Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza.
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Dolph Lundgren, Takeshi Kitano, Ice-T, Henry Rollins, Udo Kier
Director: Robert Longo
Boiling Point / 3-4 x jûgatsu (1990)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Two disquieted junior baseball players seek revenge on the local yakuza for attacking their coach.
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Yûrei Yanagi, Yuriko Ishida, Eri Fuse, Makoto Ashikawa, Tsumami Edamame
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Outrage Beyond / Outrage 2 / Autoreiji: Biyondo (2012)
Action | Crime | Drama
As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West.
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Ryo Kase, Toshiyuki Nishida, Shun Sugata, Machiko Ono, Tomokazu Miura
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Outrage / Autoreiji (2010)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
The boss of a major crime syndicate orders his lieutenant to bring a rogue gang of drug traffickers in line, a job that gets passed on to his long-suffering subordinate.
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Kippei Shîna, Ryo Kase, Tomokazu Miura, Jun Kunimura, Renji Ishibashi
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Getting Any? / Minnâ-yatteruka! (1994)
Comedy
Obsessed with the idea of owning his first car so he can have sex in it, a young man takes any job he can find and ends up in an escalating series of crazy situations.
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Hakuryû, Tokie Hidari, Akiji Kobayashi, Masumi Okada, Susumu Terajima
Director: Takeshi Kitano
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
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Takeshi Kitano, Michael Pitt, Michael Wincott, Pilou Asbæk, Rila Fukushima
Director: Rupert Sanders
A Scene at the Sea / Ano natsu, ichiban shizukana umi (1991)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
The lives of a young, hearing-impaired and gloomy couple are fulfilled after the boy holds interest in surfboarding.
Starring: Claude Maki, Hiroko Ôshima, Sabu Kawahara, Susumu Terajima, Katsuya Koiso, Tetsu Watanabe
Director: Takeshi Kitano
While the Women Are Sleeping / Onna ga Nemuru Toki (2016)
Drama
While vacationing with his wife, a writer (Hidetoshi Nishijima) begins following another man (Takeshi Kitano) and woman (Shiori Kutsuna) who are guests at the resort hotel where he stays.
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Sayuri Oyamada, Shiori Kutsuna, Hirofumi Arai, Makiko Watanabe
Director: Wayne Wang
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
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
Kikujiro / Kikujirô no natsu (1999)
Comedy | Drama
A young, naive boy sets out alone on the road to find his wayward mother. Soon he finds an unlikely protector in a crotchety man and the two have a series of unexpected adventures along the way.
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Akaji Maro, Yûko Daike, Yôji Tanaka, Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Ryuzo and His Seven Henchmen / Ryûzô to 7 nin no kobun tachi (2015)
Action | Comedy
Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen (2015) is about the story of Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen who love derby race want to do the last battle with Yakuza guys.
Starring: Tatsuya Fuji, Masaomi Kondô, Akira Nakao, Tôru Shinagawa, Ben Hiura, Kôjun Itô, Ken Yoshizawa, Akira Onodera
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence / Senjô no merî Kurisumasu (1983)
Drama | War
Celliers, a high-ranking British officer, is interned by the Japanese as a POW. The camp commander becomes obsessed with the mysterious blond major. Meanwhile, lieutenant colonel Mr. Lawrence tries to bridge the emotional and language divides between his captors and fellow prisoners.
Starring: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryûichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano, Jack Thompson
Director: Nagisa Ôshima
Brother (2000)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A Japanese Yakuza gangster is exiled to the United States. Takeshi settles in Los Angeles where his younger, half brother lives and finds that although the turf is new, the rules are still the same as they try to take over the local drug trade.
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Claude Maki, Omar Epps, Masaya Katô, Susumu Terajima, Royale Watkins, Lombardo Boyar
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Battle Royale / Batoru rowaiaru (2000)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
With school children all over the country growing increasingly delinquent, the Japanese government takes decisive action and introduces the Battle Royale Act. The Act sets forth a plan whereby a class will be chosen at random and flown to a remote island, where each student will then be given a weapon and set loose to fight their classmates, each student knowing that only one of their number will be allowed to leave the island alive. When Class B of Zentsuji Middle School are chosen to take part in the massacre, the different students quickly take sides against each other, but Shuya and Noriko form an alliance and try to weather it through together.
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Chiaki kuriyama, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Tarô Yamamoto, Masanobu Ando
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Zatôichi / Takeshi Kitano's Zatoichi (2003)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Music
Zatoichi is a 19th century blind nomad who makes his living as a gambler and masseur. However, behind this humble facade, he is a master swordsman gifted with a lightning-fast draw and breathtaking precision. While wandering, Zatoichi discovers a remote mountain village at the mercy of Ginzo, a ruthless gang-leader. Ginzo disposes of anyone who gets in his way, especially after hiring the mighty samurai ronin, Hattori, as a bodyguard. After a raucous night of gambling in town, Zatoichi encounters a pair of geishas–as dangerous as they are beautiful–who've come to avenge their parents' murder. As the paths of these and other colorful characters intertwine, Ginzo's henchmen are soon after Zatoichi. With his legendary cane sword at his side, the stage is set for a riveting showdown.
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Michiyo Okusa, Yui Natsukawa, Guadalcanal Taka
Director: Takeshi Kitano
