Ryushi Mizukami

Nosari: Impermanent Eternity (2020)

A young man wanders and makes calls to elders who live alone. Saying "Granny, it's me," he lies to them that he is their grandson. An old lady, who runs a music shop in the declining shopping area in Amakusa, answers his call and warmly accepts him. Preten ...

Just the Two of Us (2020)

Shunsaku was paralyzed from the neck down at the young age of 36 by a spinal injury suffered in a motorcycle accident. A blind woman named Hanae arrives to be his caregiver. Despite her frustrations with Shusaku's ill-nature and verbal abuse, Hanae also ha ...

Tokyo Wine Party People (2019)

Shino Sakuragi is an OL. She attends a wine party recommended by her boss, even though she isn't comfortable at such a fancy get together. There, Sakuragi meets Kazushi Oda. He is knowledgeable about wine and he doesn't show off his success as a businessma ...

Taro the Fool (2019)

Tarō is a vagabond, a wannabe, an urchin, and not what anyone would call mainstream. He does not care. Do not even ask him about his background or age. He would not know and he would not bother. The man meets two others and he begins to experience a new s ...

Randen: The Comings and Goings on a Kyoto Tram (2019)

A writer from Kamakura named Hiraoka Eisei is researching supernatural stories but finds himself revisiting memories from a previous visit to his wife's home town. Ogura Kako,a shy local woman, is asked to help an actor from Tokyo practice speaking with Ky ...

Unification Of Japan 26 (2018)

As Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) and his assassination squad deal with a corrupt detective, the Kyowa Clan deals with increasing disaffection within their ranks. ...

Yoko the Cherry Blossom (2015)

In 1940, Masaaki Takaoka works as a teacher in the agricultural division at a youth training institute. Although Japan's defeat seems imminent, all of Masaaki's students are drafted in a futile last-ditch effort. In an attempt to give the young men some ho ...

Living Rights (2015)

The fifth work of the "Kita-Shirakawa school movie" in which a student of Kyoto University of Art and Design, a professional film staff, and a cast team up to make a film. With a certain big disaster, people are struggling for love while holding their own ...

Miroku (2013)

Through philosophical and science themed imagination, Emile questions everything from his teenage years to adult life. ...

Black Face (2013)

The man (Choi Fi-yeol) has no name. His codename is "008 (Gong Gong Pal)." A cold-hearted Korean hitman is summoned to Japan for a job. While hiding his identity and working at Donhyun's (played by Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) yakiniku restaurant, he saves a woma ...

The Millennial Rapture (2012)

Sennen no yuraku is set in a small community called "Roji" where Kenji Nakagami—one of the most famous novelists in Japan—drew the absurdity and passion of life since its inhabitants have been living and dying. There were beautiful men in "Roji" who st ...

Petrel Hotel Blue (2012)

Seeking to exact revenge upon Yoji, Yukio travels to an area surrounded by the sea, desert and lava topped mountains. There, Yukio meets mysterious Rika and becomes enchanted by her presence. While, Yukio can't get Rika out of his mind, he faces off agains ...

Cursed Songs: Chi-Manako (2008)

Misaki is a popular bar hostess whose policy is to 'live on presents'. She is haughty and wants nothing but the most expensive and exclusive. One night, she finds a rabbit and takes it home, setting off the story of an unimaginable tragedy. It is an 'anima ...

Osaka Yakuza War: The Price of a Misfire (2007)

In the winter of Showa 62 (1987), the muddy conflict between Japan's largest organized crime syndicate, the Kobe Yamagagumi, and the Seiwakai—commonly referred to as the "Yamasei War"—seemingly came to an end. Tadokura (played by Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi), ...

Awakening (2007)

After the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy marriage seem to suddenly vanish as she finds out that her husband had lived a double life. Struggling between her anger and the chance to begin a new chapter for ...

Organized Crime Investigative Task Force 5: Annihilation of Tokyo!? (2006)

Sakuma, who was supposed to be dead, is alive. This brings the terror case to a sudden development. Kumada continues his investigation and tries to find a solution with the help of Kajiyama of the Kinugawa gang. Meanwhile, at the task force, a surprising r ...

Confessions of a Dog (2006)

Takeda is an honest police officer, father and husband, but after he's promoted to detective he quickly becomes embroiled in dirty back room dealings, blackmail, and corruption that goes right to the top of the force. Meanwhile, renegade investigator Kusam ...

Organized Crime Investigative Task Force 4: Indiscriminate Terror (2005)

Kumada is mistaken for the culprit at the scene of an assassination attempt on the governor of Tokyo and is escorted away. Meanwhile, a bomb threat is announced at the police station and the station is blown up. Kumada finally returns to the investigation ...

Organized Crime Investigative Task Force 3 (2005)

Kumada is arrested for the murder of the Chief. He denies the charge, but the bullet removed from the Chief's body matches the bullet from Kumada's gun, and the situation becomes increasingly unfavourable. Just then, Kumada receives a threatening phone cal ...

Organized Crime Investigative Task Force 2 (2005)

Set in Shinjuku's Kabukicho district, a town that never sleeps, a detective in charge of the Investigation Section 4, known as "Marubo", takes on the underworld, including numerous fights and terrorist attacks. T The Kinugawa clan has been decimated. Behi ...

Tetsujin 28: The Movie (2005)

One of the true classic's of anime's much-loved robot genre. ...

Charon (2004)

Yuto Kawasagi works at a bookstore. She also lives as Hideko Katsuki, newly wed to renowned author Dai Katsuki. She is also Charon, a high-class prostitute working for her lover, gangster Michio Jigen. When Dai discovers her secret life, she disappears, an ...

Alive (2003)

Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presented with an option: face another execution attempt or subject himself to their bizarre and dangerous exper ...

Lonely Hitman: The Blue Wolf (2001)

Young Madam's Interference in a Homicide (2000)

Nami, the young madam of a well-established hot spring hotel in Kotohira, is reunited with her childhood friend Kana who has come to participate in an art auction. However, when people with links to the auction start getting killed one after another, Nami ...

Another Battle (2000)

Former childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu cross paths again. Kaneo is now a yakuza member, while Masatatsu is a nightclub owner with a distaste for crime gangs. When a yakuza boss dies, a struggle for his position takes place between Kane ...

The City of Lost Souls (2000)

Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo's booming Japanese-Portuguese community and seeks passage from the country from a Russian mobster. To meet ...

Ring 0 (2000)

Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit. ...

Off-Balance (2000)

13-year old Chiaki Matsumoto enters middle school with two rules for herself: 1. Always stay cool and 2. Don't make friends. Having suffered bullying in elementary school, Chiaki chooses a path of isolation, building emotional walls and deciding to live a ...

Dead or Alive (1999)

Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to bring it down. ...

Score 2: The Big Fight (1999)

Three criminals pull off a major heist at a Tokyo bank and one of them hides the money in aplace that only he knows while the rest go into hiding. A year later, the one who hid the money is now dead and the two remaining robbers are desperate for the loot ...

Jubaku: Spellbound (1999)

When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to dig, breaking open a money-and-favours scandal that threatens to rock the entire structure of business and government to its core. While the bank's top exec ...

Ley Lines (1999)

The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befriend a troubled Shanghai prostitute and fall foul of a local crime syndicate. Like many of Miike's works, ...

A Giant Monster Appears in Tokyo (1998)

A large, dinosaur-like monster has risen from Tokyo Bay and attacked the city. As the government collapses into chaos, the people of a rural town in Fukui Prefecture, from whose perspective we see the entire movie, watch as the events unfold on TV. Some de ...

Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles: Legend of Yagyu Part 1 (1998)

Yuko Moriyama stars in this ninja period piece as one of seven women determined to exact revenge on the evil lord Akinari Katou and "The 7 Spears", the band of soldiers he commands. Trained assassins and skilled in sorcery, these men took over the Aizu pre ...

Onibi: The Fire Within (1997)

After spending over half his life in prison, ex-hitman Kunihiro is determined to go straight. But the shortcomings of the new gangs mean that he is soon having to call on his old-school yakuza talents. And when he falls for Asako, a beautiful piano player, ...

A Haunted School (1996)

Amidst rumors that the spirit of a student, who committed suicide years ago, appears in the photography club darkroom, high school sophomore Yuri borrows a mysterious horror manga from her elusive but studious senior, Miwako. ...

I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE (1996)

Set in a metropolis in the 21st century, this unique erotic drama depicts youth colored by sex, drugs, and violence with a touch of science fiction. ...

Swallowtail Butterfly (1996)

The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan. ...

KISS ME (1996)

A hard-boiled touch love story that depicts the momentary love between a hitman and a woman who had a dangerous escape together. ...

Cursed Beauties: Ghost Stories of Evil Spirits (1996)

An original omnibus horror film from the duo of Norio Tsuruta and Chiaki Konaka, depicting the terror of evil spirits that haunt four beautiful women. The film contains five episodes, including "Makeup for the Dead," in which a woman who did the makeup for ...

Score (1995)

A small time Yakuza thug is thrown into a bloody battle after a bank robbery he was forced into goes wrong when all the men begin to turn on each other a hitch-hiking serial killing couple decide to steal their loot. ...

Endless Waltz (1995)

Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki. ...

Ring (1995)

In different parts of Tokyo, four young and seemingly healthy people suddenly die of heart failure at exactly the same moment. Reporter Kazuyuki Asakawa decides to investigate the deaths, and discovers that the four had stayed at a rural inn together just ...

Getting Any? (1995)

While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades. ...

The Wild Beat: Requiem of Betrayal (1994)

After a job turns bloody, a group of criminals hide out and wait for their boss. Betrayals and double crosses unfold continuously around them. ...

Tokarev (1994)

A school bus driver's life is irrevocably altered when his young son is kidnapped and murdered. ...

Kamihate Store (2012)

A woman run a store in a tiny seaside hamlet near the cliffs where people come to commit suicide. ...

Shinigami no Yaiba (2010)

Jiro Kanbara (Yasukaze Motomiya) is a washed-up low-level thug who has drifted into his mid-thirties without ever getting anywhere. One day, he is ordered by his boss (Tomorowo Taguchi) to assassinate Onijima (Hitoshi Ozawa), a key figure in a rival organi ...

Golden Flower: What Is Hidden Is the True Flower, What Is Gone Is the Butterfly (2009)

Nursing home "Yuyoso". Many lonely old people live there, including botanist Taro Makiso, a physicist, an actor, a bar mom, and a chef. Maki has spent most of his life studying botany, and has lived without regard for entertainment, drinking, women, or eve ...

Girl's Life (2009)

Rina Sakurai, a popular model of Koakuma Ageha, a hair and make-up magazine for gals, makes her actress debut. Abandoned by family and betrayed by her boyfriend, Haruka Ichinose comes to Tokyo with her pet turtle, Jimmy. With heaped up blonde hair, flashy ...

Tokyo Neo Mafia (2008)

A drama presented by Jun Murakami. Shimon and Short Run, who started walking on the road of the yakuza in Tokyo, were waiting for Yabuki Ginya. Ginya, who grew up together in his hometown, stabbed a local yakuza and entered the juvenile training school bec ...

Empire of Dirty Money (2007)

Gennosuke Nannushi (Hitoshi Ozawa) is a lone man who lands on the streets of Kabukicho to run a black-money business with his roots in the area. He starts a business with Kuro (Onimaru), a man he met on the street, but his game with Kawamoto (Shigemitsu Og ...

New Shadow Warriors VI: The Final Chapter (2005)

As the power of the Tokugawa Shogunate becomes firm, Hattori Hanzo struggles against Sarutobi Sasuke and Sanada Yukimura. At the same time, Sasuke and Yukimura are plotting a new trick with the Satsuma clan .... ...

New Shadow Warriors V: Hattori Hanzo vs Onmyoji (2005)

In order to save the daughter of Kuroiwa clan lord who was made ill by the curse of someone, Hattori Hanzo brings the shadow warriors. ...

New Shadow Warriors IV: Jiraika 2 (2004)

Shippuu (Hayate) appeared suddenly dead. However, he fell into the hands of Sarutobi for due to his loss of memory. ...

Lonely Hitman: The Blue Wolf (2001)

Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold 6 - Trap of Fear (1997)

The Japanese political and business world where Chimimoryō is in control. Ginji (Kiyoshi Nakajo), a man who won the fierce competition and built a huge fortune. A new enemy appeared in front of him. Former President of the Liberal Democratic Party, Kawai. ...