List of the best Kiyoshi Kurosawa movies: Tokyo Sonata(2008), Bright Future(2003), To the Ends of the Earth(2019), Doppelganger(2003), Retribution(2006), Creepy(2016), Before We Vanish(2017), Wife of a Spy(2020), Cure(1997), Daguerrotype(2016), Real(2013), Journey to the Shore(2015) ... ...
Drama
Japan|Netherlands|Hong Kong
2008
119 Minutes
Director
Teruyuki Kagawa Kyôko Koizumi Kai Inowaki Haruka Igawa Yû Koyanagi Jason Gray Kanji Tsuda Kazuya Kojima
father mother son friend boss unemployed person bleak tense powerful tokyo house employment office cafeteria loss of job marital problems family guilt deception outsourcing discovery
An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.
Drama
Japan
2003
92 Minutes
Director
Jô Odagiri Tadanobu Asano Tatsuya Fuji Takashi Sasano Marumi Shiraishi
factory worker factory director shop owner best friend creative creepy offbeat japan factory apartment shop sewer troubled youth city life father/son relationship murder supernatural underdog wretched excess 2000s
Two young guys work in a plant that manufactures oshibori (those moist hand-towels found in some Japanese restaurants). Their weird bond is based on uncontrollable rage--something neither ... See full summary »
Drama, Foreign
Japan|Uzbekistan|Qatar
2019
120 Minutes
Director
Atsuko Maeda Tokio Emoto Ryô Kase Adiz Rajabov Shôta Sometani
A young Japanese woman finds her cautious and insular nature tested when she travels to Uzbekistan to shoot the latest episode of her travel variety show.
Sci-Fi, Drama
Japan
2003
103 Minutes
Director
Koji Yakusho Hiromi Nagasaku Yûsuke Santamaria Masahiro Toda Hitomi Sato Akira Emoto
Hayasaki is an inventor working on an Artificial Body. It is not going well and he is stressed out and on the verge of being fired from the research division of his company. His ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Japan
2006
102 Minutes
Director
Koji Yakusho Manami Konishi Tsuyoshi Ihara Hiroyuki Hirayama Jô Odagiri Ryô Kase Riona Hazuki
An experienced police detective has to investigate the murder of an unknown woman dressed in a scarlet dress.
Mystery & Thriller
Japan
2016
130 Minutes
Director
Hidetoshi Nishijima Yuko Takeuchi Masahiro Higashide Teruyuki Kagawa Haruna Kawaguchi Toru Baba Ryôko Fujino Misaki Saisho Takashi Sasano Masahiro Toda
detective colleague family dark eerie thrilling suspenseful japan missing persons investigation mystery strangers mystery 2010s
Takakura is a former detective. He receives a request from his ex-colleague, Nogami, to examine a missing family case that occurred six years earlier. Takakura follows Saki's memory. She is... See full summary »
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Japan
2017
130 Minutes
Director
Masami Nagasawa Ryuhei Matsuda Hiroki Hasegawa Mahiro Takasugi Yuri Tsunematsu Kyôko Koizumi Kazuya Kojima Atsuko Maeda Ken Mitsuishi Takashi Sasano
Three aliens travel to Earth in preparation for a mass invasion, taking possession of human bodies.
Drama
Japan
2020
115 Minutes
Director
Yû Aoi Issei Takahashi Ryota Bando Yuri Tsunematsu Minosuke Hyunri Masahiro Higashide Takashi Sasano
A Japanese merchant who leaves his wife behind in order to travel to Manchuria, where he witnesses an act of barbarism. His subsequent actions cause misunderstanding, jealousy and legal problems for his wife.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
1997
110 Minutes
Director
Koji Yakusho Tsuyoshi Ujiki Anna Nakagawa Masato Hagiwara
detective killer police officer victim creepy chilling frightening tokyo police station murder investigation justice pursuit mystery 1990s
A Tokyo detective (Koji Yakusho) investigates a series of murders committed in exactly the same way by people who seem to have no connection.
Fantasy, Drama, Horror
2016
131 Minutes
Director
Tahar Rahim Constance Rousseau Olivier Gourmet Mathieu Amalric Malik Zidi Valérie Sibilia
photographer young woman assistant widower sultry somber solemn melancholy brooding uneasy paris photography studio apartment obsession love escape 2010s
An aging photographer's obsession with an early form of photography draws his assistant and daughter into a work of mystery.
Sci-Fi, Drama
2013
127 Minutes
Director
Takeru Satô Haruka Ayase Keisuke Horibe Kyôko Koizumi Yutaka Matsushige Miki Nakatani Jô Odagiri Shôta Sometani
Romance, Fantasy, Drama
2015
127 Minutes
Director
Eri Fukatsu Tadanobu Asano Yû Aoi Tetsuya Chiba Akira Emoto Kaoru Okunuki Daiki Fujino Masao Komatsu
husband wife young woman bleak calm creative dreamy engaging gripping japan sea disappearance drowning returning home mystery journey mystery 21st century
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
2001
119 Minutes
Director
Haruhiko Katô Kumiko Aso Koyuki Kurume Arisaka Masatoshi Matsuo Shun Sugata Kenji Mizuhashi Masayuki Shionoya Jun Fubuki Shinji Takeda Koji Yakusho
ghost student ship captain young woman young man mother dark creepy disturbing tokyo ship apartment shop suicide loneliness technology internet supernatural fear mystery
Bewildered residents (Haruhiko Katô, Kumiko Aso, Koyuki) of Tokyo investigate strange events linked to computers and the Internet.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
2014
270 Minutes
Director
Kyôko Koizumi Teruyuki Kagawa Yû Aoi Eiko Koike Sakura Andô Chizuru Ikewaki Masaaki Akahori Manatsu Kimura
A grief-stricken woman (Kyôko Koizumi) demands that the friends of her murdered daughter identify the killer or face a penance of her choosing.