Smokin' on the Moon / Niwatori Suta (2018)
Comedy | Drama
Two slackers work at a midnight bar while also selling marijuana; when they get dangerously close to some unhinged yakuza, they follow wildly divergent fates.
Starring: Arata Iura, Ryô Narita, Saramary, Kanji Tsuda, Eiji Okuda, Ryôhei Abe
Director: Yûichirô Tanaka
Dead Sushi / Deddo sushi (2012)
Action | Comedy | Horror
Keiko, the daughter of a legendary sushi chef, runs away from home when his Karate-style regimen becomes too severe. Finding work at a rural hot springs inn, she is ridiculed by the eccentric staff and guests.
Starring: Rina Takeda, Shigeru Matsuzaki, Kentarô Shimazu, Tôru Tezuka, Kanji Tsuda, Takamasa Suga, Takashi Nishina, Asami, Yui Murata, Jiji Bû
Director: Noboru Iguchi
Vampire Clay / Chi o sû nendo (2017)
Horror
A plasticine demon devours the denizens of a rural art school.
Starring: Ena Fujita, Asuka Kurosawa, Yuyu Makihara, Ryô Shinoda, Momoka Sugimoto, Kyôka Takeda, Kanji Tsuda
Director: Sôichi Umezawa
Outrage Coda / Outrage: Final Chapter / Autoreiji Saishusho (2017)
Action | Crime | Drama
Five years after surviving the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo now works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a renowned fixer whose influence extends into Japan. A relatively minor incident causes tensions to rise between Chang Enterprises and the faraway powerful Hanabishi. The growing conflict gets out of hand and ignites a ferocious power struggle among the top echelons of the Hanabishi. When eventually Chang's life is endangered, devoted yakuza Otomo returns to Japan to settle things once and for all.
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Toshiyuki Nishida, Tatsuo Nadaka, Ken Mitsuishi, Hakuryû, Ikuji Nakamura, Sansei Shiomi, Yutaka Matsushige, Kanji Tsuda, Ren Osugi
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Lowlife Love / Gesu no ai (2015)
Drama | Romance
Tetsuo is a lowlife. A film director with a small indie hit many years back, yet he has never gotten any further as he refuses to go against his 'artistic integrity'. He's a real loser. Despite being in his late 30s, he still lives with his mother and sister, borrowing money off them and scrounging from all he comes in contact with.
Starring: Denden, Kanji Tsuda, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Kanji Furutachi
Director: Eiji Uchida
A Courtesan with Flowered Skin / Hanayoi dôchû (2014)
Drama | Romance
The New Yoshiwara pleasure district, in the twilight years of the Edo Period. Popular prostitute Asagiri (Yumi Adachi) will soon be freed from her indentured service. One day at a local festival, she meets young artisan Hanjiro (Yasushi Fuchikami) which changes her destiny. Asagiri feels love for the first time in her life, but history involving Hanjiro's client (Kanji Tsuda) leads to tragic circumstances.
Starring: Yumi Adachi, Yasushi Fuchikami, Ena Koshino, Tomochika, Saki Takaoka, Kanji Tsuda, Yôko Mitsuya, Hanako Takigawa, Ayano Tachibana
Director: Keisuke Toyoshima
Ju-on: The Grudge / Ju-on 3 (2002)
Horror
In Japan, when the volunteer social assistant Rika Nishina is assigned to visit a family, she is cursed and chased by two revengeful fiends: Kayako, a woman brutally murdered by her husband and her son Toshio. Each person that lives in or visits the haunted house is murdered or disappears.
Starring: Megumi Okina, Misaki Itô, Misa Uehara, Yui Ichikawa, Kanji Tsuda
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Samurai Cat / Neko zamurai (2014)
Comedy
Kyutaro is a swordsman who was feared by people at one time. Now, he is poor and lives alone quietly. Kyutaro doesn‘t know how to earn money without using his sword. By chance, Sakichi happens to see Kyutaro‘s swordsmanship and offers to hire him for a job. Sakichi wants Kyutaro to kill a white cat named `Tamanojoh` which his boss Yozaemon is fascinated by. According to Sakichi, after Yozaemon began to raise the cat, he changed to a childlike person. Kyutaro initially turns him down thinking its an absurd request, but decides to take the job for the money. When Kyutaro opens the door to where the cat is, he sees the lovely white cat.
Starring: Kazuki Kitamura, Misako Renbutsu, Yasufumi Terawaki, Yôsuke Asari, Shigeyuki Totsugi, Yoriko Dôguchi, Yôichi Nukumizu, Kanji Tsuda, Megumi Yokoyama
Director: Takeshi Watanabe, Yoshitaka Yamaguchi
Tokyo Sonata / Tôkyô sonata (2008)
Drama
An ordinary family in modern Japan is caught in the throes of inert pride, stymied by their own inability to communicate honestly with one another. Lies lead to suspicion, until the veneer of their civility shatters, with tragic consequences.
Starring: Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi, Kai Inowaki, Haruka Igawa, Kanji Tsuda, Kazuya Kojima, Kôji Yakusho
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Dead Sushi / Deddo sushi (2012)
Action | Comedy | Horror
Keiko, the daughter of a legendary sushi chef, runs away from home when his Karate-style regimen becomes too severe. Finding work at a rural hot springs inn, she is ridiculed by the eccentric staff and guests, including the employees of a pharmaceutical firm there on a work retreat. But little do they know that a disgruntled former researcher has also come to the inn with a plan for revenge, using a serum he developed that can awaken the murderous instincts of ordinary sushi, turning it into bloodthirsty monsters! Keiko must use both her sushi training and her martial arts skills to save the others and defeat the flying killers.
Starring: Rina Takeda, Shigeru Matsuzaki, Kentarô Shimazu, Kanji Tsuda, Asami, Jiji Bû
Director: Noboru Iguchi
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Garo the Movie: Red Requiem (2010)
Action | Fantasy
A knight in a suit of golden armor battles with a magical beast out to destroy the world.
Starring: Yôsuke Saitô, Kanji Tsuda, Mary Matsuyama, Akira Nakao, Yôsuke Saitô
Director: Keita Amemiya
