Takeshi Kusaka

The Weavers of Nishijin captures the process of traditional textile manufacture in Nishijin.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Takeshi Kusaka

Bison, the ruthless leader of the international terrorist organization Shadowlaw, has been desperately searching for the greatest fighter on the...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Koujiro Shimizu

A motocross rider avenges his father's death

Genre: Drama

Cast: Taishu Kase

Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Matsumura

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kōji Takahashi

Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Kaga

It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yasufumi Hayashi

Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother's struggle to rebuild their...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

Genre: History

Cast: Atsuo Nakamura

An adventurous young boy named Jack climbs a giant beanstalk to a magical kingdom governed by a greedy, tyrannical giant.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Masachika Ichimura

Shingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko wants to know who is the true father of Takashi, born by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Documentary on Japan-Korea relations

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Takeshi Kusaka

The biography of Mifune Chizuko a woman clairvoyant.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sanshō Shinsui

Japanese crime film.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

Deaths in Tokimeki tells the story of a nondescript hitman, in a remote country villa, waiting to carry out a job: the assassination of the leader of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Sawada

Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

Ryo, a young former banker, gets beaten up over a debt from gambling. A yakuza boss saves him, and Ryo decides to train to become a yakuza under him.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Takanori Jinnai

The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed and plenty of leftovers to munch on....

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi

The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Takaaki Enoki

Tadashi Iki returns to Japan from a Soviet gulag 11 years after being captured during the invasion of Manchuria. He is offered a position in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to farmers...

Genre: History

Cast: Mikijiro Hira

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masato Sakai

The year is 1945. After the horrific fire-bombings of the Pacific War levels Japan to the ground, the government decides to consult spiritual...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kyūsaku Shimada

Do humans have the right to judge and kill other humans? This program includes a history of capital punishment around the world through documentary...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Takeshi Kusaka

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kathy Chow Hoi-Mei

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kathy Chow Hoi-Mei