Kiyohiko Shibukawa

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A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad’s an Alcoholic
6.2

A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad’s an Alcoholic

Saki Tadokoro’s father is an alcoholic and her mother is a follower of a new religion. She sees her father’s strange behavior and her ...
Passion
4.8

Passion

Nov. 22, 2008

Passion

A young couple announces their wedding at a party with friends. The reactions of the latter reveal hitherto unexpressed sentimental flaws within ...
Lowlife Love
6.5

Lowlife Love

Oct. 24, 2015

Lowlife Love

Tetsuo (Kiyohiko Shibukawa) is a lowlife. A film director with a small indie hit many years back, yet he has never gotten any further as he ...
Blue Spring
7.3

Blue Spring

Sep. 09, 2001

Blue Spring

Soon after being named the new leader of his high school’s gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He ...
Last of the Wolves
6.1

Last of the Wolves

Aug. 20, 2021

Last of the Wolves

Set several years after The Blood Of Wolves and Ogami Shogo’s death in the Western city of Hiroshima, the detective’s plan to ...
It’s Me It’s Me
5.9

It’s Me It’s Me

May. 24, 2013

It’s Me It’s Me

Hitoshi Nagano (Kazuya Kamenashi), who works at an electronics store, picks up a cellphone left behind by a customer and goes about a scam. He ...
That’s It
6.2

That’s It

May. 27, 2015

That’s It

Daikoku and Ami want to escape their wayward lives. When they are thrown together they set out to kill a yakuza boss and also blackmail the thugs ...
Ichi the Killer
7.0

Ichi the Killer

Dec. 22, 2001

Ichi the Killer

As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able ...
Go Seppuku Yourselves
6.8

Go Seppuku Yourselves

Aug. 20, 2021

Go Seppuku Yourselves

Completing Toshiaki Toyoda’s politically urgent Resurrection Trilogy following Wolf’s Calling and The Day of Destruction, this ...
Shiba Park
5.8

Shiba Park

Jun. 14, 2019

Shiba Park

While walking their shiba dogs, 3 middle-aged men meet at the park everyday. They do not know each other’s names. They keep their distance, ...
The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan
5.8

The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan

Shoji Segawa was a quiet and inconspicuous boy, but, for the first time, he is recognized by people after winning the National Middle School ...
And the Mud Ship Sails Away…
6.1

And the Mud Ship Sails Away…

Takashi is country hipster, work avoiding, not-so-smart life expert in vague rural-urban area in the north from Tokyo. He lives together with his ...
Bitter Honey
5.5

Bitter Honey

Apr. 01, 2016

Bitter Honey

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 ...
The Mars Canon
7.1

The Mars Canon

Sep. 28, 2002

The Mars Canon

A look at the problems two couples, Kohei and Kinuko, and Manabe and Hijiri, have in their relationships, and the solutions they try to devise as ...
The Blood of Rebirth
6.5

The Blood of Rebirth

Oct. 13, 2009

The Blood of Rebirth

Based on the Japanese legend of 15th century adventurer, Oguri Hangan Daisukeshige, Toyoda places us in a surreal world of tattooed Japanese ...
11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate
6.0

11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate

On November 25th 1970, a man committed ritual suicide inside the Tokyo headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Defence, leaving behind a legacy ...
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
6.7

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A

An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than ...
Joker Game
5.4

Joker Game

Jan. 31, 2015

Joker Game

Set along a backdrop of a fictitious second world war at an international city in Asia. In Japan, Lieutenant Colonel Yuki (Yusuke Iseya) ...
Another World
6.3

Another World

Oct. 30, 2018

Another World

Ko, a man in his late 30s, lives in the countryside with his wife and teenage son. Mitsuhiko, who runs a local car dealership, also stayed in his ...
The Kamagasaki Cauldron War
7.3

The Kamagasaki Cauldron War

Kamagasaki is an “invisible” slum of Osaka that attracts day laborers and prostitutes since WW2. When the local gang has its ...