Silent Parade / Chinmoku no Paredo (2022)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
A man suspected of murdering a young girl is released due to a lack of evidence. He begins taunting his victim's family but is soon found murdered. However, that young girl might not have been his only victim.
Starring: Masaharu Fukuyama, Ko Shibasaki, Kazuki Kitamura
Director: Hiroshi Nishitani
xxxHOLiC / Holic xxxHOLiC (2022)
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Watanuki has a special ability to see ayakashi. One day, he is led by a butterfly to a mysterious store. There, he meets the owner of the store Yuuko. She tells him that she will grant him a wish for his most precious thing.
Starring: Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Ko Shibasaki, Hokuto Matsumura, Tina Tamashiro, Riho Yoshioka, Hayato Isomura
Director: Mika Ninagawa
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai / Moeyo Ken (2021)
Drama | History
Set in the 19th century, "Moeyo Ken" follows the life of Toshizo Hijikata. He was the vice-commander of the Shinsengumi and fought against the Meiji Restoration.
Starring: Jun'ichi Okada, Ko Shibasaki, Ryohei Suzuki, Ryôsuke Yamada, Ukon Onoe, Yûki Yamada
Director: Masato Harada
The Lady Shogun and Her Men / Ôoku (2010)
Drama | Sci-Fi
In the year 1716, a mysterious disease wipes out a majority of men. Gender roles have been reversed, with women taking traditional male roles and men becoming little more than reproduction tools. To save his family, Mizuno enters the Inner Chamber in the Edo Castle, leaving his girlfriend Onobu behind. Meanwhile, when the young shogun dies, Yoshimune is appointed to take over as the shogun and decides to name Mizuno her first bedmate. However, the job comes with potentially fatal consequences for everyone involved.
Starring: Kazunari Ninomiya, Ko Shibasaki, Maki Horikita, Tadayoshi Ohkura, Aoi Nakamura, Hiroshi Tamaki
Director: Fuminori Kaneko
The Island of Cats / Neko to jiichan (2019)
Drama
A seventy-year-old widowed man named Daikichi lives on a small island with his beloved pet cat. He is a local, a native, enjoys his home and spending time with that cat and old friends. His own son has done what many local youngsters have. The son has moved to Tokyo. However, change is eternal and friends are dying of old age, the environment is changing and old age creeps up and makes folk infirm. The old man has to contend with this change.
Starring: Shinosuke Tatekawa, Ko Shibasaki, Kaoru Kobayashi, Yûko Tanaka, Tasuku Emoto, Guin Poon Chaw, Takashi Yamanaka, Shôno Hayama
Director: Mitsuaki Iwagô
Nobunaga Concerto: The Movie / Nobunaga Kontseruto (2016)
Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
This adaptation to a popular manga is the story of a contemporary teenager travelling back in time to the Sengoku period of the sixteenth century. There he meets with the historical figure Oda Nobunaga who instills in him the mission to deliver peace to Japan. Being aware that Oda may soon die, and the plot that accompanies the occurrence, the protagonist debates altering the outcome of what may yet come to be.
Starring: Shun Oguri, Ko Shibasaki, Osamu Mukai, Takayuki Yamada, Taisuke Fujigaya
Director: Hiroaki Matsuyama
Memories of Matsuko / Kiraware Matsuko no isshô (2006)
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Mystery
When a bored college student learns that a long lost aunt has been found dead in a park, he begins piecing together her life to see if it had any value. What he finds is a revelation. Talented film director, Tetsuya Nakashima ("Kamikaze Girls" 04), wield a host of cinematic tools to make "Memories of MATSUKO" a memorably entertaining and emotionally powerful "fairytale tragedy," weaving together realistic human drama with offbeat comedy and spectacular (Bob Fosse-like) production numbers to tell the heartbreaking story of Matsuko Kawajiri, a starry-eyed woman who spends her entire life serching for a worthy "prince" capable of returning her limitless love. Versatile actress, Miki Nakatani, renders a virtuosic performance in the lead role of Matsuko.
Starring: Eita, Miki Nakatani, Ko Shibasaki, Yûsuke Iseya, Teruyuki Kagawa, Mikako Ichikawa
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
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
A Bolt from the Blue / Seiten no hekireki (2014)
Comedy
Haruo (Yo Oizumi) has a dream to become the best magician, but, so far, he is only a marginal magician. Haruo also doesn't have parents. He then goes back 40 years in time to Asakusa, Tokyo. There, he meets his parents when they were young and he learns the secret of his birth.
Starring: Ko Shibasaki, Yô Ôizumi, Gekidan Hitori
Director: Gekidan Hitori
La maison de Himiko / Mezon do Himiko (2005)
Drama
Saori is a young woman who struggles to make a living, with no financial or romantic prospects in her life. One rainy day, she receives a visit at work from a handsome young man called Haruhiko. He claims to be the boyfriend of her estranged father, Himiko, who now runs a seaside rest home for elderly gays. He tells her that her father is dying of cancer. Saori still harbors resentment toward her father for abandoning her and her mother years ago. However, Haruhiko makes her a financial offer she can't refuse, and she agrees to go and work at House of Himiko.
Starring: Jô Odagiri, Ko Shibasaki, Min Tanaka
Director: Isshin Inudô
47 Ronin (2013)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy
In this fictional version of 18th century Japan's most enduring tale, an outcast named Kai joins a group of Samurai, led by Kuranosuke Oishi. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honor to their homeland, the warriors embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada, Rinko Kikuchi, Ko Shibasaki, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Tadanobu Asano
Director: Carl Rinsch
47 Ronin (2013)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy
In this fictional version of 18th century Japan's most enduring tale, an outcast named Kai joins a group of Samurai, led by Kuranosuke Oishi. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honor to their homeland, the warriors embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada, Rinko Kikuchi, Ko Shibasaki, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Tadanobu Asano
Director: Carl Rinsch
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Good Luck!! / Gudoraku (2003) (TV Series)
Drama
Having achieved his life-long dream of being a pilot, Hajime is first officer on an international jetliner and is now working to become a captain. He can't seem to please Captain Koda, who has become an exacting taskmaster since an air incident many years ago. To complicate matters, he begins a relationship with stubborn and straight-talking mechanic, Ayumi, whose parents died many years ago in the plane crash for which Captain Koda feels he is responsible. What follows is a story of 21st century love, dreams, and passion.
Starring: Takuya Kimura, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Ko Shibasaki, Rina Uchiyama, Son Ha Yoon, Takako Katô, Jun Kaname
Creator: Yumiko Inoue
Detective Conan: Private Eye in the Distant Sea / Meitantei Conan: Zekkai No Private Eye (2013)
Animation | Mystery
To take part in the voyage of the Ijisu warship, Conan and his detective team arrive at Maizuru Port. Suddenly, they hear some noises. A soldier from the Self-Defense Forces, who lost his left arm, is found dead. Conan begins to investigate. He then tries to determine whether Spy X is on the Ijisu Warship.
Starring: Minami Takayama, Wakana Yamazaki, Rikiya Koyama, Kô Shibasaki, Chafurin
Director: Kobun Shizuno
Galileo XX / Galileo XX: Utsumi Kaoru no Saigo no jiken Moteasobu (2013)
Drama | Mystery
A spin-off drama of TV series "Galileo" centers on a detective working with Dr. Yukawa, Utsumi (Kou Shibazaki).
Starring: Kô Shibasaki, Kazuki Kitamura, Yûsuke Santamaria, Hiroshi Shinagawa, Yûya Yagira, Yuriko Yoshitaka
Director: Hiroshi Nishitani
Galileo / Garireo (TV Series 2007- )
Drama | Mystery
In "Galileo," Fukuyama Masaharu plays a genius physicist and university associate professor, Yukawa Manabu, who solves difficult mysteries. Affectionately known as Tantei Galileo ("Detective Galileo"), Yukawa is brilliant, an all-round sportsman, tall and handsome but eccentric. Yukawa's partner is a rookie cop, Utsumi Kaoru (Shibasaki Kou), a hot-blooded woman with a strong sense of justice.
Starring: Masaharu Fukuyama, Ikkei Watanabe, Kô Shibasaki, Kazuki Kitamura, Yû Sawabe, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Hiroshi Shinagawa
Creator: Yasushi Fukuda, Keigo Higashino
Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship / Sû-chan, Mai-chan, Sawako-san (2013)
Comedy | Drama
"Su-chan Mai-chan Sawako-san" follows the lives of three women who are former co-workers. 34-year-old Su-chan works at a coffee shop and has feelings for the manager there. 34-year-old Mai-chan works at an OA machine maker. She is in a relationship with a married man. 39-year-old Sawako works as a web designer and also takes care of her grandmother. -san and her mother take care of her grandmother.
Starring: Kô Shibasaki, Yôko Maki, Shinobu Terajima
Director: Osamu Minorikawa
Galileo / Garireo (TV Series 2007- )
Drama | Mystery
In "Galileo," Fukuyama Masaharu plays a genius physicist and university associate professor, Yukawa Manabu, who solves difficult mysteries. Affectionately known as Tantei Galileo ("Detective Galileo"), Yukawa is brilliant, an all-round sportsman, tall and handsome but eccentric. Yukawa's partner is a rookie cop, Utsumi Kaoru (Shibasaki Kou), a hot-blooded woman with a strong sense of justice.
Starring: Masaharu Fukuyama, Ikkei Watanabe, Kô Shibasaki, Kazuki Kitamura, Yû Sawabe, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Hiroshi Shinagawa
Creator: Yasushi Fukuda, Keigo Higashino
Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Raoh – Fierce Fight / Shin kyûseishu densetsu Hokuto no Ken: Raô den – Gekitô no shô (2007)
Action | Animation | Sci-Fi
A retelling of Kenshiro's final battle with Raoh.
Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Takashi Ukaji, Yuriko Ishida, Nobuaki Kakuda, Ko Shibasaki
Director: Toshihiro Hirano
Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Raoh – Death in Love / Fist of the North Star: New Saviour Legend / Shin kyûseishu densetsu Hokuto no Ken: Raô den – Jun'ai no shô (2006)
Animation
A retelling of Kenshiro's battle against Souther, the strongest of the Nanto Roku Seiken masters, with a sub-plot involving Raoh and Reina.
Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Takashi Ukaji, Ko Shibasaki, Akio Ohtsuka, Hôchû Ôtsuka
Director: Takahiro Imamura
