Akira Otaka Movies

A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Not to be confused with the 1995 theatrical film directed by Shûji Kataoka. In "Female Prisoner Punisher Maria," a wronged woman transforms...

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Cast: Naomi Kawashima

The first 'Front and Back' film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaname Endo

Physician Koichiro Kiby loses interest in work and begins drinking in a local park after the death of his wife. One day he encounters a girl who...

Genre: Action

Cast: Mami Yamasaki

The story involves an aloof thief, a young man who turns to God after his father’s suicide, a manipulative marriage councilor, a man who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masato Sakai

After Detective Shunsaku Aoshima is promoted to section chief he has the daunting task of dealing with eight cases at the same time, which includes a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yuji Oda

A famous businessman's links with organized crime are looked into by the Zero Division of the Tokyo Police, with the investigation being headed by a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Misayo Haruki

Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Based on the classic adult manga of the same title, this film depicts the love between a stepbrother and sister discovered one weekend when their...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Chiharu Muraishi

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Cast: Noriyuki Higashiyama

After seeing her husband off to work, the young author identified only as Yoshiko sets off to read the large collection of letters she received from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Misa Shimizu

Nami is a nurse and the unwilling object of her patients' lust. When she is hit by a car whilst fleeing from the home of her unfaithful boyfriend,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mayako Katsuragi

Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

Takatoshi Minamiyama majors in art at an university in Kyoto. On the train to the school, he sees Emi Fukuju and falls in love with her at first...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sota Fukushi

Misaki, a high school girl aiming for a university recommendation through karate, has a weakness: she's prone to oversleeping. If she's late just one...

Genre: Action

Cast: Maika Yamamoto

Ayato Kazama is repaying his deceased father's debts and caring for his mother, who suffers from a serious illness, while working at a construction...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hayato Isomura

In 1959, a body of a flight attendant of an international airline is found, strangled. Detective Rokuro Fujisawa takes charge of the investigation...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

In pre-WWII Vancouver, second-generation Japanese immigrants had it tough. Daily, they faced discrimination, hatred and injustice at the hands of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hitomi Shimizu

Five years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a noted...

Genre: Action

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

A young couple is devastated when their son is killed by a falling tree during a windstorm. As the distraught father begins to look for answers into...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

Jun, a 16-year-old teen, refuses to stand while the national anthem is being played at his graduation ceremony. This event will totally change his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katsuya Kobayashi

Wisecracking Makino shows up from Japan and meets Shima, a yakuza living quietly in Taipei. Makino says he knows about the incident that prompted...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

One evening, a married couple comes to the Itami Law Office. Narumi Suzumura, six months pregnant, and her husband Takuya have come to ask Itami to...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

In a corner of Shinjuku, there is a run-down hotel called Sankai Hotel, which used to be a gay-only Hatten inn that is quite famous in this world....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiaki Nanjô

One day, Ezawa Jun, who has trouble with work and in love, gets a ryukin from a goldfish scooping game at a festival. However, she is actually a...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Jun Shison

On August 12, 1985, a jumbo jet crashes, causing 520 fatalities, making the accident the biggest single-plane accident in the world. The local press...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinichi Tsutsumi