Akira Sako
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Burning Dog (1991)
A gang of thieves plot to rob a US military base in Okinawa, but rising tensions in the group threaten to put the plan in jeopardy.
Returner (2002)
A young woman from the future forces a local gunman to help her stop an impending alien invasion which will wipe out the human race.
The Blue Light (2003)
Shuichi Kushimori is a 17 year old high school student who lives happily with his mother and stepsister. One day, without warning, his estranged...
Score 2: The Big Fight (1999)
Three criminals pull off a major heist at a Tokyo bank and one of them hides the money in aplace that only he knows while the rest go into hiding. A...
Endless Waltz (1995)
Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki.
Shaolin Girl (2008)
A Shaolin-trainer young woman returns to Japan to resuscitate her grandfather's defunct martial arts school.
Monster Heaven: Ghost Hero (1990)
A major electronics company on the verge of developing technology to create a 3D image that can be physically handled is thrown into turmoil when a...
Shokoki! (2001)
The elevators in a skyscraper suddenly stop functioning. In one car, six ordinary people are trapped. In another car, the six members of comedy group...
Kingdom 2: Far and Away (2022)
It follows a young man who dreams of becoming a general and Ying Zheng, whose goal is unification.
Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny (2023)
To defend their kingdom against a sudden invasion, a mighty general returns to the battlefield alongside a war orphan, now grown up, who dreams of...
DIVE!! (2008)
Tomoki Sakai is your average junior-high student. Fascinated by the diving skills of Yōichi Fujitani, an elite athlete born into a family of...
Mixed Doubles (2017)
To get revenge on her ex-boyfriend and to help revive her late mother's tennis table club, a table tennis prodigy decides to take part in a mixed...
Ping Pong (2002)
As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then...
Udon (2006)
Kosuke is 31, and tired of his hometown where nothing happens. On a whim, he departs for New York with dreams of making it big. 6 months later, he...
Box! (2010)
A shy high school student meets his childhood friend, who moved away years earlier, and who encourages him to join their school's boxing club.
The Curtain Rises (2015)
Saori is a high school student at a provincial city. She is a member of playgroup at her school. Yoshioka begins to work at the same high school as a...
Ajin: Demi-Human (2017)
Ajin is a live-action adaptation of a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gamon Sakurai. Kei Nagai dies in a car accident, but realises...
Feel the Wind (2009)
Haiji was an elite runner, but has not competed due to a past injury. He then meets fellow elite runner Kakeru who also left running, but caused by a...
Tatara Samurai (2017)
In 16th century Japan, a young man has to choose between becoming a master steel maker like his father and grandfather before him, or becoming a...
Time Lost, Time Found (2009)
A woman is forced to choose between her unborn child or medical treatment for re-occuring breast cancer. Shizuku, a talented surgeon, gets pregnant....
Sea Monkey (2004)
The movie "Umizaru" is the story of 14 young Japan Coast Guard officers who take part in a grueling training to become rescue divers. They must...
UNFAIR: the answer (2011)
After detective Natsumi Yukihira brings an end to the police hospital terrorist case, Natsumi is transferred to the Nishimonbetsu Police Station in...
Waruboro (2007)
Under the influence of his delinquent friend, a former model student eschews schoolwork and joins a gang of school kids who do nothing but fight.
Platinum Data (2013)
Set in the year 2017, the Japanese government attempts to secretly control the DNA of its people. Ryuhei Kagura is a top scientist in the field of...
Limit of Love: Umizaru (2006)
A small team of Coast Guard divers, including Daisuke, rappels onto the ship from a helicopter and begins to evacuate the panicked passengers. Then...
UNFAIR: the end (2015)
Natsumi Yukihira (Ryoko Shinohara) receives secret documents of an organization that controls the country from the shadows. Because of this,...
Princess Toyotomi (2011)
National Audit Bureau member Hajime Matsudaira (Shinichi Tsutsumi), Tadako Torii (Haruka Ayase) & Asahi Gainsbourg (Masaki Okada) travel from their...
Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean (2005)
A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on...
Key of Life (2012)
A failed actor switches identities with a stranger at a bath house thinking it is his way out of his life of misery but only to find himself filling...
Umizaru 3: The Last Message (2010)
While a menacing typhoon approaches, an accident at the giant natural gas plant Regalia occurs. Japan Coast Guard rescue divers Daisuke Senzaki...
Shippu Rondo (2016)
An illegal biological weapon K-55 is stolen from a university lab. The university lab can't even call the police because the secret nature of the...
Again (2015)
Mie’s father died during the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. One day, she finds a bundle of unsent New Year’s...
Moving (1993)
Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, a girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity.
Tomie (1998)
Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist....
Film Noir (2000)
The movie is absurd, and a thoroughly original take on the morale in Japanese society. The images are beautiful, and the people are as cold as the...
Female Teacher's Diary Forbidden Sex (1995)
The film depicts the relationship between a beautiful teacher and a male teacher, popular among female students, an excellent student who tells the...
The Takatsu River (2019)
Set along the river basin of Shimane Prefeture's Takatsu River, a government-protected river, this drama portrays various people living in an area...
The Yin Yang Master Zero (2024)
During the Heian period, Abe no Seimei trains in magic but lacks interest, until a collaboration with Minamoto no Hiromasa arises to solve a strange...
Hakkenden (2024)
Takizawa Bakin, a popular Edo period author, begins to recount a story he is planning in front of his friend, the artist Katsushika Hokusai. The...