Crime, Action, Drama
Barely scraping by making an honest living as a rural yakuza, Hachiya (Yasukaze Motomiya) dreams of the City of Flowers. Unable to conceal their growing frustration at their everyday lives, he and his partner, Sagane (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi), choose to pursue their own paths as yakuza, hiding a new major source of income from the family. But when the family captain (Kazuyoshi Ozawa) shows up for the first time in ten years...
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IMDB 0 | Apr , 2025
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IMDB 0 | Mar , 1964
Pro boxer Aoshima Toru is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor and given three months to live. He uses his prize money to pay the medical expenses for a young boy with polio. But when Toru learns from his fiancee Itsuko that his own mother has died, things take a turn for the worse.Inu-Oh
IMDB 7.3 | May , 2022
A cursed dancer and a blind musician — both ostracized by society — become business partners and inseparable friends as their larger-than-life concerts propel them to stardom in 14th century Japan.Suzuki Sensei
IMDB 7.8 | Jan , 2013
Teacher Akira Suzuki breaks away from long-held customs and norms at his school. He tries hard to have the ideal classroom by using his own "Suzuki method". The new semester begins. His homeroom 2-A class is about to have a student council election and preparations for a school festival. A man then takes a female student hostage...Kabukicho Love Hotel
IMDB 6.4 | Sep , 2014
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IMDB 7.1 | Jan , 1961
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IMDB 5.9 | Jan , 1985
The new guy in a Los Angeles high school, Morgan, does some singing and fights hotshot Nick over disco dancer Frankie.The Yakuza
IMDB 7.1 | Dec , 1974
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IMDB 8.8 | Mar , 2025
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IMDB 8 | Nov , 1991
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IMDB 7.8 | Jul , 1966
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.Enlightenment Guaranteed
IMDB 6.9 | Jan , 2000
Two middle aged German brothers - one New Age and recently divorced, the other uptight and sceptical - travel to a Zen monastery in Japan in search of enlightenment, or perhaps just in search of themselves.Sayonara, Girls.
IMDB 9 | Feb , 2023
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IMDB 6.2 | Apr , 1931
A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.Ultraman: The Next
IMDB 6.4 | Dec , 2004
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IMDB 0 | Nov , 1997
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IMDB 3.7 | Jun , 2017
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IMDB 3 | Jun , 2017
The fourth in a school romantic comedy that features a popular comic by Kazuto Okada starring Ayaka Morikawa and Ryouma Baba. One day, a love letter arrives under the Japanese language teacher, Tairaku Arihiko, at Otome High School. Around the same time, an incident occurred around the student, Aya Shirakaba, who was living with him...Jigarthanda DoubleX
IMDB 7.6 | Nov , 2023
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IMDB 7.4 | Oct , 1974
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