Sakae Kimura

Cicada (2014)

Cicada is the story of Jumpei-- a man who loses sight of his progeny when he finds out he is infertile, but then is given the gift of clairvoyance and begins to see glimpses of the future. These glimpses lead him to a series of cicada shells, which become ...

Gedobo 2 (2011)

Detective Masaki (Koji) happens upon a chilling scene: Gedobo (Hitoshi Ozawa) leading the vile yakuza Tamura to his death. Shocked but trusting his instincts as an investigator, Masaki begins to pursue the "mysterious monk." Together with his partner Naga ...

Persimmon (2011)

Tamotsu is expecting a persimmon to dry and yet he cannot accept that it is time for a man on his deathbed to die. As the persimmon mysteriously, or supernaturally, holds out from drying, so Tamotsu tries his hardest to keep the man alive. Only when Tamots ...

Gedobo (2011)

A wandering monk who strays far from the Buddha's teachings—that is Gedobo (Hitoshi Ozawa). His eyes see only the fate of evil festering in this world. Masuba (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi), working tirelessly as an underboss, grows weary of a world where even h ...

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 ...

True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules (2002)

Former yakuza gang boss Noboru Ando reminisces about old partner in crime Kei Hanagata. ...

To End All Wars (2001)

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon, Lt. Jim Reardon and Maj. Ian Campbell are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beate ...

Yakuza Zombie (2001)

Yakuza Zombie opens with an introduction to a mysterious Yakuza graveyard deep in the forest, and a story of the baddest Yakuza of them all, Naruo Ryuuji (shown in cut scenes played by Ozawa Hitoshi). Naruo Ryuuji was a fearless killer who eventually got ...

Kamome (2000)

The King of Minami: Yakuza in Debt (2000)

#31 in the King of Minami series. A washed-up yakuza named Fukunaga borrows money from Manda, unwittingly involving him in a sinister murder plot. ...

Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999)

An independent group of researchers called the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN) actively track Godzilla as he makes landfall in Nemuro. Matters are further complicated when a giant meteor is discovered in the Ibaragi Prefecture. The mysterious rock begin ...

Abduction (1997)

The director of a large Tokyo trading company is kidnapped and held for ransom. A young but experienced detective is put on the case while being at the centre of a nationwide television sensation. ...

Shura ga Yuku 5 (1997)

The fifth installment of the Gokudo Action Series, which depicts the process of the yakuza organization walking on the path to national domination, centered on the confrontation between the two gangsters who became their nemesis. This work is set in a cert ...

A Brief Message from the Heart (1995)

A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man. ...

Onihei's Detective Records (1995)

A criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill. ...

Nun Hell Chronicle (1995)

All Under the Moon (1993)

A Korean taxi-driver interacts both humorously and tragically with his customers and employers in '90s Tokyo. ...

Dreams (1990)

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa's own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier's ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh's canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity's ...