Satoshi Tsumabuki Movies

In a Japanese school, 5 adolescent geeks join the new sport teacher and take up the challenge to take part in the synchronised swimming competition,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Fujitani

Teru Aoki (青木 輝) is on a train to Tokyo after a school trip. A disaster occurs which partially destroys the train and blocks a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

ER doctor Tsuyoshi Matsuoka receives a patient with a virus unlike anything he's seen before. His symptoms include high fever, convulsions, vomiting...

Genre: Action

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eri Fukatsu

Lives are changed and friendships tested when two bottom-feeding smugglers are ordered to kidnap the daughter of a wealthy Korean businessman and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ha Jung-woo

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Yusuke Santamaria

A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Hyakkimaru, a warrior on a quest to reclaim 48 of his body parts which were each taken by a demon, is joined by Dororo, a thief on a quest to avenge...

Genre: Action

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Koichi Sato

Young art student Hideo paints an unnerving portrait of Tomie, who whispers that she loves him. Inexplicably, he reacts by stabbing her to death with...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Miki Sakai

Drawing influence from the street musicians of Miyagi, four high school students form a band and spend their free time practicing for their school's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keisuke Koide

A part-time employee in a mahjong parlour runs across a young woman, who is unable to walk, in baby carriage. He becomes friends with the woman and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

A love story about two step-siblings, Yota and Kaoru. Long ago, Yota's mother married Kaoru's jazz-playing father, effectively merging the two...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one live elite assassin – in the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

A Middle-aged Japanese ex-pat journalist investigates child organ trafficking in Thailand and he uncovers a sinister network. In the darkest corners...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aoi Miyazaki

Troubled high school student Makoto arrives in Tokyo to exact revenge from a past incident. He then falls in love at first sight with Ai, a daughter...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

When a young man is sent to a prison workhouse for a crime he did not commit his friend on the outside must find evidence to clear his name.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

Masamichi is about to take up postgraduate study. He invites six student friends round for a farewell dinner at his Kyoto flat.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rena Tanaka

During Japan's feudal period, a noble lord was treacherously killed by a rival. His 47 samurai retainers took their revenge on their master's killer...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takuya Kimura

An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Hashizume

In 1969, Sawada is filled with idealism that permeated that era and starts working as a gonzo journalist for a weekly magazine. Two years later,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

A school teacher suggests to his class that they ought to raise a pig together and eat it when it grows up.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high school's grounds. The dog, named Kuro, stays at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

9th century China. Ten year old general’s daughter Nie Yinniang is abducted by a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, transforming her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shu Qi

This special takes place three years after the end of the original series. Makoto is homeless as a result of his mom selling out their shop and soon...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomoya Nagase

This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Arisugawa is a businessman who has been transferred to a local branch office. However, the people at the branch office are all peculiar...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kuranosuke Sasaki

After taking the blame for another disastrous advertising campaign, Ota Kiichiro is asked by his arrogant boss Otaki Ichiro to take his place as a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fumiyo Kohinata

The emotional journey of a four-member family that fails to recognize that it is rapidly growing apart until the mother is diagnosed with terminal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Takako Matsu

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

Kota hears about an impending 1.5 billion yen gold bar heist from his friend Kitagawa, a former college classmate, and decides to take part. The gold...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed for lack of references, Haruko's strong accent...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mone Kamishiraishi

Based on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows the troubled and illicit affair between two...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

Onuki asks people in a hospital to perform a play for Paco, who suffers from memory disorder. His only hope is to help Paco survive from her illness.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayaka Wilson

Based on an award winning novel, It's Only Talk is about the life of Yuko, a 35-year old woman. She is single and unemployed, and suffers from manic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinobu Terajima

A lowly but academically diligent warrior named Bessho Hikoshiro finds himself unable to move up in the world due to the stifling caste system of the...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

Jam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Natsuko Akiyama

"Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as "Kayokyoku". Kayokyoku is a catch-all term to describe the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protected room located in an isolated ward of a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yuki Uchida

TV Tokyo's 60th anniversary special drama. This is a human drama about a doctor struggling with his life and a patient who has been told he has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

At a crucial point in his business life, executive Gondo learns that his son has been kidnapped and that the ransom demanded is near the amount Gondo...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koichi Sato

Sewashi and Doraemon find themselves way back in time and meet Nobita. It is up to Doraemon to take care of Nobita or else he will not return to the...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Wasabi Mizuta

A man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their blood. The killer undergoes...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ken Watanabe

Yaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, while Kita is an actor addicted to various drugs.

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomoya Nagase

An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Hashizume

Set in post-war Okinawa, Japan, Gusuku had 3 close childhood friends: On, Yamako and On's younger brother Rei. On was the oldest of the group and he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

Residents in a town have a hard time due to the land tax and forced labor. 9 people, including Juzaburo Kokutaya (Sadao Abe), worry about the future...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sadao Abe

In order to avoid a jail sentence, Sean Boswell heads to Tokyo to live with his military father. In a low-rent section of the city, Sean gets caught...

Genre: Action

Cast: Lucas Black

Haru is a rather cool fifth-grade elementary school student who shares the same tastes as her mother’s younger sister Yuko (Kaho) and can tell...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

Tanaka is going through a tough time trying to support his younger sister Mitsuko, recently arrested and on hold in jail. An investigative reporter,...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

Why had a mother who seemed happy desired to end her own life? Desperate to uncover his mother’s true intentions, Sakuya ventures into...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sosuke Ikematsu

Great Teacher Onizuka is back, using his unorthodox brand of inspiration and education as a substitute teacher in a depressed small town in Hokkaido.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Takashi Sorimachi

In Tokyo, Japan, several grotesque murders take place on rainy days. Detective Sawamura, who is in charge of the case, soon discovers that his own...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shun Oguri

A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present. She replies...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Isao Hashizume

Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Isao Hashizume

Koroki is a 35-year old man who admires Japanese singer-songwriter Tamio Okuda and aspires to live like him. He works as an editor at the lifestyle...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one afternoon, housewife Fumie falls asleep and wakes up to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Hashizume

Driven by the desire for the huge reward, Tang Ren tricked Qin Feng to New York, to attend the World Detective Contest. Later on, behind the crazy...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Wang Baoqiang

To protect his family from a mysterious being, a man joins forces with a journalist and an exorcist - but they come to learn what they are dealing...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Junichi Okada

Takarada, a member of a group of swindlers which has reunited to pull off a big caper involving down comforters, shoddy encyclopedias, and a panda...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kippei Shiina

Masashi is a photographer. He has his parents and an older brother Yukihiro. Through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Masashi begins to take...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazunari Ninomiya

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

Tang Ren and Qin Feng travel to Japan to investigate the death of a mafia head. As they suspect foul play, they engage in a battle of wits against...

Genre: Action

Cast: Wang Baoqiang

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: TV Movie

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

Feudal lord Takuminokami Asano has been led to kill himself due to a scheme by Kozukenosuke Kira. Having no time to mourn his death, samurai...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shinichi Tsutsumi

A married woman with a lovely daughter lives a carefree life, until she meets her ex-lover at a friend’s wedding. They haven’t seen each...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kaho

"Box" Shuko Yoshino (played by Yuko Takeuchi), a researcher at a medical university, was suddenly hit in the head while working. When she woke up,...

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Cast: Tamori

A teenage girl makes a new friend at her school who tells her that she has the ability to travel between worlds.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masami Horiuchi

Four people decide to travel to Hunza, Pakistan to find paradise. Kentaro Tooma works as head of sales for a camera company. One of his clients is...

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Cast: Koichi Sato

One of the true classic's of anime's much-loved robot genre.

Genre: Action

Cast: Sosuke Ikematsu

Shoji Segawa was a quiet and inconspicuous boy, but, for the first time, he is recognized by people after winning the National Middle School Shogi...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda

Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, a dull novelist and a legendary killer. Susumu...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Renji Ishibashi

After Nanase's father drops dead due to a drug that causes temporal death for 2 days, she is named the president of his pharmaceutical company....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Suzu Hirose

An medical student unwillingly assists in human experiments on American POWs during WWII and gets sentenced to death in the Yokohama War Trials. His...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Yu Aoi

Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

Nobita travels to the future to show his beloved grandma his bride, but adult Nobita has fled his own wedding.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Wasabi Mizuta

After female high school student Furuya Meiko is found dead in her apartment from an apparent suicide, police investigate and discover that she was...

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Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

To commemorate the 35th anniversary of the popular omnibus drama "Tales of the Unusual," in which Tamori serves as the storyteller, "Tales of the...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Tamori

A woman writes a letter to a young man, leading to a correspondence with his father that unveils the truth of a 24-year-old high school romance, his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruka Ayase

A behind-the-scenes look at the tv show Shotgun Marriage (2001)

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Yutaka Takenouchi