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6.6

♡ 18

75%

Yoshihiro Nakamura Director

Yûsuke Iseya as Daizen Heki

Shinnosuke Mitsushima as Jinbee Shimoyama Denden

Denden as Kai Shimoyama

Satomi Ishihara as Okuni

Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon is a carefree 16th-century mercenary. When the ninja council makes a power play to defeat the young Nobukatsu Oda struggling to step into his father’s warlord shoes as they expand rule across the country, Mumon jumps into the fray to satisfy his new bride Okuni’s demand that he make good on his promises of wealth. Yet Mumon soon finds what is worth fighting for beyond money or nation.

Itoshi no Irene

2018

6.7

♡ 8

Keisuke Yoshida Director

Aoba Kawai as Aiko Yoshioka

Tôru Shinagawa as Genzo Shishido

Ken Yasuda as Iwao Shishido

Yûsuke Iseya as Yujiro Shiozaki

Iwao Shishido has found a wife. After paying three million yen for a bridal tour to the Philippines, he comes home with Irene, who is promptly confronted by Tsuru—Iwao’s freshly widowed mother, who’s infuriated her loser son has married a woman she’s never met.

Shinjuku Swan

2015

live action adaptation of manga

6.0

♡ 12

95%

live action adaptation

outlaw

yakuza

Sion Sono Director

Young Dais as

Erika Sawajiri as Ageha

Yûsuke Iseya as Matora

Ken Yasuda as Matsukata

Shiratori Tatsuhiko works as a scout for Burst, a talent agency in Kabukichō, Shinjuku's red light district. In a business where money means everything Tatsuhiko finds himself in a constant struggle between rival talent scouts and the yakuza.

Closed Note

2007

6.7

60%

Isao Yukisada Director

Yûko Takeuchi as Ibuki Mano

Erika Sawajiri as Kae Horii

Renji Ishibashi as Masamichi Nakazawa

Yûsuke Iseya as Ryu Ishitobi

Kae Horii moves into her new flat in an undisclosed area of Kyoto. While unpacking her belongings, she discovers a hidden compartment behind a inconspicuous mirror. In that compartment, Kae finds a notebook, that turns out to be a diary belonging to the previous tenant. Later that evening Kae starts to read the diary. The writer of the diary is Ibuki Mano, a young lady about to embark on her first year as an elementary school teacher. Ibuki is also in love with a man named Takashi, who may or may not hold similar feelings for Ibuki.

Honey & Clover

2006

6.4

♡ 2

56%

Drama

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.

The Kiyosu Conference

2013

6.4

♡ 4

59%

azuchi-momoyama period

Kôki Mitani Director

Yô Ôizumi as Hashiba Hideyoshi

Susumu Terajima as Kuroda Kanbei

Miki Nakatani as Nene

Yûsuke Iseya as Oda Nobukane

After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and Tsuneoki Ikeda meet to decide on a successor. The conference would become Japan's first group made political decision. The meeting was known as the Kiyosu Kaigi.

Matinee

2019

5.8

♡ 4

based on novel or book

Hiroshi Nishitani Director

Jun Fubuki as

Yuki Sakurai as

Yûsuke Iseya as Lichard

Yuriko Ishida as Yoko-chan

Satoshi Makino is a genius classical guitarist. One day, he meets journalist Yoko Komine. They become attracted to each other, but Yoko Komine has a fiancé.

Warau Mikaeru

2006

5.0

♡ 4

Issei Oda Director

Mitsuki Tanimura as Jinchoge

Yûsuke Iseya as Kazuomi Shijô

Rinko Kikuchi as Nobuko Sakurai

Aimi Satsukawa as Shizuka Marikoji

Every high school has its misfits, its square pegs, its rebels. St. Michael's Academy, nestled on an impossibly pretty and strangely remote Japanese island, is no exception. In fact, given the atmosphere of strictness, propriety and even subtle menace looming over the elite, aristocratic, Catholic boarding school, it's no wonder Fumio, Kazune and Yuzuko quickly bond over their dislike of the place. With rumors of rich girls being kidnapped in the region, and even more so, their legal guardians, including the school's enigmatic headmaster, Mr. Lawrence, and Fumio's brother are suspicious and on alert. Then an accidental and inexplicable unleashing of magic power infuses the girls with spectacular abilities. When the truth about the kidnappings is revealed, they're going to need them.

After Life

1998

grandparent grandchild relationship

7.6

♡ 22

88%

heaven

old man

Hirokazu Koreeda Director

Tae Kimura as Dining Hall Worker

Kazuko Shirakawa as Nobuko Amano, who talks about her affair with a married man

Susumu Terajima as Satoru Kawashima, counselor

Yûsuke Iseya as Yusuke Iseya, who refuses to choose his experience

On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity.

Chasuke's Journey

2015

6.0

80%

60%

angel

based on novel or book

SABU Director

Hiromasa Taguchi as

Tina Tamashiro as Chako

Yûsuke Iseya as Hikomura

Susumu Terajima as Kuroki

Things are hectic in heaven. Dozens of scribes sit before a long scroll incessantly scribbling away. They are composing the biographies of earth-dwellers. What is invented by the men in heaven is lived out below. And their employer, God, is increasingly vehement in demanding avant-garde ideas. Take, for example, the beautiful Yuri, a girl who dies in a car crash. Some of the heavenly scribes find this very dull and send former gangster Chas, who has become a heavenly tea-boy, back down to earth with instructions to save Yuri no matter what. And so Chas ends up in Okinawa, gets to know the earth-dwellers, interferes in their fates, becomes celebrated as 'Mr Angel' and is hounded by brutal enemies. His falling in love with Yuri is of course a foregone conclusion. But no one could anticipate what happens next. Not even God himself

Casshern

2004

6.0

♡ 3

70%

post-apocalyptic future

Sci-Fi

Thriller

Kazuaki Kiriya Director

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Lieutenant Colonel Kamijo

Kanako Higuchi as Midori Azuma

Susumu Terajima as Sakamoto

Yûsuke Iseya as Tetsuya Azuma / Casshern

Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have taken their toll on planet Earth. As a result of the use of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, much of Earth has become uninhabitable and people have become prey to new diseases. Professor Azuma's "neo-cell" project, which is supposed to be the answer to mankind's hardships, becomes a nightmare come true when mutants spawned from the experiment escape and declare war on the human race. Azuma's son Tetsuya, who was killed during the previous war, is reborn into the cyborg Casshern as mankind's last hope against the new mutant threat. This live-action sci-fi movie based on a 1973 Japanese animé of the same name.

Ask This of Rikyu

2013

6.7

♡ 1

70%

Mitsutoshi Tanaka Director

Masatô Ibu as

Miki Nakatani as

Yûsuke Iseya as

Clara Lee as (as Clara)

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eventually becomes one of the primary influences upon the Japanese tea ceremony. With his elegant esthetics, Sen no Rikyu is favored by the most powerful man in Japan Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Nao Omori) and becomes one of his closest advisors. Due to conflicts, Toyotomi Hideyoshi then orders Sen no Rikyu to commit seppuku (suicide). Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of Kenichi Yamamoto's award-winning novel of the same name received the Best Artistic Contribution Award at the 37th Montréal World Film Festival, the Best Director Award at the 2014 Osaka Cinema Festival, the 30th Fumiko Yamaji Cultural Award and the 37th Japan Academy Film Prize in nine categories, including Best Art Direction, Excellent Film and Excellent Actor.

13 Assassins

2010

7.5

♡ 78

95%

Takashi Miike Director

Masachika Ichimura as Hanbei Kito

Yûsuke Iseya as Koyata Kiga

Tsuyoshi Ihara as Kujuro Hirayama

Kazue Fukiishi as Tsuya / Upashi

A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.

Inuyashiki

2018

6.6

♡ 39

100%

Shinsuke Sato Director

Yûsuke Iseya as Detective Hagihara

Takeru Satoh as Hiro Shishigami

Mari Hamada as Marie Inuyashiki

Ayaka Miyoshi as Mari Inuyashiki

A middle-aged office worker encounters aliens and is gifted with alien technology and limitless powers.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable - Chapter 1

2017

5.8

♡ 30

Takashi Miike Director

Takayuki Yamada as Anjuro Katagiri

Kento Yamazaki as Josuke Higashikata

Yûsuke Iseya as Jotaro Kujo

Shuntarô Yanagi as Yoshizawa Masaya

Morioh, 1999—a normally quiet and peaceful town has recently become a hotbed of strange activity. Jōtarō Kūjō, now a marine biologist, heads to the mysterious town to meet Jōsuke Higashikata. While the two may seem like strangers at first, Jōsuke is actually the illegitimate child of Jōtarō's grandfather, Joseph Joestar. When they meet, Jōtarō realizes that he may have more in common with Jōsuke than just a blood relation. Along with the mild-mannered Kōichi Hirose and the boisterous Okuyasu Nijimura, the group dedicates themselves to investigating recent disappearances and other suspicious occurrences within Morioh. Aided by the power of Stands, the four men will encounter danger at every street corner, as it is up to them to unravel the town's secrets, before another occurs.

Joker Game

2015

5.3

♡ 12

Thriller

Yû Irie Director

Hiromasa Taguchi as

Hiroshi Yamamoto as

Kyoko Fukada as Lyn

Yûsuke Iseya as Yûki

Set along a backdrop of a fictitious second world war at an international city in Asia. In Japan, Lieutenant Colonel Yuki (Yusuke Iseya) recommends the creation of spy training school "D Kikan". Meanwhile, Kato (Kazuya Kamenashi) is facing capital punishment for his refusal to follow a superior's order. Kato is then scouted by "D Kikan". He goes through a harsh training regiment and faces his first mission as a spy. In order to seize American ambassador Graham's confidential documents "Black Note." Kato infiltrates into an international city. A battle to gain possession of the "Black Note" ensues between Kato, a mysterious woman named Rin (Kyoko Fukada), the British Spy Agency, the Soviet Spy Agency and the radical army in Japan.

Distance

2001