Totsunyûseyo! 'Asama Sansô' jiken

2002

Japanese

6.1

♡ 5

Action

Crime

Drama

Masato Harada Director

Takashi Kikuchi as

Masatô Ibu as Chief Constable Noma

Kazuma Suzuki as Masato Nakano

Yûki Amami as Sachiko Sassa

When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its challenges. Upon arriving in mountainous Nagano, Sassa had to compete with freezing winter temperatures, conflicting opinions between the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and the Nagano Prefectural Police, as well as public opinion to gain entrance to the lodge that held the single woman captive.

Kochikame - The Movie: Save the Kachidiki Bridge!

2011

Japanese

6.3

♡ 4

Comedy

Drama

Yasuhiro Kawamura Director

Masatô Ibu as

Kyoko Fukada as

Shôsuke Tanihara as

Ikki Sawamura as (as Kazuki Sawamura)

Police Officer Kankichi Ryotsu (Shingo Katori) is back at the Kameari Park Polic Box. Kankichi Ryotsu usually means to do well, but more often than not he ends up causing all kinds of trouble. Like on his way to work he away when he is asked to pay up by a shop owner or cheats an elementary school student. Ryotsu's co-workers Reiko Catherine Akimoto (Karina) and Keiichi Nagakawa (Mokomichi Hayami) have had about all they can take from Kankichi and his boss Ohara (Masato Ibu) is constantly berating him.

Sway

2006

Japanese

7.1

♡ 6

Miwa Nishikawa Director

Tamae Andô as

Yôko Maki as Chieko Kawabata

Pierre Taki as Funaki

Masatô Ibu as Isamu Hayakawa

A psychologically thrilling portrait of the severe dysfunction behind a family clinging to decorum and pride.

Kantoku · Banzai!

2007

Japanese

6.3

♡ 3

Action

Comedy

Drama

Takeshi Kitano Director

Susumu Terajima as

Anne Suzuki as

Yuki Uchida as

Masatô Ibu as Narrator

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.

Rex: A Dinosaur's Story

1993

Japanese

6.1

♡ 2

Haruki Kadokawa Director

Tsunehiko Watase as

Masatô Ibu as

Masanobu Andô as

Yumi Adachi as

A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her paleontologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs.

Agitator

2001

Japanese

6.7

♡ 2

Takashi Miike Director

Hidehiro Ito as

Masaya Katô as Kunihiko

Masatô Ibu as Mizushima

Renji Ishibashi as Tattooist

When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub, it is not long before his dead body is found. Soon, inter-family retaliation follows, resulting in the death for a prominent crime boss. Devastated by this turn of events, the temperamental Kenzaki vows to avenge his boss's death and, as bloody violence ensues, the body count reaches excessive proportions.

The Woodsman and the Rain

2011

Japanese

7.1

♡ 5

76%

Shûichi Okita Director

Kengo Kôra as

Masatô Ibu as

Shun Oguri as Koichi

Tsutomu Yamazaki as Veteran Actor

A widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for his help and increasingly starts to rely on him.

Ask This of Rikyu

2013

Japanese

6.7

♡ 1

70%

Mitsutoshi Tanaka Director

Masatô Ibu as

Miki Nakatani as

Yûsuke Iseya as

Clara Lee as (as Clara)

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eventually becomes one of the primary influences upon the Japanese tea ceremony. With his elegant esthetics, Sen no Rikyu is favored by the most powerful man in Japan Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Nao Omori) and becomes one of his closest advisors. Due to conflicts, Toyotomi Hideyoshi then orders Sen no Rikyu to commit seppuku (suicide). Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of Kenichi Yamamoto's award-winning novel of the same name received the Best Artistic Contribution Award at the 37th Montréal World Film Festival, the Best Director Award at the 2014 Osaka Cinema Festival, the 30th Fumiko Yamaji Cultural Award and the 37th Japan Academy Film Prize in nine categories, including Best Art Direction, Excellent Film and Excellent Actor.

Godzilla: Final Wars

2004

Japanese

6.3

♡ 31

54%

Shûsuke Kaneko Director

Tamao Satô as

Shirô Sano as Assassin

Kazuki Kitamura as The Controller of Planet X

Masatô Ibu as The Xilian General

Humanity finally rids themselves of Godzilla, imprisoning him in an icy tomb in the South Pole. All is peaceful until various monsters emerge to lay waste to Earth's cities. Overwhelmed, humanity is seemingly saved by a race of benevolent aliens known as Xiliens. But not all is what it seems with these bizarre visitors. If humanity wishes to survive, they must reluctantly resurrect their most hated enemy, Godzilla.

Museum

2016

Japanese

6.0

♡ 14

Action

co-worker relationship

Crime

family secrets

Horror

husband wife relationship

Keishi Ohtomo Director

Masatô Ibu as

Mikako Ichikawa as

Shun Oguri as

Yutaka Matsushige as Kozo Sekihata

In Tokyo, Japan, several grotesque murders take place on rainy days. Detective Sawamura, who is in charge of the case, soon discovers that his own family is connected to the crimes.

Taboo

1999

Japanese

6.8

♡ 11

71%

Nagisa Ôshima Director

Chikako Aoyama as

Masatô Ibu as Officer Koshitaro Ito

Tadanobu Asano as Samurai Hyozo Tashiro

Susumu Terajima as Spy

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.

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Totsunyûseyo! 'Asama Sansô' jiken

Kochikame - The Movie: Save the Kachidiki Bridge!

Sway

Kantoku · Banzai!

Rex: A Dinosaur's Story

Agitator

The Woodsman and the Rain

Ask This of Rikyu

Godzilla: Final Wars

Museum

Taboo