Cast: Ken Mitsuishi

Direction Joji Matsuoka · Kazuyoshi Kumakiri · Fumio Nomoto · Nobuhiro Yamashita

Cast Kaoru Kobayashi · Yutaka Matsushige · Ken Mitsuishi · Toshiki Ayata

Synopsis 2009-2014. Shinya Shokudô is a tv series from Japan since 2009. It tells many stories about ordinary people eat in shinya shokudo, which means a restaurant at midnight. This small restaurant opens from 12 in the evening to 7 in...

Direction Shinji Aoyama

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Aoi Miyazaki · Masaru Miyazaki · Yoichiro Saito

Synopsis Sawai (Yakusho Koji) is a driver who survives a cold-blooded busjack along with a young man, Naoki (Miyazaki Masaru), and his sister (Miyazaki Aoi). After the incident, the three are constantly bothered by the media, and Sawai decides to leave...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Misa Shimizu · Mitsuko Baisho · Akira Emoto

Synopsis The film opens with Takuro Yamashita (Koji Yakusho), a seemingly normal salaryman, learning that his wife might be having an affair. When he catches the couple in flaganto delicto, he freaks out and brutally stabs them both to death. Eight...

Direction Naoko Ogigami

Cast Satomi Kobayashi · Mikako Ichikawa · Ryo Kase · Ken Mitsuishi

Synopsis Taeko an stressed out career woman leaves her stressed out life in the city for an island vacation. The vacation does not become what expected, as everyone on the island are rather strange.

Direction Peter Greenaway

Cast Vivian Wu · Ken Ogata · Ewan McGregor · Yoshi Oida

Synopsis As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book", the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on bodies,...

Direction Yujiro Harumoto

Cast Kumi Takiuchi · Ken Mitsuishi · Masahiro Umeda · Yumi Kawai

Synopsis Documentary director Yuko portrays a school violence incident from three years ago that resulted in suicides, while she was teaching classes at her father's cram school.

Direction Naomi Kawase

Cast Yûko Nakamura · Toshiya Nagasawa · Miyako Yamaguchi · Toshiyuki Kitami

Direction Yukiko Mishima

Cast Tomoyo Harada · Yo Oizumi · Yûta Hiraoka · Kanna Mori

Synopsis Rie and Sang founded a bakery-cum-restaurant named Mani on the shores of Lake Toya, Hokkaido. Sang is the baker who bakes the bakery's bread, while Rie is the chef who prepares the food in the restaurant. Graced with beautiful scenery...

Direction Joji Matsuoka

Cast Kaoru Kobayashi · Mansaku Fuwa · Tamae Andô · Toshiki Ayata

Synopsis A small diner in a busy shopping district is open from midnight until 7am and is run by a renowned chef known as 'the Master.' One evening, a burial urn left behind by a customer becomes a source of interest...

Direction Joji Matsuoka

Cast Kaoru Kobayashi · Aoba Kawai · Koichi Sato · Sôsuke Ikematsu

Synopsis When people finish their day and hurry home, his day starts. He's diner is open from midnight to seven in the morning.

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 Shô Miyake

Cast Hokuto Matsumura · Mone Kamishiraishi · Ken Mitsuishi · Ryo

Synopsis Misa Fujisawa experiences premenstrual syndrome once a month. During those times, she tries to deal with her uncontrolled irritation at understanding her colleagues at work. One day her anger explodes at Takatoshi Yamazoe, who has recently begun working at the...

Direction Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Kang Hye-jung · Eric Tsang · Maria Cordero

Direction Shunji Iwai

Cast Yuta Yamazaki · Megumi Okina · Takayuki Sorita · Randy Havens

Direction Naoko Ogigami

Cast Mikako Ichikawa · Reiko Kusamura · Ken Mitsuishi · Maho Yamada

Synopsis Sayoko rents out cats. Every day she walks along the banks of the river towing her animals in a little handcart, with a parasol to shade her against the heat and a megaphone over her mouth: ‘Cats for rent! Are...

Direction Sion Sono

Cast Kazue Fukiishi · Tsugumi · Ken Mitsuishi · Yuriko Yoshitaka

Synopsis A sequel to 2002's cult-status film "Suicide Club", director Sion Sono's "Noriko's Dinner Table" tells the compelling and profound tale of the collapse and reconstruction of the family unit. The story follows Noriko, a seemingly unhappy teenager who lives with...

Direction Masaya Kakei

Cast Takeshi Kaneshiro · Manami Konishi · Sumiko Fuji · Takuya Ishida

Synopsis Adapted from the bestselling novel by Kotaro Isaka “The Accuracy of Death”. Chiba (Takeshi Kaneshiro) appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days, and then decide either to...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Ryo Ishibashi · Eihi Shiina · Tetsu Sawaki · Jun Kunimura

Synopsis In Audition (1999), a widowed middle-aged man, Aoyama, seeks companionship and decides to hold a fake audition to find a new wife. He becomes captivated by Asami, a mysterious and seemingly perfect woman. As their relationship deepens, Aoyama discovers unsettling...

Direction Hideo Nakata · Masaki Nishiura

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Yutaka Takenouchi · Fumiyo Kohinata · Kaoru Kobayashi

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2023). 8 Episodes. Blamed by some, hailed as heroes by others, those involved with Fukushima Daiichi face a deadly, invisible threat — an unprecedented nuclear disaster.

Direction Yukihiko Tsutsumi

Cast Naoto Takenaka · Teruyuki Kagawa · Renji Ishibashi · Gregory Pekar