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6.8

♡ 5

Masaya Kakehi Director

Hiroshi Yamamoto as

Takeshi Kaneshiro as Chiba

Manami Konishi as Kazue Fujiki

Takuya Ishida as Shinji Akutsu

Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days then decide either to ‘execute’ or ‘pass over’. Today, again, in the rain, he waits. His subject, her death due in seven days, is Kazue Fujiki. She works for a manufacturing company in the complaints department. Exhausted after her day, she emerges from her office. It’s time for the Reaper to go to work.

Fireworks

1997

7.7

♡ 30

96%

Takeshi Kitano Director

Kanji Tsuda as

Shûji Ôtsuki as

Yoshiyuki Morishita as Hoodlum B

Susumu Terajima as Nakamura

Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.

Karate-Robo Zaborgar

2011

6.3

♡ 6

68%

Noboru Iguchi Director

Aimi Satsukawa as

Demo Tanaka as

Hiroyuki Watanabe as Detective

Itsuji Itao as Yutaka Daimon

An evil criminal organisation called Sigma kidnap prominment business leaders to harvest their DNA and only Karate-Robo Zaborgar can save them.

Haunted School

1995

6.2

♡ 4

Hideyuki Hirayama Director

Yuriko Hirooka as Mrs. Chiba

Kimiko Yo as Professor Yukawa

Hironobu Nomura as Shinichi Komukai

Takashi Sasano as Teacher on Duty

A young girl wanders into a wing of her elementary school that has been abandoned for years and is rumored to be haunted. When she doesn't come back, a group of her classmates go looking for her, only to find that they, too, are trapped inside. They must somehow find their way to safety, and quickly, because the rumors of ghosts are turning out to be true.

Mushi-Shi: The Movie

2006

5.9

♡ 3

Katsuhiro Ôtomo Director

Travis Willingham as Ginko

Joe Odagiri as Ginko Yû Aoi

Yû Aoi as Tanyu

Christopher Sabat as (voice)

Mushi are beings in touch with the essence of life, far more basic and pure than normal living things. Most humans are incapable of perceiving Mushi and are oblivious to their existence, but there are a few who possess the ability to see and interact with Mushi. One such person is Ginko who travels from place to place to research Mushi and aid people suffering from problems caused by them.

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.

Homunculus

5.5

♡ 17

32%

Takashi Shimizu Director

Seiyô Uchino as Kumicho

Yukino Kishii as Mysterious woman

Gô Ayano as Susumu Nokoshi

Doug Erholtz as Susumu Nokoshi

A homeless man meets a medical school student who pays him to volunteer for a surgical procedure known as trepanation, drilling a hole in his skull, which ends up giving him the ability to communicate with the dark side of people’s subconscious minds.

Zatoichi

1989

7.0

♡ 18

90%

Shintarô Katsu Director

Fumihiko Tachiki as

Kanako Higuchi as Boss Han Bosatsu

Ken Ogata as Rônin / Masterless samurai

Rikiya Yasuoka as Yôjinbô / Bodyguard

Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.

Toshimaen: Haunted Park

2019

japanese high school girl

4.3

♡ 4

japanese horror

paranormal

Hiroshi Takahashi Director

Hiroko Nakajima as

Young Dais as

Nana Asakawa as Chiaki Yokomine

Arisa Komiya as Yuka Kobayashi

Saki, Anju, Chiaki, Ami, and Kaya reunite for the first time in years. The five of them excitedly decide to go Toshimaen Amusement Park, a place that was very important to them when they were younger. None of them know that they're about to enter a nightmare…

Suite Dreams

2006

7.0

♡ 3

Kôki Mitani Director

Susumu Terajima as Jose Kôchi

Akiko Yagi as Tamiko Iijima

Ryôko Shinohara as Yôko the Call Girl

Mieko Harada as Yumi Hotta

New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment and a special dinner planned and yet there is trouble everywhere. An Animal is on the loose, a politician to protect, a prostitute to handle, a bellhop to focus and a few things more.

Tokyo Family

2013

7.5

♡ 4

91%

Yôji Yamada Director

Taiki Matsuno as

Teiyû Ichiryûsai as (as Mie Suzuki) Yû Aoi

Yû Aoi as Noriko Mamiya

Jun Fubuki as Woman at the bar

An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.

Umizaru 3: The Last Message

2010

5.9

♡ 3

Drama

japanese film

Eiichirô Hasumi Director

Masaya Katô as Hiroshiichirou Sakuragi

Gaku Hamada as Hisayoneo Kizima

Ken Ishiguro as Isamu Satao

Kazue Fukiishi as Natsu Nishizawa

While a menacing typhoon approaches, an accident at the giant natural gas plant Regalia occurs. Japan Coast Guard rescue divers Daisuke Senzaki (Hideaki Ito), Tetsuya Yoshioka (Ryuta Sato) and engineer Hiroshiichirou Sakuragi (Masaya Kato) head together to the gas plant. During their rescue efforts an explosion occurs that traps Daisuke, Natsu Nishizawa Kazue Fukiishi and worker Hisayoneo Kizima (Gaku Hamada). Daisuke then looks for a way out for his party with a man he just meets Takuya Hotori. Because of the typhoon, even a helicopter cannot approach the Regalia. Meanwhile, at the head office of the Japan Coast Guard, the Japanese coast guard tries to find a way to rescue the trapped people, but the government officials put national interests first. Tension arises between these two parties. Daisuke's wife Tamakisai Senzaki (Ai Kato) prays for the safe return of Daisuke not only for her sake, but for their new born son.

Psychic Kusuo

2017

live action adaptation of manga

5.6

♡ 6

Yûichi Fukuda Director

Kento Kaku as Aren Kuboyasu

Yuki Uchida as Kurumi Saiki

Kento Yamazaki as Kusuo Saiki

Ryô Yoshizawa as Shun Kaido

Born a powerful psychic, high schooler Kusuo Saiki craves the simple life. But the weirdos in his class make it difficult to conceal his abilities.

Ashura no gotoku

2003

7.0

♡ 5

Yoshimitsu Morita Director

Hitomi Kuroki as Makiko Satomi - Second Daughter

Kyoko Fukada as Sakiko Kamiuchi - Fourth Daughter

Kaoru Kobayashi as Takao Satomi

Eri Fukatsu as Takiko Takezawa - Third Daughter

The four Takezawa sisters discover that their father has an illegitimate child so they hire a private detective to investigate.

Kamui Gaiden

2009

5.6

♡ 7

34%

Yôichi Sai Director

Hiroshi Yamamoto as

Ekin Cheng as Dumok

Tsutomu Yamazaki as Narration Koyuki

Koyuki as Sugaru

A rebellious ninja in 17th century Japan takes refuge with a fisherman and his family.

First Love

6.1

♡ 8

33%

35%

based on novel or book

japanese film

Mystery

Yukihiko Tsutsumi Director

Yôsuke Kubozuka as Gamon Makabe

Itsuji Itao as Naoto Hijiriyama

Saki Takaoka as Sanae Makabe

Keiko Kitagawa as Yuki Makabe

A university student has the usual dreams and aspirations. It turns out to be a pipe dream and so she murders her own flesh and blood. The usual media heads seek an answer in order to sell copy. A psychologist is writing a book about the character and incident. Her research for the subject matter turn the psychologist inward and things come out of the shadows that perhaps are better left buried deep in the shadows of the psyche.

From Today, It's My Turn: The Movie

2020

6.3

♡ 4

Yûichi Fukuda Director

Yuki Izumisawa as Satoru Morikawa

Hinako Sakurai as Shiori

Kento Kaku as Takashi Mitsuhashi

Hayato Isomura as Takeshi Sagara

Taking place after the events of the TV series, Mitsuhashi and Ito face the new enemies.

When I Get Home, My Wife Always Pretends to Be Dead.

2018

6.3

♡ 2

based on a true story

Toshio Lee Director

Nana Eikura as Chie Kagami

Ken Yasuda as Jun Kagami

Kazuyuki Asano as Kamahara

Tôru Shinagawa as Yokoyama

When salary man Jun gets home, he finds his wife bleeding from her mouth and lying on the floor. He is shocked by the scene, but it turns out the blood is just ketchup and she is pretending to be dead. Without telling him why, she pretends to be dead everyday. Jun is dumbfounded by his wife's behavior, but he begins to feel uneasy with her.

The Sun Does Not Move

4.8

♡ 5

adapted from a novel

based on novel or book

Eiichirô Hasumi Director

Hiromasa Taguchi as

Tatsuya Fujiwara as Kazuhiko Takano

Shingo Tsurumi as Mantaro Kawakami

Kôichi Satô as Takeshi Kazama

Kazuhiko Takano and Ryoichi Taoka are industrial spies. A conspiracy exits behind the technology which can shake the political and economic world in Japan. Takano faces Korean spy Kim, a mysterious woman Ayako and powerful men from various countries.

Melancholy