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6.8

♡ 1

Comedy

Satoshi Miki Director

Ryô Kase as Gas

Yutaka Matsushige as Kawabata

Keiko Matsuzaka as Midori Jinchoge

Takashi Sasano as Nishiohtachime

A woman finds out her father is not her real one after her mother falls into a coma while searching for a mythical creature. She decides to meet her real father who happens to be an off-beat antique shopkeeper.

Cutie Honey

2004

live action adaptation of manga

6.2

♡ 15

Sci-Fi

terrorist group

warrior

Hideaki Anno Director

Tôru Tezuka as Butler

Hideko Yoshida as Kyoko Onitani

Hideaki Anno as Office Worker

Ryô Kase as Todoroki

When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation to save him. Meanwhile the same crime group has been responsible for a number of other crime sprees across Tokyo. In the process, Honey teams up with the seemingly cold police woman Natsuko Aki and hot shot journalist Seiji Hayami as well as battle the four "claws" of the Panther Claw gang to save her uncle and the rest of the city.

To the Ends of the Earth

2019

6.7

♡ 8

93%

53%

uzbekistan

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Director

Ryô Kase as Iwao

Tokio Emoto as Sasaki

Atsuko Maeda as Yoko

Shôta Sometani as Yoshioka

A young Japanese woman named Yoko finds her cautious and insular nature tested when she travels to Uzbekistan to shoot the latest episode of her travel variety show.

Retribution

2006

6.4

♡ 21

40%

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Director

Hajime Inoue as Keiji

Ryô Kase as Sagyôsen no Sen'in

Ikuji Nakamura as Shôichi Sakuma

Tsuyoshi Ihara as Tôru Miyaji

A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since they all are in the same vicinity and by the same method, but as the evidence points toward the detective as the prime suspect, a ghost in red follows him, and he begins to question his identity. His realization of what seems to have really happened results in something much more sinister and larger in scope, and it leaves his psyche scarred.

The Taste of Tea

2004

7.6

♡ 27

Katsuhito Ishii Director

Hideaki Anno as Kasugabe

Tomokazu Miura as Nobuo Haruno - father

Ryô Kase as Rokutaro Hamadayama - Cosplayer

Rinko Kikuchi as Waitress At Noodle Shop

A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano, a successful music producer, is looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Sachiko is concerned with why she seems to be followed by a giant version of herself. As the lazy days pass by, each member of the family is followed in a series of episodic vignettes.

Tokyo!

2008

♡ 14

76%

Michel Gondry Director

Ayumi Itô as Akemi

Ryô Kase as Akira Yû Aoi

Yû Aoi as La livreuse de pizza

Yutaka Matsushige as (segment "Shaking Tokyo")

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.

Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story

6.8

Keiichi Hara Director

Ryô Kase as Keisuke Kinoshita

Yûko Tanaka as Kinoshita's mother

Mari Hamada as Koman

Rio Yamashita as Sakuyo Kinoshita

Keisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan’s most respected legends of cinema. Made to commemorate the centenary of Kinoshita’s birth, this biographical drama chronicles formative hardships and personal encounters to provide a rare glimpse into the life of one of Japan’s most acclaimed screen directors. Includes archival footage from 49 of the films he produced during his career at Shochiku.

Honey & Clover

2006

6.4

♡ 2

56%

Romance

Masahiro Takada Director Yû Aoi

Yû Aoi as Hagu

Ryô Kase as Mayama

Yûsuke Iseya as Morita

Masato Sakai as Shuji Hanamoto

Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as they prepare to venture out into the real world on a great voyage of self-discovery.

When the Last Sword Is Drawn

2002

7.4

♡ 31

based on novel or book

Yôjirô Takita Director

Kôichi Satô as Hajime Saitô

Miki Nakatani as Nui

Ryô Kase as Shûhei Kondô

Masato Sakai as Sôji Okita

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on the the low pay he receives from his small town clan, he is forced by the love for his family to leave for the city in search of higher pay to support them.

Sketches of Kaitan City

2010

7.2

♡ 3

Kazuyoshi Kumakiri Director

Ryô Kase as Haruo Meguro

Mitsuki Tanimura as Honami Igawa

Takashi Yamanaka as Makoto Kudou

Kaoru Kobayashi as Ryuzo Hika

The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go up a mountain to see the first sunrise of the year. Meanwhile, Haruo has inherited his family's gas business, but things aren't going well in his new endeavor and he becomes increasingly frustrated.

Dead Run

2005

6.8

♡ 4

57%

SABU Director

Miki Nakatani as Akane

Sei Hiraizumi as Ishigura

Ryô Kase as Miyahara Yuji

Susumu Terajima as Oni Ken

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.

Tokyo Oasis

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.

Restless

2011

English

6.7

♡ 15

36%

Gus Van Sant Director

Mia Wasikowska as Annabel Cotton

Schuyler Fisk as Elizabeth Cotton

Henry Hopper as Enoch Brae

Ryô Kase as Hiroshi Takahashi

Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love.

10 Promises to My Dog

2008

human animal relationship

6.9

♡ 9

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

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.

Strawberry Shortcakes

2006

7.0

♡ 4

69%

Hitoshi Yazaki Director

Masanobu Andô as Kikuchi

Kiyomi Itô as Matsushita

Ryô Kase as Nagai

Chizuru Ikewaki as Satoko

Follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with the responsibilities in their lives.

About Her Brother

2010

7.0

69%

Yôji Yamada Director

Yuriko Ishida as Chiyaki Komiyana

Sayuri Yoshinaga as Ginko Yû Aoi

Yû Aoi as Koharu Takano

Ryô Kase as Toru Nagata

Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she discovers Tetsuro is terminally ill. Tetsuro’s impending death marks the beginning of love and toleration.

Bel Canto

2018

English

5.5

♡ 19

47%

Paul Weitz Director

Thorbjørn Harr as Christopf

Ryô Kase as Gen

Ken Watanabe as Katsumi Hosokawa

Julianne Moore as Roxanne Coss

A famous opera singer is held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after performing at a Japanese businessman's lavish birthday party. Unexpected bonds are forged in the standoff that ensues.

Haruko Azumi Is Missing

2016

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