Masanobu Andô

Suzuki (Ando), a meek and indecisive car rental clerk, gets into a life changing car accident with a Japanese gangster. While Suzuki awaits his retribution in the mob's headquarters, comedic fate steps in with an explosion that rips through the building. Nurse Shizuko (Ishida), Suzuki's female counterpart, rescues him from the blast and the two find love running off with the mob's money, while being chased by the only surviving gangster. (Shooting Gallery)

Ninth grade students are taken to a small isolated island with a map, food and various arms. They have to fight each other three days long until the last one remains and are forced to wear a special collar which will explode when they break a rule (imdb)

Aka Kage, Aoi Kage and Asuka are trio of ninjas sent to perform dangerous secret missions for their master. Although Aka and Aoi are both in love with Asuka, the friendship built from their years of training together prevents any jealousies from forming. (imdb)

Two buddies visit the schoolyard of the high school they used to attend, and remember their young and dumb days. They used to be the bullies in the school, until they find their own ways of life; one as a boxer, and the other as a member of the yakuza. (imdb)

A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a hotel, but he is emotionally unable to part with his career as a railroader. His life takes a turn when he meets a young woman with an interest in trains who resembles his daughter.

A boy named Ken, who want's to organize a film- and music festival to impress the prettiest girl in school. (imdb comments)

Four very different women search for love and meaning in their lives in the hustle and bustle of downtown Tokyo in this comedy-drama... (All Movie Guide)

Set during "The Genpei Wars" at the end of the 1100s, the Minamoto and Taira gangs face off in a town named Yuda, while a deadly gunman (Ito Hideaki) comes to the aid of the townsfolk. (imdb)

An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling, the story follows two detectives trying to uncover the case. Homosexual tension and explosive violence drives the story which delivers some weird and fascinating visuals. (imdb)

A salaryman wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what happened a day before - attending a funeral, dating but annoying his girlfriend, getting drunk in a pub and getting to know a yakuza and his beautiful mistress, having a gun in his hand and... (imdb)

The films pits a gang of idle teens joined only by their shared love of karaoke against a group of middle aged women, likewise joined by a love for karaoke, in an escalating cycle of vengeance when one of the teens tries to pick up one of the women on a whim and reacts with bloody violence when he thinks she is mocking him in her rejection. (AsianMediaWiki)

Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre murder occurs in the hotel across the street. The body was mutilated and repositioned into a lurid work of art. After this, a string of murders start happening all around the two girls, as if some crazed serial killer was following them. At the scene of each crime, the perpetrator leaves a black lip print, and is subsequently dubbed "The Black Kiss." (imdb)

Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. "O" intends suicide while talking on a cell-phone with a stranger he meets on line who plans a simultaneous suicide. Events take a horrifying turn. (imdb)

A biographical account of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star. (imdb)

Three bank robbers, who declare themselves to be Space Travelers, take six hostages when they are surrounded by the police. In order to escape, the robbers ask the hostages to pretend to be part of the gang. Surprisingly, the hostages enjoy it... (HKFlix)

The lives of three washed-up nobodies intersect as they are all drawn together in one way or another by baseball. (HKFlix)

A salaryman is hijacked by bank robbers. (imdb)

Neo Tokyo in the year 2XXX AD. Eleven people, all with criminal backgrounds and different talents, awake in a deserted warehouse. They have been brought here by The Baron. They are forced to play a game with a reward of 300 million yen and a chance to start a new life. Only one will survive the race to the Barons [sic] mansion and end up with the reward. (DVD Cover)

A tale of revenge, honor and greed follows a group of misfits that gets involved with a kitchen cleaver made from the top five swords of the martial arts world in this wild and brash action comedy. (imdb)

Stuck with a wrongly accrued yakuza debt, failed actor Kinuta (Satoshi Tsumabuki) gets a loan from a mysterious goth-Lolita banker, but in order to repay it he must work with silent tough guy Joe (Masatoshi Nagase) and his leprechaun-like sidekick, transporting sensitive items in the dead of night for shady clients with lots of yen. (Mubi.com)

Young Mouna Rudo, a fierce hunter and proud Seediq warrior, watches as his community falls to Japanese invaders. In the aftermath, Mouna is forced to perform heavy labour and learn Japanese, and is forbidden to practice the Seediq's traditional rites of hunting, facial tattooing and ancestral worship. After decades of indignities, he is finally compelled to act, assembling a band of three hundred warriors to take up arms against three thousand Japanese troopers. (tiff.net)

In a coastal cottage with a view of the setting sun, Kaoru, a wealthy woman who is gradually losing her youth, has retired from city and lives a quiet life. She looks after an old, blind and dumb man as if he were an insect or a domestic animal, or a child. As he can do nothing for himself, she feeds him and takes him for walks. (mubi.com)

A young, good-hearted doctor Kenichi suffers from a rare syndrome whereby his feelings cannot be hidden. Such people are known as "satorare" and their well-being come under special government protection. (AsianWiki)

A professional voyeur and an elusive serial killer both suffer from a sensory disorder that affects on in 100,000 people in director Toru Matsuura's hallucinatory thriller. Shin suffers from synesthesia, a rare sensory disorder in which one form of stimulus triggers a completely unrelated response. His constant mental state borders on insanity, and he makes his living by providing voyeuristic videos to a well-paying clientele. (rottentomatoes.com)

The film begins with a hunt by a mountain river in Taiwan. Two Bunun men are hunting a boar, but they are attacked by a group led by young Mona Rudao of Seediq people. Mona Rudao invades the territory, kills one of them and takes away the boar. (imdb)

After the initial uprising at Wushe, Mona Rudao faces an unwinnable guerrilla war against the militarily superior Japanese plus fierce rival Seediq clans. He and his followers must fight not just for their lives but for their dignity and honor-so that they can truly be "Seediq Bale" or "real men." (imdb)

Tsai's "walker" returns, this time in Tokyo.

A biological weapon is smuggled aboard a high tech battleship named Aegis. Militants are determined to unleash it on Japan. But a brave Chief Petty Officer has other ideas. He and an undercover agent attempt to stop them. (imdb)

Alice has been separated from her brother, Nathan, for too long. After he dies, Alice leaves for Japan and finds refuge in a small village by the cliffs. Nathan said he had found peace there, thanks to a man called Daisuke. As she follows in her brother's footsteps, she too becomes close with the elderly man and with his other guests. In a particularly Japanese atmosphere, she starts to listen to her own heart once again. (cinemamontreal.com)

The vengeful spirits of the Ring and Grudge series face off. (imdb)

Gonin Saga is a 2015 Japanese movie written and directed by Takashi Ishii as a followup to the two Gonin films he directed in the mid-1990s. Seiji (Masanobu Ando) is a third generation "Gosei kai" gang member. He works to build up the group's strength. Meanwhile, a journalist (Tasuku Emoto) investigates a case that occurred 19 years ago. He meets Hayato (Masahiro Higashide), Daisuke (Kenta Kiritani) and Asami (Anna Tsuchiya). (imdb)

A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her paleontologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs.

Akira Sato is legendary killer The Fable. Ordered by his boss he & sidekick Yoko lie low for a year as ordinary siblings - a year where he must not kill or he will be killed! Akira still works part-time at a tiny company whose CEO Takoda & employee Misaki are unaware of Akira's background. Meanwhile, Utsubo is a boss in an NGO working with contract killer Suzuki & Hinako, a witness to one of Akira's old jobs, they set people up for extortion. They target someone at Akira's company. (imdb)

Set in the Heian period, Seimei Abe is a young student at Onmyoryo. The school raises students to become an onmyoji, who protect the city from curses and evil spirits. Seimei is well known as a genius in the field of magic. One day, he is asked by Noble Hiromasa Minamoto to solve a strange phenomenon that hits royal family member Yoshiko. Seimei and Hiromasa work together to unravel the strange phenomenon. (imdb)

An exceptional marksman and hopeless playboy, private eye Ryo Saeba reluctantly forms an alliance with his late partner's sister to investigate his death. (netflix.com)

In a luxury apartment tower, six different women in unhappy marriages end up crossing the line into infidelity. (imdb)

At the height of his career and powers, Japan's master fixer, who has guided politicians and business heads through some of Japan's biggest scandals, discovers that fixing his family is harder than fixing a country. (imdb)

Follows Kanade Nishimura as she confronts the suspicious death case from her law school days and her father's death. (imdb)