Lady Joker (
2004) | IMDb:
6.3
Men and women caught up in a downward spiral of corruption, discrimination, poverty and death are the focus of this detective-thriller/social-drama inspired by the unsolved 1984 kidnapping of a Japanese candy company president.
Starring:
Satoshi Tokushige
,
Tetsuya Watari
,
Mitsuru Fukikoshi
,
Ren Osugi
,
Koji Kikkawa
,
Haruhiko Kato
Directed by:
Hideyuki Hirayama
Produced by:
The Twilight Samurai (
2002) | IMDb:
8.1
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?
Starring:
Hiroyuki Sanada
,
Rie Miyazawa
,
Nenji Kobayashi
,
Mitsuru Fukikoshi
,
Min Tanaka
,
Ren Osugi