Movies: Masayasu Kitayama

  • 2002
    The Twilight Samurai

    The Twilight Samurai (2002)

    The Twilight Samurai

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    Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautifu...

    The Twilight Samurai
  • 1998
    Bayside Shakedown

    Bayside Shakedown (1998)

    Bayside Shakedown

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    Aoshima, a police detective working in the Bayside Precinct, is continually frustrated by the hierarchy and red tape that plague the system. His friend Muroi is climbing the ladder of the police bureaucracy. Muroi has made a pact with Aoshima that wh...

    Bayside Shakedown
  • 2010
    Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose

    Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose (2010)

    Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose

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    After Detective Shunsaku Aoshima is promoted to section chief he has the daunting task of dealing with eight cases at the same time, which includes a murder case, bomb threat, and a bus hijacking. Complications also arise between Detective Aoshima an...

    Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose
  • 2004
    The Hidden Blade

    The Hidden Blade (2004)

    The Hidden Blade

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    Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest...

    The Hidden Blade
  • 2012
    Bayside Shakedown The Final: The New Hope

    Bayside Shakedown The Final: The New Hope (2012)

    Bayside Shakedown The Final: The New Hope

    5.92012HD

    Set 2 years after prior film "Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose," a major case occurs that has the potential to take down the entire police organization. For the next 3 days, Shunsaku Aoshima and his colleagues struggle to unravel the case......

    Bayside Shakedown The Final: The New Hope
  • 2022
    Missing

    Missing (2022)

    Missing

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    Depressed and in debt, Santoshi tells his young daughter that he is going to find an infamous serial killer and collect a reward. However, when Santoshi disappears without a trace, she starts to fear the worst and begins searching for him....

    Missing
  • 2019
    Siblings of the Cape

    Siblings of the Cape (2019)

    Siblings of the Cape

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    A pair of siblings are living together in the outskirts of society. The brother, Yoshio, has a hurt leg, the sister, Mariko, has an intellectual disability and spends most of her time at home. When Yoshio loses his job he does the unthinkable and sel...

    Siblings of the Cape
  • 2016
    What a Wonderful Family!

    What a Wonderful Family! (2016)

    What a Wonderful Family!

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    A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present. She replies that she wants a divorce. The wife's divorce announcement sends the entire family into chaos....

    What a Wonderful Family!
  • 2017
    What a Wonderful Family! 2

    What a Wonderful Family! 2 (2017)

    What a Wonderful Family! 2

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    Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new problems. Ignoring his family’s worry that he is too old to drive, Shuzo takes his old schoolmate for a spin ...

    What a Wonderful Family! 2
  • 1989
    Tora-san, My Uncle

    Tora-san, My Uncle (1989)

    Tora-san, My Uncle

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    Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo....

    Tora-san, My Uncle
  • 2014
    Kamen Teacher: The Movie

    Kamen Teacher: The Movie (2014)

    Kamen Teacher: The Movie

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    Set in the near future of Japan with the educational system nearing collapse. To rehabilitate the lawlessness at public schools and its troubled students, the government sends Kamen Teacher to designated schools....

    Kamen Teacher: The Movie
  • 2021
    Love, Life and Goldfish

    Love, Life and Goldfish (2021)

    Love, Life and Goldfish

    6.52021HD

    Makoto Kashiba is an elite bank clerk and works for a big bank at its Tokyo HQ. Due to a minor mistake, he is demoted to a small branch office in a country town. He is devastated by his situation. There, he meets beautiful Yoshino Ikoma. She runs a g...

    Love, Life and Goldfish
  • 2019
    Jesus

    Jesus (2019)

    Jesus

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    When Yura's family moves from Tokyo to the countryside, he enters a Christian school, a religion he knows nothing about. Yura struggles to understand the school structure and student behavior when a miniature Jesus enters his life....

    Jesus
  • 2008
    School Days with a Pig

    School Days with a Pig (2008)

    School Days with a Pig

    7.32008HD

    A sixth grade teacher raises a pig with his class....

    School Days with a Pig
  • 2021
    It's a Flickering Life

    It's a Flickering Life (2021)

    It's a Flickering Life

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    The story centers on a man who loves movies, having once worked at movie studio in pursuit of his dreams, surrounded by great directors and famous actors. In this tale of love and friendship spanning a lifetime, the "god of cinema" that Go has worshi...

    It's a Flickering Life
  • 2006
    Free and Easy 17

    Free and Easy 17 (2006)

    Free and Easy 17

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    Yumiko returns to work in Hama-chan's department. She had once left the company after getting married, but a dark shadow now seems to loom over her....

    Free and Easy 17
  • 2006
    The Vanished

    The Vanished (2006)

    The Vanished

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    A young reporter is covering the mysterious case of a child found dead with missing internal organs....

    The Vanished
  • 1988
    Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial

    Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial (1988)

    Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial

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    In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship....

    Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
  • 1996
    Salaryman Senka: Tanshin Funin

    Salaryman Senka: Tanshin Funin (1996)

    Salaryman Senka: Tanshin Funin

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    Based on the long running manga of the same name by Sadao Shouji....

    Salaryman Senka: Tanshin Funin
  • 2023
    Hoarder on the Border

    Hoarder on the Border (2023)

    Hoarder on the Border

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    Failing to succeed both as a pianist and a piano teacher, Ritsuki accepts a job at a cleaning service that specializes in clearing out cluttered apartments. He is not only confronted by loads of trash but also by dark secrets....

    Hoarder on the Border