Masayuki Ino

One day, when Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya) and Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) go to the office, they're met with a host of adorable pet animals. Asking a guilty-looking Ishizawa (Hiroto Honda) and Yamamura (Kenta Kawasaki) what happened, they learn about Joji (Takashi Kitadai) and his escalating alcoholism, and how his new impulse is to buy pets he finds "cute". Little hedgehogs and leopard geckos, however, are the least of their problems when Joji's post-stupor amnesia gets him in trouble with the independent Masaki Family...

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One day, Tatsumi, a lonely underworld worker, comes across the murder scene of his ex-girlfriend Kyoko. Tatsumi escapes with Kyoko's younger sister, Aoi, who was with her. On the other hand, Aoi, who has lost her beloved family and vows revenge, pursues the murderer of Kyoko. Tatsumi, who is at loggerheads with the impudent Aoi, decides to accompany her on her journey for revenge, and as he cooperates with her, a certain feeling begins to develop.

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Second part of the Kunioka Tours series. This time they are in North Osaka and Kyoto.

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Lawyer Shindo Kai is an undefeated ace, also working as a hitman who punishes criminals exploiting legal loopholes. While secretly serving justice, he hides his true identity as the illegitimate son of Gondo Heihachiro, a yakuza boss. When Gondo's group is attacked by the rising Mayhem gang, Kai, having recently lost a case due to sabotaged evidence, investigates the betrayal. His pursuit of the truth leads to a bloody reckoning.

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Masayuki Kunioka, who had been living in Tokyo for a while, was in a hurry. To his surprise, his mother found out his occupation because of his previous "Kunioka" work. Kunioka originally worked as a company employee after graduating from high school, but resigned because he did not fit in. He worked as a hitman without telling his mother about it. However, his mother found out about it. Kunioka came to Osaka to explain and greet his mother at home, but his colleague Manaka and cameraman HANAMOTO also came along to join him for an Osaka travel location show. Kenta Osaka joins him on what is supposed to be a fun trip, but Saito, the Naniwa Assassin, catches his eye. Will Kunioka be able to enjoy his trip to Osaka to the end, and will he be able to convince his mother of his profession? The first installment of the Kunioka Gaiden series! Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

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A washed up horror film director named Kôji Kuroishi and his assistant director named Miho Ichikawa visit a house deep in wooded mountains to film a movie. Once arrived, they meet a mentally deranged woman named Maria Miyoshi who proclaims she's a fan of Kuroishi's works. The woman pleads that she's experienced the same things as documented in Kuroishi's works. Unexplainable phenomena quickly begin to happen, so Kuroishi sets out to document these experiences and turn them into a film, together with the help of a 'super volunteer' named Shôhei Uno and a handsome psychic medium named Nanashi.

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Six girls participate in the boot camp for assassins. The instructor of the boot camp is the legendary hitman, Kunioka. At first, they repel each other, but the girls gradually develop friendships while enduring the hard training. By chance, the girls get involved in a life-threatening battle with a group of anarchist hitmen.

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K City, a coastal Japanese city, is under the influence of Void Dharma, a freestyle rapper who ignores the Japanese constitution and preaches for region rejuvenation and independent state. A spy, Watanabe, is sent to K-city on a mission to assassinate Void Dharma.

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A respected teacher’s life unravels after a brutal assault and a public humiliation. Now, he must choose between silence and revenge.

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This short film follows Zenjiro Kurata (played by Daichi Yamaguchi), a hitman with a 100 million yen bounty, as he faces attack from various assassins.

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A bored salaryman who suddenly develops a passion for skateboarding decides to turn his life around by becoming a skater. Soon, he must face various enemies of skateboarding.

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In 2018, director Sakamoto was working on a script for his new movie "Baby Assassins." He learns of a hitman business network called "Kansai Hitman Association" and applies for interviews as a reference for writing scripts. He is introduced to Masayuki Kunioka, a freelancer who is known as the strongest hitman in Kyoto. Sakamoto decides to follow Kunioka in his day-to-day life. One day, Kunioka kills the wrong person due to miscommunication with the client and is targeted by both the hitmen sent from the furious client and those who are aiming for revenge on behalf of the victim.

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Ordinary college students dropped by a strange village on the way to their camp. Persuaded by a seemingly friendly villager to stay over, but brutal killings start to occur in the following morning.

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Two high school girls who are about to graduate also happen to be highly-skilled assassins. When the organization they work for orders them to share a room, their relationship quickly sours. But when they become targets of the yakuza, the girls realize they'll have to work together to survive.

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Fukami is a high school janitor whose father was a gangster. He works at the school as a janitor instead of belonging to the gang so he can watch out for Yui, the daughter of his deceased father's brother Majima Yoshiki. One day, a gang feud erupts and Yoshiki is killed. Yui becomes the next target.

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Yuta (Abera Hidenobu), a monk with a passion for photography, captures in his viewfinder "that girl" (Ogura Yuna) who passes by his temple each day. One day as he is focused on taking photos, he has a reunion with childhood friend Yuka (Kano Yura). In the brief time they reminisce, she suddenly pressures him for a kiss. Moreover, he witnesses "that girl" meet a guy she got to know through a dating app.

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After serving prison time as a scapegoat in a yakuza conflict, Tatsu (Yamaguchi Yoshiyuki) is met upon release by his sworn brother Ryu (Yasukaze Motomiya), who reveals that their gang was dissolved by a mysterious man named Gizmo and everyone has gone their separate ways. Ryu proposes they run a ramen shop together, Ryu Hanten. But trouble follows when former rivals Jin (Hitoshi Ozawa) and Kazu (Kazuyoshi Ozawa), whose gang was also disbanded by Gizmo, open a competing shop nearby called Ramen OZAWA. As a fierce ramen rivalry erupts, Gizmo’s sinister influence closes in once again.

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A two part collaboration series between Yugo Sakamoto (and his Kunioka series) and the fashion label Black Brain Clothing.

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Three years after returning from studying to become a film director at university in Copenhagen, Mizuki Kurotetsu finally begins her first film as a director. Mizuki, who has an unusual obsession with "breaking the existing rules", decides to use social networking to recruit everything she needs for the film, including cast and crew. The announcement, a mixture of lies and facts, quickly spread and became a hot topic. Aoba Hinata, a beautiful, taciturn girl, successfully wins the lead role after a bizarre audition. The hellish location shoot begins, involving Kurotetsu's assistant and assistant director Yuzuru Gokokuji and Dai Nanpei , who was also selected through an audition..

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Ryo, a college student who is about to drop out of college and is scolded by his father at home, spends his days in depression. One day, he plans a cannabis thief with a group of three bad friends.

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The yakuza have their best days behind them and are only a shadow of themselves. The old rituals seem out of date and their tattoos make them outcasts of society. The inexperienced student Ryō stumbles into their ranks by chance, and before he knows it, he becomes entangled in dark machinations. He quickly succumbs to the fascination of omnipotence fantasies and hedonistic decadence and sinks deeper and deeper into a parallel world of prostitution, blackmail and violence. However, there is one thing that Ryō has not considered in his naivety: once yakuza, always yakuza!

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The Fukushima family is driven to collapse after the eldest, who has dementia arrives home with the corpse of a child.

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An early short movie by Yugo Sakamoto.

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