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7.8

♡ 17

93%

Tetsuya Nakashima Director

Yumi Adachi as

Ko Shibasaki as Asuka

Hiroshi Yamamoto as Detective B Gori

Gori as Shûji Ôkura

While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy.

Seventh Code

2013

5.8

♡ 8

bratva (russian mafia)

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Director

Atsuko Maeda as Akiko takayama

Ryôhei Suzuki as Matsunaga

Hiroshi Yamamoto as Saito Aissy

Aissy as Xiao yen

Akiko, a young woman, comes to Vladivostok to meet Matsunaga, a young businessman she has met in Tokyo only once. Akiko finally finds Matsunaga. However, he leaves her again, warning her not to trust strangers in a foreign country. She tries to follow him, but she is attacked by thugs and dumped on the outskirts of town.

The First Supper

2019

6.5

♡ 2

95%

Shiro Tokiwa Director

Hiroshi Yamamoto as Isumi

Nana Mori as Miyako in childhood

Yôsuke Kubozuka as Shun Azuma

Daikichi Sugawara as Yoshio Kimura

Rintaro (Sometani Shota) returns home for the first time in a while to prepare for and attend his father's funeral. He and his sister are surprised to find that their mother has canceled the catering order, and instead will be making the food herself in accordance with her late husband's will. The first dish she brings out is simply sunny side up eggs, and the attendees are at a loss. Rintaro recalls that this was the first meal his father had cooked for him and his sister.

Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death

2008

6.8

♡ 5

Masaya Kakehi Director

Hiroshi Yamamoto as

Takeshi Kaneshiro as Chiba

Manami Konishi as Kazue Fujiki

Takuya Ishida as Shinji Akutsu

Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days then decide either to ‘execute’ or ‘pass over’. Today, again, in the rain, he waits. His subject, her death due in seven days, is Kazue Fujiki. She works for a manufacturing company in the complaints department. Exhausted after her day, she emerges from her office. It’s time for the Reaper to go to work.

Iwane: Sword of Serenity

2019

6.4

♡ 5

Katsuhide Motoki Director

Pierre Taki as Bunroku Shishido

Sôkô Wada as Gennojyo Higashi

Tôri Matsuzaka as Iwane Sawaki

Hiroshi Yamamoto as Matsuyoshi

Iwane Sakazaki returns to his homeland and gets caught in the middle of an incident that results in the tragic death of two of his best friends from childhood. He decides to leave his domain, parting with his fiancée Nao, and becomes a vagrant masterless samurai with nothing more to lose. Iwane drifts to Edo, filleting eels during the day and working as a bodyguard at night for Imazuya, a reputable money exchanger. He gradually wins the trust of the people around him because of his mellow nature, the chivalrous way he treats everyone with courtesy, and his skills of swords. One day, he learns that Imazuya is being targeted in a conspiracy to sabotage a new monetary system implemented by the government, and Iwane decides to protect the people who have given him support.

Yomei 1-kagetsu no hanayome

2009

6.2

♡ 1

36%

Ryuichi Hiroki Director

Hiroshi Yamamoto as

Satomi Tezuka as Kayoko

Kanji Tsuda as Okada

Akira Emoto as Teishi Nagashima

On April 5, 2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The bride, however, was suffering from late-stage breast cancer and had been given only a month to live. A young woman is diagnosed with breast cancer but keeps the information from her boyfriend. When he finds out, he decides to plan a wedding even though she only has one month to live. Based on the true story of Chie Nagashima, a women afflicted with breast cancer and her husband Taro Akasu.

Linda Linda Linda

2005

japanese high school girl

7.5

♡ 15

87%

Nobuhiro Yamashita Director

Keisuke Koide as Abe

Pierre Taki as Pierre

Doona Bae as Son - vocalist

Hiroshi Yamamoto as Studio Employee

Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei, drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for their band. They choose Korean exchange student Son, though her comprehension of Japanese is a bit rough! It's a race against time as the group struggles to learn three songs for the festival's rock concert—including a classic '80s song by the Japanese punk rock band The Blue Hearts called "Linda Linda".

Kamui Gaiden

2009

5.6

♡ 7

34%

Yôichi Sai Director

Hiroshi Yamamoto as

Ekin Cheng as Dumok

Tsutomu Yamazaki as Narration Koyuki

Koyuki as Sugaru

A rebellious ninja in 17th century Japan takes refuge with a fisherman and his family.

Kiiroi namida

2007

6.5

♡ 3

Isshin Inudô Director

Hiroshi Yamamoto as

Kazunari Ninomiya as Eisuke Muraoka

Tomoko Tabata as Kaoru Nishigaki

Hirotarô Honda as Teikichi

The movie is centered around five friends as they end up spending the summer of 1962 shackled up together in a tiny studio apartment in Tokyo. The five friends are Eisuke - the manga artist, Shoichi - the singer, Ryuzo - the novelist, Kei - the painter and Yuji – the 5th wheel (?). The friends spend the summer in pursuit of their own ideals of personal freedom - being able to do what they want. In the process of pursuing their dream they learn firsthand that however ideal it may seem, its not as easy as they think.

Korede iinoda! Eiga Akatsuka Fujio

2011

5.9

♡ 3

Comedy

Hideaki Satô Director

Hiroshi Yamamoto as

Tadanobu Asano as Fujio Akatsuka

Maki Horikita as Hatsumi Takeda

Kôichi Satô as Katsuichi Sasaki

A rookie editor Hatsumi Takeda becomes an editor of Fujio Akatsuka who is known as the king of gag manga. Hanging out with her, Akatsuka sees through Hatsumi's talent to be crazy, and they gradually become great partners...

Kiki's Delivery Service

2014

5.7

♡ 7

50%

Adventure

based on children's book

Takashi Shimizu Director

Hiroshi Yamamoto as Fukuo

Minako Kotobuki as Jiji the black cat

Fûka Koshiba as Kiki

Rie Miyazawa as Kiki's mother

A young girl named Kiki must leave her home for a year to begin training in witchcraft. She leaves on her broom, but first says goodbye to her friends and family. Kiki then begins her new life with her trusted cat Jiji.

Yûkai Rhapsody

2010

6.9

♡ 4

83%

Hideo Sakaki Director

Hiroshi Yamamoto as Kuribayashi

Takashi Sasano as Shige

Susumu Terajima as Sushi Chef You

You as Takako Shinomiya

Yuukai Rhapsody follows a man who is stuck in a rut, no personal life and no cash lead him to the drastic decision of kidnapping a rich boy, unbeknownst to him the boy's father is a yakuza boss! With the yakuza and the police hot on his tail he is forced to take the boy and go on the run, somehow during the journey kidnapper and kidnappee begin to develop a friendship with one another.

The Lightning Tree

2010

5.8

♡ 2

based on novel or book

Ryuichi Hiroki Director

Hiroshi Yamamoto as Yû Aoi

Yû Aoi as Rai / Yu

Sôkô Wada as Suketarou Seta

Kengo Kôra as Tomozou

Set during the Edo Period, a young man from a noble family meets a young woman under a special tree called "Raiou" (the tree was struck by lightning at one time with the broken part eventually sprouting out cherry blossoms). The young woman lived freely in the mountains after she was abducted as a young child. The couple soon fall in love under the Raiou tree, but become acutely aware of their different social positions & the ramifications it has on their relationship.

Hiraite

2021

6.4

♡ 2

lesbian relationship

Romance

Rin Shutô Director

Hiroshi Yamamoto as Homeroom teacher Okanoya

Misako Tanaka as Izumi Shindo

Miu Suzuki as Mika Takeuchi

Masato Hagiwara as Takashi Nishimura

Ai has had a crush forever on her classmate Tatoe. When she finds out that Tatoe is in a secret relationship with another girl, she sets out to sabotage their plans for the future.

Funuke: Show Some Love, You Losers!

2007

7.0

♡ 6

Comedy

Daihachi Yoshida Director

Hiroshi Yamamoto as Hagino

Shôichirô Tanigawa as Kamino

Aimi Satsukawa as Kyomi Wago

Eriko Satô as Sumika Wago

Traumatic incidents, conflicts, and bloody quarrels awaiting the Wago family members who return home to bury their parents.

Permanent Nobara

2010

6.9

♡ 1

Daihachi Yoshida Director

Mari Natsuki as

Hiroshi Yamamoto as

Chizuru Ikewaki as

Eiko Koike as

Naoko returns home with her young daughter, where her mother Masako runs the only beauty parlor in town. The local women go there to pass the time lamenting their bad luck with men and laughing over dirty jokes. Unbeknownst to them, Naoko has been secretly seeing her former teacher, Kashima.

I Just Didn't Do It

2006

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.

Tony Takitani

2004

7.2

♡ 4

88%

Jun Ichikawa Director

Hiroshi Yamamoto as

Miki Hayashida as

Rie Miyazawa as Konuma Eiko, Hisako

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Narrator

A reclusive illustrator falls in love with a young woman who addictively shops for clothing.

Mai bakku pêji

2011

6.2

♡ 3

Nobuhiro Yamashita Director

Tomokazu Miura as

Hiroshi Yamamoto as

Daikichi Sugawara as

Shiori Kutsuna as (as Shiori Kutsuna)

In 1969, Sawada is filled with idealism that permeated that era and starts working as a gonzo journalist for a weekly magazine. Two years later, Sawada interviews activist Umeyama with senior reporter Nakahira. Umeyama boasts that his group will steal arms and take action in April. Sawada doubts Umeyama's claims but is attracted to his personality. An incident occurs... Sawada hears news that a man was killed at a army post...

Ten Nights of Dreams

2006