Search results for "Takeshi Kitano"
Kubi

Kubi

Kubi
IMDb: 6.5
131

Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears.

Genre: Action, Drama, History
Outrage Coda

Outrage Coda

Outrage Coda
IMDb: 6.4
104

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 fixer. When tensions rise…

Dearest

Dearest

Dearest
IMDb: 6.9
111

The posthumous wish of Eiji’s wife is for her ashes to be scattered in the ocean near her hometown. Eiji also learns that his wife letter for him at the…

Genre: Drama
Beyond Outrage

Beyond Outrage

Beyond Outrage
IMDb: 6.7
112

As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West. What started as…

Genre: Action, Crime
Outrage

Outrage

Outrage
IMDb: 6.8
109

When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in…

Ghost in the Shell

Ghost in the Shell

Ghost in the Shell
IMDb: 6.3
107

In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world’s…

Achilles and the Tortoise

Achilles and the Tortoise

Achilles and the Tortoise
IMDb: 7.3
120

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Glory to the Filmmaker!

Glory to the Filmmaker!

Glory to the Filmmaker!
IMDb: 6.3
108

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 complete his latest project.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Takeshis’

Takeshis’

Takeshis’
IMDb: 6.3
108

Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Izo

Izo

Izo
IMDb: 6
128

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,…

Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Zatoichi

Zatoichi

Zatoichi
IMDb: 7.4
111

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he…

Battle Royale II: Requiem

Battle Royale II: Requiem

Battle Royale II: Requiem
IMDb: 4.6
155

It’s three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring down the government. His terrorist group, Wild Seven,…

Genre: Action, Thriller
Battle Royale

Battle Royale

Battle Royale
IMDb: 7.5
113

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary “Battle Royale” act.

Brother

Brother

Brother
IMDb: 7.1
114

A Japanese Yakuza gangster’s deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother’s gang.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Kikujiro

Kikujiro

Kikujiro
IMDb: 7.7
121

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two begin a series of adventures which…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Fireworks

Fireworks

Fireworks
IMDb: 7.7
103

Detective Nishi is relieved from a stakeout to visit his sick wife in hospital. He is informed that she is terminally ill, and is advised to take her home. During…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Johnny Mnemonic

Johnny Mnemonic

Johnny Mnemonic
IMDb: 5.6
97

In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks. On one delivery run,…

Gonin

Gonin

Gonin
IMDb: 6.7
109

Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract…

Sonatine

Sonatine

Sonatine
IMDb: 7.5
94

Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war, supposedly…

Boiling Point

Boiling Point

Boiling Point
IMDb: 6.8
96

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Violent Cop

Violent Cop

Violent Cop
IMDb: 7.1
103

A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and Yakuza activities.

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
IMDb: 7.2
124

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a…

Genre: Drama, History, War