Kyôhei Shibata

Abudeka Is Back (2024)

Toshiki Takayama (Taka) and Oshita Yuji, who had retired as detectives and opened a private detective agency in New Zealand, returned to Yokohama for the first time in 8 years. One day, a Japanese lawyer living in Hong Kong is murdered. Taka, who felt susp ...

The Confidence Man JP – Episode of the Princess – (2020)

Set in Langkawi, Malaysia, professional scammers Dako (Masami Nagasawa), Boku-chan (Masahiro Higashide), and Richard (Fumiyo Kohinata) target the Fuu Family for their next heist. Raymond Fuu, who was the head of the Fuu Family, passed away and he left behi ...

Saraba Abunai Deka (2016)

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A Chorus of Angels (2012)

Teacher Kawashima Haru takes a position on a remote island off the coast of Hokkaido, where she takes charge of six students. However, she is later forced to leave after an accident occurs. 20 years later, Haru learns that one of her former students has co ...

The Vulture (2009)

A Japanese company is being targeted by a Chinese financial group that takes advantage of weak and struggling firms - in other words, a vulture. A Japanese financier/former vulture Masahiko Washizu is recruited to fight the threat. ...

Rokumeikan (2008)

Madamada Abunai Deka (2005)

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 ...

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 ...

Abunai Deka Forever The Movie (1998)

Taka and Yuji are searching for a mercenary for the international terrorist organization "The Network" when the head of its branch arrives in Yokohama to carry out Operation Heat Storm. ...

Abunai Deka Forever TV Special '98 (1998)

Taka and Yuji must protect a young woman from a dangerous criminal while they track him and his terrorist organization. ...

Abunai Deka Returns (1996)

Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon's Love and Ambition (1995)

The live of the daimyo Date Masamune ...

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 ...

Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki” (1993)

A dying pianist composes one final song for his childhood friend. ...

Fukuzawa Yukichi (1991)

Fukuzawa Yukichi opens a school for samurai, who aim to learn Dutch language, most common for overseas trading. But when he was in Yokohama he learned that English language is one way more global one. His struggle against patriarchal mindset leads his scho ...

Akizakura - Cosmos (1991)

A touching drama about human life and love A 24-hour probation has been given to a man who should have died! ...

! [ai-ou] (1991)

Three outsiders meet by chance and try to chase their dreams despite all odds. However, things take a dramatic turn when they run into trouble with the Yakuza. ...

Beppin Town (1989)

An amateur op (detective) with a career as a former legal instructor . From the search for a runaway daughter requested by Akiko "Beppin" to the murder case. A mystery drawn with a hard-boiled touch set in Kobe (some locations in Ashiya and Yokohama ). Th ...

Festival of Dreams (1989)

Mottomo Abunai Deka (1989)

Taka and Yuji find evidence in a 15-year-old case, but the statute of limitations expires in four days and they're hunting illicit gun manufacturers. ...

Dangerous Cops Again (1988)

Detectives Takayama and Oshita participate in a major drug bust which arouses suspicion that the government may be secretly involved. ...

Dangerous Cops (1987)

When a doctor is found dead and the company's exclusive data on a cancer drug is missing, detective Takayama and Oshita are called to the Nakamitsu pharmaceutical laboratory. However, a bungled attempt to catch the murderer leave Takayama and Oshita reassi ...

Taikoki (1987)

Rising from the lowliest of country samurai to the heights of power as Taiko, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is one of the pivotal figures of the Sengoku period. ...

The House of Wedlock (1986)

Tokiko Enomoto finds out that her husband Kazuya, who mostly lives at an apartment near his work while she and their children live at home, has been having an affair with a live-in mistress, Ryōko, at his apartment. Tokiko tells her two sons, Tarō and Ji ...

Michi (1986)

A married long-distance truck driver falls for a significantly younger waitress at a roadside diner. Their affair brings tragedy to themselves and those around them. ...

Like a Savage (1985)

Young writer Tamako, who is wrongfully accused of killing the head yakuza, must find a way out of trouble. ...

Checkers in Tan Tan tanuki (1985)

Seven raccoons with supernatural powers sneak into a freight train, disguise themselves as humans, and head to Tokyo with the intention to create a band. They become superstars "Checkers" but their true identity will be revealed very soon. ...

Chi-n-pi-ra (1984)

Shibuya, Tokyo. Yoichi and Michio are a pair of hoodlums who make their living as bookies at horse races. One day, Yoichi's companion commits a crime, which leads him to become a real yakuza. In this way Yoichi wishes to put an end to his hoodlum days, but ...

Okita Soji: Swordsman of Fire (1984)

Hariko no tora (1983)

Nishimura Gosaku, an aspiring photographer who loves mountain scenery, meets a boy named Sada Ichiro one evening who asks to borrow train fare. For some reason, Ichiro follows Nishimura everywhere. When told to go home, Ichiro refuses, claiming he doesn't ...

Dead Angle (1979)

Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s. ...

The Most Dangerous Game (1978)

The first movie of Tôru Murakawa's "Game" trilogy, in which an assassin hired to recover a kidnap victim becomes embroiled in a vicious power struggle between two large corporations over a sizable government defence contract. ...