Cast: Yosiyoshi Arakawa

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


Memories of Matsuko

2006 · Movie · 130 min. · Japan

Direction Tetsuya Nakashima

Cast Miki Nakatani · Eita · Yusuke Iseya · Teruyuki Kagawa

Synopsis It is the present day and Matsuko's nephew, Sho, is cleaning out his dead aunt's filthy apartment. Through a series of encounters, he gradually learns of his aunt's checkered life. Matsuko, in fact, seems at time to be speaking to...

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K votes

Liar Game: The Final Stage

2010 · Movie · 133 min. · Japan

Direction Hiroaki Matsuyama

Cast Erika Toda · Shôta Matsuda · Megumi Seki · Yosiyoshi Arakawa

Synopsis Even though being able to withdraw from the Liar Game Tournament, Kanzaki Nao (Toda Erika) decides to join Akiyama Shinichi (Matsuda Shota) and nine other players for the final stage, ”The Garden of Eden game”, which offers a 5 billion...

7.1

25 votes

7.1

25 votes

Fine, Totally Fine

2008 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan

Direction Yosuke Fujita

Cast Yosiyoshi Arakawa · Yoshino Kimura · Yoshinori Okada

Synopsis A comedy about two listless brothers who fall for the same girl.

7.1

27 votes

7.1

27 votes

Survive Style 5+

2004 · Movie · 121 min. · Japan

Direction Gen Sekiguchi

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Vinnie Jones · Sonny Chiba · Ittoku Kishibe

Synopsis A man continually trying and failing to get his wife to stay dead; a self-absorbed ad agency creative director who comes up with one unworkably inane idea after another; a Brittish hitman who only wants to know everyone's function in...

6.8

740 votes

6.8

740 votes

Tokyo!

2008 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan

Direction Bong Joon-ho · Leos Carax · Michel Gondry

Cast Yû Aoi · Yosiyoshi Arakawa · Jean-François Balmer · Julie Dreyfus

Synopsis Tokyo is a city of transitions in three short films. A young woman who finds her life useless experiences a metamorphosis. A disheveled Caucasian emerges from a manhole to face arrest, trial, and execution; he calls himself "Merde" and speaks...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

6.4

63 votes

Prophecy

2015 · Movie · 119 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshihiro Nakamura

Cast Tôma Ikuta · Erika Toda · Ryôhei Suzuki · Yosiyoshi Arakawa

Synopsis A man named Gates heads a mysterious group called "Shinbunshi" who don newspaper masks and post internet videos informing the public of their crimes of justice against people they deem guilty of things not punishable by law. Meanwhile, Erika Yoshino,...

6.3

31 votes

6.3

31 votes

Kamikaze Girls

2004 · Movie · 102 min. · Japan

Direction Tetsuya Nakashima

Cast Kyôko Fukada · Anna Tsuchiya · Hiroyuki Miyasako · Sadao Abe

Synopsis Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo period in 18th Century France. A complete fish out of water in her rural and sleepy...

6.2

938 votes

6.2

938 votes

Cloud

2024 · Movie · 124 min. · Japan

Direction Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cast Masaki Suda · Kotone Furukawa · Daiken Okudaira · Amane Okayama

Synopsis Yoshii, a young man who resells goods online, finds himself at the center of a series of mysterious events that put his life at risk.

5.5

220 votes

5.5

220 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

Ju-On: Origins (TV Miniseries)

2020 · Series · 28 min. · Japan

Direction Shô Miyake

Cast Yuina Kuroshima · Yosiyoshi Arakawa · Ririka

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2020). 6 Episodes. The J-Horror classic franchise Ju-On was actually based on real events that occurred over four decades – and the truth is even more terrifying. Can the people haunted by this house escape from its curse?...

5.1

556 votes

5.1

556 votes

Fruits Takuhaibin (TV Miniseries)

2019 · Series · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Yu Koreyasu · Shûichi Okita · Kazuya Shiraishi

Cast Riisa Naka · Gaku Hamada · Tetsushi Tanaka · Yosiyoshi Arakawa

Synopsis He moved to Tokyo to work for a company and lived in that firm's housing. However, the job, housing and the dream are over when disaster strikes and the company goes out of business. Now back in his hometown he...

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Direction Kana Matsumoto

Cast Yutaka Matsushige · Gaku Hamada · Hikari Ishida · Koyuki

Synopsis A cat who dreams of reuniting with its owner and works as a housekeeper to save money.

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Hard-Core

2018 · Movie · 124 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuhiro Yamashita

Cast Takayuki Yamada · Takeru Satō · Yosiyoshi Arakawa · Takako Matsu

Synopsis Hardcore is about the life story of a treasure hunter who lives in the countryside of Gunma in Japan. He is pure and kind, but has no communication skills and has a mind of his own. His sole friend is...

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Amachan (TV Series)

2013 · Series · 15 min. · Japan

Direction Tsuyoshi Inoue · Teruyuki Yoshida · Tojo Kajihara

Cast Sôta Fukushi · Hiroko Yakushimaru · Kasumi Yamaya · Mio Yûki

Synopsis TV Series (2013). A young girl from Tokyo moves to the Tohoku region to become a female diver.

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The 47 Ronin in Debt

2019 · Movie · 125 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshihiro Nakamura

Cast Yosiyoshi Arakawa · Yûdai Chiba · Gaku Hamada · Keisuke Horibe

Synopsis Following a nefarious plot by Kira, Asano is ordered to take the blade and commit suicide. He has loyal foot soldiers however. Kuranosuke is one. He vows vengeance and is ready to wield his sword. To enact his revenge he...

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Direction Kaneko Fuminori · Yamamuro Daisuke · Juntarô Furubayashi · Atsushi Watanabe

Cast Mao Inoue · Takeru Satō · Kenichi Matsuyama · Shim Eun-kyung

Synopsis Soma Yui and Torino Naoki were childhood friends, but they met again as adults. Just as he decides to propose to Yui, Naoki suddenly disappears from Yui's sight after being embroiled in a mysterious incident. Naoki continues to wander in...

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Quirky Guys and Gals

2011 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan

Direction Yosuke Fujita · Masaya Kakei · Tomoko Matsunashi · Mipo Oh

Cast Nanami Sakuraba · Aoi Nakamura · Kyôko Koizumi · Tomochika

Synopsis The movie consists of 4 stories each telling how people survive on life-death choice.

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Direction Shintarô Sugawara · Kenji Ikeda · Hiroto Akashi

Cast Kazunari Ninomiya · Sôta Fukushi · Kento Yamazaki · Yûto Nakajima

Synopsis Backdrop of drama series is at a fictions school which sends many students to Tokyo University every year. Aoshi (Kazunari Ninomiya) is a new teacher. He becomes the baseball coach for the school. The baseball team has only 5 players...

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