Kirin Kiki — Actor (48)
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Akumyo: Notorious Dragon (1974)
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Yasuzō Masumura actor: Shintarō Katsu / Kinya Kitaoji …
other title: 悪名 縄張荒らし / Bad Reputation: Notorious Dragon …
About small-time gangster Asakichi's chaotic life in the 1930s. His gambling addiction means that he must not continue working in the family business. Instead he supports himself by arranging cockfights. He becomes ex-geisha Okinu's patron and lover, and falls directly into disfavor with the yakuza.
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The Triple Cross (1992)
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Kinji Fukasaku actor: Kenichi Hagiwara / Kazuya Kimura …
other title: Double Cross - Das Action-Massaker / Un jour étincelant …
Following the bloody aftermath of a heist, three robbers are double-crossed by a new accomplice, who is then tracked down amid escalating carnage and spectacular car chases.
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The Mystery of Rampo (1994)
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Kazuyoshi Okuyama actor: Masahiro Motoki / Naoto Takenaka …
other title: RAMPO　奥山バージョン
Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts, his publisher shows him a newspaper with an account of events just like his forbidden story. As the film progresses, fantasy and reality intermingle in a tale that draws heavily on influences from Poe and Stoker's Dracula. The film's strongly Expressionistic direction skillfully combines a variety of media (animation, computer-generated imagery, grainy black-and-white fast film stock, color negatives) for artistic effect.
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Sweet Bean (2015)
あん
★ 5.8 5 ratings
Naomi Kawase actor: Kirin Kiki / Masatoshi Nagase …
other title: Le ricette della signora Toku / Månen over kirsebærtræerne …
The master of a dorayaki pastry store hires a 76-year-old woman whose talents attract customers from all over. But she's hiding a troubling secret. Life's joys are found in the little details, and no matter what may be weighing you down, everyone loves a good pastry.
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Tokyo Marigold (2001)
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Jun Ichikawa actor: Rena Tanaka / Yukiyoshi Ozawa …
other title: 東京マリーゴールド
Eriko – lonely, aimless and self-absorbed – falls for Tamura. Despite knowing that he is waiting for his girlfriend to return from overseas, she requests to enter into a relationship with him for just one year.
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Pistol Opera (2001)
ピストルオペラ
Seijun Suzuki actor: Makiko Esumi / Sayoko Yamaguchi …
other title: ピストルオペラ / Ópera de Pistola …
An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.
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Izo (2004)
IZO
Takashi Miike actor: Kazuya Nakayama / Kaori Momoi …
other title: IZO / Izo - The world can never be changed …
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.
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Returner (2002)
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Takashi Yamazaki actor: Takeshi Kaneshiro / Anne Suzuki …
other title: Returner - Il futuro potrebbe essere storia / O Retorno …
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.
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The Taste of Tea (2004)
茶の味
★ 8.7 6 ratings
Katsuhito Ishii actor: Maya Suzuno / Takahiro Sato …
other title: O Gosto do Chá / The Taste of tea …
A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano, a successful music producer, is looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Sachiko is concerned with why she seems to be followed by a giant version of herself. As the lazy days pass by, each member of the family is followed in a series of episodic vignettes.
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The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi (1979)
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Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Ikko Furuya / Kunie Tanaka …
other title: 金田一耕助の冒険
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.
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I Are You, You Am Me (1982)
転校生
Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Satomi Kobayashi / Toshinori Omi …
other title: La Nouvelle de la classe / 転校生 …
9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched, and the result is a touching and hilarious coming-of-age comedy as they attempt to survive the pressures of junior high school life.
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Still Walking (2008)
歩いても 歩いても
★ 8.2 16 ratings
Hirokazu Kore-eda actor: Hiroshi Abe / Kirin Kiki …
other title: Andando / Still Walking (Caminando)
Twelve years after their beloved eldest son, Junpei, drowned while saving a stranger's life, Kyohei and Toshiko welcome their surviving children home for a family reunion. Younger son Ryota still feels that his parents resent that he isn't the one who died; his new wife, Yukari, is awkwardly meeting the rest of the family for the first time. Daughter Chinami strains to fill the uncomfortable pauses with forced cheer.
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Villain (2010)
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Lee Sang-il actor: Eri Fukatsu / Satoshi Tsumabuki …
other title: Akunin / 悪人
Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services and going on random encounters with girls looking for spending cash. His world is shattered one day when he is involved in the murder of one of his former encounters, the sweet-faced Ishibashi Yoshino who, after being jilted by playboy Masuo Keijo, berates and mocks the troubled loner.