Cast: Masatô Ibu

Direction Steven Spielberg

Cast Christian Bale · John Malkovich · Joe Pantoliano · Miranda Richardson

Synopsis Empire of the Sun (1987) follows young Jamie "Jim" Graham, a privileged British boy living in Shanghai, whose life is upended during the Japanese invasion of 1941. Separated from his parents, Jim is thrust into the chaos of war and...

Direction Izuru Narushima

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Hiroshi Abe · Hiroshi Tamaki · Teruyuki Kagawa

Synopsis The film looks at the role of Isoroku Yamamoto, the head of the Japanese Navy responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbour. It focuses on the last four years of this historical figure and away from the military epic, presents...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Ken'ichi Endô · Masatô Ibu · Renji Ishibashi · Hiroshi Mikami

Synopsis When a convenience store robbery goes wrong and the thieves hole up in a Tokyo hospital, holding more than thirty people hospital, famed negotiator Shuhei Ishida is called in to handle the case. But there is a complication: Ishida’s cancer...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Naoto Takenaka · Masaya Kato · Mickey Curtis · Takashi Miike

Synopsis A tale of greed, honour and revenge amongst the yakuza, Agitator concerns an executive from the Tenseikai Syndicate attempting to gain power by arranging for two smaller rival gangs - the Shirane and Yokomizo - to unite under his name....

Direction Shigemichi Sugita

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Koichi Sato · Masatô Ibu · Yoshi Oida

Synopsis An army of loyal samurai plot to revenge their unjustly executed lord.

Direction Haruki Kadokawa

Cast Takaaki Enoki · Masahiko Tsugawa · Atsuko Asano · Naomi Zaizen

Direction Kwak Jae-young

Cast Haruka Ayase · Keisuke Koide · Risa Ai · Yoshikazu Ebisu

Synopsis Jiro (Keisuke Koide) has no one to celebrate his birthday with. He is a lonely guy living a lonely life. On his twentieth birthday, he goes to a department store to buy himself a present. There he runs into a...

Direction Shunji Iwai

Cast Takako Matsu · Seiichi Tanabe · Kaori Fujii · Rumi

Synopsis Uzuki Nireno has left Hokkaido, her small rural home in the very north of Japan, to pursue her studies at a University in Western Tokyo. Even though her transition to city life is hard, she begins to get use to...

Direction Kazuaki Kiriya

Cast Yôsuke Eguchi · Takao Osawa · Ryoko Hirosue · Jun Kaname

Synopsis 16th century Japan. Legendary ninja warrior and Robin Hood-like bandit, Ishikawa Goemon (Eguchi) steals from the rich to feed the poor. In a fractured kingdom, he's faced with even greater sacrifices to bring peace and avenge his betrayed master.

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Noriko Hayami · Minori Terada · Kiriko Shimizu · Nobutaka Masutomi

Synopsis After witnessing the rape of his wife, a man's mind snaps and he attacks a prostitute. Two years later, the man and the prostitute meet by chance.

Direction Miwa Nishikawa

Cast Jô Odagiri · Teruyuki Kagawa · Masatô Ibu · Keizo Kanie

Synopsis Takeru is a successful photographer living the good life in Tokyo. He reluctantly sets off to visit his hometown on the first anniversary of his mother’s death. Stopping in to see his older brother, Minoru who has taken over the...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Ryuhei Matsuda · Tadanobu Asano · Takeshi Kitano · Yoichi Sai

Synopsis Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named...

Direction Ryûhei Kitamura

Cast Aya Ueto · Shun Oguri · Hiroki Narimiya · Kenji Kohashi

Synopsis Azumi begins the film as the only girl among 10 warriors who have been trained from childhood by Jiji, a gray-bearded samurai. One day, Jiji tells them they must pass a final test before they embark on the mission they...

Direction Kichitaro Negishi

Cast Takako Matsu · Tadanobu Asano · Shigeru Muroi · Masatô Ibu

Synopsis This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the story centers less on the womanizing, heavy-drinking, suicidal hero than on...

Direction Satoshi Miki

Cast Juri Ueno · Yû Aoi · Ryô Iwamatsu · Jun Kaname

Synopsis Suzume Katagura is an ordinary housewife. Her husband has been sent overseas on business, and although he phones her regularly, he is more concerned with the health and welfare of his pet turtle. The days pass by monotonously… It is...

Direction Peter Webber

Cast Matthew Fox · Tommy Lee Jones · Kaori Momoi · Eriko Hatsune

Synopsis In the aftermath of Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s surrender to the U.S., Gen. Douglas MacArthur (Academy Award® winner Tommy Lee Jones) and his adjutant Gen. Bonner Fellers (Matthew Fox) are faced with a decision of historic importance, in this epically scaled...

Direction Taku Shinjo

Cast Toru Emori · Katsutaka Furuhata · Ichiro Hashimoto · Masatô Ibu

Direction Keishi Ohtomo

Cast Masatô Ibu · Mikako Ichikawa · Tomomi Maruyama · Shûhei Nomura

Synopsis A serial killer wearing a frog mask is terrorizing the city of Tokyo with his crimes, both cruel and elaborate at the same time. Inspector Sawamura, who is in charge of the case, will try to decipher what motivates this...

Direction Taikan Suga

Cast Robert Baldwin · Masatô Ibu · Shihori Kanjiya · Takuji Kawakubo

Synopsis Shuji and Chise are two high school students that barely started a relationship with each other. Then, with no warning, a squadron of bombers from an unknown country destroy the city of Sapporo. All hope is lost when suddenly, the...

Direction Ryûhei Kitamura

Cast Masahiro Matsuoka · Rei Kikukawa · Kazuki Kitamura · Don Frye

Synopsis Evil Space Aliens called the Xilians unleashes all the Earth's monsters to lay waste to most of the world's major cities, including Tokyo, New York, Sydney, Shanghai and Paris. It is up to Godzilla and the Earth Defense Force to...