Tadanobu Asano Movies

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Against his father Odin's will, The Mighty Thor - a powerful but arrogant warrior god - recklessly reignites an ancient war. Thor is cast down to...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Chris Hemsworth

In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn't an accomplished...

Genre: Action

Cast: Junichi Okada

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Susumu Terajima

Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from...

Genre: Action

Cast: Masatoshi Nagase

An obsessive-compulsive Japanese librarian living in Bangkok spends most of his days contemplating suicide in his apartment. His life changes when he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

A Japanese man and a gay bar-owner in Hong Kong drink beer as they talk about their childhood and experiences.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karen

On the eighth anniversary of a cult's failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suicide, family members of those affected gather at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Arata Iura

Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism. His faith in pacifism, however, is shaken and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan, a slave who went on to conquer half the world in the 11th century.

Genre: History

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist....

Genre: Family

Cast: Mirai Shida

Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They become fascinated with a deadly jellyfish.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joe Odagiri

As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

A violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard half-merged with a metallic Buddha.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masahiro Motoki

Two Japanese friends accidentally kill their boss and dump his remains in Black Fuji, a mountain/landfill hybrid. This leads to poor results when the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Believing that the world will end that very day, three mental patients Coco, Tsumuji, and Satoru set out upon a journey. Walking upon the tops of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

A young man awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook full of drawings of dissections, Hiroshi is drawn to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

In dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexually warped Uncle Sonezaki. Fortunately, she met Samehada as she runs for...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maya Banno

When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Taylor Kitsch

Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one and other eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

War photjournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children. Because of Yasayuki's drinking problems the couple...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

How hard is it to kill an idiot? Just ask Kudo Kankuro! The acclaimed screenwriter brings his 2004 Kunio Kishida-winning stage play Donju (a.k.a....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keanu Reeves

Mars Canal - Within absolute silence, a naked man wanders through a dark and depressing landscape recalling the excruciating details of his last...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makiko Esumi

Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Asumi Miwa

Ryo personifies water, since whenever something important happens in her life, it rains. She inherits a bathhouse and meets a pyromaniac named...

Genre: Drama

Cast: UA

The most dangerous and exciting car race in the universe is held only once every five years. And that's tonight. The competitors are lined up at the...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Takuya Kimura

Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chris Hemsworth

Tomiko falls in love with Niitaka, even though she also suspects him of being the Tokyo bus driver serial killer, who killed his female conductors...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

A.D. 2015: A virus has been spreading in many cities worldwide. It is a suicidal disease and the virus is infected by pictures. People, once...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Yasuo is a gangster just released from jail. Believing his boss double-crossed him, enraged Yasuo is on his way to find the boss. But before setting...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Three short films with the theme of death and dead ends in common.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Kenji Shiraishi is involved in the trafficking of illegal immigrants from China to Japan. One such case leaves an immigrant child to be an orphan....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually in a small apartment.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

In a future where World War II never ended, Japan is decimated by nightly bombings. The only building left standing is known as the Media Station, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

An alcoholic civil servant wakes up under a cherry tree in Tokyo next to a bar hostess with whom he's impulsively made a suicide pact. Though he's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

The posthumous wish of Eiji's wife is for her ashes to be scattered in the ocean near her hometown. Eiji also learns that his wife letter for him at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

A rookie editor Hatsumi Takeda becomes an editor of Fujio Akatsuka who is known as the king of gag manga. Hanging out with her, Akatsuka sees through...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Hidenori and Nanase have lived together for ten years in a tense, platonic relationship. The wheels of change are set in motion when married couple...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Shinzo Egi is an asthma sufferer who does not want to be place on life support. As a last request, Shinzo Egi asks his doctor Ayano Orii if she could...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamiyo Kusakari

A dragon fish is stolen by Tetsu Tobiyama and biologist Thomas Earwing seeks its return. Poo is led to Natsuro after she worms her way into a top...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Miyoko Yoshimoto

A short, direct and to-the-point media-commentary thriller. A sleazy TV producer trying to exploit a quiet otaku (an obsessive hobbyist) whose hobby...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naoto Takenaka

A Japanese-Chinese couple hangs out and shoots each other.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

The Film in commemoration of the 10 year anniversary of Shinich Hoshi's death and the 50 year anniversary of his debut as author.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

In Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for nearly twenty years. Each day passes eventlessly......

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hidekazu Akai

Japanese film directed by Masahiro Honda.

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Cast: Misa Shimizu

Toshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. But then this old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fumiyo Kohinata

An industrial section of Japan got the name of “Yentown” as many immigrants come to make money and hope to go home rich. A small group of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayumi Ito

Somewhere in Manila, a crime boss rules with an iron fist. To his most loyal henchman he gives the task of guarding his woman. Before long, she falls...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rie Miyazawa

Kenzo was behind bars for killing a gangster. Upon his release, he goes to live with his son, whose marriage is on the rocks. His 14-year-old...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Interpol Inspector Zenigata begins a world-wide hunt for the infamous thief Lupin The 3rd. But together, they face a powerful enemy and form the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shun Oguri

Making her way through life by forming superficial relationships, Yoko keeps everyone at arm's length, whether it's her father and stepmother or...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yo Hitoto

One day after school, Kaoru glances at Sonoko at the pool side. He falls in love with her at first sight and decides to join the swimming team even...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Michitaka Tsutsui

10-year-old Sota lives with his grandfather and a dog named Chibi in a small snowy village. They live in such a poverty that Sota cannot even afford...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintaro Morimoto

As a young child, Hana loses her family to a devastating tsunami that wipes out her town. At a shelter, distant relative Jungo sees her wandering and...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (Ryosuke Yamada). Suzuki is a former middle school...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

A biographical film of war photographer, Taizo Ichinose.

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Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Rica and Kengo have been living together for the past four years. It’s been a very happy time for Rica; the only dark spot being an accident...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomoyo Harada

Portrait of the Wind centers on Tamio Murase, a world-traveling photographer who came home to take over the family business after his father’s...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Adaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

A young asthmatic man learns he has magical powers.

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Cast: Kenichi Okamoto

A young girl named Kiki must leave her home for a year to begin training in witchcraft. She leaves on her broom, but first says goodbye to her...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Fuka Koshiba

A scientist desperately wanting to prove that mermaids exist is ostracized from the scientific community in Japan. He settles down in Australia...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Anthology film directed by Tadanobu Asano.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Masaru Miyazaki

Recently appointed dean at a film school, Kimuro Hajime develops a special concern for one of his students, Daisuke. The brash, headstrong young man...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

The anthology film R246 Story centers around the major Japanese highway Route 246. Originating in Chiyoda Ward's Miyakezaka district, the 122.7...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Genki Sudo

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Mizuki’s husband Yusuke went missing for 3 years. He suddenly comes back home one day and asks Mizuki to go on a trip with him. Their trip...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eri Fukatsu

With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country set out to establish a cultural identity through...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hou Hsiao-hsien

Kota hears about an impending 1.5 billion yen gold bar heist from his friend Kitagawa, a former college classmate, and decides to take part. The gold...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

Defence lawyer Emi is assigned to a particularly unusual case: a man is suspected of murdering his wealthy wife, and his only alibi is a 421-year old...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Eri Fukatsu

Initially, Ambivalent Future was intended as a film about the production of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Bright Future". But director Fujii has taken the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Alien pods come to Earth and, naturally, start taking over Human Hosts. One such pod only manages to take over one human's, Shin Izumi, right arm....

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Shota Sometani

Alien pods come to Earth and, naturally, start taking over Human Hosts. One such pod only manages to take over one human's, Shin Izumi, right arm....

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Shota Sometani

The year is 1947, during the war torn period of the Showa era. The story begins when a man, presumed to have been killed in battle, returns home. Who...

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Cast: Itsuji Itao

Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andrew Garfield

It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yasufumi Hayashi

Nobuko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On August 9, 1948, her son...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Tatsuhiko Shiratori works as a scout, recruiting girls to work in the adult entertainment business. He movies to Yokohama from Shinjuku, Tokyo. He...

Genre: Action

Cast: Go Ayano

A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jared Leto

After inadvertently killing his girlfriend, a man flees Macau for Thailand in an attempt to cope with his guilt, and avoid possible arrest. But the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Shanghai gangsters grapple with lust and loyalty on the eve of war with Japan as they try to navigate an alliance with the enemy's army.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ge You

Makoto Tanaka is 40-years-old and has remarried. His wife is Nanae and they care for 2 daughters from Nanae's prior marriage. Makoto tries to have an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chris Hemsworth

Kasane Fuchi is the daughter of a beautiful, legendary actress. Kasane has excellent acting skills as well, but she is not attractive. She has a hard...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Tao Tsuchiya

Chiwawa is a popular girl. One day, her dismembered body is found in Tokyo Bay. Chiwawa's friends gather to remember her, but they realize they do...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mugi Kadowaki

The Bastard and the Beautiful World is an omnibus film consisting of four episodes. Fujiko is running as fast as she can, being chased after by a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Junoshin Kake is a ronin. To get hired by the Kurokaze Han, he lies and tells them that a religious group is trying to destroy them. He gets hired by...

Genre: Action

Cast: Go Ayano

The story of the Battle of Midway, and the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome massive odds.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ed Skrein

Motorcycles, drugs, and gangs terrorize Japan. The man who dreamed of a life of peace has instead been transformed into an angel of death!

Genre: Action

Cast: Daizô Miyata

Documentary about the Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike, where we see him attend film festivals, personal influences and of course the study of his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Takashi Miike

A comedy about a concierge at a plush hotel who deals with a series of unusual guests.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eri Fukatsu

A sequel to the 1980 movie The Legend of the Stardust Brothers. As well as being a rock musical comedy, it also borrows elements from other genres...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ryosuke Miura

Washed-up MMA fighter Cole Young, unaware of his heritage, and hunted by Emperor Shang Tsung's best warrior, Sub-Zero, seeks out and trains with...

Genre: Action

Cast: Lewis Tan

A ruthless criminal operative has less than 24 hours to exact revenge on her enemies and in the process forms an unexpected bond with the daughter of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Jia Zhangke is starring in his first lead role, appearing as an artist facing a midlife crisis in Cheng Er's Pseudo Idealist.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jia Zhangke

Following the excitement of first Bangkok and then New York, a big murder case takes place in Tokyo. Chinatown master detectives Tangren and Qinfeng...

Genre: Action

Cast: Wang Baoqiang

War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Johnny Depp

The only movie theater on the Onomichi seafront is about to close its doors. Its last night of screenings will be an all-night marathon of Japanese...

Genre: History

Cast: Takuro Atsuki

A girl finds an old handgun in her attic and the symbolic object conjures a mystical scene of samurai (a stellar cast of actors joined by the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

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Cast: Tamori

Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowing a boat for the villagers all day long, he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Emoto

Two shorts about the making of Hideaki Anno's movie "Love & Pop", one from the perspective of a bumbling assistant, and one from the perspective of a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Asumi Miwa

Given a completely free hand by Motorola mobile phones, Wong created an advertisement that is a romantic-but-fraught vignette from the sex-wars.

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Cast: Tadanobu Asano

The title is "Thirsty Flower ~ four by four equal one ~", which is a short story of about 60 minutes with four women as the main characters.

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Cast: Miharu Nagasawa

Soul Dancing is an order placed to Kiyoshi Kurosawa by a Japanese alcoholic beverage brand named Shôchu. The director then uses this...

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Cast: Tadanobu Asano

If you loved movies such as Shonen Merikensack and GS Wonderland, then this one, which predates the former, will impress you as well. The story is...

Genre: Music

Cast: Kazunobu Mineta

Arakawa has thrown big ripples all over the world with strange works such as the theme park "Site of Reversible Destiny Yoro", the house for not...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Shûsaku Arakawa

An exploration of the act of eating, both as an interaction among people and between people and nature.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

A sequel to the 2021 film 'Mortal Kombat'.

Genre: Action

Cast: Lewis Tan

Making of documentary for 'Rampo Noir'

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

After his retirement is interrupted by Gorr the God Butcher, a galactic killer who seeks the extinction of the gods, Thor Odinson enlists the help of...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Chris Hemsworth

A story about how Kuboshima Seiichiro overcomes various difficulties to open Mugonkan, an art museum in Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture, featuring...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

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

Genre: History

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Koshiro Matsudaira lives in Tanjousan Bun in Echigo as a commoner and surrounded by people that love him, including his father Sakubei, who works for...

Genre: History

Cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki

It follows a nameless man who gives up his identity to live with a large cardboard box over his head, encountering a range of characters as he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nagase

A unique documentary film produced by a psychiatrist and Yasufumi Nakoshi analyzing the artists participating in "Tori".

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

5th installment of the Pantsu no ana video series released by BOMB magazine

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Cast: Taeko Nishino

An omnibus of short films by auteur directors based on Dreams.

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Cast: Kenneth Anger

This one-off TV special follows the exploits of camp comic Graham Norton on a visit to Tokyo. Staying with a Japanese family, he explores the city's...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Graham Norton

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Daisaku Kimura

The Women in the Lakes

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Sota Fukushi

Documentary on the life of actor Yusaku Matsuda. This is a documentary film produced on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the birth of actor...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Andy García