Also Known As: not available
Biography: Tadashi Sakata is a Japanese actor and comedian.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Fukuoka, Japan
Birthday: December 12, 1971
Adult: No
Gender: Male
Popularity:
Overview: Kazuma kills his father in order to protect his mother and younger sister from violence. He begins life at a halfway house with an aim toward social rehabilitation and also works diligently at a scrap mill, but society has labeled him a “murderer”. Gradually, Kazuma loses hope.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-06-17
Popularity:
Overview: Omnibus film that tells five stories from a radio station and its listeners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-02-28
Popularity:
Overview: An original video yakuza comedy starring Japanese theatre troupe Jovi Jova.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-08-25
Popularity:
Overview: When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a brutal quest for revenge.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-05-17
Popularity:
Overview: The elevators in a skyscraper suddenly stop functioning. In one car, six ordinary people are trapped. In another car, the six members of comedy group Jovijova are trapped.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-10-13
Popularity:
Overview: Horigai spends her boring days waiting to graduate from college. As she hangs out with friends, she begins to realize the violence and sorrow behind their ordinary lives.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-09-17
Popularity:
Overview: 8-year old boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother, surrounded by nature. His mother, Satsuki, has a weak constitution and lost her husband years ago. She takes care of her son lovingly but sometimes strictly, on her own. Shimpei's childhood sweetheart, Sayuri, is deaf, but somehow they can understand each other and they always spend time together.
Genres: Family Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-11-13
Popularity:
Overview: A pawn shop owner in Osaka is murdered, but due to a lack of conclusive evidence the police lists the man's death as a suicide. Detective Sasagaki, who investigated the case, can't forget the dark eyes of the main suspect's daughter Yukiho and the pawn shop owner's son Ryouji. As time goes by, more mysterious deaths surround Yukiho & Ryouji. Detective Sasagaki still unable to let go of the pawn shop owner case discovers startling details about Yukiho and Ryouji ...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-01-29
Popularity:
Overview: Slacker Ichiko gets into a fight with her younger sister and begins to live on her own, working the late shift at a 100 yen shop. On her way home, she passes a gym and meets boxer Kano who trains there in silence...
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-11-15
Popularity:
Overview: A gas leak explosion at a yakuza hideout provides a shy nurse and a rental car clerk with the opportunity to take a briefcase full of money. A cross-country chase ensues.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-02-18
Popularity:
Overview: Suzuki Shizuka is an office lady at a conglomerate who is hypnotized at a local amusement park and left under the spell. Now she is compelled to sing and dance whenever she hears any melody whatsoever. She heads back to the hypnotist for relief, but he is nowhere to be found. So Shizuka sets off on a journey around Japan to find him and break the spell.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-08-16
Popularity:
Overview: On Ishigaki Island, conflict brews over a large-scale bridge construction project. One day, Yajima (Sho Aoyagi), a public official from the Ministry of Environment, is sent to Ishigaki Island. Yajima announces to his colleagues that he is absolutely opposed to the bridge construction project and that he wil become a coral ranger who protects the coral reef there. This surprises his colleagues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-06-15
Popularity:
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-07-16
Popularity:
Overview: High school seniors Mikayo, Chuko and Kei are forced to join a historical research club to fulfill a graduation requirement. Their teacher, Mr. Kachi, plans a mandatory club trip to a small village called Oshakabe in Yamagata prefecture to study remnants of an ancient clan of warriors called the ochimusha who displayed legendary cowardice in battle. When they arrive, the local villagers hold a special ceremony and construct a "super shrine". As a result, an 800-year seal is broken, unleashing a curse that causes the ochimusha to rise from the grave.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-08-01
Popularity:
Overview: Stories depicting ordinary people revolving around ceremonial occasions. Without knowing that the funeral is for a yakuza member, an undertaker holds the funeral service. Relatives bicker over the deceased's last will. A son insists on wearing a long jacket normally worn by bousouzoku biker gang to a coming of age ceremony. His parents try to stop him. A husband heads over to his pregnant wife. She got pregnant before they got married and his father-in-law is angry at him. A freeter man challenges a professional baseball player over a woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-18
Popularity:
Overview: In 1987, frustrated junior high student Takashi hates his uncool father hanging around their suburban home all the time, and is pestered by the area’s wannabe gangsters. But he’s interested in the girl next door, the bounteously-breasted Megumi. One day, Takashi hears a rumor that porn actress Kyoko Yokushimaru is coming to town for an autograph session at the only video store in town where Takashi and his judo friends always hang out. Their ridiculous but serious adventure begins. What will Takashi find after all the surprises and chaos? Recalling youth classics like Stand By Me, this is the debut feature of Shin Adachi, Japan Academy Prize-winning screenwriter of 100 Yen Love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-12-24
Popularity:
Overview: When a friend from his yakuza past gets released from prison, a loan shark and his former-male-host sidekick help the ex-con get back on his feet.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-12-10
Popularity:
Overview: To reward himself for his new teaching gig in Sapporo, 29-year-old Manabu decides to celebrate New Year's Eve with a little treat at a local sex club. On the verge of... climaxing, he's struck by a brain hemorrhage and ends up buck naked at the hospital surrounded by his worried family who want to know how this happened.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-07-23
Popularity:
Overview: In order to find a missing university student, a detective and his buddy get involved with the owner of a modeling agency.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-01
Popularity:
Overview: Kogure Nao is a shy and cute high school student. One day, Onise Taiga asks her "would you like to date with me on the promise that we will get married?" Nao is unable to turn down his proposal because she is scared of him. Taiga has red hair and piercing eyes. His appearance gives off the impression that he is a bad boy, but he is actually considerate to others and good at cooking. After getting to know Taiga, Nao begins to have feelings for him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-31
Popularity:
Overview: Takako Kojima works as an announcer in Tokyo, Japan. She is tired of living in Tokyo and she doesn't see a bright future for herself. One day, she is assigned to cover a festival in Minamiosumi, Kagoshima Prefecture. Takako spent her childhood in the town of Minamiosumi and this will be her first time going there in many years. Takako reluctantly covers the festival, but she is changed by the people there.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-03-09
Popularity:
Overview: Set in a spa town, Akira Takasu (Masatoshi Nagase) is a carver and a mailman. He keeps in touch with poet Penguin (Masataka Kubota). Penguin has a female fan with the name of Moonlit Night's Star (Sakurako Konishi). She sends letters to Penguin. One day, the female fan appears in front of Akira Takasu and Penguin. These three somehow get involved in a battle between the yakuza.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-02-07
Popularity:
Overview: A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the school's brass band.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-11
Popularity:
Overview: The central Kansai region of Japan is the setting for the historic cities of Sakai and Kyoto. Noda and Koike from We Make Antiques are back and together for the tea ceremony by Furuta Shigenari who is the master of the ceremony. Enter a mysterious new woman named Shino about whom the two have a feeling.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-01-31
Popularity:
Overview: In 1985 Hokkaido, Akiko gets close to a record store clerk after he lends her his copy of a Yutaka Ozaki album.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-04-28
Popularity:
Overview: Young film star Ken Mihara is about to fall from stardom. His rise as a celebrity is solely credited to his onscreen counterpart, Keiko, who recently announced her retirement from acting in order to get married. Feeling frustrated and helpless, Ken turns to alcohol as he begins to provoke fights, attempts to lure a girl into bed, and argues with his wife, who came to visit him at the studio. All she says is thank you and leaves Ken puzzled. Ken Mihara, once a budding young star, takes a job as an extra. Although he's past his prime, he still manages to infuse a young filmmaker with the motivation to pursue her dreams as a director.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-11-09
Popularity:
Overview: A comedic portrait of an unhappy marriage between an unemployed screenwriter and his wife who's supported him for 10 years, based on the writer/director's own autobiography.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-10-28
Popularity:
Overview: In 2030, AI is everywhere including the medical field, finance and security. Artificial intelligence has become essential in people's lives. They have come to completely trust AI, but artificial intelligence becomes out of control and it causes disaster.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-01-31
Popularity:
Overview: In a near-future Japan where every property is haunted except one, a man named Yamada lives contentedly in the last 'normal' home. However, Furano, a wealthy man with a ghost allergy, teams up with property manager Nezu to try and force Yamada out. But Yamada refuses to budge, no matter what they throw at him.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-11-25
Popularity:
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-11-16
Popularity: