Search results for "Kiyohiko Shibukawa"
Winny

Winny

Winny
IMDb: 6.6
127

In the early days of the Internet, a case arises from an innovative software and the developer is falsely arrested by the police. This film is based on the true…

Genre: Drama
All the Long Nights

All the Long Nights

All the Long Nights
IMDb: 7.6
119

Two work colleagues: he suffers from panic attacks, she has extreme PMS. Their company distributes toy planetariums. What may not sound like Ozu Yasujirō is actually precisely that: people are…

Genre: Drama
37 Seconds

37 Seconds

37 Seconds
IMDb: 7.4
115

In 37 Seconds, 23-year-old comic book artist Yuma, physically disabled due to profound cerebral palsy and emotionally stunted by her well-meaning but overly protective mother, forges her own unusual path…

Genre: Drama
Lumberjack the Monster

Lumberjack the Monster

Lumberjack the Monster
IMDb: 6.1
119

After Akira Ninomiya miraculously survives a brutal attack by an unknown assailant wearing a “monster mask,” he becomes fixated on finding the attacker and getting revenge.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Convenience Story

Convenience Story

Convenience Story
IMDb: 5.6
97

Kato is an up-and-coming scriptwriter in the middle of a severe slump. He submits ideas for potential movies but makes no headway whatsoever, and spends his days downhearted and distressed….

Genre: Fantasy, Thriller
Golden Slumber

Golden Slumber

Golden Slumber
IMDb: 7
139

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 corrupt cops. It’s only…

The Hound of the Baskervilles: Sherlock the Movie

The Hound of the Baskervilles: Sherlock the Movie

The Hound of the Baskervilles: Sherlock the Movie
IMDb: 6.4
118

Based on the feature-length novel “The Hound of the Baskervilles” written by Arthur Conan Doyle, which is the movie version of the TV drama “Sherlock” broadcast on the Fuji TV…

Genre: Crime, Mystery
Fish Story

Fish Story

Fish Story
IMDb: 7.5
112

A rock band writes a song called “Fish Story” based on a sentence from a badly translated novel by a quack translator. The song exceeds the boundaries of space and…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Another World

Another World

Another World
IMDb: 6.2
119

Ko, a man in his late 30s, lives in the countryside with his wife and teenage son. Mitsuhiko, who runs a local car dealership, also stayed in his hometown. One…

Genre: Drama
Bitter Honey

Bitter Honey

Bitter Honey
IMDb: 5.7
105

Akako, a shape-shifting goldfish in the form of a coquettish nymphet clad in diaphanous red dresses, naively plays the role of erotic muse and adoring pet for an aging writer…

Genre: Drama
Lowlife Love

Lowlife Love

Lowlife Love
IMDb: 6.4
110

Tetsuo (Kiyohiko Shibukawa) is a lowlife. A film director with a small indie hit many years back, yet he has never gotten any further as he refuses to go against…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Yakuza Apocalypse

Yakuza Apocalypse

Yakuza Apocalypse
IMDb: 5.5
115

Akira admires Genyo Kamiura, the most powerful yakuza. Genyo Kamiura has been targeted numerous times, but he has never been killed. He is called the invincible person. Because of Genyo…

Genre: Action, Horror
Joker Game

Joker Game

Joker Game
IMDb: 5.3
108

Set along a backdrop of a fictitious second world war at an international city in Asia. In Japan, Lieutenant Colonel Yuki (Yusuke Iseya) recommends the creation of spy training school…

Genre: Action, Thriller
Ichi the Killer

Ichi the Killer

Ichi the Killer
IMDb: 7
129

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…

Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
Blue Spring

Blue Spring

Blue Spring
IMDb: 7.2
83

Soon after being named the new leader of his high school’s gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants desperately to abandon his…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Love Bombs

Love Bombs

Love Bombs
IMDb: 6.6
94

A mysterious city woman named Kiyomi is cared for by an old village woman. The male villagers are intrigued by Kiyomi, especially Masaru, a young man who the surrogate grandson…

Genre: Drama
Pornostar

Pornostar

Pornostar
IMDb: 6.5
98

A young man decides one day to start killing yakuza. After he kills his first two he gets roped into helping a wannabe gangster and his bumbling underlings to perform…

Genre: Crime
It’s Me It’s Me

It’s Me It’s Me

It’s Me It’s Me
IMDb: 5.9
119

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…

Chokolietta

Chokolietta

Chokolietta
IMDb: 5.6
159

Chiyoko’s mother died when she was young. Since that time, Chiyoko has closed her heart to others. After her pet dies, Chiyoko feels loneliness. Her mother liked the Italian movie…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Tezuka’s Barbara

Tezuka’s Barbara

Tezuka’s Barbara
IMDb: 5.7
100

Barbara is an adult-orientated fantasy tale filled with love and the occult from Osamu Tezuka’s reimagining of “The Tales of Hoffmann”. Its story deals with the erotic and bizarre experiences…

Genre: Fantasy, Mystery
Last of the Wolves

Last of the Wolves

Last of the Wolves
IMDb: 6.7
139

After Shogo Ogami’s death in Hiroshima, Detective Shuichi Hioka successfully implemented Shogo Ogami’s plan, which was to control the yakuza to prevent further gang wars and save innocent people from…

Genre: Crime
And the Mud Ship Sails Away…

And the Mud Ship Sails Away…

And the Mud Ship Sails Away…
IMDb: 6
88

Takashi is country hipster, work avoiding, not-so-smart life expert in vague rural-urban area in the north from Tokyo. He lives together with his grandmother and laughs at his friend who…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Day of Destruction

The Day of Destruction

The Day of Destruction
IMDb: 5.4
74

Seven years ago, a mysterious monster was found deep in a rural coal mine. Since then, rumors of a plague spread through the small town, and people experience an unexplainable…

Genre: Drama, Horror
Wolf’s Calling

Wolf’s Calling

Wolf’s Calling
IMDb: 6.5
17

A girl finds an old handgun in her attic and the symbolic object conjures a mystical scene of samurai (a stellar cast of actors joined by the 20-person Edo punk…

Genre: Drama, Music
Monsters Club

Monsters Club

Monsters Club
IMDb: 6.3
71

Having abandoned modern civilization, Ryoichi lives an isolated, self-sufficient life on a snow-covered mountain and sends mail bombs to the CEOs of corporations and TV networks. One day, he encounters…

Genre: Drama
Go Seppuku Yourselves

Go Seppuku Yourselves

Go Seppuku Yourselves
IMDb: 6.6
26

Completing Toshiaki Toyoda’s politically urgent Resurrection Trilogy following Wolf’s Calling and The Day of Destruction, this electrifying short follows a man tasked with assisting in the ritual suicide of a…

Genre: Drama
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
IMDb: 7.6
121

An unexpected love triangle, a seduction trap, and a random encounter are the three episodes, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their…

Genre: Drama, Romance