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Ichi the Killer

Ichi the Killer (2003) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike
featuring Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori, Shinya Tsukamoto, Alien Sun, Sabu

Maverick auteur Takashi Miike spins this unsettling, blood-soaked yakuza yarn adapted from Hideo Yamamoto's cult manga Koroshiya 1. When mob don Anjo mysteriously disappears, his protégé Kakihara (Tadanobu Asano) vows to find the people responsible. Sporting a blond head of hair and a yawning, pierced slash for a mouth, Kakihara is no ordinary ...

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Taboo

Taboo (2000) more movies like this

directed by Nagisa Oshima
featuring Beat Takeshi Kitano, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano, Koji Matoba

After a 13-year absence, partially due to a life-threatening stroke, master filmmaker Nagisa Oshima returns to the silver screen with this revisionist samurai epic. From his first major film, Cruel Story of Youth to his most notorious work Ai no Korrida, Oshima has coupled the political and the sexual in a manner that transgresses all social norms ...

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The Taste of Tea

The Taste of Tea (2007) more movies like this

directed by Katsuhito Ishii
featuring Mayo Banno, Takahiro Sato, Tadanobu Asano, Satomi Tezuka, Tomokazu Miura

Filmmaker Katsuhito Ishii takes a break from the post-Tarantino excess of such highly-stylized outings as Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl for this low-key look at an eccentric family residing in a quiet countryside town just north of Tokyo. The Haruno family is a five-piece clan living the simple life in Japan. The summer sun shining gently down ...

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Vital

Vital (2004) more movies like this

directed by Shinya Tsukamoto
featuring Tadanobu Asano, Nami Tsukamoto, Kiki, Ittoku Kushida, Kazumi Kushida

Japanese body horror auteur Shinya Tsukamoto, still best known in the U.S. for Tetsuo, teams with hipster icon Tadanobu Asano for the psychological drama Vital. Asano plays Hiroshi Takagi, who wakes from a coma, his memory seriously impaired, and decides, to the relief of his parents (Kazuyoshi Kushida and Lily), to go back to medical school. His ...

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Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle

Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle (2000) more movies like this

directed by Sogo Ishii
featuring Tadanobu Asano, Masatoshi Nagase, Daisuke Ryu, Jun Kunimura

Maverick Japanese director Sogo Ishii takes an unexpectedly conventional approach in this screen adaptation of a well-known Japanese folk legend of the 12th century. In the long-standing battle of the Genji and Heiki clans, the Heiki have emerged triumphant, but they find they have a new adversary in Shanao (Tadanobu Asano), a demon who each night ...

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Rampo Noir: Mar's Canal/Mirror Hell/Caterpillar/Crawling Bugs

Rampo Noir: Mar's Canal/Mirror Hell/Caterpillar/Crawling Bugs (2005) more movies like this

directed by Akio Jissoji, Atsushi Kaneko, Hisayasu Sato, Suguru Takeuchi
featuring Tadanobu Asano, Mirai Moriyama, Hiroki Narimiya, Mikako Ichikawa, Tomoya Nakamura

Directors Suguru Takeuchi, Akio Jissoji, Hisayasu Sato, and Atsushi Kaneko team to adapt four stories by acclaimed early-20th Century Japanese mystery novelist Taro Hirai, who penned his suspenseful tales under the telling pseudonym Edogawa Ranpo. Maverick Japanese indie star Tadanoby Asano stars in all four segments of the macabre omnibus. ...

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Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl

Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1998) more movies like this

directed by Katsuhito Ishii
featuring Tadanobu Asano, Sie Kohinata, Ittoku Kishibe, Susumu Terashima, Kimie Shingyoji

Drawing equally from Quentin Tarantino, Hong Kong action spectaculars, Japanese anime, and the over-the-top fashion sensibility of Tokyo's Shibuya district, Katsuhito Ishii spins this dizzying propulsive flick about lovers on the run and the weirdest band of gangsters on the planet. Toshiko Momojiri (Shie Koinata) dreams of a life away from the ...

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Last Life in the Universe

Last Life in the Universe (2004) more movies like this

directed by Pen-ek Ratanaruang
featuring Tadanobu Asano, Sinitta Boonyasak, Laila Boonyasak, Yutaka Matsushige, Riki Takeuchi

A story of two very different people coming together in the wake of personal tragedies, Last Life in the Universe stars Tadanobu Asano as Kenji, a quiet, bespectacled Japanese librarian living in Bangkok. Obsessed with suicide, he meticulously stages ways to kill himself, only to be interrupted every time. One night, his more raucous brother shows ...

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Maborosi

Maborosi (1995) more movies like this

directed by Hirokazu Koreeda
featuring Makiko Esumi, Tadanobu Asano, Akira Emoto

Japanese documentarian Hirokazu Kore-eda made his first dramatic feature with this austere drama, which recalls the visual and narrative style of Yasujiro Ozu. Yukimo (Makiko Esumi) is married to Ikuo (Tadanobu Asano), a happy and humble man who loves her very much. While Yukimo and Ikuo are content in their marriage and have a beautiful infant ...

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Nejishiki

Nejishiki (1999) more movies like this

directed by Teruo Ishii
featuring Tadanobu Asano, Kazuhiko Kanayama, Tetsuro Tanba, Nijiko Kiyokawa

Based on the cult Garo comic by famed manga artist Yoshiharu Tsuge, this film -- directed by veteran yakuza flick auteur Teruo Ishii -- is a hallucinogenic tale about love, death, dreams, and reality. Tsube (Tadanobu Asano) is a down-and-out cartoonist who can't cough up enough money to pay the rent. His live-in girlfriend Kuniko (Miki Fujitani) ...

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Café Lumiere (2004) more movies like this

directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien
featuring Yo Hitoto, Tadanobu Asano, Masato Hagiwara, Kimiko Yo, Nenji Kobayashi

A freelance writer living in Tokyo defies social taboo by choosing life as a single mother in director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's meditative tribute to acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu. When Yoko announces that she is pregnant and has no intentions of marrying the father of her child, her traditional family is outraged. Though the headstrong ...

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Bright Future (2004) more movies like this

directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
featuring Jô Odagiri, Tadanobu Asano, Tatsuya Fuji, Takashi Sasano, Marumi Shiraishi

Acclaimed Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa departs from the horror genre for this mystical story of urban ennui. Friends Mamoru (Tadanobu Asano) and Yuji (Joe Odagiri) are aimless young men stuck in dead-end jobs in a dreary factory in Tokyo. Mamoru, the more antisocial of the two, is obsessed with his pet project of acclimating a poisonous ...

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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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Hana (2006) more movies like this

directed by Hirokazu Koreeda
featuring Junichi Okada, Rie Miyazawa, Tadanobu Asano, Arata Furuta, Teruyuki Kagawa

Director Hirokazu Koreeda turns the popularly held conventions of the typical samurai revenge tale on their head with this story of a man whose quest to avenge the death of his father gradually takes a back seat to his emerging role as a key figure in the community. The year is 1702, and young samurai Sozaemon Aoki (Junichi Okada) has arrived in ...

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Party 7 (2000) more movies like this

directed by Katsuhito Ishii
featuring Masatoshi Nagase, Keisuke Horibe, Yoshinori Okada, Akemi Kobayashi, Tadanobu Asano

Katsuhito Ishii follows up on his loony, phantasmagoric work Samehada Otoko to Momojiri Onna with this dizzyingly bizarre gangster drama. Low-level yakuza Miki (Masatoshi Nagase) decides that he's had enough of the gangster life and swipes 200 million yen from his boss. He winds up hiding out in a remote dive called Hotel New Mexico, which is run ...

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Zatoichi (2004) more movies like this

directed by Beat Takeshi Kitano
featuring Beat Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Michiyo Okusa, Yui Natsukawa, Guadalcanal Taka

Beat Takeshi Kitano directs and plays the title role in this tribute to the wildly popular "blind swordsman" of Japanese cinema who was the hero of more than 20 movies and a television series from the early '60s to the late '80s. In Kitano's version, Zatôichi wanders into a town harassed by criminal gangs, and helps two geishas take revenge on ...

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