Monster / Kaibutsu (2023)
Drama | Thriller
A mother demands answers from her son's teacher when her son begins acting strangely.
Starring: Sakura Andô, Eita Nagayama, Soya Kurokawa, Hinata Hiiragi, Mitsuki Takahata, Akihiro Kakuta, Shidô Nakamura, Yûko Tanaka
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu
Character / Kyarakutâ (2021)
Crime | Horror | Thriller
A kind man aspires to become a comic creator, but villains and evil deeds do not come easily to him, for he has little experience or natural inclination for them. Things take a surprise turn when he comes across a family who were described as idealized that are no more. He uses the real-life situation for his work.
Starring: Masaki Suda, Fukase, Mitsuki Takahata, Shidô Nakamura, Shun Oguri
Director: Akira Nagai
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
Fearless / Huo yuanjia (2006)
Action | Biography | Drama | Sport
A biography of Chinese Martial Arts Master Huo Yuanjia, who is the founder and spiritual guru of the Jin Wu Sports Federation.
Starring: Jet Li, Li Sun, Yong Dong, Collin Chou, Shidô Nakamura, Nathan Jones
Director: Ronny Yu
Be with You / Ima, ai ni yukimasu (2004)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Widower Takumi lives a quiet life with his six-year-old son, Yuji. His wife, Mio, promised before her passing that she'd be with them again when the rainy season starts. On the first anniversary of her death, Takumi and Yuji comes across a woman in the woods taking shelter from a monsoon downpour. She bears an uncanny resemblance to Mio, but has no recollection of who she is or what she's doing there.
Starring: Yûko Takeuchi, Shidô Nakamura, Akashi Takei, Karen Miyama, Yôsuke Asari, Yûta Hiraoka
Director: Nobuhiro Doi
Gatchaman / Gacchaman (2013)
Action | Sci-Fi
Set in the near future in Tokyo, Japan. The evil terrorist organization Galactor has declared war on the world. The group possesses more advanced technology than governments and occupies over half of the planet. Dr. Kozaburo Nambu of the International Science Organization gathers together 5 superhero ninja agents, known collectively as Gatchaman, to stop Galactor.
Starring: Tôri Matsuzaka, Ryôhei Suzuki, Gô Ayano, Ayame Gôriki, Tatsuomi Hamada, Eriko Hatsune, Shidô Nakamura, Gorô Kishitani, Ken Mitsuishi
Director: Tôya Satô
Death Note: The Last Name / Death Note 2 / Desu nôto: The last name (2006)
Adventure | Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Picking up where the first one leaves off, Light joins the task force searching for Kira in an effort to avert suspicion from himself—and get rid of L.
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takeshi Kaga, Shidô Nakamura, Ken'ichi Matsuyama
Director: Shûsuke Kaneko
Ichi (2008)
Action
This time the blind swordsman is actually a swordswoman: Ichi, who is on a quest to find the man who taught her martial arts skills as a young girl. When she is confronted by a gang of bandits, Ichi becomes caught up in ridding the town of the unruly gang while also offering assitance to wandering samurai Toma, a fighter much less gifted than herself.
Starring: Haruka Ayase, Shidô Nakamura, Yôsuke Kubozuka, Takao Osawa, Gô Rijû, Mayumi Sada
Director: Hiroshi Kuze, Fumihiko Sori
Leonie (2010)
Biography | Drama
A film about the life and relationships of the early 20th American educator, editor, and journalist Leonie Gilmour, the mother of the acclaimed artist and architect Isamu Noguchi.
Starring: Emily Mortimer, Shidô Nakamura, Christina Hendricks, Mieko Harada, Jan Milligan
Director: Hisako Matsui
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Hard Romanticker / Hâdo romanchikkâ (2011)
Drama
Based on director Gu Su-yeon's semi-autobiographical novel, Hard Romanticker is a spectacularly violent gangster movie that delivers its story with equal amounts of style and carnage. Dripping James Dean-like cool, bleach blond Gu (Shôta Matsuda) is a young, cocky Korean-Japanese hoodlum living in Japan. When someone "accidentally" kills the grandmother of a ruthless rival thug, Gu soon finds himself on the receiving end as he becomes the target for bloody, even deadly, revenge. And it doesn't help that the police are on his tail as well. What's a snarly, cigarette-puffing thug to do? With tons of ultra-violence, rampaging youths and nihilistic retribution, Hard Romanticker is a sort of a modern-day A Clockwork Orange – yakuza style!
Starring: Shôta Matsuda, Kento Nagayama, Tokio Emoto, Sei Ashina, Shidô Nakamura
Director: Su-yeon Gu
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Ninja Kids / Nintama Rantarô (2011)
Action | Drama
Finally of age to go to school, young Inadera Rantaro leaves his parents to go to the ninja academy. There, he meets new best friends Shinbe and Kirimaru, and the three gets into plenty of misadventures together involving their homeroom teacher Doi, cross-dressing teacher Yamada Yamada, and their headmaster. However, the three young ninjas soon run into a serious crisis when they decide to risk their lives to help defend an elder classmate and his father from an assassination by ninjas of their former clan.
Starring: Shidô Nakamura, Naoto Takenaka, Susumu Terajima, Hiroki Matsukata, Mikijiro Hira
Director: Takashi Miike
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Red Cliff (2008)
Action | Adventure | Drama
The first chapter of a two-part story centered on a battle fought in China's Three Kingdoms period (220-280 A.D.).
Starring: Tony Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Fengyi Zhang, Chen Chang, Wei Zhao, Jun Hu, Chiling Lin, Shidô Nakamura, Yong You, Ba Sen Zha Bu, Yong Hou
Director: John Woo
Red Cliff II (2009)
Action | Adventure | Drama
In this sequel to Red Cliff, first minister Cao Cao convinces Emperor Han to initiate a battle against the two Kingdoms of Xu and Wu, who have become allied forces, against all expectations. Red Cliff will be the site for the gigantic battle.
Starring: Tony Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Fengyi Zhang, Chen Chang, Wei Zhao, Jun Hu, Chiling Lin, Shidô Nakamura, Yong You, Ba Sen Zha Bu, Yong Hou
Director: John Woo
