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シモキタブレイザー
2024

Tales of the Bizarre: 2023 Fall Special
2023
"Tales of the Bizarre: 2023 Fall Special" (世にも奇妙な物語 '23秋の特別編) is a Japanese anthology drama that aired on Fuji TV on November 11, 2023. This special p...

Perfect Days
2023
as Bar Regular
Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and ta...

The Moon
2023
Yoko, who gets a job at a nursing home, witnesses the elderly and disabled people there having their human dignity threatened.

Murakumo - Ghost Agency
2023
Rinko Murakumo used to be a detective until she shot a serial martial arts murderer and resigned from the force. Her daughter went missing during the ...

Wandering Memories
2023
Shiori, who has been searching for her missing son, meets an information pawnbroker who is able to exchange the information you want for an equivalent...

Omokage
2023

A Man
2022
as Kaori's Father
Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.

The Divine Protector: Master Salt Begins
2022
as Kitamura
At 7:07PM, the occult club members hold a ritual ceremony to summon “Master Salt” who is a divine protector. One after another, people ask Master Salt...

The Divine Protector: Master Salt Begins
2022

I Want to Walk in the Sun Someday
2022

Beautiful Lure: A Modern Tale of Painted Skin
2021
With both beauty and wit, Maiko looks for a man who suits her. One night, she finds Taro, a candidate for the prime minister. Everything goes well as ...

The Manga Master
2019
as Yukichi Fukuzawa
Biopic about the life of Kitazawa Rakuten, who laid the foundation for the Japanese manga industry.

Summer Night Sky, Autumn Sunset, Winter Morning and Spring Breeze
2019
as Yasuda Tsuyoshi
An omnibus featuring four stories about the four seasons.

The Promised Land
2019
A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in similar circumstances a suspect is identif...

When a Tree Falls
2019
A young couple is devastated when their son is killed by a falling tree during a windstorm. As the distraught father begins to look for answers into h...

The Fable
2019
as Restaurant Master
The Fable is a legendary yakuza hitman equal to none—but his boss orders him and his sultry associate to lay low and learn how to live a "normal life"...

Lenses on Her Heart
2018
Akemi is unable to get over the death of his girlfriend, but a book leads to his encounter with Akane, a woman with a wonderful smile. He gradually fa...

Riding Uphill
2018
A former pro-baseball player finds his passion again in Keirin, a professional bicycle racing sport.

Ah, Wilderness: Part 2
2017
as Takeo Niki
Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. The...

Ah, Wilderness: Part 1
2017
as Takeo Niki
Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. The...

Lemmings no Natsu
2017
The urban legend that "Scissors-san", who cuts elementary school students with scissors, appears in Toride, Ibaraki Prefecture, has become a hot topic...

Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
2016
A classmate from Ushijima's middle school days, Takemoto, shows up. He was a kind man, but now is jobless and without a home. Adrift and unable to bor...

Shin Godzilla
2016
as National Police Agency Criminal Investigation Bureau Director-General
When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of vol...

Samurai Cat: Tamanojo Goes to Edo
2016
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 "Mad...

The First Train Runs in Hiroshima
2015
as Kojiro Takamura
Only 3 days after A-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a streetcar started running through the town burned to the ground. The drivers were teenage girls w...

A Farewell to Jinu
2015
as Miyontsuan
Takeharu Takami (Ryuhei Matsuda) is a bank teller, but he becomes allergic to money. He decides not to use money at all. Takeharu decides to move to a...

Maestro!
2015
as Minoru Suzuki
Due to the economic recession, the orchestra is shut down. The members hear later that the orchestra will be reformed. Only some of the members, who h...

海の斜光
2014

Cape Nostalgia
2014
as fire department chief
Etsuko's café in her peaceful little seaside town is where everyone gathers to gossip and taste her famous brew. But the winds of change are beginning...

My Man
2014
as Taoka
As a young child, Hana loses her family to a devastating tsunami that wipes out her town. At a shelter, distant relative Jungo sees her wandering and ...

Bad Child
2014
Masashi, a 15 years old school boy and so-called 'overprotected child', lives with his parents in the suburbs of Tokyo. Poised to graduate from middle...

1914 Maboroshino Tōkyō ~ yomigaeru modan toshi ~
2014

Galileo XX
2013
as Masaaki Mamiya
A spin-off from popular Japanese TV series "Galileo". Episode XX tells the story of female detective Utsumi Kaoru's final case before she went to Okla...

There is Light
2013
Saori, a new face of a call girl service for the disabled, meet diverse people like a client with progressive muscular dystrophy, a college student wi...

Tomorrow's Joe
2011
as Restaurant's Male Owner
Set in the 1960's, Joe Yabuki lives in a run-down low income area. There, alcoholic ex-boxer Danpei Tange notices Joe Yabuki's talents as a boxer. But...

Teto
2010
Teto is a secret agent trainee. Hatoko is a high school student who lives on venting her anger in a combined combative sport gym. On the day Hatoko sa...

The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
2009
In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.

One Million Yen Girl
2008
as Detective
A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million ...

Smile
2007
as Shizuka Yamaguchi's father
Heartwarming human drama about a former tap dancer who trades in his tap shoes to woo a figure skating instructor. But by a twist of fate, he finds hi...

Glory to the Filmmaker!
2007
as Thug
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 hi...

One Fine Day
2007
A farmer travels a few miles to a dingy, remote country cinema to watch Kitano's Kids Return and deals with an incompetent projectionist.

Under the Same Moon
2005
When Tetsuya (Yosuke Kubozuka) was 10-years-old he met Emi (Meisa Kuroki), who suffered from a heart disease. In hopes to cure Emi's condition, Tetsuy...

The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
2005
as 桜井 杏子の父親
One day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is arrested to take responsibility for a botched mur...

Fly, Daddy, Fly
2005
Suzuki’s world is shattered when his teenage daughter is brutally attacked. The assailant, Ishihara, son of a politician, brazenly mocks Suzuki as he ...

Year One in the North
2005
In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of Ho...

Infection
2004
as Dr. Kishida
Infection takes place in a dark, isolated hospital, where one doctors mistake has led to dire consequences for a patient. In a hospital death is just ...

Dark Tales of Japan
2004
as Toshinori Ooki (segment "Sacrifice")
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 mysterio...

The Woman Changed Her Clothes at the Bus Stop
2003
as Lover
A woman in a bright green coat, Mizue (Toda Naho), gets off the bus at Shikaoi Town in Hokkaido. She has followed her former salsa dance partner, Aris...

Teacher's suitcase
2003
as Bar owner Sato
Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at le...

Frog River
2002
Record shop clerk and aspiring DJ Tsutomu searches for his masculinity when challenged to a kendo duel.

Dolls
2002
as Hitman in the Park
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is...

Copycat Killer
2002
as Shinozaki
The story of a criminal who abducts and kills women, and those who try to catch him. Nakai is cast as a cold-blooded, intelligent and evil guy who use...

金融腐蝕列島 再生
2002

Ichi the Killer
2001
as Coffee Shop Manager
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to in...
巡査鉄兵の推理日誌
2000
An officer struggles to solve a murder case despite being at odds with his lieutenant. Officer Tetsubei discovers the body of a man whose face has bee...

Tomie: Replay
2000
as Sayuri's Father
Infected with Tomie's blood, a surgeon disappears, leaving his daughter, Yumi, to try to discover Tomie's identity and to solve the mystery of her fat...

Sleeping Bride
2000
as Yumi's father
Sleeping Bride is the story of a girl, Yumi, who since birth, has never been awake. A boy called Yuuichi finds the girl in the hospital while he is a ...

Begging for Love
1998
as Takehito Nakajima
During a quest to find a Taiwanese father's grave, disturbing memories of child abuse are aroused.

Voyeurs, Inc. - Enjo Kousai
1998
Based on the popular comic series by Hideo Yamamoto serialized in Weekly Young Sunday. Stars Asumi Miwa (Love & Pop). The film depicts a "peeping tom"...

Tokyo Eyes
1998
as Video Shop Clerk
The police are tracking a man who shoots at people. But the young sister of a detective finds that he's not the mad vigilante portrayed in newspapers.

Open House
1998
as Photographer
A struggling model and a troubled divorcee face loneliness and desperation in Tokyo.

Love & Pop
1998
as Yazaki
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. ...

Voyeurs, Inc. - Wiretapping
1998
An erotic mystery based on Hideo Yamamoto's comic of the same title, directed by Takeshi Yokoi Yokoi. A mysterious man eavesdrops on an affair between...

Health Master Dan
1998
Adaptation of the manga by the same title by Noboru Takahashi. Dan is a masseuse that has the ability to pinpoint anyone's health issues. In this ero...

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
1997
as Bucky
A love story written by an ordinary housewife is going to be broadcast as a radio drama and almost everyone among the crew insists on changing various...

Hard Boiled
1997
Riki Takeuchi stars in a yakuza film.

Beni
1996

Kids Return
1996
as Hayashi
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,...

Mad Dog
1994
A beast awakens within ordinary office worker Hirose when his wife is abducted by yakuza. Full of wild charm and full-scale martial arts action!

Holy Girl Mask Margarita
1992
as Gunmo
A sexy action comedy about the battle between a high school girl who transforms into a love warrior Margarita when she drinks a holy cocktail. An omn...

Shout: Angels Crying
1992
A series of bizarre murders targeting only female rock vocalists. Another popular vocalist has begun to be targeted ... The mental horror that slowly ...

Kekko Kamen
1991
as Biology Teacher
Kekko Kamen, the fearless heroine who wears red boots, a red mask, and nothing else, she has an uncanny way of destroying her opponents by stunning th...

Nanpa Rumba I want to Fuck
1990
1990 Original Video Omnibus of three RomCom Vignettes

Memory Door
N/A
Kazuya (27), an office worker, is what is called a "good listener" who listens to his parents. One day, however, he happens to stop by a café and fal...