Known for Acting
Yoshiyuki Morishita (森下 能幸, Morishita Yoshiyuki, born 4 December 1962) is a Japanese actor. He has appeared in more than eighty films since 1996.
Born
December 4, 1962 (age 63)
Birthplace
Tokyo, Japan
Filmography
126 films, 40 shows
Mei Mei
Mei Mei
2025 · 1h 42m
country: Japan
What words carry, what they miss, and what they connect. Yunmei has left her hometown of Taiwan to pursue a career as an actress in Japan. She’s been cast in the lead role of a film but struggles with her Japanese lines. Around the same time, her older sister, Huiling, who works for a major corporation in Taiwan, is transferred to Japan, and Yunmei helps her find a place to live. However, the two often clash. Real-life sisters and actors vividly portray these distant siblings, gently capturing the uncertainty of communication and the quiet moments when hearts unexpectedly connect.


The Quiet Don: Chapter 7
2025 · 55m
country: Japan
The Shinsen-gumi–Onishu conflict escalates, causing defections. Naruto and Inokubi vow to prove Shizuka’s innocence, leaving Namakura and Hijikata in charge. They investigate while Shizuka hides with his boss. At the hospital, a scuffle implicates Shinsen-gumi, causing arrests and deaths. Seeing the situation and loyal members’ faith, Shizuka resolves to confront Onishu-gumi himself.


The Quiet Don: Chapter 6
2025 · 53m
country: Japan
J attacks Shizuka at home again, and even while hiding at Namakura’s, Shizuka is targeted. He realizes J has spared him multiple times. At the peace signing, J appears, but Omura is shot instead. Kaifu, angered, starts a conflict—but it’s a setup to frame Shinsen-gumi. Media exposure reveals Shizuka’s yakuza identity. When Ayako is attacked, she accidentally kills J. To protect her, Shizuka takes the blame and goes on the run.


The Quiet Don: Chapter 5
2024 · 53m
country: Japan
Kondo Shizuka works at a design company by day and leads the Shinsen-gumi by night. Though a yakuza, he dislikes conflict and revitalizes his gang with fresh ideas. Months after the Onishu-gumi conflict, the new boss Kaifu poses a threat. While planning peace, Kaifu surprises Shizuka by proposing a negotiation. Displeased Onishu members hire legendary hitman J to kill him. Unaware, Shizuka meets Ayako, a high school girl who is a yakuza’s daughter. After surviving J’s attack with Inokubi’s help, Shizuka has three days to evade assassination before the peace talks.


Cloud
2024 · 2h 4m
country: Japan
Ryōsuke Yoshii, an ordinary reseller, carelessly earns grudges by people and becomes entangled in a life-threatening struggle.


みんな生きている ~二つ目の誕生日~
2023 · 1h 53m
country: Japan


Everything Will Be Owlright!
2022 · 1h 57m
country: Japan
Tamura Yujiro and Hiyori have been married for four years. They look like a happily married couple, but, Hiyori secretly badmouths her husband on social media page "Husband Death Note."


Shrieking in the Rain
2021 · 1h 41m
country: Japan
At a movie studio in 1988, rookie director Hanako Hayashi is making her directorial debut, the erotic As Far as Love Will Take Us. She's under pressure from her producer and crew. When she is about to shoot the climax of the film, numerous problems arise. To make matters worse, the set is visited by a censor from the Film Certification Committee, and the key scenes end up being cut out to avoid an R rating. Can Hanako realise her dream?


TATSUJIN THE MASTER
2021
country: Japan


Every Trick In The Book
2021 · 1h 59m
country: Japan
Shinichi Tsuda, a Naoki Prize winning author, is working to publish his newest story. It revolves around Tsuyama, a driver for a call girl business in Toyama Prefecture, who comes across a mysterious counterfeit bill and has his life targeted by underworld kingpin Kurata. Is his story fact or fiction? His editor, Nahomi Torikai, decides to verify whether his latest work is mere fiction based on real-life experiences. She looks into a family that vanished, a post office worker who went missing, a shady load of cash, the whereabouts of the doves, and the fateful encounter from that night... A series of shocking facts are revealed from Tsuda’s stories. Why did the counterfeit money end up in Tsuda’s hands? What is the “ending” that Tsuda wished to portray?


The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
2021 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who get involved in misadventures while on set.


My Name Is Yours
2020 · 1h 55m
country: Japan
At midnight, in a residential area of Osaka, a middle aged man is murdered. The person who killed the man is a high school student. En is a 2nd grade high school student. She spends her boring days with her friend Kotoko, who tends to change boyfriends frequently. Kotoko falls in love with Narihira at first sight. Narihira is a soccer player at their high school. Since then, the relationship between En and Kotoko changes.


A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad's an Alcoholic
2020 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
Saki's father is an alcoholic and her mother is a follower of a new religion. She sees her father's strange behavior and her mother's loneliness. Her family is collapsing, but Saki struggles to look for her future.


Ghost Master
2019 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
Akira Kurosawa is a nerdy movie buff who works on low budget romantic comedies while dreaming of becoming a horror master. After being abused by his mentor, “the master” he finally decides he’s had enough and opens a door allowing an evil spirit to wreak revenge on those who have been cruel to him. But much like the movies he loves, once a spirit is unleashed – it can’t be controlled and starts to kill everyone!


Family of Strangers
2019 · 1h 57m
country: Japan
Three patients of different backgrounds, illnesses and stages are being treated at a psychiatric clinic in Nagano Prefecture. Their cases range from the criminal to merely asocial. That should be that, but soon matters take a darker turn when a corpse turns up and a murder has occurred. The culprit fingered is one of the patients.


LOUDER! Can't Hear What You're Singin', Wimp!
2018 · 1h 47m
country: Japan
Sin is a rock star. He has an amazingly loud voice with a range of four octaves. His secret is that he has created his voice through a method of vocal cord doping. His voice is now teetering on the edge, due to side effects from the vocal cord doping. Around this time, Sin meets Fūka, who is a street musician. When Fūka sings, her voice is so small. Due to Fūka, Sin looks back upon his past.


Itsumo Tsukiyo ni Kome no Meshi
2018 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
After the disappearance of her single mother, a Tokyo high school student goes to Niigata to begin work at her mother’s izakaya restaurant.


Mori, The Artist's Habitat
2018 · 1h 39m
country: Japan
Vegetation thrives in painter Morikazu's garden, which is home to creatures that serve as models for his paintings, including numerous bugs and cats. A sweet and heartwarming day begins for Morikazu, who gazed at these garden creatures on a daily basis for over three decades, and those who love him.


Kuinige Killer
2018 · 1h 54m
country: Japan
A family restaurant faces hard times due to customers running out on their bills. In his past, Shogo Kawatani was a premiere athlete. Now, Shogo Kawatani works for the family restaurant. His job is to catch customers who run out on their bills.


BraveStorm
2017 · 1h 21m
country: Japan
In the year 2050, mankind is extinct. The last survivors travel back in time to stop the invader, Killgis, aided by roboticist Kenichiro Kurenai. When they arrive at the past, they start to build a giant robot, Red Baron, and the pilot of the Red Baron races against time aided by reinforced humans to identify the alien in a fierce battle which starts in Tokyo for the survival of Earth. This is a re-imagining of the 1970s TV series' "Silver Kamen" and "Super Robot Red Baron".


Messy
2017 · 55m
country: Japan
A drama in which an office lady searches for her own way of life. Sayumi, a 26-year-old OL, thinks that she only wants to have sex with people she likes, but the girls around her have teased her about the idea. In front of her, men who are not normal appear because they are too straight in their thoughts.


Innocent Curse
2017 · 1h 51m
country: Japan
A suburban town is faced with a series of bizarre incidents in which children disappear and three days later an adult in their life dies. A mysterious "child whisperer" phantom appears before journalist Shunya, who is investigating the incidents, and his girlfriend Naomi.


Kamen Rider Ghost RE:BIRTH - Kamen Rider Specter
2017 · 1h
country: Japan
A continuation from the Kamen Rider Ghost TV series, this is the story of Makoto, Alain, and Kanon who have traveled back to the Ganma World. It will explain the connection between Makoto and the Makoto doppelganger. Kanon’s secret will be revealed as well.


Survival Family
2017 · 1h 57m
country: Japan
A world wide electrical outage occurs. Everything that requires electricity comes to a stop. Tokyo is nearly ruined. Yoshiyuki Suzuki decides to escape from Tokyo with his family.
Satsujinki
Satsujinki
2016 · 30m
country: Japan
Almost all of the dialogue and narration is extracted from the original work, with only minor differences in the storyline as follows. Yashiro Ryusuke's own home is located on Y Koji. When he first accompanies Kanako on the road, Kagawa meets her in front of Yashiro's house, and Kamei also appears there. Dr Asano's wife did not show up. It is explained that Kagawa has two girls (in the original story, one is a student at a girls' school, but the gender of the other is unknown). The introduction of the 'one in 500 murderers' is told against the backdrop of Kindaichi excavating an air-raid shelter (which appears to have been made from a natural cave).


Golden Orchestra
2016 · 1h 59m
country: Japan
When Chizuru joins as a teacher at Umega High School, she hears an amateur orchestra perform. Reminiscing her old days of playing the violin, she decides to enroll in one.


Oh My Zombie!
2016 · 1h 54m
country: Japan
Five years have passed since Japan's Great Zombie Panic. The confusion of those days is gone and people have finally regained their ordinary, peaceful lives. One day, out of nowhere, a zombie appears and becomes trapped in a house. Six people have spotted the zombie, including the home-owner couple, a cheeky high school boy, a boring small-factory owner, a suspicious young intern and a woman who insists she is the zombie's wife.


Kamen Rider Ghost: Truth! The Secret of the Heroic Eyecons!
2016 · 20m
country: Japan
In the World of Ganma, Chikara Saionji is revived, his spiritual remains entering an empty Ganma Eyecon shell. He soon spots Alain and the Fukami siblings, Makota and Kanon, nearby. Unaware of what has happened since his death, he brings out an old photo of the original Ghost Hunters team, remembering what he is there to do. This story is set after the epilogue of Kamen Rider Ghost RE:BIRTH: Kamen Rider Specter, which itself is set 2 years after the events of Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legend Rider.


Samurai Cat: Tamanojo Goes to Edo
2016 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
A prequel to the story of the legendary samurai and one cat. In Edo era, there was a legendary samurai named Kyutaro Madarame who are feared as a "Madara the Devil". He was somehow hired for killing a cat named Tamanojo. Just before Kyutaro slashes on Tamanojo, he realizes that Tamanojo looking into his eyes and said "meow". But why?


Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Ghost & Drive: Super Movie Wars Genesis
2015 · 1h 23m
country: Japan
Shortly after Shinnosuke Tomari (Ryoma Takeuchi), Kamen Rider Drive, eradicates the Earth of the 108 Roidmudes, he is put on a special assignment to investigate paranormal activity elsewhere in the city. He heads to the temple Daitenkū-ji to speak with witnesses Akari Tsukimura (Hikaru Ohsawa) and Onari (Takayuki Yanagi), but as he is interrogating them, a Gamma appears and steals an Eyecon from the temple, prompting Takeru Tenkūji (Shun Nishime), Kamen Rider Ghost, to fight it, even though to Shinnosuke it seems that Kamen Rider Ghost is fighting no one at all as he cannot see the Gamma


Pieta in the Toilet
2015 · 2h
country: Japan
Hiroshi has given up on his dreams of becoming a painter and works part-time cleaning office windows. He learns that he has only 3 months left to live. During his last summer, high school student Mai appears. Hiroshi becomes attracted to her.


Yakuza Apocalypse
2015 · 1h 55m
country: Japan
When young protege Akira Kageyama is bitten by his dying vampire boss, Genyo Kamiura, he must get used to his new powers before seeking revenge.


Raining Blood
2014 · 1h 45m
country: Japan
One day, Naoto receives a package. Inside he finds a book, ‘LIVE’. At the same time, he receives an image on mobile phone of his mother being kidnapped and a call from a mysterious man. “If you don’ t want us to inject the killer virus in your mother, find the hints hidden in the novel and head for the goal in the death race!” Naoto starts running to save his mother with the book in his hand.


Our Tomorrow
2014 · 1h 48m
country: Japan
At a pawn shop called "K" which is known for being a place where backroom deals are conducted, a professional burglar named Ryo Fudo puts together a team with the aim of stealing a legendary cache of gold. Ryo plans to wash his hands of thievery once and for all after this one final job, but conflicting intentions and betrayal soon complicate the situation.


Hello! Junichi
2014 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
An elementary student named Junichi is having trouble returning an eraser he borrowed from his secret crush, Maeda. With the support and encouragement of rookie teacher Anna, Junichi gets over his shyness and starts a band with his classmates.


It's Me It's Me
2013 · 1h 59m
country: Japan
Hitoshi Nagano, who works at an electronics store, picks up a cellphone left behind by a customer and goes about a scam. He calls the person's mother and pretends to be her son. He then gets the mother to transfer money to his bank account. Soon, Hitoshi gets a lot more than he bargained for.


Thermae Romae
2012 · 1h 48m
country: Japan
Lucius Modestus, ancient Roman bath architect, has lost his job. The one way he can win it back is by creating a bath that nobody has seen before, and, by pure chance, ends up slipping through time to Japan in 2012. There, he discovers the wonders of Japanese bath technology, incorporating it into his own designs, but must face the challenges of the succession of the emperor, his home life, and his new hot spring-based friends, including manga artist meet-cute Mami.


The Woodsman and the Rain
2012 · 2h 9m
country: Japan
A widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for his help and increasingly starts to rely on him.


Robo-G
2012 · 1h 52m
country: Japan
Three engineers cannot make a robot work in time for a science show, and hire a man to inhabit the robot's shell to save their jobs. The robot's performance at the show attracts media attention and scrutiny from a science student.


Smuggler
2011 · 1h 54m
country: Japan
To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one live elite assassin – in the middle of the night.


The Warped Forest
2011 · 1h 22m
country: Japan
Settle into your chair and be transported to a place both familiar and alien; where a giant shop-girl can barely fit in her store, there's a weird green pod in every bedroom, and terrifying wood nymphs provide a heartbroken woman with the anatomically correct fruit everyone seems to covet. In the end we are left, like Alice, with the Red King's conundrum: are we dreaming them or are they dreaming us?


Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
2011 · 4h 14m
country: United States
A former assassin, known simply as The Bride, wakes from a coma four years after her jealous ex-lover Bill attempts to murder her on her wedding day. Fueled by an insatiable desire for revenge, she vows to get even with every person who contributed to the loss of her unborn child, her entire wedding party, and four years of her life. After devising a hit list, The Bride sets off on her quest, enduring unspeakable injury and unscrupulous enemies.


Happy Together –All About My Dog–
2011 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
A series of short stories explore the connection of love between dogs and people.


Quirky Guys and Gals
2011 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
The movie consists of 4 stories each telling how people survive on life-death choice. The story titles are: Cheering Girls, Boy? meets girl., Claim Night! and The House Full Of 'Abandoned' Businessmen.


Soup Opera
2010 · 1h 59m
country: Japan
Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through an unexpected set of circumstances, she winds up becoming roommates with an aging ladies’ man named Tony and a timid younger man named Kosuke.


Household X
2010 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
The story takes place in a new residential area in the outskirts of Tokyo. A family photograph adorns the living room of the Hashimoto family. It is a heartwarming shot of the three family members from when they first moved here, finally having bought their own home that they had wanted for so long. Wife Michiko hangs the laundry everyday. Husband Ken-ichi leaves for work without a word. Son Hiroaki has a part-time job, returns home early and disappears into his room. The Hashimoto Family no longer eats meal together at the dining table or spends time together in the living room. Michiko yearns for a different relationship with her family and is gradually overcome by loneliness. While feeling pressured from the trifling matters that occur within the residential community, Michiko tries to fill the emptiness that she hides in her heart.


Piecing Me Back Together
2010 · 1h 50m
country: Japan
A young woman named Izumi suffers the loss of her boyfriend Junichi, who died from a fatal motorcycle accident. The shock from her boyfriend's sudden death causes Izumi to lose her memory from the time of the accident. A lawyer named Makiko then helps Izumi to remember the final moments of her boyfriend's life.


月と嘘と殺人
2010
country: Japan


Redline
2009 · 1h 42m
country: Japan
A daredevil driver is determined to compete in Redline, the most popular race in the galaxy. The race only occurs every five years, but in order to participate he must overcome the mafia, the government and even love.


Instant Swamp
2009 · 2h 5m
country: Japan
A woman finds out her father is not her real one after her mother falls into a coma while searching for a mythical creature. She decides to meet her real father who happens to be an off-beat antique shopkeeper.


Tales of the Bizarre: 2009 Spring Special
2009 · 1h 55m
country: Japan


Heibon Ponch
2008 · 1h 42m
country: Japan


Happy Flight
2008 · 1h 43m
country: Japan
A variety of aviation professionals such as pilots, flight attendants, the ground crew, mechanics, dispatchers, controllers, and the bird patrol crew all support a single flight. They have only one mission: to secure the safety of the passengers.


Achilles and the Tortoise
2008 · 2h
country: Japan
Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.


Tokyo!
2008 · 1h 52m
country: South Korea
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.


My Darling of the Mountains
2008 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
In the mountain hot springs of Izu, Japan, a love triangle is waiting to happen. It is the late 1930s when the paths of a stunning woman fleeing Tokyo, a handsome bachelor and a blind masseur cross.


Torihada 3~ Yofukashi no anata ni zokutto suru hanashi wo
2008 · 46m
country: Japan


The Glorious Team Batista
2008 · 2h
country: Japan
Toho university hospital has established an outstanding coronary surgery team under the leadership of a up and coming, star, U.S. trained surgeon that specializes in the highly risky "Batista" procedure to shrink the size of enlarged hearts. Normally this procedure has only a 60% success rate, but "Team Batista" has achieved a run of 26 straight successes....when suddenly 3 patients in a row die on the operating table. Very disturbed, the lead surgeon requests an independent investigation. The hospital turns to Dr. Taguchi who is a specialist in psychosomatic disorders who is shocked to at the assignment because she knows nothing in particular about surgery. Assured, however, that this very lack of insider specialized knowledge is in fact the "objectivity" required, she diligently begins to investigate in her own polite, but persistent manner.


Gumi. Chocolate. Pine.
2007 · 2h 7m
country: Japan
Kenzo and his high school friends live in anguish, believing that there is something that sets them apart from everybody else.


X-Cross
2007 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
Recovering from a failed love affair Shiyori heads to the country, in the company of best friend and bad girl Aiko. Having taken a long soak in the hot spring they retire to their respective cabins. They soon discover that the tranquil village is the home of a cult with a fetish for cutting off female legs. Trying to escape they are split up and keep in touch via their mobile phones. Multiple points of view and time frames keeps the viewer on their toes trying to discern the grisly fate of these "lost" girls.


Sad Vacation
2007 · 2h 16m
country: Japan
Abandoned by his mother, Kenji scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs, including driving bar hostesses and their customers home. Besides this, he cares for the sister of an incarcerated friend and a young illegal immigrant. Eventually, his life reaches a turning point.


The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
2007 · 1h 43m
country: Japan
A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly": find a bug with the power to bring humans back from the dead, in order to report on the afterlife. With his trusty companion Endo in tow, he sets off on a quest for the elusive insect and along the way meets the mysterious Sayoko, a former dominatrix and habitual wrist-cutter who delights in rubbing wasabi into her wounds.


Glory to the Filmmaker!
2007 · 1h 48m
country: Japan
Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.
Hokuro Kyodai Full Throttle!!!!
Hokuro Kyodai Full Throttle!!!!
2007 · 36m
country: Japan
One of the most wildly creative filmmakers working in Japan today, Ishii Katsuhito seems to take joy in dropping whimsical, unpredictable works onto unsuspecting audiences. His last film Nice no Mori (a.k.a. Funky Forest), an omnibus offering co-directed with Ishimine Hajime and Miki Shinichiro, was an ode to pure, unadulterated insanity. The Mole Brothers and their Beatles hairdos serve up plenty of chaos and laughter in this riotous seven-episode series that is just about required viewing for fans of the film. Ishii returns once again to his animation roots, and the results are as head-scratchingly brilliant as ever. This release comes with the seven animated shorts, Nice no Mori trailer, and Hokuro Brothers Full Throttle!!!! making of and filmography.


Crickets
2006 · 1h 42m
country: Japan
Kaoru, a wealthy woman whose youth is fading, abandons the hustle and bustle of the city to live peacefully in a home on the coast. There, she takes care of an old deaf, dumb and blind man as if he were an insect, a child or a pet. He can’t do anything for himself, so she feeds him and accompanies him on his walks. This strong mutual dependency offers Kaoru an escape from society and allows her to free herself from restrictions imposed by common sense.


Kisarazu Cat's Eye: World Series
2006 · 2h 11m
country: Japan
After terminally ill Bussan finally passes away he misses hanging out with his still living friends and decides to return to Kisarazu. In his ghost form however only his most trusted friends can see him, and his meddling in the lives of the living results in the return of Ozzy and a long dead team of American baseball players who drowned off the shores of Kisarazu. It's down to Bussan and the Cats to save the day and restore the town to order, but can Bussan bring himself to say bye-bye once and for all?


Heavenly Forest
2006 · 1h 56m
country: Japan
Amateur photographer Makoto and the homely but endearing Shizuru meet during their university entrance ceremony and become instant friends. Shy by nature, Makoto finds himself opening up around Shizuru, who is secretly in love with him.


Angel's Egg
2006 · 1h 54m
country: Japan
The film follows a young aspiring art university student, who falls in love with the older sister of his girlfriend. The heartrending longing and the true love that the three characters pursue, is pure, but almost painful. Is the person who stands next to you, is the person that gives you true comfort and love? Can you say that you love him/her from the bottom of your heart?


Waiting in the Dark
2006 · 2h 10m
country: Japan
A precarious loner sneaks into a blind woman's home and begins living there without her noticing. Meanwhile, the woman mourns her recently deceased father and struggles to remain connected to the world.


Mechanical Race Queen
2006 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
Race Queen Reiko Kageyama may refer to: Even today, she showed off her proud body to the men who crowded the race track. It was Reiko who responded to the flash that never stopped with various poses. The scorching sunlight and exhaust-laden air cause you to collapse on the asphalt. Before she knew it, Reiko was being held captive by a man she didn't know. Moreover, the man who claimed to be a fan, was insulting her unconscious at will. Reiko's gears are starting to go crazy. In the car by the manager who rescued her. Raped by a father who attempted suicide in an abandoned forest. Eventually, she is picked up by a man who lives away from the mundane world. The man was a crazy scientist who had an unusual obsession with race queens and was trying to create an ideal goddess on the operating table... What is the end of the longing race queen who receives the desires of all men at once?


Tokyo Zombie
2005 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
Two Japanese friends accidentally kill their boss and dump his remains in Black Fuji, a mountain/landfill hybrid. This leads to poor results when the chemicals of the landfill mix with the corpse (and many other corpses) to give rise to a zombie infestation in Tokyo.


Funky Forest: The First Contact
2005 · 2h 30m
country: Japan
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.


Scrap Heaven
2005 · 1h 57m
country: Japan
The lives of a young cop, a sanitation worker and a brooding pharmacist violently intersect on a bus that's hijacked by a suicidal political flunky, then cross paths again months later.


Shining Boy & Little Randy
2005 · 1h 53m
country: Japan
Tetsumu, an introverted youth, realizes he has a natural ability of communicating with elephants. This prompts him to leave for Chiang Mai in Thailand to become Japan's first elephant trainer. Having found his place in the world, Tetsumu develops into a strong, confident young man. He returns to Japan with the dream of building a green "paradise" for his ivory-tusked friends. Meanwhile, he starts a career as an elephant trainer for touring shows. He meets Emi, a woman seven years his senior and falls in love.


Takeshis'
2005 · 1h 48m
country: Japan
Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, Kitano seems to begin hallucinating about becoming Beat.


Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers
2005 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
Suzume Katagura, a bored housewife, spends her days doing chores and taking care of her husband's pet turtle. One day, she sees a wanted ad for spies. Hoping for some excitement in her life, she decides to give them a call.


Tomie: Beginning
2005 · 1h 14m
country: Japan
Within days after the mysterious new student Kawakami Tomie joins a high school classroom, all hell literally breaks loose. Simple in-fighting between boys and girls over Tomie's oppressive shadow soon gives way to mind-breaking violence, culminating in a grizzly dissection that ultimately leads to suicide, insanity, and even more violence.


Install
2004 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
High school student Asako moves all of her belongings to the refuse area of her apartment complex and stops attending school. Kazuyoshi, a precocious young boy, invites her to join him in an online chatroom venture where she assumes the identity of a married temptress named "Miyabi".


Jam Films 2
2004 · 1h 55m
country: Japan
Jam Films 2 features 4 short films by different Japanese directors.


The Grudge
2004 · 1h 32m
country: United States
An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.


Dead Girl Walking
2004 · 44m
country: Japan
Yuri is an ordinary teenage girl. But one day, everything changes when she learns that she's apparently dead. Even though she's technically not alive, she tries to keep her humanity and life. Her family, however, wants her out of the picture.


Black Kiss
2004 · 2h 13m
country: Japan
Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre murder occurs in the hotel across the street. The body was mutilated and repositioned into a lurid work of art. After this, a string of murders start happening all around the two girls, as if some crazed serial killer was following them. At the scene of each crime, the perpetrator leaves a black lip print, and is subsequently dubbed "The Black Kiss."


Eagle of the Decotora 2: Aizu, Kitakata, and the Humanity Road!
2004 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
Second film in the 'Decotora no Eagle' series.


Survive Style 5+
2004 · 2h
country: Japan
Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one another eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.


Dark Tales of Japan
2004 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
Dark Tales of Japan is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Japanese film directors, which are told by a mysterious old lady in kimono on a late-night bus traveling on a long isolated mountain road.


Swing Girls
2004 · 1h 45m
country: Japan
A group of delinquent high school girls form a band when they accidentally poison their school's brass band and have to replace them.


Sexy Drink
2004 · 1h 6m
country: Japan
2004 Japanese movie


The Taste of Tea
2004 · 2h 23m
country: Japan
A spell of time in the life of the five-piece Haruno family in rural Tochigi Prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano, a successful music producer, is looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Sachiko is concerned with why she seems to be followed by a giant version of herself. As the lazy days pass by, each member of the family is followed in a series of episodic vignettes.


69
2004 · 1h 54m
country: Japan
Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater, and rock music, and develop their project into a school road block. This plan however catches the attention of television stations and newspapers, and soon even the cops became involved in this teenage adventure.


Cutie Honey
2004 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation to save him. Meanwhile the same crime group has been responsible for a number of other crime sprees across Tokyo. In the process, Honey teams up with the seemingly cold police woman Natsuko Aki and hot shot journalist Seiji Hayami as well as battle the four "claws" of the Panther Claw gang to save her uncle and the rest of the city.


Kill Bill: Vol. 2
2004 · 2h 16m
country: United States
The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former associates one-by-one, checking off the victims on her Death List Five until there's nothing left to do … but kill Bill.


Yoshino's Barber Shop
2004 · 1h 36m
country: Japan
In a small town on the countryside, every young boy is forced to have the same bowl-head haircut known as the "Yoshino-gari" hairstyle. Then one day, a drastic change occurs when a transfer student with bleached hair comes from Tokyo.


Hana & Alice
2004 · 2h 15m
country: Japan
Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.


Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
2003 · 1h 56m
country: Japan
A part-time employee in a mahjong parlour runs across a young woman, who is unable to walk, in baby carriage. He becomes friends with the woman and begins to feel enamoured with her.


Akame 48 Waterfalls
2003 · 2h 39m
country: Japan
A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange characters. He finds a job skewering meat in a dirty old room in a shabby old house filled with prostitutes, gangsters and a weird old tattoo master. He clearly doesn't fit in to this new world, and the inhabitants of it immediately despise him.


Eagle of the Decotora: Festival Music
2003 · 1h 25m
country: Japan
First film in the 'Decotora no Eagle' series.


Kill Bill: Vol. 1
2003 · 1h 51m
country: United States
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.


Zatoichi
2003 · 1h 56m
country: Japan
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.


Bayside Shakedown 2
2003 · 2h 8m
country: Japan
The movie takes place again in the fictional Wangan Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department the once empty space within Wangan's jurisdiction has become a popular tourist attraction. When a string of murders of company execs begins taking place, Aoshima jumps at the opportunity to pursue something other than his current case, which he finds less than inspiring. However the powers that be have other ideas, and Wangan again plays host to a special investigation team from headquarters. Aoshima's friend Superintendent Shinji Muroi, assigned by headquarters to assist Okita, is again powerless to help the local officers as decisions are made by the higher ups.


Border Line
2003 · 1h 58m
country: Japan
Three storylines interweave in Border Line. Kurosawa (Murakami Jun) finds himself driving a taciturn young man named Matsuda (Sawaki Tetsu) halfway to Hokkaido, after accidentally knocking him off his bike; their fragile bond can last only so long. The housewife Aikawa Misa (Aso Yumi) tries desperately to hold her family together when her husband gets laid off and her son is so frightened of bullies at school that he throws up in the car; she’s reduced to taking a McJob in a convenience store. And Miyaji (Mitsuishi Ken), who collects debts for a yakuza gang, gets into trouble when his partner Kitajima puts personal need above duty.


Most Dangerous Deka Matsuri
2003 · 1h 48m
country: Japan
Third installment of the Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 11 films made under the conditions: "the main character must be a detective" "the length must not exceed 10 minutes" "at least five gags must be included"


Cop Festival: New Beginning
2003 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
Fourth installment in Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 8 films.


Kaettekita! Deka Matsuri
2003 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
Second installment of omnibus series Deka Matsuri. 10 films made under the conditions "The main character must be a female detective" "the film must be less than 10 minutes long" "at least five gags must be included"


SHORT FILMS
2003 · 1h 47m
country: Japan
Omnibus of six short films: Return; Ken-do star; Hana to oji-san; Adagietto Sehr, langsam; Nakayoki koto wa yoki koto ka na; Slow is Beautiful. Third installment of "SF" series produced by Hiroyuki Nakano.


Bright Future
2003 · 1h 55m
country: Japan
Buddies working at an oshibori factory bond over an uncontrollable rage neither can control, as well as a strange jellyfish they keep as a pet.


SF Whipped Cream
2002 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
In the year 2060, KEN, a 25-year-old young man raised by aliens living illegally on Earth, makes a living by selling dubious drugs, idolizing Carl Gotch as a god. One day, he is caught cheating on his drug sales and becomes the target of a gang. However, it turns out that KEN's ID is forged and alien, and he is deported back to the planet where he was raised. There, KEN encounters many unusual phenomena.


Ju-on: The Grudge
2002 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
When a social worker is sent to check on a traumatized elderly woman whose family have moved in at the site of a notorious murder case, she unwittingly unleashes a cycle of terror that transmits via its victims.


Parco Fiction
2002 · 1h 5m
country: Japan
Witness a bizarre job interview and a dotty grandma in these five short surreal stories revolving around legendary Japanese department store Parco.


Better Left Unsaid / Mr. Yamaoka
2002 · 11m
country: Japan
A middle-aged push-over has an argument with two friends at the hotel he reserved for their holiday. They pick on him until an unexpected protector starts defending him. / An alien homeroom teacher gives career advice to a student.


Doing Time
2002 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon their individuality.


The Happiness of the Katakuris
2002 · 1h 53m
country: Japan
The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more.


Ichi the Killer
2001 · 2h 9m
country: Japan
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.


Pistol Opera
2001 · 1h 52m
country: Japan
An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.


GO
2001 · 2h 2m
country: Japan
Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.


Kakashi
2001 · 1h 26m
country: Japan
The search for her vanished brother Tsuyoshi leads Kaoru to the lonesome village Kozukata in the Japanese back-land. The locals react repelling to her, which the exception of the Chinese girl Sally. As her car breaks down Kaoru is trapped in the village; will she have to repay for something she has done in the past?


Getting Wild with Our Monkey
2001 · 1h 47m
country: Japan
A down-on-his luck writer meets a movie producer, who asks him to write a screenplay on the condition that he visit locations for the film. Chaos ensues.


Smap Short Films
2001 · 44m
country: Japan
Short films by top CM directors and CG creators: MUSIC POWER GO! GO! ダモン君の巻; BUS PANIC!!!; GAME SHINGO; 治療; Good-bye, cruel world; ROLLING BOMBER SPECIAL; 菅原さん ・コンセント ・トイレ ・のれない ・脱出不可能. Produced for and aired together as TV special of SMAPxSMAP


Party 7
2000 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from the mob, his ex-girlfriend, her obsessive boyfriend, the mob soldier sent to retrieve the briefcase, another mobster sent to kill them, master voyeur Captain Banana and his new apprentice, The Mister Yellow. Who will end up with the money?


Seikimatsu no noroi Zoshoku
2000 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
A female documentary writer approaches the case of a hikikomori boy's murder of a young girl and a high school girl's classmate.


The Whispered City
2000 · 1h 45m
country: Japan
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses.


Ring 0
2000 · 1h 39m
country: Japan
Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit.


Wild Zero
1999 · 1h 38m
country: Japan
Only legendary Japanese garage rock band Guitar Wolf can stand between a race of aliens from destroying Earth with an army of zombies.


Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
1999 · 1h 48m
country: Japan
In dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexually warped Uncle Sonezaki. Fortunately, she met Samehada as she runs for her life, which is also escaping from some slayers. What follows is a wild chase that leads the audience into a comically violent world.


Fireworks
1997 · 1h 43m
country: Japan
Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.


Kids Return
1996 · 1h 47m
country: Japan
Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place.


Sonatine
1993 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war, supposedly as mediators between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, his group is attacked in an ambush. The survivors flee and make a decision to lay low at the beach while they await further instructions.