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 Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.

After Life

1998

Japanese

7.6

♡ 22

88%

grandparent grandchild relationship

heaven

old man

Hirokazu Koreeda Director

Tae Kimura as Dining Hall Worker

Kazuko Shirakawa as Nobuko Amano, who talks about her affair with a married man

Susumu Terajima as Satoru Kawashima, counselor

Yûsuke Iseya as Yusuke Iseya, who refuses to choose his experience

On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity.

Isola: Multiple Personality Girl

2000

Japanese

5.5

♡ 7

Toshiyuki Mizutani Director

Akira Ishida as

Kiriko Shimizu as

Ken Ishiguro as Dr. Kazuhiko Manabe

Susumu Terajima as Katsumi Maezono

When a woman, able to read the thoughts of others, comes to help survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, she encounters a girl with Multiple Personality Disorder whose dangerous 13th personality, Isola, must be stopped

Still Walking

2008

Japanese

♡ 38

100%

Hirokazu Koreeda Director

Haruko Katô as You

You as Chinami Kataoka

Kazuya Takahashi as Nobuo Kataoka

Susumu Terajima as Sushi deliverer

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

Hana

2006

Japanese

6.6

♡ 12

55%

Hirokazu Koreeda Director

Susumu Terajima as Kichiemon Terasaka

Rie Miyazawa as Osae

Ryô Kase as Sodekichi

Sei Hiraizumi as Zenzo

In 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.

Chasuke's Journey

2015

Japanese

6.0

80%

60%

Action

angel

based on novel or book

SABU Director

Hiromasa Taguchi as

Tina Tamashiro as Chako

Yûsuke Iseya as Hikomura

Susumu Terajima as Kuroki

Things are hectic in heaven. Dozens of scribes sit before a long scroll incessantly scribbling away. They are composing the biographies of earth-dwellers. What is invented by the men in heaven is lived out below. And their employer, God, is increasingly vehement in demanding avant-garde ideas. Take, for example, the beautiful Yuri, a girl who dies in a car crash. Some of the heavenly scribes find this very dull and send former gangster Chas, who has become a heavenly tea-boy, back down to earth with instructions to save Yuri no matter what. And so Chas ends up in Okinawa, gets to know the earth-dwellers, interferes in their fates, becomes celebrated as 'Mr Angel' and is hounded by brutal enemies. His falling in love with Yuri is of course a foregone conclusion. But no one could anticipate what happens next. Not even God himself

Katte ni shiyagare!! Eiyû keikaku

1996

Japanese

6.6

♡ 3

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Director

Toshiya Fujita as Daikichi Kinmori

Susumu Terajima as Mikio Aoyagi

Daikei Shimizu as Umehara

Shô Aikawa as Yûji Fujita

Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a brother and sister who want to drive a local yakuza gang member out of their neighborhood.

Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

2007

Japanese

7.3

♡ 2

Drama

tokyo, japan

tokyo tower

Joji Matsuoka Director

Susumu Terajima as

Tôru Nakamura as (as Toru Nakamura)

Ryô Katsuji as Hiraguri

Yui Sakuma as Nurse

Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn between the inherited recklessness of his father Oton and the inherited responsibility, wisdom and emotional strength of his mother Okan. Following a period of intensely rebellious behavior, Boku learns that his mom has contracted cancer; suddenly, his mother comes to live with him in Tokyo the entire emotional landscape of his life is altered.

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.

Nobody Knows

2004

Japanese

8.0

♡ 65

92%

Hirokazu Koreeda Director

Susumu Terajima as Baseball coach You

You as Keiko, the mother

Ryô Kase as Mini-market Employee

Sei Hiraizumi as Mini-market Manager

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

Ichi the Killer

2001

Japanese

6.9

♡ 78

63%

violence against women

yakuza

Takashi Miike Director

Tôru Tezuka as Fujiwara

Tadanobu Asano as Kakihara

Susumu Terajima as Suzuki

Yuki Kazamatsuri as Yakuza Girl

As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.

Brother

2000

Japanese

7.1

♡ 28

47%

Takeshi Kitano Director

Jack Ong as Chinese Boss

Omar Epps as Denny

Susumu Terajima as Kato

Lombardo Boyar as Mo

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 brother's gang.

Izo

2004

Japanese

6.1

♡ 6

33%

Takashi Miike Director

Susumu Terajima as

Mickey Curtis as (as Mikkî Kâchisu)

Rikiya Yasuoka as Lender

Liam O'Brien as Prince

Izo is an assassin in the service of 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. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.

Postman Blues

1997

Japanese

7.4

♡ 7

89%

SABU Director

Akaji Maro as Boss of Minato gang

Susumu Terajima as Detective Maeda

Keisuke Horibe as Noguchi

Sei Hiraizumi as Police Chief

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 schoolmate Noguchi, who's now a member of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia, and just finished cutting his little finger off.

Mole Song Final

2021

Japanese

6.1

♡ 7

Takashi Miike Director

Susumu Terajima as Akio Sakuno on the Photograph

Sarutoki Minagawa as Doppo Fukuzumi

Riisa Naka as Junna Wakaki Nanao

Nanao as Kochou

Reiji's final mission is to prevent the smuggling of 600 billion yen of drugs. For his mission, he gets on luxury passenger ship and he faces his strongest enemy to date.

Udon

2006

Japanese

6.5

♡ 4

Comedy

Drama

japanese cuisine

Katsuyuki Motohiro Director

Yôichi Nukumizu as Bookshop Clerk

Susumu Terajima as Captain Udon Villain

Yûsuke Santamaria as Kosuke Matsui

Yô Ôizumi as Udon Customer who brings asparagus

Kosuke is 31, and tired of his hometown where nothing happens. On a whim, he departs for New York with dreams of making it big. 6 months later, he straggles home... defeated, and saddled with debt. Awaiting him are his old friends, a caring sister, a disgruntled father ...and a bowl of noodles. Namely, "udon" noodles. The town is built around udon, sustained by udon, nationally famous for udon.

Ran

1985

Japanese

8.2

♡ 102

96%

Akira Kurosawa Director

Yûichi Hibi as

Masuo Amada as

Susumu Terajima as Foot soldier

Mieko Harada as Lady Kaede

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.

Getting Any?

1994

Japanese

6.1

♡ 4

59%

Action

Comedy

japan

Takeshi Kitano Director

Shunsuke Sakuya as Bank Clerk

Yuki Uchida as Bank Clerk

Susumu Terajima as Bloody Yakuza

Kanji Tsuda as Omega Sector Defence Force

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.

Distance

2001

Japanese

6.8

♡ 8

80%

Hirokazu Koreeda Director

Susumu Terajima as Makoto

Yûsuke Iseya as Masaru

Kanji Tsuda as Masaru's elder brother

Tadanobu Asano as Sakata

On the third anniversary of a cult's failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suicide, family members of those affected gather at the cult's former base on the shores of a lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ones' deaths.

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Akiresu to kame

After Life

Isola: Multiple Personality Girl

Still Walking

Hana

Chasuke's Journey

Katte ni shiyagare!! Eiyû keikaku

Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

Casshern

Nobody Knows

Ichi the Killer

Brother

Izo

Postman Blues

Mole Song Final

Udon

Ran

Getting Any?

Distance