Naoki Kawano

Monster Island (2025)

In the Pacific, 1944, a Japanese soldier and a British prisoner of war are stranded on a deserted island, hunted by a deadly creature. Two mortal enemies must come together to survive the unknown. ...

Love, Life and Goldfish (2021)

Makoto Kashiba is an elite bank clerk and works for a big bank at its Tokyo HQ. Due to a minor mistake, he is demoted to a small branch office in a country town. He is devastated by his situation. There, he meets beautiful Yoshino Ikoma. She runs a goldfis ...

The Wicked Moebius Woman: The Red Room (2020)

Rampo Adaptaton released in 2020 ...

Ushijima the Loan Shark Part 3 (2016)

Sawamura, a contract part-timer dragged into a multi-million yen internet business, and Kamo, an office worker who lavished money on a beautiful club hostess, arrive at Cowcow Finance, the office of black-market lender Ushijima. ...

125 Years Memory (2015)

Two historical incidents that deepened the friendship between Japan and Turkey are connected in this story of friendship and compassion: In the night of 16 September 1890 the Turkish frigate Ertuğrul is caught up in a typhoon and sinks off the Japanese co ...

XXX Kiss Kiss Kiss (2015)

Five stories of romance, farewells, bitter love and stolen kisses... ...

Snowchild (2014)

A girl unable to speak, a man unable to write a poem, a crisis line manager unable to help might find in the gloomiest of all places what they have been longing for - Hope and courage. ...

Flower & Snake: Zero (2014)

Misaki Amemiya is an assistant inspector for the Metropolitan Police Department's Community Safety Bureau who becomes ensnared in a trap while investigating a mysterious illegal video website called "Babylon". Soon, she's bound and tortured along with Shiz ...

Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Gaim & Wizard: The Fateful Feudal Movie Wars (2013)

The story is divided in three portions. The Kamen Rider Wizard portion, Kamen Rider Wizard: The Promised Place, taking place after the finale and defeating Amadum. The Kamen Rider Gaim's portion of the film is titled Kamen Rider Gaim: Sengoku Battle Royale ...

Starry Night (2013)

Sakurai, who recently started working at a real estate agency, is diligent and serious about his job, but he's not very efficient and struggles to close deals. Today, he was once again dragged around by a rocker client, Taguchi, for property viewings, but ...

Ask This of Rikyu (2013)

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eventually becomes one of the primary influences upon the Japanese tea ceremony. With his elegant esthetics, Sen no Rikyu is favored by the most powerful man i ...

The Little Girl in Me (2012)

After Kensuke graduated from college, he began to work at a company. He didn't get along with his co-workers and six months later quit his job. Since that time he has stayed in his home for 5 years. One day, Kensuke learns about men who enjoy dressing up a ...

Bayside Shakedown the Final: The New Hope (2012)

Set 2 years after prior film "Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose," a major case occurs that has the potential to take down the entire police organization. For the next 3 days, Shunsaku Aoshima and his colleagues struggle to unravel the case... ...

Bayside Shakedown the Last TV: Salaryman Cop and the Last Tough Case (2012)

Tokyo Nameless Girl's Story (2012)

University student Nozomi tries to get a job. Back in her hometown, she was lazy, but now Nozomi is used to the quicker pace of Tokyo. Nozomi is also experiencing problems with her boyfriend Kameyama, who seems to be travelling at a different speed in life ...

Hard Romanticker (2011)

Writer-director Gu Su-yeon's new film draws on his own semiautobiographical account of growing up as a delinquent zainichi Korean (Japanese-born, but of Korean ancestry) in the seaside city of Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, a working-class hellhole o ...

BECK (2010)

Yukio is your average high school student who spends his days going to class and avoiding bullies. That is until he meets Ryusuke, a guitar prodigy. Together with Taira, Chiba, and Saku they form the rock band BECK. As their popularity increases so does th ...

Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose (2010)

After Detective Shunsaku Aoshima is promoted to section chief he has the daunting task of dealing with eight cases at the same time, which includes a murder case, bomb threat, and a bus hijacking. Complications also arise between Detective Aoshima and his ...

Randebû! (2010)

Meguru, a young woman, comes to the big city in pursuit of her acting dreams. On her way to an audition, she stumbles on a ringing cell phone lying in the street. She picks up the phone. There's a young man in the other end. ...

Yakuza-Busting Girls: Duel in Hell (2010)

Asami returns exhausted after three years of intense training to become a yakuza hunter. She decides to visit her old master, Inokuma, who runs a bar. However, she finds his place in ruins and nothing is as it was when she left. As it turns out, the local ...

The Negotiator: The Movie (2010)

¥ 260,000,000 is stolen from armored vehicle. The criminals escape into a crowded shopping mall and take over 50 hostages. Reiko Usagi (Ryoko Yonekura) and the SIT members are called in to break the stand-off. When Reiko goes into the shopping mall to neg ...

Engine Sentai Go-Onger vs. Gekiranger (2009)

The story begins when Geki Red battles Nunchaku Banki after returning from his trip around the world for Natsume's birthday, with Geki Yellow and Geki Blue arriving to provide backup. After sending the Gekirangers into another dimension, the Go-ongers arri ...

Juken Sentai Gekiranger vs. Boukenger (2008)

The team-up movie between Juken Sentai Gekiranger and GoGo Sentai Boukenger. ...

The Boat to Heaven (2003)

A young boy, Masahiko Sakurai, grows up in Nagasaki where he sees the clear blue ocean everyday. His mother wants him to be a violinist. To make her dream come true, Masahiko goes to Tokyo to learn the violin, and stays with his aunt, Setsuko, in Kamakura ...

New Thursday Ghost Stories Ghost Club: Seven Wonders of School Edition 3 (1998)

Japanese horror movie from 1998. ...

New Thursday Ghost Stories Ghost Club: Seven Wonders of School Edition 2 (1998)

Japanese horror movie from 1998. ...

Thursday Ghost Stories Ghost Club: Seven Wonders of School Edition 1 (1998)

Japanese horror movie from 1998. ...

Thursday Ghost Stories Ghost Club ~ Junior High School Edition 4 (1998)

Japanese horror movie from 1998. ...

Tell Me (2022)

On May 2, 1998, Hide, a leading Japanese rock musician who had been active as a guitarist for X JAPAN and as a solo artist (hide with Spread Beaver/zilch), suddenly passed away. His funeral was attended by about 50,000 people and became a social phenomenon ...