Akira Takarada

Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he’s a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to ...

An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so ...

Edmund Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) ...

The film stars two of Itami’s regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko ...

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, ...

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an ...

Humanity final rids themselves of Godzilla, in-prisoning him in an icy tomb at the South Pole. Years later all is peaceful until various monsters ...

After being hypnotized, Shizuka Suzuki has to sing and dance whenever she hears music.

Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, ...