Cast: Yôsuke Kubozuka

Direction Suzuki Masayuki

Cast Takashi Sorimachi · Nanako Matsushima · Yôsuke Kubozuka · Aimi Nakamura

Synopsis The drama series is based on the manga and anime of the same name, both created by Fujisawa Tohru. The story is a sequel of lesser known series Shounan Jun'ai-gumi (Shounan Love Gang) where Onizuka Eikichi's rogue high school days...

Direction Isao Yukisada

Cast Yôsuke Kubozuka · Kou Shibasaki · Shinobu Otake · Taro Yamamoto

Synopsis Sugihara is a second-generation Korean immigrant in Japan. He is torn between two cultures and does not feel at home in either. Sugihara’s life is marked by violence, and his brutal father taught him boxing at an early age. When...

Direction Joe Barton · Julian Farino · Ben Chessell

Cast Takehiro Hira · Kelly MacDonald · Justin Long · Yôsuke Kubozuka

Synopsis TV Series (2019). 8 Episodes. A detective from Tokyo scours London for his missing brother, who's been involved with the Yakuza and accused of murder. The police detective would risk his job, family and honour in search of his long...

Direction Sion Sono

Cast Shôta Sometani · Fumi Nikaidou · Tetsu Watanabe · Mitsuro Fukikoshi

Synopsis At fifteen, Sumida is left alone to manage the family’s languishing boat-rental business and fend off his drunk and penniless father’s bouts of violence. Sumida sees his simple dream for an ordinary future rapidly evaporating before his eyes. Sharing similarly...

Direction Daisuke Miura

Cast Seri Akaba · Hirofumi Arai · Tokio Emoto · Sôsuke Ikematsu

Synopsis From midnight to 5 AM, people gather at a high-end apartment in Roppongi to engage in promiscuous sexual activity. Story depicts the process of the men and women who meet for the first time there to have loveless sex.

Direction Haruki Kadokawa

Cast Honoka Matsumoto · Nao Honda · Mayumi Wakamura · Atsuko Asano

Synopsis When Mio was young, she lost her parents in a great flood and also became separated from her best friend Noe. Afterwards, Mio found her talent in cooking and eventually became a cook. Meanwhile, Noe has become an oiran (high-ranking...

Direction Martin Scorsese

Cast Andrew Garfield · Adam Driver · Liam Neeson · Ciarán Hinds

Synopsis Silence (2016) follows two 17th-century Jesuit priests, Rodrigues and Garrpe, who travel from Portugal to Japan in search of their missing mentor, Father Ferreira, rumored to have renounced his faith. As they navigate the harsh, hostile landscape, they face persecution...

Direction Mika Ninagawa

Cast Erika Sawajiri · Kaori Momoi · Anne Suzuki · Kiko Mizuhara

Direction Fumihiko Sori

Cast Yôsuke Kubozuka · Sam Lee · Arata Iura · Shido Nakamura

Synopsis The film traces the growth and friendship of 2 very different high school ping pong players. "Peco" Hoshino is a brash, arrogant player, determined to turn "pro". He taught his quiet, nerdy childhood friend, "Smile" Tsukimoto. "Smile" frustrates his coach...

Direction Fumihiko Sori

Cast Haruka Ayase · Shido Nakamura · Takao Osawa · Yôsuke Kubozuka

Synopsis Ayase plays a blind woman who roams about town with her shamisen (a three-stringed Japanese guitar), but she has exceptional sword skills with which she fights off yakuza and other villains.

Direction Sion Sono

Cast Ryôhei Suzuki · Young Dais · Nana Seino · Shunsuke Daitô

Synopsis Midnight Madness favourite Sion Sono (Why Don't You Play in Hell?, winner of the 2013 People's Choice Midnight Madness Award) ventures even further into uncharted cinematic territory with this yakuza-street gang-hip hop-musical epic.

Direction Tomijiro Mitsuishi

Cast Sayaka Yamaguchi · Yôsuke Kubozuka · Ken'ichi Endô · Makoto Togashi

Synopsis A young girl looking through her father's notes finds something written about the last experiment he worked on before he went insane. Everything in his notebook looks ordinary until near the last page, at which point his handwriting deteriorates and...

Direction Toshiaki Toyoda

Cast Kiyohiko Shibukawa · MahiToThePeople · Issei Ogata · Itsuki Nagasawa

Synopsis Seven years ago, a mysterious monster was found deep in a rural coal mine. Since then, rumors of a plague spread through the small town, and people experience an unexplainable mental illness.

Direction Yasuo Tsuruhashi

Cast Tôma Ikuta · Miki Nakatani · Yoko Maki · Mikako Tabe

Synopsis Adaptation of the famous Japanese novel "Genji Monogatari". In this case the alternate history novel conception of it at the hands of Murasaki Shikibu and loves of Genji, the "shining prince."

Direction Yukihiko Tsutsumi · Kaneko Fuminori

Cast Tomoya Nagase · Ai Katô · Yôsuke Kubozuka · Ryûta Satô

Synopsis TV series (2000). 11 episodes. Living in an area known for its juvenile crime, 21-year-old Makoto is a friend of King, the leader of a youth gang called the G-Boys, though he himself does not want to join as a...

Direction Naruhide Mizuta · Hideki Takeuchi

Cast Sei Andô · Seiji Fukushi · Hayato Ichihara · Kei Ishibashi

Synopsis A group of high school students and teachers are suddenly transported from the year 2002 to a post-apocalyptic 2020. As they struggle to survive, they question the meaning of fate.

Direction Junichi Mori

Cast Yôsuke Kubozuka · Koyuki · Takashi Naitô · Ken'ichirô Tanabe

Synopsis A young man named Teru, mentally altered by a childhood injury, runs a laundry and falls for Mizue, a lonely young woman with internal scars.

Direction Hiroshi Shinagawa

Cast Sho Aikawa · Daigo · Han'nya · Kunihiro Kawashima

Synopsis Hiroya Munakata (Sho Aikawa) is the leader of the yakuza group Munakata-gumi. After 10 years since the big fight, Hiroya Munakata's non blood-related younger brother Takashi (Shingo Tsurumi) is released from prison, but Takashi’s daughter, Hyuga (Maika Yamamoto) says she...

Direction Yukihiko Tsutsumi

Cast Airu Kubozuka · Yôsuke Kubozuka · Erika Oka · Yoshinari Takahashi

Synopsis After a 50,000-year-old human fossil is discovered deep in the Japanese mountains, a series of bizarre and strange murders spreads across the country. Mysteriously, a goldfish bowl and a crushed goldfish were found at each crime scene. Erika, an investigator...

Direction Shirô Maeda

Cast Arata Iura · Yôsuke Kubozuka · Mikako Ichikawa · Kana Kurashina