Shun Oguri

Juzo Murasaki (Shun Oguri) is a young man traumatized by his experience of bullying at school. He returns to his hometown and takes a job on a building site with his old nemesis Toru Akai (Hirofumi Arai). But Juzo's trauma has created a monster; he harbors a second personality, Neighbor No. 13 (Shido Nakamura), a vicious, brutal and disfigured character intent on exacting a painful revenge on his bully. (asianwiki.com)

In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassination of the hostile warlords. A beautiful young woman is raised from birth with nine other orphans, to become an assassin. Her name is AZUMI, the ultimate assassin. (imdb)

Young assassins Azumi and Nagara continue their mission to prevent a civil war. In their hunt for Masayuki Sanada, who is protected by both an army and a dangerous clan, they meet Ginkaku, a person who shows a remarking resemblance with former friend Nachi. (imdb)

Death Is Only The Beginning

Somewhere, deep underground in the tunnel near Mizunahsi Station, a dark spirit yearns for revenge. One by one, people begin to mysteriously disappear. Hold on tight - there's no light at the end of this tunnel. (ADV Films)

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)

CROWS ZERO shows a bitter and violent battle between rival gangs at a high school. (joblo.com)

One year after the suicide of C-list model Miki, five of her fans come together for a commemorative meeting: fan club leader Iemoto (Shun Oguri), Oda Yuji (Yusuke Santamaria), Snake (Koide Keisuke), Yasuo (Tsukaji Muga), and Ichigo Musume (Kagawa Teruyuki). Sitting down together for the first time, they reminisce about their idol, wondering how someone so bright and beautiful could have possibly taken her own life. That's when they reach a revelation - she must have been murdered! (AsianMediaWiki)

This movie is the continuation to the Japanese Drama series Hana Yori Dango season 1 and Hana Yori Dango season 2. It tells about Makino and Domyouji's adventure to get the "Smile of Venus," a family tiara that has been passed on by centuries, back.

Genji and his victorious G.P.S. alliance find themselves facing down a new challenge by the students of Hosen Academy, feared by everyone as 'The Army of Killers.' The two schools, in fact, have a history of bad blood between them. And the simmering embers of hatred are about to flare up again, burning away any last remnants of the truce they had so rigorously observed until now. (Pusan International Film Festival)

TAJOMARU is the famous 'bandit' of the forest from RASHOMON. Whoever kills Tajomaru inherits his name, status and sword. A royal brother leaves his kingdom to protect the princess he loves, only to find a series of harrowing adventures along the way which lead him back to where he came from, and then disinheriting his past to become the bandit TAJOMARU (imdb)

Kazuna has dreams about a house in which he lived when he was a child. After that he comes to that house and finds his older sister. She tells him about a secret illness that is heritable in their family. And then strange things start to happen.

The adventures of a volunteer with an alpine search and rescue team in the Japanese Alps. (Wikipedia)

Mutta Nanba and his younger brother, Hibito, witness what they believe to be a UFO. Hibito decides he will go onto the moon whilst Mutta decides he will aim for Mars. Nineteen years later and Hibito has become a fully fledged JAXA astronaut assigned to go on a mission towards the moon. Mutta has not been so successful in achieving his dreams. The film follows Mutta as he seeks to become an astronaut and join his brother on the moon. (wiki and me)

This tanpatsu celebrates the tenth year of this popular Japanese anime, originally a manga created by Aoyama Gosho. The story takes place when Shinichi was still a high school student. The talented young detective Kudo Shinichi receives a message: "I will kidnap one of your classmates during your class trip." Shinichi is going to find out the truth. (asianwiki.com)

High school student Kyosuke is the most talented member of the school's martial arts club. He also likes to wear female underwear, which grants him superhuman powers and transforms him into the alter ego Hentai Kamen, or Pervert Mask. By chance, Kyosuke obtains the underwear of female high school student Aiko Himeno. With her underwear, he gains various perverted techniques and strives to protect Aiko from a dirty and heinous teacher. (imdb)

Rookie movie director Koichi (Shun Oguri) and his crew travels to the mountain village of Yamamura to film his next movie. The villagers are eventually enlisted to help film the movie and, in particular, 60-year-old lumberjack Katsuhiko (Koji Yakusho) helps against his will. (asianwiki.com)

A year after the events the end of the original story, the legend of Densha is gaining momentum, and a corporation announces a reward to anyone who can reveal his true identity. (Amazon)

Mankind is dying. Only one man can do anything about it, Space Captain Harlock, but the Gaia Coalition will stop at nothing to end him.

Budori lives in the woods with his family, until an endless winter separates him from everyone. All alone, the young cat sets out to save his homeland from the punishing cold. (Google)

Interpol Inspector Zenigata begins a world-wide hunt for the infamous thief Arsene Lupin III. (imdb)

Sorimachi Takashi plays Onizuka Eikichi, a graduate of a third-rate University and the leader of a motorcycle gang, whose lifelong dream is to become a teacher. After being hired by a seemingly eccentric director, Onizuka begins his unconventional way of teaching a hopeless group of troublemakers. (mydramalist.com)

Makino Tsukushi is the only poor student at Eitoku Gakuen, the school of the ridiculously rich and privileged that is ruled by Flower 4 or F4, a group of four boys who come from extremely powerful families: Domyoji Tsukasa, the leader and heir of the Domyoji World Finance Group; Hanazawa Rui, the introverted son of a large company; Nishikado Sojiro, a player who is the heir of a tea ceremony school; and Mimasaka Akira, a madam killer with ties to the underground. (mydramalist.com)

This second season of Hana Yori Dango picks up right after Domyoji leaves for New York. After confessing to Domyoji, Makino has not spoken to him for a year. Rui and the other members of F4 try and help Makino meet Domyoji again by going to New York for the christmas holidays. Though F4 and Makino meet Domyoji again, he has become a completely different person, and so they leave for Japan. Some time later, Domyoji's mother annouces that they will be returning to Japan. (mydramalist.com)

Kou Ichinomiya (Kento Hayashi) comes from a wealthy family & his father runs a famous company. Kou is smart enough to already run several high-flying firms. From an early age Kou's father taught him to never owe anybody anything. Because of this, when he does owe someone something he will suffer an asthma attack. He's obsessed with never becoming in debt to another person. (asianwiki)

Thor and his twin brother, Rai, are cast off to a forsaken planet by unknown masked men after witnessing the suspicious death of their parents. Given only a beam knife and a smelly satchel, they wander together in search of civilization on the primarily plant based world. They soon discover the plants have the advantage. Only the strong survive; the ones who throw away their humanity and become the beasts humans once were. (myanimelist.net)

The second live-action TV movie of Detective Conan. During a TV live party, Conan and Ai accidentally ate some cake with a special kind of liquor in it and regained their former body size. They had to hide from the black organization while solving a murder mystery. (imdb)

In an attempt to colonize Mars, 21st century scientists seed the planet with algae to absorb sun light and purify the atmosphere, and cockroaches who in turn spread the algae as they feed. 500 years later, the first manned mission to Mars loses contact with Earth, and a second ship is sent to investigate. (imdb)

Set 2 years after prior film "Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose," a major case occurs that has the potential to take down the entire police organization. For the next 3 days, Shunsaku Aoshima (Yuji Oda) and his colleagues struggle to unravel the case... (letterboxd)

An unscheduled late night train arrives at Tokyo station on 15 August, the anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. Boarding the train are spirits of great men who died honourable deaths in the war more than 60 years ago. They have come to the modern world to see their homeland as a peaceful country and to tell the lingering spirits of the war dead about the current conditions. (The Movie Database)

In an era where aliens have invaded and taken over feudal Tokyo, a young samurai finds work however he can. (imdb)

I am a high school student. I happen to find a diary written by my classmates, Sakura Yamauchi that reveals she is suffering from a pancreatic disease. I spent time with Sakura, but she dies. 12 years later, due to Sakura's words, I am now a high school teacher at the same school where I graduated from. While I talk with my student, I remember several months I spent with Sakura. Meanwhile, Kyoko, who was Sakura's friend, is soon to marry. (imdb)

The adventures of the Yorozuya gang and their friends. (imdb)

The Yorozuya gang returns to protect the country's shogun when the Shinsengumi police force finds itself in a crisis. (imdb)

Hibiki Akui is a very sensitive 15-year-old girl with a talent for writing. She has grown up in an ordinary family. Her father works as a public officer, her mother a housewife and her older brothers studies at a university. One day, literature magazine "Mokuren" receives a manuscript script for novel "Otogi no Niwa" by Hibiki. The novel is an entry for the literature magazine's Rookie of the Year Award, but the novel does not satisfy certain conditions for the award and is chucked... (imdb)

A high-school boy who has run away to Tokyo befriends a girl who appears to be able to manipulate the weather. (imdb)

The epic next chapter in the cinematic Monsterverse pits two of the greatest icons in motion picture history against one another - the fearsome Godzilla and the mighty Kong - with humanity caught in the balance.

A "cinematic" presentation of the 2011 version of the play. In 1590, seven spirits take on the threat growing in a shadowy castle. (Netflix).

Uchiyama Kaede and Shiina Kasumi used to be best friends. Now in high school, Kasumi grew more popular than Kaede, which has led her to continually bully her ex-best friend. One day after school, Kaede meets Kishida Takumi, a bike thief who's especially talented in picking locks. She asks him for a favor: if he could possibly open the key to the school roof. Meanwhile, the arrival of a new teacher seems to bring changes to the school.

A whimsical parody of the Three Kingdoms period in China. A "historical researcher" presents new findings on the Three Kingdoms period that reveal that Liu Bei was a slacker, Zhuge Liang borrowed all of his ideas from his wife, and Sun Quan was an idiot.

A depressed middle-aged man takes up surfing after he retires.

A kind man aspires to become a comic creator, but villains and evil deeds do not come easily to him, for he has little experience or natural inclination for them. Things take a surprise turn when he comes across a family who were described as idealized that are no more. (IMDb.com)

Set in 1955, the anime follows the story of seven teenagers locked in a reformatory, waiting for a ray of light in a daily hell of suffering and humiliation, focusing especially on how they faced the life once regained freedom. (imdb)

Mizuki disguises herself as a boy and transfers to the same all-boys high school her idol, Izumi Sano, a high-jump athlete that gave up on the sport, attends. In between the antics of their classmates, she'll try to get him to jump again. (imdb)

Hyuga Toru who run an internet website from his small room and doesn't like to socialize makes a lot of money. He then meets Sawaki Chihiro, a hardworking student who by an unexpected occurrence begins to work for Toru. (imdb)

As the summer holidays begin, four boys find themselves the last virgins at their school, so they'll face parents, teachers, childhood friends, crushes and their own awkwardness in their subsequent attempts to lose their virginity. (imdb)

After time-travelling to Japan's Sengoku Era and taking the identity of Oda Nobunaga, Saboru must fulfill Oda's destiny in unifying Japan. How will Saboru, a teenager from current-day Japan, fare in his duty? (imdb)

Ikuo and Tatsuya grow up in an orphanage, tragically witnessing their beloved teacher's murder. Years later, Ikuo is now a detective while Tatsuya leads a crime syndicate. Resolved to find the perpetrator, they can only trust each other. (imdb)

A detective, after escaping death, unearths a special ability to communicate with the dead. He uses this skill to act upon the wishes of the deceased and resolve various mysteries. (imdb)

This engaging series of childhood recollections tells about an ideal school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedom, and love. This unusual school had old railroad cars for classrooms, and it was run by an extraordinary man—its founder and headmaster, Sousaku Kobayashi—who was a firm believer in freedom of expression and activity.

A determined single woman raising two children despite her struggles in life with her health. (imdb)

A love story between a young man who has been forced to grow up too quickly, and a young woman with an ailment that has placed restrictions on her life. (imdb)

The Special Investigation Unit, Tokyo's top-secret police force of highly-skilled specialists, dabble in espionage as they confront irregular cases with the power to shake up the country at large. (imdb)

Japan's prime minister announces a plan to store contaminated material in deep-sea strata while entrusting a team of young technocrats to protect Japan's future. (imdb)

Yuki, the matriarch of the Mashiba family, is hospitalized, testing the family's ability to cooperate and sacrifice to keep their household well-oiled.

NYPD Detective So Takakura travels to Tokyo, where his by-the-book style clashes with former gang member-turned-special detective Maruo Kudo. (imdb)