Takeshis'
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 store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, Kitano seems to begin hallucinating about becoming Beat.
Dead or Alive
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 bring it down.
Fireworks
Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.
Magare! Supûn
Once a year, on Christmas Eve, Cafe Telekinesis holds a real psychic party. At the party, psychics gather together to show off their abilities while for the rest of the year they hide their abilities. Yone Sakurai is a program director for a psychic variety TV show called "Asunaro Psychic". She is stressed out and tired from her work, but proud of what she is doing. Yone actually believes in psychic abilities. By an audience request a new plan is set out for the program, a plan which requires the show to uncover real psychics or psychic events.
Hâdo rakku hîrô
The story of three pairs of characters involved one way or the other with the yakuza and a rigged boxing match and fleeing the thugs one way or the other. Filmed as a showcase of the Japanese boy band V6, Hard Luck Hero has food, drink, cars, kickboxing, debt, shooting, theft, blackmail and music.
Suite Dreams
New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment and a special dinner planned and yet there is trouble everywhere. An Animal is on the loose, a politician to protect, a prostitute to handle, a bellhop to focus and a few things more.
The Kiyosu Conference
After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-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.
Eyes of the Spider
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Dead Run
Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes increasingly isolated at school and drifts into criminal activity.
The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji
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 is suddenly fired by the Police Chief due to "disciplinary" issues. In actuality, the firing is part of a carefully orchestrated plan to set him up as an undercover cop in the Yakuza.
Goemon
Follow the infamous ninja bandit named Ishikawa Goemon (Yosuke Eguchi) in an epic story. One night while looting treasure from Nanban (Southern Barbarians), Goemon finds a mysterious box hidden inside a secret grave. A forgotten relic from the past containing untold powers.
Wild Berries
A portrait of an ordinary family that turns unstable when their frivolous son Shuji returns home after a long absence.
The Blood of Wolves II
After Shogo Ogami’s death in Hiroshima, Detective Shuichi Hioka successfully implemented Shogo Ogami’s plan, which was to control the yakuza to prevent further gang wars and save innocent people from getting harmed. Shuichi Hioka manages the criminal organizations, but, due to one evil person who gets released from prison, the situation drastically changes.
Kantoku · Banzai!
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 his latest project.
A-hômansu
A homeless man suffering from memory loss is unbeatable in a fight. He becomes involved with the Yakuza. It is based on a manga by Carib Marley.
Yûkai Rhapsody
Yuukai Rhapsody follows a man who is stuck in a rut, no personal life and no cash lead him to the drastic decision of kidnapping a rich boy, unbeknownst to him the boy's father is a yakuza boss! With the yakuza and the police hot on his tail he is forced to take the boy and go on the run, somehow during the journey kidnapper and kidnappee begin to develop a friendship with one another.
The Magic Hour
A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a mysterious hitman — an assassin the hustler has no idea how to contact. Instead, he hires an actor to play the role, though the thespian has no idea what he's getting into.
Violent Cop
A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and Yakuza activities.
Noise
Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing population and declining industries. Keita Izumi (Tatsuya Fujiwara) begins to produce black fig on Shishikari Island. Because of his well received product, the island is close to receiving a 5 billion yen grant from the government, which is part of the goverment's policy to reinvigorate rural economy. The residents of the island are excited, but their peaceful days changes by the appearance of Mutsuo Komisaka. Keita Izumi and his friends Jun Tanabe (Kenichi Matsuyama) and Rookie Police Officer Shinichiro Moriya are suspicious about him. One night, Keita Izumi's daughter goes missing. Due to that, Keita Izumi, Jun Tanabe and Shinichiro Moriya happen to kill Mutsuo Komisaka. They decide to hide Mutsuo Komisaka’s murder to protect the future of the island and their families. It turns out Mutsuo Komisaka was a psycho killer. Police officers come to Shishikari Island to catch Mutsuo Komisaka.
Gamera the Brave
A young boy in a peaceful seaside town gets more than he bargained for when he takes home a mysterious egg. When it hatches, out comes a baby turtle that grows into a new version of Gamera. But will it become powerful enough in time to defeat the rampaging monster Zedus?
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Takeshi Kitano
Director
Kanji Tsuda
as
Film Director
Yoshiyuki Morishita
as
Light Man in film crew / Audition Juror / Client at bank
Susumu Terajima
as
Takeshi's Friend / Kitano's Yakuza Neighbor
Taichi Saotome
as
Unnamed young man
Takashi Miike
Director
Kazuki Kitamura
as
Shingo Tsurumi
as
Chen
Sei Hiraizumi
as
Police Chief
Shûji Ôtsuki
as
Yutaka Matsushige
as
Hiroki Miyake
as
Koyama
Masami Nagasawa
as
Yone Sakurai
Masakatsu Funaki
as
Chef
Naomi Nishida
as
Sachiko Kinoshita
Sansei Shiomi
as
Tetsuo Mishima
Akiko Yagi
as
Tamiko Iijima
Ryôko Shinohara
as
Yôko the Call Girl
Mieko Harada
as
Yumi Hotta
Yô Ôizumi
as
Hashiba Hideyoshi
Miki Nakatani
as
Nene
Yûsuke Iseya
as
Oda Nobukane
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Director
Shun Sugata
as
Hinuma
Shô Aikawa
as
Naomi Niijima
Kumi Nakamura
as
Noriko Niijima
Ryô Kase
as
Miyahara Yuji
Sarutoki Minagawa
as
Yûsuke Kamiji
as
Takayuki Yamada
as
Tsukihara
Masatô Ibu
as
Ieyasu Tokugawa
Takeru Satoh
as
Saizo - youth
Gori
as
Sasuke Sarutobi
Tôru Tezuka
as
Kamata Akechi
Hiroyuki Miyasako
as
Shuji Akechi
Nijirô Murakami
as
Kota Chikada
Katsuya Maiguma
as
Masatoshi Saeki
Tôri Matsuzaka
as
Shuichi Hioka
Ikuji Nakamura
as
Renji Ishibashi
as
Dating Cafe's Customer
Ryo Ishibashi
as
Michio Yamazaki
Hideo Sakaki
Director
Hiroshi Yamamoto
as
Kuribayashi
Takashi Sasano
as
Shige
You
as
Takako Shinomiya
Kôji Yamamoto
as
Grumbling Man
Haruka Ayase
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Natsuko Shikama
Kôichi Satô
as
Taiki Murata
Maiko Kawakami
as
Akari
Shirô Sano
as
Yoshinari
Kimiko Yo
as
Hanae Shoji
Tatsuya Fujiwara
as
Keita Izumi
Masatoshi Nagase
as
Tsutomu Hatakeyama
Tetsu Watanabe
as
Kaho
as
Mai Nishio
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