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
The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio
2016 · Movie · 128 min. · Japan
Direction Takashi Miike
Cast Tôma Ikuta · Shin'ichi Tsutsumi · Eita · Tsubasa Honda
5.8
26 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
Direction Yoshimitsu Morita
Cast Masahiro Nakai · Kanji Tsuda · Takashi Fujii · Tsutomu Yamazaki
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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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...
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