeibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth...
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Sonatine
as KatagiriMurakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along...
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Brother
as HaradaA Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles,...
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Uzumaki
as Toshio SaitoThe inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.
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Maborosi
as HiroshiA tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while...
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Kids Return
as Taxi PassengerShinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing...
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Dead or Alive
as YanRyūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden...
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Getting Any?
as Head Yakuza 3While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves...
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Origin: Spirits of the Past
as Agashi (voice)It is 300 years into the future. Earth's environment had been devastated by mankind's own...
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Shall We Dance?
as SugiuraA bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He...
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Outrage Coda
as NomuraFive years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza...
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Achilles and the Tortoise
as Tomisuke KuramochiMachisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this,...
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Exte: Hair Extensions
as Gunji YamazakiAn aspiring hair dresser becomes the infatuation of a tricophilic man who sells hair extensions...
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Dolls
as Haruna's ManagerDolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action...
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Shinjuku Triad Society
as Yakuza BossTatsuhito, a cop, pursues Chinese warlord Wang through the underworld of Shinjuku and over to...
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Takeshis'
as Takeshi's Manager / Taxi DriverBeat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets...
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Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
as Kozo YamamotoJunko (Sho Aikawa) is a low-level yakuza in the service of Yoshikawa (Toru Minegishi), despite...
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Ley Lines
as Vietnamese Motorbike SmugglerThe story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural...
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Dead or Alive 2: Birds
as Mizuki's StepfatherTwo contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood...
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Nightmare Detective
as Detective SekiyaWhen a number of suicide victims slash themselves in their sleep, detective Keiko Kirishima is...
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Black Angel
as KusakabeTokyo is a dark technopolis, a city of faceless chrome and cold marble. It is ruled by Nogi, a...
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GO
as Taxi DriverSugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a...
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The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji
as Masayoshi AkoReiji Kikukawa, who has a strong sense of justice, graduated from the police academy with the...
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Glory to the Filmmaker!
as Astronomer YamamotoTakeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a...
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Zebraman
as Kuniharu KurodaA down-and-out schoolteacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an...
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Abnormal Family
as Shukichi / FatherThe film tells a story about a woman and her relationship with the family of her husband's, in...
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Secret
as Hiroyuki KajikawaA man is shocked to find out that after a deadly car accident involving his wife and daughter,...
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The City of Lost Souls
as Okijima Gang LeaderBrazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be...
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A New Love in Tokyo
as uncreditedA look a the lives of two sex workers in Tokyo: Rei, who works as an S&M dominatrix, and Ayumi,...
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Charisma
as Satoshi NakasoneA seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief...
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Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker
as Ambassador HellTsukasa travels to his home world of the World of Decade, where he discovers the origin of his...
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Full Metal Yakuza
as NakameAfter being brutally murdered in a gangster-style execution, Kensuke Hagane finds himself...
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Monday
as Murai YoshioA simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally...
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XX: Beautiful Prey
as TagariThis Japanese thriller finds a sexy policewoman becoming entangled in Japan's S&M underground...
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Bayside Shakedown
as Kunikazu YokoyamaAoshima, a police detective working in the Bayside Precinct, is continually frustrated by the...
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Séance
as Restaurant CustomerA psychic housewife and her husband accidentally find a kidnapped girl. But instead of informing...
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Ushijima the Loan Shark Part 3
as uncreditedSawamura, a contract part-timer dragged into a multi-million yen internet business, and Kamo, an...
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Parasite Eve
as Burning ManA scientist realizes his dead wife is an organization of mitochondria bent on making a new...
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Train Man
as Middle-aged man in trainThe purportedly true story of a 23-year-old otaku (Japanese geek) who intervened when a drunk...
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Tokyo Rhapsody
as uncredited"Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as...
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Tales of the Unusual
as 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...
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Don't Look Up
as OotaniOn the set of a dark war time drama at an old movie studio, a young director, Toshio Murai, is...
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Eyes of the Spider
as YodaNijima, a white-collar worker, finds the man responsible for his young daughter's murder. He...
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Postman Blues
as JoeSawaki is a postman who's not quite thrilled about his boring way of life. But his life is about...
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Bayside Shakedown The Final: The New Hope
as Kunikazu YokoyamaSet 2 years after prior film "Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose," a major case occurs that...
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The Wicked Reporter
as uncreditedMatsuzaki is a racing tipster for a sports paper, a lowlife who spends half his time drunk,...
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Monster
as uncreditedA woman has an ugly face. She has been called 'monster' since childhood. A case occurs in her...
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Unlucky Monkey
as TachibanaA dark and strange comedy about a bank robber with bad luck. Bungling a bank robbery turns out...
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Aiyoku no hibi: Ekusutashī
as General manager of a hotelTwo people who have suffered the loss of a loved one meet by chance at a train station and lose...
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Door II: Tokyo Diary
as uncreditedAi is a call girl that makes good money for what she does but there’s always at risk no matter...
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Persona
as Yuichiro JonouchiInto the bully-infested home room class struts a fearless, ceramic-masked student. Squarely...
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Smuggler
as Cop #1To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and...
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My SO Has Got Depression
as Yasuo KuritaMikio is a married man and works hard for the company where he is employed. Then one day Mikio...
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Apartment Wife Tied Up
as KazuoAn erotic drama reflecting the painful lust of two couples living in a residential complex. When...
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Blindly in Love
as Nahoko's fatherKentaro is an unsocial 35-year-old who lives with his parents and has never dated a woman. When...
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XX: Beautiful Weapon
as uncreditedA blind female assassin lives alone in a remote house; her superiors occasionally send her...
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Party 7
as DoctorSeven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel...
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Rain of Light
as uncreditedThis documentary-style film recreates the infamous Asama Sanso Incident of 1972 wherein an...
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Postcard
as Kichigoro IzumiyaToward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a...
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Back Street Girls: Gokudols
as Bar OwnerThree male gangsters are forced by their boss into becoming a trio of female pop singers.
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Loft
as HinoA writer retreats to a secluded suburban house to work on her new novel. But her attention is...
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The Rape
as uncreditedSaeko works at a bar, and she is waitng for her lover Huyuhiko who was jailed. One day, Huyuhiko...
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Dead Run
as ArataClassmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is...
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Fancy Dance
as uncreditedYohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though...
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The Land of Rain Trees
as Yutaka SakisakaNobuyuki Sakisaka (Yuta Tamamori) is a salaryman. When he was in middle school student, he read...
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The Guard from Underground
as KurumeA former sumo wrestler, now working as a security guard, goes on a murderous rampage.
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Yellow Elephant
as Sotetsu (voice)Married couple Aiko Tsumari and Ayumu Muko live a happy and peaceful life. Aiko is bit naive,...
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1990 botan-dôrô
as uncreditedAdaptation of the traditional Japanese ghost story The Peony Lantern.
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Chasuke's Journey
as Junichi TanedaThings are hectic in heaven. Dozens of scribes sit before a long scroll incessantly scribbling...
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The Revenge: A Visit from Fate
as Police ChiefSho Aikawa plays a police detective whose dark personal history makes it impossible for him to...
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Drive
as Nishi GoroKenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his...
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Pink Physical Examination
as uncreditedIn a hospital with a near sighted doctor, horny nurses, cosplaying patients and stiffs in the...
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Dangan Runner
as KurogiA would-be bank robber forgets his mask on his first big heist, and then botches an attempt to...
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The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
as 横山 邦One day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro...
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Asako in Ruby Shoes
as Aya's FatherAsako in Ruby Shoes succeeds in providing yet another challenge to views of a homogeneous South...
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What I Long For
as Bugmen (voice)High school student Juri leaps to her death. Afterwards, Juri wanders to her house, school and...
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Dear Friends
as Rina's FatherHigh school student Rina has a bad attitude and thinks that friends are something that you use...
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Sabu
as HeizoWhen a young man is sent to a prison workhouse for a crime he did not commit his friend on the...
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Last Friends
as uncreditedFollowing the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII....
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Thirteen Steps
as Norio AndoA released inmate is hired to solve a murder case.
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Teacher, Don't Turn Me On!
as uncreditedTwo high school girls, an older sister and a married woman all vie for the attention of a tutor....
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I Am an S+M Writer
as KurosakiKurosaki is an erotic novelist who uses his editor and a hired model to act out scenarios in his...
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A Drop of the Grapevine
as Ao's FatherTwo brothers work at a small winery in Hokkaido in northern Japan. The older brother is picky...
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Shikoku
as Yasutaka Hiura (Sayori's father)Years after moving to Tokyo with her parents, Hinako returns to her hometown in rural Shikoku....
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Tattoo
as Drunk at the ferry terminalAn ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young,...
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Tokyo Eyes
as Bus driverThe police are tracking a man who shoots at people. But the young sister of a detective finds...
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Foreboding
as NishizakiMiyuki Asakawa tells her colleague Etsuko Yamagiwa that she has a ghost in her home. When Etsuko...
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High School Teacher
as uncreditedHamura entered a high school as a biology teacher. Unexpectedly, one of his students, Mayu, fell...
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Space Travelers
as Shinichi TsunedaThree bank robbers, who declare themselves to be Space Travelers, take six persons as hostages...
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Doing Time
as TakahashiA man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized,...
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The Unbroken
as WakoOnchi was exiled to posts around Asia and Africa due to his work as head of a labor union for...
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Kamen Rider #1
as Ambassador Hell / Garagaranda45 years ago, a man was subjected to the experiments of the secret organization Shocker and...
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Hypnosis
as Etsushi MutaThree apparently unrelated suicides occur on the same day in Tokyo. One involves a young...
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Empire of Kids
as uncreditedFollowing a stint in reform school, Ryu (Shinsuke Shimada) returns to his home, the Minami area...
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Give It All
as PrincipalEtsuko - a typical Japanese high school student, who's unlucky in love, an academic failure, and...
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Box: The Hakamada Case
as Prosecutor YoshikawaBased on the true story of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada who has spent over 40 years...
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GS Wonderland
as Kenichi Kamata"GS Wonderland" is about the 1960's Group Sounds bands - A Japanese pop movement inspired by the...
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Weather Woman
as Yoichi HamamotoKeiko, a young, newly hired weather woman, is eager to give her channel's flagging ratings a...
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UNFAIR: the movie
as Assistant Director IrieWhen a devoted detective probes the suspicious death of her father, she uncovers massive...
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Utsutsu
as Nagata TsutomuA mysterious woman approaches a salaried man who leads a peaceful family life and tells him,...
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License to Live
as MurotaYutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years...
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The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming
as Nisaburo SuzukiRemake of a hit film from 1990, "The Cherry Orchard" which Nakahara himself directed, based on a...
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Rookies the Movie: Graduation
as Akihiro FujimuraFutakotamagawa High School had a Baseball Club, but because of a fight during one of their...
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Bitter Honey
as Old WriterAkako, a shape-shifting goldfish in the form of a coquettish nymphet clad in diaphanous red...
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The River with No Bridge
as uncreditedA widow and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku...
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L'amant
as CWhen three older men buy a 17-year-old schoolgirl named Chikako for a year's-worth of sexual...
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Goddamn!!
as uncreditedWhen yakuza member Okamoto (Hitoshi Ozawa) begins to search for Nami (Reiko Yasuhara), a woman...
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Crying 100 Times - Every Raindrop Falls
as uncreditedShuichi had a motorcycle accident 4 years ago. Because of the accident, he lost the last year of...
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Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
as uncreditedMr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to...
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April Bride
as Toshiro AkasuOn April 5, 2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The...
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The Village Album
as uncreditedHanatani Village in the valley of Tokushima Prefecture is going to be submerged when a dam is...
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Devoted Cookbook
as uncreditedThe film is set in Edo period. As an orphan child Mio starts working at a restaurant in Osaka...
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Nowhere Man
as KuraharaSukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a...
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Subway Serial Rape
as Nozawa ShunsukeA man with a briefcase is being pursued by a small yakuza gang. After abandoning his vehicle,...
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School Days with a Pig
as Vice Principal NishinaA sixth grade teacher raises a pig with his class.
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Vacation
as Tatsuro MishimaThe prison guards working in penitentiaries where death row inmates are locked up are forced to...
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Devoted Cookbook
as uncreditedIt is the Spring of 1814. The restaurant “Tsuru-ka” is gaining much popularity after its chef,...
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Red Moon
as uncreditedNamiko Morita, who lived in Otaru, moved to this area with her husband, Yutaro, and opened the...
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Cop Festival: New Beginning
as uncreditedFourth installment in Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 8 films.
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Blessing Bell
as Loudspeaker Person in Prison (voice)Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his...
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Wandering Brain
as uncreditedA psychological suspense based on the novel of the same name by Naoki Prize-winning author...
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Akko's Secret
as Ex-president of cosmetics co.5th-grader Atsuko Kagami, nicknamed Akko, comes into possession of a magical mirror that lets...
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What the War Meant
as Teichi SuzukiThe drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan...
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It's a Beautiful Life - Irodori
as HarikiA group of elderly women come together to sell vegetable leaves.
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About Love
as Shop owner (segment "Tokyo")Three stories are told, respectively set in Tokyo, Taipei, and Shanghai. The first two stories...
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The Chaplain
as SaekiSaeki works with death-row convicts as a prison chaplain. He tries to instill the prisoners with...
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Kuma-chan
as uncreditedKuma-chan, an alien who looks just like a stuffed bear, helps a middle-aged sculptor fall in...
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GTO: New Year's Special
as uncreditedA mother leaves three kids in the care of Saejima and it's up to Onizuka and the gang to track...
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Gene Waltz
as Takashi ArakiDoctor Rie (Miho Kanno) is know as the Joan of Ark of Obstetrics & Gynecology. She works in...
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Jam Films S
as uncreditedJam Films S is a Japanese omnibus movie. It was released by Phantom FIlm in Japan on January 15,...
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Lady Poison: Beasts of the Underground
as SogabeA female photographer seduces men to kill them for her pleasure.
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Crazy Lips
as ColonelAfter her brother is accused of murdering four people, his sister, desperate to prove his...
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Married Woman, Office Lady, School Girl - Take Aim and Attack
as uncreditedJapanese pink film
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Woman of the Rumor: Hold Me Until Morning
as uncreditedThe wife of a wealthy manager returns to her suburban house and is suddenly attacked by an...
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The Lightning Tree
as Sennokai TakayamaSet during the Edo Period, a young man from a noble family meets a young woman under a special...
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Flying Rabbits
as uncreditedYukari always wanted to become a flight attendant and has just been hired by Japan Airlines....
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Kanikôsen
as uncreditedOn board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under...
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The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
as Honma SeijiroA man and a woman committed double suicide in Kanazawa City. Immediately after the incident,...
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For Love's Sake
as uncreditedShiori is a star university student with an incredible palate for wine who dreams of studying...
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Majutsu wa Sasayaku
as uncreditedA woman named Kazuko (Kimura) who was guilty of a “serious crime” in the past, along with three...
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Last Scene
as uncreditedYoung film star Ken Mihara is about to fall from stardom. His rise as a celebrity is solely...
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Loot
as Sakai SuzukiYûji and Kosaku are hired to track down an old man. But when he suddenly dies, his granddaughter...
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Gamble
as SuzukiHaving lost everything to horse racing, Yûji accidentally gets 10 million yen. But this sum...
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Chichi kara no tegami
as uncreditedInuzuka (Hirotaro Honda), who asked about Mamiko (Rei Dan)'s disappeared father, Shinkichi (Ren...
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Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3
as uncreditedKai, Mei, and Yui are high school students. The three girls are also detectives and they solve...
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Fireworks from the Heart
as Kuniakira SudoOn September 9th, the day of the Katakai Fireworks Festival, high school student Hana comes...
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape
as SuzukiHapless gangsters are hired by the yakuza to tail his daughter. Once the identity of the boy...
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Passion
as uncreditedA man tries to mend his past by helping his best friend’s sister.
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Goodbye Elegy
as Miyama AkiraMiyama Akira is a movie director in his 60's. In the past, he left his hometown to chase his...
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MARKS
as Yoshikatsu KatagiriAssistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member....
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Door III
as uncreditedMiyako is a frustrated insurance saleswoman stuck in a major dry spell. She tries every trick in...
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Snake Hole
as uncreditedDue to a past trauma an elegant wife cannot enjoy her husband attentions in bed. Undeterred he...
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist
as SuzukiTwo petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members, fortunately they are rescued by a...
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Bodyguard Kiba
as uncreditedNaoto Kiba takes on the task of protecting thug Junpei who embezzled 500 million yen from...
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Blossoms Bloom
as uncreditedWork life for Shunsuke Osaki has been success after success, but at some point his family began...
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Kumamoto Stories
as Naka-no-Ooe-no-ÔjiJidai-geki period / folklore type stories that were comissioned by the Kumamoto prefacture of...
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Kyouju Luger P08
as uncreditedA man's life is altered when he comes into possession of a gun.
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Yakuza Ladies: Decision
as uncreditedKasuga’s husband gets arrested for a murder of his beloved protégé. She and her family...
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Violent Island: Dirty Money Hijack
as uncreditedIn the scorching heat of Okinawa, former lovers meet. Now, he is a gangster on a mission, she is...
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Fuckin' Runaway
as uncreditedHana, 21-year old, is sent to a mental hospital for attempting a suicide. She suffers from...
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Boys, Be Ambitious
as uncreditedChunba and Kotetsu, grows up in the working class neighborhood of Kishiwada in Osaka in the...
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Dog Race
as Hideyoshi (as Ren Ôsugi)Ethnically Korean Japanese filmmaker Yoichi Sai directs this madcap crime comedy. Nakayama (Goro...
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Beautiful Mystery
as uncreditedShinohara, a young bodybuilder, joins a para-military sect in northern Japan. His instructor,...
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Travail
as MuraokaAsami and Rina are two sisters who are both professional shogi players in the same B League....
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Lady Joker
as Junichi NunokawaMen and women caught up in a downward spiral of corruption, discrimination, poverty and death...
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Dance till Tomorrow
as uncreditedLive action adaption of Naoki Yamamoto's romantic comedy manga series.
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Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story
as Shiro KidoKeisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan’s most...
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USB
as uncreditedYuichiro wants to be an film director but his widowed mother wants him to become a doctor. As...
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A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth
as KunimotoFour strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket, and a woman with...
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Arigato, Okan
as uncreditedHanako is a mother, who was not enthusiastic when her husband took in two foster children some...
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Tracing Jake
as uncreditedInuyama is intrigued by the existence of "Jake," a mysterious crocodile that has been sighted in...
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Yoshiko & Yuriko
as uncreditedBased on a true story, Yoshiko and Yuriko relates the journey and great love affair of Yoshiko,...
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Subway Serial Rape: Lover Hunting
as uncreditedA woman is raped on a crowded subway but no one reports it to the police. A TV studio exploits...
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The Nearest Place to the Sky
as uncreditedKitagawa, a top salesman with an impressive record, is hiding a dark secret—he borrowed the 9...
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Making of Zebraman
as uncreditedA documentary on the making of “Zebraman” directed by Takashi Miike.
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Samulife
as uncreditedNagaoka is a former high school teacher. He decides to start a school with an ideal learning...
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Stereo Future
as uncreditedKeisuke, an aspiring samurai-movie actor lands a major role in a new film, but must contend with...
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1778 Stories of Me and My Wife
as Setsuko's doctorSci-fi writer Sakutaro (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and bank employee Setsuko (Yuko Takeuchi) met at as...
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10 Years - A Wife's Betrayal
as Kazuki UrushibaraUrushibara Kazuki heads to Kyoto to explore the secret of his wife, Saeko, who is hospitalized...
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Jingi 13: Hell's Tomb Mark
as uncreditedAfter the internal conflict in the Kanto Ichienkai that was once caused by the Takayama group,...
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Collage of Our Lives
as DirectorA young cameraman receives a letter from an old girlfriend, announcing that she is to hold a...
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Female Teacher: Chain and Bondage
as uncreditedA female teacher with a heavy past who committed suicide with a fellow teacher in the past, and...
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Hana's Miso Soup
as Kazuomi HasegawaYasutake Shingo works as a newspaper reporter but his life is stiffled and lifeless. That...
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Mo-Ruerani
as Mikio KobayashiThe owner of an established photo studio, collapses from illness. His son Shinta, who was raised...
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Saraba Itoshi no Daitoryo
as uncreditedWith the recession still occurring in Japan and the area of Osaka thought to be hit hardest by...
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Running on Empty
as uncreditedThe beautiful Azami is tired of her penniless and lazy boyfriend, Hideji. Determined to break up...
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Nekonade
as Taro OnizukaThe highly disciplined human resources manager Taro Onizuka starts to heal and change as he...
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Hatsuko's World
as Hatsuko's father15-year-old Hatsuko (Higashi Ayu) lives with her elder brother in a humble town house. Their...
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Men of Rage
as uncreditedThe second installment of a V-Cinema sports drama, directed by Kurosawa in 1994, following "打鐘"...
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Yakuza Blood Wind Record Unreliable Crest
as uncreditedTachibana, who was once regarded as the next young leader of the gangster group but lost the...
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Love Letter
as uncreditedA romantic film about the spiritual exchange between a gangster and a Chinese woman who got...
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Rush!
as uncreditedA wacky tale of two guys, one Korean and one Japanese who, mistaken for a couple of murderers,...
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Neck Bowed in the Rain
as Hanzo YabutsukaBaijaku Nakamura takes the lead in a film where he has to dodge pursuit from a hostile gang...
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Love or Duty: Samurai Rebellion
as Tadashi MatsudairaIn the Edo period of Japan, a samurai’s life belonged to his lord. On the battlefield or in the...
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Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu
as uncreditedIn 2010, while covering the issue of the "secret agreement" at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,...
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Will You Marry My Wife?
as Ichiro KojoShuji Mimura works as a broadcast writer. He learns that he doesn't have much time left to live....
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MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming
as uncreditedMusical band "Yajima Biyoshitsu" comes to Japan from Nevada, USA to debut their CD.
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Specialist 2
as Kiichiro TakakuraA mysterious code written with letters and numbers is found on a street in Kyoto. Yoshito Takuma...
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Tokyo Mafia 2: Wrath of the Yakuza
as IwagamiYabuki's old friend returns as a deadly enemy. Blood brothers are driven to bitter hatred as...
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Delivery of Death
as Torahei TateyamaReporters Takehara and Tsumura Aki work for the magazine "Shukan Dodongo". Their chief editor...
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Wolf: Running Is Sex
as Office workerFirst production by Directors' Company. A man stripped bare of all modern values lives in a...
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Her Island, My Island
as uncreditedA young woman returns to the island where she grew up.
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Kewaishi
as uncreditedDirector Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of a manga by Shotaro Ishinomori was an official...
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The Exam
as YoshimotoTogashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi's...
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Love of Sawako
as Magazine editorSawako, working in a bank, tired of the usual everyday life, once she met the chef of French...
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Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Blood
as VagrantTen years after his greatest triumph, Yabuki has lost the Mafia that was once his to rule. But...
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Falling into the Evening
as NakajimaRica and Kengo have been living together for the past four years. It's been a very happy time...
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Wordholic Prisoner
as uncreditedA wordholic man, acting as the chief editor by a certain publishing company, is confined by the...
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Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown
as uncreditedA bizarre mystery created under the direction of director Jissoji. The mysterious and strange...
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The Way: Man of the White Porcelain
as uncreditedThe movie is based on the true story of Takumi Asakawa - a Japanese man who entered Korea during...
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MPD-PSYCHO/FAKE
as uncreditedA reworking of MPD Psycho by the author of the original manga Eiji Otsuka edited from the TV...
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The Taste of Fish
as uncreditedIt may sound cliché, but Japanese people really do love their fish. If Japan has the best and...
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Ikiru
as uncreditedIn a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe...
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Specialist 3
as Kiichiro TakakuraShu Kubota is killed by someone with a baseball bat. A metal bat and an old toy are found at the...
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Kaze no Tayori
as uncreditedKurumi suddenly gave up opening a cafe with her friend. She hears that her grandfather Takeshi...
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Chimpira Life
as uncreditedThe chimpira 'Katsuichi' got his hands on the only daughter of the largest daughter in the Kanto...
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The Interrogator Special
as uncreditedYukiko Makabe is the only female interrogator in a department full of men. Their job is to...
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New Gokudo Legend: Three Dragons
as uncreditedA full-scale drama that visualizes a feature-length novel by Koichi Iiboshi from "Battle Without...
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Can you collect it? Complete
as uncreditedJiro becomes a happy instructor but a shocking suspicion was raised by Owada who took the place...
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Harlem Valentines Day: Blood Is Sex
as DoctorSet in the near future after a nuclear war, the film portrays a man who is searching for his...
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Yakuza Ladies Neo
as uncreditedKotone (Tomoka Kurotani) is the wife of Mitsuru Kiba (Kazushige Nagashima), boss of the Kiba...
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Specialist
as Kiichiro TakakuraKusanagi plays a police detective who gets framed for a crime he didn't commit and had to spend...
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Nouveau Riche
as SuzukiA duo get mixed up with a girl who finds a trunk load full of heroin.
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Semi-dokyumento: Tokkun Meiki Dukuri
as uncreditedThe mother is unfulfilled, the father has affairs, the son fantasizes and the budding daughter...
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Meikyu Sousa
as Shigeki MakabeDetective Yoichiro arrives at a crime scene involving the brutal murder of three family members...
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The Vancouver Asahi
as Zenkichi EbataIn pre-WWII Vancouver, second-generation Japanese immigrants had it tough. Daily, they faced...
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Known As! Pissken
as uncreditedThe thug is now back in Shaba as a legendary hitman!
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It's More Radical!
as uncreditedA yakuza's woman got in a car with Ida, a salesman who has no choice!
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Life on the Longboard
as uncreditedA depressed middle-aged man takes up surfing after he retires.
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Assault Rakugaki Fools
as uncreditedThis exciting work is full of dangerous behind the scenes stories from the sex industry.
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2003 Fall Special
as uncreditedHosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2003 Fall Special" presents five tales. 1....
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SM Tattoo Production
as MakoAsuka, a wanderer with a magnificent tattoo on his back, incurs the wrath of the Bombers, a...
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Catastrophe
as uncreditedA Salaryman in Hokkaido heads to Tokyo for his daughters wedding, but the fun is just beginning,,,
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25
as uncreditedDetectives Shintarou Sakurai (Sho Aikawa) and Koichi Hikage (Susumu Terajima) are partners. They...
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The Exposer - Insurance Investigation
as uncreditedHinata (Ryo Amamiya), the managing director of Sakura Fire & Marine Insurance, appears to Tetsu...
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Kagura Me
as Kyoujiro KikuchiA woman bears a 13 year grudge with her father over the traditional dance he was performing that...
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Part-Time Detective 2
as Kazuo YamadaThe housewife and part-time private detective Noriko Yamada plays her old tricks again,...
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We're No Angels
as uncreditedRikiya Yasuoka, Ren Ōsugi and Junji Inagawa star in this early straight to video effort from...
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Teacher and Three Children
as uncreditedThe 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is...
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Avec mon Mari
as NakazakiMitsuko has a prestigious job as an editor at a publishing company, while her husband Tomatsu...
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Sunday's Dream
as uncreditedKazuya goes to live with his mother Shinobu because his father, Yoshiki, who works in the same...
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Specialist 4
as Kiichiro TakakuraYoshito (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) becomes famous in Kyoto because of his ability to solve cases. The...
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2002 Spring Special
as uncreditedHosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2002 Spring Special" presents five tales. 1....
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Where The Legend Lives
as uncreditedKohei Miyazaki (Naoto Takenaka), a former railroad worker, has become obsessed with locating the...
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Prime Minister's Office Lady
as uncreditedA woman, disguised as an office lady, takes revenge for her dead lover.
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Hero
as SuzukiYuji and Kosaku become involved with a brother and sister who want to drive a local yakuza gang...
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Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Wars
as IwagamiAfter being excommunicated from the yakuza, Ginya Yabuki returns from the shadows as leader of...
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Sexual Beast Sacrifice
as uncreditedTomio, a college student, lives in a Western-style house where strange people live, such as his...
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Maji! 6: Raging Fire
as uncreditedShirogane Maji (Tamotsu Ishibashi), now the head of the Kozugumi, is summoned by Akame Shinzan,...
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Yakuza Taxi
as ManagerThe Yakuza clan Inoshika decides to help a small family business, Taxi Tanaka, lured by the clan...
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Groper Train: Continue
as uncredited"Groper Train" distributed by Shintoho.
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Farewell, Friend
as uncreditedWataru and Makoto are two singers and on their way from a performance to an interview when they...
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Heisei Zankeiden : Battered Slash!
as uncreditedA man who was trapped by a gangster who was taken over by a sneaky means of life, such as a...
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The King of Minami: Sham Marriage
as uncredited#11 in the series, after "Sweet Trap."
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Gappie, Wear a Tie this Summer
as uncreditedIt is a youth group of third-class university students struggling to get a job at a first-class...
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Girl Mistress
as Takita, the bartenderAn older yakuza man falls in love with Seru, a high school girl. When he is put in prison, Seru...
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Eiko
as HiraiEiko Akimori is a 23-year-old woman who lives alone in an apartment. One day, Eiko is made to...
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The Hit-and-Run Family
as uncreditedSet in the 1990s, this film uses black humour to cast a sharp, satirical eye at the problems...
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Will You Die in the Chimpira Dream Chara!
as uncreditedThree mean and a woman connected by a strange encounter.
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Baton
as Dr. Newton (voice)Baton is a collection of three 20-minute Sci-fi anime films dedicated to the 150th anniversary...
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Wangan Midnight
as uncreditedDirect to video adaptation of the comic by Michiharu Kusunoki.
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Hole in the Pants 5: I Found a Glittering Star!
as uncredited5th installment of the Pantsu no ana video series released by BOMB magazine
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Chinpira
as uncreditedOsamu rescues a girl who was being chased by two punks and is soon mixed up with the Yakuza
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Fishes in August
as uncreditedA refined psychological portrait of youths on their way to maturity
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Tripping
as Shaodea's fatherIt's the story of a rebellious Japanese-Taiwanese girl (played by Rena Tanaka from “Kitaro”) who...
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Tales of the Bizarre: 2003 Spring Special
as uncreditedHosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2003 Spring Special" presents five tales. 1....
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La Sombra del Verano - Ilusion in Andalusia
as uncreditedSet in Andalusia, Spain, the film depicts the fantastic journey of an ordinary housewife who...
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Our Season
as Joji GodaA gay couple is on good terms with each other. They run a shot bar together and are enjoying...
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Onihei Crime Files Special: Bandits
as Jingoro AmikiriAn old thief, Kuhei Sagiwara, used to visit his hometown at the foot of the Kurikara Pass in...
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Can you collect it? 2
as uncreditedJin, who has killed is worried about his younger brother Jiro and has returned to the world as a...
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The Goofball
as uncreditedHisashi gets fired from his temp job due to his impulsiveness. One day he meets Chikako, a...
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Demon Fighter Kocho
as uncreditedFirst live action adaptation of Demon Fighter Kocho
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Great Prophecy: The Revival of the Giant
as Shunsuke KurokawaA V-Cinema tokusatsu movie released by TOEI and Bandai Visual. Creature design by Keita Amemiya....
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Playmate Murder Case Let Me Go to Heaven
as uncredited1990 Original Video.
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Hitozuma gōmon
as uncreditedPinku from 1980. A young man seeks to exact revenge against a group of men that violated his sister.
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Time Slip
as uncreditedKiyoshi Kurosawa's segment from 'A Story of Love, Wonder and Horror.'
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Part-Time Detective
as Kazuo YamadaNoriko Yamada is a housewife and mother of five children, she and her husband go through an...
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Matsumoto Seicho Special: Blue Dab
as 田倉義三The sudden death of a journalist stirs up young editor Noriko's curiosity. While investigating...
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Japan Lies: The Photojournalism of Kikujiro Fukushima, Age 90
as Narrator (voice)Documentary on photojournalist Kikujiro Fukushima
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Tying the Newlywed Wife
as uncreditedBDSM-themed pink film distributed by Shintoho.
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AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
as Touji KinugasaDetective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner...
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Dondo Hare
as Asakura KeigoNatsumi is the 23 years old daughter of a master baker in Yokohama and in training with her...
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My Husband is a Cartoonist
as Genbee IidaThe 82nd NHK Asadora is Gegege no Nyobo. The story is based on a 2008 autobiography by Mura...
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CSI: Crime Scene Talks
as Toru KagamiSatoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police...
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Emergency Interrogation Room
as Zenjiro NakataYukiko Makabe works at the #3 Special Investigation Team of the Metropolitan Police Department....
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GARO
as ShidouThe Makai fight a secret war against the demon forces known as Horrors, evil creatures that...
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Divorce Lawyer
as Kazuya KurokiTakako Mamiya is a lawyer who quits her job at a prestigious law firm and establishes her own...
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Yoshitsune
as Minamoto no Yuki-ieYoshitsune is a Japanese television drama series originally broadcast between 9 January and 11...
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Keigo Higashino Mysteries
as Juuzo Banba11 mysteries, 11 actors. Japan's favorite mystery author, the world of Higashino Keigo comes to...
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The Supporting Actors
as HimselfKenichi Endo, Ren Osugi, Tomorowo Taguchi, Susumu Terajima, Yutaka Matsushige and Ken Mitsuishi...
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Ninja Sentai Kakuranger
as SarugamiIt's been a long time since the great war between the Three God Generals and the Youkais, an...
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The Negotiator
as Shizuo TakabayashiIn a modern society in which violent crimes are on the rise, there is a team that tries to...
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Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out
as Kozo Hanasaki（花咲 幸三）Hanasaki Mai is but an ordinary employee of a bank, with zero diplomacy. She doesn't think twice...
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The Way We Live
as Yoshiro KoyanagiThe theme of this drama series is the bonds between parents and children and between husband and...
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Fukigen na Gene
as uncreditedYoshiko Aoi is a budding researcher in ethology, the study of animal behavior. "Men=male" are...
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Gakeppuchi no Eri - Kono yo de ichiban daiji na 'Kane' no hanashi
as Katsuo Umemoto"Gakeppuchi no Eri" describes the turbulent life of Eriko (Yamada), who has been extremely poor...
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Hokaben
as Morioka TetsuoDomoto Akari is a rookie attorney, so-called "Hokaben," a hot lawyer just out of the oven....
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The Wallflower
as ShinichiSunako is very happy living her life in the darkness of her room, with her skeleton friends and...
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Care Worker Gang
as Yasuhiro SonozakiHikoichi is the boss of a yakuza family, "Tsubasa-kai". One day he receives a sudden order from...
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Joker: Unforgiven Investigator
as Kuniji MikamiDate Kazuyoshi (Sakai) is a detective on the Kanagawa prefectural police force. During the day,...
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Handoku!!!
as uncreditedAs a former gang member, Hazama Ichiban witnessed the worst side of the emergency medical system...
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The Way I Live
as Akimoto TakayukiBoku no Ikiru Michi is a 2003 Japanese television drama series.
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Izakaya Fuji
as uncreditedIn Nakameguro, Tokyo. An unknown young actor, Eiichi Nishio learns some important things while...
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Mori no Asagao
as Seido OikawaNew prison officer Naoki Oikawa is assigned to the death-row section. When he observes the death...
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Hungry!
as Taro YamateMukai is taking on the role of Eisuke, a former bassist of a rock band who gave up his music...
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War of Lies
as Mamoru SanpeiWhen Koichi was 9-years-old, Koichi's father was accused of killing his wife and youngest child....
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Goodbye Ghosts!
as Ikuo TsutsumiMadoka Tsutsumi is a university student. He rarely expresses his feelings and he has never done...
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Mission To Kill
as uncreditedContinuation of the popular series of films about the assassins in Edo. This show marks the...
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My Boss, My Hero
as uncreditedSakaki Makio, also known as "Tornado" is a tough 27-year-old high school drop-out. By academic...
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Merry Christmas in Summer
as uncreditedRyo is a former professional boxer who becomes a collector for a loan shark. He grew up in an...
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Trouble Man
as Hitman JoeOne day all of a sudden, a trouble befalls one man. That trouble snowballs into bigger troubles,...
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Shoni Kyumei
as uncreditedWith recent shrinkage of pediatric care, pediatrician Aoyama Sora decides to stand up to the...
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Being Born.
as Kondo TakumiThe Hayashidas were a typical happy family of father, mother, two boys and two girls. Until it...
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Long Love Letter
as Misaki ShigeoIt's January 7, just after the New Year begins. Make up classes are being held for students that...
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Siren
as Bunichi InokumaSatomi Shinobu works in the Mobile Investigation Unit of The Tokyo Metropolitan Police...
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Triangle
as Katsuragi HitoshiThe series starts with the murder of a 10-year-old girl in 1984. 15 years later, after the case...
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IS: Not a Boy and Not a Girl
as Ibuki Soichi“IS” stands for “intersexual,” a term referring to people who cannot clearly be classified as...
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Satomi Hakkenden
as Tsusadamasa Ougigaya"Satomi Hakkenden" tells the tale of eight samurai brothers and their adventures, with themes of...
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Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light
as Inaba HirotarouA father and son rekindle their bond through the online role-playing game Final Fantasy XIV in...
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Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth
as Kunihiko TsukamotoA Japanese bank is being targeted by Horizon, an American financial group that takes advantage...
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MPD Psycho
as Tooru SasayamaYosuke Kobayashi, a detective assigned to a homicide unit, saw his wife killed by a serial...
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The Sun Never Sets
as Keiichi IseyaNao always get's into fights and does fight for his mother but eventually she dies. He is...
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The Castle of Sand
as uncreditedOn December 11, 1960 an elderly man is found bludgeoned to death near the Kamata Station in...
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So Long!
as Suzuki TeruoAKB48 Drama split in 3 parts for each team Team A story: Kawakami Fukaba is the only remaining...
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Baton
as Dr. Newton (voice)On Planet Abel, humans and robots co-exist. One day a mysterious stowaway on a transport vessel...
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Dark Suit
as uncreditedIchinose Ryo works as a salesperson for a subsidiary of Hashiba Electronics, a mid-sized...
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Proof of the Man
as uncreditedThis crime thriller follows a Japanese detective, Takeshi Munesue (played by Yutaka Takenouchi),...
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