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1. Anarchy in Japan-Suke (1999)
68 min | Drama
MIZUKI is infertile. Desperate for a child, she kidnaps a baby boy from the car of a couple who are screwing outside. Mizuki raises the boy and names him YOSHIKI. Eight years later, Mizuko ... See full summary »
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Yumeka Sasaki, Kazuhiro Sano, Yukiko Izumi, Natsuko Sawada
Votes: 135
2. Fragments of the Last Will (2022)
134 min | Drama, History, War
Hatao Yamamoto was a Japanese prisoner of war detained in a post second World War Siberian gulag. He believed that he would be able to reunite with his wife and children in Japan and fought to keep hope alive for his fellow POWs.
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Kazunari Ninomiya, Keiko Kitagawa, Tôri Matsuzaka, Kento Nakajima
Votes: 176
3. Threads - Our Tapestry of Love (2020)
130 min | Romance
Ren Takahashi and Aoi Sonoda are both children of the 1980s having been born in 1989. They met in 2002 and got to know love and lust at that young age through each other. As it so often ... See full summary »
Directors: Takahisa Zeze, Ivaylo Brusowski | Stars: Masaki Suda, Nana Komatsu, Fumika Baba, Mitsuko Baishô
Votes: 588
4. The 8-Year Engagement (2017)
119 min | Drama, Romance
Hisashi and Mai are set to have their wedding ceremony in three months. Unfortunately, Mai falls ill and lapses into a coma.
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Takeru Satoh, Tao Tsuchiya, Tetta Sugimoto, Hiroko Yakushimaru
Votes: 1,103
5. Hentai byôtô: SM shinryo-shitsu (1989)
55 min | Horror
An abusive psychologist S&M sexplays becomes too much for his wife. She leaves him, but happiness arrives in the form of her masochistic twin sister.
Director: Hisayasu Satô | Stars: Kiyomi Itô, Kazuhiro Sano
Votes: 70
6. The Lowlife (2017)
120 min | Drama
This is the story of three Japanese women in the glamourous world of adult film. There is Miho who is a house wife in her thirties and needs to do something new with herself. There is Ayako... See full summary »
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Aina Yamada, Kim Dao, Noriko Eguchi, Ayano Moriguchi
Votes: 198
7. Mamorarenakatta mono tachi e (2021)
135 min | Crime
Nine years after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, two murder cases take place in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. The two victims are assumed to have been murdered by the same person. Both... See full summary »
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Takeru Satoh, Hiroshi Abe, Mitsuko Baishô, Seiji Chihara
Votes: 361
8. Muscle (1989)
60 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Ryuzaki, an editor of Muscle Magazine, which features photographs of men with sculpted bodies, becomes involved with a man named Kitami; their affair soon becomes dominated by ... See full summary »
Director: Hisayasu Satô | Stars: Kiyomi Itô, Takeshi Itô, June, Simon Kumai
Votes: 233
9. Haru ni Chiru (2023)
133 min | Drama, Sport
For the first time in decades Jinichi returns to Japan. There, by chance, he encounters Shogo, a young boxer whose heart's been broken after an unfair call cost him a match. The two pair up, aiming to fight at the World Championship.
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Shô Aikawa, Ryôta Bandô, Kanna Hashimoto, Tsurutarô Kataoka
Votes: 35
10. Moon Child (2003)
120 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
The story of love and friendship on the harsh streets of 2014 Mallepa, a small corner in Asia.
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Hyde, Gackt, Leehom Wang, Tarô Yamamoto
Votes: 2,102
11. Tonbi (2022)
139 min | Drama, Family
Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (later played by Takumi Kitamura). Yasuo's life seemed great at the time, but his life totally... See full summary »
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Hiroshi Abe, Takumi Kitamura, Anne Watanabe, Ken Yasuda
Votes: 127
12. Temptation of the Mask (1987)
68 min | Drama, Horror
An adopted orphan is in love with his sister and repeatedly raped by her husband. When he grows up, the traumatized boy becomes an arsonist, as a gay male detective is investigating him.
Director: Hisayasu Satô | Stars: Kazuhiro Sano, Kiyoshi Usuda, Naomi Hagio, Yutaka Ikejima
Votes: 44
13. Heaven's Story (2010)
Not Rated | 278 min | Drama
(Japanese with English subtitles) Part revenge story, part existential meditation, Heaven's Story is 100% modern epic, gracefully threading together multiple suburban tales of lost souls seeking retribution and redemption.
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Noriko Eguchi, Akira Emoto, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Kanji Furutachi
Votes: 158
14. Cold Case: Shinjitsu No Tobira (2016– )
45 min | Crime, Mystery
A Japanese remake of the American television series Cold Case, featuring a young detective and her team who investigate cases which have been buried and ignored for years in an attempt to solve them.
Stars: Yoh Yoshida, Kento Nagayama, Tomokazu Miura, Ken'ichi Takitô
Votes: 113
15. Bondage Ecstasy (1989)
60 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
This gay-themed pink film deals with an abused man who seems to turn into an insect. As an insect, he enters the orifices of his enemies and possesses them, allowing him to enact his revenge fantasies.
Director: Hisayasu Satô | Stars: Osamu Fukada, Kyôko Hashimoto, Makoto Hirose, Kiyomi Itô
Votes: 71
16. Mrs. (2006)
95 min | Drama
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Asuka Kurosawa, Yôko Yamashita, Ken Mitsuishi, Misaki Mori
Votes: 13
17. 64: Part I (2016)
121 min | Mystery
1989 is 64 Shouwa year in Japanese calendar, thus unsolved girl kidnapping-murder case is called "64(rokuyon)" that got up in this year in Criminal Investigation Department in Prefectural Police Department.
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Kôichi Satô, Gô Ayano, Nana Eikura, Eita Nagayama
Votes: 397
18. Renzoku onanie: Midareppanashi (1994)
55 min | Drama
A man with a troubled past including incest with a younger sister and the murder of a woman travels to an isolated countryside town in Nagano. There a local who mistakes him for a famous ... See full summary »
Director: Toshiya Ueno | Stars: Takeshi Itô, Hitomi Aikawa, Hotaru Hazuki, Shirô Shimomoto
Votes: 18
19. Hanra honban: Joshidaisei bôkô-hen (1990)
59 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
An alienated young man is desperate to find a way to pay his bills. Financial relief arrives in the form of anonymous e-mails directing him to rape women for money, photographing the crimes as evidence of his work.
Director: Hisayasu Satô | Stars: Sayoko Nakajima, Tôru Nakane, Aiko Shindô, Kiyomi Itô
Votes: 53
20. Kagai-jugyô: Bôkô (1989)
63 min | Crime
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Kunihiko Matsunaga, Sayoko Nakajima, Mami Ogawa
Votes: 23
21. Honban rezu: Hazukashii taii (1994)
62 min | Drama
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Chieko, Makoto Fukatani, Karin Tsujigiri, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi
Votes: 28
22. Kokkuri (1997)
87 min | Drama, Horror
Schoolgirls on the verge of adulthood know that boys can be feckless and girls treacherous. Three friends gather around a Ouija board to call forth the spirit of Kokkuri. Masami has a ... See full summary »
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Ayumi Yamatsu, Hiroko Shimada, Moe Ishikawa, Rika Furukawa
Votes: 145
23. Tokyo X Erotica (2001)
Not Rated | 77 min | Adult
What lasts longer, the time before birth or the time after death? In the 1990's, Kenjo (Ishikawa Yuichi) dies in a terrorist gas attack. His girlfriend Haruka (Sasaki Yumeka) is killed by a... See full summary »
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Yumeka Sasaki, Mayuko Sasaki, Mariko Naka, Yûji Ishikawa
Votes: 223
24. Raigyo (1997)
75 min | Drama
A black clad woman murders a man that she had just met by chance through a phone sex club.
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Moe Sakura, Takeshi Itô, Takuji Suzuki, Ryûmei Homura
Votes: 280
25. The Promised Land (2019)
129 min | Crime, Drama
A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in similar circumstances a suspect is identified leading to the accused running away... See full summary »
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Gô Ayano, Akira Emoto, Shizuka Ishibashi, Reiko Kataoka
Votes: 270
26. Tomorrow's Dinner Table (2021)
124 min | Drama
Three mothers have sons with the same name of Yu Ishibashi and they are all 10 years old. In Kanagawa, Rumiko Ishibashi is 43-years-old and she works as a freelance writer. She is married ... See full summary »
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Keito Akutsu, Shunsuke Daitô, Kisetsu Fujiwara, Miho Kanno
Votes: 40
27. Hada no sukima (2004)
77 min | Drama
A young couple go on the run after the murder of his mother.
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Fujiko, Kenji Otani, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Daisuke Iijima
Votes: 79
28. Renzoku rape: Hentai jikken (1990)
60 min
Director: Hisayasu Satô | Stars: Rokuzô, Asuka Morimura, Kazuhiro Sano, Kiyomi Itô
Votes: 14
29. Kansen rettô (2009)
138 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Tsuyoshi Matsuoka, a doctor at a Tokyo hospital, misdiagnoses a patient's disease as a common cold. But after the patient's sudden death, he realizes that it's very serious disease, which ... See full summary »
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Rei Dan, Ryôko Kuninaka, Yûji Tanaka
Votes: 346
30. Namida tsubo (2008)
110 min
A magazine editor loses his wife to cancer and he keeps her ashes in a jar. When he begins dating her sister, he becomes overwhelmed with guilt.
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Kanako Kojima, Issei Ishida, Aiko Satô, Sora Aoi
Votes: 24
31. Owaranai sekkusu (1995)
64 min
No Good Men follows Kumiko, a young and attractive woman that works at a travel agency, and moonlights as an insatiable, sex-hungry mistress.
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Shôko Kudô, Yôta Kawase, Takeshi Itô, Setsuhiko Kobayashi
Votes: 15
32. Maria no chibusa (2014)
85 min | Crime
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Kokone Sasaki, Shima Ônishi, Tomori Abe, Daisuke Iijima
Votes: 18
33. Dog Star (2002)
125 min | Comedy, Romance
A seeing-eye dog name Shiro is granted one wish by his former, now dead owner. Shiro chooses to become a human for a short time so he can find the girl who trained him as a puppy. While ... See full summary »
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Etsushi Toyokawa, Haruka Igawa, Ryo Ishibashi, Shigeru Izumiya
Votes: 92
34. Sex Friend Nurezakari (1999)
Not Rated | 65 min
Sex Friend Nurezakari is the story of an old friend, Tsutomu, who pays a visit to a couple then disappears after one night. He leaves behind a mobile phone and the couple set out to find ... See full summary »
Director: Rei Sakamoto | Stars: Kinako Satô, Miei Hiiragi, Kiyomi Itô, Tetsushi Sawa
Votes: 31
35. Pinku Eiga: Inside the Pleasure Dome of Japanese Erotic Cinema (2011)
Documentary
Director: Yves Montmayeur | Stars: Gô Arisue, Christopher Doyle, Yoshiyuki Hayashida, Masaru Konuma
Votes: 9
36. The Dream of Garuda (1994)
60 min | Drama
A convicted rapist, Ikuo is released from prison and goes in pursuit of the woman he raped, Mieko. So obsessed is he with revenge he sees her in every woman he meets. After carrying out ... See full summary »
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Takeshi Itô, Saki Kurihara, Shirô Shimomoto, Hotaru Hazuki
Votes: 103
37. Yûheisha - terorisuto (2007)
113 min | Drama, Thriller
During a suicide attack on an airport, the hand grenade of 'M', one of three terrorists, malfunctions and he is captured. Exposed to maltreatment in prison he slowly loses his grip on ... See full summary »
Director: Masao Adachi | Stars: Tomorô Taguchi, Panta, Taka Ôkubo, Jôji Kajiwara
Votes: 60
38. Kamiki Ryunosuke's Shooting Holidays (2022– )
30 min | Comedy
The drama series would follow Kamiki Ryunosuke as he takes 8 fictional holidays. The series depicts how actors spend their holidays, commonly known as "Shooting Holidays," which suddenly come during the shooting of dramas and movies.
Star: Ryunosuke Kamiki
Votes: 13
39. The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine (2018)
Not Rated | 189 min | Drama, History
After the Great Kanto earthquake in 1923, a troupe of women's sumo wrestler arrive in the area near Tokyo. The group of female sumo wrestlers include Tomoyo and Tamae. Meanwhile, Tetsu and ... See full summary »
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Shun Sugata, Masahiro Higashide, Masatoshi Nagase, Arata Iura
Votes: 133
40. Life Back Then (2011)
131 min | Drama
Two young lonely people form a bond as they go through the homes of the recently departed people.
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Masaki Okada, Nana Eikura, Takuro Atsuki, Rei Dan
Votes: 143
41. Yogore ta onna - Maria (1998)
79 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Akira Yoshino, Tarô Suwa, Shôko Kudô, Kazuhiro Sano
Votes: 50
42. Yuda (2004)
113 min
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Masayoshi Haneda, Kazuma Honda, Ken Mitsuishi, Masaki Miura
Votes: 16
43. Rush! (2001)
100 min | Comedy, Crime
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
44. My Friend 'A' (2018)
128 min | Drama
Aspiring journalist Masuda is working a menial job where he grows suspicious of the loner and mysterious Suzuki. Masuda decides to write an article on his co-worker and new acquaintance ... See full summary »
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Tôma Ikuta, Eita Nagayama, Munetaka Aoki, Kanji Furutachi
Votes: 263
45. Kunoichi senshi ninja (1991)
80 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Director: Masahiro Kasai | Stars: Minako Fujimoto, Tetsurô Tanba
Votes: 42
46. Kanojo-tachi no hanzai (2023)
Drama
Mayumi Himura (Mai Fukagawa), Yukari Jinno (Atsuko Maeda), and Riko Kumazawa (Anna Ishii) all have different backgrounds and seem to have no connections between themselves. Due to a missing... See full summary »
Stars: Mai Fukagawa, Anna Ishii, Katsuya Maiguma, Honami Satô
Votes: 10
47. Supesharu ressun: Hentai sei-kyôiku (1990)
53 min | Horror
Lesbian-themed tale of a schoolgirl who entices her gullible (not to mention slightly warped) female teacher by positing that they are predestined to dance together on the day the world ends.
Director: Hisayasu Satô | Stars: Kanako Kishi, Rei Takagi, Shôichirô Sakata, Asako Shirakawa
Votes: 40
48. Shisei: ochita jorôgumo (2007)
96 min | Drama
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Remi Kawashima, Yutaka Matsushige, Ken Mitsuishi, Kyûsaku Shimada
Votes: 10
49. 64: Part 2 (2016)
119 min | Drama, Mystery
In 2002, a new kidnapping case takes place. The kidnapper introduces himself as "Sato" (sugar) and demands twenty million yen for ransom.
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Kôichi Satô, Gô Ayano, Nana Eikura, Eita Nagayama
Votes: 323
50. Aozora (1989)
61 min
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Sayoko Nakajima, Kiyomi Itô, Takeshi Itô, Minehiko Kobayashi
Votes: 15