Hiroyuki Watanabe

Shoichi Yomi bravely fights in an attempt to end an underworld battle in Hiroshima and as a result becomes a vegetable. Ten years later, Yomi comes to his senses and visits his former sworn brother, Eto, in Shinjuku. The devious Tagami, Yomi's old enemy, is well acquainted with the Okumura gang which controlled Shinjuku. Learning of Yomi recovery, Tagami plots to line his own pockets by maneuvering the Okumura gang and a Taiwanese gang, between which a fight is about to erupt...

Audition and Ichi the Killer director Takashi Miike takes the helm for this mystery about two men named Raita who attempt to solve a series of perplexing murders. Japanese businessman Raita has just moved into his new apartment when he meets his next-door neighbor Raita, a seasoned detective. Soon thereafter, one of the detective's clients is killed and her liver removed. In short order, another female murder victim has her kidney's removed and a third, her lungs. (AllMovie.com)

Daimon and his robot Zaborger fight evil forces trying to destroy the world.

An evil sorcerer summons seven legendary Samurai warriors to aid him in his conquest of the world. One valiant warrior stands against them. (imdb)

Legendary samurai Jubei Yagyu must face off against a necromancer and his army of the undead in order to rescue Ohiro the young ninja girl from the clutches of Inshun Hozoin, the evil man slated to become lord of darkness on the eve of Armageddon. No living man is a match for Jubei's sword, but what skill can this mythic swordsman employ to defeat an army of the undead? (Rotten Tomatoes)

During the Edo period of Japan, out of the fear of losing authority, the Tokugawa shogunate hires the Shinsengumi to bring down the Imperial Court. However, the Satsuma Clan finds out about the Tokugawa's scheme and sends the last five Kunoichi (female ninjas) of Hiryu Ninja Clan, to spy on the Shinsengumi. Meanwhile, an evil skeletal demon is brought to life to murder the Kunoichi ninjas and destroy the world. (Amazon)

Nearly a shot-by-shot remake of the 1935 film of the same title by director Sadao Yamanaka. (imdb)

In a change from previous Ultraman movies, this one takes place in our own universe, in which Ultraman is just a popular kids' TV show. A young boy (and Ultraman addict) named Tsutomu finds a mysterious glowing ball that tells him it can make wishes come true. The one thing Tsutomu wants more than anything else is to meet Gamu, Ultraman's human counterpart, so he can give the boy some pointers on standing up to the school bully. (imdb)

An action/thriller centered on a woman who faces down assassins sent by her ex, a mob boss, while holed up in her apartment. (imdb)

In Ishikawa prefecture, mysterious incidents occur frequently and there is always a bundle of long creepy hair left behind. Newspaper reporter Hideo Akihara is interested in the story on the news and rushes to the hospital where a survivor of the incident is hospitalized.

Turbulent life of Kiwa, the successor of the most prominent yakuza in Osaka, the Domoto Clan. (themoviedb)

When Ryoko was in Europa to study music, her lover died in traffic accident. Ryoko believed that she had psychic power that killed her boyfriend. Ryoko returned to Japan, and was sent to a mental hospital. When she recovered, her brother-in-law Koji decided to look after her. (imdb)

After the battle against Zogu was over, both Gamu and Fujimiya began to live normal lives until another threat arrives on Earth - a surviving monster soldier of Zogu's army named Gakuzom.

Kuroiwa, a high school teacher who carries a “Big Magnum 44” gun is sent to a school that is full of violence. Can Kuroiwa reform the students with guns?

Kei is a professional motorcycle racer with a young daughter from an earlier marriage and a busy schedule that takes him to West Berlin.

A yakuza movie starring Koji Matoba depicts the lives of men left behind in the times. At the Yokohama-based Ninkyo Yamaguchi-gumi, the drug business is legal according to the teachings of the leader, Engetsu. Mouri of the Ryuyasu group assassinates the leader of the Yamagami group, a hostile organization that trades drugs, according to the teachings of Engetsu, bu...

A rogue Kamen Rider named Gaoh hijacks the DenLiner and steals the Owner's Master Pass with the intent to travel back in time to Japan's Edo Period to retrieve the legendary God's Train while Ryotaro has lost all memory of Den-O.

Based on the manga by Tsuchiya Garon (aka Marley Carib) and Kawaguchi Kaiji, serialized in Action in the 80s. A detective thriller in which former boxer Shozo is thrown into a web of intrigue when he picks up a ringing phone in a room whose occupant he is supposed to be following.