Tsunehiko Watase Movies

Day of Resurrection

63/100

After a virus devastates the global human population, survivors in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure and save the human race.

Antarctica

78/100

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica. Ushioda and Ochi eventually leave Antarctica, only to return to search ... See full summary »

Proxy War

75/100

Yakuza boss Shozo Hirono must choose his alliances carefully as the local gangster family affiliations prove themselves to be wildly unstable, causing gang conflicts to slowly escalate.

Sympathy for the Underdog

75/100

A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.

Giganten der Vorzeit

39/100

A Japanese village is menaced by a plesiosaur from the depths of the sea. Meanwhile, deep in a cave of ice, a prehistoric egg begins to hatch. The plesiosaur and the mystery creature ... See full summary »

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

62/100

A teenage delinquent schoolgirl named Izumi Hoshi inherits her father's Yakuza clan.

Akô-jô danzetsu

71/100

This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701 -- 1702, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the ... See full synopsis »

Ginchô wataridori

69/100

Nami, a young woman, is released from the prison after serving 3 years for killing a man. She becomes...

The Boss's Head

72/100

Sugawara is Kuroda, an itinerant gambler who steps in when a hit by drug-addicted assassin Kusunoki goes wrong, and takes the fall on behalf of the Owada family, but when the gang fails to ... See full summary »

Furueru shita

70/100

A five-year-old girl gets a tiny scratch on her finger while playing with mud in a marsh. After that, she suffers all kinds of horrible spasms including biting her tongue.

Jeans Blues: No Future

70/100

Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro Katagiri is up to no good with his gangster friends and ends up making off with all their ... See full summary »

Yamaguchi-gumi gaiden: Kyushu shinko-sakusen

65/100

One of the only pre-1980s yakuza films to be dubbed-into-English.

Rex: kyoryu monogatari

49/100

A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her palentologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs.

Carmen 1945

65/100

During the post-World War II occupation of Japan, a group of women forced to resort to prostitution band together in the ruins to save up for a dancehall.

Marriage Counselor Tora-san

63/100

Call from Darkness

62/100

A mysterious story involving the disappearance of Tatsuo's three brothers. Tatsuo, thinks that he too may disappear and has a nervous breakdown. His fiance visits a neurologist, who ... See full summary »

Sanbiki no mesubachi

45/100

Gendai yakuza: chizakura san kyodai

Violent Panic: The Big Crash

77/100

Amagi goe

78/100

Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass...

Kôtei no inai hachigatsu

71/100

Sukeban: Taiman Shobu

69/100

Keiko Aizawa a vengeance-crazed vixen sets out on a journey to avenge the death of her older sister.

Kurutta yajû

70/100

Time and Tide

75/100

Bodigaado Kiba: Hissatsu sankaku tobi

61/100