Perfect Days (
2023) | IMDb:
0
Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.
13 Assassins (
2010) | IMDb:
7.5
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.
Starring:
Koji Yakusho
,
Takayuki Yamada
,
Yûsuke Iseya
,
Goro Inagaki
,
Kazue Fukiishi
,
Hiroki Matsukata
Directed by:
Takashi Miike
Silk (
2007) | IMDb:
5.8
French silkworm trader Hervé is married to the beautiful Hélène. When an outbreak of disease ravages European silkworms, Hervé must travel to Japan to retrieve healthy eggs. After a long journey, Hervé finally arrives at a village where he can buy them. He becomes infatuated with a young concubine and goes to great lengths to see her again. But, when war breaks out in Japan, the concubine flees, forcing Hervé to return home to his wife.
Starring:
Keira Knightley
,
Michael Pitt
,
Alfred Molina
,
Koji Yakusho
,
Sei Ashina
,
Miki Nakatani
Directed by:
François Girard
Babel (
2006) | IMDb:
7.5
Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.
Starring:
Brad Pitt
,
Cate Blanchett
,
Gael García Bernal
,
Adriana Barraza
,
Rinko Kikuchi
,
Koji Yakusho
Directed by:
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Memoirs of a Geisha (
2005) | IMDb:
7.3
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Directed by:
Rob Marshall
Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean (
2005) | IMDb:
5.3
A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on Harutoshi Fukui's novel Shuusen no Lorelei.
Starring:
Koji Yakusho
,
Satoshi Tsumabuki
,
Yuu Kashii
,
Shinichi Tsutsumi
,
Toshiro Yanagiba
,
Ken Ishiguro
Pulse (
2001) | IMDb:
6.5
In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.
Eternal Monument (
1982) | IMDb:
6.7
A remake of the 1953 film of the same name.
Starring:
Komaki Kurihara
,
Yuko Kotegawa
,
Tomoko Saitō
,
Yuki Ninagawa
,
Yoshiko Tanaka
,
Chie Ushihara
Produced by:
Masaya Endo