Released Date:
2003-12-03
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
92 min
IMDB Ratings:
(2040 Reviews)
Director:
Kiyoshi KurosawaGenres:
DramaTwo young guys work in a plant that manufactures oshibori (those moist hand-towels found in some Japanese restaurants). Their weird bond is based on uncontrollable rage--something neither can articulate or control--and the strange jellyfish that they keep as a pet.
Released Date:
2004-11-06
Languages:
Korean, Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
140 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (1616 Reviews)
Director:
Yèichi SaiGenres:
DramaSogil Yan (novel)
Yèichi Sai (screenplay)
Wui-Sin Chong (screenplay)
In 1923, the Korean teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees. He makes fortune, abuses and destroys the lives of his wife and family, having many mistresses and children and showing no respect to anybody. Later he closes the factory, lending the money with high interests and becoming a loan shark. His hatred behavior remains until his last breath, alone in North Korea.
Released Date:
2005-05-28
Languages:
Japanese, Mandarin
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
111 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (576 Reviews)
Director:
Seijun SuzukiAmechiyo is being hunted by his father for being too beautiful and as he tries to escape he runs into Princess Raccoon, a raccoon in human form. They fall for each other, but humans and raccoons shouldn't mix so the raccoon court causes some trouble. She saves his life, then he saves hers by finding the Frog of Paradise on the Sacred Mountain and so forth, until the tragic finale.
Released Date:
2005-05-28
Languages:
Japanese, Mandarin
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
111 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (582 Reviews)
Director:
Seijun SuzukiAmechiyo is being hunted by his father for being too beautiful and as he tries to escape he runs into Princess Raccoon, a raccoon in human form. They fall for each other, but humans and raccoons shouldn't mix so the raccoon court causes some trouble. She saves his life, then he saves hers by finding the Frog of Paradise on the Sacred Mountain and so forth, until the tragic finale.
Released Date:
2005-09-17
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
107 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(10580 Reviews)
Director:
Ten ShimoyamaKenya Hirata
Fètarè Yamada (novel)
After more than four hundred years of war between the Shinobi warriors of the Manjidani Koga and Tsubagakure Iga clans, the Lord Hattori Hanzou decrees that they must live in peace. Both clans live hidden in the woods and mountain without confrontation and without training ninjas in the shadow art of Shinobi. In 1614, the Lord of the Lords is convinced that the clans are dangerous threats for keeping peace in his lands, and his advisor plots a Machiavellian plan to destroy their best warriors in a contest. Meanwhile, the young Iga Oboro and Koga Gennesuke fall in love for each other. When Oboro's grandmother and leader of Iga clan Ogen and Gennesuke's father and leader of the Koga clan Danjo kill each other, Oboro and Gannesuke must lead their warriors in the ultimate battle of the Shinobi clans.
Released Date:
2005-09-17
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
107 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(10582 Reviews)
Director:
Ten ShimoyamaKenya Hirata
Fètarè Yamada (novel)
After more than four hundred years of war between the Shinobi warriors of the Manjidani Koga and Tsubagakure Iga clans, the Lord Hattori Hanzou decrees that they must live in peace. Both clans live hidden in the woods and mountain without confrontation and without training ninjas in the shadow art of Shinobi. In 1614, the Lord of the Lords is convinced that the clans are dangerous threats for keeping peace in his lands, and his advisor plots a Machiavellian plan to destroy their best warriors in a contest. Meanwhile, the young Iga Oboro and Koga Gennesuke fall in love for each other. When Oboro's grandmother and leader of Iga clan Ogen and Gennesuke's father and leader of the Koga clan Danjo kill each other, Oboro and Gannesuke must lead their warriors in the ultimate battle of the Shinobi clans.
Released Date:
2007-03-24
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
131 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (809 Reviews)
Director:
Katsuhiro ètomoGenres:
FantasyYuki Urushibara (comic)
Sadayuki Murai (screenplay)
Katsuhiro ètomo (screenplay)
Ginko, a Mushi-shi has always been attuned to the Mushi, creatures close to life itself and able to affect and alter their surroundings. He cannot stay in one place for too long so he wanders, helping the inhabitants of rural Japan understand the Mushi around them and how to coexist peacefully.
Released Date:
2007-11-10
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
101 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (1555 Reviews)
Director:
Satoshi MikiGenres:
ComedyYoshinaga Fujita (novel)
Satoshi Miki (screenplay)
Takemura has no friends and no family. He's a student but he doesn't have any particular ambitions. In other words, he isn't going anywhere fast. Were all this not enough, the sorry sad sack has a debt of 800,000 yen. Fukuhara, a surly debt collector with a glorious mullet, is on his case. After roughing Takemura up, he gives him an ultimatum-72 hours to pay up, or else. Takemura barely has his wits about him again when he runs across Fukuhara a second time, and this time the thug has a different proposal-a walk. That's right, in exchange for a million yen, Takemura must accompany Fukuhara on a walk across the city of Tokyo. Starting in a distant corner of the city, they begin their trek towards downtown, striking up a conversation. It's at this point that Fukuhara admits that he's recently killed his wife, and intends to turn himself in at Kasumagaseki police station-because, he says, it's the finest in town. The pair's itinerary, however, is hardly a quick and direct one. The disparate duo drift here and there, hanging out and coming across a host of eccentric personalities, creatures of the urban jungle's various habitats. As their walking, talking and trading truths continues, the arrangement between Takemura and Fukuhara starts to transform into friendship.
Released Date:
2009-09-26
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
125 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (3721 Reviews)
Director:
Hirokazu KoreedaYoshiie Goda (manga)
Hirokazu Koreeda (screenplay)
A life-size blow-up doll develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk.
Released Date:
2013-06-01
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
127 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (570 Reviews)
Director:
Kiyoshi KurosawaRokurè Inui (based on the novel by)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (screenplay)
Sachiko Tanaka (screenplay)
Kazumi Matsuzawa (scripter)
Released Date:
2013-04-13
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
134 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (886 Reviews)
Director:
Yèya IshiiGenres:
DramaShiwon Miura (based on the novel by)
Kensaku Watanabe (screenplay)
Majime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that will compile a new dictionary, 'The Great Passage.' In the eclectic team, he becomes immersed in the world of dictionaries. But the team is overwhelmed with problems. Will 'The Great Passage' ever be completed?
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