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7.5

♡ 5

alzheimer's disease

based on novel or book

Drama

Yukihiko Tsutsumi Director

Kanako Higuchi as Emiko Saeki

Asami Mizukawa as Keiko Ikuno

Ken Watanabe as Masayuki Saeki

Kazue Fukiishi as Rie Saeki

After being stricken with Alzheimer's disease in the prime of his life, a successful young businessman slips slowly away from his loving family.

Bel Canto

2018

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.

The Memories of Happiness

2017

5.2

♡ 1

Drama

Hajime Takezono Director

Daikichi Sugawara as Masashi Ogata

Keiko Kitagawa as Nanami Tsushima

Ken Watanabe as Taro Miura

Yûdai Chiba as Yu Tajima

Taro's business failed and he got divorced. He also left his family's home. 5 years later, his oldest daughter Natsumi, second daughter Yuka and ex-wife Junko still live in the same house which Taro left. One day, Taro, who has been having difficulties paying his rent, visits his daughter Natsumi's office to ask for a loan. Natsumi is the bread winner for the family since he left., so she becomes angry at him. Later, Taro arrives at his former house unannounced and begins to live there.

Shanghai

2010

6.3

♡ 25

4%

nazi collaborationism

Mikael Håfström Director

Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Conner

Benedict Wong as Juso Kita

Rinko Kikuchi as Sumiko

Ken Watanabe as Tanaka

An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.

Moonlight in Tokyo

2005

Cn

6.1

♡ 2

Comedy

Drama

Alan Mak Director

Mari Hamada as Hostess #2

Ken Watanabe as Inspector

Leon Lai as Jun

Hiro Hayama as Shing

Intellectually impaired he might be, Jun (Leon Lai) is only dumb but not silly. Abandoned by his family on a trip to Tokyo with only a few notes in his pocket, he thinks he has found his guardian angel when he bumps into a former classmate, Hoi (Chapman To). But Hoi is no angel at all. He is just a grifter on the run from yakuza loan sharks. When Yan (Yang Kuei-mei), the owner of an escort service, is convinced the ingenuous Jun will mark a perfect gigolo, Hoi decides to transform his pal into Tokyo's most sought-after Lothario in order to eke out a living and to pay his debts.

Fukushima 50

2020

♡ 12

67%

69%

based on a true story

based on novel or book

Setsurô Wakamatsu Director

Riho Yoshioka as Haruka Izaki

Yûta Kanai as Koji Miyamoto

Ken Watanabe as Masao Yoshida

Shirô Sano as Prime Minister

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

2009

5.8

♡ 40

37%

based on novel or book

Paul Weitz Director

Willem Dafoe as Gavner Purl

Salma Hayek as Madame Truska

Ken Watanabe as Mr. Tall

Josh Hutcherson as Steve

When Darren Shan is taken to a circus that's chock-full of sideshow oddities, he meets a vampire and receives a life-changing bite on the neck.

Letters from Iwo Jima

2006

7.8

♡ 84

91%

Clint Eastwood Director

Tsuyoshi Ihara as Baron Nishi

Ken Watanabe as General Kuribayashi

Hiroshi Watanabe as Lieutenant Fujita

Ryô Kase as Shimizu

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

The King and I

2018

8.0

♡ 9

based on play or musical

Gary Halvorson Director

Kelli O'Hara as Anna

Arthur Lee as Ensemble

Ruthie Ann Miles as Lady Thiang

Ken Watanabe as The King of Siam

Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.

Unforgiven

2013

7.0

♡ 25

94%

Sang-il Lee Director

Kôichi Satô as Ichizo Oishi

Ken Watanabe as Jubee kamata

Shiori Kutsuna as Natsume

Eiko Koike as Okaji

An old swordsman, his former comrade and a young braggart are hired by prostitutes to track down bandits who mutilated one of the women.

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald

1997

7.7

♡ 5

88%

Kôki Mitani Director

Hiromasa Taguchi as Makoto Tatsumi, sound mixer

Ken Watanabe as Raita Onuki, the truck driver

Shirô Namiki as Suhuru Hosaka

Kaori Momoi as Takako Nakaura

A love story written by an ordinary housewife is going to be broadcast as a radio drama and almost everyone among the crew insists on changing various parts of the play to their liking.

The Sea of Trees

2015

♡ 62

19%

Gus Van Sant Director

Matthew McConaughey as Arthur Brennan

James Saito as Dr. Takahashi

Naomi Watts as Joan Brennan

Ken Watanabe as Takumi Nakamura

In Japan's Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him on a life-changing journey of love and redemption.

Tampopo

1985

7.9

♡ 28

100%

Jûzô Itami Director

Tsutomu Yamazaki as Gorô

Ken Watanabe as Gun

Rikiya Yasuoka as Pisuken

Masahiko Tsugawa as Supermarket manager

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.

Memoirs of a Geisha

2005

7.3

♡ 81

35%

Rob Marshall Director

Ken Watanabe as Chairman

Ted Levine as Colonel Derricks

Michelle Yeoh as Mameha

Cathy Shim as The Baron's Guest

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Godzilla

2014

6.4

♡ 343

76%

Gareth Edwards Director

Ken Watanabe as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

Elizabeth Olsen as Elle Brody

Taylor Nichols as Military Analyst

Brian Markinson as Whelan

Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when an ancient alpha predator arises from the sea to combat malevolent adversaries that threaten the survival of humanity. The creatures leave colossal destruction in their wake, as they make their way toward their final battleground: San Francisco.

The Creator

2023

6.7

♡ 247

67%

75%

artificial intelligence (a.i.)

Adventure

Gareth Edwards Director

Madeleine Yuna Voyles as Alphie

Michael Esper as Captain Cotton

Ken Watanabe as Harun

Gemma Chan as Maya

Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war—and mankind itself.

Earth

2007

7.9

♡ 2

87%

himalaya mountain range

ocean

walrus

wildlife

Alastair Fothergill Director

Patrick Stewart as Narrator

Ken Watanabe as Narrator

Ulrich Tukur as Narrator

James Earl Jones as Narrator

An epic story of adventure, starring some of the most magnificent and courageous creatures alive, awaits you in EARTH. Disneynature brings you a remarkable story of three animal families on a journey across our planet – polar bears, elephants and humpback whales.

The Last Samurai

2003