Tetsuo is a lowlife. A film director with a small indie hit many years back, yet he has never gotten any further as he refuses to go against his 'artistic integrity'.

Kataku no hito

1986

Japanese

6.9

♡ 1

Action

based on novel or book

Drama

Kinji Fukasaku Director

Hiroyuki Sanada as Chuya Nakahara

Renji Ishibashi as Kazuo's father

Mieko Harada as Keiko

Keiko Matsuzaka as Tokuko Tanayoshi

In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work

Sankaku Mado no Sotogawa wa Yoru

2021

Japanese

5.0

♡ 12

96%

Yukihiro Morigaki Director

Keiko Kitagawa as Keiko

Nobunaga Shimazaki as Kosuke Mikado

Jun Shison as Kosuke Mikado

Yuki Sakurai as Saeko Hanzawa

Bookstore clerk Mikado sees ghosts. When exorcist Hiyakawa pulls him into a cursed murder case, the two uncover dark truths—and the killer’s voice still lingers.

The Gangster's Daughter

2017

Chinese

5.8

♡ 2

50%

Action

Crime

Drama

father daughter relationship

gangster

Mei-Juin Chen Director

Lawrence Ko as

Meng-Chieh Kao as

Jack Kao as Keiko

Ally Chiu as Shaowu

A rebellious teen is reunited with her father, a small time Taipei gangster, causing him to question his life of crime.

In This Corner of the World

2016

Japanese

7.8

♡ 21

97%

husband wife relationship

japan

War

world war ii

Sunao Katabuchi Director

Joe Ochman as Additional Voices

Kira Buckland as Keiko

Laura Post as Suzu Non

Non as Suzu

Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm…

The Red Shoes

2005

Korean

5.7

♡ 11

Yong-gyun Kim Director Eol Lee

Eol Lee as

Kim Ji-Eun as Keiko

Su-hee Go as Kim Mi-hee

Hye-su Kim as Sun-jae

A woman who finds a pair of pink high heels on a subway platform soon realizes that jealousy, greed, and death follow them wherever they go.

Marriage Hunting Beauty

5.5

Akiko Ohku Director

Seminosuke Murasugi as

Asami Usuda as Keiko

Tomoya Nakamura as Sonoki

Kei Tanaka as Yatabe

Takako (Mei Kurokawa) is a beautiful woman in her 30's and she works as a designer. Takako has only had relationships with married men. She decides to change herself with the help of her manga artist friend Keiko (Asami Usuda). Takako signs up at a matchmaking site. Soon. Takako meets two men and she takes an interest in the two men. Meanwhile, Takako has an argument with her friend Keiko. (Asianwiki)

Tora-san, the Expert

1982

Japanese

6.6

♡ 4

Action

Comedy

Romance

Yôji Yamada Director

Yûko Tanaka as Keiko

Hidetaka Yoshioka as Mitsuo

Kenji Sawada as Saburô

Hisao Dazai as Shachô

Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist Saburō, and attempts to play matchmaker between the two when they all return to Tokyo.

Konbiniensu sutori

2022

Japanese

5.5

♡ 2

Satoshi Miki Director

Yûya Matsuura as

Ryô Narita as Kato

Atsuko Maeda as Keiko

Kiyohiko Shibukawa as Movie director

Kato is an up-and-coming scriptwriter in the middle of a severe slump. He submits ideas for potential movies but makes no headway whatsoever, and spends his days downhearted and distressed. When he heads out to buy "Dog Man," food for his lover's beloved pooch Cerberus, one thing leads to another and he stumbles into "Ideal Mart," a convenience store where he can find everything his heart desires. There, he encounters a mysterious married woman named Keiko, who gets his creative juices flowing again, but...

The Fighter Pilot

2013

Japanese

7.3

♡ 9

Takashi Yamazaki Director

Tarô Suruga as

Takehiro Hira as

Kazue Fukiishi as Keiko

Jun Fubuki as Kiyoko

A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World War II. During their research into his life, they get conflicting accounts from his former comrades about his character and how he joined his squadron.

Small, Slow But Steady

2022

Japanese

6.9

♡ 7

100%

Shô Miyake Director

Makiko Watanabe as

Yukino Kishii as Keiko

Masaki Miura as Kobayashi

Tomokazu Miura as The Chairman

A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president, who has been her biggest supporter, push her to the limit.

Karate Kill

2016

Japanese

5.2

♡ 9

71%

Action

Horror

martial arts

Kurando Mitsutake Director

Masaya Katô as Delivery Company Boss

Akihiro Haga as Japanese Bartender Asami

Asami as Keiko

Takashi Nishina as Strip Bar Manager

When a mysterious loner and Karate master Kenji's little sister goes missing in Los Angeles, whoever stands in his way of finding her will face the wrath of a lethal KARATE KILL!

In This Corner of the World

2016

Japanese

7.8

♡ 99

97%

husband wife relationship

japan

War

world war ii

Sunao Katabuchi Director

Joe Ochman as Additional Voices

Kira Buckland as Keiko

Laura Post as Suzu Non

Non as Suzu

Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm…

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Dead Sushi

Lowlife Love

Kataku no hito

Sankaku Mado no Sotogawa wa Yoru

The Gangster's Daughter

In This Corner of the World

The Red Shoes

Marriage Hunting Beauty

Tora-san, the Expert

Konbiniensu sutori

The Fighter Pilot

Small, Slow But Steady

Karate Kill

In This Corner of the World