Kubi (
2023) | IMDb:
6.9
Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears.
Starring:
Takeshi Kitano
,
Hidetoshi Nishijima
,
Ryo Kase
,
Tadanobu Asano
,
Nao Omori
,
Shido Nakamura
Directed by:
Takeshi Kitano
Ghost in the Shell (
2017) | IMDb:
6.3
In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.
Starring:
Scarlett Johansson
,
Takeshi Kitano
,
Michael Pitt
,
Pilou Asbæk
,
Chin Han
,
Juliette Binoche
Zatoichi (
2003) | IMDb:
7.5
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.
Starring:
Takeshi Kitano
,
Tadanobu Asano
,
Michiyo Yasuda
,
Yui Natsukawa
,
Guadalcanal Taka
,
Daigorô Tachibana
Directed by:
Takeshi Kitano
Battle Royale II: Requiem (
2003) | IMDb:
4.6
It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring down the government. His terrorist group, Wild Seven, stages an attack that levels several buildings in Tokyo on Christmas Day, killing 8000 people. In order for the government to study the benefits of "teamwork", the new students work in pairs, with their collars electronically linked so that if one of them is killed, the other dies as well. They must kill Nanahara in three days - or die.
Starring:
Shugo Oshinari
,
Ai Maeda
,
Tatsuya Fujiwara
,
Ayana Sakai
,
Takeshi Kitano
,
Natsuki Kato
Battle Royale (
2000) | IMDb:
7.5
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Starring:
Tatsuya Fujiwara
,
Aki Maeda
,
Takeshi Kitano
,
Tarō Yamamoto
,
Masanobu Ando
,
Ko Shibasaki
Directed by:
Kinji Fukasaku
Brother (
2000) | IMDb:
7.1
A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.
Johnny Mnemonic (
1995) | IMDb:
5.6
In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks. On one delivery run, he accepts a package that not only exceeds the implant's safety limits—and will kill him if the data is not removed in time—but also contains information far more important and valuable than he had ever imagined. On a race against time, he must avoid the assassins sent to kill him and remove the data before it, too, ends his life.