Ranking All Of Director Takashi Miike’s Movies
“What are Takashi Miike’s Best Movies?” We looked at all of Miike’s directed filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!
We took all of the movies directed by Takashi Miike and looked at his Rotten Tomato Critic, Rotten Tomato User, IMDB, and Letterboxd scores, ranking them against one another to see which movies came out on top. The movies are ranked in our list below based on which movies have the highest overall score between all 4 review sites in comparison with all of the other movies by the same director. The process is all very scientific with no flaws at all.
The full ranking chart is also included below the countdown on the bottom of the page. We will update the article if/when a new movie by Takashi Miike is released. Although it probably won’t be immediate so the scores on each site have time to settle and aren’t overly influenced by the early, usually much more opinionated, users.
Happy Viewing!
The Top Film’s Of Takashi Miike
91 ) Kumamoto Stories
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 90
- Letterboxd User Score: 69
These are Jidai-geki period / folklore type stories that were comissioned by the Kumamoto prefacture of Kyushu island in 1996 and filmed over a period of three years.
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89 ) Silver
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 90
- Letterboxd User Score: 67
The story in “Silver” is about women wrestler who is really an undercover agent. Disguised as a wrestling warrior, heroine Jun Shirogane (Atsuko Sakuraba) goes after the gang that killed her family in Takashi Miike’s action-packed thriller. Aided by secret service colleague Yusuke Minamida (Kenji Haga), Jun goes undercover as Silver, a formidable fighter in the professional women’s wrestling circuit. But Jun’s success in the ring doesn’t detract her from her primary mission — exacting revenge on the Paradise gang.
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89 ) Terra Formars
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 89
- Letterboxd User Score: 68
With the space program attempting to travel to Mars, 21st century scientists were tasked with warming up the planet so that humans could survive on its surface. They came up with an efficient and cost effective plan of sending cockroaches and mold to the surface so that the mold would absorb the sunlight and the insect corpses would serve as a food source for the mold. It is now the year 2577 and the first manned ship to Mars has landed on the planet and the six crew members are ready for their mission. But what they find are giant mutated humanoid cockroaches with incredible physical strength. The crew members are easily wiped out, but not before sending a transmission back to Earth. Now, humanity will send elite warriors to exterminate the mutated bugs and claim back Mars.
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88 ) Ambition Without Honor 2
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 87
- Letterboxd User Score: 69
A sequel in name only, Ambition Without Honor 2 follows Tetsuya, a young yakuza, who returns to his family after his adoptive father is wounded in an attack from a rival gang. In his battle against dishonorable enemies and corrupt yakuza politics, he makes an unlikely ally in a rebel cop .
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87 ) Waru
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 84
- Letterboxd User Score: 69
A former gangster gets released from prison and goes to work for a group of people. The leader of this group becomes his mentor and the fight to combat criminals and for world peace. The whole resulting in the wanted and are chased of all families mob in Japan. They may however be a little unexpected help from the police.
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86 ) We’re No Angels 2
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 82
- Letterboxd User Score: 69
Joe and his delivery company friends are back. This time they become embroiled in the evil plot of a corrupt politician.
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84 ) Bodyguard Kiba: Apocalypse of Carnage
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 86
- Letterboxd User Score: 64
Kiba is a bodyguard who works to raise money for his master’s karate dojo. He gets an assignment that is to guard a young woman in Hong Kong …
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84 ) Andromedia
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 55
- IMDB User Review Score: 87
- Letterboxd User Score: 64
After his daughter Mai is killed in an auto accident, a genius programmer recreates her in the form of a computer program called AI. His jealous brother-in-law, wanting to get his hands on the technology for profit, sends his client to steal it and Mai’s father is killed in the process. Learning of her capture, Mai’s old friends race to free AI from her captors so that she won’t fall into the corporate clutches that threaten to erase her “soul.”
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82 ) N-Girls Vs Vampire
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 80
- Letterboxd User Score: 69
When a series of teenaged schoolgirl virgins are transformed into vampires,sexy high school student Man Koda (Ayana Sakai) and her friends take it upon themselves to locate the modelling agency responsible and track down and destroy the undead creatures behind it.
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82 ) Bodyguard Kiba: Combat Apocalypse 2
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 52
- IMDB User Review Score: 84
- Letterboxd User Score: 69
When a young karate student attempts to earn some extra cash by serving as bodyguard to a high-profile Hong Kong woman, the initial distraction of her beauty soon gives way to razor sharp focus as a series of attackers descend upon the pair.
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80 ) Eyecatch Junction
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 78
- Letterboxd User Score: 69
A group of female police officers form a secret detective division called Eyecatch Junction. They go undercover in a prostitute racket to investigate the murder of a young woman.
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80 ) Pandoora
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 78
- Letterboxd User Score: 69
A Takashi Miike directed music video
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79 ) New Third Gangster 2
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 76
- Letterboxd User Score: 69
Soma goes to Masakis allowed back to his former gang, led by Takeda who asked for his help since he had problems controlling their own men. But one fears how Somas former assistant Kokubu, now second in command of Takeda, should react. Soon Soma assassinated by three hired men, but one of them, Karasaki, who has just escaped an assassin is still possible to Masaki for help, explaining that Kokubu hired him. Masaki agrees to help him, but this also means that he exposes himself to danger.
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77 ) Last Run: 100 Million Yen Worth of Love and Betrayal
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 71
- Letterboxd User Score: 69
A former Formula 2 racing champion is asked to assist in setting up an auction of vintage cars. He becomes aware of a billionaire’s plot to rig the auction and takes action against him.
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77 ) New Third Gangster: Outbreak Kansai Yakuza Wars
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 71
- Letterboxd User Score: 69
When Masaki find themselves at a bar owned by his friend Akemi and ponder the recent strange happenings. He later accepted a proposal from his old rival Hattori and join the Todo-gang. A member, Hazama, beeing jealous over Masakis high rank and starts planning ways to get rid of the newcomer from the gang.
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76 ) Lady Hunter: Prelude to Murder
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 67
- Letterboxd User Score: 69
A female ex-soldier comes out of retirement to put a stop to the kidnapping of a young boy who is being used a political pawn.
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72 ) Peanuts
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 60
- Letterboxd User Score: 69
Two mysterious tough guys infuriate a local gang after helping an elderly grocery store owner with his debts by robbing a yakuza organised gambling den.
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72 ) Waru: kanketsu-hen
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 60
- Letterboxd User Score: 69
Youji Himuro comes out of hiding and faces off against a powerful new foe from a rival dojo.
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72 ) We’re No Angels
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 60
- Letterboxd User Score: 69
Rikiya Yasuoka, Ren Ōsugi and Junji Inagawa star in this early straight to video effort from Takashi Miike. Joe (Yasuoka), a lumbering tough guy with a heart of gold, is fresh out of prison, but it’s not long before he lands himself in trouble again. The courier company he works for is attacked by a local yakuza gang. Joe takes matters into his own hands.
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72 ) Family 2
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 34
- IMDB User Review Score: 82
- Letterboxd User Score: 69
In this continuation of “Family”, it is discovered that the one who gave the order to assassinate the Mitsumikai Boss is the one and only Boss of the Japan Mafia: Mr. Nishiwaki. Hideshi finds something odd about the killing and begins to investigate, uncovering the true motives behind this murder. Miike’s sequel is chock full of harrowing Boat chases, big explosions, beautiful women sex and drugs! Takashi Miike’s Family, Part 2 continues the tale of the yakuza gangster named Hideshi, who must uncover the identity of the man who killed a powerful crime boss.
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71 ) White-Collar Worker Kintaro
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 76
- Letterboxd User Score: 51
Kintaro is a reformed delinquent, the former leader of a biker gang who has gone straight. Working at a construction company, his unorthodox tactics cause trouble with his colleagues. He is transferred to a tiny countryside branch, where he butts heads with his lazy superior until the two men discover a plot by the competition to put the construction company out of bussiness. With the help of his old biker friends, Kintaro prepares to confront the masterminds behind the scheme.
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70 ) Dead or Alive: Final
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 18
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 48
- IMDB User Review Score: 71
- Letterboxd User Score: 64
Set in a post apocalyptic Yokohama where the population is kept under rigid control by a homosexual megalomaniac mayor. The citizens are administered drugs to suppress heterosexual urges. Officer Takeshi Honda (Riki Takeuchi) is a hard boiled cop enforcing the mayor’s agenda, and Ryō (Show Aikawa) is a mellowed out drifter that hooks up with a gang of rebels. When the gang kidnap Takeshi’s son, it begins a series of events leading to an inevitable showdown.
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68 ) A Human Murder Weapon
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 56
- Letterboxd User Score: 69
A man dubbed “Karate Kid” is imprisoned and forced to fight for his life in an underground fighting ring.
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68 ) The Third Gangster
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 56
- Letterboxd User Score: 69
A small yakuza gang is taken to war by a more powerful rival after a violent bar brawl involving members of both gangs. Young boss, Masaki, must decide whether to disband his dwindling gang or fight.
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66 ) Ninja Kids!!!
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 54
- IMDB User Review Score: 67
- Letterboxd User Score: 58
The film stars Seishiro Kato as Rantaro who is sent to a ninja training school by his parents. During the summer, their teacher is invaded by a group of rival ninjas culminating in a race to ring a bell on top of a mountain.
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66 ) Yakuza Apocalypse
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 10
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 50
- IMDB User Review Score: 80
- Letterboxd User Score: 58
Akira (Hayato Ichihara) admires Genyo Kamiura, the most powerful yakuza. Genyo Kamiura has been targeted numerous times, but he has never been killed. He is called the invincible person. Because of Genyo Kamiura, Akira enters the world of the yakuza. His yakuza colleagues treat him like an idiot, and Akira can’t even get tattoos because of his sensitive skin. An assassin is sent to take out Genyo Kamiura. The killers know that Genyo Kamiura is a vampire. Thus begins the apocalypse.
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65 ) Family
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 46
- IMDB User Review Score: 71
- Letterboxd User Score: 58
When the mobster Iwaida Nishikawi is executed by the hit man Takeshi, his family chases the killer. Takeshi’s brothers Takashi and Hideshi Miwa try to find Takeshi, who is hidden with the nurse Rie Ishibashi, to protect him and Hideshi discovers that Takeshi was secretly sent by their Yakuza boss to eliminate Iwaida. Meanwhile, the mobster Kenmoshi abducts Takashi’s wife Mariko and rapes her, trying to force Takashi to deliver his brother to him.
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64 ) Ambition Without Honor
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 48
- Letterboxd User Score: 69
Seventeen year old Tetsuya kills the boss of a rival gang with the promise of being made. After seven years of prison, he discovers that he is all but forgotten by his Family. The two rival Families have reconciled and Tetsuya was been discarded to keep the peace. Wanted what he was promised, Tetsuya becomes a one-man path of destruction, only to be betrayed once again…
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63 ) Full Metal Yakuza
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 43
- IMDB User Review Score: 67
- Letterboxd User Score: 58
After being brutally murdered in a gangster-style execution, Kensuke Hagane (Tsuyoshi Ujiki) finds himself brought back to life by a mad scientist and rebuilt as a robot-human hybrid with a serious thirst for vengeance and the tools to carry it out. Takashi Miike directs this action-packed sci-fi thriller that takes its cues from the more mainstream Robocop but amps up the violence for maximum effect.
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62 ) Bodyguard Kiba
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 60
- Letterboxd User Score: 51
Naoto Kiba takes on the task of protecting thug Junpei who embezzled 500 million yen from Okinawa’s largest gangster gangs, Soryu-kai.
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60 ) JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable – Chapter 1
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 71
- Letterboxd User Score: 38
In a world where people can wield psychic avatars, a family must unite to track down a serial killer.
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60 ) Shinjuku Outlaw
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 40
- Letterboxd User Score: 69
Shoichi Yomi bravely fights in an attempt to end an underworld battle in Hiroshima and as a result becomes a vegetable. Ten years later, Yomi comes to his senses and visits his former sworn brother, Eto, in Shinjuku. The devious Tagami, Yomi’s old enemy, is well acquainted with the Okumura gang which controlled Shinjuku. Learning of Yomi recovery, Tagami plots to line his own pockets by maneuvering the Okumura gang and a Taiwanese gang, between which a fight is about to erupt. Meanwhile, Yomi lends his help to the Okumura gang in order to save Eto, who has taken liberties with the family’s money. Everything appears to go according to Tagami’s plot, but in the chaotic town where evil competes and desires surge, two outlaws boldly rise above…
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59 ) God’s Puzzle
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 39
- IMDB User Review Score: 67
- Letterboxd User Score: 51
A set of twins — one a hard-working student and the other a drifter — team up with a dropout to unlock the secrets of the universe and to build one of their own.
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57 ) Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 53
- IMDB User Review Score: 60
- Letterboxd User Score: 38
Zebra City 2025 – music echoing across what used to be Tokyo from Zebra Queen marks the start of Zebra Time, a 5 minute window twice a day when the city population is free to commit any crime and the Vengeful Zebra Mini-Skirt Police and masked Zebra Police can shoot civilians at will. Zebraman wakes in the street, unable to remember the last 15 years, or his superhero past. He must rely on a band Zebra Time survivors, a man who played him in a TV show version of Zebraman and a mysterious silent girl to battle this Zebra obsession that is splitting the city in to absolutes of black and white.
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57 ) Yatterman
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 40
- IMDB User Review Score: 60
- Letterboxd User Score: 51
Pieces of a mysterious artefact known as the Skull Stone are scattered across the planet, and they hold the power to reveal the location of the largest deposit of gold in the world. The Doronbo Gang, the villainous trio of the series, are on pursuit of fame, power and wealth as they search for the Skull Stone. However, their plans are constantly foiled by Yatterman, a heroic, mecha-riding duo of youngsters.
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56 ) Zatoichi Live
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 25
- Letterboxd User Score: 69
Takashi Miike directs a stage version of Zatoichi, the tale of the blind swordsman.
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54 ) Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 53
- Letterboxd User Score: 38
Former Yakuza underling Kiryu Kazuma, who has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration, and is trying to piece his life together and distance himself from his Yakuza past. Unfortunately Kiryu’s problems slowly escalate as he is pursued by a former associate, the baseball bat-wielding psycho Majima Goro who has a grudge to settle with Kiryu.
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54 ) Shield of Straw
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 15
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 47
- IMDB User Review Score: 53
- Letterboxd User Score: 51
Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide Kiyomaru (Tatsuya Fujiwara). Kunihide Kiyomaru has a prior conviction for assaulting and killing a girl 8 years ago. The police could never apprehend the suspect in the prior killing.
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53 ) Over Your Dead Body
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 16
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 51
- IMDB User Review Score: 60
- Letterboxd User Score: 38
An actor named Kosuke plays the role of Iemon in a stage version of Yotsuya Kaiden and his new lover Miyuki plays Oiwa. However, as they delve deeper into their respective performances, the line between fantasy and reality becomes obscured until the murderous, vengeful themes of the play bleed into their own relationship.
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50 ) For Love’s Sake
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 48
- Letterboxd User Score: 38
Troubled high school student Makoto arrives in Tokyo to exact revenge from a past incident. He then falls in love at first sight with Ai (Emi Takei), a daughter raised in a wholesome family. Around Makoto and Ai are Iwashimizu (Takumi Saito), who has feelings for Ai and Gamuko (Sakura Ando), a gang member who eyes Makoto.
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50 ) One Missed Call
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 17
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 30
- IMDB User Review Score: 56
- Letterboxd User Score: 58
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their future death, listed on the message log. The plot thickens as the surviving characters persue the answers to this mystery which could save their live
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50 ) The Man in White Part 2: Requiem for the Lion
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 17
- Letterboxd User Score: 69
A rowdy, young yakuza takes revenge against a gang of thousands for the death of his boss.
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49 ) Izo
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 34
- IMDB User Review Score: 56
- Letterboxd User Score: 51
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun’s men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.
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47 ) The City of Lost Souls
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 14
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 43
- IMDB User Review Score: 48
- Letterboxd User Score: 51
Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she’s about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo’s booming Japanese-Portuguese community and seeks passage from the country from a Russian mobster. To meet his price, they hold up a bigtime drug deal between the Chinese Mafia and the local Yakuza.
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47 ) Sukiyaki Western Django
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 33
- IMDB User Review Score: 53
- Letterboxd User Score: 58
Several hundred years after the Battle of Dannoura, the Genji and Heike clans face off again in a poor mountain town with a buried treasure legend. A revolver-wielding stranger, a lone gunman, burdened with emotional scars and blessed with incredible skill, drifts into town and crosses paths with two warring clans who are both on the hunt for a hidden treasure in a remote western town. Knowing his services are valuable to either side, he offers himself to the clan who will offer up the largest share of the wealth. Yoshitsune commands his Genji gang in white while Kiyomori leads his Heike gang in red. Expectations collide as the key players wonder which gang the gunman will join. Dirty tricks, betrayal, desire and finally, love, get jumbled together, as the situation erupts into a showdown.
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46 ) The Man In White
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 9
- Letterboxd User Score: 69
After his father figure like mafia boss is murdered, Azusa Moribe (Masaya Sato) goes on a one man killing spree to exact revenge.
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45 ) The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 48
- Letterboxd User Score: 29
As undercover cop Reiji takes on a new mission to takedown the Chinese mafia, elite police officer Shinya moves to arrest Reiji.
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44 ) The Lion Standing in the Wind
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 40
- Letterboxd User Score: 29
Koichiro Shimada is sent to a research facility in Kenya, Africa by a teaching hospital in Japan. He encounters a desperate situation and decides to work there as a doctor, treating patients hurt in battles. He struggles with nurses and colleagues at the hospital. Koichiro Shimada then encounters a boy soldier severely wounded mentally. This changes Koichiro Shimada’s fate.
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43 ) As the Gods Will
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 42
- IMDB User Review Score: 44
- Letterboxd User Score: 38
Takahata Shun’s day at high school begins just as normal and boring as ever, but it doesn’t end that way. After his teacher’s head explodes, he and his classmates find themselves forced to play children’s games, such as Daruma ga Koronda (a game like Red Light/Green Light), with deadly stakes. With no idea who is behind this mysterious deadly game session, and no way of knowing when it will finally end, the only thing Shun and other students can do is keep trying to win…
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42 ) Sabu
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 40
- IMDB User Review Score: 44
- Letterboxd User Score: 38
When a young man is sent to a prison workhouse for a crime he did not commit his friend on the outside must find evidence to clear his name.
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41 ) The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 43
- IMDB User Review Score: 40
- Letterboxd User Score: 38
Reiji Kikukawa, who has a strong sense of justice, graduated from the police academy with the lowest score ever. He becomes a police constable, but is suddenly fired by the Police Chief due to “disciplinary” issues. In actuality, the firing is part of a carefully orchestrated plan. Reiji is ordered to become a “mole,” an undercover cop. His target is Shuho Todoroki, the boss of the Sukiyakai gang. The group is the largest crime group in the Kanto area. Masaya Hiura, who works as a young boss of a Sukiyakai affiliated gang likes Reiji. While going through various hardships, Reiji works his way towards Shuho Todoroki.
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39 ) Osaka Tough Guys
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 38
- IMDB User Review Score: 44
- Letterboxd User Score: 38
Osaka Tough Guys stars Kentaro Nakakura and Yoshiyuki Ohmori. It tells the story of two hoods forced to take on paid work when they run out of money for booze, who end up being drawn into the spiderweb of the yakuza. Gaijiro Saito and Sei Hiraizumi co-star. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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39 ) Detective Story
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 34
- IMDB User Review Score: 48
- Letterboxd User Score: 38
A detective and a businessman search for a serial killer who removes people’s organs.
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38 ) Multiple Personality Detective Psycho – Kazuhiko Amamiya Returns
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 56
- IMDB User Review Score: 17
- Letterboxd User Score: 38
Yosuke Kobayashi, a detective assigned on a homicide unit, saw his wife killed by a serial killer, Shinji Nishizono. From a shock he suffered MPD (multiple personality disorder) and became Kazuhiko Amamiya. Soon after he managed to hunt down and killed the murderer of his wife, new series of murders have occurred and the suspects claimed to be Shinji Nishizono himself. Is it really him? Or a copycat? And who is Kazuhiko Amamiya?
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37 ) The Guys from Paradise
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- IMDB User Review Score: 35
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Set in the Phillipines, Takashi Miike’s “The Guys from Paradise” weaves together the stories of several real-life criminal cases. Young up-and-coming salaryman Kohei Hayakawa is sent to Paradise prison on false drug charges, and assumes his lawyers will clear up this misunderstanding fairly quickly. However, he soon comes to the realization that his innocence means less than how much bribe money he’s able to come up with for his release. It becomes apparent that Kohei is going to have to get to know his fellow inmates a little better, as he’s obviously in this situation for the long haul; but meeting a female inmate from a nearby jail certainly makes his transition to the criminal life a little easier to take.
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36 ) Imprint
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In the Nineteenth Century, in Japan, the American journalist Christopher is traveling through the country searching Komomo, the missing love of his life that he had abandoned years ago promising to come back to her later. He arrives in a shadowy island inhabited by whores and caftans, where he has an encounter with a deformed prostitute that tells that his beloved Komomo had passed away. He drinks sake with her and later he asks the woman to tell the story of her life. The prostitute discloses a dark and cruel story about her life and the sad fate of Komomo.
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33 ) Shangri-La
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- IMDB User Review Score: 25
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Shangri-La (Kin’yu hametsu Nippon: Togenkyo no hito-bito) follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly commits suicide and decide to help him out of his financial troubles. Using their various ingenious resources they embark on a complex scheme to blackmail a crooked businessman, whose bankruptcy claim has put people out of work. It’s a fun romp as these seemingly homeless people manage to outsmart the very people who cast them from society.
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33 ) Ace Attorney
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- IMDB User Review Score: 40
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Based primarily on the first game in the series, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the film focuses on rookie defense attorney Ryūichi Naruhodō, as he strives to protect his clients in various murder trials, including the death of his mentor, Chihiro Ayasato, and the accusation of rival prosecutor, Reiji Mitsurugi. Ryūichi’s greatest ally is Chihiro’s younger sister Mayoi, a spirit medium whose body is posessed by Chihiro to communicate with him. The film will be a courtroom drama combined with the video game series’ signature style. Sci-fi elements are also used such as characters bringing up holographic images of evidence during trials.
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33 ) The Great Yokai War
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- IMDB User Review Score: 44
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A young boy with a troubled home life becomes “chosen,” and he stumbles into the middle of a great spirit war, where he meets a group of friendly spirits who become his companions through his journey. Now he must fight to protect his friends and free the world of the spirits from oppression. The creatures and ghosts are taken directly from Japanese folklore and range from the cute and silly to the disturbing. Written by Seikima
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32 ) Lesson of the Evil
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- IMDB User Review Score: 35
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A popular high school teacher concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body.
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31 ) Young Thugs: Innocent Blood
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- IMDB User Review Score: 35
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The story of three friends, two guys and a girl for one year after they have finished school. Last day of school, decides to rob their teacher. In doing so, they have two guys already staked out their careers as aspiring thugs and they start a protection racket while the girl takes a job at a hair salon.
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30 ) Dead or Alive
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- IMDB User Review Score: 25
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Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to bring it down. Jojima attempts to start a gang war between the Triad and yakuza. Ryūichi and Jojima meet.
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29 ) Zebraman
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- IMDB User Review Score: 35
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Being a failure as a teacher and a familyman, Shinichi tries to escape everyday live by dressing up as “Zebraman”, the superhero. Although the TV series whas canceled after only 6 episodes, this cannot stop him from acting out his escape fantasy in a self made zebra-suit. He get’s more then he could ever wish for, when his black-and-white dressed alter-ego seems to be the only thing to stand between absolute (green) evil and a happy ending.
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28 ) Yakuza Demon
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Seiji and Yoshifumi are the only members of the Muto branch of the Date Family. The two respect and love their leader, Mr. Muto, like a father and the three share a firm bond. But their fate is sealed when the Family is involved in a conflict. Muto is unable to pay his share of funds for the oncoming battle but tells executives of the Family that he would fight at the front line instead. In the wish to protect Muto, Seiji has him arrested by the police. Ignoring the Family executives’ mocks of “Muto escaped to prison”, Seiji prepares for the battle and attacks like a demon on behalf of his boss…
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27 ) Shinjuku Triad Society
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- IMDB User Review Score: 30
- Letterboxd User Score: 17
The film is based around the interactions of a triad group with a police officer as well as opposing yakuza organizations. When the younger brother to a renegade police officer becomes the lawyer to the triad group, an argument between the two leads to the downfall of the organization.
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26 ) The Way to Fight
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- IMDB User Review Score: 17
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Dangerous street fighter Kazuyoshi Tamai finds out that his rival, Takeshi, is the leader of a gang responsible for a series of assaults. Kazuyoshi is ready to face off against Takeshi, but comic challenges keep his nemesis out of reach. It’s not until years later — when Kazuyoshi becomes a championship boxer and Takeshi is a pro wrestler — that they meet again in a battle that pits two combatants with very different fighting styles.
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25 ) Deadly Outlaw: Rekka
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- IMDB User Review Score: 30
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After Kunisada’s Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend go on a two-man mission to avenge his death, killing other Yakuza leaders leading to a final confrontation by the old man’s killers..
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24 ) Demon Pond
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- IMDB User Review Score: 35
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The modern-day story of a man searching for a friend who has mysteriously disappeared, with a magical tale involving strange creatures, a heartbroken princess, and a pact that can’t be broken. Conflicts between faith and skepticism, and between social obligation and personal desire drive the narrative toward a dramatic conclusion where the worlds of the real and the surreal inevitabl
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23 ) Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
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An tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.
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22 ) Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
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- IMDB User Review Score: 30
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Big Bang Love tells the story of two young prisoners from different backgrounds whose bond transcends their pasts. This stunning, imaginative film has been adapted from Masaki Ato’s homoerotic graphic novel. Two beautiful young men become lovers in jail until one kills again. As they open their hearts to each other, life around them dissolves between the real world with a murder mystery and a surreal journey filled with images of a primitive past and an ambiguous future.
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21 ) Visitor Q
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- IMDB User Review Score: 30
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A father, who is a failed former television reporter tries to mount a documentary about violence and sex among youths. He proceeds to have sex with his daughter who is now a prostitute and films his son being humiliated and hit by classmates. “Q”, a perfect stranger somehow gets involved and enters the bizarre family whose son beats his mom, who in turn is also a prostitute and a heroin addict.
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20 ) Negotiator
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- IMDB User Review Score: 5
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Three unidentified men hold a group of people hostage in a hospital after doing a smaller crime. Inspector Ishida and Captain Tohno handle the negotiations while one of their colleagues Lt. Ado tries to find the reason why the men decided to take the hospital hostage. At first, Lt. Ado tries to think of the possibilities for this crime using the clever aid of Ishida, but he only reaches the solution to the puzzle later on and by himself. Relevant information is revealed to the audience through flashbacks and through discoveries made by the police. And, several connections are made as the story develops. When the negotiations are finished, most things seem to be fine until they lose track of the criminals. Then, the story unveils with a different perspective, its roots in feelings of love and vengeance. Written by Rebeca C.
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18 ) Dead or Alive 2: Birds
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Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and visit the small island they once called home. After reflecting on their past lives they decided to team up and use their talents in killing for good… much to the upset of the crime syndicates.
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18 ) Blade of the Immortal
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- IMDB User Review Score: 30
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Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to help a young girl named Rin avenge her parents, who were killed by a group of master swordsmen led by ruthless warrior Anotsu. The mission will change Manji in ways he could never imagine.
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17 ) Agitator
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
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- IMDB User Review Score: 25
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When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family’s nightclub, it is not long before his dead body is found. Soon, inter-family retaliation follows, resulting in the death fo a prominent crime boss. Devastated by htis turn of events, the temperamental Kenzaki vows to avenge his boss’s death and, as bloody violence ensues, the body count reaches excessive proportions.
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16 ) Ley Lines
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
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- IMDB User Review Score: 17
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The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befriend a troubled Shanghai prostitute and fall foul of a local crime syndicate. Like many of Miike’s works, the film examines the underbelly of respectable Japanese society and the problems of assimilation faced by non-ethnically Japanese people in Japan.
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15 ) Sun Scarred
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
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- IMDB User Review Score: 5
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Katayama is on the way home to his wife and little daughter when he stumbles on a gang of punks beating up an innocent man. Katamaya decides to help the stranger and surprisingly wins the fight. This turns out to be a bad decision as his daughter is kidnapped and murdered by the leader of the same band of young thugs. Katayama seeks revenge and tries to trace the gangs location.
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14 ) Blues Harp
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
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- IMDB User Review Score: 9
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Ambitious yakuza Kenji befriends harmonica-playing bartender Chuji, who moonlights as a part-time drug-dealer for the opposing gang. Their friendship is threatened by Kenji’s plans for advancement, as well as by his bodyguards growing jealousy of Chuji.
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13 ) Crows Zero
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
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- IMDB User Review Score: 9
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The students of Suzuran High compete for the King of School title. An ex-graduate yakuza is sent to kill the son of a criminal group, but he can’t make himself to do it as he reminds him of his youth.
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12 ) Young Thugs: Nostalgia
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
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- IMDB User Review Score: 9
- Letterboxd User Score: 5
Nostalgia is Takashi Miike’s favorite film of his considerable body of work. Including biographical elements, Nostalgia centers around the home and school of a young boy, whose family mix the violent and dysfunctional with the comic and the loveable. Though containing elements of the sudden and shocking brutality that many associate with this director, Young Thugs – Nostalgia is more concerned with a child’s moment of leaving the internalized world of fantasy, and passing on eagerly to the next stage of life. A wonderful, touching, startling vision that is uniquely Miike’s.
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11 ) Crows Zero II
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 19
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Genji and his victorious G.P.S. alliance find themselves facing down a new challenge by the students of Hosen Academy, feared by everyone as ‘The Army of Killers.’ The two schools, in fact, have a history of bad blood between them. And the simmering embers of hatred are about to flare up again, burning away any last remnants of the truce they had so rigorously observed until now.
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9 ) Rainy Dog
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- IMDB User Review Score: 5
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A Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss to make ends meet when suddenly a woman from his past delivers a son to him.
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9 ) Three… Extremes
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- IMDB User Review Score: 17
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“Three” is an anthology of three horror shorts from three different Asian countries.In “Dumplings” an aging actress wishing to reclaim her youth goes to a woman who makes dumplings that supposedly have regenerative properties; however, they contain a gruesome secret ingredient. In “Box” a soft spoken young woman has a bizarre recurring nightmare about being buried in a box in the snow. Searching for her long lost sister, she realizes her dreams and reality may possibly be connected. In “The Cut” a successful film director and his wife are kidnapped by an extra, who forces the director to play his sadistic games. If he fails, his wife’s fingers will be chopped off one by one every five minutes
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8 ) Graveyard of Honor
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- IMDB User Review Score: 9
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A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss’ life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.
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6 ) Gozu
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- IMDB User Review Score: 17
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Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he decides to take a rest. Not only are the front desk clerks a bit strange, but even the ambiance feels unusual. Minami soon realizes he may have gotten more than he bargained for.
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6 ) Fudoh: The New Generation
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- IMDB User Review Score: 9
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In order to settle a business dispute, a mob leader murders one of his own teenage sons. The surviving son vows to avenge his brother’s death, and organizes his own gang of teenage killers to destroy his father’s organization.
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5 ) Ichi the Killer
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- IMDB User Review Score: 9
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As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
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4 ) The Happiness of the Katakuris
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- IMDB User Review Score: 9
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The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more.
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3 ) The Bird People in China
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Wada (Masahiro Motoki), a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After his arrival, Wada encounters a violent, yet sentimental, yakuza (Renji Ishibashi), who takes the liberty of joining his adventure through China. Led on their long and disastrous journey to the mine by Shen, the three men come across something even more magical and enticing…
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2 ) Audition
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- IMDB User Review Score: 5
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Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a striking young woman with ballet training.
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1 ) 13 Assassins
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A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan’s feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.
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