11 Movies Starring Ryèhei Matsuda

Gohatto

Gohatto

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-12-18

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan, France, UK

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (5889 Reviews)

Director:

Nagisa èshima

Cast:

Writer:

Ryètarè Shiba (novel)

Nagisa èshima

Fullplot:

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.

Blue Spring

Blue Spring

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-06-29

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

83 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (2348 Reviews)

Director:

Toshiaki Toyoda

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Toshiaki Toyoda

Taiyè Matsumoto (comic strip)

Fullplot:

A group of a run-down Tokyo high school students face the struggles of growing up, growing apart from their friends and worrying about their future, while living in a highly violent environment.

Blue Spring

Blue Spring

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-06-29

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

83 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (2346 Reviews)

Director:

Toshiaki Toyoda

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Toshiaki Toyoda

Taiyè Matsumoto (comic strip)

Fullplot:

A group of a run-down Tokyo high school students face the struggles of growing up, growing apart from their friends and worrying about their future, while living in a highly violent environment.

9 Souls

9 Souls

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-07-19

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

120 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (1287 Reviews)

Director:

Toshiaki Toyoda

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Nine convicts escape from prison; most are convicted murders. They commandeer a van from a strip club. Their plan is to find a stash of counterfeit money that a deranged cell mate told them about, divide it, then part ways. They make it to the site where the money is supposed to be hidden, and then one by one, each seeks out the place he wants to be, a version of home, somewhere to connect. Will it end well for any of them?

Izo

Izo

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-08-21

Languages:

Japanese, English

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

128 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (3810 Reviews)

Director:

Takashi Miike

Cast:

Writer:

Shigenori Takechi (screenplay)

Fullplot:

We begin in 1865, when the Shogunate is on its last legs, but still capable of punishing its enemies. One is Izo (Kazuya Nakayama), an assassin in the service of Hanpeida (Ryosuke Miki), a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo, where he finds himself one with the city's homeless. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine, his entire soul still enraged by his treatment in his past life. His response to the powers-that-be, whose predecessors put him to death, is the sword.

Izo

Izo

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-08-21

Languages:

Japanese, English

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

128 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (3817 Reviews)

Director:

Takashi Miike

Cast:

Writer:

Shigenori Takechi (screenplay)

Fullplot:

We begin in 1865, when the Shogunate is on its last legs, but still capable of punishing its enemies. One is Izo (Kazuya Nakayama), an assassin in the service of Hanpeida (Ryosuke Miki), a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo, where he finds himself one with the city's homeless. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine, his entire soul still enraged by his treatment in his past life. His response to the powers-that-be, whose predecessors put him to death, is the sword.

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-08-26

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

85 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (1566 Reviews)

Director:

Takashi Miike

Genres:

DramaFantasy

Cast:

Writer:

Ikki Kajiwara (novel)

Hisao Maki (novel)

Masa Nakamura (screenplay)

Fullplot:

An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling, the story follows two detectives trying to uncover the case. Homosexual tension and explosive violence drives the story which delivers some weird and fascinating visuals.

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-08-26

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

85 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (1575 Reviews)

Director:

Takashi Miike

Genres:

DramaFantasy

Cast:

Writer:

Ikki Kajiwara (novel)

Hisao Maki (novel)

Masa Nakamura (screenplay)

Fullplot:

An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling, the story follows two detectives trying to uncover the case. Homosexual tension and explosive violence drives the story which delivers some weird and fascinating visuals.

Nightmare Detective

Nightmare Detective

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-01-13

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

106 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (1902 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Hisakatsu Kuroki

Shin'ya Tsukamoto

Fullplot:

Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. "O" intends suicide while talking on a cell-phone with a stranger he meets on line who plans a simultaneous suicide. Events take a horrifying turn. Keiko Kirishima is a cool, seemingly emotionless police detective, brilliant but off-putting. She's faced with two mutilated corpses who appear to have killed themselves, but she's not sure. A cell-phone number links the deaths. She calls on Akumu Tantei, a poor and suicidal young man who has the ability to enter people's dreams. He's reluctant to help. His past haunts him. A subconscious duel of terror and blood awaits the three.

Life Can Be So Wonderful

Life Can Be So Wonderful

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-03-31

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

70 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (35 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

The Great Passage

The Great Passage

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-04-13

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

134 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (886 Reviews)

Director:

Yèya Ishii

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Shiwon Miura (based on the novel by)

Kensaku Watanabe (screenplay)

Fullplot:

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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