Last Winter, We Parted

2018

Japanese

6.6

♡ 7

Tomoyuki Takimoto Director

Katsuya Maiguma as

Takanori Iwata as Kyosuke Yakumo

Kazuki Kitamura as Yoshiki Kobayashi

Mizuki Yamamoto as Yuriko Matsuda

An ambitious, young freelance journalist takes on the closed case of a famous fine arts photographer whose beautiful female subject died on set in a gruesome fire.

Dead or Alive

1999

Japanese

6.7

♡ 13

55%

Takashi Miike Director

Kazuki Kitamura as

Shingo Tsurumi as Chen

Susumu Terajima as Inoue

Sei Hiraizumi as Police Chief

Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to bring it down.

Kaze no sotogawa

2007

Japanese

6.2

♡ 1

Action

Drama

Eiji Okuda Director

Kazuki Kitamura as

Mari Natsuki as

Masaki Miura as

Rino Katase as

High school student Mariko sings in the choir at the all-girls school she attends, and her biggest dream right now is to go to a music college. One day on her way home from school, she accidentally drops her bookbag into the sea. A man jumps into the water and recovers the bag for her, but all of her score sheets have been ruined. From that day on, Mariko’s new acquaintance becomes her bodyguard, walking her home everyday. But for some reason, he refuses to tell her his name.

Samurai Cat

2014

Japanese

6.3

♡ 10

Takeshi Watanabe Director

Yasukaze Motomiya as

Kanji Tsuda as

Misako Renbutsu as

Kazuki Kitamura as Madarame Kyutaro

The ever versatile Kazuki Kitamura stars as masterless samurai Kyutaro Madarame, a feared swordsman who has fallen on hard times in old Edo. Caught between two warring gangs in an epic battle of cat lovers and dog lovers, he begrudgingly accepts the canine faction's offer to assassinate the opposite leader's beloved pet: an adorable white cat. Yet upon raising his lethal sword, he cannot bring himself to go through with the act, and the cat melts his ronin heart. But before finding peace as a newly minted cat person, the still fearsome Madarame will have to take on both gangs in a classic samurai street brawl.

Hanada Shonenshi the Movie: Spirits and the Secret Tunnel

2006

Japanese

6.3

♡ 1

near-death experience

Nobuo Mizuta Director

Mari Hamada as

Kazuki Kitamura as Masahiko Sawai

Hiroko Nakajima as Miyoko Murakami

Ryôko Shinohara as Toshie Hanada

Ichiro Hanada is a mischievous boy who gains the ability to see and talk to ghosts after a near-death experience. (live-action adaptation of the manga )

Suspect X

2008

Japanese

7.4

♡ 14

Action

based on novel or book

Hiroshi Nishitani Director

Akiko Yagi as

Ikkei Watanabe as Hiromi Koribayashi

Ko Shibasaki as Kaoru Utsumi

Kazuki Kitamura as Shumpei Kusanagi

A male corpse is discovered with a smashed face and burned hands. Strangely, the cause of death is determined to be strangulation. When Detective Kaoru Utsumi attempts to corroborate the victim’s ex-wife’s alibi she discovers the mysterious neighbor and only a few small clues to help her disprove a seemingly "airtight" alibi...

Maiko haaaan!!!

2007

Japanese

6.2

♡ 3

Nobuo Mizuta Director

Ayame Misaki as

Yuki Himura as Camera boy

Kazuki Kitamura as Doctor

Ko Shibasaki as Fujiko Osawa

Kimihiko Onizuka is a salaryman infatuated with maiko (apprentice geisha) and whose greatest goal in life is to play a party game called "yakyuken" with one.

Ley Lines

1999

Japanese

6.9

♡ 11

Takashi Miike Director

Tetsu Watanabe as

Ryûshi Mizukami as

Shô Aikawa as Ikeda

Kazuki Kitamura as Ryuichi

The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befriend a troubled Shanghai prostitute and fall foul of a local crime syndicate. Like many of Miike's works, the film examines the underbelly of respectable Japanese society and the problems of assimilation faced by non-ethnically Japanese people in Japan.

Thermae Romae II

2014

Japanese

6.1

♡ 1

41%

Hideki Takeuchi Director

Masachika Ichimura as

Kazuki Kitamura as Ceionius

Hiroshi Abe as Lucius

Fumihiko Tachiki as (voice)

In ancient Rome, bathhouse architect Lucius (Hiroshi Abe) becomes famous with designing the original "thermae" (bathhouse). He receives an order to build a thermae in the colosseum to help gladiators recover from their wounds, but faces difficulties. Thus, Lucius travels again to modern day Japan through the time slip. He meets Manami (Aya Ueto) again, who is now a reporter for a magazine which covers bathroom. With the help of the flat face Japanese tribe, Lucius again designs a new thermae. Meanwhile, Emperor Hadrian (Masachika Ichimura) wants to keep the peace with the thermae, but the Senate wants to extend the land by using force. Emperor Hadrian and the Senate now have a confrontation and Rome becomes divided.

Blade of the Immortal

2017

Japanese

6.7

♡ 129

87%

Takashi Miike Director

Takahiro Kuroishi as

Chiaki Kuriyama as Hyakurin

Tsutomu Yamazaki as Kensui Ibane

Kazuki Kitamura as Sabato Kuroi

Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to help a young girl named Rin avenge her parents, who were killed by a group of master swordsmen led by ruthless warrior Anotsu. The mission will change Manji in ways he could never imagine.

Space Battleship Yamato

2010

Japanese

6.0

♡ 24

54%

post-apocalyptic future

Takashi Yamazaki Director

Kazuki Kitamura as

Tsutomu Yamazaki as Juzo Okita

Marika Matsumoto as M. Nishina

Isao Sasaki as Narrator

In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have fled underground to escape the irradiated surface. One day, former pilot Susumu Kodai discovers a capsule sent from the planet Iscandar that tells of a device that can remove the radiation from the Earth's surface. The Earth Defense Force rebuilds the battleship Yamato with a new type of propulsion system to make the 148,000 light year trip to Iscandar in hopes of saving the Earth. Within one year, the radiation will drive the rest of humanity to extinction.

Parasyte: Part 2

2015

Japanese

6.5

♡ 32

live action adaptation of manga

Sci-Fi

Takashi Yamazaki Director

Takashi Yamanaka as

Pierre Taki as Miki

Ai Hashimoto as Satomi Murano

Kazuki Kitamura as Takeshi Hirokawa

Humanity is under attack by human-mimicking flesh-eating alien parasites. One parasite bonds with his young high school student host, and he convinces the parasite to help him stop the others.

Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead

2023

Japanese

5.5

♡ 24

75%

40%

Action

aftercreditsstinger

based on graphic novel

Yûsuke Ishida Director

Akari Hayami as

Eiji Akaso as Akira Tendo

Kazuki Kitamura as Gonzô Kosugi

Mai Shiraishi as Shizuka Mikazuki

Bullied by his boss, worked around the clock, he's nothing more than a corporate drone. All it takes is a zombie outbreak for him to finally feel alive!

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.

The Eel

1997

Japanese

7.3

♡ 4

82%

Shôhei Imamura Director

Sei Hiraizumi as

Kazuki Kitamura as

Misa Shimizu as Keiko Hattori

Shô Aikawa as Yuji Nozawa

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no one except for an eel he befriended while in prison.

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Last Winter, We Parted

Dead or Alive

Kaze no sotogawa

Samurai Cat

Hanada Shonenshi the Movie: Spirits and the Secret Tunnel

Suspect X

Maiko haaaan!!!

Ley Lines

Thermae Romae II

Blade of the Immortal

Space Battleship Yamato

Parasyte: Part 2

Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead

Godzilla: Final Wars

The Eel