Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) more movies like this

directed by Clint Eastwood
featuring Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shidou Nakamura

After bringing the story of the American soldiers who fought in the battle of Iwo Jima to the screen in his film Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood offers an equally thoughtful portrait of the Japanese forces who held the island for 36 days in this military drama. In 1945, World War II was in its last stages, and U.S. forces were planning to ...

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Audition (1999) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike
featuring Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Miyuki Matsuda, Renji Ishibashi

Controversial Japanese director Takashi Miike creates this unnerving horror film about a widowed TV producer auditioning prospective wives. In his search, one candidate particularly stands out, a lovely ex-ballerina dressed in white. The widower cannot believe his good fortune, until he starts looking more closely at his potential bride-to-be: her ...

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Suicide Club (2002) more movies like this

directed by Sion Sono
featuring Ryo Ishibashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Tamao Sato, Mai Housyou, Takashi Nomura

This dark horror film begins with the grisly spectacle of 54 Japanese schoolgirls jumping in unison into the path of an oncoming train. This is only the first in a wave of mass suicides that sweeps across Japan, baffling the police and panicking the populace. The two police officers assigned to the case have to piece together such mystifying clues ...

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Masters of Horror: Dream Cruise (2007) more movies like this

directed by Norio Tsuruta
featuring Daniel Gillies, Ryo Ishibashi, Yoshino Kimura, Miho Ninagawa

Premonition writer/director Norio Tsuruta directs iconic Japanese author Kôji Suzuki's tale of open-water terror for the small screen as Showtime's Masters of Horror series winds to a waterlogged close. Jack (Daniel Gillies) is an American lawyer working in Tokyo who is terrified of the sea. But a few small waves become the least of Jack's worries ...

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Back to Back (1996) more movies like this

directed by Roger Nygard
featuring Michael Rooker, Ryo Ishibashi, Danielle Harris, Bobcat Goldthwait, John Laughlin

An explosive situation erupts when a mob war thrusts a yakuza, an ex-cop, and his adolescent daughter into a deadly, no-win situation. Booted in disgrace from the L.A. police force Bob Malone (Michael Rooker) suffers a seemingly endless unlucky streak. Matters don't improve when a robbery led by a crazed criminal (Bob Goldthwait) transpires at the ...

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The War in Space (1977) more movies like this

directed by Jun Fukuda
featuring Ryo Ikebe, Yuko Asano

This Japanese-American co-production is set sometime in the near future. The United Nations Space Bureau sends its star vessels to the treacherous terrain of Venus. The traveller's initial encounters with the Venusians do not bode well for a lasting peace. However, when another planet invades the 2nd rock from the sun, Earthlings and Venusians ...

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Scrap Heaven (2007) more movies like this

directed by Lee Sang-Il
featuring Ryo Kase, Jô Odagiri, Chiaki Kuriyama

A violent and outrageous revenge comedy with a thoughtful undercurrent, director Lee Sang-il's Scrap Heaven opens with three characters united by fate on the same city bus: toilet cleaner Tetsu (Jô Odagiri); police department administrative assistant Kasuya (Ryo Kase), who wants to work his way up into homicide; and pharmaceutical company employee ...

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Blue Tiger (1994) more movies like this

directed by Norberto Barba
featuring Virginia Madsen, Toru Nakamura, Dean Hallo, Ryo Ishibashi, Sal Lopez

In this crime thriller, a hit man with the yakuza (Japanese Mafia) is in the midst of a public execution of the leader of a rival group when a woman named Gena Hayes (Virginia Madsen) happens by with her son. The child is killed in the crossfire, and Gena is determined to get revenge. About all she can remember about the killer is he had a blue ...

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Pale Flower (1963) more movies like this

directed by Masahiro Shinoda
featuring Ryo Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki, Chisako Hara, Koji Nakahara

Masahiro Shinoda's brilliant film opens with mobster Murakami just getting released from prison for murdering a member of a rival clan, only to learn that during his internment, the two syndicates arranged a truce. Not unlike the protagonist in Albert Camus' The Stranger, Murakami's motives for killing were vague and that life holds little value ...

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Peep "TV" Show (2004) more movies like this

directed by Yutaka Tsuchiya
featuring Takayuki Hasegawa, Shiori Gechov, Akiko Ueda, Risako, Ryo Momiyama

A reclusive social misfit broadcasting images of strangers over the internet comes into contact with a gothic Lolita who is eager to join his voyeuristic enterprise in director Yutaka Tsuchiya's digital exploration of the Japanese video surveillance subculture. His video camera obsessively trained on the unsuspecting masses that crowd the Tokyo ...

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Naisu no Mori: The First Contact (2006) more movies like this

directed by Hajime Ishimine, Katsuhito Ishii, Shinichiro Miki, Shunchiro
featuring Susumu Terajima, Tadanobu Asano, Chizuru Ikewaki, Kazue Fukiishi, Ryo Kase

Taste of Tea director Katsuhito Ishii collaborates with filmmakers Shinichiro Miki and Hajime Ishimine) for this outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother (Tadanobu Asano), his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother. Dance numbers, pillow fights, animation, ...

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Honey and Clover (2006) more movies like this

directed by Masahiro Takata
featuring Yu Aoi, Sho Sakurai, Yusuke Iseya, Ryo Kase, Megumi Seki

Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as they prepare to venture out into the real world on a great voyage of self-discovery. Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

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Tsumetai Chi (1997) more movies like this

directed by Shinji Aoyama
featuring Ryo Ishibashi, Kazuma Suzuki, Kyoko Tohyama, Eiko Nagashima, Taro Suwa

Shinji Aoyama (Two Punks) directed this Japanese cop drama about assistant police inspector Saga (Ryo Ishibashi), who is guarding a religious cult leader when the man is shot and killed. In pursuit of the hitman (Yu-rei Yanagi), Saga is also shot, and he's only half-conscious when his gun is stolen. At the hospital, his wife Rie (Eiko Nagashima) ...

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Executioner 2: The Karate Inferno (1975) more movies like this

directed by Teruo Ishii
featuring Sonny Chiba, Makoto Sato, Eiji Go, Ryo Ikebe, Tetsuro Tanba

Director Teruo Ishii's sequel to his own Chokugeki! Jigokuhen (1974) once again stars Sonny Chiba as Koga, but this film's tone is completely different, replacing gritty action with sophomoric humor. The storyline concerns Koga's gang of thieves plotting to steal a priceless diamond from a master criminal, but Ishii plays the film for gross laughs ...

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Gemini (1999) more movies like this

directed by Shinya Tsukamoto
featuring Masahiro Motoki, Ryo, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Shiho Fujimura, Akaji Maro

Shinya Tsukamoto's latest work is a bit of a departure for the director of such over-the-top cult films as Tetsuo: Iron Man (1989). Though punctuated by his trademark kinetic camera work, this moody gothic horror film has the sort of brittle formalism more common in Japanese domestic dramas of the 1940s and 1950s. Dr. Yukio Daitokuji (Masahiro ...

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