Sansei Shiomi Movies

Former yakuza underling Kazuma Kiryū has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration and is trying to piece his life...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kazuki Kitamura

The students of Suzuran High compete for the King of School title. An ex-graduate yakuza is sent to kill the son of a criminal group, but he can't...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shun Oguri

Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eri Fukatsu

In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his van. They are in hot pursuit of their fellow robber...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shinichi Tsutsumi

Based on the true story of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada who has spent over 40 years incarcerated on death row. Iwao Hakamada was arrested...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Masato Hagiwara

As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Young French journalist Ada Servier arrives in Kobe to cover the memorial ceremonies of the big earthquake from 1995. Fifteen years after the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Déborah François

A salaryman debates selling his grandfather's land to pay off his father's debt.

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Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

A new salesman named Kosuke Okuda happens to meet Mao Watarai, a friend from his middle school days. Back then, Mao was called stupid and bullied,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Juri Ueno

A struggling model and a troubled divorcee face loneliness and desperation in Tokyo.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eihi Shiina

The story of three pairs of characters involved one way or the other with the yakuza and a rigged boxing match and fleeing the thugs one way or the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Masayuki Sakamoto

Suzuki’s world is shattered when his teenage daughter is brutally attacked. The assailant, Ishihara, son of a politician, brazenly mocks Suzuki...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Junichi Okada

Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joe Odagiri

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

Flowers examines the lives of six women across three generations, from the Show period all the way through to the present day.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yu Aoi

Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yosuke Kubozuka

Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

Adaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other characters' lives.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Susumu Terajima

Asahiyama Zoo in Hokkaido, is the northernmost zoo in Japan. The unpopular zoo welcomes a new zoo keeper, young Yoshida (Yasuhi Nakamura), who has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

A love story starring Tamaki Hiroshi, Konishi Manami, Ikeuchi Hiroyuki, Hirayama Aya and Kamiki Ryunosuke. Hiroyuki, a fourth-year law student who...

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Cast: Hiroshi Tamaki

In an attempt to spur citizens into taking more productive roles in society, the Japanese government issues death messages, or "ikigami", informing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shota Matsuda

The members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their hometown, they move from Shikoku to Tokyo and resume...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Goro Kishitani

The movie is part of the Kindaichi TV movie series. Kindaichi is played by actor Goro Inagaki. The character's grandfather began with the written...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Goro Inagaki

The film opens as a jury is about to acquit a defendant -- a bar hostess who pushed her ex-husband path of an oncoming truck, supposedly in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sansei Shiomi

When Mutta was 12-years-old and Hibito was 9-years-old the two brothers saw what they thought was an UFO flying towards the moon. They made a pact...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shun Oguri

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arisa Mizuki

On September 9th, the day of the Katakai Fireworks Festival, high school student Hana comes home from the hospital after six months of treatment for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kengo Kora

An appassionato art student and a dispassionate college girl make a vow, saying they would meet each other again in the Florence Cathedral after 10...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yutaka Takenouchi

Masaharu Fukuyama reprises his role from 2008's "Suspect X," playing the physicist-cum-detective Manabu Yukawa. The scientist-sleuth arrives in an...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Masaharu Fukuyama

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Ichigo no kakera deals with a female manga artist Ichigo Nekoda (Miyazawa), whose career is heading into a downward spiral as she can't reinvent the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miho Miyazawa

Hama-chan and Su-san go fishing during a business trip, but Hama-chan has to give a lecture on Su-san's behalf in a case of mistaken identity.

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Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Near the slopes of Mount Fuji, there is a so called suicide forest, an infamous place where people who are tires of living have their last breath of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masato Hagiwara

The suicide of a female teacher 15 years ago was actually a murder. A new investigation team, spearheaded by Mizorogi, is formed based on new...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Takaya Kamikawa

Mayu Daimon is a woman who does not remember her mother's face, and her father is the only person she has blood relationship in this world, but he is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ko Shibasaki

This documentary-style film recreates the infamous Asama Sanso Incident of 1972 wherein an extreme faction of the Students Allied Red Army holed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masato Hagiwara

Set over one night in Tokyo, we follow Leo, a young boxer down on his luck as he meets his ‘first love’ Monica, a call-girl and an addict...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Masataka Kubota

A James Brown fanatic gangster decided to disband his own gang and see his long lost daughter before entering prison. Hoping to change his mind, his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

An entertainment drama depicting the conflict of yakuza, centering on the female torso and her sister's feud.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Reiko Takashima

Kenta, a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar, when he meets a man in a Hawaiian shirt named Yamaki. He invites...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yûko Takeuchi

Maiko is a 17 year old aspiring picture book writer who was abandoned by her widowed father at the age of 3 and has lived in a foster home ever...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rika Ishikawa

Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoko Minamino

Hiroko attends the memorial service of her fiancé, Itsuki Fujii, who died in a mountain-climbing incident. Although Itsuki's mother says that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miho Nakayama

At a train station in the suburbs of Tokyo, an accident takes place causing death and injury. Tsuyoshi is at the scene and witnesses the death of a...

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Cast: Yuri Ishizaka

As an engaged couple, Shinichi Kida and Mari Egawa spend a romantic night on a premarital trip to the southern island, but Shinichi suddenly...

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Cast: Shingo Tsurumi

Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maki Sakai

Genre: Crime

Cast: Goro Inagaki

An abandoned car is discovered near a camping ground and inside it is the body of an identified middle-aged man and a dog who seems to have died...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

Genre: Action

Cast: Takashi Mitsuhashi

Nanako is an ordinary high school girl who lives with her mother, who is a taxi driver. One day, suddenly she has a younger brother - Nanao, the son...

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Cast: Yu Aoi

Genre: Action

Cast: Takashi Mihashi

Shinko (Karin Aiba) is a high school student from Hamamatsu. Due to university admission pressures, she struggles with her mother. She hasn't really...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karin Aiba

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teruyuki Kagawa

Genre: War

Cast: Teruyuki Kagawa

A set of twins -- one a hard-working student and the other a drifter -- team up with a dropout to unlock the secrets of the universe and to build one...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Hayato Ichihara

A young girl, Sayaka, develops a heartwarming friendship with an old man named Hasu. Based on an award-winning novel by Ijuin Shizu.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chise Niitsu

Haruna is a lively tomboy in the 5th year at elementary school. One day, while playing with Hiroyuki, a boy whom she has known for a long time, they...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruna Amari

Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high school's grounds. The dog, named Kuro, stays at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

The biggest crisis has come to Matsushita, a shootist who has passed through numerous shrines!

Genre: Action

Cast: Toru Nakamura

The beast that lives in a cool man is awakening now!

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Cast: Masaki Kanda

A unique group of individuals who stand out in the Japanese film industry.

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Cast: Nobuo Yana

Teacher Kawashima Haru takes a position on a remote island off the coast of Hokkaido, where she takes charge of six students. However, she is later...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A day in the life of Kiriko, who has not told anyone about her father's disappearance.

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Cast: Kiriko Omote

In spring, a girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo. Once there, she is asked to reveal why she wanted to go there in the...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Takako Matsu

Based on the long running manga of the same name by Sadao Shouji.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yuji Miyake

The story involves an aloof thief, a young man who turns to God after his father’s suicide, a manipulative marriage councilor, a man who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masato Sakai

A yakuza search for his past

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ryo Ishibashi

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Norikazu Myoga

This drama depicts the turbulent daily life of the heroine, who works in the family's tofu shop, and her father and daughter.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akiko Kikuchi

12-part omnibus made under the rules: "the main character is a detective" "at least one gag per minute" "the length must not exceed 10 minutes"

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Susumu Terajima

Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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

Fuyuko (Tomoko Nakajima), begins the film nine months pregnant, but doesn't deliver until her third year, to the bafflement of all around her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomoko Nakajima

A simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shinichi Tsutsumi

Aki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo moves to the Sanriku Coast in the Tohoku region to become a female diver. She becomes a local idol, then...

Genre: Drama

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