Movies: Koji Yakusho

  • 2007
    Retribution

    Retribution (2007)

    Retribution

    6.42007HD

    A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since they all are in the same vicinity and by the same method, but as the evidence points toward the detective as the prime suspect, a ghost in red follows...

    Retribution
  • 2014
    The World of Kanako

    The World of Kanako (2014)

    The World of Kanako

    6.42014HD

    When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his investigation progresses, his idealized image of Kanako cracks: the girl hides a dark life that her fat...

    The World of Kanako
  • 2023
    Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

    Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window (2023)

    Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

    7.92023HD

    This engaging series of childhood recollections tells of an unconventional school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedom, and love. The school had old railroad cars for classrooms and was run by an extraordinary man – i...

    Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
  • 1979
    Hunter in the Dark

    Hunter in the Dark (1979)

    Hunter in the Dark

    6.51979HD

    Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter-clan conflict. Tanigawa quickly rises in stature in the clan, but finds...

    Hunter in the Dark
  • 2010
    The Last Ronin

    The Last Ronin (2010)

    The Last Ronin

    6.32010HD

    16 years after the fateful "revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin," involving samurais from the Ako domain who avenged their leader and then commited seppuku (ritual suicide), the sole survivor of that incident, Kichiemon Terasaka (Koichi Sato) traverses ...

    The Last Ronin
  • 1999
    Charisma

    Charisma (1999)

    Charisma

    6.51999HD

    A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action. Leaving his job and family without explanation, he makes his way to a mountain forest, encountering...

    Charisma
  • 2017
    Sekigahara

    Sekigahara (2017)

    Sekigahara

    72017HD

    The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mitsunari. The story includes the intrigues and shifting loyalties of th...

    Sekigahara
  • 2021
    Under the Open Sky

    Under the Open Sky (2021)

    Under the Open Sky

    7.72021HD

    Mikami, an ex-yakuza of middle age with most of his life in prison, gets released after serving 13 years of sentence for murder. Hoping to find his long lost mother, from whom he was separated as a child, he applies for a TV show and meets a young TV...

    Under the Open Sky
  • 1999
    License to Live

    License to Live (1999)

    License to Live

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    Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is not intact anymore: father, mother and sister live at different places. Yutaka decides to re-open the ...

    License to Live
  • 2024
    Hakkenden

    Hakkenden (2024)

    Hakkenden

    7.72024HD

    Takizawa Bakin, a popular Edo period author, begins to recount a story he is planning in front of his friend, the artist Katsushika Hokusai. The story is about eight warriors who, each carrying a jewel, gather together as if guided by fate and embark...

    Hakkenden
  • 2018
    The Blood of Wolves

    The Blood of Wolves (2018)

    The Blood of Wolves

    7.22018HD

    Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the yakuza. He is partnered with Detective Shuichi Hioka and they investigate a missing person case invol...

    The Blood of Wolves
  • 1982
    Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather

    Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather (1982)

    Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather

    6.31982HD

    Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai. His struggles with his boss, the Shikoku Godfather, and the tumultuous life of his adopted daughter, ...

    Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
  • 2015
    The Emperor in August

    The Emperor in August (2015)

    The Emperor in August

    6.32015HD

    In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meeting has continued through days and nights, but a decision cannot be made. The U.S. drops atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasa...

    The Emperor in August
  • 2018
    Oh Lucy!

    Oh Lucy! (2018)

    Oh Lucy!

    6.72018HD

    A lonely, chain-smoking office lady in Tokyo falls for her teacher when she decides to take English lessons. When her teacher disappears, she sets out on a journey to find him....

    Oh Lucy!
  • 2002
    The Choice of Hercules

    The Choice of Hercules (2002)

    The Choice of Hercules

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    When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its challenges. Upon arriving in mountainous Nagano, Sassa...

    The Choice of Hercules
  • 2008
    Paco and the Magical Book

    Paco and the Magical Book (2008)

    Paco and the Magical Book

    6.92008HD

    Onuki asks people in a hospital to perform a play for Paco, who suffers from memory disorder. His only hope is to help Paco survive from her illness....

    Paco and the Magical Book
  • 1980
    Twelve Months

    Twelve Months (1980)

    Twelve Months

    6.71980HD

    A young queen requests a bouquet of snowdrop flowers for New Year's Day in exchange for a reward. One greedy woman sends her stepdaughter, whom she does not like, to look for the flowers in a cold forest, knowing the task will be impossible for her. ...

    Twelve Months
  • 2000
    Dora-heita

    Dora-heita (2000)

    Dora-heita

    5.12000HD

    A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own misperceptions and prejudices to defeat his enemies and uproot corruption....

    Dora-heita
  • 2003
    Doppelganger

    Doppelganger (2003)

    Doppelganger

    7.02003HD

    Shortly after hearing from a colleague about a woman whose brother committed suicide after seeing his doppelgänger, a Japanese engineer on the verge of a breakthrough in medical technology is confronted by his own....

    Doppelganger
  • 2000
    Séance

    Séance (2000)

    Séance

    7.12000HD

    A psychic housewife and her husband accidentally find a kidnapped girl. But instead of informing the police, they hatch a scheme to get famous by working with the police as a psychic consultant to "find" the girl. And then, things start to go terribl...

    Séance