Search results for "Toshiyuki Nishida"
Story of My Family!!!

Story of My Family!!!

Story of My Family!!!
TMDb: 7.9
54 min

An aging pro wrestler returns to fight for his inheritance when his father — a respected Noh actor — threatens to leave his fortune to his caregiver.

Status: Ended
Genre: Comedy, Drama
A Morning of Farewell

A Morning of Farewell

A Morning of Farewell
IMDb: 5.6
119

Sawako worked as an emergency physician at a university hospital. Due to to a situation, she returns to her father Tatsuro’s home in Ishikawa Prefecture. She then begins to work…

Genre: Drama
A Ghost of a Chance

A Ghost of a Chance

A Ghost of a Chance
IMDb: 6.9
142

Defence lawyer Emi is assigned to a particularly unusual case: a man is suspected of murdering his wealthy wife, and his only alibi is a 421-year old ghost, Rokubei. At…

Castle Under Fiery Skies

Castle Under Fiery Skies

Castle Under Fiery Skies
IMDb: 6.5
140

The year is 1575 in feudal Japan. Oda Nobunaga’s (Kippei Shiina) forces defeat Takeda Katsuyori, when Nagashino Castle was besieged during the Battle of Nagashino. The next year Oda Nobunada…

Genre: Drama, History
Tiger and Dragon

Tiger and Dragon

Tiger and Dragon
TMDb: 6.6
46 min

A young yakuza thug apprentices with an indebted comic “rakugo” performer, whose not-so-fashionable son runs a clothes shop in the Harajuku backstreets.

Status: Ended
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Station to Heaven

Station to Heaven

Station to Heaven
IMDb: 6.9
133

From a true incident that happened in 1960s Japan. This drama is contemporary in setting but medieval in its characters and emotions as it focuses on a tangled web of…

A Class to Remember

A Class to Remember

A Class to Remember
IMDb: 7
128

A cantankerous but loveable high school teacher teaches a night school in a poor neighborhood for adult students on the fringes of Japanese society.

Genre: Drama
The Dream of Russia

The Dream of Russia

The Dream of Russia
IMDb: 7
123

Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia. A Russo-Japanese co-production of a…

Genre: Drama, History
A Class to Remember II

A Class to Remember II

A Class to Remember II
IMDb: 6.6
122

The story follows the teacher and students of the Ryubetsu Handicapped High School.

Genre: Drama
Ballad of Orin

Ballad of Orin

Ballad of Orin
IMDb: 7.4
118

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.

Genre: Drama
Phone Call to the Bar

Phone Call to the Bar

Phone Call to the Bar
IMDb: 6.3
125

In the Susukino red light district of Sapporo, a private detective (Yo Oizumi) drinks alcohol with his driver Takada (Ryuhei Matsuda) in his favourite bar. There he receives a phone…

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?

What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?

What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?
IMDb: 4.7
115

A large monster attacks Japan, but dies suddenly. While the people rejoice and bask in relief, the giant corpse left behind begins to slowly rot and bloat. If it explodes,…

The Magic Hour

The Magic Hour

The Magic Hour
IMDb: 7.2
136

A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a…

Happily Ever After

Happily Ever After

Happily Ever After
IMDb: 6.6
115

Director Yukihiko Tsutsumi wrings laughs out of an unlikely topic — domestic violence — in this dark comedy about noodle-shop waitress Yukie Morita (Miki Nakatani), who puts up with the…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Ninkyo Gakuen

Ninkyo Gakuen

Ninkyo Gakuen
IMDb: 5.8
119

A high school and its students are in shambles and far from anything anyone would describe as doing well. The thugs of the Akimotogumi yakuza decide to take the matter…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon

Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon

Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon
TMDb: 7.8
46 min

Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from hospital to hospital. The harsh environment at the hospitals…

Status: Returning Series
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Voices in the Wind

Voices in the Wind

Voices in the Wind
IMDb: 6.4
139

In her search for answers, 17-year-old Haru sets out on a long journey across the country to the town where, in 2011, the devastating tsunami swept away her brother and…

Genre: Drama
Emperor

Emperor

Emperor
IMDb: 6.5
105

As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Beyond Outrage

Beyond Outrage

Beyond Outrage
IMDb: 6.8
110

As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West. What started as…

Genre: Action
The Ramen Girl

The Ramen Girl

The Ramen Girl
IMDb: 6.3
102

An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a râmen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Letter to Momo

A Letter to Momo

A Letter to Momo
IMDb: 7.3
120

Clinging to an unfinished letter written by her recently deceased father, young Momo moves with her mother from bustling Tokyo to the remote Japanese island of Shio. Upon their arrival,…

The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
IMDb: 6.6
129

In 2012, Atsuya and his 2 childhood friends do something bad and run into an old general store. They decide to stay there until the morning. Late into the night,…

Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Outrage Coda

Outrage Coda

Outrage Coda
IMDb: 6.3
105

Ôtomo gets involved with new Yakuza battles after he comes back the Yakuza society.

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Space Battleship Yamato

Space Battleship Yamato

Space Battleship Yamato
IMDb: 6.1
131

In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens’ bombs. The remnants of humanity have fled underground to escape…

Edo Porn

Edo Porn

Edo Porn
IMDb: 6.5
119

The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.

Genre: Drama, History
The Silk Road

The Silk Road

The Silk Road
IMDb: 7
143

In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who wants to control the length of the Silk Road. One…

Genre: Drama
Monkey

Monkey

Monkey
TMDb: 8.9
45,30 min

Saiyūki, also known by its British title Monkey, is a Japanese television drama based on the classic sixteenth-century Chinese novel Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en. Filmed in north-west…

Status: Ended
Get Up!

Get Up!

Get Up!
IMDb: 6.1
112

A James Brown fanatic gangster decided to disband his own gang and see his long lost daughter before entering prison. Hoping to change his mind, his underlings planned to kidnap…