Direction: Shinji Aoyama

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 Shinji Aoyama

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Aoi Miyazaki · Mariko Okada · Masaya Nakahara

Synopsis AD 2015. The world's major cities are decimated by a terrible plague, a highly contagious virus that fills those it infects with unbearable dread, then with overwhelming despair. This fatal disease, without a cure, is called the Lemming Syndrome. In...

Direction Shinji Aoyama

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Eri Ishida · Aoi Miyazaki · Jô Odagiri

Synopsis Kenji, abandoned by his mother, scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs including driving bar hostesses and their customers home. Besides this he takes care of the sister of an old friend in jail and a young illegal immigrant....

Direction Shinji Aoyama

Cast Yûko Tanaka · Masaki Suda · Ken Mitsuishi · Misaki Kinoshita

Direction Shinji Aoyama

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Ken Mitsuishi · Yoichiro Saito · Hiroko Isayama

Direction Shinji Aoyama

Cast Mika Aoba · Ken Mitsuishi · Yoichiro Saito · Kôjiro Shimizu

Synopsis A detective and his partner track down a call girl with information about a drug cartel. After taking her into custody, they are attacked by cartel members. The detective and the woman manage to escape, but they are soon hounded...

Direction Bahman Ghobadi · Shinji Aoyama

Cast Yûko Nakamura · Taka Okubo · Shûichi Itô

Direction Shinji Aoyama

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Hiroko Yakushimaru · Akira Emoto · Etsushi Toyokawa

Direction Shinji Aoyama

Cast Jun Shison · Miori Takimoto · Jun Kunimura · Yûko Nakamura

Synopsis One day, Ezawa Jun, who has trouble with work and in love, gets a ryukin from a goldfish scooping game at a festival. However, she is actually a beautiful girl and she suddenly turns into a human form and appears...

Direction Shinji Aoyama

Cast Ryo Ishibashi · Yôzaburô Itô · Eiko Nagashima · Taro Suwa

Synopsis An Obsession is Aoyama’s remake for the 1990s of Akira Kurosawa’s Stray Dog (“Nora inu,” 1949). The basic plot situation is the same: a cop, after losing his gun to a killer, sets out on a search for the criminal...

Direction Shinji Aoyama

Cast Hiroshi Mikami · Maho Toyota

Direction Shinji Aoyama

Cast Yoshihide Otomo · Yukinori Kameda · Toshinori Kondo · Atsushi Sasaki

Synopsis “AA” is a documentary about Akira Aida (mostly known as Aquirax Aida), a japanese music critic who introduced free jazz, improvisation, and progressive rock to Japan. It’s based on interviews with 12 critics and musicians who had connections with him....

Direction Shinji Aoyama

Cast Kyoka Suzuki · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Masanobu Ando · Ayumi Ito

Synopsis A woman caring for an old blind / mute man away in the countryside has her own grasp on reality slowly slip away.

Direction Shinji Aoyama · Hajime Hashimoto · Yukiko Mishima · Masahiko Nagasawa

Cast Eiichirô Funakoshi · Hyunri · Yoshihiro Kai · Reiko Kataoka

Direction Shinji Aoyama

Cast Yoichiro Saito · Yûko Nakamura · Taka Okubo · Shûichi Itô

Synopsis The main character Akihiko lives in an old apartment. He plays the guitar and sings his own pieces on the street, but this cannot be called his dream. He has a girlfriend. The owner of the apartment next-door constantly repeats...

Direction Shinji Aoyama

Cast Mickey Curtis · Jun Kunimura · Eiko Nagashima · Yuna Natsuo

Synopsis An ex-boxer working for a game parlor owner gets caught up in a complex blackmail operation he doesn't understand. Before long he's caught between two yakuza bosses and a mysterious thief who motivation is unknown. Add in the boss' daughter...

Direction Shinji Aoyama

Cast Reiko Ikegami · Ayane Miura · Miyuki Yamamoto · Chihiro Yoshioka

Direction Shinji Aoyama

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Kyoka Suzuki · Nene Ohtsuka · Yoshio Harada

Synopsis Shinji Aoyama's Mike Yokohama - A Forest With No Name is a loose adaptation of the work of Mickey Spillane. Private detective Mike Yokohama (Masatoshi Nagase) is hired by a rich businessman to find his daughter who has joined a...

Direction Shinji Aoyama

Cast Takao Osawa · Dankan · Reiko Kataoka · Chikako Aoyama

Direction Shinji Aoyama · Aki Kaurismäki · Michael Glawogger · Sogo Ishii