Cast: Riki Takeuchi

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Kiwako Harada · Riki Takeuchi · Noriko Watanabe · Tomokazu Miura

Synopsis After being threatened by his girlfriend’s brother, Ko (Riki Takeuchi) goes on a trip on his Kawasaki to contemplate his options. He meets Miiyo (Kiwako Harada) by chance, and the two stay in touch. He later receives an invitation to...

Direction Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Sinitta Boonyasak · Chermarn Boonyasak · Yutaka Matsushige

Synopsis A mysterious, obsessive-compulsive, suicidal Japanese man living in Bangkok, Thailand, is thrown together with a Thai woman through a tragic chain of events. The woman is everything he is not. He is a neat freak who keeps his dishes washed...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Shosuke Tanihara · Kenji Takano · Marie Jinno · Tamaki Kenmochi

Synopsis Hailed by TIME magazine as one of the ten best of 1997, FUDOH is a stylized Yakuza film about Riki Fudoh, a high school student whose Yakuza kingpin father murdered his other son, Riki's brother, in order to settle a...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Riki Takeuchi · Ryôsuke Miki · Ken'ichi Endô · Mika Katsumura

Synopsis After Kunisada (Riki Takeuchi)'s Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend (Kenichi Endo) go on a two-man mission to avenge his death, killing other Yakuza leaders leading to a final confrontation by the old...

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Shima Iwashita · Rino Katase · Masanori Sera · Murasaki Fujima

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...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Riki Takeuchi · Mickey Curtis · Ken'ichi Endô · Renji Ishibashi

Synopsis Seiji and Yoshifumi are the only members of the Muto branch of the Date Family. The two respect and love their leader, Mr. Muto, like a father and the three share a firm bond. But their fate is sealed when...

Direction Hitoshi Matsumoto

Cast Hitoshi Matsumoto · Riki Takeuchi · Ryunosuke Kamiki · Itsuji Itao

Synopsis “We have been very discreet about the movie’s contents, not because we were confident of our work but because we wanted the audience to discover the film in the best conditions”. That is how Matsumoto explains the extreme secrecy surrounding...

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...

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 Tsutomu Hanabusa

Cast Mirei Kiritani · Kento Yamazaki · Kentarô Sakaguchi · Ayano Fukuda

Synopsis Hatori Matsuzaki is a female high school student. She has a crush on her childhood friend Rita Terasaka and believes he will eventually choose her as her heroine, but Rita Terasaka begins dating Miho Adachi. Meanwhile, the most popular male...

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 Takashi Miike

Cast Sho Aikawa · Riki Takeuchi · Maria Chen · Chih-Chao Chang

Synopsis Set in a post apocalyptic Yokohama where the population is kept under rigid control by a half crazed mayor, Riki Takeuchi is a hard boiled cop and Show Aikawa a mellowed out drifter that hooks up with a gang of...

Direction Kenta Fukasaku

Cast Aya Matsuura · Rika Ishikawa · Shunsuke Kubozuka · Erika Miyoshi

Synopsis Recruited by a clandestine police organization, "K" must stop a plot by student radicals to create anarchy in Japan. Armed with a hi-tech steel yo-yo, and a new name (Asamiya Saki), she must infiltrate an elite high school to find...

Direction Kenta Fukasaku · Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Tatsuya Fujiwara · Ayana Sakai · Riki Takeuchi · Ai Maeda

Synopsis In Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003), three years after the original game, a new class of students is forced into another deadly competition. This time, the rules shift as they are tasked with assassinating the sole survivor of the previous...

Direction Masaki Nishiura

Cast Mao Inoue · Asahi Uchida · Shigeru Izumiya · Kazuko Kurosawa

Direction Shunsaku Kawake · Tôru Hayashi · Yûsuke Ishii

Cast Machiko Ono · Kippei Shiina · Shôhei Miura · Riisa Naka

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Morio Kazama · Tsurutaro Kataoka · Kumiko Akiyoshi · Yûko Natori

Synopsis Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada's ex-wife. Recovering from the shock, Harada indulges in melancholy, mainly on his failure as a husband and father, and goes to...

Direction Yoshiho Fukuoka

Cast Riki Takeuchi · Shosuke Tanihara · Rie Imamura · Rei Natsume

Synopsis The story of Fudoh II concerns a group of delinquent high school girls who decide they will take over organized crime in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district. Their method is simple: murdering as many mobsters as possible.

Direction Yuzo Asahara

Cast Toshiyuki Nishida · Rentarô Mikuni · Misae Nagai · Akira Yasuda