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Filmography
49 films


CHAIN
2021 · 1h 54m
country: Japan
Set against the backdrop of the Aburanokoji incident, revered as the emblem of the Shinsengumi's decline, this captivating period drama intricately weaves the tales of samurai and commoners navigating through tumultuous times.


Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
2020 · 2h 9m
country: Japan
A young man wanders and makes calls to elders who live alone. Saying “Granny, it’s me,” he lies to them that he is their grandson. An old lady, who runs a music shop in the declining shopping area in Amakusa, answers his call and warmly accepts him. Pretending as her grandson, he settles down in the town. He gets used to his friendship with young villagers, the sound and landscape of Amakusa, and the old lady’s everyday life.


Just the Two of Us
2020 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
Shunsaku was paralyzed from the neck down at the young age of 36 by a spinal injury suffered in a motorcycle accident. A blind woman named Hanae arrives to be his caregiver. Despite her frustrations with Shusaku's ill-nature and verbal abuse, Hanae also harbors a tremendous sense of being deprived that she doesn't tell others.


Randen: The Comings and Goings on a Kyoto Tram
2019 · 1h 54m
country: Japan
A writer from Kamakura named Hiraoka Eisei is researching supernatural stories but finds himself revisiting memories from a previous visit to his wife’s home town. Ogura Kako,a shy local woman, is asked to help an actor from Tokyo practice speaking with Kyoto intonation and, after the lesson, he asks her to show him around Arashiyama.


ジョギング渡り鳥
2016
country: Japan


Miroku
2013 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
Through philosophical and science themed imagination, Emile questions everything from his teenage years to adult life.


Eyes of the Spider
1998 · 1h 23m
country: Japan
After killing the man he believes murdered his daughter, a white-collar worker returns to his mundane life, until he's approached by a man offering a mysterious job opportunity.


Serpent's Path
1998 · 1h 25m
country: Japan
With the help of a mysterious acquaintance, a former low-level yakuza tracks down and kidnaps the man he believes kidnapped and murdered his daughter, but others are soon implicated in the death.


Cure
1997 · 1h 51m
country: Japan
A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.


End of Our Own Real
1997 · 1h 35m
country: Japan


The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears
1997 · 1h 23m
country: Japan
Second half of the violent tale of revenge from actor Sho Aikawa and director Kiyoshi Kurosawa! It's been five years since he left the force, lost his wife, and waged all out revenge, and now our hero is idling his time with a failing yakuza group. When he discovers the secret of one of his superiors, he takes up the gun of vengeance and realizes that his life has only been to serve that purpose.


The Revenge: A Visit from Fate
1997 · 1h 23m
country: Japan
Sho Aikawa plays a police detective whose dark personal history makes it impossible for him to stay within the limits of the legal system. But he is not just a detective; he is also a husband who has to explain to his wife how he got blood on his sleeve. And the criminals he pursues turn out to be as imperfect and oddly human as he is-and just as determined to protect their own families.


Labyrinth of Dreams
1997 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
Tomiko falls in love with Niitaka, even though she also suspects him of being the Tokyo bus driver serial killer, who killed his female conductors after tiring of them.


Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Hero
1996 · 1h 23m
country: Japan
Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a brother and sister who want to drive a local yakuza gang member out of their neighborhood.


Sanctuary - Part 3
1996 · 1h 22m
country: Japan
Standing in the way of Hojo and Asami is Secretary-General Isaoka, and a new enemy, the Russian Mafia. The magnificent war between front and back society has finally reached its climax! What is the incurable disease that hit Asami when the secret bond between the two was revealed? Two men work to transform their lives and reshape Japan.


Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Loot
1996 · 1h 20m
country: Japan
Yûji and Kosaku are hired to track down an old man. But when he suddenly dies, his granddaughter surfaces with a map to his buried fortune, which the yakuza and a dirty cop are determined to find.


Meet Me in the Dream: Wonderland
1996 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
Young and beautiful germophobe Ritsuko moves into a picture perfect neighborhood with her parents, being monitored by a research team who want to cure her of her debilitating phobias. Will her new neighbors be able to cure her of her irrational view of the outside world, or will coming face to face with this fairy-tale setting only drive her further inside of her subconsciousness?


Sanctuary - Part 2
1995 · 1h 20m
country: Japan
Two people who lead Japan to "Sanctuary". Hojo aims to unite the Yakuza organization in the Kanto region, and Asami to create a faction "Rifukakai," aiming to destroy Isaoka's system of the ruling Democratic Party. Meanwhile, the connection between Hojo and Asami is revealed.


Forever with You
1995 · 1h 37m
country: Japan
In a room with only a bed, Shizumi's left hand was somehow fixed to the bed by handcuffs and chains. "Who is this man?", "Why am I sleeping like this?" Shizumi who woke up with a terrible headache started to recall the memory from last light...


800 Two Lap Runners
1994 · 1h 50m
country: Japan
A coming-of-age story about two runners, Kenji and Ryuji, tangled in love, loss, and rivalry, as they navigate complex emotions and relationships.


Evil Dream
1994 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
The bus driver Nakatsuka Yukihiko saw in his dream the sexual fantasies involving one of his regular female passengers - Noriko Otomo. On the other hand, she sees the same dreams.


XX: Beautiful Weapon
1993 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
A blind female assassin lives alone in a remote house; her superiors occasionally send her "clients" / targets that she shoots right after having sex with them in her completely darkened bedroom.


Singapore Sling
1993 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
Tatsuya is on a honeymoon in Australia. A couple of unfortunate encounters land him in jail, where he’s imprisoned without a chance of ever getting out again. His wife tries her best to launch an appeal, but it’s Tatsuya’s inmates who are his best chance of escaping his current predicament.


Maohgai
1993 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
Kishi is a 37-year-old personnel officer and fairly happy with work, wife and child. But he turns out to be susceptible to a more exciting life. Through his old schoolfriend Daimon he meets the attractive Yoshie and spends a sensational night of love with her. Kishi doesn't want to leave it at one night. On their second meeting, Daimon is also present and this night turns into a sado-masochistic ritual. A suppressed memory emerges in Kishi: once he raped an elderly woman with Daimon. Kishi again crossed a frontier this night and the relationship with his colleague Yuko also breaks boundaries. He slowly realises that his emotional life is taking a direction that he had never dreamed possible; Kishi moves into a new and dark world.


Human Scramble: Rain
1993 · 1h 10m
country: Japan
Based on the comic written by Masao Yajima and illustrated by Kenshi Hirokane.


Bad Boy Blue
1992 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
Akio, who works at a gas station, earned his large motorcycle license and finally got his hands on the GSX1100S KATANA he’d always wanted. Devoting more affection to his bike than to his girlfriend Risa, he silently continues to test-run the engine. One day, Akio meets Mioko, a tough-talking junior at Risa’s high school. She had a crush on Akio’s friend Takashi, but at the same time, she had caught the eye of Kikuchida, a member of a delinquent gang.


Battle Girl: The Living Dead in Tokyo Bay
1991 · 1h 13m
country: Japan
A meteor lands in Japan and the fallout creates a “shield” around Tokyo, encasing the city in a foggy darkness. A state of martial law is declared. People are in a panic as violent crime and corruption spreads throughout the region and punk gangs are ruling the streets. As if things weren’t bad enough, a chemical reaction from the meteor unleashes a deadly virus and now the dead are coming back to life as flesh-eating zombies!


TVO
1991 · 1h 45m
country: Japan
Satsuki, a high school student living in the countryside, travels to Tokyo to find out the truth about the death of her sister Kiyomi, who has apparently been murdered by her own boyfriend.


Ready to Shoot
1990 · 1h 46m
country: Japan
A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho. He quickly becomes aware that her life is in his hands when he learns she is hiding from the yakuza.


It's Easier Than Kissing
1989 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
After the death of her mother a young woman wants to meet her real father
Cheek to Cheek at Night ~ A Woman Embracing the Past
Cheek to Cheek at Night ~ A Woman Embracing the Past
1988 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
TV film directed by Toshiharu Ikeda and written by Takashi Ishii. Produced in 1986 but not aired until 1988.


Rorīta ekusutashī: Niku asari
1987 · 1h
country: Japan


Peach Butt Hard Love: Aspiring to Orgasm
1987 · 1h 4m
country: Japan


Hensa-chi H kurabu
1987 · 1h 4m
country: Japan
A beautiful new teacher, with ambitions to become an educator, goes to a school called "Lust High School," which is a very lewd and unpleasant school. She uses her body to sooth the sexual troubles of her students and herself.


Hanjuku Madonna: Oishii futomomo
1987 · 1h 3m
country: Japan


Sukeban: Niku dorei
1987 · 1h 7m
country: Japan
A woman working at a trading company is soon to be married to the boss. But one day a punk schoolgirl forces her way into their office and threatens to reveal her past gang life.


Nurse Girls' Dorm: Shamed Angel
1987 · 1h 3m
country: Japan
A hospital welcomes its newest nursing addition, Yukari (Tomomi Segawa), who gets to stay in the first-year dorm on campus where having a man over will get you punished with a heavy hosing ("You dirty animals, stop resisting!"). Her rapport with her fellow nurses is put to the test when she ignores warnings and becomes involved with the head surgeon, Dr. Muraoka, who turns out to have a sinister side including a penchant for non-consensual sex and inappropriate use of cooking ingredients.


True Story of a Woman in Soapland: Tear!
1987 · 1h 4m
country: Japan
Sex worker Hasekura (Shinobu Wakana) is visited by old classmate and current lanky art teacher Kikuta (Kazuo Ôtani) when his wife ditches him over his constant philandering. Soon he's juggling his new fondness for soapy sex with his mistress and his now-pregnant wife, a situation that becomes more complicated by the minute as marital obligations and unrestrained kinks collide.


Tōsatsu mania: Furaidē no on'na
1986 · 1h 2m
country: Japan


(Marunama) Terekura: Nigiritagaru Hitozuma-tachi
1986 · 1h 7m
country: Japan
A salaryman who starts going to a teleclub by chance...


1/2 Man
1986 · 58m
country: Japan
A visual documentary of Einstürzende Neubauten, the German underground band, by Japanese cult director Sogo Ishii, made during their 1985 tour of Japan. The band makes an elaborate and remarkably choreographed appearance in the ruins of an old ironworks which was scheduled for demolition; footage of same was incorporated into the movie and a brief appearance on stage.


Entrails of a Virgin
1986 · 1h 12m
country: Japan
Returning from a shoot, an adult film crew gets lost in the fog of a mountain location. Luckily, they find a deserted resort, but unfortunately, something is stirring in the woods, and it’s not too happy with their visit.


The Bloody Afternoon
1985 · 1h 21m
country: Japan
Anarchic parody of the crime genre set around a bank robbery.


Sexual Beast Sacrifice
1984 · 1h 1m
country: Japan
Tomoo, a college student, lives in a Western-style house where strange people live, such as his landlady Yukiko and her older brother Kishi, the crook Hosoda, and his idiot wife Tamae, Miyamoto, who lost both legs in the war, his mistress with tattoos, Nozawa, who has no energy, and Shizue, a lover with heart disease. Detective Harada recently discovered the strangled corpses of four women, and while the local residents are suspicious and conducting a secret investigation, a strange incident has occurred, and suspicion falls on Tomio...


Benriya K-ko
1984 · 1h
country: Japan


Sukyanti dōru: nugitate no kaori
1984 · 55m
country: Japan


Taxi driver: Hakuchû no tôsui
1983 · 59m
country: Japan
Yamashita is a taxi driver. Every morning in the city, Shizue, the owner of a bar, waits for his car in the same spot. That day, he drives her to her apartment, but ends up having sex with her inside. One morning, she gets into Yamashita's car with a man who looks like a yakuza. That man is Kamiya, someone Yamashita had helped out in the past. Junko, a friend of Yasushi who lives with Yamashita, has a yakuza boyfriend named Shota. Unaware of this, Uke visits Junko's house, confesses his love, and tries to force himself on her...


Once and For All Pt.2
1968 · 1h 20m
country: Japan
Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro.


Gang vs. G-Men
1962 · 1h 22m
country: Japan
Two rival gangs of gangsters clash for dominance of a neighborhood.