Cast: Youki Kudoh

Direction Jim Jarmusch

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Youki Kudoh · Nicoletta Braschi · Cinqué Lee

Synopsis Three different tales play out in a single 24-hour period, a loose trilogy spinning around a fleabag hotel manned by a sleepy Screamin' Jay Hawkins and his eager bellboy Cinqué Lee. A young Japanese couple arrives in Memphis to take...

Direction Rob Marshall

Cast Zhang Ziyi · Suzuka Ohgo · Gong Li · Samantha Futerman

Synopsis Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) follows the life of Chiyo, a young girl sold into servitude in 1920s Japan. Separated from her sister, she endures harsh training to become a geisha under the mentorship of the renowned Hatsumomo and later...

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Yuichi Mikami · Youki Kudoh · Tomokazu Miura · Saburo Date

Synopsis A class of Japanese teens experience their first feelings with the opposite sex while a typhoon storm is rising.

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Katsuya Kobayashi · Mitsuko Baisho · Yoshiki Arizono · Youki Kudoh

Synopsis The Kobayashi family finally get the chance to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment in favour of the suburban house of their dreams. But all is not well: the house is infested by termites and the family starts...

Direction Scott Hicks

Cast Ethan Hawke · James Cromwell · Richard Jenkins · Youki Kudoh

Synopsis This is the film based on the best-selling novel of the same name by David Guterson. Hawke plays a journalist whose World War II memories come flooding back as he covers a murder trial on a remote Pacific Northwest island....

Direction Kayo Hatta

Cast Youki Kudoh · Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa · Tamlyn Tomita · Akira Takayama

Synopsis After 16-year-old Riyo travels all the way from Japan to a Hawaiian sugarcane plantation for an arranged marriage, she is shocked to discover that Matsuji, her husband-to-be, is 43 years old. With not a penny to her name, Riyo has...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Billy Drago · Youki Kudoh · Toshie Negishi · Michié

Synopsis The story follows an American (Billy Drago) on a journey to a ghostly island bordello in Japan; he's searching for a girl he lost years before. The prostitute he meets has stories to tell--and they abound in incest, abortion, murder,...

Direction Jim Jarmusch

Cast Isaach de Bankole · Bill Murray · Tilda Swinton · John Hurt

Synopsis The Limits of Control is the story of a mysterious loner (played by Mr. De Bankolé), a stranger, whose activities remain meticulously outside the law. He is in the process of completing a job, yet he trusts no one, and...

Direction Hideo Nakata

Cast Ken'ichi Matsuyama · Shunji Fujimura · Mayuko Fukuda · Sei Hiraizumi

Synopsis A spin-out sequel to the popular Japanese thriller. This time it focuses on the character "L."

Direction Junji Sakamoto

Cast Shingo Katori · Takashi Sorimachi · Satomi Ishihara · Youki Kudoh

Direction Brett Ratner

Cast Chris Tucker · Jackie Chan · Max von Sydow · Yvan Attal

Synopsis Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan) and Detective Carter Carter (Chris Tucker) hop from Los Angeles to Paris in pursuit of a Chinese triad only to find a mixed reception, including a brutal warning from a French cop (Roman Polanski) and anti-American...

Direction Craig Lahiff

Cast Russell Crowe · Youki Kudoh · Kenji Isomura · Ray Barrett

Synopsis "Heaven's Burning" tells the story of a man and a woman who are inexplicably thrown together, amid violence and chaos. They quickly find themselves on the run from many adversaries, but find time to fall in love along the way.

Direction Shunya Ito

Cast Yôko Shimada · Yuya Uchida · Youki Kudoh · Hitomi Kuroki

Synopsis A serial killing occurs at a port town brothel.

Direction Claude Gagnon

Cast Youki Kudoh · Gabriel Arcand · Megumi Tomita · Atta Yuichi

Synopsis Pierre, a retired professor in his early sixties who ends up making a short, unsettling trip around Okinawa with Junko, a 40-year-old runaway wife. The confused intellectual would rather not get involved with this unlikely and unexpected lover but decides...

Direction Tomio Kuriyama

Cast Ichirô Zaitsu · Michiko Hayashi · Ryoichi Yamaguchi · Youki Kudoh

Direction Max Mannix

Cast Temuera Morrison · Lasarus Ratuere · Sumire Matsubara · Youki Kudoh

Synopsis The story of what is regarded as the greatest sporting upset in history, Japan, the team with the worst record in rugby world cup history, against South Africa, the two-time champions. The story tells how Eddie Jones masterfully plotted a...

Direction Haruhiko Arai

Cast Fumi Nikaidou · Hiroki Hasegawa · Renji Ishibashi · Youki Kudoh

Synopsis At the dusk of World War II Tokyo is a city of sordid atmosphere, tragic ambiance and daily misery. Satoko is nineteen. lives at home with her widowed mother and works at the local civil defense bureau. A more mature...

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Youki Kudoh · Hisashi Igawa · Kirin Kiki · Komaki Kurihara

Synopsis An auto repairman’s daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent. Finally the man opens up, and the girl is able to piece together her aunt’s tragic story.

Direction Tsukahara Ayuko · Ryosuke Fujiwara · Takayoshi Tanazawa

Cast Youki Kudoh · Yui Natsukawa · Ryûsei Yokohama · Haruna Kawaguchi

Synopsis Kurumi Mashiba works for home decor company. While she is busy with work, she forgets to renew the contract of her apartment. Because of this, she gets kicked out of her apartment and she doesn't have a place to stay.

Direction Michihito Fujii

Cast Mika Akizuki · Mitsuru Hirata · Youki Kudoh · Erina Mano

Synopsis Stories of seven youngsters happen in Maebashi and Tokyo. Some live in home city and some go to Tokyo for dreams. Their lives cross from each other, and they run to the future respectively and keep memories in hearts.