The Confidence Man JP: Hero / Konfidensu man JP eiyū-hen (2022)
Drama
Dako, Boku-chan, and Richard commit their next con on Malta Island.
Starring: Masami Nagasawa, Masahiro Higashide, Shinya Kote, Fumiyo Kohinata, Yutaka Matsushige, Kôji Seto
Director: Ryô Tanaka
I Shall Live by Myself / Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone / Ora Ora de Hitori Igumo (2020)
Family
Momoko is a woman who is seventy-five-years old and lives alone. She lives in Tokyo, but was not born there having arrived there over fifty years ago. She had met a nice man, been proposed to and accepted. She gave birth to two children before her husband had died. She was alone again until finding her way into a library one day. She soon found solace and companionship in the books and her life was changed. This is her journey.
Starring: Yûko Tanaka, Yû Aoi, Masahiro Higashide, Gaku Hamada, Munetaka Aoki, Kankurô Kudô
Director: Shûichi Okita
Wife of a Spy / Spy no Tsuma (2020)
Drama
A Japanese merchant who leaves his wife behind in order to travel to Manchuria, where he witnesses an act of barbarism. His subsequent actions cause misunderstanding, jealousy and legal problems for his wife.
Starring: Yû Aoi, Issey Takahashi, Masahiro Higashide, Ryôta Bandô, Yuri Tsunematsu, Minosuke, Hyunri, Takashi Sasano
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
The Confidence Man JP: Princess / Konfidensuman JP Purinsesu-hen (2020)
Comedy | Crime
Set in Langkawi, Malaysia, the con artists: Dako, Boku-chan, and Richard target the Fuu Family when their head of the family passed away and he left behind 10 trillion yen.
Starring: Masami Nagasawa, Masahiro Higashide, Fumiyo Kohinata, Shinya Kote, Alan Shirahama, Nagisa Sekimizu, Yuta Furukawa, Vivian Hsu
Director: Ryô Tanaka
The Confidence Man JP: SP / Konfidensu Man JP: SP (2019)
Comedy | Drama
How much of a role does luck play in a person's life? Some people believe you create your own luck. Kingpin Akutsu Akira relies only on himself to get what he wants. Dako gets a taste of her own medicine when Akutsu cheats her of her money to avenge his friend, who was a victim of Dako's scam. Will Dako give in to her fate? How will she climb out of the rut this time?
Starring: Masami Nagasawa, Masahiro Higashide, Fumiyo Kohinata, Shinya Kote, Lisa Oda, Kazuki Kitamura, Ryôko Hirosue, Miho Nakayama
Director: Ryô Tanaka
The Confidence Man JP: The Movie / Konfidensu Man JP the movie (2019)
Comedy | Crime
Con men and con women Dako, Boku-chan and Lichard are professionals who know the angles, vulnerabilities, disguise and planning. They go to work in Hong Kong and are adept at siphoning huge amounts of money from evil characters like capitalists and greedy businessmen and mafia thugs.
Starring: Masami Nagasawa, Masahiro Higashide, Fumiyo Kohinata, Shinya Kote, Lisa Oda, Yûko Takeuchi, Haruma Miura, Yôsuke Eguchi, Eiji Takigawa, Michael Keida
Director: Ryô Tanaka
Memory of Antique Books / The Antique / Biblia Koshodô no Jiken Techô (2018)
Mystery
Kamakura south of Tokyo has a special book store, which is operated by Shioriko. She loves her books, her store and stocks rarities and specialties. Daisuke also works there. A stranger targets the store and seems to be after something specific. The two set out to find out what the figure is after and how they should protect themselves.
Starring: Haru Kuroki, Shûhei Nomura, Ryô Narita, Kaho, Masahiro Higashide
Director: Yukiko Mishima
Punk Samurai Slash Down / Panku-zamurai, kirarete sôrô (2018)
Action | Drama
In search of employment and a permanent position and having committed murder the ronin Kake Junoshin tells the Kurokaze Han clan that a religious cult is aiming for their destruction. This gets him in, but he is soon disproved and arrested. Given the death sentence and awaiting death he has to be quick on his feet and figure out a way to get himself out of the hole. Then the resurrection occurs.
Starring: Gô Ayano, Keiko Kitagawa, Shôta Sometani, Masahiro Higashide, Tadanobu Asano, Masatoshi Nagase, Jun Murakami
Director: Gakuryû Ishii
Asako I & II / Sleeping or Waking / Netemo sametemo (2018)
Drama | Romance
Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and meets Ryohei. He looks just like Baku, but has a completely different personality.
Starring: Masahiro Higashide, Erika Karata, Kôji Seto, Rio Yamashita, Sairi Itô, Daichi Watanabe, Kôji Nakamoto, Misako Tanaka
Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Over Drive (2018)
Action
Hiyama Atsuhiro is a car mechanic and an engineer at Supika Racing Factory. Hiyama Naozumi is a troublemaker yet a talented young driver for Supika Racing Factory, who hopes to advance to the World Rally Championship. He is also Atsuhiro's younger brother. The sibling always fights about Naozumi reckless driving and an awful mood was beginning to drift to the team as well. One day, Hikaru Endo become Naozumi, however, he is clueless about the world of car racing.
Starring: Masahiro Higashide, Mackenyu, Aoi Morikawa, Takumi Kitamura, Keita Machida, Jun Kaname, Kôtarô Yoshida
Director: Eiichirô Hasumi
Foreboding / Yocho (2017)
Sci-Fi
Something's wrong and Etsuko is one of the first to notice. It's not just the sky that looks different, Etsuko suddenly begins hearing strange noises and an increasing number of inexplicable things are happening around her: mirror surfaces are distorting and people's behaviour is changing. They keep dropping things and their arms seem to be aching. When Miyuki thinks she sees a ghost in her father and newscasters begin predicting incessant rain on a global scale, all the signs seem to indicate that the end of the world is nigh.
Starring: Kaho, Shôta Sometani, Masahiro Higashide
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Tomorrow I Will Date with Yesterday's You / My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday / Boku wa asu, kinou no kimi to dêto suru (2016)
Drama | Romance
Takatoshi Minamiyama majors in art at an university in Kyoto. On the train to the school, he sees Emi Fukuju and falls in love with her at first sight. Gathering up all his courage, he speaks to her. They begin to date and enjoy happy days together, but Emi reveals her secret to him.
Starring: Sôta Fukushi, Nana Komatsu, Masahiro Higashide, Yûki Yamada, Kaya Kiyohara, Akira Ohtaka, Yoshiko Miyazaki
Director: Takahiro Miki
Death Note: Light Up the New World / Desu nôto: Light Up the New World (2016)
Crime | Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
An update to the "Death Note" series in which a mysterious notebook contains deadly powers.
Starring: Masahiro Higashide, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Masaki Suda, Erika Toda, Rina Kawaei, Mina Fujii
Director: Shinsuke Sato
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
Creepy / Kurîpî: Itsuwari no rinjin (2016)
Mystery | Thriller
Takakura is a former detective. He receives a request from his ex-colleague, Nogami, to examine a missing family case that occurred 6 years earlier. Takakura follows Saki's memory. She is the only surviving family member from the case. Meanwhile, Takakura and his wife Yasuko recently moved into a new home. Their neighbor, Nishino, has a sick wife and a young teen daughter. One day, the daughter, Mio, tells him that the man is not her father and she doesn't know him at all.
Starring: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yûko Takeuchi, Haruna Kawaguchi, Masahiro Higashide, Teruyuki Kagawa
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Maniac Hero / Hîrô mania: Seikatsu (2016)
Action | Comedy
Frustrated by the urban decay around him, a convenience store clerk meets a young man equipped with Spider-Manlike gadgets, and – along with a high school nerd and a man with two mallets in his sleeves – they decide to become vigilantes. With notoriety comes attention, though, and a sharp-eyed businessman uses their example to create a sect of executioners. Nerdy superheroes in a film whose mash-up of styles, from action to drama, redefines offbeat comedy.
Starring: Masahiro Higashide, Masataka Kubota, Nana Komatsu, Tsurutarô Kataoka
Director: Keisuke Toyoshima
Gonin Saga / Gonin sâga (2015)
Action
Seiji (Masanobu Ando) is a third generation "Gosei kai" gang member. He works to build up the group's strength. Meanwhile, a journalist (Tasuku Emoto) investigates a case that occurred 19 years ago. He meets Hayato (Masahiro Higashide), Daisuke (Kenta Kiritani) and Asami (Anna Tsuchiya).
Starring: Masahiro Higashide, Kenta Kiritani, Anna Tsuchiya, Masanobu Andô, Tasuku Emoto, Naoto Takenaka
Director: Takashi Ishii
Parasyte: Part 2 / Kiseijuu: Kanketsuhen (2015)
Horror | Sci-Fi
The humanity is suffering from murders all over the globe, called Mincemeat murders. High school student, Izumi Shinichi has a parasite living off him, having replaced his right hand, and he might be the discoverer of truth.
Starring: Shôta Sometani, Ai Hashimoto, Sadao Abe, Eri Fukatsu, Masahiro Higashide, Nao Ômori, Pierre Taki
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
Blue Spring Ride / Ao Ha Ride (2014)
Drama | Romance
In a middle school, Yoshioka liked Kou who was unlike the other boys and quite gentle. Kou then moved away and they lost contact but in high school she meets Kou again. But now, he is not the same person anymore.
Starring: Tsubasa Honda, Masahiro Higashide, Yua Shinkawa, Ryô Yoshizawa, Izumi Fujimoto, Mitsuki Takahata, Yûdai Chiba, Yû Koyanagi
Director: Takahiro Miki
Parasyte: Part 1 / Kiseijû: Part 1 (2014)
Horror | Sci-Fi
The humanity is suffering from murders all over the globe, called "Mincemeat murders". High school student, Izumi Shinichi has a parasite living off him, having replaced his right hand, and he might be the discoverer of truth.
Starring: Shôta Sometani, Eri Fukatsu, Ai Hashimoto, Kazuki Kitamura, Masahiro Higashide, Tadanobu Asano, Miko Yoki, Jun Kunimura, Hirofumi Arai, Pierre Taki
Director: Takashi Yamazaki
