The Great Yokai War: Guardians / Yôkai Daisensô: Gâdianzu (2021)
Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
A battle of Japanese monsters takes place for the fate of the world.
Starring: Kokoro Terada, Hana Sugisaki, Takao Osawa, Nao Ômori, Sakura Andô, Kôji Ohkura
Director: Takashi Miike
Into the Sun (2005)
Action | Thriller
When a government official is killed, an American operative with experience in the Yakuza culture is brought in to investigate.
Starring: Steven Seagal, Chiaki Kuriyama, Matthew Davis, Takao Osawa, Eddie George, William Atherton
Director: mink
AI Amok / AI Houkai (2020)
Sci-Fi | Thriller
Artificial Intelligence has permeated every aspect of planetary life in 2030. Tokyoites experience AI in every aspect of their lives whether medical, finance, transportation or their personal and day-to-day interactions. Many would tell you that AI is indispensable. Yet, as is often the case with technology jumping the gun on ethics and rules AI spins out of control and causes calamity after calamity. The city and the country are in chaos.
Starring: Takao Osawa, Kento Kaku, Alice Hirose, Takanori Iwata, Masahiro Takashima, Sei Ashina, Tina Tamashiro, Kimiko Yo, Tomokazu Miura
Director: Yû Irie
All About Lily Chou-Chou / Riri Shushu no subete (2001)
Crime | Drama | Music | Romance | Thriller
Life isn't easy for a group of high school kids growing up absurd in Japan's pervasive pop/cyber culture. As they negotiate teen badlands- school bullies, parents from another planet, lurid snapshots of sex and death- these everyday rebels without a cause seek sanctuary, even salvation, through pop star savior Lily Chou-Chou, embracing her sad, dreamy songs and sharing their fears and secrets in Lilyholic chat rooms. Immersed in the speed of everyday troubles, their lives inevitably climax in a fatal collision between real and virtual identities, a final logging-off from innocence.
Starring: Hayato Ichihara, Shûgo Oshinari, Ayumi Ito, Takao Osawa, Miwako Ichikawa, Izumi Inamori, Yû Aoi, Kazusa Matsuda, Ryô Katsuji
Director: Shunji Iwai
Strawberry Night (2013)
Thriller
Reiko Himekawa (Yuko Takeuchi) is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko doesn't come from an elite background, but she has risen fast through the ranks with hard work. Reiko than becomes involved in a murder case named "Strawberry Night" due to the mysterious use of those words surrounding the case…
Starring: Yûko Takeuchi, Takao Osawa, Ken'ichi Endô, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Renji Ishibashi, Tomokazu Miura
Director: Yûichi Satô
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
The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki / Wolf Children / Okami kodomo no ame to yuki (2012)
Animation | Fantasy
Older sister Yuki and younger brother Ame have a secret. They are "wolf children," half human and half wolf. Their mother Hana met and fell in love with a wolf man. The family lives discreetly in a quiet corner of the city, keeping their secret to themselves. But one day, their father passes away. Their mother Hana then decides to take Yuki and Ame out from the city and live in the countryside surrounded by nature.
Starring: Aoi Miyazaki, Takao Osawa, Haru Kuroki, Yukito Nishii, Momoka Ohno, Amon Kabe, Hiraoka Takuma, Shôta Sometani, Mitsuki Tanimura, Kumiko Asô, Megumi Hayashibara
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
