Tag: Toshiyuki Nishida
Posted on July 24, 2022 |
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What to Do with the Dead Kaiju? / Daikaijû no atoshimatsu (2022)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief, the giant corpse left behind begins to slowly rot and bloat. If it explodes, the nation will be destroyed.
Starring: Ryôsuke Yamada, Tao Tsuchiya, Gaku Hamada, Joe Odagiri, Toshiyuki Nishida
Director: Satoshi Miki
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Tags: Gaku Hamada, Joe Odagiri, Ryôsuke Yamada, Satoshi Miki, Tao Tsuchiya, Toshiyuki Nishida
Posted on May 1, 2022 |
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The Magic Hour / Za majikku awâ (2008)
Comedy
A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a mysterious hitman — an assassin the hustler has no idea how to contact. Instead, he hires an actor to play the role, though the thespian has no idea what he's getting into.
Starring: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Kôichi Satô, Eri Fukatsu, Toshiyuki Nishida, Haruka Ayase
Director: Kôki Mitani
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Tags: Eri Fukatsu, Haruka Ayase, Kôichi Satô, Kôki Mitani, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Toshiyuki Nishida
Posted on October 18, 2019 |
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Star Watching Dog / Hoshi mamoru inu (2011)
Drama
A middle-aged divorcee embarks on a journey across Japan with his dog Happy. Along the way, they have to overcome health issues and financial difficulties.
Starring: Toshiyuki Nishida, Tetsuji Tamayama, Umika Kawashima, Kimiko Yo, Yôichi Nukumizu
Director: Tomoyuki Takimoto
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Tags: Kimiko Yo, Tetsuji Tamayama, Tomoyuki Takimoto, Toshiyuki Nishida, Umika Kawashima, Yôichi Nukumizu
Posted on May 24, 2018 |
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Outrage Beyond / Outrage 2 / Autoreiji: Biyondo (2012)
Action | Crime | Drama
As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West.
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Ryo Kase, Toshiyuki Nishida, Shun Sugata, Machiko Ono, Tomokazu Miura
Director: Takeshi Kitano
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Tags: Machiko Ono, Ryo Kase, Shun Sugata, Takeshi Kitano, Tomokazu Miura, Toshiyuki Nishida
Posted on April 30, 2018 |
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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
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Tags: Hakuryû, Ikuji Nakamura, Kanji Tsuda, Ken Mitsuishi, Ren Ôsugi, Sansei Shiomi, Takeshi Kitano, Tatsuo Nadaka, Toshiyuki Nishida, Yutaka Matsushige
Posted on February 27, 2018 |
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Miracles of the Namiya General Store / Namiya zakkaten no kiseki (2017)
Drama | Fantasy
A general store that gives advice turning magical one night. Accidently, the time line switched somehow makes the current present and the best present for the people who want to be advised.
Starring: Ryôsuke Yamada, Toshiyuki Nishida, Machiko Ono, Nijirô Murakami, Kan'ichirô Satô, Kento Hayashi, Riko Narumi, Mugi Kadowaki, Masato Hagiwara
Director: Ryuichi Hiroki
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Tags: Kan'ichirô Satô, Kento Hayashi, Machiko Ono, Masato Hagiwara, Mugi Kadowaki, Nijirô Murakami, Riko Narumi, Ryôsuke Yamada, Ryuichi Hiroki, Toshiyuki Nishida
Posted on March 31, 2017 |
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Hayabusa (2011)
Adventure | Drama
May 9, 2003 – The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launches its unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa into orbit. Its mission is to collect samples from a near Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa. Hayabusa is scheduled to make contact with the asteroid in November 2005. As the spacecraft approaches its rendezvous date with the asteroid problems arise for the JAXA staff back on Earth.
Starring: Yûko Takeuchi, Toshiyuki Nishida, Masahiro Takashima, Shirô Sano, Kôji Yamamoto, Shingo Tsurumi
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
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Tags: Kôji Yamamoto, Masahiro Takashima, Shingo Tsurumi, Shirô Sano, Toshiyuki Nishida, Yukihiko Tsutsumi, Yûko Takeuchi
Posted on July 11, 2016 |
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A Living Promise / Jinsei no yakusoku (2016)
Drama
After receiving news about the death of his estranged friend, a workaholic IT company executive heads to his hometown to fulfill a promise he made.
Starring: Yutaka Takenouchi, Yôsuke Eguchi, Toshiyuki Nishida, Tôri Matsuzaka, Yûka, Eiko Koike, Jun Miho
Director: Kan Ishibashi
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Tags: Eiko Koike, Jun Miho, Kan Ishibashi, Tôri Matsuzaka, Toshiyuki Nishida, Yôsuke Eguchi, Yuka, Yutaka Takenouchi
Posted on May 6, 2016 |
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Galaxy Turnpike / Gyarakushî kaidou (2015)
Comedy | Sci-Fi
The year is 2265, and there exists a restaurant on a galactic road that connects Earth and a Space Colony.
Starring: Shingo Katori, Haruka Ayase, Shinobu Ohtake, Toshiyuki Nishida, Yûka
Director: Kôki Mitani
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Tags: Haruka Ayase, Kôki Mitani, Shingo Katori, Shinobu Ohtake, Toshiyuki Nishida, Yuka
Posted on November 29, 2015 |
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Love & Peace / Rabu ＆ Pisu (2015)
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
In the summer of 2015 in Tokyo, Japan. Ryoichi dreamed of becoming a punk rocker when he was younger, but became a timid salaryman at a musical instrument parts company. He has feelings for Yuko, but he can't tell her how he feels. One day, he has a fateful meeting with a turtle on the rooftop of a department store. He names the turtle Pikadon and he adores it, but his co-workers laugh at him. Ryoichi throws Pikadon into the toilet. He regrets what he did. The turtle though goes through sewerage and meets an old man who lives in the underground. Something then happens.
Starring: Hiroki Hasegawa, Kumiko Asô, Toshiyuki Nishida
Director: Shion Sono
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Posted on September 29, 2015 |
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A Farewell to Jinu / Jinu yo saraba Kamuroba mura e (2015)
Comedy
Former bank clerk Takeharu thought he was strange when he moved to a remote village in Japan's northeastern Tohoku region after developing an inexplicable "money allergy." However as he attempts to live a peaceful rural life without currency, Kamuroba village's bizarre characters draw him out of his shell in this increasingly surreal madcap comedy. Then a nearby town leader attempts to overthrow the handyman bus driver mayor, Takeharu must prove his attachment to Kamuroba and its people.
Starring: Ryûhei Matsuda, Sadao Abe, Takako Matsu, Fumi Nikaidô, Toshiyuki Nishida, Hairi Katagiri, Yûko Nakamura
Director: Suzuki Matsuo
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Tags: Fumi Nikaidô, Hairi Katagiri, Ryûhei Matsuda, Sadao Abe, Suzuki Matsuo, Takako Matsu, Toshiyuki Nishida, Yûko Nakamura
Posted on July 9, 2015 |
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Maestro! / Maesutoro! (2015)
Drama | Music
Due to the economic recession, the orchestra is shut down. The members hear later that the orchestra will be reformed. Only some of the members, who have not yet been rehired, gather for the orchestra. For the first time since they disbanded the orchestra plays together, but they sound horrible. At that time, the conductor Tetsusaburo Tendou (Toshiyuki Nishida) appears in front of them. The orchestra members are not familiar with Tetsusaburo Tendou's background or career. At first, the members of the orchestra are resistant to Tetsusaburo Tendou. They change though as they are brought into Tetsusaburo Tendou's unprecedented world of music. Except for the concertmaster Shinichi Kousaka (Tori Matsuzaka), the members of the orchestra, who all have their own wounds and frustrations, recover their confidence.
Starring: Tôri Matsuzaka, Toshiyuki Nishida, Miwa, Yutaka Sado, Nobuyuki Tsujii
Director: Shôtarô Kobayashi
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Tags: Miwa, Nobuyuki Tsujii, Shôtarô Kobayashi, Tôri Matsuzaka, Toshiyuki Nishida, Yutaka Sado
Posted on June 19, 2014 |
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A Tale of Samurai Cooking: A True Love Story / Bushi no kondate (2013)
Drama | History
Set within the Kaga Domain in the Edo Period. Oharu (Aya Ueto) is an excellent cook and recognized for her skills. Due to her cooking talents, she marries Yasunobu (Kengo Kora), who is an heir in the Funaki family. The Funaki family serves as the cook for the Kaga Domain. Nevertheless, Yasunobu himself is a terrible cook. With the help of Oharu's mother-in-law Mitsuru (Kimiko Yo), she begins to teach Yasunobu how to cook.
Starring: Aya Ueto, Kengo Kôra, Kimiko Yo, Toshiyuki Nishida
Director: Yûzô Asahara
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Posted on November 5, 2013 |
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Reunion / Itai: Asu e no tôka kan (2012)
Drama
Movie depicts 10 days after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. At a morgue house in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, the workers treat the dead with dignity as they hand over the bodies to their families. Retired funeral worker (Toshiyuki Nishida), finds himself volunteering at the morgue house.
Starring: Ryo Katsuji, Jun Kunimura, Toshiyuki Nishida, Naoto Ogata, Wakana Sakai, Shirô Sano, Ikki Sawamura, Mirai Shida, Michitaka Tsutsui, Toshirô Yanagiba
Director: Ryôichi Kimizuka
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Tags: Ikki Sawamura, Jun Kunimura, Michitaka Tsutsui, Mirai Shida, Naoto Ogata, Ryo Katsuji, Ryôichi Kimizuka, Shirô Sano, Toshirô Yanagiba, Toshiyuki Nishida, Wakana Sakai
Posted on August 2, 2013 |
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Emperor / Shûsen no enperâ (2012)
Drama | History | War
As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, General Douglas MacArthur assigns the task of investigating whether Emperor Hirohito should be hanged as a war criminal to a younger staff General Bonner Fellers. Influencing his recommendation is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S. All this must be done within ten days when MacArthur must decide on the Emperor's fate!
Starring: Matthew Fox, Tommy Lee Jones, Eriko Hatsune, Toshiyuki Nishida, Masayoshi Haneda, Takatarô Kataoka
Director: Peter Webber
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Tags: Eriko Hatsune, Masayoshi Haneda, Matthew Fox, Peter Webber, Takatarô Kataoka, Tommy Lee Jones, Toshiyuki Nishida
Posted on June 26, 2013 |
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Fly with the Gold / Ôgon o daite tobe (2012)
Crime | Drama
Kota (Satoshi Tsumabuki) hears about an impending 1.5 billion yen gold bar heist from his friend Kitagawa (Tadanobu Asano), a former college classmate, and decides to take part. The gold bar sits in the basement of the HQ of Sumita Bank. Helping Kota and Kitagawa are bank security employee Noda (Kenta Kiritani), a North Korean spy pretending to be a college student (Shim Chang-Min), Kitagawa's younger brother Haruki (Junpei Mizobata) and a former elevator engineer (Toshiyuki Nishida). These 6 men are about to carry the boldest of schemes to bypass the bank's high-tech defense system.
Starring: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Tadanobu Asano, Kenta Kiritani, Junpei Mizobata, Toshiyuki Nishida, Chang-min Shim
Director: Kazuyuki Izutsu
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Tags: Chang-min Shim, Junpei Mizobata, Kazuyuki Izutsu, Kenta Kiritani, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Tadanobu Asano, Toshiyuki Nishida
Posted on January 13, 2013 |
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A Ghost of a Chance / Sutekina kanashibari (2011)
Comedy
Emi Hosho (Eri Fukatsu), a not so successful lawyer, is assigned to the one of the most unusual of cases. Her client is accused of murdering his wealthy wife and he his alibi is that he was staying at an inn while suffering from "kanashibar" (sleep paralysis). The only witness able to corroborate his alibi is the 500-year-old ghost of the Sengoku period military commander Rokubei Sarashina (Toshiyuki Nishida) – who sat on the accused's chest all night long. Attorney Emi Hosho travels to the inn to investigate further. Emi Hosho also falls into "kanashibar" and soon discovers the 500-year-ghost sitting on her chest. Knowing that the ghost is the only witness who can support her client's alibi, she grabs his hand and pleads with him to testify in court….
Starring: Toshiyuki Nishida, Kyôko Fukada, Eri Fukatsu, Hiroshi Abe, Yûko Takeuchi, Kiichi Nakai, Tadanobu Asano, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi
Director: Kôki Mitani
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Tags: Eri Fukatsu, Hiroshi Abe, Kiichi Nakai, Kôki Mitani, Kyôko Fukada, Tadanobu Asano, Toshiyuki Nishida, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Yûko Takeuchi
Posted on December 6, 2012 |
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A Letter to Momo / Momo e no tegami (2012)
Animation | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Following the death of her father, who left her a letter that never got beyond a greeting, Momo struggles to come to terms with her grief and guilt, and finds herself distanced from her mother. When the two move to a new home on a remote island in the Japanese Inland Sea, Momo befriends a young boy and his perceptive younger sister, a timid postman and three rascally goblins. With their help Momo prepares to take the plunge into her new life on the island.
Starring: Cho, Karen Miyama, Toshiyuki Nishida, Takeo Ogawa, Yoshisada Sakaguchi, Ikuko Tani, Kôichi Yamadera, Yuka
Director: Hiroyuki Okiura
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Tags: Cho, Hiroyuki Okiura, Ikuko Tani, Karen Miyama, Kôichi Yamadera, Takeo Ogawa, Toshiyuki Nishida, Yoshisada Sakaguchi, Yuka
Posted on September 26, 2012 |
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The Ramen Girl (2008)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Abby, four years out of college, an aimless child of privilege, comes to Tokyo to be with her boyfriend, who promptly leaves for Osaka. She wants to stay in Tokyo in hopes he'll come back to her, but she's miserable: she speaks little Japanese and has a dull job as a law-firm gopher. She stumbles into the neighborhood ramen shop operated by the aging master chef Maezumi and his wife Reiko. His soup cheers Abby, so she decides to apprentice herself to him. He's uninterested, she's insistent, so he shouts at her and gives her all the cleaning to do. Weeks go by; she's persistent. Will he ever actually teach her to cook? And if he does, will she bring the requisite spirit to the job?
Starring: Brittany Murphy, Toshiyuki Nishida, Tammy Blanchard, Kimiko Yo, Daniel Evans
Director: Robert Allan Ackerman
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Tags: Brittany Murphy, Daniel Evans, Kimiko Yo, Robert Allan Ackerman, Tammy Blanchard, Toshiyuki Nishida
