Movies: Masaya Katō

The story of Iwaki, a young brawler who becomes a professional criminal when he joins a Yakuza clan....

In the year 2009, a young policeman must collapse a Yakuza family whose members make a large profit with a new drug....

The Naitō Shinjuku Family, Japan's oldest yakuza organization with a hereditary tradition, is led by its boss, Gunji Washio (Hitoshi Ozawa). His young son, Taiga (Haruto Ochiai), though only an elementary schooler, spends his days being trained as th...

Yumeji is married to Tamaki and they have a son. Tamaki was a model for Yumeji. He makes a living by running a picture store. Due to his dissatisfaction as an artist and his own inner conflicts, he spends his days doing other things besides painting....

Akira Mochizuki survived a kidnapping as a child. Now, she's a detective, and there are signs that the kidnapper may be back again after 20 years....

A meeting in the middle of Tokyo between Jan, a middle age French photographer who is living his life carelessly, and Flare, a 17 years old runaway girl with a complicate family background. Charmed by Jan’s works, a budding of love soon developed in ...

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More than anything, brilliant Teru longs to attend school with other girls. But in early 20th-century Japan, Teru is excluded because she is Ainu. Instead of writing, the Ainu—indigenous people from Japan’s Hokkaido island—pass down their traditions ...

Six Stories based on Six Songs....

Melodrama about a woman refusing surgery....

Experimental short movie mostly made of still photos. An old assassin lives on a yacht, in a port city. One day, the sister of a woman he killed appears....

A new female detective joins the special investigations team and dives into some of their hardest cases in this follow-up to the series 'Unfair.' The team investigates a grisly video circulating online that asks viewers to answer 'yes' or 'no' questi...

Koza, Okinawa City, which prospered as a gateway town for the U.S. military. Four omnibus dramas unfold at the intersection of Japanese, American, and Okinawan cultures. Dream chasers, losers, wounded, and hangers-on... The city of Koza and its pe...

Hiroshima Theater Number One is a venerable strip club on the verge of shutting down. Theater head Kinoshita takes to the stage for the theater's final night and stands before famous strippers and mysterious young dancers to reminisce about the glori...

Meet Chika. She thinks she's been jinxed: she's going to be dumped on Christmas Eve. Enter Tomako, who likes reading and making pudding. Although they're total opposites, by a twist of fate, they become best friends. However, it turns out they both w...

Youngsters find work as part-time festival street vendors and flourish in work, friendship and love....

On the way home from a small assault incident at a love hotel in Tokyo, Shuntaro Katagiri playfully entered the love hotel with his friend Iwanaka. When I fell asleep, I screamed and screamed from the room. Katagiri, who was full of blood, jumped o...

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Tamotsu Iwaki (Masaya Kato), also known as "The Dandruff Cancer," was admitted to a juvenile training school in the summer when he was 18 years old after being hit with dirt on his car. At first he is at odds with Ginji (Shinobu Sakagami) and others,...

This omnibus film brings together three globally acclaimed directors from Asia with a common theme 'Living Together in Asia' to depict the lives of characters who journey between Japan, Cambodia, the Philippines and Malaysia. Brillante Mendoza grappl...