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7.2

Kaneto Shindô Director

Rinko Kikuchi as

Mitsuko Baishô as

Maiko Kawakami as

Nobuko Otowa as Okaji

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is addressing Tonoyama himself, recollecting events in his life. The film focuses on Tonoyama's alcohol dependence and his various sexual relationships, as well as his film work with Shindo.

Map of the Sounds of Tokyo

2009

5.9

♡ 8

42%

Isabel Coixet Director

Joan Potau as

Hideo Sakaki as Ishida

Min Tanaka as Narrador

Rinko Kikuchi as Ryu

A Japanese assassin falls in love with the Spanish wine seller she was hired to kill.

Sideways

2009

5.6

♡ 2

50%

Cellin Gluck Director

Katsuhisa Namase as Daisuke Uehara

Rinko Kikuchi as Mina Parker

Griffin Gluck as Pharmacy Boy

David Black as Tourist

A struggling writer and his engaged buddy hit the road for California wine country.

The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia

2007

5.9

♡ 1

Comedy

Satoshi Miki Director

Sion Sono as

Miki Mizuno as Editor of 'Black Book'

Yutaka Matsushige as Mashima

Rinko Kikuchi as Sayoko

A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly": find a bug with the power to bring humans back from the dead, in order to report on the afterlife. With his trusty companion Endo in tow, he sets off on a quest for the elusive insect and along the way meets the mysterious Sayoko, a former dominatrix and habitual wrist-cutter who delights in rubbing wasabi into her wounds.

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.

Assault Girls

2009

3.8

♡ 3

17%

Sci-Fi

video game

Mamoru Oshii Director

Hinako Saeki as Colonel

Meisa Kuroki as Gray

Yoshikazu Fujiki as Jager

Rinko Kikuchi as Lucifer

Three women and one man - with an assortment of weaponry - wage war against giant mutant sandwhales in a barren digital landscape, all to achieve points within the virtual reality video game called Avalon.

Funky Forest: The First Contact

2005

6.6

♡ 5

40%

Katsuhito Ishii Director

Rinko Kikuchi as

Hideaki Anno as Kaho

Kaho as Omoro

Ryô Kase as Takefumi

An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.

The Warped Forest

2011

6.2

♡ 3

Comedy

Fantasy

Shunichiro Miki Director

Rinko Kikuchi as

Kanji Tsuda as

Yoshiyuki Morishita as

Fumi Nikaidô as

Settle into your chair and be transported to a place both familiar and alien; where a giant shop-girl can barely fit in her store, there's a weird green pod in every bedroom, and terrifying wood nymphs provide a heartbroken woman with the anatomically correct fruit everyone seems to covet. In the end we are left, like Alice, with the Red King's conundrum: are we dreaming them or are they dreaming us?

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.

Genius Party

2007

6.9

♡ 3

44%

Shinichirô Watanabe Director

Kaoru Mizuhara as Baby

Rinko Kikuchi as (voice)

Yûya Yagira as (voice)

Tomoko Kaneda as (voice)

The seven short films making up GENIUS PARTY couldn’t be more diverse, linked only by a high standard of quality and inspiration. Atsuko Fukushima’s intro piece is a fantastic abstraction to soak up with the eyes. Masaaki Yuasa, of MIND GAME and CAT SOUP fame, brings his distinctive and deceptively simple graphic style and dream-state logic to the table with “Happy Machine,” his spin on a child’s earliest year. Shinji Kimura’s spookier “Deathtic 4,” meanwhile, seems to tap into the creepier corners of a child’s imagination and open up a toybox full of dark delights. Hideki Futamura’s “Limit Cycle” conjures up a vision of virtual reality, while Yuji Fukuyama’s "Doorbell" and "Baby Blue" by Shinichiro Watanabe use understated realism for very surreal purposes. And Shoji Kawamori, with “Shanghai Dragon,” takes the tropes and conventions of traditional anime out for very fun joyride.

In Love and Deep Water

2023

5.2

♡ 3

38%

Yûsuke Taki Director

Rinko Kikuchi as Aina

Ken Yasuda as Michihiko Kuruma

Yuki Izumisawa as Ryuki Yuzawa

Ryô Yoshizawa as Suguru Ubukata

On a massive luxury cruise ship while at sea, the loyal butler and a mysterious woman cross paths as they try to uncover a murder-mystery that occurs on the ship.

Terra Formars

2016

4.7

♡ 13

50%

live action adaptation of manga

based on manga

Horror

live action anime

planet mars

Sci-Fi

Takashi Miike Director

Rinko Kikuchi as Asuka Moriki

Masaya Katô as Keisuke Dojima

Shun Oguri as Ko Honda

Eiko Koike as Mina Obari

With the space program attempting to travel to Mars, 21st century scientists were tasked with warming up the planet so that humans could survive on its surface. They came up with an efficient and cost effective plan of sending cockroaches and mold to the surface so that the mold would absorb the sunlight and the insect corpses would serve as a food source for the mold. It is now the year 2577 and the first manned ship to Mars has landed on the planet and the six crew members are ready for their mission. But what they find are giant mutated humanoid cockroaches with incredible physical strength. The crew members are easily wiped out, but not before sending a transmission back to Earth. Now, humanity will send elite warriors to exterminate the mutated bugs and claim back Mars.

47 Ronin

2013

6.2

♡ 245

16%

48%

Adventure

based on a true story

Carl Rinsch Director

Keanu Reeves as Kai

Aaron Ly as Kira Samurai

Hiroyuki Sanada as Ôishi

Rinko Kikuchi as Witch

Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honour to their homeland, the warriors embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.

We Are Little Zombies

2019

6.8

♡ 2

93%

Makoto Nagahisa Director

Shirô Sano as

Maho Yamada as

Naomi Nishida as

Rinko Kikuchi as Ikuko Ibu

Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This is the story of four 13-year-olds in search of their emotions.

658km, Yôko no tabi

2023

6.6

♡ 6

Drama

Kazuyoshi Kumakiri Director

Jun Fubuki as

Ai Mikami as

Ken Yoshizawa as

Rinko Kikuchi as Yoko

A road movie about Yoko, a frustrated part-time worker who hitchhikes to her hometown of Hirosaki, Aomori, where she has not returned for 24 years, after hearing the news of her father's death.

Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter

2014

6.6

♡ 16

88%

David Zellner Director

Joel Thingvall as Airline Passenger

Rinko Kikuchi as Kumiko

Asami Tano as Office Lady

David Zellner as Policeman

Frustrated with her mundane life, a Tokyo office worker becomes obsessed with a fictional movie that she mistakes for a documentary. Fixating on a scene where stolen cash is buried in North Dakota, she travels to America to find it.

Norwegian Wood

2010

6.3

♡ 12

73%

49%

based on novel or book

Anh Hung Tran Director

Kengo Kôra as Kizuki

Kiko Mizuhara as Midori

Rinko Kikuchi as Naoko

Tokio Emoto as Storm Trooper

Toru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend, and another woman, the outgoing, lively Midori.

What to Do with the Dead Kaiju?

2022

4.4

♡ 9

29%

Satoshi Miki Director

Rinko Kikuchi as Colonel Sen Masago

Takashi Sasano as Jiro Zaizen

Yutaka Matsushige as Noboru Yamikumo

Tao Tsuchiya as Yukino Amane

A large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief, the giant corpse left behind begins to slowly rot and bloat. If it explodes, the nation will be destroyed.

That person has disappeared

2024

6.7

♡ 3