Ren Osugi
Popularity:0.9923
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1951-09-27
Place of Birth:Komatsushima, Tokushima, Japan
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Also Known As:Ren Ohsugi, 大杉孝, Ren Ôsugi, Ren Oosugi, 佐伯恭司, Kyoji Saeki, Takashi Osugi, Рэн Осуги, 大杉 漣, Ren Osugi

Brother (2000)
A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his...

La Sombra del Verano - Ilusion in Andalusia (1996)
Set in Andalusia, Spain, the film depicts the fantastic journey of an ordinary housewife who leads an uneventful life in search of a missing writer....

Woman of the Rumor: Hold Me Until Morning (1980)
The wife of a wealthy manager returns to her suburban house and is suddenly attacked by an intruder. As she suffers through the aftermath of her...

MPD-PSYCHO/FAKE (2002)
A reworking of MPD Psycho by the author of the original manga Eiji Otsuka edited from the TV show and newly-filmed scenes.

Lady Joker (2004)
Men and women caught up in a downward spiral of corruption, discrimination, poverty and death are the focus of this detective-thriller/social-drama...

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Loot (1996)
Yûji and Kosaku are hired to track down an old man. But when he suddenly dies, his granddaughter surfaces with a map to his buried fortune,...

Audition (2000)
Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their...

Uzumaki (2000)
The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.

Dead or Alive (1999)
Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to...

Exte: Hair Extensions (2007)
An aspiring hair dresser becomes the infatuation of a tricophilic man who sells hair extensions to nearby hair salons. The source of the hair is the...

Party 7 (2000)
Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from...

Sonatine (1993)
Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war,...

Scarlet Prostitute: Stabbing (1981)
A gang boss orders the execution of a prostitute who witnessed a murder. When the boss' henchman discovers the prostitute is actually blind, he falls...

Ikiru (2007)
In a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe finds that he has a terminal cancer, he decides to...

Devoted Cookbook (2012)
The film is set in Edo period. As an orphan child Mio starts working at a restaurant in Osaka where she learns how to cook. When she turns 18, she...

Give It All (1998)
Etsuko - a typical Japanese high school student, who's unlucky in love, an academic failure, and plain bored with life. That's until one day, the...

Semi-dokyumento: Tokkun Meiki Dukuri (1981)
The mother is unfulfilled, the father has affairs, the son fantasizes and the budding daughter is growing curious. Just your normal family until a...

The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles...

Kids Return (1996)
Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time...

Train Man (2005)
The purportedly true story of a 23-year-old otaku (Japanese geek) who intervened when a drunk man was harassing a woman on a train. The otaku...

Séance (2000)
A psychic housewife and her husband accidentally find a kidnapped girl. But instead of informing the police, they hatch a scheme to get famous by...

Tales of the Unusual (2000)
A four-part anthology in the spirit of The Twilight Zone, this film starts off with a group of commuters stranded at a train station in the rain,...

Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000)
Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and...

Cure (1997)
A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.

Full Metal Yakuza (1997)
After being brutally murdered in a gangster-style execution, Kensuke Hagane finds himself brought back to life by a mad scientist and rebuilt as a...

Postman Blues (1997)
Sawaki is a postman who's not quite thrilled about his boring way of life. But his life is about to change when he delivers mail to his old...

Time Slip (2005)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's segment from 'A Story of Love, Wonder and Horror.'

Monday (2000)
A simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what...

Shinjuku Triad Society (1995)
Tatsuhito, a cop, pursues Chinese warlord Wang through the underworld of Shinjuku and over to Taiwan.

The City of Lost Souls (2000)
Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in...

Cop Festival: New Beginning (2003)
Fourth installment in Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 8 films.

Baton (2009)
Baton is a collection of three 20-minute Sci-fi anime films dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the establishment of Yokohama city. On Planet Abel,...

Thirteen Steps (2003)
A released inmate is hired to solve a murder case.

Origin: Spirits of the Past (2006)
It is 300 years into the future. Earth's environment had been devastated by mankind's own foolish plans and humankind is beleaguered by the sentient...

Can you collect it? 2 (1993)
Jin, who has killed is worried about his younger brother Jiro and has returned to the world as a ghost!

Can you collect it? Complete (1994)
Jiro becomes a happy instructor but a shocking suspicion was raised by Owada who took the place of his parents.

Nightmare Detective (2007)
When a number of suicide victims slash themselves in their sleep, detective Keiko Kirishima is called to investigate.

It's More Radical! (1994)
A yakuza's woman got in a car with Ida, a salesman who has no choice!

チンピラ・ドリーム チャラで死ねるか! (1995)
Three men and a woman are connected by a strange encounter.

Chimpira Life (1998)
The chimpira 'Katsuichi' got his hands on the only daughter of the largest daughter in the Kanto region.

Known As! Pissken (1996)
The thug is now back in Shaba as a legendary hitman!

Assault Rakugaki Fools (1997)
This exciting work is full of dangerous behind the scenes stories from the sex industry.

Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu (2018)
In 2010, while covering the issue of the "secret agreement" at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the author came across diplomatic documents relating...

Drive (2002)
Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his van. They are in hot pursuit of their fellow robber...

Tripping (2006)
It's the story of a rebellious Japanese-Taiwanese girl (played by Rena Tanaka from “Kitaro”) who gets transported back to ancient times...

Vacation (2008)
The prison guards working in penitentiaries where death row inmates are locked up are forced to spend their daily lives constantly facing death.

Eyes of the Spider (1998)
After killing the man he believes murdered his daughter, a white-collar worker returns to his mundane life, until he is approached by a man who...

Getting Any? (1995)
While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.

Space Travelers (2000)
Three bank robbers, who declare themselves to be Space Travelers, take six persons as hostages when they are surrounded by the police. Among the...

The Exam (1999)
Togashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi's grade school entrance examinations, but he becomes...

Love of Sawako (1990)
Sawako, working in a bank, tired of the usual everyday life, once she met the chef of French cuisine Yukio Goto and spent the night with him. Sawako...

Apartment Wife Tied Up (1980)
An erotic drama reflecting the painful lust of two couples living in a residential complex. When a man got drunk, he undressed his wife and tied her...

Maborosi (1995)
A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.

Scan Doll (1996)
Katsumi, a man who lives a lazy and uninspired life, suddenly becomes addicted to "peeping" to uncover the true identity of his unknown neighbors in...

Shikoku (1999)
Years after moving to Tokyo with her parents, Hinako returns to her hometown in rural Shikoku. She soon learns that her childhood friend, Sayori,...

Tokyo Eyes (1998)
The police are tracking a man who shoots at people. But the young sister of a detective finds that he's not the mad vigilante portrayed in newspapers.

Neck Bowed in the Rain (2018)
Baijaku Nakamura takes the lead in a film where he has to dodge pursuit from a hostile gang whilst also helping out a family of innocent people who...

Box: The Hakamada Case (2010)
Based on the true story of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada who has spent over 40 years incarcerated on death row. Iwao Hakamada was arrested...

Dear Friends (2007)
High school student Rina has a bad attitude and thinks that friends are something that you use when you need them. She doesn't have any real...

Playmate Murder Case Let Me Go to Heaven (1990)
1990 Original Video.

New Gokudo Legend: Three Dragons (1999)
A full-scale drama that visualizes a feature-length novel by Koichi Iiboshi from "Battle Without Honor and Justice." It depicts a shocking rivalry...

Heisei Zankeiden : Battered Slash! (1996)
A man who was trapped by a gangster who was taken over by a sneaky means of life, such as a gangster and a gangster who disappeared from the screen...

Weather Woman (1996)
Keiko, a young, newly hired weather woman, is eager to give her channel's flagging ratings a boost. She decides a panty shot might do the trick, so...

Fuckin' Runaway (2007)
Hana, 21-year old, is sent to a mental hospital for attempting a suicide. She suffers from hearing a deep male voice in her head almost everyday that...

Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker (2009)
Tsukasa travels to his home world of the World of Decade, where he discovers the origin of his powers and his true heritage as the leader of...

Smuggler (2011)
To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one live elite assassin – in the middle of...

Tales of the Bizarre: 2003 Spring Special (2003)
Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2003 Spring Special" presents five tales. 1. Kao wo Nusumareta (My Face was Stolen) - starring...

Tales of the Bizarre: 2003 Fall Special (2003)
Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2003 Fall Special" presents five tales. 1. *Kagi (The Key) - starring Eguchi Yosuke. 2. Perfect...

About Love (2005)
Three stories are told, respectively set in Tokyo, Taipei, and Shanghai. The first two stories are about a Japanese person and a Taiwanese person....

The King of Minami: Sham Marriage (1995)
#11 in the series, after "Sweet Trap."

The Guard from Underground (1992)
A former sumo wrestler, now working as a security guard, goes on a murderous rampage.

Unlucky Monkey (1998)
A dark and strange comedy about a bank robber with bad luck. Bungling a bank robbery turns out to be a profitable mistake for Yamazaki, an amateur...

A New Love in Tokyo (1994)
A look a the lives of two sex workers in Tokyo: Rei, who works as an S&M dominatrix, and Ayumi, in the more straightforward profession of call girl....

Running on Empty (2010)
The beautiful Azami is tired of her penniless and lazy boyfriend, Hideji. Determined to break up with him, she must first get back all the money she...

Wandering Brain (1993)
A psychological suspense based on the novel of the same name by Naoki Prize-winning author Tsuyoshi Osaka. Psychiatrist Aiko Minamikawa was asked to...

Doing Time (2002)
A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon...

Bodyguard Kiba (1993)
Naoto Kiba takes on the task of protecting thug Junpei who embezzled 500 million yen from Okinawa's largest gangster gangs, Soryu-kai.

Harlem Valentines Day: Blood Is Sex (1982)
Set in the near future after a nuclear war, the film portrays a man who is searching for his former lover.

Tokyo Mafia 2: Wrath of the Yakuza (1996)
Yabuki's old friend returns as a deadly enemy. Blood brothers are driven to bitter hatred as betrayal rips mafia loyalties apart! Only the strong...

Hitozuma ryôjoku (1984)
Pink film by Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu.

Onihei Crime Files Special: Bandits (2006)
An old thief, Kuhei Sagiwara, used to visit his hometown at the foot of the Kurikara Pass in Kaga Province. Hiding from the rain, he overheard a...

Hole in the Pants 5: I Found a Glittering Star! (1990)
5th installment of the Pantsu no ana video series released by BOMB magazine

GTO: New Year's Special (2013)
A mother leaves three kids in the care of Saejima and it's up to Onizuka and the gang to track her down. Meanwhile Miki is having some problems with...

Lady Poison: Beasts of the Underground (1994)
A female photographer seduces men to kill them for her pleasure.

Arigato, Okan (2008)
Hanako is a mother, who was not enthusiastic when her husband took in two foster children some years ago. He died not long afterward, leaving her...

XX: Beautiful Prey (1996)
This Japanese thriller finds a sexy policewoman becoming entangled in Japan's S&M underground while investigating a gruesome murder. Soon, her...

Bayside Shakedown The Final: The New Hope (2012)
Set 2 years after prior film "Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose," a major case occurs that has the potential to take down the entire police...

Kumamoto Stories (2002)
Jidai-geki period / folklore type stories that were comissioned by the Kumamoto prefacture of Kyushu island in 1996 and filmed over a period of three...

Ushijima the Loan Shark Part 3 (2016)
Sawamura, a contract part-timer dragged into a multi-million yen internet business, and Kamo, an office worker who lavished money on a beautiful club...

Sunday's Dream (2005)
Kazuya goes to live with his mother Shinobu because his father, Yoshiki, who works in the same company, has fired him according to the company policy...

I Am an S+M Writer (2000)
Kurosaki is an erotic novelist who uses his editor and a hired model to act out scenarios in his living room to use for inspiration in his writing....

The Unbroken (2009)
Onchi was exiled to posts around Asia and Africa due to his work as head of a labor union for National Air Line. He is ordered to return to head...

Bayside Shakedown (1998)
Aoshima, a police detective working in the Bayside Precinct, is continually frustrated by the hierarchy and red tape that plague the system. His...

School Days with a Pig (2008)
A sixth grade teacher raises a pig with his class.

Blindly in Love (2013)
Kentaro is an unsocial 35-year-old who lives with his parents and has never dated a woman. When Kentaro’s parents set up an arranged marriage...

Jingi 13: Hell's Tomb Mark (1997)
After the internal conflict in the Kanto Ichienkai that was once caused by the Takayama group, until the reconstruction of the Takayama group, the...

The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji (2013)
Reiji Kikukawa, who has a strong sense of justice, graduated from the police academy with the lowest score ever. He becomes a police constable, but...

Gappie, Wear a Tie this Summer (1990)
It is a youth group of third-class university students struggling to get a job at a first-class company.

Loft (2005)
A writer retreats to a secluded suburban house to work on her new novel. But her attention is instead occupied by her archaeologist neighbor's newly...

Tales of the Bizarre: 2002 Spring Special (2002)
Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2002 Spring Special" presents five tales. 1. Mushi Game (Ignore the Game) - starring Uchiyama Rina...

Kuma-chan (1993)
Kuma-chan, an alien who looks just like a stuffed bear, helps a middle-aged sculptor fall in love with a young actress from a theater company.

My SO Has Got Depression (2011)
Mikio is a married man and works hard for the company where he is employed. Then one day Mikio is diagnosed with depression. Mikio's wife is Haruko....

Devoted Cookbook (2014)
It is the Spring of 1814. The restaurant “Tsuru-ka” is gaining much popularity after its chef, Mio, won the prestigious cooking...

Rookies the Movie: Graduation (2009)
Futakotamagawa High School had a Baseball Club, but because of a fight during one of their games, they were suspended for a year from all games....

April Bride (2009)
On April 5, 2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The bride, however, was suffering from late-stage breast...

Flying Rabbits (2008)
Yukari always wanted to become a flight attendant and has just been hired by Japan Airlines. However, due to an unexpected mistake, she has also been...

What I Long For (2013)
High school student Juri leaps to her death. Afterwards, Juri wanders to her house, school and street. She feels loneliness as nobody else is able to...

Hana's Miso Soup (2014)
Yasutake Shingo works as a newspaper reporter but his life is stiffled and lifeless. That changes one day when he meets the irrepressible Matsunaga...

L'amant (2004)
When three older men buy a 17-year-old schoolgirl named Chikako for a year's-worth of sexual services -- her motivation, aside from money, is never...

UNFAIR: the movie (2007)
When a devoted detective probes the suspicious death of her father, she uncovers massive corruption and finds herself in grave danger.

Seifuku baishun: Shôgeki no technique (1981)

Crying 100 Times - Every Raindrop Falls (2013)
Shuichi had a motorcycle accident 4 years ago. Because of the accident, he lost the last year of his memory. One day, at a friend's wedding, Shuichi...

Dead Run (2005)
Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes...

License to Live (1999)
Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is...

Charisma (1999)
A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for...

Black Angel (1998)
Tokyo is a dark technopolis, a city of faceless chrome and cold marble. It is ruled by Nogi, a yakuza boss specializing in drugs and murder. He...

The Goofball (1998)
Hisashi gets fired from his temp job due to his impulsiveness. One day he meets Chikako, a housewife who constantly shoplifts at the supermarket he...

GO (2001)
Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.

Kanikôsen (2009)
On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not...

Dangan Runner (1996)
A would-be bank robber forgets his mask on his first big heist, and then botches an attempt to shoplift a replacement mask from a nearby convenience...

The Lightning Tree (2010)
Set during the Edo Period, a young man from a noble family meets a young woman under a special tree called "Raiou" (the tree was struck by lightning...

Fireworks from the Heart (2010)
On September 9th, the day of the Katakai Fireworks Festival, high school student Hana comes home from the hospital after six months of treatment for...

Yellow Elephant (2013)
Married couple Aiko Tsumari and Ayumu Muko live a happy and peaceful life. Aiko is bit naive, while Ayumu works as a not so popular novelist. One...

Beautiful Mystery (1983)
Shinohara, a young bodybuilder, joins a para-military sect in northern Japan. His instructor, Takizawa, takes a liking to the new recruit. After an...

Beauty Rope Cosmetology (1983)
A wealthy college girl is snatched off the streets by a pair of S&M professionals. They methodically break her will with the extensive use of bondage...

Empire of Kids (1981)
Following a stint in reform school, Ryu (Shinsuke Shimada) returns to his home, the Minami area of Osaka, accompanied by his new friend Ko (Takeshi...

Abnormal Family (1984)
The film tells a story about a woman and her relationship with the family of her husband's, in particular her husband's younger brother and...

The Hit-and-Run Family (1992)
Set in the 1990s, this film uses black humour to cast a sharp, satirical eye at the problems facing modern Japanese families. Hiroshi accidentally...

We're No Angels (1993)
Rikiya Yasuoka, Ren Ōsugi and Junji Inagawa star in this early straight to video effort from Takashi Miike. Joe (Yasuoka), a lumbering tough guy...

XX: Beautiful Weapon (1993)
A blind female assassin lives alone in a remote house; her superiors occasionally send her "clients" / targets that she shoots right after having sex...

MARKS (1995)
Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later...

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist (1995)
Two petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members, fortunately they are rescued by a kindly Kindergarten teacher.

Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Wars (1995)
After being excommunicated from the yakuza, Ginya Yabuki returns from the shadows as leader of his own crime syndicate known as the Tokyo Mafia.

Falling into the Evening (1998)
Rica and Kengo have been living together for the past four years. It's been a very happy time for Rica; the only dark spot being an accident she...

Fishes in August (1998)
A refined psychological portrait of youths on their way to maturity

Kewaishi (2002)
Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of a manga by Shotaro Ishinomori was an official selection at the 5th Shanghai International Film Festival...

Tracing Jake (2004)
Inuyama is intrigued by the existence of "Jake," a mysterious crocodile that has been sighted in many countries around the world. He continues to...

Stereo Future (2001)
Keisuke, an aspiring samurai-movie actor lands a major role in a new film, but must contend with a director who has nothing but scorn for him, but...

Red Moon (2004)
Namiko Morita, who lived in Otaru, moved to this area with her husband, Yutaro, and opened the brewery "Morita Brewery". Eventually, they succeeded...

The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming (2008)
Remake of a hit film from 1990, "The Cherry Orchard" which Nakahara himself directed, based on a popular comic book from Akimi Yoshida. The story...

Takeshis' (2005)
Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience...

R246 STORY (2008)
The anthology film R246 Story centers around the major Japanese highway Route 246. Originating in Chiyoda Ward's Miyakezaka district, the 122.7...

Where The Legend Lives (2008)
Kohei Miyazaki (Naoto Takenaka), a former railroad worker, has become obsessed with locating the ancient country of Yamatai. His obsession sprouted...

GS Wonderland (2008)
"GS Wonderland" is about the 1960's Group Sounds bands - A Japanese pop movement inspired by the Beatles and other mid-1960's Brit Pop. Three young...

Tokyo Rhapsody (2007)
"Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as "Kayokyoku". Kayokyoku is a catch-all term to describe the...

Making of Zebraman (2004)
A documentary on the making of “Zebraman” directed by Takashi Miike.

Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project (2001)
Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and...

Utsutsu (2002)
A mysterious woman approaches a salaried man who leads a peaceful family life and tells him, "Your wife is having an affair with my husband." From...

Chasuke's Journey (2015)
Things are hectic in heaven. Dozens of scribes sit before a long scroll incessantly scribbling away. They are composing the biographies of...

The River with No Bridge (1992)
A widow and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku people are forced to reside. The two boys are...

Nekonade (2008)
The highly disciplined human resources manager Taro Onizuka starts to heal and change as he raises the kitten he found in a park.

Glory to the Filmmaker! (2007)
Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete...

Sabu (2002)
When a young man is sent to a prison workhouse for a crime he did not commit his friend on the outside must find evidence to clear his name.

Fancy Dance (1989)
Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic...

Achilles and the Tortoise (2008)
Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife...

Tattoo (1982)
An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.

Blessing Bell (2002)
Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other characters' lives.

Yakuza Taxi (1994)
The Yakuza clan Inoshika decides to help a small family business, Taxi Tanaka, lured by the clan Jinryûkaï and deeply in debt.

Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary (2014)
Mitsumasa Kido discovers a misterious baby in the himalayas whom he adopts as his grandaughter. 16 years later, Saori Kido is a young girl troubled...

Kagura Me (2015)
A woman bears a 13 year grudge with her father over the traditional dance he was performing that caused him to be absent from her mother's death,...

Maji! 6: Raging Fire (1997)
Shirogane Maji (Tamotsu Ishibashi), now the head of the Kozugumi, is summoned by Akame Shinzan, the Kozugumi's substitute lender, and is told that...

Delivery of Death (2014)
Reporters Takehara and Tsumura Aki work for the magazine "Shukan Dodongo". Their chief editor tells them to monitor Okase Shohei who is an...

Matsumoto Seicho Special: Blue Dab (2006)
The sudden death of a journalist stirs up young editor Noriko's curiosity. While investigating the case, Noriko uncovers the dark secrets hidden...

Japan Lies: The Photojournalism of Kikujiro Fukushima, Age 90 (2012)
Documentary on photojournalist Kikujiro Fukushima

Meikyu Sousa (2015)
Detective Yoichiro arrives at a crime scene involving the brutal murder of three family members to find a young five-year-old boy hiding in the...

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape (1995)
Hapless gangsters are hired by the yakuza to tail his daughter. Once the identity of the boy she's dating has been unveiled, the boss offers a reward...

Love Letter (1998)
A romantic film about the spiritual exchange between a gangster and a Chinese woman who got married to him under false pretenses.

The Interrogator Special (2015)
Yukiko Makabe is the only female interrogator in a department full of men. Their job is to question suspects immediately after a crime, using...

Hypnosis (1999)
Three apparently unrelated suicides occur on the same day in Tokyo. One involves a young athlete, one a groom at his wedding reception, and the third...

Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown (1992)
A bizarre mystery created under the direction of director Jissoji. The mysterious and strange world of Jissoji is brought back to life here!

Persona (2000)
Into the bully-infested home room class struts a fearless, ceramic-masked student. Squarely confronting a gang of ruffians, it is soon discovered...

USB (2009)
Yuichiro wants to be an film director but his widowed mother wants him to become a doctor. As radiation leaks permeate the city, he tries to clear...

Jam Films S (2005)
Jam Films S is a Japanese omnibus movie. It was released by Phantom FIlm in Japan on January 15, 2005. The movie follows 2002’s Jam Films and...

Love or Duty: Samurai Rebellion (2013)
In the Edo period of Japan, a samurai’s life belonged to his lord. On the battlefield or in the home, a loyal samurai must always obey his...

Akko's Secret (2012)
5th-grader Atsuko Kagami, nicknamed Akko, comes into possession of a magical mirror that lets her transform into anything she wishes. Wanting to grow...

Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story (2013)
Keisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan’s most respected legends of cinema. Made to commemorate the...

Bitter Honey (2016)
Akako, a shape-shifting goldfish in the form of a coquettish nymphet clad in diaphanous red dresses, naively plays the role of erotic muse and...

1778 Stories of Me and My Wife (2011)
Sci-fi writer Sakutaro (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and bank employee Setsuko (Yuko Takeuchi) met at as high school freshmen during their summer vacation....

Nowhere Man (1991)
Sukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but...

Gene Waltz (2011)
Doctor Rie (Miho Kanno) is know as the Joan of Ark of Obstetrics & Gynecology. She works in a challenging environment with clinics shutting down...

Shin Godzilla (2016)
When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of...

The Suspect: Muroi Shinji (2005)
One day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is arrested to take responsibility for a botched...

The Land of Rain Trees (2015)
Nobuyuki Sakisaka (Yuta Tamamori) is a salaryman. When he was in middle school student, he read light novel "Fairy Game”. He still has that...

A Drop of the Grapevine (2014)
Two brothers work at a small winery in Hokkaido in northern Japan. The older brother is picky and strives for the highest quality to make the best...

Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Blood (1997)
Ten years after his greatest triumph, Yabuki has lost the Mafia that was once his to rule. But when a young gangster comes to him for guidance, he...

The Revenge: A Visit from Fate (1997)
Sho Aikawa plays a police detective whose dark personal history makes it impossible for him to stay within the limits of the legal system. But he is...

Subway Serial Rape: Lover Hunting (1988)
A woman is raped on a crowded subway but no one reports it to the police. A TV studio exploits the incident to boost ratings. Even the reporter sent...

Snake Hole (1983)
Due to a past trauma an elegant wife cannot enjoy her husband attentions in bed. Undeterred he hires a B&D master to give him a few pointers on how...

Hatsuko's World (2007)
15-year-old Hatsuko (Higashi Ayu) lives with her elder brother in a humble town house. Their mother died when they were young, and the father...

Door III (1996)
Miyako is a frustrated insurance saleswoman stuck in a major dry spell. She tries every trick in the book, including aggressive flirting, which gets...

Shall We Dance? (1996)
A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near...

Dolls (2002)
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales...

Dance till Tomorrow (1991)
Live action adaption of Naoki Yamamoto's romantic comedy manga series.

Kamen Rider #1 (2016)
45 years ago, a man was subjected to the experiments of the secret organization Shocker and became a cyborg. Since that day, the man's sole mission...

25 (2014)
Detectives Shintarou Sakurai (Sho Aikawa) and Koichi Hikage (Susumu Terajima) are partners. They are also corrupt and often blackmail criminal groups...

MIRACLE GIRLS: Neva-da Stop Dreaming (2010)
Musical band "Yajima Biyoshitsu" comes to Japan from Nevada, USA to debut their CD.

Wangan Midnight (1992)
Direct to video adaptation of the comic by Michiharu Kusunoki.

Don't Look Up (1996)
On the set of a dark war time drama at an old movie studio, a young director, Toshio Murai, is trying to complete his debut film. The two starring...

Girl Mistress (1980)
An older yakuza man falls in love with Seru, a high school girl. When he is put in prison, Seru begins working as a prostitute to earn money for the...

Rush! (2001)
A wacky tale of two guys, one Korean and one Japanese who, mistaken for a couple of murderers, take to their heels, thus starting off a...

Outrage Coda (2017)
Five years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a noted...

Will You Marry My Wife? (2016)
Shuji Mimura works as a broadcast writer. He learns that he doesn't have much time left to live. He decides to concentrate on the future of his...

What the War Meant (2008)
The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and was later executed as a war...

Kaze no Tayori (2016)
Kurumi suddenly gave up opening a cafe with her friend. She hears that her grandfather Takeshi collapsed and goes to visit him in her hometown of...

Yakuza Ladies: Decision (1998)
Kasuga’s husband gets arrested for a murder of his beloved protégé. She and her family investigate and find out he was trapped by...

Monster (2013)
A woman has an ugly face. She has been called 'monster' since childhood. A case occurs in her town that leads to her being ejected and a relocation...

Yakuza Ladies Neo (2013)
Kotone (Tomoka Kurotani) is the wife of Mitsuru Kiba (Kazushige Nagashima), boss of the Kiba gang in the Saikyo Alliance. She hides a girl named...

Crazy Lips (2000)
After her brother is accused of murdering four people, his sister, desperate to prove his innocence, goes to a psychic for help. The price they ask,...

Teacher and Three Children (2008)
The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on a teacher he had when he was a child.

It's a Beautiful Life - Irodori (2012)
A group of elderly women come together to sell vegetable leaves.

Dog Race (1998)
Ethnically Korean Japanese filmmaker Yoichi Sai directs this madcap crime comedy. Nakayama (Goro Kishitani) is a suave police detective who doesn't...

The Woman Who Took the Local Paper (2016)
A man and a woman committed double suicide in Kanazawa City. Immediately after the incident, Yoshiko Shiota, a woman living in Tokyo, contacts the...

Men of Rage (1994)
The second installment of a V-Cinema sports drama, directed by Kurosawa in 1994, following "打鐘" (Dakan) from 1993, which was based on Yamamoto's...

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Hero (1996)
Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a brother and sister who want to drive a local yakuza gang member out of their neighborhood.

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Gamble (1996)
Having lost everything to horse racing, Yûji accidentally gets 10 million yen. But this sum belongs to a Yakuza.

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Nouveau Riche (1996)
A duo get mixed up with a girl who finds a trunk load full of heroin.

The Chaplain (2018)
Saeki works with death-row convicts as a prison chaplain. He tries to instill the prisoners with a sense of morality and help them become a better...

Specialist (2013)
Kusanagi plays a police detective who gets framed for a crime he didn't commit and had to spend the last 10 years in prison. However, he regains his...

Specialist 2 (2014)
A mysterious code written with letters and numbers is found on a street in Kyoto. Yoshito Takuma (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and Chinami Anekoji (Kaho...

Specialist 3 (2015)
Shu Kubota is killed by someone with a baseball bat. A metal bat and an old toy are found at the crime scene. Detective Yoshito (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi)...

Specialist 4 (2015)
Yoshito (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) becomes famous in Kyoto because of his ability to solve cases. The special investigation unit receives a request to...

Avec mon Mari (1999)
Mitsuko has a prestigious job as an editor at a publishing company, while her husband Tomatsu works as a freelance photographer, but he spends all of...

Travail (2002)
Asami and Rina are two sisters who are both professional shogi players in the same B League. Both are also unsatisfied with their partners —...

1990 botan-dôrô (1990)
Adaptation of the traditional Japanese ghost story The Peony Lantern.

Her Island, My Island (2003)
A young woman returns to the island where she grew up.

Our Season (1983)
A gay couple is on good terms with each other. They run a shot bar together and are enjoying their love. Their father was also once a lover, and they...

The Rape (1982)
Saeko works at a bar, and she is waitng for her lover Huyuhiko who was jailed. One day, Huyuhiko comes back. He starts working, but soon he quit the...

Teacher, Don't Turn Me On! (1984)
Two high school girls, an older sister and a married woman all vie for the attention of a tutor. Needless to say not much studying gets done.

Murder Credit - Final Destination Series (2016)

For Love's Sake (2018)
Shiori is a star university student with an incredible palate for wine who dreams of studying winemaking in France. However, to her dismay she is...

The Wicked Reporter (1993)
Matsuzaki is a racing tipster for a sports paper, a lowlife who spends half his time drunk, hangs out with yakuza and other riff-raff, and...

Subway Serial Rape (1985)
A man with a briefcase is being pursued by a small yakuza gang. After abandoning his vehicle, the man boards a train where he and the other...

Prime Minister's Office Lady (2001)
A woman, disguised as an office lady, takes revenge for her dead lover.

Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet (1990)
Junko (Sho Aikawa) is a low-level yakuza in the service of Yoshikawa (Toru Minegishi), despite the misgivings of his uncle (Jo Shishido). He lives...

Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet (1991)
In the sequel to 1990's classic Neo Chinpira, Junko (Sho Aikawa) attempts to take out Kazama and then goes on the run. However, he quickly begins to...

The Vancouver Asahi (2014)
In pre-WWII Vancouver, second-generation Japanese immigrants had it tough. Daily, they faced discrimination, hatred and injustice at the hands of...

Secret (1999)
A man is shocked to find out that after a deadly car accident involving his wife and daughter, his wife died, but her mind somehow got transfered...

10 Years - A Wife's Betrayal (2004)
Urushibara Kazuki heads to Kyoto to explore the secret of his wife, Saeko, who is hospitalized for terminal cancer.

The Serial Rape Murderer (1983)
12 Years ago, Fuyuko, was 7 years old, watched her sister, a high school student, raped and choked to die. Fuyuko never forgets that the man who...

Majutsu wa Sasayaku (2011)
A woman named Kazuko (Kimura) who was guilty of a “serious crime” in the past, along with three of her friends. Those friends suddenly...

Passion (1992)
A man tries to mend his past by helping his best friend’s sister.

Back Street Girls: Gokudols (2019)
Three male gangsters are forced by their boss into becoming a trio of female pop singers.

Rain of Light (2001)
This documentary-style film recreates the infamous Asama Sanso Incident of 1972 wherein an extreme faction of the Students Allied Red Army holed...

Saraba Itoshi no Daitoryo (2010)
With the recession still occurring in Japan and the area of Osaka thought to be hit hardest by the economic downtown, Osaka's gubernatorial election...

Ley Lines (1999)
The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they...

The Village Album (2004)
Hanatani Village in the valley of Tokushima Prefecture is going to be submerged when a dam is constructed. In order to preserve the beauty of the...

Blossoms Bloom (2014)
Work life for Shunsuke Osaki has been success after success, but at some point his family began to slip by the wayside. As his elderly father begins...

Pink Physical Examination (1985)
In a hospital with a near sighted doctor, horny nurses, cosplaying patients and stiffs in the basement the only healing taking place is sexual.

Yoshiko & Yuriko (2011)
Based on a true story, Yoshiko and Yuriko relates the journey and great love affair of Yoshiko, who was a renowned translator of Russian literature...

Mo-Ruerani (2021)
The owner of an established photo studio, collapses from illness. His son Shinta, who was raised by his divorced wife, comes home. One day, an...

The Nearest Place to the Sky (1994)
Kitagawa, a top salesman with an impressive record, is hiding a dark secret—he borrowed the 9 million yen of his record from loan sharks. One...

Chinpira (2000)
Osamu rescues a girl who was being chased by two punks and is soon mixed up with the Yakuza

Asako in Ruby Shoes (2000)
Asako in Ruby Shoes succeeds in providing yet another challenge to views of a homogeneous South Korea by presenting to us the Asian side of modern...

Aiyoku no hibi: Ekusutashī (1984)
Two people who have suffered the loss of a loved one meet by chance at a train station and lose themselves in a melancholy affair.

Hitozuma gōmon (1980)
Pinku from 1980. A young man seeks to exact revenge against a group of men that violated his sister.

Boys, Be Ambitious (1996)
Chunba and Kotetsu, grows up in the working class neighborhood of Kishiwada in Osaka in the mid-seventies. Their life in school is a never-ending...

The Taste of Fish (2008)
It may sound cliché, but Japanese people really do love their fish. If Japan has the best and freshest fish in the world, then Tokyo's Tsukiji...

Last Friends (1995)
Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Though they believe their service will help to...

Married Woman, Office Lady, School Girl - Take Aim and Attack (1980)
Japanese pink film

Samulife (2015)
Nagaoka is a former high school teacher. He decides to start a school with an ideal learning environment. To achieve this goal, he struggles to make...

Fireworks (1997)
Detective Nishi is relieved from a stakeout to visit his sick wife in hospital. He is informed that she is terminally ill, and is advised to take her...

Goddamn!! (1991)
When yakuza member Okamoto (Hitoshi Ozawa) begins to search for Nami (Reiko Yasuhara), a woman he saw in an underground porn video, he finds himself...

Farewell, Friend (1986)
Wataru and Makoto are two singers and on their way from a performance to an interview when they are ambushed. Their attackers, who identify...

High School Teacher (1993)
Hamura entered a high school as a biology teacher. Unexpectedly, one of his students, Mayu, fell in love with him. The forbidden love between the...

Part-Time Detective (2002)
Noriko Yamada is a housewife and mother of five children, she and her husband go through an economic crisis that causes them to have problems with...

Part-Time Detective 2 (2004)
The housewife and part-time private detective Noriko Yamada plays her old tricks again, uncovering mysterious corruption cases. But this time she...

Foreboding (2017)
Miyuki Asakawa tells her colleague Etsuko Yamagiwa that she has a ghost in her home. When Etsuko goes to Miyuki's home, there is only Miyuki's father...

Door II: Tokyo Diary (2023)
Ai is a call girl that makes good money for what she does but there’s always at risk no matter how good the money is. The job makes her feel...

Great Prophecy: The Revival of the Giant (1992)
A V-Cinema tokusatsu movie released by TOEI and Bandai Visual. Creature design by Keita Amemiya. It was originally planned to include Space Sheriff...

Demon Fighter Kocho (1997)
First live action adaptation of Demon Fighter Kocho

The Way: Man of the White Porcelain (2012)
The movie is based on the true story of Takumi Asakawa - a Japanese man who entered Korea during the country's occupation by Japan. Takumi Asakawa...

Collage of Our Lives (2003)
A young cameraman receives a letter from an old girlfriend, announcing that she is to hold a photo exhibition in the United States. Having heard...

Parasite Eve (1997)
A scientist realizes his dead wife is an organization of mitochondria bent on making a new species that will wipe out humanity.

Sexual Beast Sacrifice (1984)
Tomio, a college student, lives in a Western-style house where strange people live, such as his landlady Yukiko and her older brother Kishi, the...

Zebraman (2004)
A down-and-out schoolteacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old television superhero, Zebraman.

Postcard (2010)
Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the...

Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3 (2011)
Kai, Mei, and Yui are high school students. The three girls are also detectives and they solve cases using their reasoning abilities. It's also a...

Life on the Longboard (2005)
A depressed middle-aged man takes up surfing after he retires.

Wordholic Prisoner (2012)
A wordholic man, acting as the chief editor by a certain publishing company, is confined by the writer who wishes to publish.

Last Scene (2001)
Young film star Ken Mihara is about to fall from stardom. His rise as a celebrity is solely credited to his onscreen counterpart, Keiko, who recently...

A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth (2006)
Four strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket, and a woman with a preternaturally precise sense of time) are brought...

Chichi kara no tegami (2007)
Inuzuka (Hirotaro Honda), who asked about Mamiko (Rei Dan)'s disappeared father, Shinkichi (Ren Osugi), and her lover, Keiichi (Tetta Sugimoto), was...

Wolf: Running Is Sex (1982)
First production by Directors' Company. A man stripped bare of all modern values lives in a pure form, like a beast, feeding and satiating his every...

Kyouju Luger P08 (1994)
A man's life is altered when he comes into possession of a gun.

Yakuza Blood Wind Record Unreliable Crest (2000)
Tachibana, who was once regarded as the next young leader of the gangster group but lost the promotion battle to rival Yamamoto, is now a central...

Violent Island: Dirty Money Hijack (1992)
In the scorching heat of Okinawa, former lovers meet. Now, he is a gangster on a mission, she is a window trying to protect what is hers. Together,...

Eiko (2004)
Eiko Akimori is a 23-year-old woman who lives alone in an apartment. One day, Eiko is made to buy a big stone ring that brings happiness from a catch...

Subway Serial Rape: Uniform Hunting (1987)
On their way to school two sisters are raped by a gang of punks in full view of the passengers on the subway. When one sister commits suicide the...

Goodbye Elegy (2017)
Miyama Akira is a movie director in his 60's. In the past, he left his hometown to chase his dream. When he learns that his friend, who used to talk...

SM Tattoo Production (1984)
Asuka, a wanderer with a magnificent tattoo on his back, incurs the wrath of the Bombers, a motorcycle gang in a port town, and is taken to their...

Onna: Tarashikomi (1980)
Pink film distributed by Million.

Brutal! Rape Case (1980)
Pink film distributed by Million.

Tying the Newlywed Wife (1981)
BDSM-themed pink film distributed by Shintoho.

Female Teacher: Chain and Bondage (1981)
A female teacher with a heavy past who committed suicide with a fellow teacher in the past, and was the only one to survive. However, the woman who...

Groper Train: Continue (1982)
"Groper Train" distributed by Shintoho.

Humiliation! Mother and Daughter Destruction (1984)
Pink film distributed by Toei.

Catastrophe (1990)
A Salaryman in Hokkaido heads to Tokyo for his daughters wedding, but the fun is just beginning,,,

Attacked Apartment Wife (1983)
"Apartment Wife" pink film distributed by Shintoho.

The Exposer - Insurance Investigation (2000)
Hinata (Ryo Amamiya), the managing director of Sakura Fire & Marine Insurance, appears to Tetsu (Ren Osugi), who is hospitalised due to injury. Tetsu...

The Terrorist’s Parasol (1996)
When an explosion occurs, alcoholic bartender Kikuchi, who was wanted for a bombing 20 years ago, is suspected. Having lost two friends in the...

The Tiger (2015)
In 1925 Korea, Japanese rulers demand the last remaining tiger be killed. The tiger easily defeats his pursuers until a legendary hunter takes him on.

Dark Suit (2014)
Ichinose Ryo works as a salesperson for a subsidiary of Hashiba Electronics, a mid-sized electronics manufacturer which prides itself on its long...

The Castle of Sand (2011)
On December 11, 1960 an elderly man is found bludgeoned to death near the Kamata Station in Tokyo. Detective Yoshimura Hiroshi is a rookie detective...

Long Love Letter (2002)
It's January 7, just after the New Year begins. Make up classes are being held for students that aren't keeping up with their daily studies; anxious...

Trouble Man (2010)
One day all of a sudden, a trouble befalls one man. That trouble snowballs into bigger troubles, one by one, pulling everyone around him in. A yakuza...

My Boss, My Hero (2006)
Sakaki Makio, also known as "Tornado" is a tough 27-year-old high school drop-out. By academic standards, he's pretty dumb. His father decides to...

Yoshitsune (2005)
Yoshitsune is a Japanese television drama series originally broadcast between 9 January and 11 December 2005, with a three-part special compilation...

Hagetaka: Road to Rebirth (2007)
A Japanese bank is being targeted by Horizon, an American financial group that takes advantage of weak and struggling firms. Horizon sends the...

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen (1990)

Ninja Sentai Kakuranger (1994)
It's been a long time since the great war between the Three God Generals and the Youkais, an ancient race of monstrous spirits. Since then,...

GARO (2005)
The Makai fight a secret war against the demon forces known as Horrors, evil creatures that manifest themselves through darkness to devour Humanity....

Triangle (2009)
The series starts with the murder of a 10-year-old girl in 1984. 15 years later, after the case goes unsolved and passes the statute of limitations,...

Divorce Lawyer (2004)
Takako Mamiya is a lawyer who quits her job at a prestigious law firm and establishes her own office. She confidently sets out to build her business,...

Gakeppuchi no Eri - Kono yo de ichiban daiji na 'Kane' no hanashi (2010)
"Gakeppuchi no Eri" describes the turbulent life of Eriko (Yamada), who has been extremely poor since childhood, due to the debt left by her parents....

The Negotiator (2008)
In a modern society in which violent crimes are on the rise, there is a team that tries to resolve cases without bloodshed. It is the metropolitan...

Care Worker Gang (2009)
Hikoichi is the boss of a yakuza family, "Tsubasa-kai". One day he receives a sudden order from the main branch of his family...only to become a...

The Way We Live (2004)
The theme of this drama series is the bonds between parents and children and between husband and wife. What does it mean to love another person? What...

Emergency Interrogation Room (2014)
Yukiko Makabe works at the #3 Special Investigation Team of the Metropolitan Police Department. She has excellent negotiation skills. Yukiko then...

Hungry! (2012)
Mukai is taking on the role of Eisuke, a former bassist of a rock band who gave up his music dreams to carry on the tradition of his family’s...

The Way I Live (2003)
Boku no Ikiru Michi is a 2003 Japanese television drama series.

My Husband is a Cartoonist (2010)
The 82nd NHK Asadora is Gegege no Nyobo. The story is based on a 2008 autobiography by Mura Nunoe, the wife of Gegege no Kitaro mangaka Mizuki...

Keigo Higashino Mysteries (2012)
11 mysteries, 11 actors. Japan's favorite mystery author, the world of Higashino Keigo comes to life on screen through an assortment of short stories.

Joker: Unforgiven Investigator (2010)
Date Kazuyoshi (Sakai) is a detective on the Kanagawa prefectural police force. During the day, he is known as a "Buddha" for his gentle personality,...

Goodbye Ghosts! (2016)
Madoka Tsutsumi is a university student. He rarely expresses his feelings and he has never done an impulsive act in his life. One night, he sees an...

The Wallflower (2010)
Sunako is very happy living her life in the darkness of her room, with her skeleton friends and her horror movies to keep her company. The darkness...

Handoku!!! (2001)
As a former gang member, Hazama Ichiban witnessed the worst side of the emergency medical system and vowed to become a doctor to change it. With the...

Izakaya Fuji (2017)
In Nakameguro, Tokyo. An unknown young actor, Eiichi Nishio learns some important things while he communes with his elder actors and actresses in...

Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light (2017)
A father and son rekindle their bond through the online role-playing game Final Fantasy XIV in this live-action series based on a true story.

Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out (2014)
Hanasaki Mai is but an ordinary employee of a bank, with zero diplomacy. She doesn't think twice about pointing out her boss' mistakes. Her job is to...

Merry Christmas in Summer (2000)
Ryo is a former professional boxer who becomes a collector for a loan shark. He grew up in an orphanage in Okinawa Prefecture with heroine Haru,...

CSI: Crime Scene Talks (2011)
Satoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Scientific Investigation Team....

AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo (2002)
Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the...

Byplayers ~ What If 6 Supporting Actors Had a Houseshare (2017)
Kenichi Endo, Ren Osugi, Tomorowo Taguchi, Susumu Terajima, Yutaka Matsushige and Ken Mitsuishi all receive offers to take part in a big budget drama...

Siren (2015)
Satomi Shinobu works in the Mobile Investigation Unit of The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The Mobile Investigation Unit conducts the...

Satomi Hakkenden (2006)
"Satomi Hakkenden" tells the tale of eight samurai brothers and their adventures, with themes of loyalty and family honor, as well as Confucianism,...

Hokaben (2008)
Domoto Akari is a rookie attorney, so-called "Hokaben," a hot lawyer just out of the oven. Sugisaki Tadashi is her boss at the big law firm, but he...

Shoni Kyumei (2008)
With recent shrinkage of pediatric care, pediatrician Aoyama Sora decides to stand up to the hospital management and reestablish the specialty.

Being Born. (2011)
The Hayashidas were a typical happy family of father, mother, two boys and two girls. Until it all changed suddenly with the untimely death of the...

Fukigen na Gene (2005)
Yoshiko Aoi is a budding researcher in ethology, the study of animal behavior. "Men=male" are born unfaithful. But through her studies, Yoshiko...

Baton (2009)
On Planet Abel, humans and robots co-exist. One day a mysterious stowaway on a transport vessel tries to invade the planet, but is discovered by...

IS: Not a Boy and Not a Girl (2011)
“IS” stands for “intersexual,” a term referring to people who cannot clearly be classified as male or female, and who may...

Mission To Kill (2009)
Continuation of the popular series of films about the assassins in Edo. This show marks the return of the jidaigeki series "Hissatsu Shigotonin,"...

So Long! (2013)
AKB48 Drama split in 3 parts for each team Team A story: Kawakami Fukaba is the only remaining member of the Broadcasting Club. While she was...

Mori no Asagao (2010)
New prison officer Naoki Oikawa is assigned to the death-row section. When he observes the death row inmate's fear of their impending executions...

War of Lies (2017)
When Koichi was 9-years-old, Koichi's father was accused of killing his wife and youngest child. He was also accused of committing suicide. In...

Proof of the Man (2004)
This crime thriller follows a Japanese detective, Takeshi Munesue (played by Yutaka Takenouchi), as he investigates the murder of a Black American...

Dondo Hare (2007)
Natsumi is the 23 years old daughter of a master baker in Yokohama and in training with her father to become a pastry chef. She lives with her...

MPD Psycho (2000)
Yosuke Kobayashi, a detective assigned to a homicide unit, saw his wife killed by a serial killer, Shinji Nishizono. From the shock of the incident,...

The Sun Never Sets (2000)
Nao always get's into fights and does fight for his mother but eventually she dies. He is certain the hospital did something wrong which caused her...

Byplayers: What If Supporting Actors Lived On a Deserted Island for a TV Tokyo Morning Drama? (1970)
Cast in a new morning drama series, our five leads head out to an isolated house on what appears to be a deserted island via boat. Finding no crew or...

Clouds Over the Hill (2009)
Saka no Ue no Kumo is an NHK 21st Century special drama which was aired over three years starting from November 29, 2009. The series runs 13 episodes...