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Bright Future (2002)

Summary: Two young guys work in a plant that manufactures oshibori (those moist hand-towels found in some Japanese restaurants). Their weird bond is based on uncontrollable rage--something neither can articulate or control--and the strange...

Release Date: December 03, 2003

Genre: Drama

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Writer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Uplink, Digital Site Corporation, The Klockworx

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 1,200,000

Domestic: $ 5,166

International: $ 23,297

Ichi the Killer (2001)

Summary: As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of achieving.

Release Date: December 22, 2001

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Takashi Miike

Writers: Sakichi Sato

, Hideo Yamamoto

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

Production: Omega Project, Toho Company, Omega Micott Inc., Excellent Film

Distributor: Shudder, Toku, Tokyo Shock

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 1,400,000

Domestic: $ 20,285

International: $ 60,346

Tokyo! (2008)

Summary: A triptych examines the nature of one unforgettable city as it's shaped by the disparate people who live, work (and even run amok) inside one enormous, constantly evolving, densely populated megalopolis, the ravishing and inimitab...

Release Date: August 16, 2008

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Directors: Leos Carax

, Michel Gondry

, Bong Joon Ho

Writers: Gabrielle Bell

, Leos Carax

, Michel Gondry

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Comme des Cinémas, Kansai Telecasting (KTV), Bitters End, Coin Film, WDR/Arte [de], Backup Media, Wild Bunch, Champion Top Investment, Video Audio Project (VAP), Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, WOWOW, Asahi National Broadcasting Company, Picnic

Countries: France, Japan, South Korea, Germany

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 351,059

International: $ 843,338

Fireworks (1997)

Summary: Nishi leaves the police in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into depression, he makes questionable decisions.

Release Date: March 20, 1998

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Writer: Takeshi Kitano

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

Production: Bandai Visual Company, TV Tokyo, Tokyo FM Broadcasting Co., Office Kitano

Distributor: Milestone, Film Movement

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 500,000

Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)

Summary: A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.

Release Date: January 25, 2003

Genre: Horror

Director: Takashi Shimizu

Writer: Takashi Shimizu

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: R

Production: Pioneer LDC, Nikkatsu, Oz Company

Distributor: Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Xanadeux

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 3,500,000

Domestic: $ 325,680

International: $ 3,334,111

The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003)

Summary: The blind masseur/swordsman comes to a town in control of warring gangs, and while bunking with a farming family, he meets two women with their own agenda.

Release Date: September 06, 2003

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Writers: Takeshi Kitano

, Kan Shimozawa

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: R

Production: Asahi National Broadcasting Company, Bandai Visual Company, DENTSU Music And Entertainment, TV Asahi, Tokyo FM Broadcasting Co.

Distributor: Miramax, Buena Vista Home Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 1,118,163

International: $ 33,078,759

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

Summary: After waking from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her.

Release Date: October 10, 2003

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Writers: Quentin Tarantino

, Uma Thurman

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: R

Production: Miramax, A Band Apart, Super Cool ManChu, Shaw Brothers

Distributor: Miramax, Miramax Films, HBO Max, Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, China

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 70,099,045

International: $ 110,809,368

Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)

Summary: The Bride continues her quest of vengeance against her former boss and lover Bill, the reclusive bouncer Budd, and the treacherous, one-eyed Elle.

Release Date: April 16, 2004

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Writers: Quentin Tarantino

, Uma Thurman

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

MPAA: R

Production: Miramax, A Band Apart, Super Cool ManChu

Distributor: Miramax Films, Starz

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 66,208,183

International: $ 87,910,331

The Grudge (2004)

Summary: An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.

Release Date: October 22, 2004

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Director: Takashi Shimizu

Writers: Stephen Susco

, Takashi Shimizu

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Columbia Pictures, Ghost House Pictures, Fellah Pictures, Senator International, Vertigo Entertainment

Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 110,359,362

International: $ 76,921,753

Takeshis' (2005)

Summary: Beat Takeshi, a prominent actor, meets a lookalike named Kitano, who is a struggling actor, but after the meeting, Kitano's dreams take a violent, surreal turn.

Release Date: November 05, 2005

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Writer: Takeshi Kitano

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

Production: Bandai Visual Company, Tokyo FM Broadcasting Co., DENTSU Music And Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Naisu no mori: The First Contact (2005)

Summary: An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.

Release Date: October 22, 2005

Genre: Comedy

Directors: Katsuhito Ishii

, Hajime Ishimine

, Shunichirô Miki

Writers: Katsuhito Ishii

, Hajime Ishimine

, Shunichirô Miki

Runtime: 2 h 30 min

Production: AOI Promotion

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1998)

Summary: In dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexually warped Uncle Sonezaki. Fortunately, she met Samehada as she runs for her life, which is also escaping from some slayers. What follows is a wild chase t...

Release Date: February 06, 1999

Genres: Action, Thriller, Mystery

Director: Katsuhito Ishii

Writers: Katsuhito Ishii

, Minetaro Mochizuki

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: R

Production: Tohokushinsha Film Corporation (TFC)

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Smuggler (2011)

Summary: This live-action film adaptation of Shohei Manabe's Smuggler manga is not to be missed! Ryosuke Kinuta is a failed actor with big time debts. His loan shark scores him a gig smuggling dead bodies struck down by gangland hits, but ...

Release Date: October 22, 2011

Genre: Drama

Director: Katsuhito Ishii

Writers: Shôhei Manabe

, Katsuhito Ishii

, Masatoshi Yamaguchi

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Django Film, Grasshoppa, Warner Bros.

Distributor: Eleven Arts, Cinema Asia Releasing, Stardust Pictures (SDP)

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Tôkyô zonbi (2005)

Summary: A horror-comedy about two blue-collar factory workers (who happen to be jiu-jitsu experts) dealing with a ravenous, flesh-eating zombie uprising in Tokyo.

Release Date: December 10, 2005

Genres: Action, Comedy, Horror

Director: Sakichi Sato

Writers: Yûsaku Hanakuma

, Sakichi Sato

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Filmax, IMJ Entertainment, TV Tokyo, TYO Productions, Take Shobo Company, Tokyo FM Broadcasting Co., Toshiba Entertainment

Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Wild Zero (1999)

Summary: Only legendary Japanese garage rock band Guitar Wolf can stand between a race of aliens from destroying earth with an army of zombies.

Release Date: August 28, 1999

Genres: Comedy, Music, Horror

Director: Tetsuro Takeuchi

Writers: Satoshi Takagi

, Tetsuro Takeuchi

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Dragon Pictures, Gaga, Takeuchi Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Akiresu to kame (2008)

Summary: Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.

Release Date: September 20, 2008

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Writer: Takeshi Kitano

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

Production: Bandai Visual Company, Office Kitano, TV Asahi, Tokyo FM Broadcasting Co., Tokyo Theatres, WOWOW

Distributor: Tokyo Theatres

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Sonatine (1993)

Summary: Several yakuza from Tokyo are sent to Okinawa to help end a gang war. The war then escalates and the Tokyo drifters decide to lay low at the beach.

Release Date: April 10, 1998

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Writer: Takeshi Kitano

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: Bandai Visual Company, Shochiku, Yamada Right Vision Corporation

Distributor: Miramax, Rolling Thunder Pictures

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 58,834

Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories (2016)

Summary: An anthology of human relationship stories connected by the only open in the wee hours diner the characters frequent. Resolutions are often facilitated by the owner/chef.

Release Date: October 21, 2016

Genre: Drama

Runtime: 0 h 24 min

MPAA: TV-14

Production: Netflix

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese