Makoto Ashikawa

A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and Yakuza activities.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yûrei Yanagi

Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Kaneko

Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. When his daughter Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a grocery store a man named Murata steps in to settle...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuru Fukikoshi

Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is...

Genre: Action

Cast: Reiko Ike

Shogo, the arrogant and condescending star of a popular call-in radio-show must temporarily broadcast out of Studio 6, a creepy and dilapidated booth...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Ryuta Sato

Saeko and Yukako live together in a small apartment complex in Tokyo. After the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, both live in a state of unease. Saeko, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kiki Sugino

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

A rock band writes a song called "Fish Story" that is foretold to save the world. The song exceeds the boundaries of space and time and ties people...

Genre: Music

Cast: Atsushi Ito

First mainstream film directed by Genji Nakamura, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1974 short story of the same title.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

In 1959, a body of a flight attendant of an international airline is found, strangled. Detective Rokuro Fujisawa takes charge of the investigation...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Kobayashi Isamu, a first-year high school student, lives in a family of four with his father, an artist, his mother, an insurance agent, and his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kawarasaki Gonjuro IV

When elementary school teacher Kobayashi investigates the absence of one of his young pupils from the classroom, he finds himself at the doorstep of...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Yûrei Yanagi

On his request, the sensitive sister of a real estate agent visits a house he intends to put up for sale, only to cross paths with its resident curse.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Yuko Daike

Detective Nishi is relieved from a stakeout to visit his sick wife in hospital. He is informed that she is terminally ill, and is advised to take her...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Sensual love story about a single woman struggling with romance. Director Morikawa Kei won the Grand Prix at the 2015 Yubari International Fantastic...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Junko Maru

When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Minister's assassination, and on the run from...

Genre: Action

Cast: Masato Sakai

Haruko is a single mother. She has an unusual living arrangement. She lives with her son Riku, her friend Aiko and Aiko's boyfriend Sorao. One day,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naomi Nishida

A novelist receives a letter from a female university student named Kubo about strange sounds that emanate from a room in her apartment. They begin...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Yûko Takeuchi

Documentary with Makoto Ashikawa, who played Kikuchi in Violent Cop, and Masayuki Mori, the film's producer, commenting on the film and what was...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Makoto Ashikawa

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Cast: Riki Takeuchi

A man with a wife and child attempts to run off with a hostess, but he doesn’t show up at the place they agreed to meet. The hostess continues...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yôsuke Okuda

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...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dankan

Ryuzo and his 7 former henchmen are all retired yakuza, but they now live as regular old men. One day, Ryuzo becomes the victim of a phishing fraud....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tatsuya Fuji