Cast: Sho Aikawa

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Sho Aikawa. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Eel

1997 · Movie · 117 min. · Japan

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Misa Shimizu · Mitsuko Baisho · Akira Emoto

Synopsis The film opens with Takuro Yamashita (Koji Yakusho), a seemingly normal salaryman, learning that his wife might be having an affair. When he catches the couple in flaganto delicto, he freaks out and brutally stabs them both to death. Eight...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Zen

2009 · Movie · 127 min. · Japan

7.0

271 votes

7.0

271 votes

License to Live

1998 · Movie · 109 min. · Japan

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Hidetoshi Nishijima · Shun Sugata · Lily

Synopsis Yoshi, aged 24, awakes after 10 years in a coma, goes on to start a new life and rebuild his family.

6.7

51 votes

6.7

51 votes

Sun Scarred

2006 · Movie · 117 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Sho Aikawa · Aiko Satô · Ken'ichi Endô · Sei Hiraizumi

Synopsis Mr. Katayama returns home after a hard day's work, hoping to celebrate his birthday with his wife and small daughter. However, on his way home he runs into a bunch of teens who are beating up a homeless man and...

6.6

172 votes

6.6

172 votes

Ley Lines

1999 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Kazuki Kitamura · Sho Aikawa · Ryuushi Mizukami · Tomorô Taguchi

Synopsis A troupe of bored small town delinquents travel to Tokyo only to find themselves outclassed by the big city criminals.

6.6

119 votes

6.6

119 votes

Rainy Dog

1997 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Sho Aikawa · Lianmei Chen · Jianqin He · Tomorô Taguchi

Synopsis The second instalment of 'The Triad Society Triliogy' in which Yuuji, a hitman has just been landed with the responsibility of looking after his son.

6.4

159 votes

6.4

159 votes

Gozu

2003 · Movie · 127 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Hideki Sone · Sho Aikawa · Kimika Yoshino · Shôhei Hino

Synopsis Minami, a member of the Azamawari crew, highly respects his Aniki (brother) Ozaki who has saved his life in the past. However, lately Ozaki's eccentricities (like claiming that a Chihuahua hs sees is a 'Yakuza attack dog') have been making...

6.3

2K votes

6.3

2K votes

Helter Skelter

2012 · Movie · 127 min. · Japan

6.3

149 votes

6.3

149 votes

Shangri-La

2002 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Sho Aikawa · Shiro Sano · Yu Tokui · Midoriko Kimura

Synopsis A small printing company, Umemoto Insatsu is located on the edge of Osaka. Umemoto (Yu Tokui) who is the owner of the company is living in peace with his family, but suddenly, the peace is broken. The biggest client, Uwazoko-Ya...

6.2

29 votes

6.2

29 votes

Dead or Alive

1999 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Riki Takeuchi · Sho Aikawa · Renji Ishibashi · Hitoshi Ozawa

Synopsis After a rapid-fire montage of two groups of gangsters, one Japanese, the other ethnic Chinese, killing each other and everybody else on screen, DEAD OR ALIVE's story begins when a police officer announces, "Round up everybody who looks (suspicious), even...

6.1

2K votes

6.1

2K votes

Eyes of the Spider

1998 · Movie · 83 min. · Japan

6.0

59 votes

6.0

59 votes

Zebraman

2004 · Movie · 115 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Sho Aikawa · Kyoka Suzuki · Atsuro Watabe · Yui Ichikawa

Synopsis Being a failure as a teacher and a familyman, Shinichi tries to escape everyday live by dressing up as "Zebraman", the superhero. Although the TV series whas canceled after only 6 episodes, this cannot stop him from acting out his...

5.8

624 votes

5.8

624 votes

Dead or Alive 2: Tôbôsha

2000 · Movie · 97 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Sho Aikawa · Riki Takeuchi · Ken'ichi Endô · Shinya Tsukamoto

Synopsis Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and visit the small island they once called home. After reflecting on their past lives...

5.8

789 votes

5.8

789 votes

Pulse (Kairo)

2001 · Movie · 118 min. · Japan

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Haruhiko Kato · Kumiko Aso · Koyuki · Shun Sugata

Synopsis Japanese teens investigate a series of suicides linked to an internet webcam that promises visitors the chance to interact with the dead.

Max

5.7

2K votes

5.7

2K votes

Seance (Ko-Rei) (TV)

2000 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Jun Fubuki · Tsuyoshi Kusanagi · Hikari Ishida

Synopsis A psychic housewife and her husband become burdened with a kidnapped girl who escaped her assailant. Junko will not let her husband call the hospital or the police for purely selfish reasons. The girl dies while still in their house...

5.4

308 votes

5.4

308 votes

Like a dragon

2007 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Kazuki Kitamura · Goro Kishitani · Sho Aikawa · Yosiyoshi Arakawa

Synopsis Based on the Sega PlayStation 2 computer game "Yakuza". It's 88°F, and rising, in summertime Tokyo, and the cops, led by sardonic vet Makoto Date (Yutaka Matsushige), are complaining about the air-conditioning as they stake out an ongoing bank robbery...

5.2

160 votes

5.2

160 votes

Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City

2010 · Movie · 106 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Sho Aikawa · Riisa Naka · Tsuyoshi Abe · Masahiro Inoue

Synopsis By 2025, fifteen years after the events of Zebraman, Tokyo has renamed itself Zebra City, and has instituted a "Zebra Time" starting at 5:00 AM/PM for 5 minutes in which the government allows the Zebra Police to attack any and...

5.1

144 votes

5.1

144 votes

Tokyo Zombie

2005 · Movie · 103 min. · Japan

Direction Sakichi Satô

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Sho Aikawa · Arata Furuta · Erika Okuda

Synopsis Two friends (Aikawa bald as a cue ball and Asano with a spectacular afro hairdo) who work at a fire extinguisher factory take on a horde of living dead from the Black Fuji, a colossal mountain of toxic waste products...

5.0

215 votes

5.0

215 votes