Takeshi Ōbayashi Movies

An independent group of researchers called the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN) actively track Godzilla as he makes landfall in Nemuro. Matters are...

Genre: Action

Cast: Takehiro Murata

Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. The two samurai leaders pursue one another across...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takaaki Enoki

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

When vile aliens known as the Gamilons wreak nuclear havoc on Earth, a group of survivors refit the Japanese battleship Yamato for intergalactic...

Genre: Action

Cast: Gorō Naya

Yama, a bloodthirsty demon full of hatred and anger. He who confronts it is selected to have a few supernatural powers. Maria, wages a supernatural...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kazumi Harada

It's been a year since the fierce battle with the incarnation of hatred, "Yama". Peace returned to the city, and Maria was in her second year of high...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Kazumi Harada

A young lady who lives in a villa, drives a luxury car, plays tennis, throws garden parties and lives a comfortable life. However, she was actually a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hitomi Kobayashi

Kotiyama is a swindler and extortionist, the head of a whole gang of crooks, usually posing as a poor monk; once he really took vows, but he was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

Toru Emori leads the cast as Hirate Musashi while a Hiroshi Fujioka competes with him as Okamoto Musashi. They must not only contend with the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tohru Emori

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Cast: Yûko Mizushima

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Cast: Maki Kawamura

Sequel to the 2002 film Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy, starring members of boy band Arashi.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Matsumoto

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Keiko who leads a lonely life as a fortune teller on the streets meets Goro, a leader of the con-artists. One day, Goro witnesses a group of men...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Fujiwara

An employee of a bank goes missing following his retirement from the bank. Veteran detective Yobuno (Koji Yakusho), who is set to retire himself, is...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Koji Yakusho

At an event hall in Roppongi Hills, there is a charity event for landmine eradication. Kaoru does security with Security Police officers Soichiro...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Junichi Okada

Two unmarried sisters live together. They both have careers and boyfriends. And in the end they always have each other.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaoru Oda

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Based on the life of Japanese serial killer and thief Kiyotaka Katsuta.

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Cast: Kazuya Nakayama

Many years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the survivors (called hibakusha in Japanese) are still physically and emotionally devastated by the...

Genre: History

Cast: Hideki Saijo

Nakaura of Julian (Julião Nakaura), a priest of the Society of Jesus, was one of four young ambassadors sent to Rome by the Jesuits in 1538,...

Genre: History

Cast: Geraldine Chaplin

Sayo and Keiji have eloped to New Zealand to marry, away from the interference of Keiji's disapproving mother in Japan. On their honeymoon, they have...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eugene Nomura

After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Howard

Directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara in 1971, Sunset Sunrise (Hi wa shizumi, hi wa noboru) is a “hippie” road movie chronicling the trek that a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rosemary Dexter

Popular TV screenwriter Mayumi Taniyama suffers from the dreaded writer's block. When producer Masaya Mukai asks for a screenplay written for him,...

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Cast: Kippei Shiina

After appearing on a TV program a young woman is recruited to be an advertising idol much to the dismay of her boyfriend.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuka Kakumi

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Cast: Miyako Tasaka

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship...

Genre: War

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. Ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

Elite lawyer Ryoko enlists the help of a foreign mafia in rescuing her son from a criminal who holds grudge against her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoko Minamino

A female doctor tries to prove her innocence when an erotic tape is shown to her fiancé.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaori Asô

A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukiyo Toake

In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launches a plan to cut back on his labor force. Fifty employees are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyôhei Shibata

"Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy" centers around five friends who are residents in a Tokyo apartment complex. Now senior high school students,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jun Matsumoto

Satomi breaks her lover Takao out of jail, who was falsely accused of killing her parents.

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Cast: Kazuma Shigaya

Asuka Hanyu, a lone wolf who will stop at nothing to investigate, is a cool beauty who throws away her voluptuous body and strikes her enemies right...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kaori Shimamura

In the early hours of April 13th, a five year old hemophiliac child was kidnapped by someone from Tanemura General Hospital in Tokyo, Setagaya. Tokyo...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Mikijiro Hira

Murders of housewives occur one after another in a suburban apartment complex. All of the victims have had an intimate relationship with a certain...

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Cast: Wakiko Kano