Masahiro Motoki Movies

Departures

81/100

A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals.

The Bird People in China

76/100

A salaryman and yakuza are each sent by their bosses to a remote Chinese village but discover more then they expected.

The Five

69/100

Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers.

Gemini - Tödlicher Zwilling

69/100

A successful doctor, Yukio's picture perfect life is gradually wrecked, and taken over by his avenging twin brother, who bumps off his family members one by one and reclaims his lover who is now Yukio's wife.

Lust auf Sumo

73/100

Yet another tradition in the tradition of "ragtag misfits" in Japanese comedy...Sumo Do, Sumo Don't tells the story of a university sumo club in Japan. In today's Japan, the younger ... See full summary »

The Longest Night in Shanghai

69/100

Rampo

69/100

Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts... See full summary »

The Long Excuse

73/100

Based on a book by writer - director Miwa Nishikawa, a recently widowed writer ( Masahiro Motoki,Departures)whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief,or lack of it, in ... See full summary »

The Emperor in August

67/100

The War ended on August 15th, 1945. What took place in Japan on the previous night? The unknown destiny of the day is unveiled.

Spy Sorge

64/100

Fancy Dance

70/100

Yohei, a punk rocker, has to become a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Yohei though...

Kagerô

65/100

A woman follows in her late father's footsteps and becomes a gambler, only to meet her father's murderer at a game.

Four Days of Snow and Blood

67/100

Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of ... See full summary »

The Big Bee

62/100

Engineers try to save a young child and a nuclear power plant from a helicopter guided by a criminal.

Prince Shotoku

86/100

Tokiwa-so no seishun

70/100

Black Jack

67/100

Bang!

78/100

A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies...

Saiyûki

72/100

Ganryujima

56/100

Black Jack II

72/100

Beppin no machi

63/100

Black Jack III

75/100

Dakishimetai! Forever

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