Movies: Masahiro Motoki

A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II and in the midst of the Japanese imperial ambitions in Eastern Asia. The spy becomes acquainted with a sympathetic communist who ...

A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't catch him. TV networks begin to broadcast the operation nationwide. TV audiences are amused and root fo...

A black comedy about a former Rock'n'Roll singer, who becomes the mayor of Tokyo....

An amateur op (detective) with a career as a former legal instructor . From the search for a runaway daughter requested by Akiko "Beppin" to the murder case. A mystery drawn with a hard-boiled touch set in Kobe (some locations in Ashiya and Yokohama...

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An eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a village population forty-seven in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is a geographic description of the work and non-work of a farmer. A po...

Matsuzaki, who gets critically injured after a sketchy deal, is taken by his girlfriend to a church where it is rumored that miracles happen. There, they find strange twins named Pinoko. With Pinoko's guidance, Matsuzaki is saved by a genius surgeon,...

Youngsters find work as part-time festival street vendors and flourish in work, friendship and love....

Three high school boys leave their dormitory and go to a resort and fall in love....

The story of friendship, love and sportsmanship among high-school students....

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's film "Gemini"....

Film about a pirate radio station....

The novelist Shiga Naoya lives with his wife Haruko and their 4-year-old daughter Saeko. He is paranoid about Saeko’s health, making her wear heavy clothes even in summer in order to prevent her from catching a cold. Their child before Saeko died due...

Musical band "Yajima Biyoshitsu" comes to Japan from Nevada, USA to debut their CD....

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The legendary duel between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro on Ganryu Island is brought to life in a way never before seen. The vile Musashi has raped a farm girl and commandeered a boat for his trip to the island....

A drama that depicts the trajectory of four years in the life of two young musicians and one woman who dreamed of becoming a star, leaving Hakata to pursue fame in Tokyo....

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Actress Moeko comes to Singapore to look for Kariya, the man she loves. She checks in at Raffles Hotel and finds out that he lives in a big house with his wife and children. In the darkness, Moeko suddenly stands in front of Kariya with a camera in h...

A documentary about the making and shooting of Yojiro Takita’s ‘Departures’ (2008)...