Best movies of Masahiro Motoki

Actors : Masahiro Motoki, Ryôko Hirosue, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Yôjirô Takita,

A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals.

Actors : Masahiro Motoki, Renji Ishibashi, Mako, Michiko Kichise,
Directors : Takashi Miike,

A salaryman and yakuza are each sent by their bosses to a remote Chinese village but discover more then they expected.

Actors : Masahiro Motoki, Kippei Shîna, Kôichi Satô, Jinpachi Nezu,
Directors : Takashi Ishii,

Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers.

Actors : Masahiro Motoki, Ryô, Masako Motai, Yasutaka Tsutsui,
Directors : Shin'ya Tsukamoto,

A successful doctor, Yukio's picture perfect life is gradually wrecked, and taken over by his avenging twin brother, who bumps off his family members one by one and reclaims his lover who is now Yukio's wife.

Actors : Masahiro Motoki, Takashi Tsukamoto, Naomi Nishida, Wei Zhao,
Directors : Yibai Zhang,

Actors : Masahiro Motoki, Naoto Takenaka, Akira Emoto, Misa Shimizu,
Directors : Masayuki Suo,

Yet another tradition in the tradition of "ragtag misfits" in Japanese comedy...Sumo Do, Sumo Don't tells the story of a university sumo club in Japan. In today's Japan, the younger ...

Actors : Masahiro Motoki, Pistol Takehara, Kenshin Fujita, Eri Fukatsu,
Directors : Miwa Nishikawa,

Based on a book by writer - director Miwa Nishikawa, a recently widowed writer ( Masahiro Motoki,Departures)whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief,or lack of it, in ...

Actors : Masahiro Motoki, Michiko Hada, Naoto Takenaka, Teruyuki Kagawa,

Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts...

Actors : Masahiro Motoki, Kippei Shîna, Takaya Kamikawa, Iain Glen,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

Actors : Masahiro Motoki, Kôji Yakusho, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Masato Harada,

The War ended on August 15th, 1945. What took place in Japan on the previous night? The unknown destiny of the day is unveiled.

Actors : Masahiro Motoki, Honami Suzuki, Hikomaro, Ken Ohsawa,
Directors : Masayuki Suo,

Yohei, a punk rocker, has to become a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Yohei though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline learns to adjust. Then his ...

Actors : Masahiro Motoki, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kanako Higuchi, Keiko Oginome,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

A woman follows in her late father's footsteps and becomes a gambler, only to meet her father's murderer at a game.

Actors : Masahiro Motoki, Tomokazu Miura, Katsutoshi Arata, Ken'ichi Hagiwara,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of ...

Actors : Masahiro Motoki, Renji Ishibashi, Nagare Hagiwara, Daijirô Harada,
Directors : Sadaaki Haginiwa,

A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't catch him. TV networks begin to broadcast ...

Actors : Masahiro Motoki, Mitsuko Baishô, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Narumi Yasuda,
Directors : Shigemichi Sugita,

Short film. Soo-Yun, a 19 year old Korean girl works at a U.S. Karaoke bar. A customer refuses to leave. A night without closure.