Tetsu Watanabe Movies

An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so they...

Tatsuya Kakurai, a young mahjong player from Shinjuku; Satsuki, an office worker and player from Marunouchi; the veteran "Demon" Nagamasa; Awano, a...

Unfinished film based on the life of biologist Minakata Kumagusu.

The era when yakuza could live as yakuza is over. Genichi Taguchi (Tetsu Watanabe), chairman of the Kanto Kyojin-kai, the massive organization that...

A five-part comedy and horror anthology

Dumped by a bored pet owner, a mixed-breed mutt ends up with three time loser Yasuyuki, who's loveless, homeless and jobless. Yasuyuki finds solace...

Ryugen (Hitoshi Ozawa) and Toraji (Kazuyoshi Ozawa) are the two candidates to succeed the head of the Kanto Kyojinkai. The conflict between the two...

A short movie set in a public bathhouse that depicts a confrontation between male patrons over a widow's manager. A certain public bathhouse where...

A young boy in a peaceful seaside town gets more than he bargained for when he takes home a mysterious egg. When it hatches, out comes a baby turtle...

After decades of single-minded dedication to his work, a worker with an elite career course at a major bank is transferred or rather relegated to a...

An undercover narcotics officer is killed, and after his funeral some yakuza break into his apartment and rape his wife, Nami, while looking for the...

A high-octane financial comedy starring a man descended from a genius con artist. It chronicles the chaotic daily life of this astonishing...

When a lonely high school girl befriends a strange, mysterious and beautiful girl, it is soon becomes clear that the two girls' meeting was not...

Reiji Kikukawa, who has a strong sense of justice, graduated from the police academy with the lowest score ever. He becomes a police constable, but...

The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they...

A documentary showcasing the making of Sion Sono's Himizu

An overweight exchange student with no friends decides to join the university’s sumo team at a Japanese university. But in order to get in,...