The life of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto from the early 1930’s to his death at the hands of the US military in 1943. Read More »
Tag Archives: Kôji Yakusho
Bonds AKA Kizuna (1998) Kichitarô Negishi, Kôji Yakusho, Ken Watanabe, Yumi Asô
Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years Read More »
The Last Ronin AKA Saigo no Chûshingura (2010) Shigemichi Sugita, Kôji Yakusho, Kôichi Satô, Nanami Sakuraba
16 years after the fateful “revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin” involving samurais from the Ako Read More »
Charisma AKA Karisuma (1999) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kôji Yakusho, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Ren Ôsugi
A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. Read More »
Kamikaze Taxi AKA Kamikaze takushî (1995) Masato Harada, Kôji Yakusho, Kazuya Takahashi, Mickey Curtis
A young foot soldier in the yakuza seeks revenge when his prostitute girlfriend Read More »
Lost Paradise AKA Shitsurakuen (1997) Yoshimitsu Morita, Kôji Yakusho, Hitomi Kuroki, Akira Terao
Rinko, the wife of an easily irritable, reputable doctor and Sholchiro Read More »
Spellbound AKA Kin’yû fushoku rettô: Jubaku (1999) Masato Harada, Kôji Yakusho, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kippei Shîna
Tapping into the economic malaise and the growing outrage against endless tawdry financial scandals Read More »
Lakeside Murder Case AKA Reikusaido mâdâ kêsu (2004) Shinji Aoyama, Kôji Yakusho, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Akira Emoto
Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. Read More »
Shall We Dance? AKA Shall we dansu? (1996) Masayuki Suo, Kôji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka
Shohei Sugiyama has attained all that he has wanted in life. But he is still depressed and unhappy. Read More »
Eureka (2000) Shinji Aoyama, Kôji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Masaru Miyazaki
The traumatized survivors of a murderous bus hijacking come together Read More »
The Third Murder (2017) Hirokazu Koreeda, Masaharu Fukuyama, Kôji Yakusho, Shinnosuke Mitsushima
Misumi has a criminal record dating back many years and is now under the spotlight again. Read More »
Alley Cat (2000) Kon Ichikawa, Kôji Yakusho, Yûko Asano, Tsurutarô Kataoka
Samurai Koheita Mochizuki, who goes by the nickname Dora-Heita, meaning “alley cat” or “playboy” Read More »
Fireflies: River of Light (2003) Hiroshi Sugawara, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Risako Sugaya, Kôji Yakusho, Drama
At a class visit to Yamaguchi, Hajime lake, the basic school teacher gets pupils embark in the job to clean out the river and so the fireflies to fly once more. Read More »
Dopperugengâ / Doppelganger (2003) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kôji Yakusho, Hiromi Nagasaku, Yûsuke Santamaria, Comedy, Fantasy, Thriller
Hayasaki is an inventor working on an Artificial Body. It is not going well and he is stressed out and on the verge of being fired from the research division of his company. Read More »
