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7.0

♡ 9

based on novel or book

Yukiko Mishima Director

Shinobu Terajima as

Tadanobu Asano as

Shingo Mizusawa as

Kankurô Kudô as

Makoto Tanaka is 40-years-old and has remarried. His wife is Nanae and they care for 2 daughters from Nanae's prior marriage. Makoto tries to have an ordinary family. Nanae then becomes pregnant. Afterwards, things begin to change among the family members.

Guang yin de gu shi: Tai wan xin dian ying

2014

Chinese

6.9

♡ 12

Chinlin Hsieh Director

Hirokazu Koreeda as Himself

Tadanobu Asano as Himself

Ai Weiwei as Himself

Kiyoshi Kurosawa as Himself

With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country set out to establish a cultural identity through cinema and to share it with the world. This engaging documentary looks at the movement's legacy.

Punk Samurai Slash Down

2018

6.0

♡ 13

80%

Gakuryû Ishii Director

Tadanobu Asano as Hanro Chayama

Gô Ayano as Junoshin Kake

Shôta Sometani as Makobee Makubo

Keiko Kitagawa as Ron

Junoshin Kake is a ronin. To get hired by the Kurokaze Han, he lies and tells them that a religious group is trying to destroy them. He gets hired by the Kurokaze Han, but they learn that Junoshin Kake lied. Junoshin Kake is given the death sentence and he must think of an escape plan.

Harmonium

2016

♡ 7

100%

77%

Kôji Fukada Director

Mariko Tsutsui as Akié

Takahiro Miura as Atsushi Shitara

Kanji Furutachi as Toshio

Tadanobu Asano as Yasaka

Toshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. But then this old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's family life.

Gemini

1999

6.7

♡ 11

100%

Shin'ya Tsukamoto Director

Shôko Nakahara as

Renji Ishibashi as Beggar Monk

Tadanobu Asano as Revenger with Sword

Masahiro Motoki as Yukio Daitokuji / Sutekichi

When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.

Sad Vacation

2007

6.8

♡ 2

58%

school friend

Shinji Aoyama Director

Tadanobu Asano as Kenji Shiraishi

Yûsuke Kawazu as Kijima

Yuka Itaya as Saeko Shiina

Kengo Kôra as Yusuke Mamiya

Kenji, abandoned by his mother, scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs including driving bar hostesses and their customers home. Besides this he takes care of the sister of an old friend in jail and a young illegal immigrant. Eventually his life reaches a turning point.

The Rocking Horsemen

1992

7.4

♡ 3

1960s

based on novel or book

Nobuhiko Ôbayashi Director

Hiroshi Katsuno as Bridegroom

Shirô Sano as Noritane Itoh

Tadanobu Asano as Seiichi Shirai

Yuriko Ishida as Woman in White Dress

It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called "The Rocking Horsemen." A warm and comic glimpse into high-school and small-town life in Japan in the 60's.

Café Lumière

2003

6.8

♡ 7

90%

Hsiao-Hsien Hou Director

Tadanobu Asano as Hajime Takeuchi

Masato Hagiwara as Seiji

Kimiko Yo as Yôko no keiba

Nenji Kobayashi as Yôko no otôsan

In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregnant by a man she does not want to marry and has found a kindred spirit in a used bookstore owner who aids her research.

Snow Prince

2009

6.9

♡ 3

38%

Joji Matsuoka Director

Katsuo Nakamura as

Tadanobu Asano as Rei Dan

Rei Dan as

Teruyuki Kagawa as

10-year-old Sota lives with his grandfather and a dog named Chibi in a small snowy village. They live in such a poverty that Sota cannot even afford to go to school, but however hard the situation is, Sota never holds a bad feeling against anyone around and keeps his dream alive to become a painter. He has been friends with Sayo, a girl brought up in a wealthy family, ever since they were little despite the difference of their family position, which Sayo’s father has uneasy feelings against. In spite of the difficulties he faces, Sota manages to complete a piece of painting which he wishes to give Sayo. He and Chibi goes down a snowy night path to Sayo’s house to find that her father’s storage is on fire... What waits for Sota and Chibi gently reminds that genuine happiness always exists in your heart.

Hakuchi: The Innocent

1999

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.

Grasshopper

2015

5.5

♡ 6

based on novel or book

Tomoyuki Takimoto Director

Hidetaka Yoshioka as Asagao Nanao

Nanao as Hiyoko

Tadanobu Asano as Kujira

Renji Ishibashi as Terahara

Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (Ryosuke Yamada). Suzuki is a former middle school teacher. His girlfriend was killed, which led him to quit his job and attempt to take revenge on her murderer. To do so, Suzuki has to infiltrate the underground world of criminals. Kujira is a contract killer for hire. He makes his targets fall into confusion and eventually commit suicide. Semi is a contract killer who uses the knife to take out his targets.

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...

Noroshi ga yobu

2019

6.3

♡ 7

Toshiaki Toyoda Director

Kiyohiko Shibukawa as

Kengo Kôra as

Ryûhei Matsuda as

Tadanobu Asano as

A girl finds an old handgun in her attic and the symbolic object conjures a mystical scene of samurai (a stellar cast of actors joined by the 20-person Edo punk band Seppuku Pistols, who also provide the soundtrack) gathering within the moss-grown location of Kasosan Shrine in Tochigi Prefecture.

Labyrinth of Cinema

2019

japanese occupation of china

6.7

♡ 9

93%

Nobuhiko Ôbayashi Director

Takashi Sasano as

Tokio Emoto as

Gorô Inagaki as

Tadanobu Asano as Lt. Sako

When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time to the world inside the screen.

The Wasted Times

2016

Chinese

6.9

♡ 9

20%

shanghai, china

Er Cheng Director

Wallace Chung as

Tadanobu Asano as Watabe

Ziyi Zhang as Xiao Liu

Gillian Chung as Xiao Wu

Shanghai gangsters grapple with lust and loyalty on the eve of war with Japan as they try to navigate an alliance with the enemy's army.

Nagasaki: Memories of My Son

2015

6.4

♡ 4

71%

Yôji Yamada Director

Kazunari Ninomiya as Koji Fukuhara

Tadanobu Asano as Kuroda

Sayuri Yoshinaga as Nobuko Fukuhara

Yuriko Hirooka as Tomie

Nobuko works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On August 9, 1948, her son appears in front of her again. Since that time, Koji appears in front of her and they reminiscence about pleasant times. These happy, but bizarre moments seem eternal.

Neji-shiki

1998

5.9

♡ 4

artist

journey

Teruo Ishii Director Tsugumi

Tsugumi as Chiyoji Kobayashi

Miki Fujitani as Kuniko

Hideo Sunazuka as Station Attendant

Tadanobu Asano as Tsube

It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually in a small apartment.

The Bastard and the Beautiful World

2018

4.9

♡ 2

japanese film

Sion Sono Director

Gorô Inagaki as

Tsuyoshi Kusanagi as

Tadanobu Asano as Daimon

Machiko Ono as Yuko

The Bastard and the Beautiful World is an omnibus film consisting of four episodes. Fujiko is running as fast as she can, being chased after by a creepy masked man called Mad Dog. They meet a talented pianist on the way. A mysterious relationship develops between Utagui, a little girl who eats songs to live and an artist who can't sing anymore. A married couple sets off on a journey to find the right arm of their dead son. As they finally reach a beach in Okinawa, they find? Bastards come together on a night dancefloor for a show.

Swallowtail Butterfly

1996

7.5

♡ 17

89%

Shunji Iwai Director

Sansei Shiomi as

Tadanobu Asano as Customer in club

Atsuro Watabe as Ran

Kaori Momoi as Suzukino

The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.

Ichi the Killer

2001