8 Movies Starring Ken'ichi Matsuyama

Death Note

Death Note

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-06-17

Languages:

Japanese, English

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

126 min

IMDB Ratings:

(21272 Reviews)

Director:

Shèsuke Kaneko

Cast:

Writer:

Tsugumi Ohba (comic)

Takeshi Obata (comic)

Tetsuya Oishi (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the perpetrator. An all out battle between the greatest minds on earth begins, the winner controlling the world.

Detroit Metal City

Detroit Metal City

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-08-23

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

104 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (1871 Reviews)

Director:

Toshio Lee

Genres:

DramaMusic

Cast:

Writer:

Kiminori Wakasugi (manga)

Mika Ohmori (adaptation)

Fullplot:

Soichi Negishi moved to Tokyo to chase his dream of becoming a musician playing stylish, Swedish-style pop. Instead, he finds himself leading the death metal band Detroit Metal City, or DMC, as the costumed and grotesquely made-up "demon emperor" Johannes Krauser II. Although he hates the role and the things he has to do as a member of the band, he has a definite talent for it. Adapted from the hit Japanese comic book by Kiminori Wakasugi, the movie follows Negishi's antics as he tries to reconcile the two very different sides of his life and find out what it really means to achieve his dream.

Norwegian Wood

Norwegian Wood

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-12-11

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

133 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (8125 Reviews)

Director:

Tran Anh Hung

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Haruki Murakami (novel)

Tran Anh Hung

Fullplot:

Upon hearing the song "Norwegian Wood," Toru (Matsuyama) remembers back to his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend. As the two try, in very different ways, to contend with their grief, Toru forms a bond with another woman, Midori.

Gantz

Gantz

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-01-29

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

130 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (4807 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Hiroya Oku (manga)

Yèsuke Watanabe (screenplay)

Fullplot:

After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth.

Bunny Drop

Bunny Drop

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-08-20

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

114 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (792 Reviews)

Director:

SABU

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Yumi Unita (manga)

SABU (screenplay)

Tamio Hayashi (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Movie adaptation of the manga "Usagi Doroppu". Daikichi (Matsuyama) a 27 year-old working man returns home to attend his grandfather's funeral. There, he meets his grandfather illegitimate daughter Rin (Ashida) a 6 year-old little girl who is rejected by the whole conservative family. Even though Daichi has no experience with kids; he decides to embark on this adventure of parenthood.

The Kiyosu Conference

The Kiyosu Conference

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-11-09

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (300 Reviews)

Director:

Kèki Mitani

Genres:

History

Cast:

Writer:

Kèki Mitani (based on the novel by)

Kèki Mitani (screenplay)

Fullplot:

After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honno-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and Tsuneoki Ikeda meet to decide on a successor. The conference would become Japan's first group made political decision. The meeting was known as the Kiyosu Kaigi.

Homeland

Homeland

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-03-01

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

118 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (70 Reviews)

Director:

Nao Kubota

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Chasuke's Journey

Chasuke's Journey

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2015-06-27

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (74 Reviews)

Director:

SABU

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

SABU (based on the novel by)

SABU (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A fantasy love story that drifts between this world and heaven. Chasuke (Ken'ichi Matsuyama) is in charge of making tea in heaven. He has feelings for a human woman named Yuri (Ito Ohno) whom he has seen from a writer who is scripting her life from heaven. He knows that Yuri is condemned to die in a car accident. To save the woman, Chasuke goes down to this world.

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