Tokyo Oasis

2011

Japanese

5.8

Kana Matsumoto Director

Mikako Ichikawa as

Tomoyo Harada as Kikuchi

Ryô Kase as Nagano

Haru Kuroki as Yasuko

In Tokyo, actress Touko leaves the filming set of her latest project and comes across three people by random chance: she gives a ride to a man named Nagano, whom she has never met before; at a small theater, runs into Kikuchi, a former screenwriter; lastly, meets Yasuko at the zoo.

10 Promises to My Dog

2008

Japanese

6.9

♡ 9

human animal relationship

japan

Romance

Katsuhide Motoki Director

Takashi Sasano as

Pierre Taki as (as Piêru Taki)

Ryô Kase as Susumu Hoshi

Chizuru Ikewaki as Yuko Inoue

One day a puppy comes to the house of Akari, who has just turned twelve, and was trying hard to act strong after her mother suddenly fell ill. She immediately falls in love with the puppy and names it "Socks" after the paws which looked like they had white socks on. Akari was together with Socks day and night. However, as Akari grows up, her feelings and interest moves away from Socks. Year by year, their distance grows, which also leads to her physical distance as she moves to a far off city, and must leave Socks behind to a childhood friend.One day Akari remembers the 10 promises that she had made with Socks and her deceased mother...

I Like

2005

Japanese

7.0

♡ 14

Hiroshi Ishikawa Director

Maho Nonami as

Ryô Kase as (as Ryô Kase)

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Yosuke

Aoi Miyazaki as Yu - young

Two youths meet in adolescence, reconnect as adults, and though both have changed drastically, their love still remains.

Haruko Azumi Is Missing

2016

Japanese

6.1

♡ 3

100%

Daigo Matsui Director

Maho Yamada as Yû Aoi

Yû Aoi as Haruko Azumi

Motoki Ochiai as Kawamoto

Ryô Kase as Sawai

While a gang of high school girls randomly beats lone men at night, the photo of a young woman who has been declared missing is used to design a template which is painted on each wall of a small suburban town.

Funky Forest: The First Contact

2005

Japanese

6.6

♡ 5

40%

Katsuhito Ishii Director

Rinko Kikuchi as

Hideaki Anno as Kaho

Kaho as Omoro

Ryô Kase as Takefumi

An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.

It's Me, It's Me

2013

Japanese

5.9

♡ 5

44%

Satoshi Miki Director

Aimi Satsukawa as

Yutaka Matsushige as

Yuki Uchida as Sayaka

Ryô Kase as Tajima

Hitoshi Nagano, who works at an electronics store, picks up a cellphone left behind by a customer and goes about a scam. He calls the person's mother and pretends to be her son. He then gets the mother to transfer money to his bank account. Soon, Hitoshi gets a lot more than he bargained for.

Pûru

2009

Japanese

5.8

♡ 2

Drama

Mika Ohmori Director

Ryô Kase as

Masako Motai as

Satomi Kobayashi as Kana

Kana as

A story of 6 days with 5 people gathered around a small sparkling pool at Chiang Mai in Thailand. 4 years ago, Kyoko started to live in Thailand and has been working in a Guest house outside in Chiang Mai, leaving her mother and her daughter Sayo, in Japan. Just before the graduation of University, Sayo sets foot on Thailand to visit her mother with mixed feelings. However, emotional experiences with the people living there changes such feelings toward her mother.

I Just Didn't Do It

2006

Japanese

7.6

♡ 6

91%

Masayuki Suo Director

Hiromasa Taguchi as

Misa Shimizu as

Hiroshi Yamamoto as Satoshi Kitao

Ryô Kase as Teppei Kaneko

A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all the while insisting that he is innocent.

Foujita

2015

Japanese

6.1

♡ 3

Kôhei Oguri Director

Ryô Kase as

Miki Nakatani as Kimiyo

Sebastien Sisak as Leader des pirates

Takehiro Hira as Lieutenant

A biopic of seminal 20th century artist Leonard Foujita, a contemporary of Picasso and Modigliani, who was famous for mixing up European and Japanese styles.

March Comes in Like a Lion

2017

Japanese

6.6

♡ 5

Keishi Ohtomo Director

Ryô Kase as

Kana Kurashina as Kawamoto Akari

Kaya Kiyohara as Kawamoto Hinata

Kasumi Arimura as Koda Kyoko

Rei Kiriyama is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi player when he was in middle school. He lives by himself in Tokyo, because his parents and younger sister died in an traffic accident when he was little. One day, Rei Kiriyama meets three sisters who are his neighbors. The three sisters are Akari Kawamoto, Hinata Kawamoto and Momo Kawamoto. This is his first meeting with someone outside of the shogi world in many years. Having meals with the Kawamoto family brings warm feelings to Rei Kiriyama. As Rei Kiriyama continues his shogi career, his interactions with his neighbors allows him to grow as a shogi player and as a person.

Beyond Outrage

2012

Japanese

6.7

♡ 14

Takeshi Kitano Director

Takahiro Kuroishi as

Tomokazu Miura as Chairman Kato

Yutaka Matsushige as Detective Shigeta

Ryô Kase as Underboss Ishihara

As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West. What started as an internal strife in Outrage has now become a nationwide war in Outrage Beyond.