Train Man: Densha Otoko (2006) more movies like this

directed by Shosuke Murakami
featuring Takayuki Yamada, Miki Nakatani, Ren Osugi

A socially-challenged otaku (Japanese slang for "geek") saves an attractive female from the unwanted advances of a lecherous salaryman while commuting on the local train route, only to become infatuated with the kind and thankful woman in a romantic comedy that takes its cue from a real-life romantic encounter. Densha Otoko (Takayuki Yamada) may ...

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I Am An S&M Writer (2000) more movies like this

directed by Ryuichi Hiroki
featuring Ren Osugi, Jun Murakami

Former pinku eiga director Hiroki Ryuichi spins this farcical tale, adapted from an autobiographical novel by Kihachi Dan, about a hack writer's desperate attempts to overcome writers block . Kurosaki (Ren Osugi) used to dream about dedicating his life to Art, but has since dedicated his life to crass commercialism by cranking out S&M porno for ...

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Charisma (1999) more movies like this

directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
featuring Koji Yakusho, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Ren Osugi, Yoriko Doguchi, Jun Fubuki

Idiosyncratic auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa directed this bizarre allegorical tale about a tree named Charisma. Goro Yabuike (Koji Yakusho) is a burned-out hostage negotiator called to rescue an MP from a gun-toting lunatic demanding that "rule of the world" be restored. In a moment of indecision, he fails to act; as a result, both the MP and the ...

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Uzumaki (2000) more movies like this

directed by Higuchinsky
featuring Ren Osugi, Hinako Saeki

Based on the phenomenally popular horror manga by Junji Ito, Uzumaki is the debut feature of Japanese music video director Higuchinsky (born Akirhiro Higuchi). Something strange is going on in the small town of Kurozu-cho. Kirie Goshima (Ericko Hatsune) notices Toshio Saito (popular character actor Ren Osugi), the father of her longtime friend, ...

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Fireworks (1997) more movies like this

directed by Beat Takeshi Kitano
featuring Beat Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi, Susumu Terajima, Tetsu Watanabe

Actor and auteur Takeshi Kitano (who in Japan also uses the stage name "Beat" Takeshi, primarily for his work as a television comedian) wrote, directed, edited, and starred in this unusual crime drama. Nishi (Takeshi Kitano) is a policeman whose emotions seem to run only on two extreme paths -- either quiet contentment or brutal rage. Nishi's life ...

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Beautiful Mystery (1983) more movies like this

directed by Genji Nakamura
featuring Ren Osugi

Bawdy but not explicit, this lusty Japanese farce tells the tale of teenage Shinohara who longs to join the well-muscled ultra macho ranks of Makio Mitani's patriotic fighters, a corps of handsome hunks first seen training in a local gym during the opening credits. Shinohara is delighted when he is accepted for enlistment. Following his initiation ...

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Getting Any? (1994) more movies like this

directed by Beat Takeshi Kitano
featuring Dannkann, Shouji Kobayashi, Tetsuya Yuuki, Yuuji Minakata, Ren Osugi

Takeshi Kitano made an international name for himself for directing films of great emotional subtlety and technical innovation such as Hana-Bi and Sonatine. This film displays none of those traits. Directed under his comedian moniker "Beat Takeshi," Kitano displays the bawdy schtick that made him famous with this gleefully stupid tale about one ...

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The Twilight Samurai (2004) more movies like this

directed by Yoji Yamada
featuring Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi, Ren Osugi, Mitsuru Fukikoshi

Veteran filmmaker Yoji Yamada -- who is perhaps most famous for cranking out most of the 48 films of the Tora-san series -- directs this good-natured drama set in the waning years of the Edo period (1600-1867). Seibei (Hiroyuki Sanada) is a low-level samurai struggling to get by on stipend of 50 rice bales a year while working as a clerk at the ...

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Shikoku (1999) more movies like this

directed by Shunichi Nagasaki
featuring Yui Natsukawa, Michitaka Tsutsui, Chiaki Kuriyama, Kie Negishi, Ren Osugi

In this supernatural thriller from Japan, Hinako (Yui Natsukawa) is a young woman with a successful career as a fashion designer who pays a visit to the village on the island of Shikoku where she grew up. Hinako learns that her best friend from childhood, Sayori (Chiaki Kuriyama), the daughter of the village's spiritual leader, died in a ...

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Multiple Personality Detective Psycho (2000) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike
featuring Naoki Hosaka, Ren Osugi, Tomoko Nakajima

Japanese horror auteur Takashi Miike directed this television miniseries which blends crime with terror. Kobayashi Yosuke (Naoki Hosaka) is a police detective whose wife was murdered by a notorious serial killer. The crime took an unusual toll on Yosuke -- he developed a second personality, Amamiya Kazuhiko, who is an expert criminal profiler who ...

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