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Complete Filmography

Crazy Samurai Musashi
2020
In 1604, Miyamoto Musashi attacked the Yoshioka family at their dojo and defeated master Seijūrō and his younger brother Denshichirō in two duels. To ...

Farewell Family
2018
During the one-year memorial of his late beloved father, a soon-to-be father (Hoshi Ishida) struggles to reconcile his feelings of loss and receives s...

Blossoming Into a Family
2017
as Ishikawa family head
“I never got to feel the warmth of a loving family.” That is what Seishiro notes down in 1948, who was adopted as a child by the idealistic Eichiro. I...

Dragon Black
2015

Tokyo Slaves
2014
Brother and sister are drawn into a thrilling game of survival, in which they use a bizarre device called SCM to turn others into their slaves.

Samurai Cat: The Movie
2014
as Heihachi Aikawa
The ever versatile Kazuki Kitamura stars as masterless samurai Kyutaro Madarame, a feared swordsman who has fallen on hard times in old Edo. Caught be...

Yokohama Story
2013
as Section manager Kobayashi
25-year-old Nanami is managing an amateur band. She is broke, cannot pay her rent, and the singer has run off. Yoshinori is 65. His wife dies the day ...

Life Back Then
2011
Kyohei Nagashima (Masaki Okada) has shut away the world. During his high school days he was the target of bullying and experienced horrifying moments....

GARO: Red Requiem
2010
as Makai Priest Akaza
The current wearer of the gold wolf armor Garo, doesn’t believe women can be chosen to wear mystic armor. When Kouga's quest thrusts him into conflict...

Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!
2010
as Yoshio Sasaki
Tsukiko, whose father died before she was born, lives with her mother Yoko and they provide mutual support for each other. One day, Yoko comes home co...

Rambling Hearts
2010
Asami Usuda stars as twin sisters, down-to-earth Midori and her uninhibited sibling Aoi. Midori is engaged to a successful man and has a promising out...

The Code
2009
as Detective 523
For 60 years, the group of detectives known as "Detective Office 5" has raised the bar for detective work. The agents of Detective Office 5 are a grou...

Je t'aime: I Am a Beast
2008
Yuka, a troubled young woman who suddenly begins working part-time as a high-class call girl, finds unexpected romance while on the job.
Cursed Songs 2: Nu-Meri
2008
There's something wrong at the Pacific Institute...something wrong and evil. For young Mari, whose family has worked in the finishing industry for gen...

Cafe Isobe
2008
as Shibata
Sakiko is a typical teenager in many ways. She hates her divorced father, who chases after every skirt he sees. She does not know, if she will ever be...

All Around Us
2008
Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure ...

The Scissors Massacre
2008
as Mitsuzo Sawada
Three sisters grow up on a chicken farm in a small town in Gifu. The oldest sister, Yukie Sawada, is engaged to be married, the middle sister, Sachiko...

Kamen Rider: THE NEXT
2007
as Vice-Principal
Bent on the destruction of the human race, the secret underground organization Shocker secretly planned to plunge the world into chaos. But they didn’...

The Successful Businessmen Handbook: Negotiation Tactics You Can Learn from the Yakuza
2007
For yakuza, negotiation is another life-or-death battlefield. How do they turn the tables in overwhelmingly unfavorable situations, convincing black ...

Osaka Yakuza War: The Price of a Misfire
2007
In the winter of Showa 62 (1987), the muddy conflict between Japan's largest organized crime syndicate, the Kobe Yamagagumi, and the Seiwakai—commonly...

Kanashiki Tenshi
2006
The body of a 59-year-old male is found on the banks of a river. The stepson, Kazuo, confesses to his involvement but also implicates his estranged si...

Half a Confession
2004
Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a tale of morality with deeper insights into its chara...

The Cat Returns
2002
as Toto (voice)
Young Haru rescues a cat from being run over, but soon learns it's no ordinary feline; it happens to be the Prince of the Cats.

Hush!
2001
as Aritomo
Naoya and Katsuhiro are boyfriends, new in their relationship. Things are uneven at first—Naoya is open and free while Katsuhiro is cautious and close...

Saiaku
2001

Love Ghost
2001
Teenager Midori's family moves back to the city where she lived as a child and is relieved to discover that her old friend Ryusuke still lives there. ...

Pinch Runner
2000
as Maho's Father
Minugishi Ayumi is a student of Asahina High School, and the lone member of its Track and Field club. She seems hard to speak to, and despite being a ...

The King of Minami: The Price of Restructuring
1999
#29 in the King of Minami series. Manda and his associates follow a debt-laden detective to Hiroshima, where they plan to collect from his former empl...

Kunoichi Financial Road
1999
Sacho the financial ninja saves the common folk from corporate villains with the use of her "financial ninjutsu."

Bonds
1998
as Masashi Fuda
Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father. H...

Amagi Pass
1998
A fifteen year old boy travels through the Amagi Pass, he encounters some strange people, one of them is the geisha Ozuka Hana. After a murder takes p...

Super Scandal
1996

Moon Angel
1996
Two female truck drivers detest each other, and try to steal each other's business. Their rigs are both painted with elaborate large pictures of beaut...

Broken Heart
1995
Eight love stories start and end in an amusement park.

Ie Naki Ko
1994
"Don't pity me, just give me money." A smart little girl, Suzu, for the sake of her beloved sick mother, has no choice but to attempt all ways to fork...

Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
1994
as Dr. Susumu Okubo
A mysterious extraterrestrial being resembling Godzilla rapidly approaches Earth. The monster, dubbed SpaceGodzilla, lands to challenge the King of th...

Erotic Liaisons
1992
as Shiga
A low-key private detective agency in Paris is run by Rie and her lover and partner Kishin, two ex-pats who tick along between cases by giving guided ...

Sosuke Loses His Lover
1992
as Manager
Koji Wakamatsu adapted Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of a traveling acting troupe.

The Shadow Over Innsmouth
1992
An one hour made for TV special. Set in modern Japan, a journalist goes Insumasu to investigate people with deformation.

Abarenbo Shogun: The Bride of Edo Castle
1991
The Shogun gets engaged to a princess who rebels against the prospect, because she wasn't consulted.

Noh Mask Murders
1991
as Detective Kurata
The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh theater...

Ready to Shoot
1990
as Baba
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...

Tokyo: The Last War
1989
The year is 1945. After the horrific fire-bombings of the Pacific War levels Japan to the ground, the government decides to consult spiritual psychics...

Gunhed
1989
as Boxer
High-concept Sci-Fi adventure about an island that actually is a computer called Kyron 5, itself created to design and manufacture super-advanced robo...

Dokudami Tenement
1988
Yoshio is a 24-year-old man born in Saidaiji , Okayama prefecture. He moved to Tokyo, bringing his guitar, in search of the bohemian lifestyle, and se...

Remembrance
1988
as Machida
The Yamaoki family moved from Kyoto to Tosa around the turn of the '50s; local school teacher Hirao becomes involved with Yasuko, sister to Sumio.

Remembrance
1988
as Shigeaki Machida
The Yamaoki family moved from Kyoto to Tosa around the turn of the '50s; local school teacher Hirao becomes involved with Yasuko, sister to Sumio.

The Goodbye Girls
1987
as Ryuuta Nishiyama
When 22-year-old Ikuko gets fired from her editing internship right before her college graduation instead of getting hired, she turns to her schooltea...

Whisper of the Spirits
1987

Scent of a Spell
1985
as Yoichi Kuwano
A young man returns home from the bar only to find a woman who was about to kill herself. Taking her home and protecting her, he learns that she’s esc...

Demon Within
1985
as Mystery Man
The story is about a Journalist who becomes infected with a Japanese demon. The demon incubates in the mans stomach before Violently tearing its way u...

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
1981
as Detective
A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.

Tora-san's Love in Osaka
1981
When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to track down her estranged brother, and informs his fam...

Disciples of Hippocrates
1980
The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, exams, on field training, his commitment as a pro-r...