Takashi Nishina

Broken Rage (2024)

A seemingly unremarkable man called "Mouse" is caught by the police. In exchange for his freedom, he goes undercover, infiltrates a drug ring, and arranges a fake deal, but an unexpected turn of events occurs. ...

Touch (2024)

Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what really happened when his Japanese girlfriend mysteriously vanished without a trace from London fifty years ...

Kyokaisyaku Momo (2023)

A serial killer comes to a magical girl who is good at divination. She hides in a closet and overcomes the murderer, who sings the nursery rhyme "Momotaro" as he commits his murder, and decides to exterminate him. Accompanied by Kokkuri-san, Merry-san, and ...

Kubi (2023)

Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears. ...

Motion Picture: Choke (2023)

In a future where humans have all forgotten how to speak, a survivalist starts getting strangely attached to the man she has captured. ...

Bad Lands (2023)

A grifter and her loose-cannon brother get their hands on a massive amount of money, but their ill-gotten gains puts a huge target on their back. ...

Fool's Blues (2022)

Daikon, the director who created a legendary movie 30 years ago, is now a person of the past, and he is spending his empty days falling for the pimp of the pinsaro girl Tamako. One day, Tamako's old lover appears, and Daikon and Tamako escape to a striptea ...

Sorezore no Hana (2022)

I Want to Walk in the Sun Someday (2022)

Visitor (2022)

Short film edited into "Welcome to the Occult Forest: The Movie". ...

Yakuza Emblem Legend: Chapter 10 (2022)

The tenth 'Yakuza Emblem Legend' film. ...

Yakuza Emblem Legend: Chapter 9 (2022)

The ninth 'Yakuza Emblem Legend' film. ...

Yakuza Emblem Legend: Chapter 8 (2022)

The eighth 'Yakuza Emblem Legend' film. ...

Yakuza Emblem Legend: Chapter 7 (2022)

The seventh 'Yakuza Emblem Legend' film. ...

Baby Assassins (2021)

Two high school girls who are about to graduate also happen to be highly-skilled assassins. When the organization they work for orders them to share a room, their relationship quickly sours. But when they become targets of the yakuza, the girls realize the ...

Ura Aka: L'Aventure (2021)

Machiko can't shake the feeling of emptiness in her day-to-day life as a manager of a clothing store in Aoyama, Tokyo. One day, the casual words of Sayaka, a younger and charismatic store staff, stirs Machiko into creating a secret... ...

Naked Angel : The Red Room (2021)

Matsunaga, the president of a real estate company, spends his week in a secret hideaway to forget his title and social status. One day, he meets Fumiko, a girl who has a mysterious charm, and is gradually attracted to him. Matsunaga deepened his relationsh ...

Sexual Drive (2021)

Designer Enatsu worries about his sexless life. Office worker Akane is getting ready to return to work while undergoing rehab at home for panic attacks. Elite advertising agent Ikeyama wants to end his relationship with his lover. A shabby man named Kurita ...

True Mothers (2020)

After suffering through a long and unsuccessful series of fertility treatments, Satoko and her husband Kiyokazu make the decision to adopt a child. Six years after adopting a boy they named Asato, Satoko has quit her job to concentrate fully on her husband ...

Osaka Girl (2020)

One day, Chiho is asked to collect the rent from her grandmother, who has a bad leg. Chiho easily agrees and regrets it. The inhabitants of the flat are yakuza, host, robber, alcoholic, etc. They are all scum and they don't pay the rent. ...

Unification of Japan Gaiden: Kawatani Yuichi (2019)

In Kobe, Kawatani Yuichi (Hitoshi Ozawa), head of the Kawatani-gumi under the Yamazaki-gumi of Kyowakai, once again sparks a brawl in the downtown area with Takei (Kentaro Shimazu) of the rival Nakamura-gumi. After the fight, Kawatani runs up a tab at the ...

CONFLICT VI (2019)

To revive Tendokai, Okita (Yasukaze Motomiya) and Kurata (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) form the Washio-gumi, recruiting former members like Murata (Shunsaku Kudo) and Yagi (Yudai Uenishi). They are warned by retired Kozo Otani (Shun Suda) about an impending police ...

CONFLICT V (2019)

Once the largest Kanto yakuza organization in Japan, Tendokai, led by 6th-generation boss Kazuma Washio (Hitoshi Ozawa), now faces the rapid expansion of Jinseikai, which has begun to dominate Kanto. In an attempt to revive, Okita (Yasukaze Motomiya) and ...

Hydra (2019)

An assassin for a secret organization keeping Japan safe from underworld threats finds himself targeted by evil forces aiming to unleash an unstoppable criminal syndicate upon Japan. ...

Noise (2019)

In 2008, an indiscriminate killing which shocked the whole world was carried out in the street of Akihabara. Director Yûsaku Matsumoto was inspired by the Akihabira killing to look at random acts of violence occurring in Japanese society and exploring the ...

Samurai Marathon (2019)

When feudal lord Itakura Katsuakira decides to prepare his samurai troops for the onslaught of modernization by having them compete in a marathon, his independent-minded daughter Yuki secretly joins the race. ...

Okinawan Blue (2019)

A tale of three families on a remote island. ...

Stray Dogz 8 (2018)

When a greedy family pockets their son's disability payments with no intention of repaying their loan, Ando hatches a plan to get his money back. ...

Brutal (2017)

A savage murderer is on the prowl in Japan. One by one, his victims fall but what is he searching for? The same thing a murderess is looking for. We are all looking for that special love of our lives and sometimes, we're willing to kill everyone to find th ...

Outrage Coda (2017)

Five years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a noted fixer. When tensions rise between Chang and the Hanabishi, and Chang's life is endangered, Otomo returns t ...

Meatball Machine Kodoku (2017)

Nobody knows where they came from. They parasitize in human beings, take control of them and change their bodies into hideous monsters (Necro-borg). The Necro-borg fight each other until the other dies. Where did they come from? To what end? Yuji and Kaoru ...

Cutie Honey: Tears (2016)

At the end of the 21st century, the world is plagued by a mysterious virus and unusual weather. Genius scientist Dr. Kisaragi creates an android with the code name "Cutie Honey" (Mariya Nishiuchi). The android is unique in that it possesses human emotions. ...

Blow the Spring Wind in the Schoolyard (2016)

A drama in which Yasuko Sawaguchi starred in the movie for the first time in nine years since "Autumn Autumn" and played an elementary school teacher who loves children. Tomoyo Miki became a third-grade class teacher at the transferred elementary school. C ...

Laws of Yakuza Chapter 2 (2016)

'Laws of Yakuza' sequel. ...

Detective Tokunosuke Jinbo 10 (2016)

Law of Yakuza (2016)

Straight to video Yakuza film. ...

Yakuza's Lady 5 (2015)

Misa's father, the Minowa clan leader, was killed by assassins from the rival organisation Shinsui Rengo. She decides to live her life as a yakuza and together with her boyfriend Ryuji, she is building up the gang. However, the betrayal of the acting chair ...

W - Women with Two Faces (2015)

The members of Girls Bar, which is also the strongest female detective agency, confront the evil, and a movie of the same name novel by Fuyuki Shindo. Women who work at the girls bar "W Lounge" at night while working as office ladies, underground idols, te ...

CONTROL OF VIOLENCE (2015)

A three-way battle of hoodlums vs yakuza vs gyoza factory manager! A fierce battleground in Osaka, where territories are fought over with impunity. There, a group of hoodlums, who are in good shape and gaining momentum, have launched a series of surprise ...

Samurai Cat 2: A Tropical Adventure (2015)

The Edo period. Once a famous swordsman, Kyutaro Madarame, aka "Madara the Devil," is now a masterless samurai. When a white cat called Tamanojo appears before Kyutaro, the encounter changes him forever. Starring Kazuki Kitamura. This offbeat tale of s ...

The Ninja War of Torakage (2015)

Set in the Sengoku Period, Torakage is retired ninja. He lives his life peacefully, but turmoil comes as he becomes involved a fight over treasures. ...

Mango and the Red Wheelchair (2015)

Yakuza's Lady 2 (2015)

Misa loves Ryuji, who is steadily rising to become a gang leader, but is perplexed by her inner contradiction of hating the yakuza. Their lives are precariously balanced until one day, when Misa's senior, Yukari, returns to town. An unbridgeable emotional ...

Murder on D Street (2015)

A soba restaurant owner dies mysteriously on D. Street. The police rule it as a suicide, but detective Akechi Kogoro and his wife Fumiyo think otherwise and launch their own investigation. As they delve deeper, they discover relationships twisted by perver ...

Kobe Zaiju: The Movie (2015)

Kei (Izumi Fujimoto) is a 19-year-old college art major. She moves to Kobe from Tokyo due to her father's work transfer. There, she learns about the Great Hanshin Earthquake from residents in Kobe. Kei meets a wheelchair bound illustrator, Yoji (Eiji Suga ...

Bayblues: 25 Years and 354 Days (2014)

"I'm definitely going to be the best." This is the path that these young baseball players once chose to take to become entertainers. Just when they were sure they would finally make it, after struggling to reach the top amidst a burning sense of urgency, t ...

Yakuza's Lady (2014)

Misa, who hates yakuza, is saved from her predicament by yakuza Ryuji and gradually becomes attracted to him. Then, Misa becomes a co-signer for her ex-boyfriend and is forced by the yakuza to become the yakuza boss's woman in return for the debt. Cornered ...

Zombie TV (2013)

An insane Japanese gore filled zombie anthology. ...

I am Ichihashi: Journal of a Murderer (2013)

Tatsuya Ichihashi kills a British woman who taught English in Japan. Ichihashi escapes the police dragnet to Aomori, 550 kilometres away. Learning that he is wanted by the law, he cuts his own lips to change his features. Burdened by guilt, he continues to ...

New Neighbor (2013)

A shy young secretary is intrigued by her new neighbor. ...

Shield of Straw (2013)

Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide Kiyomaru. Kunihide Kiyomaru has a prior conviction for assaulting and killing a girl 8 years ago. The police could ...

The Love of a Very Ordinary Wife (2013)

A young man, Keiji, loses at mahjong and has to work at a snack bar to pay off his debt. There he meets Yoko, a woman with a bewitching atmosphere, and falls in love with her at first sight. However, Yoko has a missing yakuza husband and she is forced to w ...

The ABCs of Death (2013)

An ambitious anthology film featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. Inspired by children's educational ABC books, the film comprises 26 individual chapters, each helmed by a different directo ...

Snake of Violence (2013)

In Osaka, three troubled young kids, Kanako, Atsushi and Kenji, are hanging out together all the time. One day Kenji who lives in an orphanage is sold to a yakuza and their friendship has to come to an end. 25 years later, Kanako is married to Atsushi who ...

Love Gear (2013)

The third installment in the Toei Hero Next series. ...

Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark (2013)

Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark ...

Dead Sushi (2012)

A disgruntled researcher injects his former employers' meal with a serum that turns their sushi into flesh-eating monsters. ...

Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 01: Operation Capture the Slit-Mouthed Woman (2012)

1st Entry in a mockumentary series from Koji Shiraishi. Depicts a TV crew as they cover the urban legend of "Kuchisake-Onna" or "Slit-Mouthed Woman". ...

Kirin: Point of No Return (2012)

An interpersonal drama adapted from popular motorcycle manga "Kirin". It portrays the life of a biker who only feels alive in the world of speed. Its battle race between a motorbike and a Porsche on a public road is a thrilling highlight. Its director is O ...

Bailout! (2011)

A spin-off short of "Helldriver," dealing with survivors in the dangerous northern territories. ...

Revenge: Blood for Blood (2011)

Tamaki (Hitoshi Ozawa) and Kudo (Kazuya Kimura) were once senior and junior classmates during their student days. Even after becoming a yakuza and a detective respectively, they continued to respect one another. However, the police undergo a complete rest ...

Lady Ninja: Reflections of Darkness (2011)

A sexy squad of female ninja assassins is hired by a ruthless magistrate to exterminate his former lovers who threaten to ruin his carefully established "chaste" reputation. Things get complicated when the magistrate's opponent sends his own goons out to ...

Yakuza Weapon (2011)

After four years overseas, Shozo returns to Japan to avenge his yakuza boss who was assassinated by his own treacherous top man, Kurawaki. The resulting battle leaves both men severely injured, and Shozo awakens in a mysterious medical facility to find his ...

YOU+ME=LOVE (2011)

You+Me=Love explores the many faces of Love through the eyes of four different characters powered by their own selfish desires. 'Ugly' was born without looks, or wits, but a near-invincible body and a big heart. When he falls in Love with 'Girl', he does e ...

Horny House of Horror (2010)

Nakazu, Uno and Toshida…three drunk buddies on their way home from a baseball game who decide it would be a great idea to visit Shogun, a notorious brothel in a nondescript area of suburban Japan. New to the world of "love hotels", Nakazu is uneasy as he ...

The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity (2009)

In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan. ...

Achilles and the Tortoise (2008)

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks. ...

Waruboro (2007)

Under the influence of his delinquent friend, a former model student eschews schoolwork and joins a gang of school kids who do nothing but fight. ...

Glory to the Filmmaker! (2007)

Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project. ...

The Go Master (2007)

The life of Go master Wu Qingyuan from his meteoric rise as a child prodigy to fame and fortune as a revolutionary strategic thinker, as well as the tumultuous conflicts between his homeland of China and his adopted nation of Japan. ...

The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi (2007)

Korean-Japanese director Gu Su Yeon makes his directorial debut with the mouthwateringly delicious The Yakiniku Movie: Bulgogi. As the title clearly states, pride of place goes to juicy, bite-sized meat, and viewers will get a delightful eyeful of food, fo ...

Yo-Yo Girl Cop (2006)

Recruited by a clandestine police organization, "K" must stop a plot by student radicals to create anarchy in Japan. Armed with a hi-tech steel yo-yo, and a new name (Asamiya Saki), she must infiltrate an elite high school to find the terrorists but finds ...

Drawing Restraint 9 (2006)

The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto. ...

Under the Same Moon (2005)

When Tetsuya (Yosuke Kubozuka) was 10-years-old he met Emi (Meisa Kuroki), who suffered from a heart disease. In hopes to cure Emi's condition, Tetsuya decided to become a doctor. Following through on his dreams, Tetsuya is now a doctor and is about to mar ...

Takeshis' (2005)

Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, Kitano se ...

The Buried Forest (2005)

Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mountainous and bordered by an unkempt buried forest. ...

Blood and Bones (2004)

In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community expl ...

Through the Night (2002)

When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble of a destroyed shantytown they plan to haul it out for profit. Amidst this plan there is discrimination, war and an infatuation between a man and a woman, bu ...

Kewaishi (2002)

Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of a manga by Shotaro Ishinomori was an official selection at the 5th Shanghai International Film Festival and won the award for Best Screenplay at the 14th Tokyo International Film Festival. ...

Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)

Godzilla has become a distant memory for Japan when the destruction of a US submarine raises alarms for Admiral Tachibana. His estranged daughter Yuri investigates the legend of the guardian monsters, who must rise to protect Japan against the vengeful spi ...

Getting Wild with Our Monkey (2001)

A down-on-his luck writer meets a movie producer, who asks him to write a screenplay on the condition that he visit locations for the film. Chaos ensues. ...

Run Ichiro Run (2001)

Various individuals named Ichiro undergo life-changing events while being inspired by the baseball player Ichiro. A heartwarming movie about the people who root for the baseball player Ichiro, and their struggles to make their own dreams come true. ...

Brother (2000)

A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang. ...

Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999)

With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broken. Nagamine and Asagi investigate while an orphaned girl named Ayana discovers a new creature she names Iris. Nagamine and Asagi must reach Ayana before she ...

Ring 2 (1999)

While investigating the horrifying death of her boyfriend, Mai Takano learns about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a disturbing girl named Sadako, which kills anyone who watches it exactly one week later. When her boyfriend's son, Yoichi, starts to de ...

Wangan Midnight S30 vs. Gold GT-R - Part I (1998)