Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With Jun'ichirô Hayashi

1. Ringu (1998)

Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, Mystery

7.2

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A reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.

Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Yûko Takeuchi, Hitomi Satô

Votes: 77,549

2. Pulse (2001)

R | 119 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

6.5

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68 Metascore

Two groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Haruhiko Katô, Kumiko Asô, Koyuki, Kurume Arisaka

Votes: 25,626 | Gross: $0.05M

3. Dark Water (2002)

PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

6.7

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A mother and her 6-year-old daughter move into a creepy apartment whose every surface is permeated by water.

Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Asami Mizukawa

Votes: 34,951

4. Charisma (1999)

104 min | Drama, Mystery

6.8

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A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action. Leaving his job and family without ... See full summary »

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Ren Ôsugi, Yoriko Dôguchi

Votes: 2,054

5. Cyborg She (2008)

115 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

6.9

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A lonely university student develops a romance with a beautiful interesting woman, who turns out to be a cyborg from the future.

Director: Jae-young Kwak | Stars: Haruka Ayase, Keisuke Koide, Risa Ai, Nya Daigo

Votes: 4,251

6. Kaidan (2007)

Unrated | 115 min | Drama, Horror, Romance

6.1

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Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river. According to legend, all who drown in the river ... See full summary »

Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Kikunosuke Onoe, Hitomi Kuroki, Mao Inoue, Kumiko Asô

Votes: 1,213

7. License to Live (1998)

109 min | Drama, Comedy

6.9

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Yoshi, aged 24, awakes after 10 years in a coma, goes on to start a new life and rebuild his family.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Shun Sugata, Lily, Kumiko Asô

Votes: 568

8. Kuroyuri danchi (2013)

Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

5.1

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Nursing student Asuka (Atsuko Maeda) has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother. On the first night in her new room, she is awoken by a strange scratching... See full summary »

Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Atsuko Maeda, Hiroki Narimiya, Ryô Iwamatsu, Masanobu Katsumura

Votes: 1,284

9. Wuthering Heights (1988)

143 min | Drama

7.0

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A retelling of Emily Bronte's tale of vengeance and obsessive love, set in medieval Japan.

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Yûsaku Matsuda, Yûko Tanaka, Tatsuo Nadaka, Eri Ishida

Votes: 292

10. Ghost Theater (I) (2015)

99 min | Horror

4.5

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Sara, a young actress, is able to land the leading role in big theater play, but soon learns that somebody or something is trying to end the production at all cost, which puts Sara in deadly danger.

Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Rika Adachi, Toshihito Kokubo, Keita Machida, Haruka Shimazaki

Votes: 401

11. Inshite miru: 7-kakan no desu gêmu (2010)

107 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

5.7

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Ten people who agree to take the same lucrative "job" find themselves locked in an underground complex and forced to play a murder game for seven days.

Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Kin'ya Kitaôji, Nagisa Katahira, Shinji Takeda, Masanori Ishii

Votes: 1,388

12. Asian Blue (1995)

111 min | War

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Director: Hiromichi Horikawa | Stars: Teppei Arita, Bengal, Moeko Ezawa, Kikuko Fujimoto

13. Dragon Head (2003)

R | 122 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

5.6

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A teenage boy wakes up and finds himself on a train. He vaguely remembers being on a class trip when something terrible happened, and he is one of the few survivors.

Director: Jôji Iida | Stars: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Sayaka Kanda, Takayuki Yamada, Naohito Fujiki

Votes: 834

14. Dearest (2012)

110 min | Drama

6.9

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A prison officer hands in his resignation after his wife's death, to drive to the port where she wants her ashes scattered at sea.

Director: Yasuo Furuhata | Stars: Ken Takakura, Yûko Tanaka, Kôichi Satô, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi

Votes: 521

15. Karem, la posesión (2021)

90 min | Horror

4.4

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A possessed young girl from an atheist family refuses to let her new powers go and becomes more than a threat to everyone besides her.

Director: Henry Bedwell | Stars: Raquel Rodríguez, Daniel Martínez, Dominika Paleta, Ramón Medína

Votes: 223

16. 252: Seizonsha ari (2008)

128 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

5.4

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A massive earthquake strikes off mainland Japan causing the temperature of the Pacific Ocean to rise meteorically, leading to a massive storm to hit Tokyo and for it to be inundated with ... See full summary »

Director: Nobuo Mizuta | Stars: Hideaki Itô, Seiyô Uchino, Takayuki Yamada, Yû Kashii

Votes: 281

17. Toshimaen: Haunted Park (2019)

81 min | Horror

4.4

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Set in entertainment venue Toshimaen, the story takes us to young obsessed women who are handy and active with their mobile telephones, which is normal enough. Except the photographs and ... See full summary »

Director: Hiroshi Takahashi | Stars: Rie Kitahara, Fujiko Kojima, Nana Asakawa, Ruka Matsuda

Votes: 94

18. Tasumania monogatari (1990)

110 min

4.4

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A sixth-grade elementary school student, Shoichi, visits his divorced father who lives in Australia after retiring from a leading Japanese company and has become obsessed with finding the extinct Tasmanian Tiger.

Director: Yasuo Furuhata | Stars: Kunie Tanaka, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Jinpachi Nezu, Yoshiko Miyazaki

Votes: 15

19. Garasu no nô (1999)

100 min | Drama, Romance

5.8

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"Wake up! I'm a Prince!" 'Sleeping Bride' or 'Glass Brain' is teenage love-story of a girl who sleeps for 17 years, her only hope, a young boy...

Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Lisa Gotô, Hiroki Kohara, Takaaki Enoki, Yûko Natori

Votes: 210

20. Toriko (1995 Video)

Horror, Thriller

5.6

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Director: Masahide Kuwabara | Stars: Naomi Morinaga, Shihori Nagasaka

Votes: 28

21. French Dressing (1997)

100 min | Crime, Drama

5.8

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Japanese schoolboy is saved from an attempted suicide by his teacher only to be raped by that teacher before starting a menage a tois which includes one of the teacher's girl students.

Director: Hisashi Saito | Stars: Munehisa Sakurada, Hiroshi Abe, Miako Tadano, Rumi

Votes: 14

22. Shinigami kun (2014– )

Comedy, Fantasy

6.6

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Shinigami-kun, alias grim reaper #413, is a rookie who pronounces the death of those scheduled to die and brings souls to the nether world. He would appear with the signature phrase "... See full summary »

Stars: Satoshi Ohno, Mirei Kiritani, Masaki Suda, Yutaka Matsushige

Votes: 146

23. Rush! (2001)

100 min | Comedy, Crime

6.6

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A wacky tale of two guys, one Korean and one Japanese who, mistaken for a couple of murderers, take to their heels, thus starting off a adrenaline pumping (and often zany) adventure with a distorted sense of time.

Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Yunjin Kim, Shô Aikawa, Toshirô Yanagiba, Hiroshi Abe

Votes: 23

24. Yukai (1997)

112 min | Action, Drama

6.7

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The director of a large Tokyo trading company is kidnapped and held for ransom. A young but experienced detective is put on the case while being at the center of a nation-wide television sensation.

Director: Takao Okawara | Stars: Tetsuya Watari, Masatoshi Nagase, Miki Sakai, Katsutoshi Atarashi

Votes: 48

25. Jûryoku piero (2009)

118 min | Drama

6.8

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A haunting mystery about a Japanese family where a current series of crime paves the way to unraveling an unexpected family truth.

Director: Jun'ichi Mori | Stars: Ryô Kase, Masaki Okada, Fumiyo Kohinata, Yuriko Yoshitaka

Votes: 461

26. Korede iinoda! Eiga Akatsuka Fujio (2011)

111 min | Comedy

5.9

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Editor Takeda Hatsumi observes manga artist Akatsuka Fujio for whom she is responsible. This is a big company, important artist and her first serious responsibility. The artist is friendly ... See full summary »

Director: Hideaki Satô | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Maki Horikita, Kôichi Satô, Hirofumi Arai

Votes: 64

27. Like a Rolling Stone (1994)

120 min | Crime, Drama

6.3

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Tanaka is a yakuza who collects 'protection money' from establishments. He has just been released from jail, where he had spent eight years, and finds out that his boss wants to get rid of him.

Director: Tatsumi Kumashiro | Stars: Eiji Okuda, Eiko Nagashima, Reiko Takashima, Shô Aikawa

Votes: 47

28. Kill (1997 Video)

73 min | Action

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A woman becomes an assassin to avenge her father's murder.

Director: Hirohisa Sasaki | Stars: Fernando Fernández, Kaori Shimamura, Michihiro Yamanishi, Itsumi Ôsawa

29. Sakura no ki no shita de (1989)

110 min | Drama, Romance

5.2

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A mother and daughter become enemies for the same lover.

Director: Ryûichi Takamori | Stars: Shima Iwashita, Minori Terada, Natsumi Nanase, Masahiko Tsugawa

Votes: 11

30. Kanasiki tenshi (2006)

113 min | Drama

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The body of a 59-year-old male is found on the banks of a river. The stepson, Kazuo, confesses to his involvement but also implicates his estranged sister Nami. Two detectives, Okishima ... See full summary »

Director: Kazuki Ômori | Stars: Saki Takaoka, Mirai Yamamoto, Michiko Kawai, Michitaka Tsutsui

31. Box: Hakamada jiken - inochi towa (2010)

117 min | Drama

6.8

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Director: Banmei Takahashi | Stars: Hirofumi Arai, Duncan, Masato Hagiwara, Riona Hazuki

Votes: 32

32. Makoto (2005)

115 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

5.8

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At a forensic and autopsy centre at a university medical students and interns not only conduct postmortems, but also seeks clues to mysterious deaths. Makoto is a proficient and diligent ... See full summary »

Director: Ryôichi Kimizuka | Stars: Shô Aikawa, Becky, Tetsuya Bessho, Noriyuki Higashiyama

Votes: 13

33. SF Whipped Cream (2002 TV Movie)

95 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

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Ken (Shinji Takeda), who was abandoned as a child, is mistakenly picked up by an alien who is staying illegally on Planet Earth. Ken, who grew up with a lullaby for professional wrestling, ... See full summary »

Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Shinji Takeda, Hero Bautista, Ermie Concepcion, Emi Ikehata

34. Yôgisha: Muroi Shinji (2005)

117 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

4.5

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Metropolitan PD Superintendent Muroi is arrested to take responsibility for a botched murder case he headed. His faithful colleagues, including Arashiro and Okita, only exacerbate the situation when they try to help clear his name.

Director: Ryôichi Kimizuka | Stars: Toshirô Yanagiba, Rena Tanaka, Shô Aikawa, Norito Yashima

Votes: 167

35. Shin otokogi: Kanketsu-hen (2000)

124 min

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Director: Toshimi Kokubo | Stars: Taisei Miyamoto, Isao Natsuyagi, Keiko Takahashi, Kaori Sakagami

36. Gakincho rock (2004)

90 min | Comedy

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Four childhood friends dream of being rock stars. But nobody wants to listen to them until their long lost friend reappears. However, the delightful reunion is soon over when she suddenly ... See full summary »

Director: Tetsu Maeda | Stars: Azusa Babazono, Coufull, Hirohito Gotou, Terumoto Gotô