Akihiro Ugajin

Battle Royale (2000)

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In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kinji Fukasaku
CAST:  Takeshi Kitano  •  Tatsuya Fujiwara  •  Tsuyako Kinoshita  •  Aki Maeda

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kinji Fukasaku
CAST:  Takeshi Kitano  •  Tatsuya Fujiwara  •  Tsuyako Kinoshita  •  Aki Maeda

Chronicle of My Mother (2012)

Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own behavior has ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masato Harada
CAST:  Koji Yakusho  •  Kirin Kiki  •  Aoi Miyazaki  •  Kaho Minami

Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own behavior has ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masato Harada
CAST:  Koji Yakusho  •  Kirin Kiki  •  Aoi Miyazaki  •  Kaho Minami

Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! Preface: True Story of the Ghost of Yotsua (2014)

From the team's previous work, director Kudo is now convinced of the existence of parallel universes. But now, a new video posted convinces the group to learn the truth about a mysterious woman with a swollen face.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Koji Shiraishi
CAST:  Shigeo Ôsako  •  Chika Kuboyama  •  Koji Shiraishi  •  Akihiro Ugajin

From the team's previous work, director Kudo is now convinced of the existence of parallel universes. But now, a new video posted convinces the group to learn the truth about a mysterious woman with a swollen face.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Koji Shiraishi
CAST:  Shigeo Ôsako  •  Chika Kuboyama  •  Koji Shiraishi  •  Akihiro Ugajin

Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! The Most Terrifying Movie in History (2014)

In this sixth installment, director Kudo enlists the help of powerful psychic Dogen , physicist Masahiko Saito, and idol Akari, to make a big movie while investigating the abandoned "Tatari Village", where anyone who enters goes insane or dies.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Koji Shiraishi
CAST:  Shigeo Ôsako  •  Chika Kuboyama  •  Koji Shiraishi  •  Akihiro Ugajin

In this sixth installment, director Kudo enlists the help of powerful psychic Dogen , physicist Masahiko Saito, and idol Akari, to make a big movie while investigating the abandoned "Tatari Village", where anyone who enters goes insane or dies.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Koji Shiraishi
CAST:  Shigeo Ôsako  •  Chika Kuboyama  •  Koji Shiraishi  •  Akihiro Ugajin

Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! Final Chapter (2015)

Eighteen months have gone by and Kudo and Ichikawa are still lost in a parallel universe. When they vanished, a giant appeared in the sky above Shinjuku.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Koji Shiraishi
CAST:  Shigeo Ôsako  •  Chika Kuboyama  •  Koji Shiraishi  •  Shohei Uno

Eighteen months have gone by and Kudo and Ichikawa are still lost in a parallel universe. When they vanished, a giant appeared in the sky above Shinjuku.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Koji Shiraishi
CAST:  Shigeo Ôsako  •  Chika Kuboyama  •  Koji Shiraishi  •  Shohei Uno

Hoshi 35 (2023)

Hoshi 35 (HOSHI 35 Hoshi Sanjūgo) is an upcoming crowdfunded tokusatsu kaiju film which will be written and directed by Hiroto Yokokawa and co-directed by Kazuma Yoneyama and Daisuke Sato, with effects by Sato. Presented by MRTS Co., Ltd. and produced by 3Y Co., ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hiroto Yokokawa
CAST:  Megumi Odaka  •  Akira Ohashi  •  Daijirô Harada  •  Jun Hashizume

Hoshi 35 (HOSHI 35 Hoshi Sanjūgo) is an upcoming crowdfunded tokusatsu kaiju film which will be written and directed by Hiroto Yokokawa and co-directed by Kazuma Yoneyama and Daisuke Sato, with effects by Sato. Presented by MRTS Co., Ltd. and produced by 3Y Co., ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hiroto Yokokawa
CAST:  Megumi Odaka  •  Akira Ohashi  •  Daijirô Harada  •  Jun Hashizume