After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth.

Snakes and Earrings

2008

Japanese

6.1

♡ 9

Action

based on novel or book

body modification

live action adaptation of book

love

love-hate relationship

pain

Thriller

Yukio Ninagawa Director

Shun Oguri as

Kengo Kôra as Ama

Yuriko Yoshitaka as Louis

Tatsuya Fujiwara as Satoru Yokoyama, Yakuza killed by Ama

While alone in a nightclub, straight-laced Lui meets sensitive but troubled punk kid Ama. Mesmerized by his split tongue, she becomes obsessed with body modification and soon wants the same treatment. After Ama's heavily-tattooed friend Shiba pierces her tongue, Lui finds herself inexorably drawn to both men – and to her growing list of desires, she now adds a tattoo.

A Story of Yonosuke

7.5

Shûichi Okita Director

Aimi Satsukawa as Mutsumi Toi

Yuriko Yoshitaka as Shoko Yosano

Kengo Kôra as Yonosuke Yokomichi

Kimiko Yo as Yonosuke Yokomichi's mother

The year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old Yonosuke Yokomichi arrives in Tokyo from Nagasaki. Ordinary in every way possible, he lives in a suburb far from the excitement of the big city and commutes to a university in the center of Tokyo.

Cyborg She

2008

Japanese

6.9

♡ 18

72%

Jae-young Kwak Director

Haruka Ayase as Cyborg

Masatô Ibu as Designer

Rokurô Naya as Jiro Kitamura - old

Yuriko Yoshitaka as Student in 22nd Century

A lonely university student develops a romance with a beautiful interesting woman, who turns out to be a cyborg from the future.

Your Eyes Tell

2020

Japanese

7.4

♡ 2

100%

Takahiro Miki Director

Yuriko Yoshitaka as Akari Kashiwagi

Akane Sakanoue as Keiko Tsunomori

Jun Fubuki as Mieko Ooura

Yoshinori Okada as Susumu Sakamoto

A tragic accident lead to Kaori's blindness, but she clings to life and the smaller pleasures it can still afford her. She meets Rui and begins to talk to him. Rui was once a promising kickboxer, but something happened in his past. Kaori's smile brings out a change in Rui. However, the two are connected in more than one way. Rui attempts to do what is right.

Noriko's Dinner Table

2005

Japanese

7.0

♡ 7

64%

Sion Sono Director

Yûya Ishikawa as

Tôru Tezuka as Middle-Aged Man

Yôko Mitsuya as Tangerine

Yuriko Yoshitaka as Yuka Shimabara - Yôko

A teenager named Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Toyokawa, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's family circle, which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.

Adrift in Tokyo

2007

Japanese

7.2

♡ 4

87%

Satoshi Miki Director

Tomokazu Miura as Aiichiro Fukuhara

Yuriko Yoshitaka as Fufumi

Machiko Washio as Midde-aged Woman of Jelly Shop

Yutaka Matsushige as Tomobe

A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.

The Detective Is in the Bar

2011

Japanese

6.3

♡ 3

Action

based on novel or book

Hajime Hashimoto Director

Yutaka Matsushige as Aida

Yuriko Yoshitaka as Megumi Kondo Koyuki

Koyuki as Saori

Yô Ôizumi as The Detective

In the Susukino red light district of Sapporo, a private detective (Yo Oizumi) drinks alcohol with his driver Takada (Ryuhei Matsuda) in his favourite bar. There he receives a phone call from a woman who identifies herself as Kyoko Kondo. The woman asks the detective to complete a simple task. The detective, having an excellent sense for danger, thinks the work is easy and accepts the case. The next day he begins the investigation.

Gantz: Perfect Answer

2011

Japanese

6.2

♡ 28

50%

live action adaptation of manga

Shinsuke Sato Director

Gô Ayano as Man in Black 1

Takayuki Yamada as Masamitsu Shigeta

Naho Toda as Reiko Kitakura

Yuriko Yoshitaka as Tae Kojima

Summoned by the black sphere, Kei and Masaru fight against extraterrestrials until Masaru grows tired of fighting and refuses to continue.

Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler

2009

Japanese

6.4

♡ 10

59%

Action

based on manga

Drama

drastic change of life

Tôya Satô Director

Yuriko Yoshitaka as

Takuma Anzai as

Tatsuya Fujiwara as Kaiji Ito

Yûki Amami as Rinko Endo

Kaiji Ito moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with society at large, Kaiji spends his days gambling, vandalizing cars, and drinking booze. Two years later and his life is no better. A debt collector named Endo arrives to collect money owed. The debt collector offers two choices to Kaiji: spend 10 years paying off his loan or board a gambling boat for one night to repay his debt & possibly make a boat load of money. Could the debt collector Endo actually be setting up Kaiji? One way or another, for Kaiji it's going to be the night of his life.

Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler

2011

Japanese

6.3

♡ 3

based on manga

chance

Drama

drastic change of life

game

japan

mind game

Tôya Satô Director

Ryû Nakatani as

Tatsuya Fujiwara as Kaiji Itô

Yoshiyuki Morishita as Man Sitting at Bar

Yuriko Yoshitaka as Yumi Ishida

3 years after the ultimate life-or-death game with Teiai Group, Kaiji was entrapped by Teiai and again back in the underground, forced to do hard labour. One day, Kaiji wins a bet to get out of the underground with 1 million yen, and promises the other workers that he will save them. But to do so, he only has 14 days and needs 200 million yen! Kaiji meets his former rival Tonegawa and learns that there is a chance to turn the tables in the game. It was a monster casino machine that will make 1 billion yen if you win...