Cast: Ken'ichi Endô

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 Sho Aikawa · Aiko Satô · Ken'ichi Endô · Sei Hiraizumi

Synopsis Mr. Katayama returns home after a hard day's work, hoping to celebrate his birthday with his wife and small daughter. However, on his way home he runs into a bunch of teens who are beating up a homeless man and...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Masaya Sato · Shôko Aida · Naomi Akimoto · Narimi Arimori

Synopsis After his boss is murdered by a hired hit-man. Asuzam known as a fanatically loyal, headstrong and merciless Yakuza sets forth to exact his revenge on the people responsible for his boss's death. Expect a large body-count, lots of hand...

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 Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Arata Iura · Yusuke Iseya · Susumu Terajima · Seminosuke Murasugi

Synopsis Members of a cult, modeled on Aum Shinrikyo, sabotage a city's water supply, then commit mass suicide near the shores of a lake. Family members (the credited cast, minus Asano) of the perpetrators meet at the lake to observe the...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Hideki Sone · Sho Aikawa · Kimika Yoshino · Shôhei Hino

Synopsis Minami, a member of the Azamawari crew, highly respects his Aniki (brother) Ozaki who has saved his life in the past. However, lately Ozaki's eccentricities (like claiming that a Chihuahua hs sees is a 'Yakuza attack dog') have been making...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Hayato Ichihara · Mitsuki Tanimura · Jun Kunimura · Ken'ichi Endô

Synopsis A little bit comedy of errors, a little bit young romance, a little bit scifi, the film revolves around a young slacker who agrees to attend his identical twin’s college classes when his brother goes on a trip overseas and...

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 Takashi Miike

Cast Ken'ichi Endô · Fujiko · Jun Moto · Shoko Nakahara

Synopsis A father, who is a failed former television reporter tries to mount a documentary about violence and sex among youths. He proceeds to have sex with his daughter who is now a prostitute and films his son being humiliated and...

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 Takashi Miike

Cast Shun Oguri · Takayuki Yamada · Kyôsuke Yabe · Sosuke Takaoka

Synopsis The Suzuran Senior High School for Boys, nicknamed "The School of Crows", is the poorest achieving, most violent school in the country. The students are called "crows" and they band together in factions, battling each other for influence and power....

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 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 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 Takashi Miike

Cast Kôji Kikkawa · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Ken'ichi Endô · Hua Rong Weng

Synopsis Allegedly based on a number of true cases, The Guys From Paradise is a prison story set in the Phillipines against a background of corruption, drug trafficking and paedophilia. Central figure is Kohei Hayakawa (Koji Kikkawa), a promising young corporate...

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 Takashi Miike

Cast Ryuhei Matsuda · Masanobu Ando · Ryo Ishibashi · Renji Ishibashi

Synopsis Jun is a young introvert who has killed a customer at a bar. Shiro has known violence since his early childhood. Locked away in the same prison and in spite of their apparent differences, a very close relationship grows between...

Direction Shusuke Kaneko

Cast Aya Ueto · Yûma Ishigaki · Chiaki Kuriyama · Shun Oguri

Synopsis Young assassins Azumi and Nagara continue their mission to prevent a civil war. In their hunt for Masayuki Sanada, who is protected by both an army and a dangerous clan, they meet Ginkaku, a person who shows a remarking resemblance...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Kazuki Kitamura · Goro Kishitani · Sho Aikawa · Yosiyoshi Arakawa

Synopsis Based on the Sega PlayStation 2 computer game "Yakuza". It's 88°F, and rising, in summertime Tokyo, and the cops, led by sardonic vet Makoto Date (Yutaka Matsushige), are complaining about the air-conditioning as they stake out an ongoing bank robbery...

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...