Perfect Days (2023)
Drama
Hirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo, lives his life in simplicity and daily tranquility. Some encounters also lead him to reflect on himself.
Starring: Koji Yakusho, Min Tanaka, Tokio Emoto, Tomokazu Miura, Yumi Asô
Director: Wim Wenders
My Brother the Alien / Uchuujin no aitsu (2023)
Comedy | Sci-Fi
Four siblings are shocked to learn their adopted brother is actually a visiting alien and his time on earth is soon coming to an end. Will they be able to cope with his departure and also save the family yakiniku restaurant?
Starring: Tomoya Nakamura, Sairi Itô, Tokio Emoto, Yuki Himura, Waka Inoue, Osamu Shitara, Ryôta Yamasato
Director: Ken Iizuka
Hanagatami (2017)
Drama | War
Fulfilling his filmmaking dream of 40 years, Nobuhiko Obayashi's luminous new feature "Hanagatami" delivers a timeless story of the pureness of youth beset by the chaos of war.
Starring: Shunsuke Kubozuka, Honoka Miki, Takako Tokiwa, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Keishi Nagatsuka, Hirona Yamazaki, Tokio Emoto, Mugi Kadowaki
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
To the Ends of the Earth / Tabi no Owari Sekai no Hajimari (2019)
Drama
A young Japanese woman named Yoko who finds her cautious and insular nature tested when she travels to Uzbekistan to shoot the latest episode of her travel variety show.
Starring: Atsuko Maeda, Ryô Kase, Shôta Sometani, Tokio Emoto, Adiz Rajabov
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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
Side Job / Her Life is Not at Fault / Kanojo no jinsei wa machigaijanai (2017)
Drama
Based on the novel "Kanojo no Jinsei wa Machigai ja Nai" (literal translation: Her life is not at fault) by Director Hiroki, it is a powerful story of survivors, who are all trying to find their own silver linings in life.
Starring: Kumi Takiuchi, Ken Mitsuishi, Kengo Kôra, Tokio Emoto, Atsushi Shinohara, Misako Renbutsu
Director: Ryuichi Hiroki
Time Trip App / Bakumatsu kôkôsei (2014)
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
In 1868, a battle between new government forces and shogunate forces are about to take place in Edo. Katsu Kaishu (Hiroshi Tamaki) wants to avoid useless bloodshed and sends a peace envoy to Takamori Saigo, but Katsu Kaishu is unable to get a response from Takamori Saigo. One day, Katsu Kaishu meets high school teacher Mikako (Satomi Ishihara) and her student Masaya who is captivated by the shogunate. Mikako and her student Masaya tells Katsu Kaishu that they are from the future. Katsu Kaishu takes care of Mikako and her student Masaya, while Mikako hopes to go back to the future where she came from.
Starring: Hiroshi Tamaki, Satomi Ishihara, Tokio Emoto, Haruna Kawaguchi, Yûdai Chiba
Director: Toshio Lee
Mission Impossible: Samurai / Samurai Hustle / Chô kôsoku! Sankin kôtai (2014)
Comedy
During the reign of the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Yunagaya Domain in the Tohoku region is a small han. But at the han, there is a gold mine. Suddenly, Masaatsu Naito of Yunagaya Domain receives an order to perform Sankin-kotai within 5 days. Sankin-kotai is a custom that requires the daimyo to visit the shogun in Edo. Unfortunately, the time needed to visit the shogun in Edo for Masaatsu Naito is 8 days. Masaatsu Naito also learns he received the order because a high ranking government official wants the gold mine. Also, the expense for Sankin-kotai is high and the Yunagaya Domain is such a small han that it seems impossible to complete. Nevertheless, Masaatsu Naito begins an unexpected operation to complete Sankin-kotai in 5 days.
Starring: Kuranosuke Sasaki, Kyôko Fukada, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Masahiko Nishimura, Takanori Jinnai, Yasufumi Terawaki, Seiji Rokkaku, Yûsuke Kamiji, Tokio Emoto
Director: Katsuhide Motoki
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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