Shadow of Fire / Hokage (2023)
Drama | History | Mystery | Thriller
In the black market, a war orphan is confronted with the struggles of people living in the immediate aftermath of WWII.
Starring: Shuri, Mirai Moriyama, Ouga Tsukao, Hiroki Kono, Gô Rijû, Tatsushi Ômori
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Hiruko the Goblin / Yôkai hantâ: Hiruko (1991)
Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
A goblin is sent to Earth to behead students and turn their bodies into demons.
Starring: Kenji Sawada, Masaki Kudou, Hideo Murota, Naoto Takenaka, Megumi Ueno
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Killing / Zan (2018)
Action | Drama
Set during the tumultuous mid-19th century Edo period of Japan, Killing is the story of a masterless samurai or ronin named Ikematsu Sosuke. As the prevalent peace and tranquility are sure to be replaced by war and conflict across the land the swordsman feels restlessness creep upon him.
Starring: Sôsuke Ikematsu, Yû Aoi, Tatsuya Nakamura, Ryûsei Maeda, Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Ichi the Killer / Koroshiya 1 (2001)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Ohmori, Paulyn Sun, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Susumu Terajima, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Suzuki Matsuo, Jun Kunimura
Director: Takashi Miike
Silence (2016)
Drama
In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Ciarán Hinds, Tadanobu Asano, Shinya Tsukamoto
Director: Martin Scorsese
Silence (2016)
Drama
In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Ciarán Hinds, Tadanobu Asano, Shinya Tsukamoto
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Vital / Vuitaru (2004)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
After a tragic car accident where his girlfriend Ryôko Ooyama died, Hiroshi Takagi suffers amnesia with his memories completely blanked. When he sees a book about dissection, he decides to join the medical school with the support of his parents. In the dissection class, his group participates of the autopsy of a young woman, and while cutting apart the tissue, he partially recalls his accident. Later, when he sees a tattoo in the arm of the corpse, he discloses that she was his girlfriend and becomes obsessed to go further in the examination of the body.
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Kiki, Nami Tsukamoto, Kazuyoshi Kushida, Lily
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto
A Snake of June / Rokugatsu no hebi (2002)
Drama | Erotica | Mystery | Thriller
A married phone counselor finds herself the blackmail victim of a mysterious caller who takes her through an odyssey of sexual exploration. When her husband becomes the stalker's target as well, things take a bizarre turn.
Starring: Asuka Kurosawa, Yûji Kôtari, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Tomorowo Taguchi, Susumu Terajima
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Tokyo Fist / Tokyo Fuisuto (1995)
Action | Drama | Thriller
Tsuda is a young insurance salesman whose life, and the life of his fiancée Hizuru, is turned upside down when he meets an old schoolfriend, Takuji. Soon after Takuji's visit to Tsuda's apartment, Hizuru has her nipples pierced and starts making moves on Takuji while Tsuda begins a fitness and boxing campaign. The bizarre love triangle is linked to a half-forgotten incident from Tsuda and Takujis' youth.
Starring: Kaori Fujii, Naomasa Musaka, Kôji Tsukamoto, Naoto Takenaka, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Tomorowo Taguchi
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto
The Perfect Education / Kanzen-naru shiiku (1999)
Drama
Schoolgirl Kuniko is kidnapped by a middle-aged man Iwazono when she is jogging. He tells her that he had a failed marriage which leaves him a deep and everlasting scar in his mind. He kidnaps her in search of a perfect marriage and intends to lock her in the room and 'educate' her to perform perfect sex where body and soul are united. With the strong sense of fear and humiliation at the beginning, Kuniko gradually accepts Iwazono who treats her with total respect (except that she is still his prisoner). The distance between the two shortens and their relationship becomes more like that of lovers in spite of the large age difference between them…
Starring: Naoto Takenaka, Hijiri Kojima, Kazuki Kitamura, Asami Sawaki, Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Director: Ben Wada
Bullet Ballet (1998)
Crime | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Goda returns home one night to find police cars and ambulances surrounding the entrance to his apartment building. When he gets upstairs he's told that his girlfriend, Kiriko, who he's been with for a decade, has committed suicide. If this wasn't devastating enough Goda also learns that she killed herself with a bullet to the head. With Japan having some of the strictest set of gun control laws in the world, not only is Goda left with the yawning, black "why" behind Kiriko's suicide, but also a whole other set of mysterious "hows", "wheres" and "whos". How did Kiriko get a handgun in the first place? From where? And most importantly from who? Goda goes on a quest into the gritty criminal underworld of Tokyo in order to answer these questions, and maybe inhabit the last days of Kiriko's life…
Starring: Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Kirina Mano, Tatsuya Nakamura, Takahiro Murase, Kyôka Suzuki, Hisashi Igawa
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Kotoko (2011)
Drama | Horror
The story of a single mother who suffers from double vision; caring for her baby is a nerve-wrecking task that eventually leads her to a nervous breakdown…
Starring: Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Cocco
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto
