Search results for "Takeshi Kitano"
Outrage Coda

Outrage Coda

Outrage Coda
IMDb: 6.4
104 min

Otomo, the former boss of the yakuza, is now working in South Korea as a fixer for Mr. Chang. He was able to survive the war between Hanabishi and Sanno…

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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Ghost in the Shell (2017)

Ghost in the Shell (2017)

Ghost in the Shell (2017)
IMDb: 6.3
107 min

The cybernetics technology created by Hanka Robotics Corporation, owned by Cutter, will allow human organs to be enhanced in the future. Dr. Ouelet was responsible for developing secret project 2571,…

Battle Royale

Battle Royale

Battle Royale
IMDb: 7.6
114 min

Welcome to Battle Royale. Forty-two students. Three days. One deserted island. An international group of Japanese ninth grade students have been ordered by law to participate in Battle Royale. Students…

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Johnny Mnemonic

Johnny Mnemonic

Johnny Mnemonic
IMDb: 5.7
96 min

In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks. On one delivery run,…

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Brother (2000)

Brother (2000)

Brother (2000)
IMDb: 7.1
114 min

An exiled Japanese Yakuza gangster has been sent to the United States. Takeshi moves to Los Angeles with his half-brother, a Japanese Yakuza gangster. He finds it difficult to adjust…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Kikujiro

Kikujiro

Kikujiro
IMDb: 7.7
122 min

Kikujiro is a loudmouthed, opportunistic and brazen little boy who wants to visit his mother, Masao, long distances. The first adventure for this unlikely couple is to visit the cycles…

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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Violent Cop

Violent Cop

Violent Cop
IMDb: 7.2
103 min

A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and Yakuza activities.

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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Zatoichi (2003)

Zatoichi (2003)

Zatoichi (2003)
IMDb: 7.5
116 min

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he…

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Takeshis’

Takeshis’

Takeshis’
IMDb: 6.3
108 min

Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an…

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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Beyond Outrage

Beyond Outrage

Beyond Outrage
IMDb: 6.8
110 min

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. —Production

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Genre: Action
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
IMDb: 7.3
123 min

In 1942 British soldier Jack Celliers comes to a Japanese prison camp. The camp is run by Yonoi, who has a firm belief in discipline, honor and glory. In his…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Outrage (2010)

Outrage (2010)

Outrage (2010)
IMDb: 6.8
109 min

The plot concerns a struggle for power amongst Tokyo's Yakuza clans, today just as likely to be playing the stock market as shaking down pachinko parlors, over which the Sanmo-kai…

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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Sonatine

Sonatine

Sonatine
IMDb: 7.5
94 min

A world-weary yakuza in Tokyo is assigned to take his clan to Okinawa to help settle a dispute between two factions. He's suspicious of the assignment, but he goes, and…

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Fireworks

Fireworks

Fireworks
IMDb: 7.7
103 min

Nishi, a police detective, has had to deal with a series of emotionally devastating events over the recent past. His only child, then preschool age, died two years ago. His…

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Genre: Crime, Drama
Boiling Point

Boiling Point

Boiling Point
IMDb: 6.8
96 min

Two members of a Japanese junior baseball team get mixed up with the local yakuza. After their coach is severely injured by the gangsters, the two boys set off to…

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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Achilles and the Tortoise

Achilles and the Tortoise

Achilles and the Tortoise
IMDb: 7.3
119 min

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting…

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Genre: Drama
Glory to the Filmmaker!

Glory to the Filmmaker!

Glory to the Filmmaker!
IMDb: 6.3
108 min

Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.

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Genre: Drama
Dearest

Dearest

Dearest
IMDb: 6.9
110 min

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.

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Genre: Drama