Cinematography: Nobuyasu Kita

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Nobuyasu Kita. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Thirteen Assassins (13 assassins)

2010 · Movie · 126 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Takayuki Yamada · Yusuke Iseya · Goro Inagaki

Plot A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.

6.8

9K votes

6.8

9K votes

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

2011 · Movie · 126 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Ebizo Ichikawa · Eita · Kôji Yakusho · Hikari Mitsushima

Plot Seeking a noble end, poverty-stricken samurai Hanshiro requests to commit ritual suicide at the House of Ii, run by headstrong Kageyu. Trying to dismiss Hanshiro's demand, Kageyu recounts the tragic...

6.8

3K votes

6.8

3K votes

Mio's Cookbook

2020 · Movie · 131 min. · Japan

Direction Haruki Kadokawa

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

Plot 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...

6.4

25 votes

6.4

25 votes

Crows Zero II

2009 · Movie · 133 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Shun Oguri · Takayuki Yamada · Nobuaki Kaneko · Kenta Kiritani

Plot Genji and his victorious G.P.S. alliance find themselves facing down a new challenge by the students of Hosen Academy, feared by everyone as 'The Army of Killers.' The two schools,...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

Lesson of the Evil

2012 · Movie · 129 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Hideaki Ito · Takayuki Yamada · Shôta Sometani · Ruth Sundell

Plot A popular high school teacher concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body.

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

First Love

2019 · Movie · 108 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Masataka Kubota · Shôta Sometani · Nao Omori · Jun Murakami

Plot Set over one night in Tokyo, the film will follow Leo, a young boxer down on his luck as he meets his ‘first love’ Monica, a call girl and an...

6.2

2K votes

6.2

2K votes

As the Gods Will

2014 · Movie · 117 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Sôta Fukushi · Hirona Yamazaki · Ryunosuke Kamiki · Jingi Irie

Plot A group of high school students are forced to play a game of death without knowing who, why or how.

6.0

1K votes

6.0

1K votes

The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji

2013 · Movie · 130 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Tôma Ikuta · Shin'ichi Tsutsumi · Riisa Naka · Takayuki Yamada

Plot Mogura no Uta revolves around Reiji Kikukawa, a police officer who goes undercover to infilitrate a gangster syndicate.

5.9

118 votes

5.9

118 votes

5.8

26 votes

Blade of the Immortal

2017 · Movie · 140 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Takuya Kimura · Hana Sugisaki · Sôta Fukushi · Erika Toda

Plot A young girl enlists an immortal warrior for help to avenge her parents' slaughter at the hand of a group of bandits.

5.8

2K votes

5.8

2K votes

The Legend of Love and Sincerity

2012 · Movie · 134 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Emi Takei · Tsuyoshi Ihara · Yo Hitoto

Plot It is a high school romance about two people from two different worlds. The boy Makoto is played by Satoshi Tsumabuki (VILLIAN, VILLON'S WIFE, PANDEMIC, SCHOOL DAYS WITH A PIG),...

5.7

119 votes

5.7

119 votes

Over Your Dead Body

2014 · Movie · 111 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Kou Shibasaki · Ebizo Ichikawa · Hitomi Katayama · Ikkô Furuya

Plot A theater company rehearses a mystery classic, with betrayal and vengeance at the heart of it. Life behind the scenes will be splattered with blood when the phantasmagorical abandons fiction...

5.7

289 votes

5.7

289 votes

Lumberjack the Monster

2023 · Movie · 119 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Kazuya Kamenashi · Nanao · Riho Yoshioka · Shôta Sometani

Plot Akira Ninomiya (Kamenashi) is a remorseless lawyer who doesn't hesitate to eliminate anyone standing in his way. One night he is brutally attacked by an assailant wearing a "monster mask."...

5.6

144 votes

5.6

144 votes

Shinjuku Incident

2009 · Movie · 119 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Derek Yee

Cast Jackie Chan · Naoto Takenaka · Daniel Wu · Xu Jinglei

Plot In the early 1990s, a tractor mechanic from a northen countryside in China nicknamed Steelhead (Jackie Chan), enters Japan illegally in search of his girlfriend Xiu Xiu (Xu Jinglei). Steelhead...

5.6

808 votes

5.6

808 votes

The Great Magician

2011 · Movie · 128 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Derek Yee

Cast Tony Leung Chiu-Wai · Lau Ching-Wan · Zhou Xun · Paul Chun

Plot The action takes place in the convulsed China of the early 20th century. The magician Zhang Xian returns to Peking; it won’t be long before his great abilities win him...

5.5

47 votes

5.5

47 votes

Ninja Kids!!!

2011 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Seishirô Katô · Takuya Mizoguchi · Takahiro Miura · Susumu Terajima

Plot About the adventures of Rantaro and other ninja apprentices at an elite ninjutsu academy.

5.4

86 votes

5.4

86 votes

Straw Shield

2013 · Movie · 125 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Takao Osawa · Nanako Matsushima · Tatsuya Fujiwara · Goro Kishitani

Plot "Kill Kunihide Kiyomaru, and I will pay you 1 billion Yen". This is the ad placed in all the main newspapers in Japan. In placing the ad, the powerful multi-billionnaire...

5.1

700 votes

5.1

700 votes

Copycat Killer

2002 · Movie · 123 min. · Japan

4.6

27 votes

4.6

27 votes

Like Asura

2003 · Movie · 135 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Shinobu Otake · Hitomi Kuroki · Eri Fukatsu · Kyôko Fukada

Plot Tells the story of what happens to four sisters when they discover a secret their father has been keeping. The film opens with third sister Takiko (Eri Fukatsu) revealing to...

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Not rated

A Hardest Night

2005 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan

Direction Masahiko Tsugawa

Cast Kiichi Nakai · Yoshino Kimura · Hôka Kinoshita · Akira Tanaka

Plot A dying old man named Shomantei has one last request. It is a different one. He would like to see the vagina of a young and pretty virgin. The family...

Not rated

Not rated