Movies: Toru Minegishi

  • 2008
    Departures

    Departures (2008)

    Departures

    7.82008HD

    Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more pe...

    Departures
  • 2009
    Shinjuku Incident

    Shinjuku Incident (2009)

    Shinjuku Incident

    6.72009HD

    A simple Chinese immigrant wages a perilous war against one of the most powerful criminal organizations on the planet....

    Shinjuku Incident
  • 1989
    Godzilla vs. Biollante

    Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)

    Godzilla vs. Biollante

    7.41989HD

    After the previous Godzilla attack, a miniature arms race ensues to collect his cells. Concerned over Godzilla's possible return, the Japanese government uses the cells to create a new bio-weapon, ANEB (Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria). They seeks the a...

    Godzilla vs. Biollante
  • 1996
    Fudoh: The New Generation

    Fudoh: The New Generation (1996)

    Fudoh: The New Generation

    6.61996HD

    In order to settle a business dispute, a mob leader murders one of his own teenage sons. The surviving son vows to avenge his brother's death, and organizes his own gang of teenage killers to destroy his father's organization....

    Fudoh: The New Generation
  • 1986
    His Motorbike, Her Island

    His Motorbike, Her Island (1986)

    His Motorbike, Her Island

    7.71986HD

    After a series of chance meetings a shiftless motorbike enthusiast Ko begins a romance with a carefree girl Miyo, after teaching her to ride. When Miyo proves herself a biker prodigy Ko begins to fear that she is destined to crash....

    His Motorbike, Her Island
  • 1985
    Miss Lonely

    Miss Lonely (1985)

    Miss Lonely

    71985HD

    Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his psyche, or is she real?...

    Miss Lonely
  • 1978
    The Fall of Ako Castle

    The Fall of Ako Castle (1978)

    The Fall of Ako Castle

    6.61978HD

    This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, ...

    The Fall of Ako Castle
  • 1981
    School in the Crosshairs

    School in the Crosshairs (1981)

    School in the Crosshairs

    5.71981HD

    Mitamura Yuka is a normal, shy high school student. Except for the fact that she has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to show her skills, creating a force of psychic Nazi student enforcers, Yuka and her friends vow to sto...

    School in the Crosshairs
  • 1988
    Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

    Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (1988)

    Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

    6.21988HD

    The reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo....

    Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
  • 1974
    The Last Samurai

    The Last Samurai (1974)

    The Last Samurai

    7.81974HD

    The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child. Rescued and adopted by a master swordsman, he has grown into a master swordsman and a very kind gent...

    The Last Samurai
  • 1975
    Main Line to Terror

    Main Line to Terror (1975)

    Main Line to Terror

    61975HD

    Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan ...

    Main Line to Terror
  • 1977
    Proof of the Man

    Proof of the Man (1977)

    Proof of the Man

    7.41977HD

    When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime....

    Proof of the Man
  • 1971
    Confessions Among Actresses

    Confessions Among Actresses (1971)

    Confessions Among Actresses

    6.11971HD

    In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid bare, and scenes from their lives are woven in and out of interviews with each of them. Each of them ...

    Confessions Among Actresses
  • 1988
    The Discarnates

    The Discarnates (1988)

    The Discarnates

    6.51988HD

    Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada's ex-wife. Recovering from the shock, Harada indulges in melancholy, mainly on his failure as a husband and father, and goes to a 'Rakugo'...

    The Discarnates
  • 1974
    Demon Spies

    Demon Spies (1974)

    Demon Spies

    5.81974HD

    Deep in the mountains of feudal Japan, a group of children endure cruel and unorthodox training in order to become the Shogunate's most secret and deadly weapons - the Demon Spies! Their true identities are hidden - even from each other. Behind their...

    Demon Spies
  • 2004
    The Motive

    The Motive (2004)

    The Motive

    6.42004HD

    Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens it is discovered that one of the victims isn't related to the family....

    The Motive
  • 1982
    Cute Devil

    Cute Devil (1982)

    Cute Devil

    71982HD

    While Ryoko is in Vienna studying music, her boyfriend dies in a traffic accident. Ryoko believes that she has psychic powers which killed him, and when she returns to Japan she is sent to a mental hospital. While recovering, her brother-in-law, Kouj...

    Cute Devil
  • 1984
    The Island Closest to Heaven

    The Island Closest to Heaven (1984)

    The Island Closest to Heaven

    6.11984HD

    A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that her late father had told her about....

    The Island Closest to Heaven
  • 1985
    Capone Cries a Lot

    Capone Cries a Lot (1985)

    Capone Cries a Lot

    5.71985HD

    Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune....

    Capone Cries a Lot
  • 1984
    The Deserted City

    The Deserted City (1984)

    The Deserted City

    6.81984HD

    After noticing in the news there was a fire in an old canal town, Eguchi recalls visiting there a decade ago as a university student....

    The Deserted City