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Young Thugs: Nostalgia (1998)
6.7/10
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Naoto Takenaka, Saki Takaoka, Yuki Nagata, Shonusuke Shofukutei
This prequel to 'Innocent Blood' has been called by director Takashi Miike his favourite of all his many films. Set in 1969 Japan, this gritty coming... Read more
Shall We Dance? (1996)
7.8/10
Director: Masayuki Suo
Starring: Koji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka, Eriko Watanabe
Mr. Sugiyama is an awkward and painfully shy middle-aged workaholic leading a mind-numbingly dull existence - until the day he catches a glimpse of a... Read more
Mutant Girls Squad (2010)
5.8/10
Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura, Noboru Iguchi, Tak Sakaguchi
Starring: Naoto Takenaka, Yumi Sugimoto, Yuko Takayama, Suzuka Morita
Rin is a seemingly normal Japanese high school girl, but on her sixteenth birthday, everything in her life changes. After witnessing her mother's face... Read more
Shinjuku Incident (2009)
7.1/10
Director: Tung-Shing Derek Yee
Starring: Jackie Chan, Naoto Takenaka, Daniel Wu, Jinglei Xu, Bingbing Fan
Jackie Chan takes a break from kung fu and flexes his dramatic muscle as a Chinese immigrant living illegally in Tokyo. In search of his girlfriend, t... Read more
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011)
7.3/10
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Koji Yakusho, Naoto Takenaka, Eita , Hikari Mitsushima, Ebizo Ichikawa, Munetaka...
Directed by Takashi Miike ("13 Assassins"), this remake of the 1962 film "Harakiri" relates the story of a mysterious samurai who arrives at the doors... Read more
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1991)
7.3/10
Director: Masayuki Suo
Starring: Masahiro Motoki, Misa Shimizu, Naoto Takenaka, Masaaki Takarai, Hiromasa Tagushi...
With his grades sliding at university, Shuhei's professor gets the cunning idea of blackmailing him into joining the Sumo wrestling team. Shuhei begru... Read more