Love Life (2022)
Drama
Taeko and her husband, Jiro, are living a peaceful existence with son, Keita. A tragic accident brings the boy's father, Park, back into her life. Taeko throws herself into helping this deaf and homeless man to cope with pain and guilt.
Starring: Kento Nagayama, Fumino Kimura, Tetta Shimada, Atom Sunada, Hirona Yamazaki, Misuzu Kanno
Director: Kôji Fukada
Tokyo Revengers 2: Bloody Halloween – Destiny / Tokyo Revengers 2 – Part 1 / Tokyo ribenjazu 2: Chi no Haroin hen – Unmei (2023)
Action | Crime | Drama | Sci-Fi
It follows Takemichi as he travels 10 years back in time to change a key case that can save Hinata, who was murdered again by the Tokyo Manjikai Gang in front of Takemichi.
Starring: Takumi Kitamura, Yuki Yamada, Yôsuke Sugino, Mio Imada, Gordon Maeda, Hiroya Shimizu, Hayato Isomura, Kento Nagayama
Director: Tsutomu Hanabusa
#Manhole / #マンホール (2023)
Drama | Thriller
A situational thriller depicting the struggle of a man who fell into a manhole
Starring: Yûto Nakajima, Nao, Kento Nagayama
Director: Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan / Nakimushi Shottan no kiseki (2018)
Biography | Drama
In a biopic the audience sees the story of Segawa "Shottan" Shoji who fails to become a professional in shogi by the age of twenty six, which is the age limit according to the rules of the sport. However, not wanting to give up and persisting the man attempts to become a professional at age thirty five. The motivational story of a man going up against the rules and challenging himself despite the system and the establishment is cast with multiple stars of contemporary Japanese cinema.
Starring: Ryûhei Matsuda, Yôjirô Noda, Kento Nagayama, Shôta Sometani, Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Director: Toshiaki Toyoda
Ernesto / Erunesuto (2017)
Biography
The first film in forty years to be co-produced by Cuba and Japan, it recounts the story of Freddy Maymura Hurtado who was a Bolivian man of Japanese descent. He joined the freedom fighters lead by Che Guevara in 1966 and was martyred at the age of twenty five. Aiming to rid his world of injustice and the gap between the rich and powerful and the rest of us the inspiring film reminds the viewer of the need for living with a purpose. Ernesto means 'serious,' but was also Che Guevara's first name.
Starring: Joe Odagiri, Kento Nagayama, Juan M. Valero, Alexis Díaz de Villegas
Director: Junji Sakamoto
Life and Death on the Shore / Umibe no sei to shi (2017)
Drama | Romance
Set in 1945 at the end of World War II. Saku arrives on Kakeromajima as the head of navy special forces. He is admired by the children on the island and he is interested in learning the island song as well as drinking with his men. Toe is an elementary school teacher on Kakeromajima and she has feelings for Saku. One day, Toe receives a letter from Saku. The letter asks Toe to "please come to the beach around 9PM tonight."
Starring: Hikari Mitsushima, Kento Nagayama, Yôta Kawase, Kai Inowaki, Masane Tsukayama
Director: Michio Koshikawa
Sanada Ten Braves / Sanada Jûyûshi (2016)
Action | Drama
Set at the end of the Sengoku period to early Edo period, "Sanada Ten Braves" follows 10 members of a ninja group who all serve under samurai warrior Yukimura Sanada.
Starring: Kankurô Nakamura, Tôri Matsuzaka, Yuko Oshima, Kento Nagayama, Kazuki Katô, Mitsuomi Takahashi
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Unfair the End / Anfea the end (2015)
Thriller
Set 4 years after movie "Unfair: The Answer." Natsumi Yukihira (Ryoko Shinohara) receives secret documents of an organization that controls the country from the shadows. Because of this, Natsumi's ex-husband, Kazuo Sato (Teruyuki Kagawa) pays a terrible price. Natsumi goes back to the Investigation #1 of Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department to take on the organization, but Natsumi becomes involved in a new case. She gets closer to the final enemy.
Starring: Ryôko Shinohara, Kôichi Satô, Kento Nagayama, Sadao Abe, Masaya Katô, Akira, Susumu Terajima, Kôtarô Yoshida, Mion Mukaichi
Director: Shimako Sato
Clover / Kuroba (2014)
Comedy | Romance
Saya Suzuki (Emi Takei) is an ordinary employee working at a hotel. She falls in love with her elite boss Susumu Tsuge (Tadayoshi Okura). Through their romance, Saya Suzuki grows as a person.
Starring: Emi Takei, Tadayoshi Ohkura, Kento Nagayama, Natsuna, Masahiko Nishimura
Director: Takeshi Furusawa
Crows Explode / Kurôzu Explode (2014)
Action
A month later. Genji Takiya has graduated. New fights begin to see who will climb to the top at Suzuran High School. Meanwhile, a battle against nearby Kurosaki Industrial High School begins.
Starring: Masahiro Higashide, Taichi Saotome, Ryô Katsuji, Takanori Iwata, Elly, Kenzo, Kyôsuke Yabe, Kento Nagayama, Yûya Yagira, Motoki Fukami, Tsutomu Takahashi
Director: Toshiaki Toyoda
Shield of Straw / Wara no tate (2013)
Action | Thriller
Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide Kiyomaru (Tatsuya Fujiwara). Kunihide Kiyomaru has a prior conviction for assaulting and killing a girl 8 years ago. The police could never apprehend the suspect in the prior killing. Three months after the murder of his granddaughter, Ninagawa places a whole page ad in the 3 big Japanese newspapers. The ad states "Please kill this man Kunihide Kiyomaru and I will pay you 1,000,000,000 yen as a reward." Meanwhile, Kunihide Kiyomaru sees the ad and begins to fear for his life. Kunihide Kiyomaru then turns himself in at the Fukuoka Police Station. Five detectives from the security section (SP) of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department travel to Fukuoka to escort Kunihide Kiyomaru back to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The distance between Fukuoka and Tokyo is apprixmately 1,200 km. During their fateful trip, a significant portion of the Japanese population plot to kill Kunihide Kiyomaru. Many of those people, actually pursue Kunihide Kiyomaru while he goes back to Tokyo to get the 1 billion yen reward. The lonely fight of the five detectives to protect this man begins…
Starring: Nanako Matsushima, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takao Ohsawa, Gorô Kishitani, Masatô Ibu, Kento Nagayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kimiko Yo, Hirotarô Honda
Director: Takashi Miike
See You Tomorrow, Everyone / Minasan, sayonara (2013)
Drama
After Satoru Watarai graduated from elementary school, he dropped out of school and decided to live within his apartment complex, never to venture outside. Satoru Watari then meets his old friends as they are coming back from their middle school classes. Satoru has now gotten a job at a cake shop within the apartment complex and eventually gets engaged to one of his friends. Satoru, still lives within the apartment complex only, but, as time passes, more of his friends leave ..
Starring: Gaku Hamada, Kana Kurashina, Kento Nagayama, Haru, Kei Tanaka, Bengaru, Nene Ohtsuka, Naomi Ortega
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Hard Romanticker / Hâdo romanchikkâ (2011)
Drama
Based on director Gu Su-yeon's semi-autobiographical novel, Hard Romanticker is a spectacularly violent gangster movie that delivers its story with equal amounts of style and carnage. Dripping James Dean-like cool, bleach blond Gu (Shôta Matsuda) is a young, cocky Korean-Japanese hoodlum living in Japan. When someone "accidentally" kills the grandmother of a ruthless rival thug, Gu soon finds himself on the receiving end as he becomes the target for bloody, even deadly, revenge. And it doesn't help that the police are on his tail as well. What's a snarly, cigarette-puffing thug to do? With tons of ultra-violence, rampaging youths and nihilistic retribution, Hard Romanticker is a sort of a modern-day A Clockwork Orange – yakuza style!
Starring: Shôta Matsuda, Kento Nagayama, Tokio Emoto, Sei Ashina, Shidô Nakamura
Director: Su-yeon Gu
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