Kenzō Kawarasaki

Family Court Investigator Akira Yamanobou 2 (2017)

Our Highland Hotel (2013)

Ayumi Aizawa is a lonely young man without a family. He works at Forest Hyde Press Hotel as a cleaner. His deceased grandfather Kenzaburo worked at the same hotel. When his grandfather worked at the Forest Hyde Press Hotel, the hotel was well known for its ...

The Land of Hope (2012)

An old couple, their only son, the son's wife, a young man and his lover live peacefully in a village. Then, a terrifying earthquake strikes that causes a nearby nuclear station to explode. The residents must evacuate, but the family lives on a farm, with ...

Hebi no Hito (2010)

Kusa no ran (2004)

This is a true story about the "Chichibu Incident," which is said to be the only revolution in Japan. ...

The King of Minami: The Masked Woman (2004)

#49 in the series, following "Fraud Methods" ...

Blue (2003)

An introverted schoolgirl falls in love and starts a relationship with one of her classmates. Set in a small seaside town in Japan, the love of her life eventually leaves her for her boyfriend in Tokyo. ...

Sensen fukoku (2002)

War between North Korea and Japan ...

Kakashi (2001)

The search for her vanished brother Tsuyoshi leads Kaoru to the lonesome village Kozukata in the Japanese back-land. The locals react repelling to her, which the exception of the Chinese girl Sally. As her car breaks down Kaoru is trapped in the village; w ...

Riot in Gujo (2000)

Naoto Ogata plays Sadajiro, a young farmer fighting out the battle of the riot through to the end. Sadajiro's wife is played by Hiromi Iwasaki, his father is played by Go Kato and Ryuzo Hayashi plays a leader of the Riot. The Riot in Gujo is called one of ...

Whiteout (2000)

A group of terrorists has taken hold of the largest dam in Japan. They also capture the workers as hostages, and demanded $5 billion yen from the government with a 24 hour deadline in exchange for the lives of the hostages. To make things more complicated, ...

Debt King Part VI: Legendary Speculator in Naniwa (1999)

Naito is serving time for his aggressive fundraising in the securities world, but returns to Osaka after completing his sentence. Although he wants to get clean, Oyodo Shinkin Bank has tasked Naito to raise funds. ...

Nemuri Kyōshirō 4: The Woman Who Loved Kyoshiro (1998)

Tamura Masakazu returns as Nemuri Kyoshiro for the fourth and final time. Gensai, an eccentric Ukiyoe artist, urgently requests Kyoshiro to kill his wife. He believes that the moment she is killed will represent the ultimate state of beauty, and wishes t ...

Parasite Eve (1997)

A scientist realizes his dead wife is an organization of mitochondria bent on making a new species that will wipe out humanity. ...

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Gamble (1996)

Having lost everything to horse racing, Yûji accidentally gets 10 million yen. But this sum belongs to a Yakuza. ...

Last Friends (1995)

Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Though they believe their service will help to benefit their loved ones back home, they are unprepared for the hardships of war. Through their shared trials an ...

Lifetime Insecurity (1994)

In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launches a plan to cut back on his labor force. Fifty employees are segregated into a special assignment division and given an ultimatum: meet a sales goal of 1.5 billion yen ...

Kome hyappyo (1993)

Abarenbo Shogun: The Bride of Edo Castle (1991)

The Shogun gets engaged to a princess who rebels against the prospect, because she wasn't consulted. ...

Saito Dosan: Rage of Power (1991)

During the age of warring clans (Sengoku Jidai), many samurai lords sought to unite the country under their banners by becoming the supreme leader. One of the first to vie for power in this way was Saito Dosan, the 'Viper'. His son-in-law, Oda Nobunaga, di ...

Like Madonna (1990)

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Bullying is Costly (1986)

An office worker who releases his frustrations by maliciously bullying his good-natured boss has a bizarre experience in a mountain hut. ...

The Second Love (1983)

Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband's emotional conflicts with the wisdom of an adult. Kazumi's younger and more inexperienced husband Hideo is continually suspicious of her fidelity. ...

G.I. Samurai (1979)

A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun. ...

Empire of Passion (1978)

In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him. ...

The Four Roughnecks (1974)

Gimme gimme gimme! Yusaku Matsuda and his gang are on the hunt for women, money and more money! Takeo Natsuki (Yusaku Matsuda) was just released from prison. He was the leader of three rascals; all they did was cause trouble. When they meet a girl whose f ...

Bitterness of Youth (1974)

A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry. ...

The Key (1974)

A college professor wants to bring the joys of sex to his frigid wife. He convinces his son in law to sleep with her because the idea arouses him, while also making him insanely jealous. The professor keeps a journal of his fantasies in a locked cupboard a ...

Himiko (1974)

The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history. ...

The Ceremony (1971)

Oshima's magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades. ...

Tora-san, His Tender Love (1970)

Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches. ...

Women Can't Be Beaten (1969)

An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish older brother. ...

Aido: Slave of Love (1969)

After wandering into a cemetery, a young man named Shusei is led by the mysterious Madame Enjoji to a secluded mansion. There, he is introduced to Aido, an ethereal woman who seems to be the living embodiment of his most surreal erotic fantasies. Caught be ...

The Shiinomi School (1955)

A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Through trial and error, they struggle to open a school for disabled children at their own expense. Based on a true story, it features natural child performances under Hiroshi Shim ...

Cape Ashizuri (1954)

Among Yoshimura's complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows the life of a young left-wing student activist disenchanted by the increasingly hawkish state of Japanese society. ...