When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its challenges. Upon arriving in mountainous Nagano, Sassa had to compete with freezing winter temperatures, conflicting opinions between the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and the Nagano Prefectural Police, as well as public opinion to gain entrance to the lodge that held the single woman captive.

Climbers High

2008

Japanese

6.6

♡ 3

Action

Drama

Masato Harada Director

Machiko Ono as Chizuko Tamaki

Tsutomu Yamazaki as Raizo Shirakawa

Masato Sakai as Tatsuya Sayama

Sarutoki Minagawa as Yasuo Ito

On August 12, 1985, a jumbo jet crashes, causing 520 fatalities, making the accident the biggest single-plane accident in the world. The local press reporters are tossed about by the waves of facts and rumors. While overwhelmed by the magnitude of the accident, Yuuki, in charge of this crash report at a local newspaper, faces a string of decision-making moments. What are news and a reporter? How should a man do his work and survive in a corporate hierarchy? What do family and friends mean to him? An intriguing story, which keeps the audience on the edge of tension and reality.

Inugami

2001

Japanese

5.9

♡ 6

53%

Masato Harada Director

Yuriko Hirooka as

Atsuro Watabe as Akira Nutahara

Yûki Amami as Miki Bonomiya

Kôichi Satô as Mimoto, the Hunter

Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving, he meets, and begins to fall for, Miki, a papermaker and part of a large and unusual family. When he learns of an ancient legend that the family carries the curse of the Inugami, or Dog God, he brushes it off as silly superstition. After a series of mysterious deaths, however, the townspeople begin to grow restless, and Akira must confront the truth about Miki and her family.

Hell Dogs

2022

Japanese

6.7

♡ 22

75%

Action

based on novel or book

Crime

Drama

former police officer

infiltration

police

yakuza

Masato Harada Director

Mayu Matsuoka as Emiri Kisa

Kentarô Sakaguchi as Hideki Murooka

Kazuki Kitamura as Tsutomu Toki Miyavi

Miyavi as Yoshitaka Toake

Bent on revenge, a traumatized ex-police officer must infiltrate a yakuza organization by befriending one of the group's most unhinged members.

Chronicle of My Mother

2011

Japanese

7.2

♡ 3

1950s

based on memoir or autobiography

Drama

emotionally distant

forgetfulness

semi autobiographical

Masato Harada Director

Tateto Serizawa as (as Okito Serizawa)

Rentarô Mikuni as Hayato

Tomomi Satô as Nipponmaru sailor

Takahiro Miura as Segawa

Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own behavior has taken on his increasingly distant family and resolve his own long-simmering resentments. Evocative of classic Ozu, this gorgeously wrought epic family portrait explores the tenderness and trappings of familial bonds.

Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai

2021

Japanese

6.3

♡ 8

Masato Harada Director

Masachika Ichimura as Kakuan Honda

Nijirô Murakami as Nizou Okada

Ko Shibasaki as Oyuki

Yûki Yamada as Yoshinobu Tokugawa

Set in the 19th century, "Moeyo Ken" follows the life of Toshizo Hijikata. He was the vice-commander of the Shinsengumi and fought against the Meiji Restoration.

Sekigahara

2017

Japanese

6.3

♡ 26

53%

Action

based on novel or book

Masato Harada Director

Kasumi Arimura as Hatsume

Shô Ikushima as Hideie Ukita

Mitsu Dan as Monk Myozen

Takehiro Hira as Sakon Shima

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mitsunari. The story includes the intrigues and shifting loyalties of the various retainers, family members, and samurai.

Bad Lands

2023

Japanese

6.0

♡ 13

Masato Harada Director

Noriko Eguchi as

Katsuhisa Namase as

Ryôsuke Yamada as Jo Yashiro

Sakura Andô as Neri Hashioka

A grifter and her loose-cannon brother get their hands on a massive amount of money, but their ill-gotten gains puts a huge target on their back.

The Emperor in August

2015

Japanese

6.6

♡ 14

90%

Action

based on novel or book

Masato Harada Director

Masahiro Motoki as Emperor Showa

Tôri Matsuzaka as Hatanaka, army major

Tsutomu Yamazaki as Prime Minister Suzuki

Hajime Inoue as Soemu Toyoda

In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meeting has continued through days and nights, but a decision cannot be made. The U.S. drops atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. General Korechika Anami is torn over making the proper decision and the Emperor of Japan worries about his people. Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki leads the cabinet meeting, while Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu can't do anything, but watch the meeting. At this time, Major Kenji Hatanaka and other young commissioned officers, who are against Japan surrendering, move to occupy the palace and a radio broadcasting station. The radio station is set to broadcast Emperor Hirohito reading out the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War.

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Kakekomi

Totsunyûseyo! 'Asama Sansô' jiken

Climbers High

Inugami

Hell Dogs

Chronicle of My Mother

Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai

Sekigahara

Bad Lands

The Emperor in August