Climbers High / Kuraimâzu hai (2008)
Drama
A newspaper editor who deals with the crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123.
Starring: Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Masato Sakai, Masahiro Takashima, Ken'ichi Endô, Masahiro Takashima, Tomorô Taguchi, Machiko Ono
Director: Masato Harada
The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood (2021)
Drama
In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actor who get involved in misadventures while on set.
Starring: Tomorô Taguchi, Yutaka Matsushige, Ken Mitsuishi, Ken'ichi Endô, Gaku Hamada, Nanao
Director: Daigo Matsui
Kiss Me at the Stroke of Midnight / Gozen 0-ji, Kiss shi ni Kite yo (2019)
Comedy | Romance
A stern young girl who yearns for romance, finds herself involved with a celebrity whose image reveals a hidden persona.
Starring: Ryôta Katayose, Kanna Hashimoto, Gordon Maeda, Alissa Yagi, Sae Okazaki, Katsuhiro Suzuki, Wakana Sakai, Ken'ichi Endô
Director: Takehiko Shinjo
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
Border: Keishichô Sôsa Ikka Satsujinhan Sôsa Dai 4-gakkari (TV Mini-Series 2014)
Drama
Ishikawa Ango (Oguri Shun) is a detective with smarts and a keen sense of observation. He's in a great physical shape and also highly ambitious. Ango also only focuses on his work and his personal life is pretty much non-existent. One day, a former police officer is killed by a gun shot. Ango goes to the scene of the crime, but is shot in the head by the killer who is lurking at the crime scene. Ango hovers between life and death. At that time, he thinks to himself "where do people go after they die?" and then "I don't want to die." A miracle then happens. Ango survives with the bullet still lodged in his head. He goes back to work. A new murder case takes place. When Ango goes to the crime scene he notices a boy who looks like he is about to cry, but only Ango is able to see the boy. The boy is the one who was killed. Since Ango was shot, he can now see and talk with the dead.
Starring: Shun Oguri, Munetaka Aoki, Haru, Ken'ichi Endô, Arata Furuta, Ken'ichi Takitô, Tôru Nomaguchi, Kenta Hamano, Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi
Creator: Kazuki Kaneshiro
Gift (2014)
Drama
Zenzo Shinozaki (Kenichi Endo) made a fortune in his lifetime working as a company president. Due to his bad temper, he has been isolated from people. Saori Yamane (Rena Matsui) works as a hostess at a bar. In her past, she killed her mother to protect her younger sibling. Zenzo Shinozaki then proposes to pay Saori 100 million yen for 100 hours of her time. Their lonely trip begins.
Starring: Ken'ichi Endô, Rena Matsui
Director: Tarô Miyaoka
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
Like a Dragon / Ryû ga gotoku: gekijô-ban (2007)
Action | Crime | Drama
Former Yakuza underling Kiryu Kazuma (Kitamura Kazuki), who has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration, and is trying to piece his life together and distance himself from his Yakuza past. Along the way he encounters Haruka ("Natsuo"), a distressed young girl who is trying to find her lost mother (a former club hostess). Unfortunately Kiryu's problems slowly escalate as he is pursued by a former associate, the baseball bat-wielding psycho Majima Goro (Kishitani Goro) who has a grudge to settle with Kiryu.
Starring: Kazuki Kitamura, Gorô Kishitani, Shô Aikawa, Yoshiyoshi Arakawa, Ken'ichi Endô, Yoo Gong
Director: Takashi Miike
Strawberry Night (2013)
Thriller
Reiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi) is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko doesn't come from an elite background, but she has risen fast through the ranks with hard work. Reiko than becomes involved in a murder case named "Strawberry Night" due to the mysterious use of those words surrounding the case…
Starring: Yûko Takeuchi, Takao Osawa, Ken'ichi Endô, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Renji Ishibashi, Tomokazu Miura
Director: Yûichi Satô
Crows Zero / Kurôzu zero (2007)
Action | Thriller
Follows Genji, who's wish is to outdo his father, the leader of a yakuza gang, in everything the old man achieved. His first goal is to become top dog at the scariest school in town, Suzuran High School.
Starring: Shun Oguri, Kyôsuke Yabe, Meisa Kuroki, Takayuki Yamada, Sansei Shiomi, Ken'ichi Endô, Gorô Kishitani
Director: Takashi Miike
