The Roundup: No Way Out / Beomjoidosi 3 (2023)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Seven years after the roundup in Vietnam, Ma Seok-do joins a new squad to investigate a murder case. He soon starts to dig deeper when he finds out the case involves a synthetic drug and a gang of thugs.
Starring: Ma Dong-seok, Lee Jun-hyuk, Munetaka Aoki, Min Kim, Lee Ji-hoon, Go Gyu-pil
Director: Lee Sang-yong
Hokusai (2020)
Biography
There are several iconic paintings in Japan depicting scenes of nature and the times. Several of these have become famous world-wide. Several of these are the works of Hokusai. However, the artist was not always famous or in-demand. In fact, he was struggling. He has the urge to throw in the towel, but persists. Once older he is still trying to improve and reach the pinnacle for his profession.
Starring: Yûya Yagira, Min Tanaka, Hiroshi Abe, Eita Nagayama, Hiroshi Tamaki, Miori Takimoto, Munetaka Aoki
Director: Hajime Hashimoto
Rurouni Kenshin: The Final / Rurouni Kenshin: Final Chapter Part I – The Final / Rurôni Kenshin: Sai shûshô – The Final (2021)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Kenshin's past catches up to him causing the destruction of Akabeko Restaurant, which was Kenshin's favorite place to eat. There, he finds a note with the word "Junchu" on it.
Starring: Takeru Satoh, Mackenyu, Emi Takei, Yôsuke Eguchi, Munetaka Aoki, Yû Aoi
Director: Keishi Ohtomo
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
Samurai Marathon / Samurai marason (2019)
Action | Drama | History
The American imperialists are at the door and intruding on Japan. To assess and train his troops the lord of the land announces a marathon through the land crisscrossing shores, forests and the mountain. The shogunate in Edo was not approving and views word of the contest with contempt and suspicion. Spies and moles are dispatched. One mole realizes the misunderstanding and is determined to stop lives and alliances being lost. He runs.
Starring: Takeru Satoh, Nana Komatsu, Mirai Moriyama, Shôta Sometani, Munetaka Aoki, Naoto Takenaka, Etsushi Toyokawa, Hiroki Hasegawa
Director: Bernard Rose
Our Departures / Kazoku Iro: Railways Watashitachi no Shuppatsu (2018)
Drama | Family
Akira is widowed and left with a pre-teen stepson. Travelling with him to her late husband's hometown, she meets her odd father-in-law and yet decides to make a go of living and working there. She attends training and joins the railway company where her father-in-law works and her late man dreamt of ending up as a child.
Starring: Kasumi Arimura, Jun Kunimura, Nanami Sakuraba, Ryusei Kiyama, Hôka Kinoshita, Mariko Tsutsui, Itsuji Itao, Munetaka Aoki, Kenji Mizuhashi
Director: Yasuhiro Yoshida
The Silver Season / Season of Snow / Gin iro no shîzun (2008)
Drama | Sport
The arrival of a bride-to-be shakes a hapless ski resort and proves to the three young down-and-out local skiers that there is much more to life than they think.
Starring: Eita, Rena Tanaka, Tetsuji Tamayama, Munetaka Aoki, Eriko Satô, Tetta Sugimoto, Jun Kunimura
Director: Eiichirô Hasumi
Twisted Justice / Nihon de ichiban warui yatsura (2016)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
In this story of a good cop going rogue, we travel with Yoichi Moroboshi from his university student days to his becoming an ambitious detective on the beat who is using his brawn rather than brain to get what he wants and to where he wants to go. The lines between good and illegitimate are blurred as the detective gets closer to his assignments.
Starring: Gô Ayano, Young Dais, Haruna Yabuki, Shidô Nakamura, Yukio Ueno, Pierre Taki, Munetaka Aoki
Director: Kazuya Shiraishi
S: The Last Policeman: Recovery of Our Future / S: Saigo no Keikan – Dakkan: Recovery of Our Future (2015)
Action | Thriller
The NPS (National Police Safety Rescue), whose purpose is to catch extreme criminals alive, becomes the center of attention. A sit-in demonstration takes place. Members of the NPS, including Ichigo Kamikura (Osamu Mukai) go to the protest site. Meanwhile, a transport ship is hijacked in the Pacific Ocean.
Starring: Osamu Mukai, Gô Ayano, Yui Aragaki, Nao Ômori, Kazue Fukiishi, Munetaka Aoki, Joe Odagiri, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Hiroyuki Hirayama, Tsutomu Takahashi, Anna Tsuchiya, Masahiro Takashima, Masaomi Kondô
Director: Shun'ichi Hirano
Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends / Rurôni Kenshin: Densetsu no saigo-hen (2014)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends is the second of two 2014 live-action Japanese movies directed by Keishi Otomo and based on a manga by Nobuhiro Watsuki. It’s preceded by Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Taika-hen. The new films are based on the Kyoto arc from the original manga and revolve around former government assassin Shishio Makoto’s desperate struggle to overthrow the government of Japan.
Starring: Takeru Satô, Emi Takei, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Yû Aoi, Munetaka Aoki, Yôsuke Eguchi
Director: Keishi Ohtomo
Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno / Rurôni Kenshin: Kyôto Taika-hen (2014)
Action
After his ordeal with Udo Jin-e, Himura Kenshin's brief period of peace is interrupted by the presence of Hajime Saito, the former captain of the Shinsengumi who assumed an alias in Tokyo's police force. With Takani Megumi's freedom at the balance, Kenshin learns that he is being enlisted in a covert operation at the city of Kyoto. There, Kenshin deals with a small army under the leadership of Hitokiri Battōsai replacement and successor, who was deemed a great enough threat to the Meiji government's stability that they attempted to burn him alive: Makoto Shishio.
Starring: Takeru Satô, Emi Takei, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Yôsuke Eguchi, Yûsuke Iseya, Munetaka Aoki, Yû Aoi
Director: Keishi Ohtomo
Border: Keishichô Sôsa Ikka Satsujinhan Sôsa Dai 4-gakkari (TV Mini-Series 2014)
Drama
Ishikawa Ango (Oguri Shun) is a detective with smarts and a keen sense of observation. He's in a great physical shape and also highly ambitious. Ango also only focuses on his work and his personal life is pretty much non-existent. One day, a former police officer is killed by a gun shot. Ango goes to the scene of the crime, but is shot in the head by the killer who is lurking at the crime scene. Ango hovers between life and death. At that time, he thinks to himself "where do people go after they die?" and then "I don't want to die." A miracle then happens. Ango survives with the bullet still lodged in his head. He goes back to work. A new murder case takes place. When Ango goes to the crime scene he notices a boy who looks like he is about to cry, but only Ango is able to see the boy. The boy is the one who was killed. Since Ango was shot, he can now see and talk with the dead.
Starring: Shun Oguri, Munetaka Aoki, Haru, Ken'ichi Endô, Arata Furuta, Ken'ichi Takitô, Tôru Nomaguchi, Kenta Hamano, Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi
Creator: Kazuki Kaneshiro
Oppai Volleyball / Oppai barê (2009)
Comedy
Mikako is a young junior high school teacher who has just transferred to a new school. Excited to be starting a new job, she volunteers for a coach for a boys volleyball club. But, she finds out that there is almost no activity in the club… There are only 5 members, and they are all losers who haven’t even touched a volleyball and only think about girls… To give them an incentive to try hard, she promises them that she will show them her boobs if they win a game! Since then, the boys start practicing extremely hard. Feeling uneasy but happy at the same time to see their attitude changing, Mikako starts to like and trust them. She also learns from them and gets back her confidence which once she lost. Right before the day of the first game, ‘the promise’ is discovered by the school side, and it becomes a big problem…
Starring: Haruka Ayase, Munetaka Aoki, Toru Nakamura, Hiromasa Taguchi, Takuya Ishida
Director: Eiichirô Hasumi
Rurouni Kenshin / Rurôni Kenshin: Meiji kenkaku roman tan (2012)
Action | Drama | History
In 1868, after the end of the Bakumatsu war, the former assassin Kenshin Himura promises to defend those who need without killing and wanders through Japan with a sword with inverted blade during the transition of the samurai age to the New Age. When Kenshin helps the idealistic Kaoru Kamiya from the gangsters of the powerful opium drug lord Kanryuu Takeda that wants her school for his production of opium, Kaoru invites Kenshin to stay in the school. But the drug chemist Megumi Takani escapes from Kanryuu and seeks shelter in the school. Meanwhile the killer Battosai is murdering police officers and leaving messages attached to their bodies. When the cruel Kanryuu poisons the population to get the school, and Kenshin and the street fighter Sanosuke Sagara join forces to attack their common enemy.
Starring: Takeru Sato, Emi Takei, Yû Aoi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yôsuke Eguchi, Munetaka Aoki, Kôji Kikkawa, Taketo Tanaka
Director: Keishi Ohtomo
