A Girl Missing / Yokogao (2019)
Drama
A home-care nurse's relationship with the family she has spent years working for is threatened when her nephew is arrested for kidnapping their daughter.
Starring: Mariko Tsutsui, Mikako Ichikawa, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Ren Sudo, Miyu Ogawa, Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Director: Kôji Fukada
From Miyamoto to You / Miyamoto kara Kimi e (2019)
Romance
Following the manga series and the subsequent television serial of the same name, and featuring the same cast, a young and relatively inexperienced man comes across a woman during his working day and sparks fly.
Starring: Sôsuke Ikematsu, Yû Aoi, Arata Iura, Wataru Ichinose, Jirô Satô, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Tokio Emoto, Hidetoshi Hoshida, Kanji Furutachi, Pierre Taki
Director: Tetsuya Mariko
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
Samurai's Promise / Chiri tsubaki (2018)
Drama
Uryu Shinbei appeals his boss's corruption and his appeal is denied. He is kicked out from the han. Shortly afterwards, his wife Shino collapses from a disease and dies. Right before her death, she tells Shinbei, "I hope you go back to the han and help Uneme Sakakibara." Shinbei and Uneme were friends, but they became rivals to gain Shino's affection. Uneme is also related to Shinbei's exile.
Starring: Jun'ichi Okada, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Haru Kuroki, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Kumiko Asô
Director: Daisaku Kimura
Shoplifters / Manbiki kazoku (2018)
Crime | Drama
A family of small-time crooks take in a child they find outside in the cold.
Starring: Lily Franky, Sakura Andô, Mayu Matsuoka, Jyo Kairi, Miyu Sasaki, Kirin Kiki, Sôsuke Ikematsu
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue / Yozora wa itsudemo saikô mitsudo no aoiro da (2017)
Drama | Romance
Newcomer Shizuka Ishibashi throws herself into the role of Mika, a nurse by day, a 'girlie bar' hostess by night, subject to feelings of anxiety and isolation, and unable to reach through a hard outer shell that stops her from expressing tenderness to anyone else. Sosuke Ikematsu, one of Japan's most important young actors, stars as Shinji, who struggles as a day-hire construction worker with a sense of impending doom, but who still tries to find the source of an unnamable hope he feels inside. The setting is Tokyo in 2017, where empty words, a sense of doom, and feelings of isolation co-exist with hope, trust, and love. In the sense of real life conjured up in these two people is a new kind of film: the densest kind of love story.
Starring: Shizuka Ishibashi, Sôsuke Ikematsu
Director: Yûya Ishii
Midnight Diner 2 / Zoku Shinya shokudô (2016)
Drama
When people finish their day and hurry home, his day starts. He's diner is open from midnight to seven in the morning. They call it " Midnight Diner ". Pork, Miso soup combo, Beer, Sake and Shochu is all that he has on his menu. Nevertheless, he makes whatever his customers request. As long as he has the ingredients for it… That is his policy. Does he even have customers? More than you would expect.
Starring: Kaoru Kobayashi, Aoba Kawai, Kôichi Satô, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Midoriko Kimura
Director: Joji Matsuoka
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
Setoutsumi (2016)
Drama
Seto and Utsumi are high school students. After school, they walk home and have a silly talk.
Starring: Masaki Suda, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Ayami Nakajô
Director: Tatsushi Ohmori
A Cappella / Mubansô (2016)
Drama
Set in the year 1969 in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Kyoko Noma is a loving female high school student who takes part in campus protests. One day, she meets university student Wataru Domoto in the tea cafe Mubansou ("A Cappella"). Kyoko falls in love with him, but they get involved in an incident that leads to a shocking ending.
Starring: Riko Narumi, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Takumi Saitô, Nina Endô, Wakana Matsumoto, Tomoko Fujita, Ken Mitsuishi
Director: Hitoshi Yazaki
The Shell Collector / Sheru Korekuta (2016)
Drama | Fantasy
A blind man works as a conchology scholar. He became attracted to the beauty and mystery of shells and then devoted himself to the field of conchology. He is now a world-renowned expert in the study of shells. The scholar lives separately from his wife and child. He lives a peaceful, but solitary existence picking shells alone on a remote island in Okinawa. One day, a female painter, Izumi, appears in front of the blind scholar. The woman suffers from a rare disease. The scholar is able to treat the woman's disease by using poisons from certain shells. Word of the miraculous treatment spreads and more people gather on Koto Island to receive treatment. The scholar's peaceful days are thrown into chaos.
Starring: Lily Franky, Shinobu Terajima, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Ai Hashimoto, Akira Fukuhara, Masahiro Arakaki
Director: Yoshifumi Tsubota
Mozu the Movie / Gekijouban Mozu (2015)
Action | Thriller
Lone wolf detective with an enormous personal grievance seeks to connect the mysterious death of his daughter to an urban legend of a villain who terrorizes Japan by insinuating himself into people's dreams and the collective psyche of the Japanese people.
Starring: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Takeshi Kitano, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yôko Maki, Yuriko Ishida, Tôri Matsuzaka, Hiroki Hasegawa, Fumiyo Kohinata, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Atsushi Itô
Director: Eiichirô Hasumi
The Vancouver Asahi / Bankûbâ no asahi (2014)
Drama | Sport
The Vancouver Asahi baseball team consists of 2nd generation Japanese immigrants living in Canada. They play within a local amateur baseball league. The team got popular due to their fair play spirit, while struggling to fight against discrimination and poverty in their everyday lives. Reggie is a 2nd generation Japanese immigrant who works at a sawmill in Vancouver. He is the leader of the team and plays shortstop. Roy is the team's ace pitcher and works at a fishery field. Kaye is the team's 2nd baseman and co-worker of Reggie. Tom is the catcher and works at a tofu shop. Frank works at a hotel and plays baseball with the team.
Starring: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Kazuya Kamenashi, Ryô Katsuji, Yûsuke Kamiji, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Kôichi Satô
Director: Yûya Ishii
Pale Moon / Kami no tsuki (2014)
Drama
A mellow drama following the moral decline of a housewife turned bank employee who embezzles a fortune from her customers and indulges in an affair with a younger man. Set in 1994, shortly after the burst of Japan's economic bubble.
Starring: Rie Miyazawa, Sosuke Ikematsu, Yûko Ohshima, Seiichi Tanabe, Satomi Kobayashi, Yoshimasa Kondô, Renji Ishibashi
Director: Daihachi Yoshida
Undulant Fever / When I Sense the Sea / Umi wo kanjiru toki (2014)
Drama
High school student Emiko (Yui Ichikawa) meets an older student named Yo (Sosuke Ikematsu) in the high school newspaper club. One day, Emiko is kissed by Yo and they have sex impulsively. Since that time, whenever Emiko, who does not know love, sees Yo, she asks him to have sex. As time goes by, Yo movies away to attend college in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Emiko works at a flower shop just because she wants to be close to Yo. Emiko is hurt by Yo's rejection, but whenever she meets him she has sex with him.
Starring: Yui Ichikawa, Sosuke Ikematsu, Madoka Sakai, Sakiko Takao, Masaki Miura, Kumi Nakamura
Director: Hiroshi Ando
Our Family / Bokutachi no kazoku (2014)
Drama
A family that is scattered get together because of their mother's sudden illness. They begin to about their family. Since Reiko (Mieko Harada) turned 60-years-old, she seems to get more and more forgetful, but her husband Katsuaki (Kyozo Nagatsuka), first son Kousuke (Satoshi Tsumabuki) and second son Shunpei (Sosuke Ikematsu) do not care or notice. One day, Reiko goes to see a doctor and is diagnose with brain tumor. She only has a week to live. After Reiko tells the her family that "a family that gets scattered makes me scared," she seems to become a totally different person. As if she has Alzheimer's, Reiko says whatever is on her mind.
Starring: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Mieko Harada, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Kyôzô Nagatsuka
Director: Yûya Ishii
Love's Whirlpool / Ai no uzu (2014)
Romance
From midnight to 5 AM, people gather at a high-end apartment in Roppongi to engage in promiscuous sexual activity. Story depicts the process of the men and women who meet for the first time there to have loveless sex.
Starring: Sôsuke Ikematsu, Mugi Kadowaki
Director: Daisuke Miura
A Story of Yonosuke / Yokomichi Yonosuke (2013)
Drama
In 1987, 18-year-old Yokomichi Yonosuke (Kora Kengo) moves to Tokyo to attend university. His cheerful and earnest nature quickly helps him become friends with two classmates. His persistence and lack of tact help him bond with cool, fashionable Kato (Ayano Go). Through Kato, Yonosuke also meets Shoko (Yoshitaka Yuriko), an eccentric rich girl who falls head over heels for Yonosuke. From his friends' points of view, we see moments from what would become the most important year in Yonosuke's life, as well as the unforgettable memories that still live in his friends' minds over two decades later.
Starring: Kengo Kôra, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Gô Ayano, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Ayumi Ito
Director: Shûichi Okita
