Masanobu Ando Movies

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Fujiwara

The blackest and most evil painting in the world. In pursuit of its mystery, Rohan Kishibe, a manga artist with a special power, visits the Louvre in...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Issey Takahashi

A gas leak explosion at a yakuza hideout provides a shy nurse and a rental car clerk with the opportunity to take a briefcase full of money. A...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hikari Ishida

Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Kaneko

A lonely researcher doubting his own existence builds an android which looks exactly like himself.

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Cast: Etsushi Toyokawa

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 simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shinichi Tsutsumi

When a number of suicide victims slash themselves in their sleep, detective Keiko Kirishima is called to investigate.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda

Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his van. They are in hot pursuit of their fellow robber...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shinichi Tsutsumi

Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Reika Hashimoto

Three bank robbers, who declare themselves to be Space Travelers, take six persons as hostages when they are surrounded by the police. Among the...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Takeshi Kaneshiro

A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with the responsibilities in their lives.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chizuru Ikewaki

To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one live elite assassin – in the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

A tale of revenge, honor and greed follows a group of misfits that gets involved with a kitchen cleaver made from the top five swords of the martial...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Masanobu Ando

A young, good-hearted doctor Kenichi suffers from a rare syndrome whereby his feelings cannot be hidden. Such people are known as "satorare" and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masanobu Ando

Omnibus of six short films: Return; Ken-do star; Hana to oji-san; Adagietto Sehr, langsam; Nakayoki koto wa yoki koto ka na; Slow is Beautiful. Third...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kumiko Aso

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mayu Miyamoto

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

The late Kinji Fukasaku directed "Battle Royale" - his 60th movie - at the age of 70. This film follows the shooting of the film.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kyoya Kimura

An abundance of footage from the shooting of Battle Royale and cast and crew discussions.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kinji Fukasaku

Long-time friends Jinko and Motoko hear that their college friend Miki has jumped into the ocean. They are joined by Haraki, who Jinko happens to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aoi Miyazaki

The epic story Mei Lanfang, who overcame the prejudice against artists in 1930s China to become the country's greatest opera star.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leon Lai Ming

Shin is a professional voyeur who provides live camera feeds of everything from the street corner to the public toilet. He is also afflicted freakish...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Yosuke Eguchi

During the Heian period, Seimei Abe trains in magic but lacks interest, until a collaboration with Hiromasa Minamoto arises to solve a strange...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kento Yamazaki

Tomiko, a middle-aged woman, waits patiently for her husband, who disappeared thirty years ago, to return. She lives alone in a declining fishing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuko Tanaka

An indigenous clan-based people living in harmony with nature find their way of life threatened when violent interlopers from another culture arrive,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nolay Piho

Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwara District, navigating brothel politics...

Genre: History

Cast: Anna Tsuchiya

The secret warriors of feudal Japan were the ninja. Sent on impossible missions, the ninja were trained to work in shadows, gather information and...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Masanobu Ando

After the uprising at Wushe, Mona Rudao faces a guerrilla war against the militarily superior Japanese and Seediq clans. He and his followers must...

Genre: Action

Cast: Nolay Piho

High school student Ami was born through a fertilization technique. Her brother is developmentally challenged and is immature for his age. They go on...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masanobu Ando

A group of 11 criminals are trapped in a warehouse with bracelets. The 11 learn that they are part of a game where the prize is 3 million yen and a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Eddie

The film follows Nanba, a shunned outcast who doesn’t have a girlfriend, any money or prospects, a turnaround from his glory days in high...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pistol Takehara

Kaoru, a wealthy woman whose youth is fading, abandons the hustle and bustle of the city to live a peaceful life in a house on the coast. There she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyoka Suzuki

Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda

In the wee hours of winter a night train travels through a sleepless city. This is a panorama of a Buddhist monk's journey through Tokyo at night. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lee Kang-sheng

An exceptional marksman and hopeless playboy, private eye Ryo Saeba reluctantly forms an alliance with his late partner's sister to investigate his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryohei Suzuki

[INTERNATIONAL VERSION] Mouna Rudo was born and raised among the Seediq people, an indigenous tribe in Taiwan, and as he grew to be a man he became...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nolay Piho

Chisako Satoya, a writer, and her father, Kozo, had a long-standing feud and had been living apart for a long time. However now that Kozo, who lives...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anne Watanabe

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

Izumi Hoshi is senior in high school, but she led a small yakuza group in her past. After killing her uncle's murderer with a machine gun, her yakuza...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kanna Hashimoto

A girl, Yūri Kurahashi, after watching a cursed videotape together with her friend in a haunted house, becomes trapped in a conflict between the...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Mizuki Yamamoto

After her brother's death, Alice leave France for Japan and takes refuge in a small village just above the cliffs. Her brother Nathan said to her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isabelle Carré

The protagonist has been secretly meeting with his friend A's lover. But then A suddenly dies. The friendship between the three, which had seemed to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takayuki Yamada

Kazuya Takajo was a promising soccer player. At the age of 23, he was selected for the national A football team and he bought a house to live with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sho Sakurai

A classmate from Ushijima's middle school days, Takemoto, shows up. He was a kind man, but now is jobless and without a home. Adrift and unable to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Takayuki Yamada

A medical team is dispatched to the patients on a helicopter to provide medical care in the field as soon as possible. One day, four young physicians...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomohisa Yamashita

Haruma is an up-and-coming photographer who is getting full exposure at a photo exhibition in a Tokyo photo gallery. Rei, a beautiful curator at the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masanobu Ando

A man suicides causing ruin for his family, reasons are unknown, but his son will decide to take revenge after a succesion of events.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shinnosuke Abe

Akemi is unable to get over the death of his girlfriend, but a book leads to his encounter with Akane, a woman with a wonderful smile. He gradually...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroto Kanai

Japanese horror film with four segments.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Naoto Takenaka

Making of Takeshi Kitano's movie Kids Return.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Yuria discovered the pleasure of tying herself up in her university days, and resumes the pursuit in order to relieve work stress. She starts a blog...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaoru Hirata

When Sonoko enters a traditional Japanese arranged marriage with Amamiya facilitated by her parents the resulting union is loveless including the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eri Murakawa

An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling,...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda

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

A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her palentologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs.

Genre: Family

Cast: Yumi Adachi

Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gentle Tomoe Yukishiro, a beautiful young woman who...

Genre: Action

Cast: Takeru Satoh

Five loosely connected storylines concerning the secrets and lies, the fears and tears, and the puerile potty jokes that punctuate the characters'...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Riho Yoshioka