Shuichiro Masuda

One Third (2014)

The manger of cabaret club "Hanibani" named Shū, a worker at the club named Koji, and one of the patrons named Ken succeed in robbing a bank. They agree to divide the stolen money equally into three, but they become consumed by greed and try to get more than their ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hiroshi Shinagawa
CAST:  Koki Tanaka  •  Ryuichi Kosugi  •  Yosuke Kubozuka  •  Shinnosuke Ikehata

The manger of cabaret club "Hanibani" named Shū, a worker at the club named Koji, and one of the patrons named Ken succeed in robbing a bank. They agree to divide the stolen money equally into three, but they become consumed by greed and try to get more than their ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hiroshi Shinagawa
CAST:  Koki Tanaka  •  Ryuichi Kosugi  •  Yosuke Kubozuka  •  Shinnosuke Ikehata

Fukushima 50 (2020)

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Setsurô Wakamatsu
CAST:  Ken Watanabe  •  Koichi Sato  •  Hidetaka Yoshioka  •  Narumi Yasuda

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Setsurô Wakamatsu
CAST:  Ken Watanabe  •  Koichi Sato  •  Hidetaka Yoshioka  •  Narumi Yasuda

The Albino's Trees (2016)

A poignant moral dilemma unfolding against lush mountainous landscapes, The Albino’s Trees follows Yuku (Ryohei Matsuoka), an animal control hunter who takes on a lucrative job to kill a rare white deer considered to be a god of the forest by a nearby village. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masakazu Kaneko
CAST:  Shuichiro Masuda  •  Ryohei Matsuoka  •  Yûsuke Fukuchi  •  Kanako Higashi

A poignant moral dilemma unfolding against lush mountainous landscapes, The Albino’s Trees follows Yuku (Ryohei Matsuoka), an animal control hunter who takes on a lucrative job to kill a rare white deer considered to be a god of the forest by a nearby village. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masakazu Kaneko
CAST:  Shuichiro Masuda  •  Ryohei Matsuoka  •  Yûsuke Fukuchi  •  Kanako Higashi

Drop (2008)

Adaptation of a light novel.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Takeshi Yokoi
CAST:  Mei Kurokawa  •  Mirei Kiritani  •  Takahiro Hōjō  •  Wako Ando

Adaptation of a light novel.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Takeshi Yokoi
CAST:  Mei Kurokawa  •  Mirei Kiritani  •  Takahiro Hōjō  •  Wako Ando

Ring Wandering (2022)

In central Tokyo, a young man, Sosuke, aspires to be a manga artist. His current work is about a battle between a hunter and a Japanese wolf. He can’t draw the extinct wolf well and struggles to develop the story. One winter’s day, Sosuke finds an animal’s skull ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masakazu Kaneko
CAST:  Show Kasamatsu  •  Abe Junko  •  Ken Yasuda  •  Reiko Kataoka

In central Tokyo, a young man, Sosuke, aspires to be a manga artist. His current work is about a battle between a hunter and a Japanese wolf. He can’t draw the extinct wolf well and struggles to develop the story. One winter’s day, Sosuke finds an animal’s skull ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masakazu Kaneko
CAST:  Show Kasamatsu  •  Abe Junko  •  Ken Yasuda  •  Reiko Kataoka

The Water Sprite (2021)

In the middle of the Meiji era, Japanese painter Rogin goes on a trip to draw a bijin-ga, and he accidentally rescues a salt merchant. The salt merchant describes an out-of-this-world beauty he once loved. This is the prologue to the drama “Suiko,” a tale of humans ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masakazu Kaneko
CAST:  Shuichiro Masuda  •  Yui Ota  •  Ryohei Matsuoka

In the middle of the Meiji era, Japanese painter Rogin goes on a trip to draw a bijin-ga, and he accidentally rescues a salt merchant. The salt merchant describes an out-of-this-world beauty he once loved. This is the prologue to the drama “Suiko,” a tale of humans ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masakazu Kaneko
CAST:  Shuichiro Masuda  •  Yui Ota  •  Ryohei Matsuoka

The Legend & Butterfly (2023)

Oda Nobunaga and Nohime were originally married to mend a hostile relationship between neighbouring regions. Unfortunately, they were like oil and water, making for a somewhat unhappy marriage. When Oda’s enemy, Imagawa Yoshimoto, attacks Owari with his vast army, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Keishi Otomo
CAST:  Takuya Kimura  •  Haruka Ayase  •  Kinya Kitaoji  •  Hideaki Ito

Oda Nobunaga and Nohime were originally married to mend a hostile relationship between neighbouring regions. Unfortunately, they were like oil and water, making for a somewhat unhappy marriage. When Oda’s enemy, Imagawa Yoshimoto, attacks Owari with his vast army, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Keishi Otomo
CAST:  Takuya Kimura  •  Haruka Ayase  •  Kinya Kitaoji  •  Hideaki Ito