Search results for "Tadanobu Asano"
Electric Dragon 80.000 V

Electric Dragon 80.000 V

Electric Dragon 80.000 V
IMDb: 6.8
55

A violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard half-merged with a metallic Buddha.

Kubi

Kubi

Kubi
IMDb: 6.8
131

Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears.

Genre: Action, Drama, History
We’re Broke, My Lord!

We’re Broke, My Lord!

We’re Broke, My Lord!
IMDb: 6.1
N/A

Koshiro Matsudaira lives in Tanjousan Bun in Echigo as a commoner and surrounded by people that love him, including his father Sakubei, who works for the Tanjousan Bun. One day,…

Genre: Comedy, History
Redline

Redline

Redline
IMDb: 7.5
102

The most dangerous and exciting car race in the universe is held only once every five years. And that’s tonight. The competitors are lined up at the starting block. In…

Ruined Heart: Another Love Story Between a Criminal & a Whore

Ruined Heart: Another Love Story Between a Criminal & a Whore

Ruined Heart: Another Love Story Between a Criminal & a Whore
IMDb: 6.1
73

Somewhere in Manila, a crime boss rules with an iron fist. To his most loyal henchman he gives the task of guarding his woman. Before long, she falls in love…

Genre: Crime, Music, Romance
Screwed

Screwed

Screwed
IMDb: 6.1
87

It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually in a small apartment.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Nagasaki: Memories of My Son

Nagasaki: Memories of My Son

Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
IMDb: 6.4
130

Nobuko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On August 9, 1948, her son appears in front of…

Genre: Drama
The Face of Jizo

The Face of Jizo

The Face of Jizo
IMDb: 7.2
99

Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of 1948, as…

Genre: Drama
The Taste of Tea

The Taste of Tea

The Taste of Tea
IMDb: 7.6
143

A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano is…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Café Lumière

Café Lumière

Café Lumière
IMDb: 6.8
103

Making her way through life by forming superficial relationships, Yoko keeps everyone at arm’s length, whether it’s her father and stepmother or Hajime, the owner of a small bookstore who…

Genre: Drama
Kaza-hana

Kaza-hana

Kaza-hana
IMDb: 6.8
116

In Somai’s final film, an alcoholic civil servant wakes up under a cherry tree in Tokyo next to a bar hostess with whom he’s impulsively made a suicide pact. Though…

Genre: Drama
Punk Samurai Slash Down

Punk Samurai Slash Down

Punk Samurai Slash Down
IMDb: 5.8
130

Junoshin Kake is a ronin. To get hired by the Kurokaze Han, he lies and tells them that a religious group is trying to destroy them. He gets hired by…

Dear Etranger

Dear Etranger

Dear Etranger
IMDb: 7
127

Makoto Tanaka is 40-years-old and has remarried. His wife is Nanae and they care for 2 daughters from Nanae’s prior marriage. Makoto tries to have an ordinary family. Nanae then…

Genre: Drama
Harmonium

Harmonium

Harmonium
IMDb: 6.9
120

Toshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. But then this old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio’s family life…

Genre: Drama
Parasyte: Part 2

Parasyte: Part 2

Parasyte: Part 2
IMDb: 6.5
117

Alien pods come to Earth and, naturally, start taking over Human Hosts. One such pod only manages to take over one human’s, Shin Izumi, right arm. Together they grow and…

Thor: The Dark World

Thor: The Dark World

Thor: The Dark World
IMDb: 6.8
112

Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that…

The Outsider

The Outsider

The Outsider
IMDb: 6.2
120

A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Lupin the 3rd

Lupin the 3rd

Lupin the 3rd
IMDb: 5.5
133

Interpol Inspector Zenigata begins a world-wide hunt for the infamous thief Lupin The 3rd. But together, they face a powerful enemy and form the Lupin team in response. The Lupin…

Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan

Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan

Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
IMDb: 7.2
125

The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan, a slave who went on to conquer half the world in the 11th century.

Zatoichi

Zatoichi

Zatoichi
IMDb: 7.5
111

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…

Distance

Distance

Distance
IMDb: 6.9
132

On the eighth anniversary of a cult’s failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suicide, family members of those affected gather at the cult’s former base on the…

Genre: Drama
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
Gemini

Gemini

Gemini
IMDb: 6.7
84

A successful doctor, Yukio’s picture perfect life is gradually wrecked, and taken over by his avenging twin brother, who bumps off his family members one by one and reclaims his…

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Love & Pop

Love & Pop

Love & Pop
IMDb: 7.3
110

Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or “compensated dating”, where older men pay young girls for dates. Hiromi plunges deeper into this…

Genre: Drama
Maborosi

Maborosi

Maborosi
IMDb: 7.5
110

A tragedy strikes a young woman’s life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.

Genre: Drama
Battleship

Battleship

Battleship
IMDb: 5.8
131

When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant…

Parasyte: Part 1

Parasyte: Part 1

Parasyte: Part 1
IMDb: 6.9
109

Alien pods come to Earth and, naturally, start taking over Human Hosts. One such pod only manages to take over one human’s, Shin Izumi, right arm. Together they grow and…

47 Ronin

47 Ronin

47 Ronin
IMDb: 6.2
119

Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honour to their…

Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Silence

Silence

Silence
IMDb: 7.1
161

Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.

Genre: Drama, History
The Rocking Horsemen

The Rocking Horsemen

The Rocking Horsemen
IMDb: 7.1
135

It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears “Pipeline” by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called “The Rocking Horsemen.”…

Genre: Comedy
Snow Prince

Snow Prince

Snow Prince
IMDb: 6.8
116

10-year-old Sota lives with his grandfather and a dog named Chibi in a small snowy village. They live in such a poverty that Sota cannot even afford to go to…

Genre: Drama
The Bastard and the Beautiful World

The Bastard and the Beautiful World

The Bastard and the Beautiful World
IMDb: 4.8
111

The Bastard and the Beautiful World is an omnibus film consisting of four episodes. Fujiko is running as fast as she can, being chased after by a creepy masked man…

Sad Vacation

Sad Vacation

Sad Vacation
IMDb: 6.8
110

Kenji, abandoned by his mother, scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs including driving bar hostesses and their customers home. Besides this he takes care of the sister of…

Genre: Drama
Dearest

Dearest

Dearest
IMDb: 6.9
111

A prison officer hands in his resignation after his wife’s death, to drive to the port where she wants her ashes scattered at sea. Eiji (Ken Takakura) works as a…

Genre: Drama
Idiots

Idiots

Idiots
IMDb: 6.7
146

In a future where World War II never ended, Japan is decimated by nightly bombings. The only building left standing is known as the Media Station, a broadcasting center responsible…

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War
The Wasted Times

The Wasted Times

The Wasted Times
IMDb: 6.9
123

Shanghai gangsters grapple with lust and loyalty on the eve of war with Japan as they try to navigate an alliance with the enemy’s army.

Genre: Drama, Mystery
Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat
IMDb: 6.1
110

Washed-up MMA fighter Cole Young, unaware of his heritage, and hunted by Emperor Shang Tsung’s best warrior, Sub-Zero, seeks out and trains with Earth’s greatest champions as he prepares to…

Journey to the Shore

Journey to the Shore

Journey to the Shore
IMDb: 6.3
128

Mizuki’s husband Yusuke went missing for 3 years. He suddenly comes back home one day and asks Mizuki to go on a trip with him. Their trip consists of visiting…

Minamata

Minamata

Minamata
IMDb: 7.3
115

War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities.

Genre: Drama, History
Kate

Kate

Kate
IMDb: 6.2
106

A ruthless criminal operative has less than 24 hours to exact revenge on her enemies and in the process forms an unexpected bond with the daughter of one of her…

Genre: Action