Maborosi / Maboroshi no hikari (1995)
Drama
A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant.
Starring: Makiko Esumi, Takashi Naitô, Tadanobu Asano, Akira Emoto, Mutsuko Sakura, Minori Terada, Ren Osugi
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Outrage Coda / Outrage: Final Chapter / Autoreiji Saishusho (2017)
Action | Crime | Drama
Five years after surviving the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo now works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a renowned fixer whose influence extends into Japan. A relatively minor incident causes tensions to rise between Chang Enterprises and the faraway powerful Hanabishi. The growing conflict gets out of hand and ignites a ferocious power struggle among the top echelons of the Hanabishi. When eventually Chang's life is endangered, devoted yakuza Otomo returns to Japan to settle things once and for all.
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Toshiyuki Nishida, Tatsuo Nadaka, Ken Mitsuishi, Hakuryû, Ikuji Nakamura, Sansei Shiomi, Yutaka Matsushige, Kanji Tsuda, Ren Osugi
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Takeshis' (2005)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Beat Takeshi, a prominent actor, meets a lookalike named Kitano, who is a struggling actor, but after the meeting, Kitano's dreams take a violent, surreal turn.
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Kotomi Kyôno, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi, Susumu Terajima, Tetsu Watanabe, Akihiro Miwa
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Sonatine / Sonachine (1993)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Several yakuza from Tokyo are sent to Okinawa to help end a gang war. The war escalates and the Tokyo drifters decide to lay low at the beach.
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Tetsu Watanabe, Ren Ôsugi, Susumu Terajima, Ken'ichi Yajima, Chris Britton
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Shinjuku Triad Society / Shinjuku kuroshakai: Chaina mafia sensô (1995)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Amidst a Chinese and Japanese mafia war, a lawyer for the Chinese mob finds a rift forming between him and his corrupt police office brother.
Starring: Kippei Shîna, Tomorô Taguchi, Takeshi Caesar, Ren Ôsugi, Sei Hiraizumi, Yukie Itou
Director: Takashi Miike
Fireworks / Hana-bi (1997)
Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
A hard-boiled ex-cop, haunted by a troubled past and pushed to the edge by the shooting of his partner, confronts his demons in a ruthless quest for justice and redemption.
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Ôsugi, Susumu Terajima, Tetsu Watanabe, Hakuryû
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Chasuke's Journey / Ten no Chasuke (2015)
Action | Comedy | Fantasy
A fantasy love story that drifts between this world and heaven. Chasuke (Ken'ichi Matsuyama) is in charge of making tea in heaven. He has feelings for a human woman named Yuri (Ito Ohno) whom he has seen from a writer who is scripting her life from heaven. He knows that Yuri is condemned to die in a car accident. To save the woman, Chasuke goes down to this world.
Starring: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Ito Ohno, Ren Ôsugi, Yûsuke Iseya, Hiromasa Taguchi, Tina Tamashiro, Susumu Terajima
Director: SABU
The Twilight Samurai / Tasogare Seibei (2002)
Drama | Romance
Set in the late nineteenth century, Seibei Iguchi is a low-ranking samurai whose wife has died of tuberculosis. With two daughters, Kayano and Ito, and an elderly mother to support, he and his family must survive in austerity. The moment that his daily work as a clerk, in one of the clans' warehouses is over, he hurries home, refusing to drink or eat with fellow samurai. Behind his back, his fellow samurai teasing him for his actions. The divorce of his childhood friend Tomoe leads him into a confrontation with her violent ex-husband, a high-ranking samurai. When word of Seibei's easy victory using only a wooden sword begins to circulate, his reputation for sword-fighting prowess begins to change his colleagues assessment of him.
Starring: Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi, Ren Ôsugi, Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Director: Yôji Yamada
