Tag: Hiroshi Abe
Posted on December 9, 2018 |
No comments
The Yellow Handkerchief / Shiawase no kiiroi hankachi (2011)
Drama
Yusaku Shima is sprung from a prison after serving his time for murder. No one comes for him to the prison. He starts traveling to Hokkaido with hesitation, because it is not certain whether or not his ex-wife still waits for him.
Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Maki Horikita, Gaku Hamada, Yui Natsukawa, Keiko Oginome, Ken'ichi Endô, Mitsukô Kusabue, Tamao Nakamura
Director: Hitoshi Iwamoto
IMDb Info
» Read the full post
Tags: Gaku Hamada, Hiroshi Abe, Hitoshi Iwamoto, Keiko Oginome, Ken'ichi Endô, Maki Horikita, Mitsuko Kusabue, Tamao Nakamura, Yui Natsukawa
Posted on December 2, 2018 |
No comments
Crow's Thumb / By Rule of Crow's Thumb / Karasu no oyayubi (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Constantly on the run from a vicious loan shark, two small-time con artists, Take and Tetsu, plan their biggest and most complex con yet in order to get revenge and retire from a life of crime. However, things get complicated when they cross paths with Mahiro, a young woman that Take inadvertently orphaned during a job gone awry years ago. Seeing Mahiro down on her luck, Take tries to relieve his guilt by taking her on as a partner, while hiding his true identity. But as his plan unfolds, Take discovers that he isn't the only one with a secret.
Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Shôji Murakami, Bengaru, Yû Koyanagi, Shôji Murakami, Rena Nônen
Director: Tadafumi Ito
IMDb Info
» Read the full post
Tags: Bengaru, Hiroshi Abe, Rena Nônen, Shôji Murakami, Tadafumi Ito, Yû Koyanagi
Posted on November 28, 2018 |
No comments
Flea-picking Samurai / Nomitori samurai (2018)
Comedy | Drama
Kobayashi Hironoshin is a samurai in the fiefdom of Nagaoka. Unfortunately for him and the area's fleas he displeases the local lord who orders him to immediately become busy ridding the local feline of any and all fleas. That is the bad news. The good news is it is all euphemism for some other occupation. That is good news, right?
Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Shinobu Terajima, Etsushi Toyokawa, Takumi Saitoh, Morio Kazama, Shinobu Ôtake, Atsuko Maeda, Bunshi Katsura Vi
Director: Yasuo Tsuruhashi
IMDb Info
» Read the full post
Tags: Atsuko Maeda, Bunshi Katsura Vi, Etsushi Toyokawa, Hiroshi Abe, Morio Kazama, Shinobu Ôtake, Shinobu Terajima, Takumi Saitoh, Yasuo Tsuruhashi
Posted on August 8, 2018 |
No comments
The Crimes That Bind / Inori no maku ga oriru toki (2018)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Michiko came to Toronto to visit Hiromi, but is instead found murdered. The renter of Michiko's place is missing. The police is having a hard time finding clues and solving the case. There are not any clues and a connection between the dead and absent is not forthcoming. The only hint is an item found near the corpse, but it complicated the matters because it makes the file personal to one of the detectives assigned to the murder.
Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Nanako Matsushima, Junpei Mizobata, Rena Tanaka, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ran Itô, Fumiyo Kohinata
Director: Katsuo Fukuzawa
IMDb Info
» Read the full post
Tags: Fumiyo Kohinata, Hiroshi Abe, Junpei Mizobata, Katsuo Fukuzawa, Nanako Matsushima, Ran Ito, Rena Tanaka, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Posted on August 19, 2017 |
One comment
A Loving Husband / Koisaika Miyamoto (2016)
Drama | Family
after their twenty-something son moves out Yohei, a school teacher, and his wife Miyoko may begin a new phase in their lives. Yohei is taken aback, however, when he comes across divorce papers stashed in the house. rethinking his life he has to plat his next steps with his wife.
Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Yûki Amami
Director: Kazuhiko Yukawa
IMDb Info
» Read the full post
Tags: Hiroshi Abe, Kazuhiko Yukawa, Yûki Amami
Posted on July 8, 2017 |
One comment
Shippû Rondo (2016)
Comedy | Drama
An illegal biological weapon K-55 is stolen from a university lab. The university lab can't even call the police because the secret nature of the weapon. The school lab then receives a message stating that the entire country is now being held hostage and they must pay a ransom of 300 million yen. Kazuyuki Kuribayashi works as a senior researcher at the university lab. He agonizes over his difficult relationship with his adolescent son. Kazuyuki Kuribayashi is selected got a mission to take back the stolen biological weapon.
Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Tadayoshi Ohkura, Yuko Oshima, Tsuyoshi Muro, Keiko Horiuchi
Director: Teruyuki Yoshida
IMDb Info
» Read the full post
Tags: Hiroshi Abe, Keiko Horiuchi, Tadayoshi Ohkura, Teruyuki Yoshida, Tsuyoshi Muro, Yûko Ôshima
Posted on December 1, 2016 |
One comment
After the Storm / Umi yori mo mada fukaku (2016)
Comedy | Drama | Family
Dwelling on his past glory as a prize-winning author, Ryota wastes the money he makes as a private detective on gambling and can barely pay child support. After the death of his father, his aging mother and beautiful ex-wife seem to be moving on with their lives. Renewing contact with his initially distrusting family, Ryota struggles to take back control of his existence and to find a lasting place in the life of his young son – until a stormy summer night offers them a chance to truly bond again.
Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Yôko Maki, Taiyô Yoshizawa, Kirin Kiki
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
IMDb Info
» Read the full post
Tags: Hirokazu Koreeda, Hiroshi Abe, Kirin Kiki, Taiyô Yoshizawa, Yôko Maki
Posted on September 15, 2016 |
No comments
Everest: The Summit of the Gods / Everesuto: Kamigami no itadaki (2016)
Drama
Makoto Fukamachi is a Japanese cameraman. He finds an old camera on a backstreet of Nepal. The camera might possibly solve the mystery of whether George Mallory became the first person to successfully climb Mount Everest on June 8, 1924 or not. Pursuing the old camera's past, Makoto Fukamachi meets legendary Alpinist Joji Habu. Joji Habu is isolated from other people because of his reckless and thoughtless personality.
Starring: Jun'ichi Okada, Hiroshi Abe, Machiko Ono, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Pierre Taki, Shunsuke Kazama, Masahiro Kômoto
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama
IMDb Info
» Read the full post
Tags: Hideyuki Hirayama, Hiroshi Abe, Junichi Okada, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Machiko Ono, Masahiro Kômoto, Pierre Taki, Shunsuke Kazama
Posted on July 23, 2016 |
No comments
Still Walking / Aruitemo aruitemo (2008)
Drama
Middle-aged art restorer Ryota and his sister Chinami return to their childhood home with their own families for a gathering to mark the anniversary of the death of their older brother Junpei, who drowned while saving another boy's life 15 years earlier. The film tracks the subtle events that take place over the course of one summer's day as the family members reconnect while struggling to come to terms with undercurrents of generational conflict and the consequences of loss.
Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Yoshio Harada, Yui Natsukawa, Kazuya Takahashi, Shohei Tanaka, Hotaru Nomoto
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
IMDb Info
» Read the full post
Tags: Hirokazu Koreeda, Hiroshi Abe, Hotaru Nomoto, Kazuya Takahashi, Shohei Tanaka, Yoshio Harada, Yui Natsukawa
Posted on January 24, 2016 |
No comments
Tokyo Raiders / Dong jing gong lüe (2000)
Action | Comedy | Drama | Romance
Lam is a tough private eye who owns Tokyo with his debonair charisma and surprising fighting skills. Lam is hired by jilted bride Macy, who's in Japan tracking her wayward fiance Takashi. Joining them is Yung, a wushu expert masquerading as an interior designer in order to tail Macy for unknown parties.
Starring: Tony Leung, Ekin Cheng, Kelly Chen, Cecilia Cheung, Tôru Nakamura, Hiroshi Abe
Director: Jingle Ma
IMDb Info
» Read the full post
Tags: Cecilia Cheung, Ekin Cheng, Hiroshi Abe, Jingle Ma, Kelly Chen, Tony Leung, Toru Nakamura
Posted on July 4, 2015 |
One comment
Snow on the Blades / Zakurozaka no adauchi (2014)
Action | Drama | History
Shimura Kingo fails his duty to protect the life of the Shogun's chief minister, and spends his life tracking down the assassins. However, all but one of the assassins die before Kingo can reach them. Still, Kingo presses on.
Starring: Kiichi Nakai, Hiroshi Abe, Ryôko Hirosue, Masahiro Takashima, Sei Matobu, Eisaku Yoshida, Yoshikuni Dôchin, Yôichirô Ohmi, Yuria Kizaki, Tatsuya Fuji, Kichiemon Nakamura
Director: Setsurô Wakamatsu
IMDb Info
» Read the full post
Tags: Eisaku Yoshida, Hiroshi Abe, Kichiemon Nakamura, Kiichi Nakai, Masahiro Takashima, Ryôko Hirosue, Sei Matobu, Setsurô Wakamatsu, Tatsuya Fuji, Yôichirô Ohmi, Yoshikuni Dôchin, Yuria Kizaki
Posted on April 28, 2015 |
One comment
Cape Nostalgia / Fushigi na misaki no monogatari (2014)
Drama
A story set in a café situated along a small cape and run by an elderly woman named Etsuko and aided her nephew Koji.
Starring: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Hiroshi Abe, Yûko Takeuchi, Tsurube Shôfukutei
Director: Izuru Narushima
IMDb Info
» Read the full post
Tags: Hiroshi Abe, Izuru Narushima, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tsurube Shôfukutei, Yûko Takeuchi
Posted on January 31, 2015 |
No comments
Rengô kantai shirei chôkan: Yamamoto Isoroku / Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet (2011)
Biography | Drama | War
Admiral Yamamoto was the mastermind behind the attack on Pearl Harbor 1941. The strategy was crystal clear – to strike as hard and as unexpectedly as possible. With the element of surprise as their primary weapon, they succeeded in doing the impossible, taking the U.S. by surprise and knocking out one of the world's most powerful navies. Yamamoto was marked for death by radical Japanese nationalists for his outspoken opposition to any attack on the United States. What dramatic turn of events could have possibly compelled him to orchestrate the infamous early morning raid?
Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Hiroshi Abe, Shûichi Azumaya, Mitsugorô Bandô, Akira Emoto
Director: Izuru Narushima
IMDb Info
» Read the full post
Tags: Akira Emoto, Hiroshi Abe, Izuru Narushima, Koji Yakusho, Mitsugorô Bandô, Shûichi Azumaya
Posted on November 28, 2014 |
One comment
Thermae Romae II / Terumae romae II (2014)
Comedy
In ancient Rome, bathhouse architect Lucius (Hiroshi Abe) becomes famous with designing the original "thermae" (bathhouse). He receives an order to build a thermae in the colosseum to help gladiators recover from their wounds, but faces difficulties. Thus, Lucius travels again to modern day Japan through the time slip. He meets Manami (Aya Ueto) again, who is now a reporter for a magazine which covers bathroom. With the help of the flat face Japanese tribe, Lucius again designs a new thermae. Meanwhile, Emperor Hadrian (Masachika Ichimura) wants to keep the peace with the thermae, but the Senate wants to extend the land by using force. Emperor Hadrian and the Senate now have a confrontation and Rome becomes divided.
Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Aya Ueto, Kazuki Kitamura, Riki Takeuchi, Kai Shishido, Takashi Sasano, Masachika Ichimura
Director: Hideki Takeuchi
IMDb Info
» Read the full post
Tags: Aya Ueto, Hideki Takeuchi, Hiroshi Abe, Kai Shishido, Kazuki Kitamura, Masachika Ichimura, Riki Takeuchi, Takashi Sasano
Posted on July 10, 2014 |
One comment
Trick The Movie: Last Stage / Torikku Gekijoban Rasto Suteji (2014)
Comedy | Mystery
Trade company employee Shinichi (Noriyuki Higashiyama) recommends to Naoko (Yukie Nakama) and Jiro (Hiroshi Abe) to go to a beautiful place abroad. There, Naoko and Jiro meets tribal shaman (Kiko Mizuhara) and sees through her tricks. The shaman has refused to leave her place.
Starring: Yukie Nakama, Hiroshi Abe, Katsuhisa Namase, Yôko Nogiwa, Noriyuki Higashiyama, Kazuki Kitamura, Kiko Mizuhara
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
IMDb Info
» Read the full post
Tags: Hiroshi Abe, Katsuhisa Namase, Kazuki Kitamura, Kiko Mizuhara, Noriyuki Higashiyama, Yôko Nogiwa, Yukie Nakama, Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Posted on February 14, 2014 |
One comment
Trick the Movie: Psychic Battle Royale / Trick: The Movie 3 / Gekijouban trick: Reinouryokusha batoru roiyaru (2010)
Comedy | Mystery
Naoko Yamada (Yukie Nakama), a female magician, and Jiro Ueda (Hiroshi Abe), a genius physicist, are back again to solve the mystery of supernatural happenings. In a village where people are cured, a battle royale is held to find the successor for shamen Kamahaeri. Naoko attempts to gain big money by participating in the battle royale, while Jiro is invited to the village to stop this custom. Naoko and Ueda then challenges this amazing trick…
Starring: Yukie Nakama, Hiroshi Abe, Naohito Fujiki, Ken Matsudaira, Katsuhisa Namase, Yôko Nogiwa, Takeru Satô
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
IMDb Info
» Read the full post
Tags: Hiroshi Abe, Katsuhisa Namase, Ken Matsudaira, Naohito Fujiki, Takeru Sato, Yôko Nogiwa, Yukie Nakama, Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Posted on February 12, 2014 |
One comment
Trick: The Movie 2 (2006)
Comedy | Crime | Mystery
Ueda and Naoko accept to hear a proposal from a young man (Yuta Hiraoka) living in Fumo-mura village. The proposal is to bring back his childhood friend, Misako (Maki Horikita), who was taken away by a psychic, Hakogami Sawako (Nagisa Katahira), 10 years ago. Upon request, the pair head for Hakogami-jima where Hakogami lives. They succeed in bringing Misako back, however, it incurs the wrath of Hakogami and they are sucked into a situation that takes the pretense of a paranormal phenomenon. Naoko manages to see through the trick, and Sawako kills herself as a result. The incident reveals Sawako's sorrowful past as she was one of its victims as well.
Starring: Yukie Nakama, Hiroshi Abe, Katsuhisa Namase, Yôko Nogiwa, Yôko Ohshima
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
IMDb Info
» Read the full post
Tags: Hiroshi Abe, Katsuhisa Namase, Yôko Nogiwa, Yôko Ohshima, Yukie Nakama, Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Posted on February 12, 2014 |
One comment
Trick: The Movie (2002)
Comedy | Mystery
Disaster befalls a village's inhabitants every 300 years. A popular self-styled magician named Naoko (Yukie Nakama) is summoned as a deity to rid the people of their anxiety. But there are many would-be deities there, each posing as a god. When a series of bizarre incidents occur, Naoko is cornered with a genius physicist (Hiroshi Abe) and Detective Yabe (Katsuhisa Namase). Do deities actually exist, or are they charlatans?
Starring: Yukie Nakama, Hiroshi Abe, Katsuhisa Namase, Shinji Yamashita, Miyoko Yoshimoto
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
IMDb Info
» Read the full post
Tags: Hiroshi Abe, Katsuhisa Namase, Miyoko Yoshimoto, Shinji Yamashita, Yukie Nakama, Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Posted on January 30, 2014 |
2 comments
White Spring / Shiroi haru (TV Series 2009)
Drama
Former yakuza Haruo is finally released from prison after completing his sentence. With nine years worth of prison gratuities in hand, he stops at a restaurant to enjoy a good meal, but all of his money ends up being stolen. With nothing left, he spends the night at a net cafe, and he manages to look up his old friend from his yakuza days. When Haruo visits the next day, he learns that his old girlfriend Mariko was living with another man, but later died of illness. Haruo, who had committed murder 9 years earlier to earn the money for Mariko's medical treatment, is shocked and angered. He decides to track down that other man, who runs a bakery with his wife and daughter Sachi. Haruo later runs into Sachi at the park, but he has yet to find out the truth about her.
Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Nozomi Ôhashi, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Ken'ichi Endô, Yûya Endô, Hitomi Fukui, David Itô, Mahiru Konno, Kouki Murakami, Risa Nagai, Hiroko Nakajima, Miho Shiraishi
Creator: Masaya Ozaki
TVDB Info
» Read the full post
Tags: David Itô, Hiroko Nakajima, Hiroshi Abe, Hitomi Fukui, Ken'ichi Endô, Kouki Murakami, Mahiru Konno, Masaya Ozaki, Miho Shiraishi, Nozomi Ôhashi, Risa Nagai, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Yûya Endô
Posted on August 13, 2013 |
One comment
Before the Vigil / Tsuya no yoru (2013)
Drama
Matsuoi (Hiroshi Abe) and his wife Tsuya moved to Oshima City because of her unpredictable character. Even though Tsuya continues to have affairs, Matsuoi loves her and is a devoted husband. Tsuya is then diagnosed with a cancer and later goes into a coma. Matsuoi then thinks of his wife's lovers. Matsui goes to those men and informs them of Tatsuya's condition. The other women in the lives of those men are shocked and begin to re-examine their views of their men.
Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Jun Fubuki, Yûichi Haba, Gorô Kishitani, Kyôko Koizumi
Director: Isao Yukisada
IMDb Info
» Read the full post
Tags: Gorô Kishitani, Hiroshi Abe, Isao Yukisada, Jun Fubuki, Kyôko Koizumi, Yûichi Haba
