7 Movies Starring Jun Kunimura

Audition

Audition

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-03-03

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

115 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (51313 Reviews)

Director:

Takashi Miike

Cast:

Writer:

Ryè Murakami (novel)

Daisuke Tengan (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In Tokyo, Shigeharu Aoyama is a widower that grieves the loss of his wife and raises his son Shigehiko Aoyama alone. Seven years later, the teenage Shigehiko asks why his middle-aged father does not remarry and Shigeharu meets his friend Yasuhisa Yoshikawa, who is a film producer, and tells his intention. However, Shigeharu has difficulties to approach to available women to date and Yasuhisa decide to organize a sham audition for casting the lead actress for the fake movie. They receive several portfolios of candidates and Shigeharu becomes obsessed by the gorgeous Asami Yamazaki. Despite the advice of the experienced Yasuhisa, Shigeharu calls Asami to date and he falls for her. But who is the mysterious Asami?

Audition

Audition

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-03-03

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

115 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (51341 Reviews)

Director:

Takashi Miike

Cast:

Writer:

Ryè Murakami (novel)

Daisuke Tengan (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In Tokyo, Shigeharu Aoyama is a widower that grieves the loss of his wife and raises his son Shigehiko Aoyama alone. Seven years later, the teenage Shigehiko asks why his middle-aged father does not remarry and Shigeharu meets his friend Yasuhisa Yoshikawa, who is a film producer, and tells his intention. However, Shigeharu has difficulties to approach to available women to date and Yasuhisa decide to organize a sham audition for casting the lead actress for the fake movie. They receive several portfolios of candidates and Shigeharu becomes obsessed by the gorgeous Asami Yamazaki. Despite the advice of the experienced Yasuhisa, Shigeharu calls Asami to date and he falls for her. But who is the mysterious Asami?

Chaos

Chaos

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-10-21

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

90 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (1088 Reviews)

Director:

Hideo Nakata

Fullplot:

A man gets involved in a kidnapping scheme with the wife of a wealthy businessman. She lets herself be tied up and confined in his house while he sends the ransom demand. When he returns home that night, however, he finds her laying dead on the floor. In a panic he buries her body deep in the woods and tries to return to his ordinary life. One day, he thinks he spots her walking down the street. Is his mind playing tricks on him, or has she somehow returned from the grave?

Hana

Hana

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-05-06

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

127 min

IMDB Ratings:

(928 Reviews)

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Fullplot:

In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn't an accomplished swordsman however, and he prefers sharing the life of the residents, teaching the kids how to write etc. When he finally finds the man he is looking for, he will have to decide whether he follows the way of the samurai or chooses peace and reconciliation.

Saya-zamurai

Saya-zamurai

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-06-11

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

103 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (592 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Mitsuyoshi Takasu (screenplay)

Tomoji Hasegawa (screenplay)

Kèji Ema (screenplay)

Mitsuru Kuramoto (screenplay)

Hitoshi Matsumoto (screenplay)

Itsuji Itao

Fullplot:

Unforgiven

Unforgiven

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-09-13

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

135 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (942 Reviews)

Director:

Sang-il Lee

Cast:

Writer:

David Webb Peoples

Sang-il Lee (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Just as Clint Eastwood's star-making spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars was inspired by Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, Japanese-Korean filmmaker Sang-il Lee (Villain) has decided to reinterpret Eastwood's Oscarè-winning Unforgiven as a Japanese period film. Set in the late 1800s, after the fall of Shogunate Japan, onetime assassin Jubee Kamata (Oscarè nominee Ken Watanabe -- Inception, The Last Samurai) lives in seclusion on a small farm. But when the new government begins harassing the local populace, Jubee is forced to break the promise he made to his dead wife and take up the sword once more.

Why Don't You Play in Hell?

Why Don't You Play in Hell?

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-11-07

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

129 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (3318 Reviews)

Director:

Shion Sono

Fullplot:

A renegade film crew becomes embroiled with a yakuza clan feud.

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