Yasushi Shimamura Trailers
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Total trailers found: 58
27 September 1991
A police officer is recruited to a special agency and given a license to kill. He is given a dozen or so young policemen and a bar as a front.
29 January 1994
A man's life is altered when he comes into possession of a gun.
03 March 2000
Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague.
22 December 2001
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
10 March 2001
When the mobster Iwaida Nishikawi is executed by the hit man Takeshi, his family chases the killer. Takeshi's brothers Takashi and Hideshi Miwa try to find Takeshi, who is hidden with the nurse Rie Ishibashi, to protect him and Hideshi discovers that Takeshi was secretly sent by their Yakuza boss to eliminate Iwaida.
25 February 2006
An American journalist travels through 19th-century Japan to find the prostitute he fell in love with but instead learns of the physical and existential horror that befell her after he left.
27 November 1999
Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to bring it down.
17 March 2001
In a dysfunctional family where the mother is a heroin addict and prostitute, beaten by her son, and the father is an ex-TV reporter, sleeping with his daughter and filming his son being beaten up, ‘Q’, a complete stranger enters the bizarre family, changing their lives for the better, finding a balance in their disturbing natures.
21 December 1991
A female ex-soldier comes out of retirement to put a stop to the kidnapping of a young boy who is being used a political pawn.
07 September 1985
A young woman has feelings for her older cousin but he is obsessed with blonds. When a European temptress comes for a visit his fantasies come true.
20 August 2004
Features an anthology centred on the experiences of a witch doctor, a film-maker and a disgruntled extra determined to take revenge on him, and a novelist as well as her twin sister.
31 October 1998
Nami Matsushima has escaped from the prison to which she was sentenced in Scorpion, but is now obsessed with tracking down the--don't laugh--one-armed man who murdered her younger sister fifteen years ago.
03 May 2006
Katayama is on the way home to his wife and little daughter when he comes across a gang of punks beating up an innocent man.
03 November 2003
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their future death, listed on the message log.
28 October 1994
Kiba is a bodyguard who works to raise money for his master's karate dojo. He gets the assignment to guard a young woman in Taipei.
23 February 2002
The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard.
12 October 1996
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.
06 August 2005
A young boy with a troubled home life becomes "chosen," and he stumbles into the middle of a great war of yōkai (a class of mythological creatures), where he meets a group of friendly yōkai who become his companions through his journey.
11 June 1988
A documentary compilation that shows various clips from the Roman Porno series of movies from 1971 to 1988.
23 October 1999
Akira's wife walks out on him, leaving him to confide in his gangster brother-in-law. Using only a cryptic note as a clue the two brothers go on a road trip to find his wife.
15 October 1994
The original is a manga work by Shigeru Tsuchiyama serialized in the magazine "Leed Comic". The director is Takeshi Watanabe of "Kyouju Luger P08", the script is Masaya Ishikawa, and the shooting is Naoaki Imaizumi.
07 September 2004
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified.
11 July 2003
Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search.
19 April 1997
After spending over half his life in prison, ex-hitman Kunihiro is determined to go straight. But the shortcomings of the new gangs mean that he is soon having to call on his old-school yakuza talents.
11 February 2006
An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility.
28 October 2001
When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub, it is not long before his dead body is found.
15 September 2007
A nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to join, chooses his own path.
10 June 1998
Wada, a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After his arrival, Wada encounters a violent, yet sentimental, yakuza, who takes the liberty of joining his adventure through China.
30 January 2004
A down-and-out schoolteacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old television superhero, Zebraman.
28 June 1997
A Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss to make ends meet when suddenly a woman from his past delivers a son to him.
14 May 2002
When a young man is sent to a prison workhouse for a crime he did not commit his friend on the outside must find evidence to clear his name.
22 June 2002
A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.
07 June 2008
A set of twins -- one a hard-working student and the other a drifter -- team up with a dropout to unlock the secrets of the universe and to build one of their own.
02 December 2000
Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends.
13 November 1999
Kintaro is a reformed delinquent, the former leader of a biker gang who has gone straight. Working at a construction company, his unorthodox tactics cause trouble with his colleagues.
11 July 1998
After his daughter Mai is killed in an auto accident, a genius programmer recreates her in the form of a computer program called AI.
16 June 2001
The ever-prolific Takashi Miike directs this wild and woolly prison drama, reportedly based on real-life cases of Japanese imprisoned abroad.
28 September 2002
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 a way out.
23 September 1995
Based on the comic book series of the same name by Masahide Motohashi.
15 July 1998
Ambitious Yakuza Kenji befriends harmonica-playing bartender Chuji, who moonlights as a part-time drug-dealer for the opposing gang.
21 September 2002
After Kunisada's Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend go on a two-man mission to avenge his death, killing other Yakuza leaders leading to a final confrontation by the old man's killers.
17 August 2003
After a convenience store robbery, three unidentified men hold a group of people hostage in a hospital.
29 March 2003
After his father figure - a yakuza boss, is murdered, Azusa Moribe goes on a killing spree to exact revenge.
26 August 1995
Tatsuhito, a cop, pursues Chinese warlord Wang through the underworld of Shinjuku and over to Taiwan.
31 October 1998
Nami Matsushima, a former doctor, is put in prison for murdering one of the men who raped and killed her sister.
21 June 1997
Young Thugs: Innocent Blood follows three friends through their first year after leaving high school.
15 September 2000
Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan.
05 December 1997
After being brutally murdered in a gangster-style execution, Kensuke Hagane finds himself brought back to life by a mad scientist and rebuilt as a robot-human hybrid with a serious thirst for vengeance and the tools to carry it out.
03 March 2007
Former yakuza underling Kazuma Kiryū has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration and is trying to piece his life together and distance himself from his yakuza past.
02 March 1996
Popular pop group MAX (Mina, Lina, Nana, Reina) star in a wild teen drama based on the manga "Ladies" written by Masahide Motohashi.
22 May 1999
The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befriend a troubled Shanghai prostitute and fall foul of a local crime syndicate.
29 September 2007
A detective and a businessman search for a serial killer who removes people's organs.
26 September 1998
Nostalgia is Takashi Miike’s favorite film of his considerable body of work. Including biographical elements, Nostalgia centers around the home and school of a young boy, whose family mix the violent and dysfunctional with the comic and the loveable.
22 July 1995
Based on a manga by Masahide Motohashi.
01 July 2000
An action in which a former CIA female operative captures a revenge drama that unfolds against a huge secret organization.
03 August 2002
Shangri-La follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly commits suicide and decide to help him out of his financial troubles.
14 May 1998
A man becomes entangled in a world of corruption and violence where powerful businessmen and politicians operate from the shadows.