Movies: Ren Osugi

  • 1995
    Last Friends

    Last Friends (1995)

    Last Friends

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    Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Though they believe their service will help to benefit their loved ones back home, they are unprepared for the hardships of war. Through their shared tri...

    Last Friends
  • 2013
    Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story

    Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story (2013)

    Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story

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    Keisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan’s most respected legends of cinema. Made to commemorate the centenary of Kinoshita’s birth, this biographical drama chronicles formative hardships and personal encounter...

    Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story
  • 1998
    Give It All

    Give It All (1998)

    Give It All

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    Etsuko - a typical Japanese high school student, who's unlucky in love, an academic failure, and plain bored with life. That's until one day, the view of a boat gliding gracefully in the sea inspires her to take up the oar. Since she's rejected by he...

    Give It All
  • 2001
    GO

    GO (2001)

    GO

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    Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him....

    GO
  • 2004
    Red Moon

    Red Moon (2004)

    Red Moon

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    Namiko Morita, who lived in Otaru, moved to this area with her husband, Yutaro, and opened the brewery "Morita Brewery". Eventually, they succeeded in this business and lived happily while raising three children. However, in August 1945, the situati...

    Red Moon
  • 2008
    Where The Legend Lives

    Where The Legend Lives (2008)

    Where The Legend Lives

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    Kohei Miyazaki (Naoto Takenaka), a former railroad worker, has become obsessed with locating the ancient country of Yamatai. His obsession sprouted from a day when he discovered ancient ceramics while repairing railroad tracks. Now completely blind, ...

    Where The Legend Lives
  • 2016
    Bitter Honey

    Bitter Honey (2016)

    Bitter Honey

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    Akako, a shape-shifting goldfish in the form of a coquettish nymphet clad in diaphanous red dresses, naively plays the role of erotic muse and adoring pet for an aging writer seeking greatness. Things quickly get complicated for the odd couple, howev...

    Bitter Honey
  • 1985
    Pink Physical Examination

    Pink Physical Examination (1985)

    Pink Physical Examination

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    In a hospital with a near sighted doctor, horny nurses, cosplaying patients and stiffs in the basement the only healing taking place is sexual....

    Pink Physical Examination
  • 2011
    Majutsu wa Sasayaku

    Majutsu wa Sasayaku (2011)

    Majutsu wa Sasayaku

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    A woman named Kazuko (Kimura) who was guilty of a “serious crime” in the past, along with three of her friends. Those friends suddenly begin to die one by one. Kazuko learns that one of those deaths is somehow connected to Mamoru (Nakamura Aoi), her ...

    Majutsu wa Sasayaku
  • 2005
    Dead Run

    Dead Run (2005)

    Dead Run

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    Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes increasingly isolated at school and drifts into criminal activity....

    Dead Run
  • 1996
    Shall We Dance?

    Shall We Dance? (1996)

    Shall We Dance?

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    A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves ballroom dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a p...

    Shall We Dance?
  • 1989
    Fancy Dance

    Fancy Dance (1989)

    Fancy Dance

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    Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline, he learns to adjust. Then his girlfriend shows up, enticing him to return to his rock 'n' roll root...

    Fancy Dance
  • 1995
    Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist

    Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist (1995)

    Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist

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    Two petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members, fortunately they are rescued by a kindly Kindergarten teacher....

    Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist
  • 1981
    Empire of Kids

    Empire of Kids (1981)

    Empire of Kids

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    Following a stint in reform school, Ryu (Shinsuke Shimada) returns to his home, the Minami area of Osaka, accompanied by his new friend Ko (Takeshi Masu). He's greeted by his friends, Chabo (Ryusuke Matsumoto) and Ken (Bang-ho Cho). They seek to for...

    Empire of Kids
  • 1996
    Boys, Be Ambitious

    Boys, Be Ambitious (1996)

    Boys, Be Ambitious

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    Chunba and Kotetsu, grows up in the working class neighborhood of Kishiwada in Osaka in the mid-seventies. Their life in school is a never-ending series of fights and reprisals against rival gangs landing them in trouble with organised crime and in t...

    Boys, Be Ambitious
  • 2002
    Blessing Bell

    Blessing Bell (2002)

    Blessing Bell

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    Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other characters' lives....

    Blessing Bell
  • 1998
    Black Angel

    Black Angel (1998)

    Black Angel

    6.31998HD

    Tokyo is a dark technopolis, a city of faceless chrome and cold marble. It is ruled by Nogi, a yakuza boss specializing in drugs and murder. He gained absolute power by executing the former boss and marrying his daughter, Chiaki. Only the mysterious ...

    Black Angel
  • 2008
    What the War Meant

    What the War Meant (2008)

    What the War Meant

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    The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and was later executed as a war criminal. The story's theme is said to be a look at how the Pacific War began, focusing mostly on the three...

    What the War Meant
  • 1992
    The River with No Bridge

    The River with No Bridge (1992)

    The River with No Bridge

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    A widow and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku people are forced to reside. The two boys are continuously harassed by their teachers and classmates through their childhood as a result of their Buraku herit...

    The River with No Bridge
  • 2016
    The Woman Who Took the Local Paper

    The Woman Who Took the Local Paper (2016)

    The Woman Who Took the Local Paper

    6.52016HD

    A man and a woman committed double suicide in Kanazawa City. Immediately after the incident, Yoshiko Shiota, a woman living in Tokyo, contacts the local newspaper of Kanazawa, saying she wants to read the novel serialized in it by Ryuji Sugimoto. How...

    The Woman Who Took the Local Paper