Tadanobu Asano
Tadanobu Asano, born Tadanobu Sato (born November 27, 1973) is a Japanese actor. He is known for his roles as Dragon Eye Morrison in Electric Dragon 80.000 V, Kakihara in Ichi the Killer, Mamoru Arita in Bright Future, Hattori Genosuke in Zatoichi, Kenji in Last Life in the Universe, Aman in Survive Style 5+, Ayano in The Taste of Tea, and Temudjin in Mongol. Most recently, Asano appeared as Hogun in the film Thor, based on the Marvel Comics character.
Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith...
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Thor: Ragnarok
as HogunThor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to...
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Against his father Odin's will, The Mighty Thor - a powerful but arrogant warrior god -...
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When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of...
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Washed-up MMA fighter Cole Young, unaware of his heritage, and hunted by Emperor Shang Tsung's...
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Midway
as Rear Admiral Tamon YamaguchiThe story of the Battle of Midway, and the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts,...
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Parasyte: Part 1
as GotoHumanity is suffering from a series of mysterious murders across the globe, known as the...
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Silence
as InterpreterTwo Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate,...
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47 Ronin
as Lord KiraKai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon...
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Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
as Genghis Khan / TemüjinThe story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan, a slave who went on to conquer half the world...
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Ichi the Killer
as KakiharaAs sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi,...
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Kate
as RenjiA ruthless criminal operative has less than 24 hours to exact revenge on her enemies and in the...
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Maborosi
as IkuoA tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while...
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The Outsider
as KiyoshiA former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II...
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Parasyte: Part 2
as GotoHumanity is under attack by human-mimicking flesh-eating alien parasites. One parasite bonds...
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The Taste of Tea
as Ayano HarunoA spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary...
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Love & Pop
as Captain XXTokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or...
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Taboo
as Hyozo TashiroSet during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young...
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Zatoichi
as Hattori GenosukeBlind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice...
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Detective Chinatown 3
as Tanaka NaokiFollowing the excitement of first Bangkok and then New York, a big murder case takes place in...
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Redline
as Frisbee (voice)The most dangerous and exciting car race in the universe is held only once every five years. And...
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Mortal Kombat 2
as Lord RaidenA sequel to the 2021 film 'Mortal Kombat'.
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Last Life in the Universe
as KenjiAn obsessive-compulsive Japanese librarian living in Bangkok spends most of his days...
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Survive Style 5+
as AmanFive bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one and other eventually become intertwined,...
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My Man
as Jungo KusarinoAs a young child, Hana loses her family to a devastating tsunami that wipes out her town. At a...
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Vital
as Hiroshi TakagiA young man awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook...
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Kiki's Delivery Service
as Dr. IshiA young girl named Kiki must leave her home for a year to begin training in witchcraft. She...
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Minamata
as Tatsuo MatsumuraWar photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect...
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Lupin the 3rd
as Koichi ZenigataInterpol Inspector Zenigata begins a world-wide hunt for the infamous thief Lupin The 3rd. But...
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Swallowtail Butterfly
as Customer in the ClubThe struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.
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The Wasted Times
as WatabeShanghai gangsters grapple with lust and loyalty on the eve of war with Japan as they try to...
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Kubi
as Kuroda KanbeiLord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against...
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Gemini
as Revenger with SwordWhen his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a...
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Harmonium
as Sotaro YasakaToshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. But then this old acquaintance, who has just been...
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Hana
as Jubei KanazawaIn a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to...
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Bright Future
as Mamoru AritaTwo friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life....
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Picnic
as TsumujiBelieving that the world will end that very day, three mental patients Coco, Tsumuji, and Satoru...
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Punk Samurai Slash Down
as Hanro ChayamaJunoshin Kake is a ronin. To get hired by the Kurokaze Han, he lies and tells them that a...
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Kabei: Our Mother
as Yamazaki ToruSet in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father,...
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Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
as Kuroo SamehadaIn dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexually warped Uncle...
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KASANE –Beauty and Fate–
as Kingo HabutaKasane Fuchi is the daughter of a beautiful, legendary actress. Kasane has excellent acting...
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A Ghost of a Chance
as Kenichi KidoDefence lawyer Emi is assigned to a particularly unusual case: a man is suspected of murdering...
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Ruined Heart: Another Love Story Between a Criminal & a Whore
as The CriminalSomewhere in Manila, a crime boss rules with an iron fist. To his most loyal henchman he gives...
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The Rocking Horsemen
as Seiichi ShiraiIt is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is...
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Takeshis'
as uncreditedBeat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets...
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Journey to the Shore
as YusukeMizuki’s husband Yusuke went missing for 3 years. He suddenly comes back home one day and asks...
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Electric Dragon 80.000 V
as Dragon Eye MorrisonA violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard...
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The Kiyosu Conference
as Toshiie MaedaAfter the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie...
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Sad Vacation
as Kenji ShiraishiKenji Shiraishi is involved in the trafficking of illegal immigrants from China to Japan. One...
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Shinjuku Swan II
as Masaki TakiTatsuhiko Shiratori works as a scout, recruiting girls to work in the adult entertainment...
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Funky Forest: The First Contact
as Masaru TanakaAn outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around...
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Tokyo Zombie
as FujioTwo Japanese friends accidentally kill their boss and dump his remains in Black Fuji, a...
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The Terminal Trust
as Noriyuki TakaiShinzo Egi is an asthma sufferer who does not want to be place on life support. As a last...
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Rampo Noir
as Man / Kogoro Akechi / Masaki / Fuyo's LoverAn anthology film consisting of four segments based on literary works by Edogawa Ranpo.
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Chiwawa
as SakataChiwawa is a popular girl. One day, her dismembered body is found in Tokyo Bay. Chiwawa's...
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Villon's Wife
as OtaniThis enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant...
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The Buried Forest
as SanThree high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local...
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Labyrinth of Dreams
as Tatsuo NiitakaTomiko falls in love with Niitaka, even though she also suspects him of being the Tokyo bus...
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Labyrinth of Cinema
as SakoThe only movie theater on the Onomichi seafront is about to close its doors. Its last night of...
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Dead End Run
as uncreditedThree short films with the theme of death and dead ends in common.
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Screwed
as TsubeIt has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually...
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My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
as MizuiA.D. 2015: A virus has been spreading in many cities worldwide. It is a suicidal disease and the...
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Party 7
as Okita SoujiSeven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel...
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Away with Words
as Asano TakashiA Japanese man and a gay bar-owner in Hong Kong drink beer as they talk about their childhood...
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The Box Man
as Fake DoctorA photographer becomes intrigued by a mysterious man who has chosen to filter his experience of...
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Dearest
as PolicemanThe posthumous wish of Eiji's wife is for her ashes to be scattered in the ocean near her...
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Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
as ShanaoBenkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to...
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Café Lumière
as Hajime TakeuchiIn a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is...
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Hakuchi: The Innocent
as IsawaIn a future where World War II never ended, Japan is decimated by nightly bombings. The only...
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Distance
as SakataOn the third anniversary of a cult's failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass...
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Grasshopper
as KujiraMovie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and...
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Invisible Waves
as KyojiAfter inadvertently killing his girlfriend, a man flees Macau for Thailand in an attempt to cope...
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The Women in the Lakes
as uncreditedA 100-year-old resident of a Lake Biwa nursing home dies mysteriously. Did a respirator keeping...
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Dear Etranger
as Makoto TanakaMakoto Tanaka is 40-years-old and has remarried. His wife is Nanae and they care for 2 daughters...
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Wandering Home
as Yasuyuki TsukaharaWar photjournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children....
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Portrait of the Wind
as uncreditedPortrait of the Wind centers on Tamio Murase, a world-traveling photographer who came home to...
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We're Broke, My Lord!
as Heihachiro IsogaiKoshiro Matsudaira lives in Tanjousan Bun in Echigo as a commoner and surrounded by people that...
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The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
as ChristA sequel to the 1980 movie The Legend of the Stardust Brothers. As well as being a rock musical...
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The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
as uncreditedAdaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark.
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They Say Nothing Stays the Same
as Regular customerToichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides...
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My Grandpa
as S. NakatohKenzo was behind bars for killing a gangster. Upon his release, he goes to live with his son,...
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Kanasando
as uncreditedIn this heartwarming human comedy, Mika, traumatized by her father Satoru's infidelity and her...
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Iden & Tity
as uncreditedIf you loved movies such as Shonen Merikensack and GS Wonderland, then this one, which predates...
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Kaza-hana
as Renji SawashiroAn alcoholic civil servant wakes up under a cherry tree in Tokyo next to a bar hostess with whom...
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Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
as SelfWith Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that...
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Tokyo Fair Weather
as uncreditedThis is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading...
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119
as Satoshi MatsushitaIn Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for...
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The Bastard and the Beautiful World
as DaimonThe Bastard and the Beautiful World is an omnibus film consisting of four episodes. Fujiko is...
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Fly with the Gold
as KitagawaKota hears about an impending 1.5 billion yen gold bar heist from his friend Kitagawa, a former...
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Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
as uncreditedNobuko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier...
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Snow Prince
as uncredited10-year-old Sota lives with his grandfather and a dog named Chibi in a small snowy village. They...
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The Capricious Robot
as Mr. NThe Film in commemoration of the 10 year anniversary of Shinich Hoshi's death and the 50 year...
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Vengeance Can Wait
as Hidenori YamaneHidenori and Nanase have lived together for ten years in a tense, platonic relationship. The...
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A Flawless Concierge
as uncreditedA comedy about a concierge at a plush hotel who deals with a series of unusual guests.
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The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
as ShibasakiIn 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.
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Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
as HimselfInitially, Ambivalent Future was intended as a film about the production of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's...
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Ravens
as Masahisa FukaseEnigmatic, rejected, heartbroken. Masahisa Fukase must rebuild his life, overcome tradition, his...
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Broken Rage
as InoueA hitman named Nezumi fights for his survival when he's caught between the police and yakuza.
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Woman of Water
as Yusaku MiyazawaRyo personifies water, since whenever something important happens in her life, it rains. She...
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The Face of Jizo
as Mr. KinoshitaBased on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima....
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Swimming Upstream
as uncreditedOne day after school, Kaoru glances at Sonoko at the pool side. He falls in love with her at...
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ACRI: The Legend of Homo-Aquarellius
as HisokaA scientist desperately wanting to prove that mermaids exist is ostracized from the scientific...
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Falling into the Evening
as uncreditedRica and Kengo have been living together for the past four years. It's been a very happy time...
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Focus
as KanemuraA short, direct and to-the-point media-commentary thriller. A sleazy TV producer trying to...
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Helpless
as Kenji ShiraishiYasuo is a gangster just released from jail. Believing his boss double-crossed him, enraged...
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SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
as uncreditedDocumentary on the life of actor Yusaku Matsuda. This is a documentary film produced on the...
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Fried Dragon Fish
as NatsuroA dragon fish is stolen by Tetsu Tobiyama and biologist Thomas Earwing seeks its return. Poo is...
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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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That's the Way!
as Fujio AkatsukaA rookie editor Hatsumi Takeda becomes an editor of Fujio Akatsuka who is known as the king of...
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Wolf's Calling
as SamuraiA girl finds an old handgun in her attic and the symbolic object conjures a mystical scene of...
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42 One Dream Rush
as uncreditedCollection of short films by various directors based on dreams, 42 seconds each. It was produced...
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Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!
as SelfDocumentary about the Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike, where we see him attend film festivals,...
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Tsurugi-dake satsuei no ki hyōkō 3000 mētoru, gekitō no 873-nichi
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Motorola
as uncreditedGiven a completely free hand by Motorola mobile phones, Wong created an advertisement that is a...
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Soul Dancing
as uncreditedSoul Dancing is an order placed to Kiyoshi Kurosawa by a Japanese alcoholic beverage brand named...
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The Thirsty Flower: Four by Four Equals One
as (voice)The title is "Thirsty Flower ~ four by four equal one ~", which is a short story of about 60...
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Moonlight Mask
as Taro OkamotoThe year is 1947, during the war torn period of the Showa era. The story begins when a man,...
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Dumbeast
as DekogawaHow hard is it to kill an idiot? Just ask Kudo Kankuro! The acclaimed screenwriter brings his...
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Mugonkan
as Kuboshima SeiichiroA story about how Kuboshima Seiichiro overcomes various difficulties to open Mugonkan, an art...
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SORANO
as uncreditedA unique documentary film produced by a psychiatrist and Yasufumi Nakoshi analyzing the artists...
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Children Who Won’t Die
as Narrator (voice)Arakawa has thrown big ripples all over the world with strange works such as the theme park...
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Document Love & Pop
as uncreditedTwo shorts about the making of Hideaki Anno's movie "Love & Pop", one from the perspective of a...
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Eatrip
as uncreditedAn exploration of the act of eating, both as an interaction among people and between people and...
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Waiting for the Flood
as Sadahito IwataA young asthmatic man learns he has magical powers.
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Shōgun
as Kashigi YabushigeIn Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is...
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A Life
as Danjo MasaoWhen Okita Kazuaki was starting out as a doctor, he was forced to resign from the hospital. He...
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The Private Detective Mike
as uncreditedMike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the...
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The Long Goodbye
as Banji MasuzawaTamotsu is suspected of murdering his actress wife Shizuka Harada. He flees to Taiwan and...
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Followers
as Tamio MochizukiWhen an aspiring actress hits it big thanks to a candid Instagram post, the lives of several...
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Detective Yugami
as Yukimasa YugamiYukimasa Yugami is a detective who chases after facts in cases. He will resort to illegal...
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