Ryo Ishibashi Movies

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Betrayed and disgraced, big-city reporter Kazuya Mizuno is banished to a desk at Kaname's boring little town newspaper. But Kaname isn't as boring as...

Based on the book of the same name by Rieko Matsuura, the film depicts an ultimate love between two women.

Youji Himuro comes out of hiding and faces off against a powerful new foe from a rival dojo.

Mitsuko is 24, heavily pregnant and estranged from the American father of her child. Her parents believe she is happy and successful in America and...

A yakuza search for his past

A Japanese salaryman in Shanghai falls in love with two women, one of whom is terminally ill.

Rachi has aspirations of becoming a punk rocker. But his tendency towards self-sabotage and a budding sexual addiction makes matters increasingly...

The story of a vagrant who arrives in a town in Hokkaido. With only a threadbare suit, an old pair of sneakers, and a bag containing all his worldly...

A man with darkness in his eyes has returned from hell for revenge.

After serving ten years due to a drug-induced assassination of a rival gang boss, Tachibana enters a world that's nothing like it was when he went...

A former gangster gets released from prison and goes to work for a group of people. The leader of this group becomes his mentor and the fight to...

A tremor struck the Information Industry Bureau of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. The prosecution arrested a local contractor on...

During the Vietnam War era, the influx of American soldiers to Okinawa boosted the local economy and introduced many bars and nightclubs. With...

The movie is absurd, and a thoroughly original take on the morale in Japanese society. The images are beautiful, and the people are as cold as the...

A Japanese Anthology

About an energetic kindergarden student and the people around him

Police superintendent Makishima suffered a demotion transfer after he failed to capture the suspect in a kidnapping case of a boy, who was...