Cast: Kenji Sawada

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Ken Ogata · Kenji Sawada · Yasosuke Bando · Hiroshi Mikami

Synopsis Divided into four sections titled "Beauty," "Art," "Action" and "Harmony of Pen and Sword," Mishima is based -- in a fascinating creative choice -- not only on Mishima's life and scandalous death, but also on his work. Schrader uses three...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Kenji Sawada · Tomoko Mariya · Masumi Miyazaki · Tamasaburo Bando

Synopsis Semi-fictional account of poet and painter Takehisa Yumeji. It also forms the final part of Suzuki's Taishô Roman Trilogy, preceded by Zigeunerweisen (1980) and Kagero-za (1981), surrealistic psychological dramas and ghost stories linked by style, themes and the Taishô period...

Direction Kazuhiko Hasegawa

Cast Kenji Sawada · Bunta Sugawara · Kimiko Ikegami · Yûnosuke Itô

Synopsis A misfit high-school science teacher decides to build his own atomic bomb. He goes by the terrorist codename "Nine" - a symbolic reference to the eight nations who possess nuclear weapons (America, Soviet Union, England, France, China, India, Israel, South...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Kenji Sawada · Keiko Matsuzaka · Shinji Takeda · Yoshiyuki Morishita

Synopsis The Katakuri family has just opened their guesthouse in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest,...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Makiko Esumi · Sayoko Yamaguchi · Hanae Kan · Masatoshi Nagase

Synopsis Long, lean, raven-haired model turned actress Makiko Esumi is Miyuki Minazuki, an assassin in black kimono and high-heel boots better known as "Stray Cat". Rated number 3 in the Assassins Guild, she's given the chance to advance up the ladder...

Direction Shinya Tsukamoto

Cast Kenji Sawada · Masaki Kudou · Hideo Murota · Naoto Takenaka

Synopsis A school was built on one of the Gates of Hell, behind which hordes of demons await the moment they will be free to roam the Earth. Hiruko is a goblin sent to Earth on a reconnaissance mission. He beheads...

Direction Yuji Nakae

Cast Kenji Sawada · Takako Matsu

Synopsis Tsutomu lives alone in the mountains, writing essays, cooking Zen food with the vegetables he grows and the mushrooms he picks in the hills. His routine is happily disturbed when Machiko, his editor and love interest, occasionally visits. Tsutomu seems...

Direction Yoshinori Wada

Cast Ittoku Kishibe · Kenji Sawada · Eisei Amamoto · Shoichi Hirose

Synopsis An alien spaceship crashes on Earth due to the powerful musical energy emanating from Group Sounds band The Tigers. The Tigers have to protect an alien princess who escaped from the ship and became obsessed with their lead singer Julie....

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Sonny Chiba · Kenji Sawada · Akiko Kana · Ken Ogata

Synopsis The villain is called Amakusa SHIRO Tokaisada. He is actually based on a real christian samurai. The movie was one of the inspirations for the game called 'Samurai Shodown'

Direction Toshiya Fujita

Cast Kenji Sawada · Masatoshi Murakami · Shiori Sakura · Satomi Tezuka

Synopsis One stolen pistol brings together the lives of several people.

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Kenichi Hagiwara · Yûko Tanaka · Kenji Sawada · Akira Emoto

Synopsis It stars Kenichi Hagiwara as a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kenji Sawada · Masaki Suda · Mei Nagano · Nobuko Miyamoto

Synopsis In this tale of love and friendship spanning a lifetime, the "god of cinema" that Go has worshipped since he was young will transcend time, and work a miracle in the lives of one family.

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Yûko Tanaka · Kenji Sawada

Synopsis Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist Saburo, and attempts to play matchmaker between the two when they all...

Direction Jin Tatsumura

Cast Eikichi Yazawa · Johnny Okura · Yuya Uchida · Toshikatsu Utsumi

Synopsis Identity and integrity are discussed in connection with a tour of Japanese rock band 'Carol'.

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Kenji Sawada · Kanako Higuchi · Naoki Sugiura

Synopsis An emotionless hit man is sent on a mission to a remote town. There he stays with a caretaker / driver / servant / doctor who is given minimal instruction over the phone by "the organization." A prostitute joins them....

Direction Jun Ichikawa

Cast Chizuru Ikewaki · Kôsuke Nanno · Kenji Sawada · Yûko Tanaka

Synopsis Wakana is a daughter of a husband and wife comedy act, who have worked for 20 years without big success. Her parents quarrel constantly, and mother often threatens to leave. When one day her father disappears, Wakana sets out to...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Tatsuya Fujiwara · Satoshi Tsumabuki · Tomoko Tabata · Kazue Fukiishi

Synopsis Framed for a crime he did not commit, Eiji is subjected to the harsh realities of the Ishikawa Island workhouse. Sabu, Eiji's longtime friend, must discover who is responsible for his incarceration, before prison life consumes him completely.