Released Date:
2000-03-03
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
115 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (51313 Reviews)
Director:
Takashi MiikeRyè Murakami (novel)
Daisuke Tengan (screenplay)
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?
Released Date:
2000-03-03
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
115 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (51341 Reviews)
Director:
Takashi MiikeRyè Murakami (novel)
Daisuke Tengan (screenplay)
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?
Released Date:
2000-10-21
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (1088 Reviews)
Director:
Hideo NakataA 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?
Released Date:
2007-05-06
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
127 min
IMDB Ratings:
(928 Reviews)
Director:
Hirokazu KoreedaIn 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.
Released Date:
2011-06-11
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
103 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (592 Reviews)
Director:
Hitoshi MatsumotoGenres:
ComedyMitsuyoshi Takasu (screenplay)
Tomoji Hasegawa (screenplay)
Kèji Ema (screenplay)
Mitsuru Kuramoto (screenplay)
Hitoshi Matsumoto (screenplay)
Itsuji Itao
Released Date:
2013-09-13
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
135 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (942 Reviews)
Director:
Sang-il LeeDavid Webb Peoples
Sang-il Lee (screenplay)
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.
Released Date:
2014-11-07
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
129 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (3318 Reviews)
Director:
Shion SonoA renegade film crew becomes embroiled with a yakuza clan feud.
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