Kosuke Toyohara

The Young Strangers (2024)

Ayato Kazama is repaying his deceased father's debts and caring for his mother, who suffers from a serious illness, while working at a construction site during the day and at the karaoke bar his parents opened at night. His brother, Sohei, lives with him a ...

Sakura (2024)

Izumi Morikuchi, a county police officer, investigates a murder linked to a college student's tragic death and police misconduct. Driven by guilt and determination, Izumi uncovers dark truths and fights for justice. ...

Wakamusha (2024)

Three young men live and work in a nearly-deserted Japanese city. The three wander the streets, ruminating on the pointlessness of life in the modern age, never quite living up to the deeds of a fallen friend, until one of them goes too far and permanentl ...

Kyrie (2023)

Luca lost her family in the Great East Japan Earthquake causing her not to be able to speak. However, her singing voice shakes the hearts of those who listen to her. It is a hymn of compassion played by Luca and the people. ...

September 1923 (2023)

Based on the murder of nine street peddlers in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake. ...

The Fish Tale (2022)

A young child is obsessed with learning about and drawing fish. The child seems a little odd, but if you are understanding and supportive you will be cheering in the end. ...

Tonbi (2022)

Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (later played by Takumi Kitamura). Yasuo's life seemed great at the time, but his life totally changed after his wife died in accident. Since that time, Yasuo, w ...

A Family (2021)

Taken in by the yakuza at a young age, Kenji swears allegiance to his old-school boss, pledging to adhere to the family code amid ever-changing times. ...

Deliver Us from Evil (2020)

A retired contract killer goes on a bloody rampage when a young girl finds herself at the mercy of gangland human traffickers and only one man can come to her rescue, with an arsenal of weapons and years of experience in the art of killing. ...

Aging Police / Resurrection Special (2019)

HiGH&LOW The Movie 2: End of Sky (2017)

Members of SWORD win against Wangan Rengogun, which is led by Kohaku. The city becomes peaceful again. Nevertheless, the most brutal gangs, Doubt and Prison Gang, appear. They try to dominate the area controlled by SWORD. ...

Tatara Samurai (2017)

In 16th century Japan, a young man has to choose between becoming a master steel maker like his father and grandfather before him, or becoming a samurai so that he can help protect his village from attacks by the various clans which want the high-quality s ...

Shinjuku Swan II (2017)

Tatsuhiko relocates from Shinjuku to Yokohama, where he comes into conflict with Masaki Taki, CEO of the local scout company. ...

Begging for Love (2017)

High & Low The Movie (2016)

Chiku is a devastated and dangerous town with 5 gangs fighting fiercely. Mugen and the Amamiya Brothers clashed, leading to Mugen disbanding. ...

Doraemon's Mother: The Story of Nobuyo Oyama (2015)

Strayer's Chronicle (2015)

In the early 1990s, experiments were carried out secretly in Japan. Two different methods were used in the experiments. One method involved forcing stress upon expecting parents and when the baby was born, provoke the baby into mutations and develop their ...

Shinjuku Swan (2015)

Shiratori Tatsuhiko works as a scout for talent agency Burst in Kabukichō, Shinjuku's red light district, recruiting young girls for the adult entertainment industry. In a business where money means everything, Tatsuhiko finds himself in a constant strugg ...

A Sower of Seeds 2 (2015)

Parasyte: Part 1 (2014)

Humanity is suffering from a series of mysterious murders across the globe, known as the 'Mincemeat murders'. High school student Izumi Shinichi has a parasite living off him, having replaced his right hand, and he might be the discoverer of truth. ...

FLYING BODIES a Hiroyuki Nakano Nonfiction Film (2013)

Bilocation (2013)

Shinobu Takamura is an aspiring painter. One day, she is accused of using counterfeit money. Shinobu is confused by the allegation, because she never did such a thing and was at home when the crime occurred. Police Officer Kanou then appears and takes her ...

CM Time (2012)

An advertising agency receives a request from one of their clients, a beverage company. The advertising agency proposes a CM involving the queen of enka who has a difficult personality, an actor on the downside of his career and a hip hop star. who suffer ...

Zatoichi: The Last (2010)

A blind master swordsman attempts to lead a quiet life with his wife but he is provoked back into battle. ...

Listen to My Heart (2009)

A radio DJ, Mai starts a new program called, "Love Letters from the Drawer" to assist people who need an extra push to send out their simple yet very important message for their loved ones. The show was inspired by her own experience after reading a letter ...

The Chef of South Polar (2009)

When eight men are assigned to live 14,000 kilometers from home in inhumanly cold conditions, food becomes their new existence. ...

Life Improvement Club (2008)

Arata Furuta plays a disgruntled saleryman fed up with being stepped on at home and at work, decides to get revenge on those who do bad things by killing them, only to gain a group of followers. ...

R246 STORY (2008)

The anthology film R246 Story centers around the major Japanese highway Route 246. Originating in Chiyoda Ward's Miyakezaka district, the 122.7 kilometers long Route 246 passes through Japanese trendsetting areas such as Aoyama, Omotesando, Harajuku, and S ...

Children of the Dark (2008)

A Middle-aged Japanese ex-pat journalist investigates child organ trafficking in Thailand and he uncovers a sinister network. In the darkest corners of Thailand, child prostitution and organ sales flourish. In order to save a child's life, another life mus ...

Cinderella Formula (2008)

The University of Tokyo is the most prestigious national and public university in Japan. A charismatic teacher who suffers cancer meets the poor-but-clever girl and he teaches how to overcome the barrier of the entrance examination of the most difficult to ...

Sad Vacation (2007)

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. Eventually his life rea ...

Unholy Women (2006)

Unholy Women (Kowai onna), is a composite of three unrelated half-hour horror movies. A compilation of 3 separate short horror films (Rattle Rattle, Hagane, The Inheritance) written and directed by Keita Amemiya, Takuji Suzuki, and Keisuke Toyoshima respec ...

Backdancers! (2006)

A cadre of backup dancers is left astray when their star singer moves on with her life and marriage. They each had their own ambition and hope, which subconsciously rested on the star power of the singer. When plan A does not work, they cling to plan B. Wh ...

Into the Sun (2005)

After the assassination of Tokyo's Governor by Yakuza members, the CIA bureau chief for Tokyo puts out a call to an agent that had been raised in Japan and trained by ex-Yakuza. Using his former ties, he quickly determines that a war is brewing between old ...

Train Man: Another Ending Special: Train Man VS Guitar Man!! (2005)

A man is deceived to give a beautiful girl the sum of 3 millions of yen in exchange for a broken guitar. In despair he went to check out the Aladdin site where 'densha otoko' wrote his love story. ...

Aegis (2005)

The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to a platoon from the Fleet Training Group. No sooner is the Isokaze on open water, however, then the FTG reveal themselves to be terrorist stowaways who kill ...

Double Suicide Elegy (2005)

Mashiro works for a law firm in Kagurazaka. It takes 2 hours for him to commute one way. Kyoko works at the counter in a real-estate agency in Yurakucho. It takes 2 1/2 hours for her to commute one way. They meet each other in a 'double-suicide room' in Ni ...

Fateful (2004)

Tamiya, a pet detective looking for a runaway cat, is approached by a stranger at a pachinko parlor one day. The man predicts that Tamiya will hit the jackpot on his pachinko machine, and, lo and behold, it turns out to be true. The next day, Tamiya receiv ...

69 (2004)

Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater, and rock music, and develop their project into a school road block. This plan however catches the attention ...

Tori (2004)

Anthology film directed by Tadanobu Asano. ...

Damned Files 1 (2004)

This is the first volume of a series of one-part horror dramas based on rumored haunted places, real-life stories, and accidents that occurred in various regions, and which have had a nationwide impact since being aired on Nagoya TV in July 2003. ...

Half a Confession (2004)

Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a tale of morality with deeper insights into its characters than we had anticipated. It begins when Soichiro Kaji (Terao), a retired detective, walks into polic ...

Seventh Anniversary (2003)

Each time Lulu is heartbroken small stones come out of her body. The doctor tells Lulu they are kidney stones. She collects them in memoriam of love. ...

FREESTYLE SHORT MOVIES (2003)

Anthology of five low-budget short films: "Nao and I", "MILD7", "LOVERS", "Strawberry Fields", "Label" ...

The Battling Angel (2003)

Police struggle to uncover Klein, a powerful criminal organization. Asuka, a young detective, is assigned to contact and escort Hatsumi, a mistress of the drug lord Kimikuni, but they are ambushed, leaving Hatsumi brain-dead and Asuka near to death. Howeve ...

Cop Festival: New Beginning (2003)

Fourth installment in Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 8 films. ...

Teacher's suitcase (2003)

Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial encounter, the pair ...

The Choice of Hercules (2002)

When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its challenges. Upon arriving in mountainous Nagano, Sassa had t ...

To Dance with the White Dog (2002)

Yakuza Ladies: Revenge (2000)

13th installment of the 16-film franchise. ...

License to Live (1999)

Having fallen into a coma following a car accident at 14, Yutaka wakes ten years later and realizes that his family is no longer intact: father, mother and sister live at different places, so he decides to reopen the farm that his family once ran. ...

Innocent World (1998)

High school student Ami was born through a fertilization technique. Her brother is developmentally challenged and is immature for his age. They go on a trip and when they arrive at a clinic decide to stay with the doctor and his wife. ...

Wild Life (1997)

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 who has a crush ...

Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold 5 - Hereditary Homicide (1996)

A Kamui family who governs N prefecture and exerts its power on the central political and business world. The mighty power was only allowed to be inherited by the "patriarch". But now, over the patriarchal power, the current patriarch Hidemine and his four ...

MARKS (1995)

Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later in a similar manner, he begins to suspect that something bigger is going on... ...

Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold 4 - Hellish Underworld Mahjong (1995)

Ginji (Kiyoshi Nakajo) was glaring at the next major organization of the political and business world with Izawa, an influential person of the Democratic Liberal Party. The person who emerged there, Jin Kuramae. He was feeding on a huge gambling loan book ...

Yakuza Taxi (1994)

Yakuza clan Inoshika decides to help a small family business, Taxi Tanaka, lured by the clan Jinryûkaï and deeply in debt. ...

Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold 3 (1994)

Tetsuo (Kosuke Toyohara), who was thinking about the next money plan for the 200 million yen he got from the painting trick, looks at high-rate poker gambling. The target is Shinya, Saijo's sergeant. He's been crazy and has preyed on women who were dazzled ...

Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold 2 (1994)

Tetsuo was suddenly told goodbye by Ginji. As for the farewell, only one of the tables was a real wad of bills and a full trunk. And, in that, there is a letter saying "Replace all this with the real thing!" Tetsuo is at a loss and one day meets Emi who wo ...

Rampo - Bewitching Women (1994)

A short drama that depicts the world of Edogawa Rampo's popular novels filled with the bizarre and fantastic in an omnibus format. This omnibus drama includes "The Kiss," "The Human Chair," "The Girl in the Locked Room," and "The Cliff," all based on Rampo ...

Kiriko, A Woman Who Loved the Gangsters (1993)

A drama depicting the heroine who loved another yakuza man while being the wife of the group leader, in the battle of the internal conflict of the yakuza organization. ...

Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold (1993)

A man Tetsuo (Kosuke Toyohara) met at a racetrack offered him a job of 100,000 yen per diem, and although he was suspicious, he was urged by the amount of money and decided to take over. What's more, all he has to do is carry a huge cardboard box to the ma ...

Mr. Baseball (1992)

Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese Central baseball league find it in ...

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)

The Futurians, time-travelers from the 23rd century, arrive in Japan to warn them of the nation's destruction under Godzilla. They offer to help erase Godzilla from history by preventing his creation. With Godzilla seemingly gone, a new monster emerges as ...

Woman from Hong Kong (1990)

In 1997, a female detective from Hong Kong passed an exam for a man who dreamed of becoming a senior detective, which produced a series of stories. ...

Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)

After the previous Godzilla attack, a miniature arms race ensues to collect his cells. Concerned over Godzilla's possible return, the Japanese government uses the cells to create a new bio-weapon, ANEB (Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria). They seeks the aid of ...

Sukeban Deka the Movie 2: Counter-Attack of the Kazama Sisters (1988)

After the events of the previous film, the 17 years-old Sukeban Deka III, Yui Kazama, works for the Juvenile Security Bureau along with her older sisters Yuka and Yuma. This organization is led by politician Kuraudo Sekin, who fights juvenile crime in heav ...

The West Tako Cheerleaders (1987)

A boy seeks manhood in joining his school's militaristic cheer squad. ...

Computer Wars ISAMI (1982)

Independent scifi film by Izo Hashimoto. ...

Soiree (2020)

Shota came to Tokyo to become an actor but has a side hustle in petty crime. On a trip back to his hometown in Wakayama he meets Takara, who is being assaulted by her father just sprung from prison. Soon they pair up and hit the road to escape. ...