License to Live
Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is not intact anymore: father, mother and sister live at different places. Yutaka decides to re-open the pony farm that his family once ran.
Fukuzawa Yukichi
Fukuzawa Yukichi opens a school for samurai, who aim to learn Dutch language, most common for overseas trading. But when he was in Yokohama he learned that English language is one way more global one. His struggle against patriarchal mindset leads his school to become one of the oldest universities in Japan.
Ley Lines
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.
Katte ni shiyagare!! Ôgon keikaku
Yûji and Kosaku are hired to track down an old man. But when he suddenly dies, his granddaughter surfaces with a map to his buried fortune, which the yakuza and a dirty cop are determined to find.
Katte ni shiyagare!! Narikin keikaku
A duo get mixed up with a girl who finds a trunk load full of heroin.
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Gamble
Having lost everything to horse racing, Yûji accidentally gets 10 million yen. But this sum belongs to a Yakuza.
Music Box
A former yakuza returns to gangster life after an old enemy threatens his son.
Danger Point: The Road to Hell
Killers Ken and Joji undertake the killing of a man named Sakai. He utters some interesting last words before being shot dead, leading Ken and Joji on a trail of death and destruction.
Rainy Dog
A Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss to make ends meet when suddenly a woman from his past delivers a son to him.
The Eel
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.
Gozu
Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he decides to take a rest. Not only are the front desk clerks a bit strange, but even the ambiance feels unusual. Minami soon realizes he may have gotten more than he bargained for.
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Director
Hajime Inoue
as
Kagetora Miura
as
Shô Aikawa
as
Kazaki
Hidetoshi Nishijima
as
Yutaka Yoshii
Takashi Miike
Director
Tetsu Watanabe
as
Ryûshi Mizukami
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Kazuki Kitamura
as
Ryuichi
Tarô Suwa
as
Ren Ôsugi
as
Sakae Suzuki
Yoriko Dôguchi
as
Yumiko Haneda
Shû Tôrô
as
Okazaki
Masashi Arifuku
as
Kenzô Kawarasaki
as
Father
Susumu Terajima
as
Nobuko Sendô
as
Kiyo Kanzaki
Mitsuru Hirata
as
Mineyama
Shôhei Imamura
Director
Sei Hiraizumi
as
Misa Shimizu
as
Keiko Hattori
Masaya Katô
as
Renji Ishibashi
as
Boss
Kimika Yoshino
as
Female Ozaki
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