Tsumami Edamame

Fireworks (1997)

Detective Nishi is relieved from a stakeout to visit his sick wife in hospital. He is informed that she is terminally ill, and is advised to take her home. During his visit, a suspect shoots one detective dead and leaves Nishi's partner, Horibe, paralyzed. Nishi ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Takeshi Kitano
CAST:  Takeshi Kitano  •  Kayoko Kishimoto  •  Susumu Terajima  •  Tetsu Watanabe

Detective Nishi is relieved from a stakeout to visit his sick wife in hospital. He is informed that she is terminally ill, and is advised to take her home. During his visit, a suspect shoots one detective dead and leaves Nishi's partner, Horibe, paralyzed. Nishi ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Takeshi Kitano
CAST:  Takeshi Kitano  •  Kayoko Kishimoto  •  Susumu Terajima  •  Tetsu Watanabe

Nagisa (2000)

A coming of age story about a 13-year-old girl named Nagisa (Seashore) and the summer when she blooms into a woman.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masaru Konuma
CAST:  Madoka Matsuda  •  Arisa Inasaka  •  Yoshie Yoshiki  •  Kazunori Sasaki

A coming of age story about a 13-year-old girl named Nagisa (Seashore) and the summer when she blooms into a woman.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masaru Konuma
CAST:  Madoka Matsuda  •  Arisa Inasaka  •  Yoshie Yoshiki  •  Kazunori Sasaki

Sword of Desperation (2010)

A talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Three years earlier, Kanemi killed a woman, Renko, the corrupt mistress of the powerful daimyo Tabu Ukyou. Unexpectedly, Kanemi received a lenient sentence for his crime and is allowed to return to his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hideyuki Hirayama
CAST:  Etsushi Toyokawa  •  Chizuru Ikewaki  •  Koji Kikkawa  •  Tsumami Edamame

A talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Three years earlier, Kanemi killed a woman, Renko, the corrupt mistress of the powerful daimyo Tabu Ukyou. Unexpectedly, Kanemi received a lenient sentence for his crime and is allowed to return to his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hideyuki Hirayama
CAST:  Etsushi Toyokawa  •  Chizuru Ikewaki  •  Koji Kikkawa  •  Tsumami Edamame

Boiling Point (1990)

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Takeshi Kitano
CAST:  Yûrei Yanagi  •  Yuriko Ishida  •  Guadalcanal Taka  •  Dankan

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Takeshi Kitano
CAST:  Yûrei Yanagi  •  Yuriko Ishida  •  Guadalcanal Taka  •  Dankan

Zatoichi (2003)

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Takeshi Kitano
CAST:  Takeshi Kitano  •  Tadanobu Asano  •  Michiyo Yasuda  •  Guadalcanal Taka

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Takeshi Kitano
CAST:  Takeshi Kitano  •  Tadanobu Asano  •  Michiyo Yasuda  •  Guadalcanal Taka

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DIRECTION:  Hiroyuki Tsuji
CAST:  Ryuji Harada  •  Ryusuke Komakine  •  Yuma Ishigaki  •  Tomohiro Waki

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DIRECTION:  Hiroyuki Tsuji
CAST:  Sayaka Isoyama  •  Eriko Moriwaki  •  Ryuji Harada  •  Takayuki Kinoshita

青い種子は太陽のなかにある (2015)

In the summer of 1963, flats of modern construction begin to be built in the slums where vagrants and women of the night gather. The city hall's plan is to house the slum dwellers in cultural housing, complete with gas and running water. Kenji, a construction ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yukio Ninagawa
CAST:  Kazuya Kamenashi  •  Mitsuki Takahata  •  Naomasa Musaka  •  Marcia

In the summer of 1963, flats of modern construction begin to be built in the slums where vagrants and women of the night gather. The city hall's plan is to house the slum dwellers in cultural housing, complete with gas and running water. Kenji, a construction ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yukio Ninagawa
CAST:  Kazuya Kamenashi  •  Mitsuki Takahata  •  Naomasa Musaka  •  Marcia