Koichi Sato Movies

Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by...

Genre: Action

Cast: Koichi Sato

A young pathologist seeks answers to the mysterious death of a friend and soon comes into contact with the same cursed videotape that caused the...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Koichi Sato

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

A nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to join, chooses his own path.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Hideaki Ito

A record company office worker named Kanna discovers a punk rock band called Shonen Meriken Sakku 'Brass Knuckle Boys' through the internet and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Aoi Miyazaki

Shiro Amasuka, dead leader of the Shimbara Revolt is resurrected from hell with the desire of overthrowing the shogunate for killing his companions....

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kumiko Aso

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on the the low pay he receives from his small town...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

Four strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket, and a woman with a preternaturally precise sense of time) are brought...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Takao Osawa

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Matsuyama

A man arrives in the city upon news of a potential terrorist strike in Italy. He is Japanese foreign diplomat, Kosaku Kuroda, and he’s here...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuji Oda

A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koichi Sato

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Hatano is living as an insomniac freelance typesetter alone in his bayside apartment. One day, Aikawa, a high school classmate he hasn’t seen...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Etsushi Toyokawa

A group of terrorists has taken hold of the largest dam in Japan. They also capture the workers as hostages, and demanded $5 billion yen from the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yuji Oda

16 years after the fateful "revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin," involving samurais from the Ako domain who avenged their leader and then commited...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Awkward and withdrawn, Masako kills her sister in an explosion of pent-up humiliation and rage that sends her tumbling into fugitive life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naomi Fujiyama

After detective Natsumi Yukihira brings an end to the police hospital terrorist case, Natsumi is transferred to the Nishimonbetsu Police Station in...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who wants to control the length of the Silk...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

A Middle-aged Japanese ex-pat journalist investigates child organ trafficking in Thailand and he uncovers a sinister network. In the darkest corners...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aoi Miyazaki

An old swordsman, his former comrade and a young braggart are hired by prostitutes to track down bandits who mutilated one of the women.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Watanabe

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Following a tip, Manabu Yazaki loses his last money betting on the older "banba" horse "Unryu" (jockied by Makie, a legendary jockey's daughter) in a...

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Cast: Yûsuke Iseya

An actor named Kosuke plays the role of Iemon in a stage version of Yotsuya Kaiden and his new lover Miyuki plays Oiwa. However, as they delve deeper...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ichikawa Ebizo XI

A Chinese immigrant tries to make his way to the top as a businessman in Hong Kong while his former radicalism is transformed into cynicism.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Lone

The posthumous wish of Eiji's wife is for her ashes to be scattered in the ocean near her hometown. Eiji also learns that his wife letter for him at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Matsuzaka

The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to a platoon from the Fleet Training Group. No...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

During Japan's feudal period, a noble lord was treacherously killed by a rival. His 47 samurai retainers took their revenge on their master's killer...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takuya Kimura

Tetsuaki's struggling to write a novel while his mother fades; Mitsuko's engagement has been forced upon her unwillingly; the two individuals run...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koichi Sato

Michiru has lost her eyesight, and to make matters worse, her father dies shortly afterwards. She is now all alone and spends most of her day...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rena Tanaka

A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend's father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the father to teach him the trade's secrets.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

A professional scammer is hired by a wealthy young businessman to find a hidden treasure looted from the Bank of Japan and supposedly stashed away by...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Koichi Sato

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

A school bus driver's life is irrevocably altered when his young son is kidnapped and murdered.

Genre: Action

Cast: Takeshi Yamato

The masterpiece of Shino Sakuragi, who won the 149th Naoki Prize for "HOTEL ROYAL" in 2013, is now a motion picture. A lawyer burdened with an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koichi Sato

A 15-year-old girl forced into police protection to escape from the journalistic hordes after her brother is arrested for murder.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mirai Shida

After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fumiyo Kohinata

Defence lawyer Emi is assigned to a particularly unusual case: a man is suspected of murdering his wealthy wife, and his only alibi is a 421-year old...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Eri Fukatsu

The annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However, Yoshi's life is thrown into disarray days before the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Former childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu cross paths again. Kaneo is now a yakuza member, while Masatatsu is a nightclub owner...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Etsushi Toyokawa

Guitarist Ko-chan is a mess of sexual repression after a childhood at the mercy of two elder sisters eager to use him as a guinea pig for their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shunsuke Nakamura

A hardened gangster encounters by chance a woman he hasn't seen since childhood. They are both engulfed in the underground world of intergang warfare.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kazuya Kimura

In 1868, a battle between new government forces and shogunate forces are about to take place in Edo. Katsu Kaishu wants to avoid useless bloodshed...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Hiroshi Tamaki

Office drone Arisu finds his own life imitating the mystery novels of his favourite writer when his wife disappears and he finds he is being pursued...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Koichi Sato

A young girl named Sato watches on television as a man named Tomoki states brazenly at a press conference that he hopes convicted murderer Mitsuo is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Moeki Tsuruoka

A man incurs a large debt and goes bankrupt. The yakuza come to collect and rape his wife. Racked with guilt he decides to pick up call girl and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noriko Hayami

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Cast: Koichi Sato

Natsumi Yukihira (Ryoko Shinohara) receives secret documents of an organization that controls the country from the shadows. Because of this,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

In the year 1590, the mighty warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is close to fulfilling his ambition of unifying all of Japan under his banner when he comes...

Genre: History

Cast: Mansai Nomura

At a crucial point in his business life, executive Gondo learns that his son has been kidnapped and that the ransom demanded is near the amount Gondo...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koichi Sato

The drama is set on the Twilight Express, Japan's longest overnight train service, which runs approximately 22 hours between Osaka and Sapporo....

Genre: Romance

Cast: Koichi Sato

Prosecutor Kohei Kuryu takes charge of a case with a foreign embassy possessing the key to solve the case. Due to the extraterritoriality involving...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Takuya Kimura

Shintaro, an Assistant Bank Division Chief at the Financial Services Agency, had been working like a dog for 33 years. But just five years before he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koichi Sato

A mysterious woman approaches a salaried man who leads a peaceful family life and tells him, "Your wife is having an affair with my husband." From...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Koichi Sato

During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isako Washio

Botchan (Kazunari Ninomiya) has sense of strong justice and does not lie. He is offered a teaching job at a middle in a small village far away from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazunari Ninomiya

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

The story of Japan's victory in the battle of Tsushima Strait.

Genre: War

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koichi Sato

Heartwarming human drama about a former tap dancer who trades in his tap shoes to woo a figure skating instructor. But by a twist of fate, he finds...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rosa Kato

Seiji is a third generation "Gosei kai" gang member. He works to build up the group's strength. Meanwhile, a journalist investigates a case that...

Genre: Action

Cast: Masahiro Higashide

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minako Tachibana

1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami,...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koichi Sato

1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami,...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koichi Sato

Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaori Momoi

Three conspirators steal a secret android. In their warehouse hideout, the android secretes a reality-altering substance, which casts them into a...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Shigeru Izumiya

Mike is a penguin soldier who returns home after being injured during combat. Estranged from his family and friends, he leaves his hometown and...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Koichi Sato

Atsushi and Ryoko are a married coupled. They decide they want to live around nature and move to Biei in Hokkaido, Japan. Atsushi isn't sure what to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koichi Sato

This movie is a political/espionage thriller, based on a real kidnapping incident of Korean politician, Kim Dae-Jung.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kim Kap-soo

The Master’s late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle delivery man struggling with love.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi

A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

He is Kikuji Murao (Etsushi Toyokawa), a former best-selling novelist who has had a decade-long dry spell that has reduced him to university teaching...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Etsushi Toyokawa

A Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the honor of an individual? In the spring of the 18th year of...

Genre: History

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

Based on a popular manga, the film is a tender coming-of-age love story set deep in Japan's countryside. When eighth grade cool guy Hiromi transfers...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kaho

In the late 16th century, after the death of Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi takes power. The age of war is about to end, but Hideyoshi Toyotomi's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mansai Nomura

A story about a woman who is a research student of a theater company and the three men who are at the mercy of her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Karasuma

Erika Toda joins a law firm headed by Serizawa-san, on the first case she meets Enomoto Kei of Tokyo total security who unlocks Serizawa who has...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Satoshi Ohno

Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koichi Sato

Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the second is a ghost story about a...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Koichi Sato

A continuation of the story of the postwar years in the Japanese Inland Sea. Now a decade has passed. Two friends meet and decide to look for the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshihiko Tahara

The Fable is a legendary yakuza hitman equal to none—but his boss orders him and his sultry associate to lay low and learn how to live a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Junichi Okada

The Japanese adaption of Agatha Christie's famous whodunit "Murder on the Orient Express".

Genre: Crime

Cast: Mansai Nomura

In pre-WWII Vancouver, second-generation Japanese immigrants had it tough. Daily, they faced discrimination, hatred and injustice at the hands of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

The shock of her fiance's sudden dissolution of their relationship causes university student, Miki, to lose her voice. While recuperating in a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Misaki Itō

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region...

Genre: History

Cast: Ken Watanabe

A beginning editor, Odamachi, slips back in time to the year 1973 and meets Osamu Tezuka. Tezuka, then, is out of luck. He has failed in animation...

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Cast: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi

High school boy Machida is a loner who is not particularly good at his studies or extracurricular activities. He does seem to have his heart in the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kanata Hosoda

The film follows the relationship between a mother and her son. In 1945, the mother played by Sayuri Yoshinaga fled with her two sons from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Detective Ryoko Kozuki receives a demotion after having an affair with a superior. She succeeds in arresting a rapist in an undercover operation that...

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Cast: Machiko Ono

Thirty years after aboy's disappearance, a journalist revives interest in the case, which in turn compels the victim's brother to look for this...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Masatoshi Nagase

A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in similar circumstances a suspect is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Go Ayano

After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

Four people decide to travel to Hunza, Pakistan to find paradise. Kentaro Tooma works as head of sales for a camera company. One of his clients is...

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Cast: Koichi Sato

A highly anticipated cultural festival is less than a week away for the students of a local high school when mysterious, seemingly paranormal events...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Arisa Mizuki

Keisuke Kuroda wakes up in a hospital bed unable to remember who he is. While sneaking out of the hospital, he sees a glimpse of the news and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

A wanderer and his son arrive on an obscure northern island of Japan, causing the village of Pu to fall into disarray.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Koichi Sato

Keiichi Yoshinaga, who works for a major construction company receives a sudden phone call from his ex-wife, Junko Aoba. She tells Keiichi that their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koichi Sato

Masuda, an aspiring journalist, plans to write an article in order to expose his co-worker Suzuki, who is a psychopathic murderer according to Masuda.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toma Ikuta

A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Koichi Sato

Toko grew up unloved by her mother Mizuho who continues to adore her deceased son. She lives alone in an apartment the electricity has been cut off...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Kyoko Hinami

On Christmas Eve, a TV broadcasting station receives a phone call. The caller warns "I have set up a bomb at Ebisu in Tokyo." A contract worker for...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Koichi Sato

Kazuhiko Takano and Ryoichi Taoka are industrial spies. A conspiracy exits behind the technology which can shake the political and economic world in...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Tatsuya Fujiwara

Akira is the legendary killer known as the Fable. Following the order of his boss and due to being overworked, he lives peacefully with his partner,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Junichi Okada

Hayami Teruya is a dedicated salaryman who does a workman like job as the chief editor for a magazine. He has personal charm, get along with both the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yo Oizumi

Scene one: March 11th, 2011. An earthquake and a tsunami strike the East coast of Japan, damaging the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. A man and five...

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Cast: Masatoshi Nagase

Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, a dull novelist and a legendary killer. Susumu...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Renji Ishibashi

Infection takes place in a dark, isolated hospital, where one doctors mistake has led to dire consequences for a patient. In a hospital death is just...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Michiko Hada

A new female detective joins the special investigations team and dives into some of their hardest cases in this follow-up to the series 'Unfair.'...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kie Kitano

Set in the year 2265. There is a small restaurant along the main road Galaxy Kaido, which connects Earth and the space colony Uzushio.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Shingo Katori

Hisashi Tanaka is a medical student in Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. He does volunteer work and gets to know Yasuaki Kano at the hospital. Yasuaki Kano...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yo Oizumi

A young music lover named Asano Daiyoshi died at the young age of 20. In that fact, there is a feeling that a miracle that cannot be imagined...

Genre: Music

Cast: Fuju Kamio

A girl whose younger brother as well as her lover were killed is drawn with a pistol in her hand.

Genre: Action

Cast: Yu Hayami

The story takes place over a 24 hour period. In the southernmost part of Japan, 20 fishing boats of an unknown nationality suddenly fire upon and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

A weak willed man teams up with a stripper after her stage show partner runs off with another dancer. He is obsessed with her unique inverted nipples...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoko Kon

On the first day of opening, a small Italian restaurant is set on fire, killing three customers, and the unidentified survivor, who was injured and...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Koichi Sato

Jirocho (Kiichi Nakai), a fledgling bakuto who left his wife, goes on a year-long training with his minions: right-hand man and military master...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

One day a young Brazilian man living in Japan crashes his car into the side of the house of a happy family. They take him in after realizing he had...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Drama set in the historical Warring States Era of Japan. Tokaido name Imagawa Yoshimoto personally led his army to invade Owari Province territory,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ichikawa Ebizo XI

To defend their kingdom against a sudden invasion, a mighty general returns to the battlefield alongside a war orphan, now grown up, who dreams of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kento Yamazaki

Forty years after leaving Japan for a boxing career in the U.S. that never panned out, Jin returns to restart his life with his old boxing buddies....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koichi Sato

On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never gamble again. But, that night, Jirocho heads to a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nakamura

Detective Takeo Kosai is about to be demoted. He then plans to entrap Akira Dojima without his partner Detective Emi Ishikawa's knowledge. Akira...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koichi Sato

The "wheels of mystery" begin to move when a man working at a small shipyard meets a female student who seems to get upset at the sight of him. While...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tao Tsuchiya

Set two years after the drama series "Nemesis," Naoki Kazama works for Nemesis Detective Agency and is regarded as a brilliant detective. He is able...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Suzu Hirose

Two rogue vagrants make their living as “manure men”, turning the waste from the tenement toilets into fertiliser sold to local farmers....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haru Kuroki

Koshiro Matsudaira lives in Tanjousan Bun in Echigo as a commoner and surrounded by people that love him, including his father Sakubei, who works for...

Genre: History

Cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki

It follows a nameless man who gives up his identity to live with a large cardboard box over his head, encountering a range of characters as he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nagase

26 years old Hanako is on the verge of directing her first-ever feature film, achieving her childhood dream. Although she’s being hindered by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mayu Matsuoka

An omnibus featuring the work of three different filmmakers.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Takanori Jinnai

A personal novel-like piece that tries to leave a "record" of the restaurant in the past, triggered by the closing of a western restaurant in Dojima,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koichi Sato

ER doctor Tsuyoshi Matsuoka receives a patient with a virus unlike anything he's seen before. His symptoms include high fever, convulsions, vomiting...

Genre: Action

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

The main character, Baian Fujieda, is a dark hero who has two faces: one as a skilled acupuncturist who saves lives, and the other as a criminal who...

Genre: Action

Cast: Etsushi Toyokawa

Movie adaptation of the novel "When a man sleeps gently" by actor Shinobu Sakagami.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hakuei

One day, a boy's body is found again under the same bridge. The case is eerily similar to Masaki's case from 22 years ago. Haru has a connection with...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kengo Kora

Depicts a continuation of the "Battle of Mayang", an all-out war against the neighboring country Zhao that Shin and Wang Ki fought in in the previous...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kento Yamazaki

What is the dark fate of a young up-and-coming artist who is on the verge of achieving glory? The story depicts the fate of a detective who...

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Cast: Koichi Sato

A dream collaboration between five directors who represent the modern Japanese film industry! An omnibus work composed of five short films has been...

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Cast: Kirin Kiki

Set in Osaka just after the end of the war, the story depicts an unconventional merchant who returns from evacuation. The film is based on the novel...

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

A youth action drama depicting the struggles of a young man who gets involved in an extraordinary incident at a convenience store. This film is based...

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Cast: Masanobu Katsumura

Soutaro Nagare is an assistant at a commercial film production company. However, one day at the studio, he punches a cameraman and gets fired. Taking...

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Cast: Koichi Sato