A girl finds an old handgun in her attic and the symbolic object conjures a mystical scene of samurai (a stellar cast of actors joined by the 20-person Edo punk band Seppuku Pistols, who also provide the soundtrack) gathering within the moss-grown location of Kasosan Shrine in Tochigi Prefecture.

The Scythian Lamb

2017

Japanese

6.4

♡ 6

56%

Daihachi Yoshida Director

Fumino Kimura as Aya

Ryûhei Matsuda as Ichiro

Kazuki Kitamura as Katsushi sugiyama

Mikako Ichikawa as Kiyomi

Based on a manga written by Tatsuhiko Yamagami, the story is set in a former seaport town Uobuka, where 6 former criminals were sent to live there by the government, with the intention of re-socialising them. Aside from the few who know about the project, the general townsfolk has no idea of the former convicts' identities. Tsukisue is the pleasant and efficient municipal official put in charge of the programme. As he slowly learns about their past, a body is discovered.

Zokki

2020

Japanese

5.9

♡ 1

Takumi Saitô Director

Riho Yoshioka as

Ryûhei Matsuda as Katsuya

Katsuya as

Fuku Suzuki as

Five loosely connected storylines concerning the secrets and lies, the fears and tears, and the puerile potty jokes that punctuate the characters' daily (and in one eerie case, nightly) encounters.

The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker

2007

Japanese

7.1

♡ 3

Action

based on novel or book

Yoshihiro Nakamura Director

Ryûhei Matsuda as

Kaoru Hirata as

Hidekazu Mashima as

Gaku Hamada as Shiina

A university student finds himself wrapped up in the bizarre world of his next door neighbor, learning about his history and relationship with a girl who changed his life.

My Uncle

2016

Japanese

6.3

♡ 2

beach

Comedy

uncle nephew relationship

Nobuhiro Yamashita Director

Shinobu Terajima as

Ryûhei Matsuda as

Erika Toda as

Yôko Maki as Eri

Yukio Haruyama is an elementary school student. He has an uncle that teaches philosophy part-time at an university. His uncle leeches off his family. The uncle then goes on a blind date and falls in love with beautiful Eri Inaba. She is a fourth generation Japanese living in Hawaii. Sometime later, Eri goes back to Hawaii to take over a coffee farm left behind by her recently deceased grandmother. Yukio and his uncle travel to Hawaii to see Eri.

Akumu tantei 2

2008

Japanese

6.1

♡ 4

Shin'ya Tsukamoto Director

Miwako Ichikawa as Itsuko Kagenuma

Ryûhei Matsuda as Kyoichi Kagenuma

Ken Mitsuishi as Takio Kagenuma

Toshiyuki Kitami as Tetsuji Kikugawa

A story of the unexplainable things that inflict sheer terror on human beings and how they leave victims psychologically devastated.

The Day of Destruction

2020

Japanese

5.5

♡ 5

Toshiaki Toyoda Director

Issei Ogata as Crescent Jiro

Ryûhei Matsuda as Shinno

Kiyohiko Shibukawa as Teppei

Yôsuke Kubozuka as Toru

Seven years ago, a mysterious monster was found deep in a rural coal mine. Since then, rumors of a plague spread through the small town, and people experience an unexplainable mental illness. A young Shugendo practitioner goes missing only to resurface transformed, intent on exorcising the world from the monsters haunting it.

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Beneath the Shadow

Noroshi ga yobu

The Scythian Lamb

Zokki

The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker

My Uncle

Akumu tantei 2

The Day of Destruction