Tarō Suwa — Actor (51)
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Chaos (2000)
カオス IMDb TMDB
Hideo Nakata actor: Masato Hagiwara / Miki Nakatani …
other title: カオス
A kidnapping for ransom seemingly goes off without a hitch, but as one thread left unsolved suddenly reveals many more mysteries, the whole operation threatens to descend into chaos.
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Eko Eko Azarak: Awakening (2001)
EKOEKO AZARAK エコエコアザラク IMDb TMDB
Kosuke Suzuki actor: Natsuki Kato / Mitsuho Ōtani …
other title: Eko Eko Azarak IV: Awakening / Eko Eko Azarak 4 - Awakening …
The fourth movie in the highly sucessful Eko Eko Azarak series. Following the events of the second movie, Misa discovers, along with the rest of Japan, the strength of her newly acquired powers when she and her friends are attacked in the woods…
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Hatsuko's World (2007)
赤い文化住宅の初子 IMDb TMDB
Yuki Tanada actor: Ayu Higashi / Shun Shioya …
other title: 赤い文化住宅の初子
Hatsuko, who is poor and has no friends, finds emotional support in Mishima, a boy in her class, who helps her with her study to go to a high school together. However, Hatsuko's brother causes trouble at the factory and gets the sack. Hatsuko gives up her dream of going to high school.
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Dancing Mary (2019)
ダンシング・マリー WikiData IMDb TMDB
SABU actor: NAOTO / Aina Yamada …
other title: ダンシング・マリー
Kenji is the youngest member of a team in charge of building a large shopping center. But, to create the new complex, an old dance floor must be destroyed, and every effort to tear down the building is boycotted by a mysterious power. In fact, there is a rumor that the place is cursed, and the construction team thought about hiring exorcists, but none of them seems to find the solution.
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A Tender Place (2001)
柔らかな頬 IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
Shunichi Nagasaki actor: Yuki Amami / Shunsuke Matsuoka …
other title: 柔らかな頬 / 柔嫩的脸颊 …
Kasumi is in the midst of an affair with Ishiyama, one of her husband's clients. When Kasumi and her family visit Ishiyama's villa in Hokkaido, she plans to abandon them to be with Ishiyama. The next morning, her daughter Yuka disappears, which throws Kasumi's life into turmoil. Years later, Yuka remains missing, and Kasumi journeys back to Hokkaido with Utsumi, a terminally-ill former detective, and tries to follow any leads she can.
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Yakuza Zombie (2001)
実録外伝 ゾンビ極道 IMDb TMDB
Hirohisa Sasaki actor: Hitoshi Ozawa / Hideo Murota …
other title: 実録外伝 ゾンビ極道
Yakuza Zombie opens with an introduction to a mysterious Yakuza graveyard deep in the forest, and a story of the baddest Yakuza of them all, Naruo Ryuuji (shown in cut scenes played by Ozawa Hitoshi). Naruo Ryuuji was a fearless killer who eventually got into heroin and, exactly like Ishimatsu Rikuo in Takashi Miike's Graveyard of Honor, eventually leaps to his death from the top of a prison, claiming he'll be back. I'm assuming this is a reference to real life crazy Yakuza Ishikawa Rikio, whom the original Graveyard of Honor was based on. It's established that the corpse of the fierce Yakuza Ryuuji is buried in the graveyard beneath a marker with the Japanese characters "Jingi" (Honor), and then we are taken to the modern day.
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Helpless (1996)
ヘルプ レス IMDb TMDB
Shinji Aoyama actor: Tadanobu Asano / Ken Mitsuishi …
other title: ヘルプ レス
Yasuo is a gangster just released from jail. Believing his boss double-crossed him, enraged Yasuo is on his way to find the boss. But before setting out for the dangerous trip, Yasuo asks Kenji to take care of his mentally challenged sister, Yuri, and a mysterious black bag.
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Two Punks (1996)
チンピラ IMDb TMDB
Shinji Aoyama actor: Takao Osawa / Dankan …
other title: Deux voyous / チンピラ
Centering on a young drifter almost casually drawn into violence--a crime drama about a boy and a man equally ill-equipped for criminal life and straight society. Neither wants to be a Yakuza, but normal life presents problems.
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A Weapon in My Heart (2026)
我が胸に凶器あり IMDb TMDB
Shinji Aoyama actor: Koujiro Shimizu / Mika Aoba …
other title: 我が胸に凶器あり
A detective and his partner track down a call girl with information about a drug cartel. After taking her into custody, they are attacked by cartel members. The detective and the woman manage to escape, but they are soon hounded by a professional hitman hired to eliminate them and recover the heroin stolen by the woman.
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Kaettekita! Deka Matsuri (2003)
帰ってきた！刑事まつり TMDB
Ryūichi Honda / Yumi Yoshiyuki … actor: Aki Miyata / Yukiko Okamoto …
other title: 帰ってきた！刑事まつり
Second installment of omnibus series Deka Matsuri. 10 films made under the conditions "The main character must be a female detective" "the film must be less than 10 minutes long" "at least five gags must be included"
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Men of Rage (1994)
打鐘 男たちの激情 IMDb TMDB
Kiyoshi Kurosawa actor: Kazuhiko Nishimura / Kentarou Nakakura …
other title: 打鐘 男たちの激情
The second installment of a V-Cinema sports drama, directed by Kurosawa in 1994, following "打鐘" (Dakan) from 1993, which was based on Yamamoto's manga and directed by Komatsu Takashi. While there is no direct narrative connection between the two films, they share thematic similarities. The protagonist, Wataru Tachibana, a self-destructive yet genius keirin cyclist, is once again passionately portrayed by Nishimura. This time, Wataru fiercely competes against a rival known as the "Prince of Keirin," who is also the heir of a powerful conglomerate. Kurosawa directs with intense and dramatic storytelling, capturing the protagonist’s burning determination.
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Under the Turquoise Sky (2021)
ターコイズの空の下で WikiData IMDb TMDB
Kentaro actor: Yuya Yagira / Akaji Maro …
other title: ターコイズの空の下で
Takeshi grew up spoiled in an affluent family. One day his businessman grandfather Saburo sends him to the grasslands of Mongolia where he is to search for a daughter born out of Saburo's relationship with a local woman after the Second World War.