Kōji Yakusho
1) Tampopo
Publisher
Distributed by WinStar TV & Video
Pub. Date
1999, c1987
Language
日本語
Description
A celebration of the role of food in Japanese culture. Tells story of Tampopo, a young widow who runs a small noodle restaurant in Tokyo, and Goro, a cowboy hat-wearing truck driver, as they attempt to devise the perfect bowl of top ramen.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
日本語
Description
Leading attorney Shigemori takes on the defense of murder-robbery suspect Misumi who served jail time for another murder 30 years ago. Shigemori's chances of winning the case seem low; his client freely admits his guilt, despite facing the death penalty if he is convicted. As he digs deeper into the case, as he hears the testimonies of the victim's family and Misumi himself, the once confident Shigemori begins to doubt whether his client is the murderer...
3) Mirai
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
日本語
Description
When four-year-old Kun's new baby sister is named Mirai (meaning 'future'), and the baby quickly wins the hearts of Kun's entire family. As his mother returns to work, Kun becomes increasingly jealous of baby Mirai, until one day he storms off into the garden, where he encounters guests from the past and future, including his sister Mirai as a teenager. Together, Kun and teenage Mirai go on a journey through time, uncovering their family's incredible...
4) 13 Assassins
Author
Language
日本語
Description
Cult director Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer, Audition) delivers a bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era. 13 Assassins - a "masterful exercise in cinematic butchery" (New York Post) - is centered around a group of elite samurai who are secretly enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord to prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war torn future.
Author
Language
日本語
Description
Brimming with magical realism, sensuality, and humor, the final film by revered filmmaker Shohei Imamura is "an enlightening, even liberating, experience" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times) that tells the story of Yosuke Sasano, an unemployed salaryman who arrives in a remote fishing village following a rumor of hidden treasure. Instead, he meets Saeko Aizawa, a charming and unusual woman with a unique problem: a well of warm water inside her longing...
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
日本語
Description
Revenge, honor and disgrace collide when a samurai's request to commit ritual suicide leads to a tense showdown with his feudal lord. From cult auteur Takashi Miike (*13 Assassins*). Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival**. "*It may well be Miike's best film, a patient, ominous piece of epic storytelling that conscientiously rips the scabs off the honorable samurai mythology.*" - Michael Atkinson, ***Village Voice***
8) 13 Assassins
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
日本語
Description
A group of elite samurai are secretly enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord.
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
日本語
Description
THE WORLD OF KANAKO is a nonstop emotional assault as it follows ex-detective Akikazu on the hunt for his daughter, Kanako. As he stumbles along a shocking trail of sex and violence, he finds himself unprepared for the shocking revelations.
11) Doppelganger
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
日本語
Description
A research scientist encounters an exact double who takes over his career and uses violence to achieve his goals. Official Selection at the **International Film Festival Rotterdam**.
12) The Third Murder
Author
Language
日本語
Description
High-powered attorney Shigemori (Masaharu Fukuyama) reluctantly agrees to defend murder-robbery suspect Misumi (Kōji Yakusho), knowing the man already confessed and had been convicted of murder thirty years ago. But as he digs deeper, Shigemori begins to doubt whether his client could be the murderer after all. From Palme d'Or winner Hirokazu Kore-eda, The Third Murder is a gripping and morally complex crime procedural that incisively explores the...
13) The Third Murder
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
日本語
Description
Leading attorney Shigemori takes on the defence of murder-robbery suspect Misumi who served jail time for another murder 30 years ago. Shigemori’s chances of winning the case seem low - his client freely admits his guilt, despite facing the death penalty if he is convicted. As he digs deeper into the case, as he hears the testimonies of the victim’s family and Misumi himself, the once confident Shigemori begins to doubt whether his client is the...
14) Doppelgänger
Publisher
Tartan Video USA
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
日本語
Description
A meek scientist meets and eventually learns to deal with his double, who, though physically identical to him, is frighteningly opposite in nature.
15) Babel
Author
Language
English
Description
From acclaimed Director Alejandro González Iñárritu (Amores Perros, 21 Grams) comes the third film in his trilogy, Babel, a critically celebrated and emotionally gripping film about the barriers that separate humankind.