The Legend & Butterfly (2023)
Drama | History | Romance
The story of a man and a woman that extends over 30 years in the Warring State period.
Starring: Takuya Kimura, Haruka Ayase, Hideaki Itô, Miki Nakatani, Kin'ya Kitaôji, Hio Miyazawa
Director: Keishi Otomo
Kappei (2022)
Action | Comedy
A group of warriors prepared their whole lives for an apocalypse that never happened, and now they must find their way to fit into society.
Starring: Hideaki Itô, Moka Kamishiraishi, Daigo Nishihata, Yûsuke Ohnuki, Kôji Yamamoto, Yukiyoshi Ozawa
Director: Takashi Hirano
Andalucia: Revenge of the Goddess / Andarushia: Megami no houfuku (2011)
Action | Drama
Kuroda Kosaku goes to Spain to help set up an international conference. However, when the body of a Japanese businessman is found in the region, Kuroda is suddenly dispatched to investigate. While interpol investigator Makoto tries to prevent Kuroda from getting involved, bank employee Yuka asks for Kuroda's protection.
Starring: Yûji Oda, Meisa Kuroki, Erika Toda, Masaharu Fukuyama, Hideaki Itô, Takeshi Kaga, Shôsuke Tanihara, Isao Natsuyagi
Director: Hiroshi Nishitani
Memoirs of a Murderer / Confession of Murder / 22-nenme no kokuhaku: Watashi ga satsujinhan desu (2017)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A television reporter and a detective try to track down a serial killer known as the Tokyo Strangler.
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Hideaki Itô, Kaho, Shûhei Nomura, Anna Ishibashi, Ryô Iwamatsu, Taichi Saotome, Mitsuru Hirata, Ryô Iwamatsu, Kôichi Iwaki, Tôru Nakamura
Director: Yû Irie
Terra Formars / Terafomazu (2016)
Action | Horror | Sci-Fi
Due to depleting natural resources and overpopulation, humans look to Mars as their next habitat. Terraforming is the project to change Mars' environment to accommodate humans. For this project, cockroaches are sent to Mars and mutated to walk. In the year 2599, 15 poor Japanese are sent to Mars to take out the cockroaches. They are unaware of what they are up against.
Starring: Hideaki Itô, Emi Takei, Takayuki Yamada, Shun Oguri, Kane Kosugi, Rinko Kikuchi
Director: Takashi Miike
Over Your Dead Body / Kuime (2014)
Horror
A star, Miyuki Goto (Ko Shibasaki) plays Oiwa, the protagonist in a new play based on the ghost story Yotsuya Kaidan. She pulls some strings to get her lover, Kosuke Hasegawa (Ebizo Ichikawa) cast in the play, even though he's a relatively unknown actor. Other performers Rio Asahina (Miho Nakanishi) and Jun Suzuki (Hideaki Ito) lust after Miyuki. Off stage the cast's possessive love and obsessions exist as reality. Trapped between the play and reality, the cast's feelings for each other are amplified. When it becomes clear that love is not meant to be both on and off stage, love turns into a grudge and crosses the blurred line between reality and fantasy.
Starring: Ko Shibasaki, Ebizô Ichikawa, Hideaki Itô, Hideaki Itô, Hitomi Katayama
Director: Takashi Miike
Wood Job! (2014)
Comedy
Yuki Hirano (Shota Sometani) fails his college entrance exam, but he's not all that worried about it. As a slacker, he figures he can take it easy for a year and maybe re-take the test. His girlfriend Reina though decides to move on without him. Later, Yuki notices a flyer. There's a pretty girl (Masami Nagasawa) on the cover with the caption "Come Work With Us." Yuki decides to take up the offer. He'll have to travel to a small remote town, that doesn't even have cell phone coverage, and take training classes for 30 days. If all goes well, he'll work as a trainee forester for one year in a even more remote mountain area. Can Yuki ever hope to survive his new wood job!?!?
Starring: Shôta Sometani, Masami Nagasawa, Hideaki Itô, Nana Seino, Shunpei Kawagoishi
Director: Shinobu Yaguchi
Secret / Himitsu (1999)
Drama | Fantasy
Yojiro Takita directs this witty, understated comedy about the clash between generations and the different facets of love. Naoko (Kayoko Kishimoto) and her 17-year-old daughter Monami are hospitalized after their bus plunges off the edge of a cliff. Just as Naoko is about to die, she manages to transfer her soul to her daughter's body so as not to be separated from her husband Heisuke (Kaoru Kobayashi).
Starring: Ryôko Hirosue, Kaoru Kobayashi, Ken Kaneko, Yuriko Ishida, Hideaki Itô, Tomoe Shinohara, Kayoko Kishimoto, Rie Shibata, Ren Ohsugi, Hatsuo Yamaya
Director: Yôjirô Takita
Lesson of the Evil / Aku no kyôten (2012)
Thriller
Seiji Hasumi loved by his students and respected by his peers. However, his outward charm masks his true nature. In reality, Hasumi is a psychopath who is unable to feel empathy for other human beings. Specifically, he has a severe antisocial personality disorder. Because of his mental condition, Hasumi chooses to deal with problems like bullying and overbearing "monster parents" the easy way-by systematically murdering his students.
Starring: Takayuki Yamada, Hideaki Itô, Takehiro Hira, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Shota Sometani
Director: Takashi Miike
Umizaru 3: The Last Message / Za rasuto messêji: Umizaru (2010)
Drama
Elite diver Daisuke is sent on a dangerous rescue mission to an oil rig hit by typhoon.
Starring: Hideaki Itô, Ai Katô, Shôhei Miura, Ryûta Satô, Sohee Park
Director: Eiichiro Hasumi
Umizaru Brave Hearts / Brave Hearts: Umizaru (2012)
Action
Mika is a flight attendant on board an airplane scheduled to land at Haneda Airport. On the way to the airport the airplane's engine starts to burn. In order to save the 346 people on board the airplane, sea marshall Daisuke Senzaki and his team are called into action…
Starring: Hideaki Itô, Ai Katô, Ryûta Satô, Riisa Naka, Shôhei Miura
Director: Eiichiro Hasumi
252: Seizonsha ari / 252: Signal of Life (2008)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
At some point in the distant future, a massive, catastrophic earthquake strikes Tokyo, causing the temperature of the Pacific Ocean to rise meteorically and the largest typhoon in recorded Japanese history to sweep toward the city and inundate it with water. The Tokyo Fire Department and its team of crack rescuers swing into action, and shortly after they do, a distress call arises from an underground subway station – with repeated indications of the rescue code, 252 252, and the exclamation "We Have Survivors." It soon becomes apparent that the local rescue squad must attempt to save the survivors, doing so at the expense of their own lives and safety.
Starring: Hideaki Itô, Masaaki Uchino, Takayuki Yamada, Yuu Kashii
Director: Nobuo Mizuta
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Sukiyaki Western Django (2007)
Action | Western
During "The Genpei Wars" at the end of the 1100s, the Minamoto and Taira gangs face off in a town named Yuda, while a deadly gunman comes to the aid of the townsfolk.
Starring: Hideaki Itô, Kôichi Satô, Yûsuke Iseya, Masanobu Andô, Takaaki Ishibashi, Kaori Momoi
Director: Takashi Miike
Limit of Love: Sea Monkey (2006)
Action | Drama
A small team of Coast Guard divers, including Daisuke, rappels onto the ship from a helicopter and begins to evacuate the panicked passengers. Then Daisuke finds a familiar face – Kanna. They had a tiff the night before about their wedding plans – Kanna had already made her dress, while Daisuke was still reluctant to propose – and she left for Tokyo, feeling like a fool. Now she see Daisuke in a different, more heroic light – but before they can properly reconcile, she has to evacuate, while Daisuke searches for stray passengers.
He finds two – a pregnant woman (Ohtsuka Nene) and an excitable man (Fukikoshi Mitsuru) who reluctant to leave his expensive foreign car. Through a series of mishaps, Daisuke, his pal and fellow diver Tetsuya (Sato Ryuta), and the two passengers end up trapped on the ship, as the water seeps in from below and the flames roar above.
The Coast Guard swings into action to save this quartet, but despite the presence of dozens of Guardsmen, the rescue operation does not go smoothly. Who can save them?
Starring: Hideaki Itô, Ai Katô, Ryûta Satô
Director: Eiichiro Hasumi
Sea Monkey (2004)
Action | Drama
The movie "Umizaru" is the story of 14 young Japan Coast Guard officers who take part in a grueling training to become rescue divers. They must endure and survive a 50-day training. Daisuke Senzaki (Hideaki Ito) and 13 other recruits take part in the training. With his love for the ocean and dream to work as a rescuer at sea, a rescue diver seemed like the perfect occupation for Daisuke.
Starring: Hideaki Itô, Ai Katô, Ken Kaito
Director: Eiichiro Hasumi
