Susumu Terajima

The story of a Yakuza warrior who introduces the code of honor and discipline into the L.A. criminal world. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Without a home and feeling no obligation to Japanese society or Yakuza, Ryuichi (Takeuchi Riki) and his small group decide to make their own place by trying to take over the Shinjuku underworld and the drug trade from Taiwan. As they plan an all-out-assault on the remaining Chinese and Japanese mafia kings, only Detective Jojima (Aikawa Sho) stands between them and complete domination. (imdb)

When a Yakuza boss named Anjo disappears with 300 million yen, his chief henchman, a sadomasochistic man named Kakihari, and the rest of his mob goons go looking for him. After capturing and torturing a rival Yakuza member looking for answers, they soon realize they have the wrong man and begin looking for the man named Jijii who tipped them off in the first place... (imdb)

A comic, violent, tragically hip first feature that brings a fresh new look to a classic genre, the couple-on-the-run. Derived from a manga, the bizarre collection of characters in this gangster story have been brought to life in an eruption of vivid color, surf punk music, flashy designer wear, outlandish campyness and one long, fast paced chase. (Two Boots Pioneer Theater)

Nishi is a cop whose wife is slowly dying of Leukemia. One of his partners gets shot on the job and is confined to a wheel chair for the rest of his life and becomes suicidal (imdb)

Several yakuza from Tokyo are sent to Okinawa to help end a gang war. The war escalates and the Tokyo drifters decide to lay low at the beach. (imdb)

Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano... (imdb)

The lives of a young, hearing-impaired and gloomy couple are fulfilled after the boy holds interest in surfboarding. (imdb)

Live-action sci-fi movie based on a 1973 Japanese animé of the same name (Shinzo Ningen Casshân). Theme song by Utada Hikaru. (imdb)

After people die, they spend a week with counselors, also dead, who help them pick one memory, the only memory they can take to eternity... (imdb)

Naisu no Mori: The First Contact is the only film that features an ejaculating Ass-Television that plugs into a schoolgirl's navel to save an alien planet and give birth to a tiny sushi chef. (SFIndie.com)

A man and woman fall into an erotic nightmare when they are stalked by a disturbed man. (imdb)

..Town elders hope to exploit international fascination with Polynesian culture by building a Hawaiian-theme resort as bait for Japanese tourists and promoting it by training local girls as hula dancers.. Their teacher.., a hard-drinking, smart-mouthed Tokyo dancer whose very presence causes local parents to grouse that their daughters are being corrupted. In due course, the spunky teacher whips her crew of social misfits into professional artists and freethinking women. (movies.nytimes.com)

Morning breaks over a desolate factory yard. One of the plants has been shut down. The men, now unemployed, stand around in stunned confusion. No one moves. Finally, one of the workers, a man by the name of Igarashi, takes a step forward. Aimlessly, he starts wandering the streets... (Yahoo! Movies)

A man seeks revenge for the kidnapping and murder of his young daughter and finds that like the killer, he too has a dark side. (reelmoviecritic.com)

A radio broadcast issues a public service announcement reminding listeners of the third anniversary memorial service for the victims of the Ark of Truth cult disaster, a biological terrorist attack that introduced a genetically engineered virus into the nation's water supply, leading to the deaths of 128 people and an additional 8,000 illnesses. (filmref.com)

A yearly reunion of a dysfunctional family.

In 1973, Advant Gamera self-destructed to kill a murder of Gyaos, which were attacking a small village. One of the survivors was a little boy. Thirty three years later (2006), the little boy has grown up and owns a small restaurant in the Japanese coastal town of Iseshima. He has a son named Toru. (Wikipedia)

Nishida and Yamazaki are about to rob a bank when a robber appears with a bag of money and cops chasing him wearing the same mask. Both Nishida and the robber are killed by oncoming cars, and Yamazaki ends up with the bad of money. What transpires next can only be described as the worst possible day each and every person. (whatismyname)

Shuji ... starts going to church with his cynical older brother and there he meets the orphan girl Eri, who is in his class at school. Shuji develops a crush on her and takes up running so that he can spend more time with her. However, when Eri is injured when a truck's cargo falls on her, her relatives whisk her away to Tokyo. Shuji is desperate to go after her, but his journey will not be an easy one as he encounters yakuza, prostitutes and a priest with a shady past. (www.yesasia.com)

About two punks living on the edge of the Japanese yakuza underworld

The beautiful Sheela (NorA) has betrayed her abusive Yakuza lover and has stolen a cache of money to start a new life. She enlists the aid of a young former Yakuza underling, Sai (Takeda Shinji) and together they make their daring escape. Sheela hopes to be able to do all of this by her pending birthday, her so-called "Chrysalis Day", a day where she hopes to make a new destiny for herself and her new love. (asianmediawiki.com)

Wise and deliciously witty, Ryosuke Hashiguchi's film chronicles eight years of a marriage: the easy-going husband becomes a courtroom artist, while his high-strung wife nearly has a breakdown. (sensasian.com)

The lives of three washed-up nobodies intersect as they are all drawn together in one way or another by baseball. (HKFlix)

A salaryman is hijacked by bank robbers. (imdb)

A life-size blow-up doll develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk. (imdb)

Warlord Toyotumi Hideyoshi rises to power in the late 16th century after the assassination of his lord Oda Nobunaga. In these chaotic times, chivalrous bandit Goemon rises as a hero among commoners, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. In one of his many escapades, he steals a box from a merchant, and passes it off to a street urchin. But this turns out to be no ordinary box as warlord Toyotomi's right-hand man Ishida soon sends ninja and childhood friend Saizo after Goemon. (www.yesasia.com)

A kind-hearted psychic takes it upon herself to help a girl struggling with Multiple Personality Disorder.

Staff and guests at a hotel endure a heady night of chaotic festivity and scandal.

In a chaotic, strife-filled city where everything is up for grabs, fate brings four orphans into the life of Kei (Hyde), a man with eternal life - a vampire. The five tough and vulnerable characters struggle to find love and friendship in a world of conflict and horror. Caught in a web of violent times, they end up at war with one another in a bittersweet mix of love, hate, and gun life. (jeremysilman.com)

The film tells the story of a Drive-In worker and a young tramp who has been left alone by her boyfriend somewhere in Hokkaido. Things seem to work out at the beginning but as time goes by the newly formed relationship between the tramp and the Drive-In worker starts to show the workers harmful will of possession. (imdb)

Mayo, the Black Angel in this film, has orders from cross-dressing Mama (Shingo Tsurumi from "Freeze Me") to kill a powerful Yakuza syndicate leader, but doesn't get the job done because one of his bodyguards is the same man who saved her from a rape years prior, whom she has feelings for. (imdb)

A blind master swordsman attempts to lead a quiet life with his wife but he is provoked back into battle. (imdb)

Chiyo runs a store, the same small place where her mother, now deceased, once sold baked goods of local renown. Her daughter, however, lacks the strength to continue the tradition. Instead, like the other people who live nearby, she blunders along, bound by her phobias and tired of a life filled with conflict rather than with people close to her heart. (kviff.com)

About the adventures of Rantaro and other ninja apprentices at an elite ninjutsu academy. (imdb)

Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a young man named Aoyagi who is trying to rally his neighbourhood into chasing all the yakuza elements out of town...the results of this however may lead to worse of scenarios taking place for the whole city.

Top model Lilico undergoes multiple cosmetic surgeries to her entire body. She's looked upon as an icon for beauty. As her multiple surgeries begins to take its toll, Lilico makes the lives of those around her miserable as she tries to deal with career and personal problems. (AsianWiki)

After coming back from a night out on Tokyo, Junnosuke falls asleep on his girfriend's apartment, while waiting for her to come back from the market. He wakes up the next morning, only to find out that she never returned.

The Thirteen Steps is a Japanese movie directed by Masahiko Nagasawa. It was released by Toho on February 8, 2003. Based on a novel by Kazuaki Takano, the film follows an aging prison guard (Tsutomu Yamazaki) as he attempts to prove the innocence of a death row inmate (Takashi Sorimachi) by finding the perpetrator of the murder he was unjustly convicted of. (Eigapedia)

Based on a 1967 children's book by British writer Joan G. Robinson. Anna (voiced by Sara Takatsuki), an unhappy 12-year-old orphan who calls her kindly adoptive mother "aunt," and Marnie (Kasumi Arimura), an outgoing, if mysterious, blonde-haired girl become friends while Anna is spending a summer on the Hokkaido coast with her mother's relatives. It quickly becomes apparent, however, that Marnie is not what she seems and that the story will be more than an ode to budding female friendship. (japantimes.co.jp)

A fantasy love story that drifts between this world and heaven. Chasuke is in charge of making tea in heaven. He has feelings for a human woman named Yuri whom he has seen from a writer who is scripting her life from heaven. He knows that Yuri is condemned to die in a car accident. To save the woman, Chasuke goes down to this world. (imdb)

A young man, Kazuo, joins a new cult religion even though he sees through the initial recruitment pretense, and participating in the activities of a new social phenomenon, some of whose members genuinely believe in the principles and practice as preached, while others have more Machiavellian motives. (imdb)

One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cell in Akita Prison. He forces open the glass window and breaks out of jail. This crime even reaches the ears of Urata Susumu, the chief warden of Kosuge Prison in Tokyo. Urata had been in charge of those sentenced to life in the prison until last year. (The Movie Database)

Saeko and Yukako live next door in a small Tokyo apartment complex. After the March 11th earthquake, Saeko and Yukako both feel heavy unease. Saeko, whose husband has asked for a divorce, worries whether her daughter may get exposed to radiation. Yukako is also frightened of the radiation and insists to her husband that they must move. (asainwiki.com)

The Yakuza clan Inoshika decides to help a small family business, Taxi Tanaka, lured by the clan Jinryûkaï and deeply in debt. (letterboxd)

Omnibus film. 1. Electric Shock ("Kanden") Director: Ai Watanabe Cast: Rumi Hasegawa 2. Good Morning Mako ("Ohayo Mako-chan") Director & Writer: Tomoko Fukai Cast: Sou Hirosawa 3. Love Revolutions Director: Ai Watanabe Writer: Tomoko Fukai

A down-on-his-luck dancer falls in love with a unhappy teacher at an all girls school. (imdb)

Keisuke Kuroda wakes up in a hospital bed unable to remember who he is. While sneaking out of the hospital, he sees a glimpse of the news and realizes that he is the Prime Minister of Japan. His approval rating was the lowest in the history of modern Japan. During a recent speech, a citizen had thrown a rock at him causing him to lose his memory. Keisuke Kuroda's subordinate takes him to the official residence of the prime minister where he tries to implement changes to the country.

The very first V-Cinema production; a stripped to the bone action film about a cop avenging his partner's (the very young Riki Takeuchi) death. (bulletsnbabesdvd.com)

Detectives Shintarou Sakurai (Sho Aikawa) and Koichi Hikage (Susumu Terajima) are partners. They are also corrupt and often blackmail criminal groups and seize their money. One day, the Chief of Police becomes aware that 2.5 million yen in seized money is missing. He orders Shintarou and Koichi to bring the money in by tomorrow morning. Shintarou and Koichi are in big trouble. They then read an article about a pension fund embezzlement case involving 6 billion yen. The prime suspect of the pensi

Hideyoshi Date (Katsunori Takahashi) is at his wits' end when we first meet him in. Deep in debt, with no job, no prospects, and no family, he's ready to end it all, and tries to do so, but he doesn't even have the nerve to commit suicide. Wacky events are set in motion when Densuke (Roi Hayashi), a grade school boy, gets into Hideyoshi's cab and demands to be taken ...

Togashi, the leader of Togashi-gumi, boasts enormous power. The leader of the Ryuokai is sent to prison because he distrusts him who controls the town, and a mysterious man who calls himself Takishima appears in front of Shinshiro who becomes the leader of the group.

Eiko Yagami is a "Marubo", a unit of Ueno Central Police Station's Organized Crime Division which deals directly with organized gangs to try and keep the peace. However, Eiko has some sidelines: she's a moneylender to her fellow police officers without charging interest in return for information and is also willing to do the odd side job for those on the criminal side for the money. One day, Kasumi, who is the daughter of the Senma-gumi gang's leader, is found stabbed to death...

Seung Ho goes to Japan to meet with his first love. There he stays at Miu's house. Then love begins between them.

Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears (imdb)

Three grifting siblings do everything they can to solve the murder of their parents before the statute of limitations runs out. (imdb)