Rie Minemura

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69 (2004)

Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater, and rock music, and develop their project into a school road block. This plan however catches the attention of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lee Sang-il
CAST:  Satoshi Tsumabuki  •  Masanobu Ando  •  Yuta Kanai  •  Asami Mizukawa

Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater, and rock music, and develop their project into a school road block. This plan however catches the attention of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lee Sang-il
CAST:  Satoshi Tsumabuki  •  Masanobu Ando  •  Yuta Kanai  •  Asami Mizukawa

The Tokyo Siblings (1995)

Living in an old Tokyo district, Kenichi works at a second-hand bookshop to support his sister, Yoko, a high school student. When Yoko graduates, she starts work at a photo shop. By the time, Kenichi's girlfriend has decided to marry someone else as she is tired of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jun Ichikawa
CAST:  Yuriko Hirooka  •  Urara Awata  •  Rie Minemura  •  Naoto Ogata

Living in an old Tokyo district, Kenichi works at a second-hand bookshop to support his sister, Yoko, a high school student. When Yoko graduates, she starts work at a photo shop. By the time, Kenichi's girlfriend has decided to marry someone else as she is tired of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jun Ichikawa
CAST:  Yuriko Hirooka  •  Urara Awata  •  Rie Minemura  •  Naoto Ogata

The Samurai That Night (2012)

Five years after a hit-and-run accident kills his wife, a distraught metalworker comes face to face with the man behind the steering wheel.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masaaki Akahori
CAST:  Sakura Ando  •  Masato Sakai  •  Hirofumi Arai  •  Takayuki Yamada

Five years after a hit-and-run accident kills his wife, a distraught metalworker comes face to face with the man behind the steering wheel.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masaaki Akahori
CAST:  Sakura Ando  •  Masato Sakai  •  Hirofumi Arai  •  Takayuki Yamada

All Around Us (2008)

Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure the tragedy of their first child’s death, hope slowly unfolds and their love story flickers to life once again.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ryosuke Hashiguchi
CAST:  Lily Franky  •  Tae Kimura  •  Akira Emoto  •  Susumu Terajima

Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure the tragedy of their first child’s death, hope slowly unfolds and their love story flickers to life once again.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ryosuke Hashiguchi
CAST:  Lily Franky  •  Tae Kimura  •  Akira Emoto  •  Susumu Terajima

The Taste of Fish (2008)

It may sound cliché, but Japanese people really do love their fish. If Japan has the best and freshest fish in the world, then Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market is where you're most likely to find them. It's the home of Japan's biggest daily fish auction, and it's a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shingo Matsubara
CAST:  Takao Osawa  •  Rena Tanaka  •  Tsuyoshi Ihara  •  Noriko Eguchi

It may sound cliché, but Japanese people really do love their fish. If Japan has the best and freshest fish in the world, then Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market is where you're most likely to find them. It's the home of Japan's biggest daily fish auction, and it's a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shingo Matsubara
CAST:  Takao Osawa  •  Rena Tanaka  •  Tsuyoshi Ihara  •  Noriko Eguchi

Welcome to the Quiet Room (2007)

28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protected room located in an isolated ward of a psychiatric hospital. Sakura first became unconscious because of heavy alcohol use and a druge overdose. She’s confined in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Suzuki Matsuo
CAST:  Yuki Uchida  •  Yu Aoi  •  Ryo  •  Yuko Nakamura

28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protected room located in an isolated ward of a psychiatric hospital. Sakura first became unconscious because of heavy alcohol use and a druge overdose. She’s confined in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Suzuki Matsuo
CAST:  Yuki Uchida  •  Yu Aoi  •  Ryo  •  Yuko Nakamura

Into the Faraway Sky (2007)

A vast wheat field, a straight road that has no end, a sky without a single building in sight – this is a town in the country where time comfortably passes by. But this former paradise is now being stirred up by a fight amongst its people over constructing an ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Isao Yukisada
CAST:  Yuma Sasano  •  Suzuka Ohgo  •  Ryunosuke Kamiki  •  Kazuyoshi Hayashi

A vast wheat field, a straight road that has no end, a sky without a single building in sight – this is a town in the country where time comfortably passes by. But this former paradise is now being stirred up by a fight amongst its people over constructing an ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Isao Yukisada
CAST:  Yuma Sasano  •  Suzuka Ohgo  •  Ryunosuke Kamiki  •  Kazuyoshi Hayashi

After the Storm (2016)

Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detective. He is divorced from his ex-wife Kyoko and he has an 11-year-old son Shingo. His mother Yoshiko lives alone at her apartment. One day, Ryota, his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hirokazu Kore-eda
CAST:  Hiroshi Abe  •  Kirin Kiki  •  Yoko Maki  •  Taiyo Yoshizawa

Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detective. He is divorced from his ex-wife Kyoko and he has an 11-year-old son Shingo. His mother Yoshiko lives alone at her apartment. One day, Ryota, his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hirokazu Kore-eda
CAST:  Hiroshi Abe  •  Kirin Kiki  •  Yoko Maki  •  Taiyo Yoshizawa

Gassoh (2015)

In the year 1868, three young men join the elite Shogitai division of the Shogunate. The Shogitai fights to the end and opposes the dismantling of the feudal military dictatorship known as the Bakufu system.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tatsuo Kobayashi
CAST:  Yuya Yagira  •  Koji Seto  •  Joe Odagiri  •  Amane Okayama

In the year 1868, three young men join the elite Shogitai division of the Shogunate. The Shogitai fights to the end and opposes the dismantling of the feudal military dictatorship known as the Bakufu system.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tatsuo Kobayashi
CAST:  Yuya Yagira  •  Koji Seto  •  Joe Odagiri  •  Amane Okayama

Flying Colors (2015)

A high school girl, Sayaka Kudō was the bottom of the class. After a year, she improved her deviation value from 30 to 70, then passed Keio University that is considered one of the most difficult to enter in Japan.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nobuhiro Doi
CAST:  Kasumi Arimura  •  Shuhei Nomura  •  Atsushi Ito  •  Yoh Yoshida

A high school girl, Sayaka Kudō was the bottom of the class. After a year, she improved her deviation value from 30 to 70, then passed Keio University that is considered one of the most difficult to enter in Japan.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nobuhiro Doi
CAST:  Kasumi Arimura  •  Shuhei Nomura  •  Atsushi Ito  •  Yoh Yoshida

The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky (2012)

Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this boldly erotic yet movingly tender portrait of a group of vulnerable, variously wounded people — a depressed housewife, her high-school-aged lover, and his best friend, who is struggling to provide for himself ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yuki Tanada
CAST:  Kento Nagayama  •  Tomoko Tabata  •  Mieko Harada  •  Takahiro Miura

Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this boldly erotic yet movingly tender portrait of a group of vulnerable, variously wounded people — a depressed housewife, her high-school-aged lover, and his best friend, who is struggling to provide for himself ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yuki Tanada
CAST:  Kento Nagayama  •  Tomoko Tabata  •  Mieko Harada  •  Takahiro Miura

1980 (2003)

A former idol becomes a teacher at the high school she graduated from, but her new career is threatened by an expose book her ex-manager is planning to publish.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Keralino Sandorovich
CAST:  Rie Tomosaka  •  Yu Aoi  •  Kiyoshiro Imawano  •  Hiroko Hayashi

A former idol becomes a teacher at the high school she graduated from, but her new career is threatened by an expose book her ex-manager is planning to publish.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Keralino Sandorovich
CAST:  Rie Tomosaka  •  Yu Aoi  •  Kiyoshiro Imawano  •  Hiroko Hayashi

When I Get Home, My Wife Always Pretends to be Dead (2018)

When salary man Jun gets home, he finds his wife bleeding from her mouth and lying on the floor. He is shocked by the scene, but it turns out the blood is just ketchup and she is pretending to be dead. Without telling him why, she pretends to be dead everyday. Jun ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Toshio Lee
CAST:  Nana Eikura  •  Ken Yasuda  •  Ryohei Otani  •  Sumika Nono

When salary man Jun gets home, he finds his wife bleeding from her mouth and lying on the floor. He is shocked by the scene, but it turns out the blood is just ketchup and she is pretending to be dead. Without telling him why, she pretends to be dead everyday. Jun ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Toshio Lee
CAST:  Nana Eikura  •  Ken Yasuda  •  Ryohei Otani  •  Sumika Nono

The Stand-In Thief (2017)

Hajime Onuki (Ryuhei Maruyama) was a thief, but he now works as a welder and lives happily with his girlfriend. Hajime Onuki is threatened by a former partner in crime. He forces Hajime Onuki to break into the mansion of a picture book writer to steal. He is caught ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masafumi Nishida
CAST:  Ryuhei Maruyama  •  Masachika Ichimura  •  Yusuke Santamaria  •  Anna Ishibashi

Hajime Onuki (Ryuhei Maruyama) was a thief, but he now works as a welder and lives happily with his girlfriend. Hajime Onuki is threatened by a former partner in crime. He forces Hajime Onuki to break into the mansion of a picture book writer to steal. He is caught ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masafumi Nishida
CAST:  Ryuhei Maruyama  •  Masachika Ichimura  •  Yusuke Santamaria  •  Anna Ishibashi

Silver Angel (2004)

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DIRECTION:  Takayuki Suzui
CAST:  Fumiyo Kohinata  •  Megumi Sato  •  Moe Yamaguchi  •  Rie Minemura

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DIRECTION:  Takayuki Suzui
CAST:  Fumiyo Kohinata  •  Megumi Sato  •  Moe Yamaguchi  •  Rie Minemura

Tales of the Bizarre: 2009 Spring Special (2009)

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CAST:  Tamori  •  Hayato Ichihara  •  Kanata Hongo  •  Mina Fujii

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CAST:  Tamori  •  Hayato Ichihara  •  Kanata Hongo  •  Mina Fujii

On Next Sunday (2009)

After her boyfriend leaves Korea to study in Japan, So-ra decides to do the same. When she finally arrives in Japan So-ra discovers that her boyfriend has already quit school and gone back to Korea. Sora is now enrolled in film school and remains in Japan. At first ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Satoshi Kenmochi
CAST:  Matsumoto Kōshirō X  •  Younha  •  Jin-woo Yang  •  Jeon Mi-seon

After her boyfriend leaves Korea to study in Japan, So-ra decides to do the same. When she finally arrives in Japan So-ra discovers that her boyfriend has already quit school and gone back to Korea. Sora is now enrolled in film school and remains in Japan. At first ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Satoshi Kenmochi
CAST:  Matsumoto Kōshirō X  •  Younha  •  Jin-woo Yang  •  Jeon Mi-seon

Anthropologist Kumiko Misaki Murder Exam 6 (2016)

Restaurant owner Kenji Nagata has been stabbed to death. When the police begin an investigation, a bag of human bones is discovered in Nagata's car and Detective Kajikawa asks anthropologist Kumiko Misaki to perform an examination. She discovers that the deceased ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kojiro Fujioka
CAST:  Nene Otsuka  •  Ikkei Watanabe  •  Jouji Shibue  •  Ichirôta Miyakawa

Restaurant owner Kenji Nagata has been stabbed to death. When the police begin an investigation, a bag of human bones is discovered in Nagata's car and Detective Kajikawa asks anthropologist Kumiko Misaki to perform an examination. She discovers that the deceased ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kojiro Fujioka
CAST:  Nene Otsuka  •  Ikkei Watanabe  •  Jouji Shibue  •  Ichirôta Miyakawa

Your Turn to Kill: The Movie (2021)

Newlyweds Nana and Shota move into an apartment. Two situations, different from the drama series, take place: "What if Shota attends the resident's meeting and not Nana?" and "What if exchange murder game doesn't begin?"  (more)

DIRECTION:  Noriyoshi Sakuma
CAST:  Tomoyo Harada  •  Kei Tanaka  •  Nanase Nishino  •  Ryusei Yokohama

Newlyweds Nana and Shota move into an apartment. Two situations, different from the drama series, take place: "What if Shota attends the resident's meeting and not Nana?" and "What if exchange murder game doesn't begin?"  (more)

DIRECTION:  Noriyoshi Sakuma
CAST:  Tomoyo Harada  •  Kei Tanaka  •  Nanase Nishino  •  Ryusei Yokohama

The Dog won't Eat it, but Charlie Laughs (2022)

Tamura Yujiro and Hiyori have been married for four years. They look like a happily married couple, but, Hiyori secretly badmouths her husband on social media page "Husband Death Note."  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masahide Ichii
CAST:  Shingo Katori  •  Yukino Kishii  •  Kai Inowaki  •  Koji Matoba

Tamura Yujiro and Hiyori have been married for four years. They look like a happily married couple, but, Hiyori secretly badmouths her husband on social media page "Husband Death Note."  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masahide Ichii
CAST:  Shingo Katori  •  Yukino Kishii  •  Kai Inowaki  •  Koji Matoba
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