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.
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.
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
A part-time employee in a mahjong parlour runs across a young woman, who is unable to walk, in baby carriage. He becomes friends with the woman and begins to feel enamoured with her.
Wild Zero
Only legendary Japanese garage rock band Guitar Wolf can stand between a race of aliens from destroying earth with an army of zombies.
The Warped Forest
Settle into your chair and be transported to a place both familiar and alien; where a giant shop-girl can barely fit in her store, there's a weird green pod in every bedroom, and terrifying wood nymphs provide a heartbroken woman with the anatomically correct fruit everyone seems to covet. In the end we are left, like Alice, with the Red King's conundrum: are we dreaming them or are they dreaming us?
Innocent Curse
A suburban town is faced with a series of bizarre incidents in which children disappear and three days later an adult in their life dies. A mysterious "child whisperer" phantom appears before journalist Shunya, who is investigating the incidents, and his girlfriend Naomi.
Sukurappu hebun
The lives of a young cop, a sanitation worker and a brooding pharmacist violently intersect on a bus that's hijacked by a suicidal political flunky, then cross paths again months later.
Kame wa igai to hayaku oyogu
Suzume Katagura, a bored housewife, spends her days doing chores and taking care of her husband's pet turtle. One day, she sees a wanted ad for spies. Hoping for some excitement in her life, she decides to give them a call.
Golden Orchestra!
When Chizuru joins as a teacher at Umega High School, she hears an amateur orchestra perform. Reminiscing her old days of playing the violin, she decides to enroll in one.
Heavenly Forest
Amateur photographer Makoto and the homely but endearing Shizuru meet during their university entrance ceremony and become instant friends. Shy by nature, Makoto finds himself opening up around Shizuru, who is secretly in love with him.
Insutôru
High school student Asako moves all of her belongings to the refuse area of her apartment complex and stops attending school. Kazuyoshi, a precocious young boy, invites her to join him in an online chatroom venture where she assumes the identity of a married temptress named "Miyabi".
The Happiness of the Katakuris
The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more.
Yakuza Apocalypse
When young protege Akira Kageyama is bitten by his dying vampire boss, Genyo Kamiura, he must get used to his new powers before seeking revenge.
Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler
3 years after the ultimate life-or-death game with Teiai Group, Kaiji was entrapped by Teiai and again back in the underground, forced to do hard labour. One day, Kaiji wins a bet to get out of the underground with 1 million yen, and promises the other workers that he will save them. But to do so, he only has 14 days and needs 200 million yen! Kaiji meets his former rival Tonegawa and learns that there is a chance to turn the tables in the game. It was a monster casino machine that will make 1 billion yen if you win...
Cloud
Ryōsuke Yoshii, an ordinary reseller, carelessly earns grudges by people and becomes entangled in a life-threatening struggle.
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.
Survival Family
A world wide electrical outage occurs. Everything that requires electricity comes to a stop. Tokyo is nearly ruined. Yoshiyuki Suzuki decides to escape from Tokyo with his family.
Ju-on: The Grudge
When a social worker is sent to check on a traumatized elderly woman whose family have moved in at the site of a notorious murder case, she unwittingly unleashes a cycle of terror that transmits via its victims.
Sonatine
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, supposedly as mediators between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, his group is attacked in an ambush. The survivors flee and make a decision to lay low at the beach while they await further instructions.
Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
In dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexually warped Uncle Sonezaki. Fortunately, she met Samehada as she runs for her life, which is also escaping from some slayers. What follows is a wild chase that leads the audience into a comically violent world.
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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
Shûji Ôtsuki
as
Chizuru Ikewaki
as
Joze
Noriko Eguchi
as
Noriko
Itsuji Itao
as
The Manager
Masashi Endô
as
Ace
Shirô Namiki
as
Kondo
Haruna Ikezawa
as
Voice of DJ
Ken Yoshizawa
as
Takashi Yamanaka
as
Naomi Nishida
as
Yôko Komatsu
Chiaki Kuriyama
as
Saki Fujimura
Ryô Kase
as
Shingo Kasuya
Yû Aoi
as
Kujaku Ogitani
Masatô Ibu
as
Nakanishi
Yutaka Matsushige
as
Ramen Chef
Anne Watanabe
as
Chizuru koyama
Takashi Sasano
as
Hidetaro Nonomura
Kentarô Sakaguchi
as
Sakashita
Keisuke Koide
as
Kyohei Sekiguchi
Hiroshi Tamaki
as
Makoto Segawa
Meisa Kuroki
as
Miyuki Toyama
Takashi Ukaji
as
Tomohiro Waki
as
Hijiri Kojima
as
Kayori
Takashi Miike
Director
Keiko Matsuzaka
as
Terue Katakuri
Yôko Mitsuya
as
Yuki Sakurai
as
Nurse Mikiko
Pierre Taki
as
Rival yakuza boss
Ryû Nakatani
as
Tatsuya Fujiwara
as
Kaiji Itô
Yuriko Yoshitaka
as
Yumi Ishida
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Director
Maho Yamada
as
Chizuru Tonoyama
Amane Okayama
as
Miyake
Mutsuo Yoshioka
as
Yabe
Michiyo Yasuda
as
Aunt Oume
Tadanobu Asano
as
Hattori Genosuke
Daikichi Sugawara
as
Yuki Izumisawa
as
Eri Fukatsu
as
Misaki Itô
as
Hitomi Tokunaga
Takako Fuji
as
Kayako
Tetsu Watanabe
as
Uechi
Keisuke Horibe
as
Inuzuka
Shingo Tsurumi
as
Mitsuru Fukuda
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