Kappei (2022)
Action | Comedy
A group of warriors prepared their whole lives for an apocalypse that never happened, and now they must find their way to fit into society.
Starring: Hideaki Itô, Moka Kamishiraishi, Daigo Nishihata, Yûsuke Ohnuki, Kôji Yamamoto, Yukiyoshi Ozawa
Director: Takashi Hirano
Not Quite Dead Yet / Ichido Shinde Mita (2020)
Comedy
A pharmaceutical CEO is pondering thefts and irregularities at his company. He drinks a drug that temporary suppresses his signs and gives him a deathlike state for a couple of days. Something goes wrong. His daughter and he have had a rocky relationship, but she attempts to rescue him with help from a company employee.
Starring: Suzu Hirose, Ryô Yoshizawa, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Lily Franky, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Kyûsaku Shimada, Tae Kimura, Shôta Matsuda
Director: Shinji Hamasaki
I Have Loved You for 30 Years, Yayoi / Yayoi, March: 30 Years That I Loved You / Yayoi, sangatsu: Kimi o ai shita 30-nen (2020)
Romance
The story of two people who have loved each other for thirty years.
Starring: Haru, Ryô Narita, Hana Sugisaki, Kenshi Okada, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Hitomi Kuroki
Director: Kazuhiko Yukawa
Samurai Shifters / Long Journey / Hikkoshi daimyô! (2019)
Comedy | History
The noble Katagiri Harunosuke is both a warrior and a scholar. He is a samurai in the employment of his lord or Daimyo and also a bookworm. His newest and somewhat surprising task is to lead the effort to relocate the lord of the land. He employs and receives assistant from Takamura and Oran to accomplish the task with care and sensitivity.
Starring: Gen Hoshino, Issey Takahashi, Mitsuki Takahata, Mitsuhiro Oikawa, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Gaku Hamada, Yutaka Matsushige, Masahiko Nishimura
Director: Isshin Inudô
Glory of the Expedition / Expedition Party's Glory / Tankentai no eikô (2015)
Adventure
Sugisaki (Tatsuya Fujiwara) is an actor already past his prime. He lands a job as the lead in a TV program. The television program ventures into unexplored territories to locate a legendary UMA (unidentified mysterious animal). Initially, Sugisaki just goes along with the staff who lack a specific plan. Sugisaki soon engages his leadership position in the program and takes his job seriously.
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Yûsuke Santamaria, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Yôji Tanaka, Yôsuke Kawamura, Hinako Sano, Akiyoshi Okayasu
Director: Toru Yamamoto
The Hidden Blade / Kakushi ken oni no tsume (2004)
Drama | Romance
An honest, low-ranking samurai, Munezo Katagiri finds himself buffeted by the confusion of old and new in mid-19th century Japan. Facing outside pressure, the Shogunate is trying to open Japan to the West and some carefully selected Western ways, while maintaining its fragile political base. Munezo, and his colleague Samon Shimada try to maintain their footing, paying heed to the demanding moral code of the samurai while also learning new military strategies, particularly the mastery of Western artillery. But Munezo also has a personal complication. He is secretly in love–so secretly, he may not even admit it to himself–with his family's maid, the sweet and beautiful country girl, Kie. His passion leads him to rescue Kie from a loveless marriage after she leaves his household; the samurai even shocks propriety by carrying away the low-caste young woman on his back. Just as Munezo starts to get his domestic situation in something to resembling order, Munezo hears devastating news. A comrade, Yaichiro Hazama, has been caught up in a plot in Edo. Their clan has sent the rebellious samurai home in the humiliating transport of a "prisoner's basket." Munezo comes under suspicion because he and Yaichiro, the clan's best swordsmen, shared a famed instructor, but Munezo refuses to cooperate with the chief retainer's witch hunt. Tension finally leads Munezo to confess his growing affection to Kie, a development that the young woman begins to hope will lead to the abandonment of caste structures. But before Munezo can realize his romantic destiny, Yaichiro escapes. Munezo is ordered to kill him, and the loyal, honorable samurai is faced with one final challenge to his principles.
Starring: Masatoshi Nagase, Takako Matsu, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Sachiko Mitsumoto, Tomoko Tabata
Director: Yôji Yamada
Unforgiven / Yurusarezaru mono (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Set in Hokkaido, Japan in the 1880's. Jubei Kamata (Ken Watanabe), who is on the side of the Edo shogunate government, kills many people. His name is infamous in Kyoto. When the battle at Goryoukaku is about to be finished, Jubei disappears. 10 years later, Jubei lives with his kid in relative peace. He is barely able to make a living. Protecting his dead wife's grave, Jubei has decided to never pick up a sword again, but due to poverty he has no choice but to pick the sword again. Jubei becomes a bounty hunter.
Starring: Ken Watanabe, Kôichi Satô, Akira Emoto, Yûya Yagira, Shiori Kutsuna, Eiko Koike, Jun Kunimura, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Takahiro Miura, Ken'ichi Takitô, Yoshimasa Kondô
Director: Sang-il Lee
