Damejin

2006

Japanese

6.1

♡ 2

Action

Comedy

Satoshi Miki Director

Takashi Sasano as

Hidetaka Yoshioka as

Masumi Okada as

Sion Sono as (voice)

An off-beat comedy about 3 'damejin' (useless persons), who don't work and spend their lives doing nothing. They actually don't want to work. When they hear 'in India one can live without working' they take it seriously. They begin to raise the money to go to India by doing anything but working, such as ripping off stamps from others' letters to sell, robbery at the bank which itself went bankrupt, etc.

Red Pier

1958

Japanese

6.8

♡ 2

Toshio Masuda Director

Mie Kitahara as Keiko Sugita

Masumi Okada as Taabô

Zenji Yamada as Tanabe

Taizô Fukami as Tottsuan

Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cover-up for a murder. Jiro soon finds himself on the run, tailed by a determined cop.

To Love

1997

Japanese

6.5

♡ 2

Action

Drama

Romance

Kei Kumai Director

Ken Nishida as Nishiyama

Masumi Okada as professor

Atsuro Watabe as Tsutomu Yoshioka

Moeko Ezawa as Woman at the apartment

Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some deception, Tsutomu manages to have his way with her. Coming from a broken home, he is frightened by love, so he cruelly allows her to wake up alone. A month passes and a more grown-up Tsutomu returns. The lovers joyously reunite and move in together. All is blissful until both notice a strange sore on Mitsu's arm. The doctors diagnose it as leprosy. Without telling Tsutomu, Mitsu checks into a leper sanitarium. Hanging out with society's pariahs gives her much insight. She discovers the old lepers to be wonderful people. In turn, Mitsu becomes their source of joy and renewed hope. Still, she misses her Tsutomu. One day, the doctors inform her that they erred and that the sore is not leprosy. Happily she heads back to her true love until she realizes with a guilty pang that to return to him would mean unhappiness for her newfound friends

Hakuchi: The Innocent

1999

Japanese

6.8

♡ 6

Macoto Tezuka Director

Masumi Okada as Head manager

Tadanobu Asano as Isawa

Masatô Ibu as Junsa You

You as Party-kyaku

In a future where World War II never ended, Japan is decimated by nightly bombings. The only building left standing is known as the Media Station, a broadcasting center responsible for all of Japan's entertainment.

Crazed Fruit

1956

Japanese

7.2

♡ 7

100%

82%

Action

based on novel or book

older woman younger man relationship

Romance

sibling rivalry

Kô Nakahira Director

Mie Kitahara as Eri

Zenji Yamada as Fisherman

Masumi Okada as Hirosawa Frank

Masahiko Tsugawa as Takishima Haruji

Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking.

Tomorrow's Joe 2

1981

Japanese

7.5

♡ 5

Osamu Dezaki Director

Masumi Okada as Jose Mendosa

Michihiro Ikemizu as (voice)

Kenji Utsumi as (voice)

Gorô Naya as (voice)

It has been six months since the tragic accident in Joe and Rikiishi's fight. Joe believes he has overcome Rikiishi's death and decides to make a comeback. Joe does make a successful comeback by scoring 5 KO's by body blows. Joe is then given a shot at the national title as a means by the boxing commission to put him down. The champion, Tiger Ozaki makes use of Joe's habits and ends up making Joe's corner throw in the towel. Joe is afraid to throw punches at the face because of what happened to Rikiishi. Youko, Joe's love interest and the owner of the gym where Rikiishi trained at recruits a world ranked boxer from Venezuela, Carlos Rivera, to get Joe back on his feet and pursue his boxing career to the regional and world ranks.

Season of the Sun

1956

Japanese

6.4

♡ 3

Action

Drama

Takumi Furukawa Director

Kô Mishima as

Asao Sano as

Masumi Okada as Bandmaster

Hiroyuki Nagato as Tatsuya Tsugawa

The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often than not spend their nights getting into brawls. In particular, it focuses upon Tatsuya, a sullen young man, who falls in love with Eiko, a proud upper-class girl.

Man Who Causes a Storm

1957

Japanese

6.2

♡ 2

Umetsugu Inoue Director

Yumi Takano as Aiko, Miyako's mother

Mie Kitahara as Miyako Fukushima

Masumi Okada as Shinsuke, Miyako's brother

Nobuo Kaneko as Toru Sakyo, the critic

Shoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to catch the attention of a popular jazz band, his brother appeals to their manager who has the power to make him a star. In a graphic portrayal of love, betrayal and success, Shoichi brews up a storm with a 'rat-a-tat-tat' on the drums.

Midori harukani

1955

Japanese

5.9

♡ 1

Umetsugu Inoue Director

Masumi Okada as Prince of Moon

Ruriko Asaoka as Ruriko

Mie Kitahara as Swan

Kenjirô Uemura as Tazawa

Ruriko's father is a well known scientist who's involved in secret research that even his family doesn't know about. Ever since he moved up to the research laboratory in Hokkaido, Ruriko hasn't heard from him. The only thing that reminded her of his warmth was the green music box that he’d left behind for her. She longed to reunite with her father. The little box played music that lifted her spirits, to a place where everything was perfect.

Bye Bye Jupiter

1984

Japanese

4.3

♡ 5

Ishirô Honda Director

Tomokazu Miura as Dr. Eiji Honda

Masumi Okada as Dr. Mohammed Mansur

Hisaya Morishige as Earth Federation President

Toshirô Mifune as Samurai on TV

In the 22nd century, scientists from an energy-depleted Earth research new fuel sources in the far corners of the solar system, where they discover an ancient alien race from Jupiter as well as the emergence of an apocalyptically dangerous black hole. Koji Hashimoto's 1983 sci-fi adventure was conceived as a Japanese competitor to the upcoming sequel to Stanley Kubrick's classic 2001, titled 2010, and often mirrors the sequel's plot.

The Lovelorn Geisha

1960

Japanese

6.7

♡ 2

Action

Drama

Mikio Naruse Director

Isuzu Yamada as Aya Fujimura

Masumi Okada as English Teacher

Tadao Nakamaru as Makoto Takamizawa

Akira Takarada as Takiguchi

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself 'already dead'.

Shogun

1980

English

7.8

♡ 22

87%

Jerry London Director

Masumi Okada as Brother Michael

Vladek Sheybal as Captain Ferriera

Yôko Shimada as Lady Toda Buntaro - Mariko

Toshirô Mifune as Lord Yoshi Toranaga

In the seventeenth century, a Dutch ship sails the Pacific from the Americas in order to escape the Spanish. Pilot-Major John Blackthorne (Richard Chamberlain) is the pilot of the ship and the first to realize the possibilities of Japan. Japan is a feudal society which has a strong presence of the Portugese. A struggle is in the final stages for who will be the Shogun, the leader who, under the Emperor, governs the land. Lord Yoshi Toranaga (Toshirô Mifune) sees in Blackthorn things he can use to at least survive the struggle to come, and if both play their hands correctly, become Shogun.

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