The story takes place over a 24 hour period. In the southernmost part of Japan, 20 fishing boats of an unknown nationality suddenly fire upon and occupy parts of the Hateruma archipelago. Members of the Japan Coast Guard are detained. Under the extremely tense situation, the Japanese government sends Aircraft Carrier Ibuki and an escort fleet to the area. Ryota Akitsu is the captain of the Aircraft Carrier Ibuki and Toshiya Niinami is second-in-command. It is now 6:23 am. and Japan faces one day which they never have before.

Poison Berry in My Brain

2015

Japanese

6.3

♡ 2

Yûichi Satô Director

Yôko Maki as Ichiko Sakurai

Terunosuke Takezai as Ichiko's ex-fiancé

Yûki Furukawa as Ryoichi Saotome

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Yoshida

Ichiko is a 30-year-old unemployed woman. She meets Ryoichi at a drinking establishment. Even though he is a lot younger than her, she can't forget him. Meanwhile, Ichiko has 5 different characters in her brain that governs her actions. The 5 characters are Yoshida, Ishibashi, Ikeda, Hatoko and Kishi. These 5 character then have a fierce meeting. Yoshida presides over the meeting as the chairman. Ishibashi is the optimist. Ikeda is the pessimist. Hatoko is the character that lives in the moment and Kishi thinks about the past.

License to Live

1998

Japanese

6.9

♡ 8

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Director

Hajime Inoue as

Kagetora Miura as

Shô Aikawa as Kazaki

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Yutaka Yoshii

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 not intact anymore: father, mother and sister live at different places. Yutaka decides to re-open the pony farm that his family once ran.

Ninkyo Gakuen

2019

Japanese

5.9

♡ 2

Action

Comedy

Crime

Hisashi Kimura Director

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Seiji Himura

Toshiyuki Nishida as Shigesato Akimoto

A group of ardent, do-gooding yakuza agree to help a struggling high school. But they're no match for the bored students and the apathetic faculty!

I Like

2005

Japanese

7.0

♡ 14

Hiroshi Ishikawa Director

Maho Nonami as

Ryô Kase as (as Ryô Kase)

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Yosuke

Aoi Miyazaki as Yu - young

Two youths meet in adolescence, reconnect as adults, and though both have changed drastically, their love still remains.

Zero Focus

2009

Japanese

6.2

♡ 6

50%

Isshin Inudô Director

Ryôko Hirosue as

Hidetoshi Nishijima as

Miki Nakatani as

Tae Kimura as

Spurred by the disappearance of a newly-wed husband, three women in post-war Japan are drawn into a murder mystery.

99.9 Criminal Lawyer: The Movie

2021

Japanese

6.1

♡ 8

Hiroto Miyama works with rookie lawyer Honoka Kono on a team that specializes with criminal cases for Madarame Law Firm. Atsuhiro Sada has become the director of the law firm. One day, the law firm receives a request about a case that took place 15 years ago. The case was about a poisonous wine incident.

The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps

2018

Japanese

6.5

♡ 3

Yukihiko Tsutsumi Director

Tarô Suruga as

Ryôko Shinohara as Kaoruko Harima

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Kazumasa Harima

Sayaka Yamaguchi as Miharu

Kaoruko and Kazumasa Harima are a separated couple with two children. They plan to divorce once their daughter, Mizuho, enters elementary school. One day, they receive devastating news of their daughter falling into a coma after a near-drowning accident at a pool. The doctors declare her brain dead with no prospect of recovery and the couple must decide if they should donate her organs to others in need or to wait until her heart stops beating.

Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie

2021

Japanese

5.7

♡ 3

Tôya Satô Director

Shingo Tsurumi as Kyohei Kamioka

Haruka Ayase as Nami Isayama

Shirô Sano as Nobuo Asanuma

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Yuki Isayama

At the end of the TV series of the same name, it is revealed that the husband works for the Public Security Bureau, and their marriage is a cover to keep her under surveillance. In spite of his mission, he falls in love with Nami and tries to convince her not to get involved in other people’s affairs. She is being monitored as a state-level security risk, and the bureau is unwilling to tolerate any more trouble from her. However, to save a friend, Nami runs out of the house and risks everything she has to confront the enemy. When she comes home, she finds her husband pointing a gun at her! A gunshot echoes through the quiet, upscale neighborhood…The movie picks up where the controversial ending of the drama series left off!!

Cut

2011

Japanese

6.5

♡ 3

50%

Action

Drama

Thriller

Amir Naderi Director

Ikuji Nakamura as

Takashi Sasano as Hiroshi

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Shuji

Takako Tokiwa as Yoko

Shuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that his loan shark brother, who had helped to finance his films, has been executed by his own yakuza gang for failing to repay his debts.

Tony Takitani

2004

Japanese

7.2

♡ 4

88%

Jun Ichikawa Director

Hiroshi Yamamoto as

Miki Hayashida as

Rie Miyazawa as Konuma Eiko, Hisako

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Narrator

A reclusive illustrator falls in love with a young woman who addictively shops for clothing.

Casshern

2004

Japanese

6.0

♡ 3

70%

post-apocalyptic future

Romance

Sci-Fi

Thriller

Kazuaki Kiriya Director

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Lieutenant Colonel Kamijo

Kanako Higuchi as Midori Azuma

Susumu Terajima as Sakamoto

Yûsuke Iseya as Tetsuya Azuma / Casshern

Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have taken their toll on planet Earth. As a result of the use of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, much of Earth has become uninhabitable and people have become prey to new diseases. Professor Azuma's "neo-cell" project, which is supposed to be the answer to mankind's hardships, becomes a nightmare come true when mutants spawned from the experiment escape and declare war on the human race. Azuma's son Tetsuya, who was killed during the previous war, is reborn into the cyborg Casshern as mankind's last hope against the new mutant threat. This live-action sci-fi movie based on a 1973 Japanese animé of the same name.

Shin Ultraman

2022

Japanese

6.4

♡ 28

94%

Shinji Higuchi Director

Kenjirô Tsuda as Alien Zarab

Yutaka Takenouchi as Government Official

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Kimio Tamura

Hideaki Anno as Ultraman

The Japanese government sets up a special task force to fight the giant creatures suddenly appearing across the country. Soon, the squad unexpectedly meets a giant silver humanoid who starts appearing every time a space monster attacks!

Penguin Highway

2018

Japanese

7.1

♡ 8

100%

based on novel or book

Hiroyasu Ishida Director

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Aoyama-kun's Father

Misaki Kuno as Aoyama-kun's Older Sister / Penguin

Erika Harlacher as Onee-san / Young Lady Yû Aoi

Yû Aoi as Onê-san

A fourth-grader investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his village, which is somehow related to a power from a young woman working at a dental clinic.

Voices in the Wind

2020

Japanese

6.9

♡ 9

Nobuhiro Suwa Director

Toshiyuki Nishida as

Makiko Watanabe as Hiroko

Tomokazu Miura as Kohei

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Morio

Eight years after the devastating tsunami, the wounds it left in Japan have still not healed. In her touching search for answers, Haru sets out on a long, eventful journey to her home town, where she lost her family in the flood.

Prodigy

2007

Japanese

6.3

♡ 2

67%

Kôji Hagiuda Director

Tamae Andô as Kikuko Mishima

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Koichiro Naruse

Hideko Yoshida as Professor Katsura

Riko Narumi as Uta Naruse

Naruse Uta is a "unique" 13 year old child. She possessed the talent to read sheet music even before she could speak, but has now come to the point where she hates playing the piano. Her father was also a piano virtuoso, but mysteriously disappeared from her life at a young age. Because of her father's disappearance Uta's mother had to move out of their posh home and into a far modest working class neighborhood. In this working class neighborhood there is a local grocer. The grocer's son Kikuna Oto happens to be a budding musician, but lacks the drive to truly succeed. That is until Uta Naruse comes into his life...

Creepy

2016

Japanese

6.4

♡ 27

91%

57%

Action

based on novel or book

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Director

Toru Baba as

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Takakura

Takashi Sasano as Tanimoto

Yûko Takeuchi as Yasuko

After having narrowly escaped an attempt on his life at the hands of a psychopath, detective inspector Takakura quits active service in the police force and takes up a position as a university lecturer in criminal psychology. But his desire to get to the bottom of criminals’ motives remains, and he does not hesitate long when former colleague Nogami asks him to reopen an old case.

What Did You Eat Yesterday?

2021

Japanese

7.1

♡ 5

Kazuhito Nakae Director

Kôji Yamamoto as Daisaku Kohinata

Seiyô Uchino as Kenji Yabuki

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Shiro Kakei

Hayato Isomura as Wataru Inoue

Kenji is overjoyed when his usually thrifty boyfriend takes him on a trip to Kyoto for his birthday, but the trip ends up uncovering a painful topic.

Canary

2004

Japanese

6.9

♡ 1

Drama

Akihiko Shiota Director

Naoya Uchida as

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Akira Izawa

Noriko Eguchi as Kimura

Mitsuki Tanimura as Yuki Niina

Two children, each abandoned by their families, come together in the wake of the Sarin gas attack in Tokyo. Based on the true events of the deadly gas attacks perpetrated by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult on the Tokyo subway system.

Kubi

2023

Japanese

6.4

♡ 13

75%

Action

based on novel or book

Takeshi Kitano Director

Susumu Terajima as Hannya Sahee

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Mitsuhide Akechi

Ryô Kase as Nobunaga Oda

Kanji Tsuda as Tamezo

Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears.

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License to Live

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I Like

Zero Focus

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Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie

Cut

Tony Takitani

Casshern

Shin Ultraman

Penguin Highway

Voices in the Wind

Prodigy

Creepy

What Did You Eat Yesterday?

Canary

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