Tadanobu Asano
Birthday: 1973-11-27
Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Biography: Tadanobu Asano, born Tadanobu Sato (born November 27, 1973) is a Japanese actor. He is known for his roles as Dragon Eye Morrison in Electric Dragon 80.000 V, Kakihara in Ichi the Killer, Mamoru Arita in Bright Future, Hattori Genosuke in Zatoichi, Kenji in Last Life in the Universe, Aman in Survive Style 5+, Ayano in The Taste of Tea, and Temudjin in Mongol. Most recently, Asano appeared as Hogun in the film Thor, based on the Marvel Comics character.
Movies
Zatoichi
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
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Thor
Against his father Odin's will, The Mighty Thor - a powerful but arrogant warrior god - recklessly r...
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Hana
In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge t...
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Funky Forest: The First Contact
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Gui...
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Taboo
Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors ar...
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Party 7
Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room:...
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Last Life in the Universe
An obsessive-compulsive Japanese librarian living in Bangkok spends most of his days contemplating s...
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Away with Words
A Japanese man and a gay bar-owner in Hong Kong drink beer as they talk about their childhood and ex...
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Distance
On the third anniversary of a cult's failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suici...
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The Buried Forest
Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mo...
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Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhis...
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Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan, a slave who went on to conquer half the world in ...
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Kabei: Our Mother
Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shige...
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Bright Future
Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They...
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Electric Dragon 80000V
A violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard half-me...
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Gemini
When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer m...
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Ichi the Killer
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a re...
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Tokyo Zombie
Two Japanese friends accidentally kill their boss and dump his remains in Black Fuji, a mountain/lan...
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Picnic
Believing that the world will end that very day, three mental patients Coco, Tsumuji, and Satoru set...
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Vital
A young man awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook ful...
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Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
In dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexually warped Uncle Sonezaki...
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The Taste of Tea
A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary hous...
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Invisible Waves
After inadvertently killing his girlfriend, a man flees Macau for Thailand in an attempt to cope wit...
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Battleship
When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several ...
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Wandering Home
War photojournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children. Be...
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Dumbeast
How hard is it to kill an idiot? Just ask Kudo Kankuro! The acclaimed screenwriter brings his 2004 K...
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Survive Style 5+
Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one another eventually become intertwined, resul...
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Kubi
Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several c...
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47 Ronin
Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the...
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Iden & Tity
If you loved movies such as Shonen Merikensack and GS Wonderland, then this one, which predates the ...
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Rampo Noir
An anthology film consisting of four segments based on literary works by Edogawa Ranpo....
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Children Who Won’t Die
Arakawa has thrown big ripples all over the world with strange works such as the theme park "Site of...
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Maborosi
A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searchi...
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We're Broke, My Lord!
A commoner inherits lordship of debt-ridden Tanjousan Bun. Officials inform him of new role and subs...
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The Box Man
A photographer becomes intrigued by a mysterious man who has chosen to filter his experience of the ...
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Love & Pop
Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated da...
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Redline
A daredevil driver is determined to compete in Redline, the most popular race in the galaxy. The rac...
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Woman of Water
Ryo personifies water, since whenever something important happens in her life, it rains. She inherit...
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Eatrip
An exploration of the act of eating, both as an interaction among people and between people and natu...
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SORANO
A unique documentary film produced by a psychiatrist and Yasufumi Nakoshi analyzing the artists part...
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Labyrinth of Dreams
Tomiko falls in love with Niitaka, even though she also suspects him of being the Tokyo bus driver s...
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Thor: The Dark World
Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith ret...
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My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
A.D. 2015: A virus has been spreading in many cities worldwide. It is a suicidal disease and the vir...
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Helpless
Yasuo is a gangster just released from jail. Believing his boss double-crossed him, enraged Yasuo is...
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Dead End Run
A collection of three short films by Japanese visual genius Sogo Ishii. Each short focuses on the pr...
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Mortal Kombat II
The fan favorite champions—now joined by Johnny Cage himself—are pitted against one another in the u...
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Sad Vacation
Kenji, abandoned by his mother, scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs including driving bar ...
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Screwed
It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually in a ...
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Kaza-hana
A government employee meets a hostess of a "pink club," and together they set out on a journey....
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Hakuchi: The Innocent
In a future where World War II never ended, Japan is decimated by nightly bombings. The only buildin...
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Hole in the Pants 5: I Found a Glittering Star!
5th installment of the Pantsu no ana video series released by BOMB magazine...
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Dearest
The posthumous wish of Eiji's wife is for her ashes to be scattered in the ocean near her hometown. ...
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The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan....
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That's the Way!
A rookie editor Hatsumi Takeda becomes an editor of Fujio Akatsuka who is known as the king of gag m...
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Vengeance Can Wait
Hidenori and Nanase have lived together for ten years in a tense, platonic relationship. The wheels ...
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The Terminal Trust
Shinzo Egi is an asthma sufferer who does not want to be place on life support. As a last request, S...
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Fried Dragon Fish
A dragon fish is stolen by Tetsu Tobiyama and biologist Thomas Earwing seeks its return. Poo is led ...
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Focus
A short, direct and to-the-point media-commentary thriller. A sleazy TV producer trying to exploit a...
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Tokyo Fair Weather
This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photograp...
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119
In Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for nearl...
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The Capricious Robot
The Film in commemoration of the 10 year anniversary of Shinich Hoshi's death and the 50 year annive...
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Villon's Wife
This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but ...
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The Kiyosu Conference
After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shiba...
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Swallowtail Butterfly
The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan....
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Ah-So Graham Norton
This one-off TV special follows the exploits of camp comic Graham Norton on a visit to Tokyo. Stayin...
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Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters
Army surveying team attempted to scale Mount Tsurugi, a peak never before reached by humans, in orde...
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Fly with the Gold
Kota hears about an impending 1.5 billion yen gold bar heist from his friend Kitagawa, a former coll...
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Lupin the 3rd
Interpol Inspector Zenigata begins a world-wide hunt for the infamous thief Arsène Lupin III, who, w...
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Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore
Somewhere in Manila, a crime boss rules with an iron fist. To his most loyal henchman he gives the t...
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Café Lumière
In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a w...
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The Rocking Horsemen
It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmeriz...
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My Grandpa
Kenzo was behind bars for killing a gangster. Upon his release, he goes to live with his son, whose ...
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The Face of Jizo
Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The fi...
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One Step on a Mine, It's All Over
A biographical film of war photographer, Taizo Ichinose....
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Swimming Upstream
One day after school, Kaoru glances at Sonoko at the pool side. He falls in love with her at first s...
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Snow Prince
10-year-old Sota lives with his grandfather and a dog named Chibi in a small snowy village. They liv...
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My Man
As a young child, Hana loses her family to a devastating tsunami that wipes out her town. At a shelt...
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Grasshopper
Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (R...
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Portrait of the Wind
Portrait of the Wind centers on Tamio Murase, a world-traveling photographer who came home to take o...
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The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
Adaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark....
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Falling into the Evening
Rica and Kengo have been living together for the past four years. It's been a very happy time for Ri...
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ACRI: The Legend of Homo-Aquarellius
A scientist desperately wanting to prove that mermaids exist is ostracized from the scientific commu...
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Kiki's Delivery Service
A young girl named Kiki must leave her home for a year to begin training in witchcraft. She leaves o...
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Dreaming Awake
Recently appointed dean at a film school, Kimuro Hajime develops a special concern for one of his st...
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Parasyte: Part 1
Humanity is suffering from a series of mysterious murders across the globe, known as the 'Mincemeat ...
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Parasyte: Part 2
Humanity is under attack by human-mimicking flesh-eating alien parasites. One parasite bonds with hi...
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Moonlight Mask
The year is 1947, during the war torn period of the Showa era. The story begins when a man, presumed...
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Takeshis'
Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his ...
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Once in a Blue Moon
Defence lawyer Emi is assigned to a particularly unusual case: a man is suspected of murdering his w...
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R246 STORY
The anthology film R246 Story centers around the major Japanese highway Route 246. Originating in Ch...
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Journey to the Shore
Mizuki's husband Yusuke has been missing for three years. He suddenly comes back home as a ghost and...
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Mugonkan
A story about how Kuboshima Seiichiro overcomes various difficulties to open Mugonkan, an art museum...
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Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country se...
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SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
Documentary on the life of actor Yusaku Matsuda. This is a documentary film produced on the occasion...
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The Women in the Lakes
A 100-year-old resident of a Lake Biwa nursing home dies mysteriously. Did a respirator keeping him ...
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Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Initially, Ambivalent Future was intended as a film about the production of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Brig...
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The Wasted Times
Shanghai gangsters grapple with lust and loyalty on the eve of war with Japan as they try to navigat...
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Kanasando
In this heartwarming human comedy, Mika, traumatized by her father Satoru's infidelity and her mothe...
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42 One Dream Rush
An omnibus project bringing together acclaimed directors from around the world, each contributing a ...
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Silence
In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their men...
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The Outsider
A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osak...
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Harmonium
Toshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. But then this old acquaintance, who has just been relea...
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Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
Nobuko works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On ...
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Broken Rage
A seemingly unremarkable man called “Mouse” is caught by the police. In exchange for his freedom, he...
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Shinjuku Swan II
Tatsuhiko Shiratori works as a scout, recruiting girls to work in the adult entertainment business. ...
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Dear Etranger
Makoto Tanaka is 40-years-old and has remarried. His wife is Nanae and they care for 2 daughters fro...
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Thor: Ragnarok
Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get...
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The Bastard and the Beautiful World
The Bastard and the Beautiful World is an omnibus film consisting of four episodes. Fujiko is runnin...
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KASANE –Beauty and Fate–
Kasane Fuchi is the daughter of a beautiful, legendary actress. Kasane has excellent acting skills a...
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Chiwawa
Chiwawa is a popular girl. One day, her dismembered body is found in Tokyo Bay. Chiwawa's friends ga...
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Punk Samurai Slash Down
Junoshin Kake is a ronin. To get hired by the Kurokaze Han, he lies and tells them that a religious ...
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Midway
The story of the Battle of Midway, and the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude ...
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Buyusenki Battle Chronicle
Motorcycles, drugs, and gangs terrorize Japan. The man who dreamed of a life of peace has instead be...
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Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!
Documentary about the Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike, where we see him attend film festivals, pers...
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A Flawless Concierge
A comedy about a concierge at a plush hotel who deals with a series of unusual guests....
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The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
A sequel to the 1980 movie The Legend of the Stardust Brothers. As well as being a rock musical come...
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Mortal Kombat
Washed-up MMA fighter Cole Young, unaware of his heritage, and hunted by Emperor Shang Tsung's best ...
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Kate
A ruthless criminal operative has less than 24 hours to exact revenge on her enemies and in the proc...
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Pseudo Idealist
Jia Zhangke is starring in his first lead role, appearing as an artist facing a midlife crisis in Ch...
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Detective Chinatown 3
Tang Ren and Qin Feng travel to Japan to investigate the death of a mafia head. As they suspect foul...
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Minamata
War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of ...
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Labyrinth of Cinema
When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time ...
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Wolf's Calling
A girl finds an old handgun in her attic and the symbolic object conjures a mystical scene of samura...
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They Say Nothing Stays the Same
Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowi...
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Document Love & Pop
Two shorts about the making of Hideaki Anno's movie "Love & Pop", one from the perspective of a bumb...
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Motorola
Given a completely free hand by Motorola mobile phones, Wong created an advertisement that is a roma...
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The Thirsty Flower: Four by Four Equals One
The title is "Thirsty Flower ~ four by four equal one ~", which is a short story of about 60 minutes...
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Soul Dancing
Soul Dancing is an order placed to Kiyoshi Kurosawa by a Japanese alcoholic beverage brand named Shô...
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Ravens
Enigmatic, rejected, heartbroken. Masahisa Fukase must rebuild his life, overcome tradition, his inn...
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Independence of Japan
A group image drama set at the end of the war depicting the unknown struggle of Japanese people who ...
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Morte Cucina
Sao, a talented cook, accidentally meets the man who took advantage of her in the past. She sets her...
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Funky Forest: The Second Contact
The upcoming sequel to the 2005 absurdist comedy anthology. To be released in 2026....
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