Godzilla Minus One / Gojira -1.0 (2023)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi
Post war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb.
Starring: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Andô, Kuranosuke Sasaki
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
We Make Antiques! Osaka Dreams / Uso happyaku: naniwa yume no jin (2023)
Drama
A treasure appears in front of antique dealer Norio Koike and potter Sasuke Noda. The treasure is Hideyoshi Toyotomi's porcelain tea bowl called Houou, that has been missing.
Starring: Kiichi Nakai, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Shôta Yasuda, Yuri Nakamura, Tomochika, Aoi Morikawa
Director: Masaharu Take
The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai / Tōge saigo no samurai (2020)
Drama | History
The last samurai who lead an army of 690 against an enemy of 50 thousand – In 1867, political power returned to the Emperor and 260 years of the Tokugawa Shogunate came to an end, resulting in the domains being divided either into the Eastern Army or the Western Army. In 1868, the battle of Toba-Fushimi started the Boshin War. Tsuginosuke Kawai, the chief retainer of a small domain in Echigo called Nagaoka, decided not to belong to either army and practice "armed neutrality." Battle was the norm in the samurai era, but he strongly felt that war was not the answer and that it could not protect the citizens. Kawai tries to peacefully negotiate but it goes south, and being a hereditary feudal lord of the Tokugawa Shogunate, he eventually decides to stick to his duties and decides to exchange gunfire with the Western Army. Kawai was a man who loved his wife deeply and wished for nothing but the best for his country. The last battle of a man who hoped for a world without war begins now.
Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Takako Matsu, Min Tanaka, Kyôko Kagawa, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Tatsuya Nakadai
Director: Takashi Koizumi
The Memory Eraser / Kiokuya: Anata o wasurenai (2020)
Drama | Fantasy
Ryoichi Yoshimori is a university student. His girlfriend Kyoko Sawada is older than him, but he enjoys his time with her. After Ryoichi proposes to his girlfriend, she suddenly disappears one day. Several days later, he finally sees her again, but Kyoko does not have any memory of him. Ryoichi is stunned, but he suspects her memory loss is related to the Kiokuya rumor. A person named Kiokuya is reputed to erase the memories of people. He talks to Chiaki Takaharu, who is a lawyer and attended the same university, about his situation. Ryoichi searches for the cause of Kyoko's memory loss and gets help from childhood friend Maki Kawai, who is also Chiaki's assistant.
Starring: Ryôsuke Yamada, Kyôko Yoshine, Misako Renbutsu, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Rika Izumi, Atsuko Sakurai
Director: Yûichirô Hirakawa
Aircraft Carrier Ibuki / Kubo Ibuki (2019)
Action | Drama | Thriller | War
Japan builds its first aircraft carrier, the Ibuki, to deal with escalating world tensions.
Starring: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Tatsuya Fuji, Jun Murakami, Hôshi Ishida, Shigeyuki Totsugi, Hayato Ichihara, Kinari Hirano
Director: Setsurô Wakamatsu
We Make Antiques! Kyoto Rendezvous / Usohappyaku Kyomachi Rowaiyaru / We Make Antiques 2 (2020)
Comedy
The central Kansai region of Japan is the setting for the historic cities of Sakai and Kyoto. Noda and Koike from We Make Antiques are back and together for the tea ceremony by Furuta Shigenari who is the master of the ceremony. Enter a mysterious new woman named Shino about whom the two have a feeling.
Starring: Kiichi Nakai, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Ryôko Hirosue, Tomochika, Aoi Morikawa, Toshio Sakata
Director: Masaharu Take
One Night / Over Night / Hitoyo (2019)
Drama | Family
Koharu's children are torn apart and live independent of one another. Years pass and the family reunites. They each have a story to tell. One was so affected he can not articulate himself well. Another is a writer, but is not working anywhere steadily. Another is a hostess at a club and entertains the guests. They have not forgotten what happened years ago.
Starring: Takeru Satoh, Ryôhei Suzuki, Mayu Matsuoka, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Yûko Tanaka
Director: Kazuya Shiraishi
Iwane: Sword of Serenity / Inemuri Iwane (2019)
Drama
Iwane, Kinpei and Shinnosuke are childhood friends. They also trained at the same dojo, hung out together and dreamt together. Iwane, Jinpei and Shinnosuke also become relatives through marriage. Her husband exacts revenge and kills her when news spreads that one of the men's wives is cheating. The woman's brother next rises in vengeance, which leads to murder, which brings about an order of retribution in turn. The woman's affair is becoming a bloodbath.
Starring: Tôri Matsuzaka, Fumino Kimura, Kyôko Yoshine, Tasuku Emoto, Yôsuke Sugino, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Pierre Taki
Director: Katsuhide Motoki
Recall / The Flying Tire / Soratobu taiya (2018)
Drama | Thriller
Tokuro Akamatsu runs a transport company. One day, a truck owned by Tokuro Akamatsu is involved in an accident. A tire came off the truck and killed passengers in another car. At first, Tokuro Akamatsu doubts that poor maintenance was the cause and he soon discovers a defect in the truck. Tokuro Akamatsu demands a reexamination by car manufacturer Hopu. The company moves slowly in their reexamination which causes Tokuro Akamatsu to investigate the issue by himself. He uncovers a truth that the Hopu is trying to hide.
Starring: Tomoya Nagase, Dean Fujioka, Issey Takahashi, Kyoko Fukada, Takashi Sasano, Ittoku Kishibe, Yasufumi Terawaki, Eiko Koike, Alan Abe, Tsuyoshi Muro, Aoi Nakamura, Akira Emoto, Kuranosuke Sasaki
Director: Katsuhide Motoki
We Make Antiques! / Uso happyaku (2018)
Comedy
Sakai is a city near Osaka by the bay famous for its swords in the old days and kitchen knives today. Norio is an antique dealer in the city. Sasuke is a potter in the city. Seventeenth century tea master Sen No Rikyu appears before them one day.
Starring: Kiichi Nakai, Kuranosuke Sasaki
Director: Masaharu Take
Peak: The Rescuers / Gaku / Gaku: Minna no Yama (2011)
Adventure | Drama
Sanpo Shimazaki is a volunteer mountain rescuer. He climbs mountains all over the world and knows well the difficulties and the beauty of the mountains. Sanpo wants to share his knowledge of the mountains to others. When Sanpo is called into action he never blames others even though their predicament is usually caused by them. Kumi Shiina is new volunteer mountain rescuer attempting to follow in her father's footsteps. Under the guidance of rescue leader Masato Noda and Sanpo, Kumi undergoes a strict training regiment. Kumi also learns the perils of her new job – failed missions, the bereaved families blaming the rescuers, and the awesome power of mother nature itself. Kumi becomes tired and loses her confidence. A raging winter storm then strikes the mountain. Multiple distress calls come in. Kumi goes out for a rescue mission and what awaits for her is an unimaginable threat from mother nature…
Starring: Shun Oguri, Masami Nagasawa, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Takuya Ishida, Yoshie Ichige, Atsuro Watabe
Director: Osamu Katayama
Hamon: Yakuza Boogie / Hamon: Futari no yakubyô-gami (2017)
Drama
Keisuke Ninomiya works as a construction consultant. Through his work, he becomes acquainted with yakuza Yasuhiko Kuwabara. One day, film producer Koshimizu brings a movie investment proposal to yakuza leader Shimada. Shimada decide to invest in the film and he assigns Yasuhiko Kuwabara to oversee his investment in the film.
Starring: Kuranosuke Sasaki, Yû Yokoyama, Keiko Kitagawa, Takahiro Hamada, Yûma Yamoto
Director: Shôtarô Kobayashi
Samurai Hustle Returns / Chô kôsoku! Sankin kôtai ritânzu (2016) (2016)
Comedy
Masaatsu Naito successfully completes Sankin-kotai. On his way home, he hears that an insurrection by peasants has taken place in his hometown of Yunagaya. Masaatsu Naito knows that it is a counterattack by Matsudaira. He returns to Yunagaya, but finds that his castle is gone.
Starring: Kuranosuke Sasaki, Kyoko Fukada, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Yasufumi Terawaki, Ennosuke Ichikawa IV
Director: Katsuhide Motoki
Everest: The Summit of the Gods / Everesuto: Kamigami no itadaki (2016)
Drama
Makoto Fukamachi is a Japanese cameraman. He finds an old camera on a backstreet of Nepal. The camera might possibly solve the mystery of whether George Mallory became the first person to successfully climb Mount Everest on June 8, 1924 or not. Pursuing the old camera's past, Makoto Fukamachi meets legendary Alpinist Joji Habu. Joji Habu is isolated from other people because of his reckless and thoughtless personality.
Starring: Jun'ichi Okada, Hiroshi Abe, Machiko Ono, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Pierre Taki, Shunsuke Kazama, Masahiro Kômoto
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama
The Inerasable / Zange: Sunde wa ikenai heya (2015)
Horror
I is a successful writer of mystery-novels. One day she receives a letter from Kobu, a young student who recently moved into an apartment near her university. At night she hear strange noises and scary voices that got her afraid. She pleads I to help her. As a mystery-writer, I smells the ultimate story and decides to help Kobu. Together they uncover the truth about the people who lived in Kobu's apartment before. And it is a dark story full of anger, hatred, murder and suicide.
Starring: Yûko Takeuchi, Ai Hashimoto, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Kentarô Sakaguchi, Ken'ichi Takitô
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Till Death Do Us What? / Wedded Pair Diary / Fûfu FûFû Nikki (2015)
Comedy | Drama
Kota and Yoko have known each other for 17 years. They finally get married and Yoko becomes pregnant. During her pregnancy, Yoko feels ill and gets a checkup. She learns that she has terminal cancer. Yoko is able to give birth and they try to smile everyday until her very last day. After Yoko passes away, Kota focuses on writing their story via their blog. He drifts away from reality. One day, Yoko appears in front of Kota again.
Starring: Kuranosuke Sasaki, Hiromi Nagasaku, Tetta Sugimoto, Hitomi Satô, Shûhei Takahashi
Director: Kôji Maeda
Solomon's Perjury 2 / Soromon no gishou: Kouhen saiban (2015)
Thriller
A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by someone or committed suicide.
Starring: Mizuki Itagaki, Yuna Kawahara, Fumiyo Kohinata, Haru Kuroki, Hiromi Nagasaku, Yui Natsukawa, Machiko Ono, Kuranosuke Sasaki
Director: Izuru Narushima
After School / Afutâ sukûru (2008)
Thriller
A middle school teacher, Jinno, is friends with a young couple that is about to have a baby. But on the eve of the birth, the father, Kimura, disappears. A somewhat shady private detective named Shimazaki confronts Jinno with a photo of Jinno with another woman. When they investigate in the seedy underworld of Tokyo, Jinno must confront what he thought he knew about his friend Kimura.
Starring: Yô Ôizumi, Masato Sakai, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Takako Tokiwa, Tomoko Tabata
Director: Kenji Uchida
700 Days of Battle: Us vs. the Police/ Boku tachi to chûzai san no 700 nichi sensô (2008)
Comedy
After one of their group is caught for speeding a group of trouble-making teenagers decide to prank the local police officer. It starts with simple speeding pranks but gradually moves to more elaborate and bizarre pranks.
Starring: Hayato Ichihara, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Kumiko Asô
Director: Renpei Tsukamoto
Mission Impossible: Samurai / Samurai Hustle / Chô kôsoku! Sankin kôtai (2014)
Comedy
During the reign of the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Yunagaya Domain in the Tohoku region is a small han. But at the han, there is a gold mine. Suddenly, Masaatsu Naito of Yunagaya Domain receives an order to perform Sankin-kotai within 5 days. Sankin-kotai is a custom that requires the daimyo to visit the shogun in Edo. Unfortunately, the time needed to visit the shogun in Edo for Masaatsu Naito is 8 days. Masaatsu Naito also learns he received the order because a high ranking government official wants the gold mine. Also, the expense for Sankin-kotai is high and the Yunagaya Domain is such a small han that it seems impossible to complete. Nevertheless, Masaatsu Naito begins an unexpected operation to complete Sankin-kotai in 5 days.
Starring: Kuranosuke Sasaki, Kyôko Fukada, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Masahiko Nishimura, Takanori Jinnai, Yasufumi Terawaki, Seiji Rokkaku, Yûsuke Kamiji, Tokio Emoto
Director: Katsuhide Motoki
