List of the best Yôko Maki movies: Like Father, Like Son(2013), After the Storm(2016), The Blood of Wolves(2018), Battle Royale II: Requiem(2003), The Grudge(2004) ... ...
Drama
Japan
2013
120 Minutes
Machiko Ono Yôko Maki Masaharu Fukuyama Lily Franky Kirin Kiki Jun Fubuki Jun Kunimura Shôgen Hwang
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Ryota is a successful workaholic businessman. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his wife have raised as their own.
Drama
Japan
2016
117 Minutes
Hiroshi Abe Yôko Maki Kirin Kiki Taiyô Yoshizawa
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After the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.
Crime, Drama
Japan
2018
126 Minutes
Koji Yakusho Tôri Matsuzaka Yosuke Eguchi Renji Ishibashi Yôko Maki Shido Nakamura Tomoya Nakamura Takuma Otoo Tomorowo Taguchi Pierre Taki Ken'ichi Takitô
Hiroshima Police detective Ogami Shogo and his partner Hioka Shuichi are investigating the disappearance of a company's employees amidst an escalating yakuza turf war in 1988. Blood, ... See full summary »
Action
Japan
2003
132 Minutes
Tatsuya Fujiwara Ai Maeda Shûgo Oshinari Ayana Sakai Haruka Suenaga Yuma Ishigaki Miyuki Kanbe Masaya Kikawada Yôko Maki Yuuki Ito
Three years after the failure of the last BR program, a second act is forged and a class of students are sent to an island with one objective: kill international terrorist Shuya Nanahara.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Japan
2004
90 Minutes
Sarah Michelle Gellar Jason Behr William Mapother Clea DuVall KaDee Strickland Grace Zabriskie Bill Pullman Rosa Blasi Ted Raimi Ryo Ishibashi Yôko Maki
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An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.