Saint Young Men (2018)
Comedy | Fantasy
Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha vacation on Earth as roommates in a Tokyo apartment.
Starring: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Shôta Sometani, Umi Yamano, Jirô Satô
Director: Yûichi Fukuda
Yurigokoro (2017)
Mystery
Adapted from a 2011 novel by author Mahokaru Numata, Yurigokoro has Ryosuke's father, who is stricken with advanced cancer, as a man with a diary. When the family discovers the father's diary in the latter's office leafing through it reveals notes written by a murderer. Are these fictional accounts or the memoirs of the diary's owner?
Starring: Yuriko Yoshitaka, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Tôri Matsuzaka, Aimi Satsukawa, Kaya Kiyohara, Tae Kimura, Nana Seino
Director: Naoto Kumazawa
Kaiji / Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler / Kaiji: Jinsei gyakuten gêmu (2009)
Drama
Kaiji, a young gambler who is constantly in debt, enters a deadly gambling competition in order to wipe away his loans.
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Yûki Amami, Tarô Yamamoto, Ken Mitsuishi, Suzuki Matsuo, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Kei Satô, Teruyuki Kagawa
Director: Tôya Satô
Chinyuki (2016)
Comedy
Genzo is a monk on his way to Tianzhu (early East Asian name for India). Along the way, he happens to visit a house and meets an old couple. The couple has an adopted son, Taro Yamada. They ask Genzo to rehabilitate Taro who makes trouble with his magical power. Genzo takes Taro and travels to Tianzhu.
Starring: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Kana Kurashina, Junpei Mizobata, Ryôsei Tayama, Takashi Sasano, Yôichi Nukumizu, Pierre Taki
Director: Yudai Yamaguchi
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac / Dareka ga Watashi ni Kiss wo Shita (2010)
Drama | Romance
Diving to save a camera from a fall down a flight of stairs, high school junior Naomi Sukuse wakes with no memory of the last four years. Naomi must remember who she was and figure out who she wants to be in this story of love and second chances.
Starring: Maki Horikita, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Yûya Tegoshi, Anton Yelchin
Director: Hans Canosa
Rage / Anger / Ikari (2016)
Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
A grisly unsolved murder links three seemingly unrelated stories in three different Japanese cities.
Starring: Gô Ayano, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Mitsuki Takahata, Hideko Hara, Ken Watanabe, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Aoi Miyazaki, Chizuru Ikewaki, Mirai Moriyama, Suzu Hirose, Takara Sakumoto, Pierre Taki, Takahiro Miura
Director: Sang-il Lee
Satoshi: A Move for Tomorrow / Satoshi's Youth / Satoshi no seishun (2016)
Biography
Satoshi Murayama was so much more than a Shogi master. Ever since the age of five, he had a serious kidney ailment. Growing up in hospitals and spending so much time sick, he learned how to play shogi; having no idea that he would fall in love with the game and later become a parody. Learn his story of perseverance and competitions despite the cards Murayama was dealt with.
Starring: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Masahiro Higashide, Lily Franky, Keiko Takeshita, Shôta Sometani, Ken Yasuda
Director: Yoshitaka Mori
Chasuke's Journey / Ten no Chasuke (2015)
Action | Comedy | Fantasy
A fantasy love story that drifts between this world and heaven. Chasuke (Ken'ichi Matsuyama) is in charge of making tea in heaven. He has feelings for a human woman named Yuri (Ito Ohno) whom he has seen from a writer who is scripting her life from heaven. He knows that Yuri is condemned to die in a car accident. To save the woman, Chasuke goes down to this world.
Starring: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Ito Ohno, Ren Ôsugi, Yûsuke Iseya, Hiromasa Taguchi, Tina Tamashiro, Susumu Terajima
Director: SABU
Don't Laugh at My Romance / Hito no sekkusu o warauna (2007)
Comedy | Romance
Mirume is a 19 year old college student who falls in love with Yuri, an almost 40 year old art teacher at his university. Yuri isn't your typical college professor, having a quirky sense of humor and unpredictable personality. When Yuri invites Murume to her studio, she playfully seduces the still naive 19 year old student. Things become more complicated when Murume discovers that Yuri is married to a much older man.
Starring: Hiromi Nagasaku, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Yû Aoi, Shûgo Oshinari, Morio Agata, Yôichi Nukumizu, Harudanji Katsura
Director: Nami Iguchi
Climbing to Spring / Haru wo seotte (2014)
Drama
An alpine story of family, determination and destiny.Toru grew up in the Tateyama mountain ranges: alpine country. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the mountain with his father to prepare their mountain hut for the summer season of climbers. When Toru grows up he leaves his hometown, entering the working world as a stock trader and becoming another office worker. But when Toru receives word that his father has passed away, he returns to Tateyama once again and becomes conscious of a new calling. But does Toru have what it takes to follow in his father footsteps?
Starring: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Yû Aoi, Etsushi Toyokawa, Fumi Dan, Kaoru Kobayashi
Director: Daisaku Kimura
Homeland / Ieji (2014)
Drama
Jiro has come home. His tiny farming village is now deserted because it lies in the badly contaminated Fukushima zone. Nonetheless, Jiro begins cultivating his land. An old school friend helps him and together they plant rice. "It's like slow suicide", says Jiro's friend. Jiro's half-brother, Soichi, who has evacuated with his family cannot believe that Jiro has moved back into the old home. Soichi's step-mother, who is Jiro's biological mother, had never got over Jiro leaving. Suffused with grief and poetry, the images in this film describes life after the nuclear catastrophe. They also tell us what it means to go home when home will never be the same again.
Starring: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Masaaki Uchino, Yûko Tanaka, Sakura Andô, Takashi Yamanaka, Yôji Tanaka, Ken Mitsuishi, Renji Ishibashi, Tôru Kizu
Director: Nao Kubota
Buddha 2: The Endless Journey / Buddha 2: Tezuka Osamu no Budda – Owarinaki tabi (2014)
Animation
2500 years ago, in India, Siddhartha was born as a prince of the Shakya clan, but he gives up his position as a prince to see the world. He meets a strange boy named Assaji, who can predict the future, a monk with only one eye and Depa. Siddhartha continues traveling. Siddhartha is overwhelmed by the sufferings he witnesses around him. Meanwhile, Prince Ruri of Kosara begins his attack on the Shakya clan.
Starring: Kiyokazu Kanze, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Nana Mizuki, Tetsuo Nakanishi, Shin'ya Ohwada, Hiromasa Taguchi, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Hidetaka Yoshioka
Director: Toshiaki Komura
Death Note: L Change the World / Death Note 3 / L: Change the World (2008)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A spin-off of the popular Death Note films, L: Change The World focuses on the legendary detective L as he uses his final 23 days to solve crimes all over the world. When a young girl and boy come to him for aid, L is soon faced with what may be his most difficult case yet: stopping a group of corrupted scientists from spreading a lethal virus throughout the earth.
Starring: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Sota Aoyama, Shunji Fujimura
Director: Hideo Nakata
Death Note: The Last Name / Death Note 2 / Desu nôto: The last name (2006)
Adventure | Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Picking up where the first one leaves off, Light joins the task force searching for Kira in an effort to avert suspicion from himself—and get rid of L.
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takeshi Kaga, Shidô Nakamura, Ken'ichi Matsuyama
Director: Shûsuke Kaneko
Death Note / Death Note 1 / Desu nôto (2006)
Adventure | Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
A battle between the world's 2 greatest minds begins when Light Yagami finds the Death Note, a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to rid the world of criminals.
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ken'ichi Matsuyama
Director: Shûsuke Kaneko
Bunny Drop / Usagi doroppu (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Family
27-year-old Daikichi (Ken'ichi Matsuyama) is a single young man who is trusted by his peers at work. Daikichi then attends his grandfather's funeral. At the funeral the attendees learn that Daikichi's grandfather bore an illegitimate daughter with an unknown mother. The girl's name is Rin (Mana Ashida) and she is just six years old. Everybody in Daikichi's family looks at the girl as an embarrassment and wants no part of her. Daikichi, annoyed by his family's attitude, decides to raise Rin by himself. Daikichi has no experience in raising a child. He soon learns the difficulties in raising a child as a single parent…
Starring: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Karina, Mana Ashida
Director: Hiroyuki Tanaka
Bokukyû: A ressha de iko / Train Brain Express (2012)
Drama
Kei Komachi (Kenichi Matsuyama) works for a big company in a densely populated area. Kenta Kotama (Eita) works for his family iron foundry business, which is in crisis. Both men are railroad otaku (avid fans of trains) and meet while riding on the same train…
Starring: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Eita, Shihori Kanjiya, Pierre Taki, Eri Murakawa, Yukari Itô, Masatô Ibu, Tomoko Hoshino, Takashi Sasano, Tokuma Nishioka, Keiko Matsuzaka
Director: Yoshimitsu Morita
Gantz II: Perfect Answer / Gantz: Kôhen (2011)
Action | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Kei, the college boy, has become a stern warrior in the service of Gantz, a black sphere that brought him and Masaru inexplicably back to life after a fatal encounter with an oncoming subway train. He and others among the newly dead accumulate points by killing aliens on missions assigned to them by Gantz. With 100 points, they can either escape their limbo and lose all memory of their time there or return another person to life.
Starring: Kazunari Ninomiya, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Yuriko Yoshitaka
Director: Shinsuke Sato
Gantz / Gantz: Zenpen (2011)
Action | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Kei Kurono and his childhood friend Masaru Kato attempt to save a man who has fallen onto the train tracks but are run down by an oncoming train. However, rather than finding themselves dead, they are transported to a strange apartment in which they find a mysterious black orb known as Gantz. Along with others there, they are provided weaponry and sent on missions to battle alien beings. Is this world, which tests your will to survive, a game or reality?
Starring: Kazunari Ninomiya, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Kanata Hongô, Natsuna, Tomorowo Taguchi, Takayuki Yamada
Director: Shinsuke Sato
Norwegian Wood / Noruwei no mori (2010
Drama | Romance
Upon hearing the song "Norwegian Wood," Toru (Matsuyama) remembers back to his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend. As the two try, in very different ways, to contend with their grief, Toru forms a bond with another woman, Midori.
Starring: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi, Kiko Mizuhara
Director: Tran Anh Hung
