Shogen

Shogen

Born: June 20, 1978

Movies for Shogen...

Everything, Everywhere
Title: Everything, Everywhere
Released: November 12, 2023
Type: Movie
Director Jay mysteriously disappears in 2019 and leaves behind a hard disc with the film “No Where, Now Here”. Actress Eva follows his steps to find him after she met Jay at the film shoot in 2018 film.
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A Far Shore
Title: A Far Shore
Released: June 9, 2023
Type: Movie
An unadorned perspective on impoverished life in Okinawa, an island in southern Japan whose modern history was tainted by the bloody battle for the Pacific. 17-year-old Aoi works as a nightclub hostess in order to earn rent money and to provide for her little boy. She also supports her lazy husband Masaya, who has no qualms about giving her a few slaps, particularly after he loses his job. What chance does this young family have to scrape their way out of the social mire, where they were driven by poverty and the imprudence of youth? How dark does reality have to get before it stifles the rays of hope that filter through? An intimate story that presents a less glitzy picture of Japan than is customary, demonstrating that social inequality impacts all corners of the globe.
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December
Title: December
Character: Katsu
Released: March 18, 2023
Type: Movie
A divorced husband and wife reunite to fight the release of their daughter's murderer.
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The Rise and Fall of Park Avenue and the 10 Rooms
Title: The Rise and Fall of Park Avenue and the 10 Rooms
Released: November 18, 2022
Type: Movie
Koza, Okinawa City, which prospered as a gateway town for the U.S. military. Four omnibus dramas unfold at the intersection of Japanese, American, and Okinawan cultures. Dream chasers, losers, wounded, and hangers-on... The city of Koza and its people weave their own stories.
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Your Lovely Smile
Title: Your Lovely Smile
Released: November 12, 2022
Type: Movie
A bittersweet, hilarious, enlightening and inspirational road trip through Japanese arthouse cinemas with a heartily independent filmmaker, who also struggles to release his own movies in real life.
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Lightning Over the Beyond
Title: Lightning Over the Beyond
Released: October 25, 2022
Type: Movie
Progressing from sound to color, Lighting Over the Beyond is a road movie that traces the roots of cinema and the history of war while asking "What is war?" and "What is an enemy?".
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Borderless Island
Title: Borderless Island
Released: October 1, 2022
Type: Movie
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Gensan Punch
Title: Gensan Punch
Character: Nao Tsuyama
Released: June 10, 2022
Type: Movie
Nao Tsuyama, a disabled athlete, refuses to let his articifical leg hinder his dream to become a professional boxer. His remarkable journey takes him from Japan to the Philippines, and specifically the celebrated ‘Gensan’ quarter which has spawned worldwide stars such as the legendary Manny Pacquiao.
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Intimate Stranger
Title: Intimate Stranger
Released: March 5, 2022
Type: Movie
A psychological thriller set in the post-COVID Tokyo. The film follows a woman looking for her missing son, and a shady young man who approaches her, claiming to know her son.
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Come and Go
Title: Come and Go
Character: Ryuji Sawada
Released: November 19, 2021
Type: Movie
Tourists, foreigners and outcasts converge on the streets of Osaka in this sprawling ensemble drama by Japan-based, Malaysia-born filmmaker Lim Kah Wai. His eighth feature explores the lesser-known aspects of the Asian melting pot city through the eyes and experiences of a dozen characters who struggle to find their place in society: among them a Nepali refugee with dreams of opening a restaurant, a Burmese student struggling to make ends meet while working two jobs, and a Taiwanese sex tourist who travels to meet his favorite adult video actress.
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Detective Chinatown 3
Title: Detective Chinatown 3
Character: Su Chaiwit's Man
Released: February 12, 2021
Type: Movie
Following the excitement of first Bangkok and then New York, a big murder case takes place in Tokyo. Chinatown master detectives Tangren and Qinfeng are invited to take up the mystery. Adding to the excitement are the other detectives on the CRIMASTER international detective list as well as the current top rank, Q. Yet another hilarious battle of wits is set to take place...
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Sexual Drive
Title: Sexual Drive
Character: Ikeyama
Released: February 4, 2021
Type: Movie
Designer Enatsu worries about his sexless life. Office worker Akane is getting ready to return to work while undergoing rehab at home for panic attacks. Elite advertising agent Ikeyama wants to end his relationship with his lover. A shabby man named Kurita appears before all three with a secret.
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Joint
Title: Joint
Character: Jay
Released: November 15, 2020
Type: Movie
After serving 2 years in prison, ISHIGAMI Takeshi (YAMAMOTO Yikken) spent two years working on a construction site and building up his funds before he returned to Tokyo with the help of Yasu, his best friend. He is determined to try and go straight but before he can do that, he has to raise even more money to break free of the criminal underworld and that requires a deep dive. He enlists his Korean friend Junghi and starts a business selling data for phone fraud to his Yakuza friend Yuki. As the business grows, Takeshi can just about make escape velocity, however, his old ties are holding him back and as a split in a yakuza family signals that start of a war, Takeshi finds himself getting dragged back down to the criminal underworld.
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Tokyo Butterfly
Title: Tokyo Butterfly
Released: September 11, 2020
Type: Movie
There was a popular band with four students. After the band was offered a major contract, they broke up after a minor mistake. 6 years later, they are living their lives in their late twenties with troubles: Marriage, work, human relationship. They meet again and finish a song that they couldn't complete.
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Fancy
Title: Fancy
Released: February 7, 2020
Type: Movie
Set in a spa town, Akira Takasu (Masatoshi Nagase) is a carver and a mailman. He keeps in touch with poet Penguin (Masataka Kubota). Penguin has a female fan with the name of Moonlit Night's Star (Sakurako Konishi). She sends letters to Penguin. One day, the female fan appears in front of Akira Takasu and Penguin. These three somehow get involved in a battle between the yakuza.
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Enemy Within
Title: Enemy Within
Character: Lt. Jack Mizuha
Released: April 19, 2019
Type: Movie
When a Japanese pilot crash-lands on the tiny remote Hawaiian island of Ni'ihau, he is met with courtesy and traditional Hawaiian hospitality from the locals - until they discover he was part of the recent attack on Pearl Harbor. Soon the community is split between those of Japanese ancestry who support the pilot and those of Hawaiian ancestry who oppose them.
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Okinawan Blue
Title: Okinawan Blue
Character: Yuhi Hanashiro
Released: February 2, 2019
Type: Movie
A tale of three families on a remote island.
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Tokyo Living Dead Idol
Title: Tokyo Living Dead Idol
Character: Mitsuo Inuda
Released: June 9, 2018
Type: Movie
One day an idol is bitten by a zombie and before she is taken into custody, she runs away. She only has 72 hours left until she becomes one, so she tries to find the zombie serum, but high school girl zombie hunter and zombies attack her. Will she make it to the destination within the time limit?
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Stay
Title: Stay
Character: Ryu
Released: May 26, 2018
Type: Movie
After losing his job, a recovering addict struggles to survive and meets a free spirited woman, who changes his world, but cannot stay in his life.
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The Dog Bridegroom
Title: The Dog Bridegroom
Character: Yurina
Released: May 13, 2017
Type: Movie
Ninomiya Azusa is a depressed elementary school teacher in Tokyo, who has problems both at work and in her personal life. One day, she suddenly hears a voice saying "If you go to Imore Island, you will get what you want.", so she decides to give it a try.
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Title: Transit Girls
Character: Ryutaro Saeki
Released: November 7, 2015
Type: TV
High School student Sayuri is falling in love with Yui, the daughter of her father's fiancee.
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CONTROL OF VIOLENCE
Title: CONTROL OF VIOLENCE
Character: Chris(older brother)
Released: July 25, 2015
Type: Movie
A three-way battle of hoodlums vs yakuza vs gyoza factory manager! A fierce battleground in Osaka, where territories are fought over with impunity. There, a group of hoodlums, who are in good shape and gaining momentum, have launched a series of surprise attacks on the Yakuza.
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Samurai of the Dead
Title: Samurai of the Dead
Character: Tojin X
Released: December 1, 2014
Type: Movie
As the end approaches for Japan’s age of military rule, the Tokugawa shogunate brings together a squad of ruthless assassins to defend its representatives in Kyoto. These men were known as the Shinsengumi. Formidable swordsmen with unswerving dedication to their cause, the Shinsengumi think nothing of slashing down their enemies…but what happens when the enemy is the undead?
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Uzumasa Limelight
Title: Uzumasa Limelight
Released: June 14, 2014
Type: Movie
Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, veteran "kirareyaku" (whose job it is to be felled with a sword by a film's star) actor Kamiyama is tasked with teaching sword action techniques to fledgling actress Satsuki. A few years later, the now-retired Kamiyama is visited by Satsuki, who has become a popular star.
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Title: Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist
Character: Young Gôken
Released: May 23, 2014
Type: TV
A multi-layered series that looks back to the formative years of Ryu and Ken as they live a traditional warrior's life in secluded Japan.
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Title: Zero: Black Blood
Character: Kuroudo
Released: March 5, 2014
Type: TV
Rei Suzumura, Zero the Silver Fanged Knight, is patrolling on his own when he encounters the white Horror Ring, who has created a commune where Horrors and humans live together in harmony, so long as one human a month allows themselves to be devoured by the Horrors. Rei, along with Makai Priest Cain and the knight-in-training Yuna are ordered by the Makai Senate to slay Ring and free the humans under his thrall by means of Yuna's mother the Makai Priestess Iyu.
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TAP: Perfect Education
Title: TAP: Perfect Education
Character: Sôma
Released: November 9, 2013
Type: Movie
In Okinawa, a down-and-out middle-aged yakuza underling named Shidara kidnaps and confines a high school girl named Yui, the daughter of a fellow yakuza’s mistress.
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Title: Neo Ultra Q
Character: Hashio (Epignoid)
Released: January 12, 2013
Type: TV
Ultra Q has returned, and continues investigations of monstrous appearances and strange ecological phenomenons.
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Nighthawks in Bangkok
Title: Nighthawks in Bangkok
Character: Drifter
Released: June 16, 2012
Type: Movie
Proy, a young waitress has always been curious about a worn-out drifter who often strolls into the cafeteria with no money. One night, seeing the drifter again lost in thought, Proy takes the courage to speak to him.
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The Room
Title: The Room
Character: Taka
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
Yumi moves into her boyfriend's Tokyo apartment but on the night of the move, he is called away for business in New York. The couple communicates over Skype and over the course of four nights, their relationship descends into an abyss of mistrust and lies. Yumi believes there's a ghost in the room haunting her as her only connection to the outside world is Taka on the other side of the world. Taka believes she's slowly going crazy right in front of his eyes. The story concludes with a shocking twist that will haunt both of them forever.
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Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler
Title: Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler
Character: Majima
Released: October 10, 2009
Type: Movie
Kaiji Ito moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with society at large, Kaiji spends his days gambling, vandalizing cars, and drinking booze. Two years later and his life is no better. A debt collector named Endo arrives to collect money owed. The debt collector offers two choices to Kaiji: spend 10 years paying off his loan or board a gambling boat for one night to repay his debt & possibly make a boat load of money. Could the debt collector Endo actually be setting up Kaiji? One way or another, for Kaiji it's going to be the night of his life.
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Kakera: A Piece of Our Life
Title: Kakera: A Piece of Our Life
Character: Bartender
Released: October 7, 2009
Type: Movie
The story of the relationship between a college student whose relationship with her boyfriend is going nowhere and a bisexual medical artist who makes prosthetic body parts. Haru is a college student ignored by her boyfriend yet believes she is still in love with him. One day at a café, Haru meets Riko, a medical artist (prosthetist) who creates body parts in order to disguise clients’ missing pieces, lost due to accident or disease. Both were alone, but struck up an immediate friendship and closeness. Riko doesn't care about gender when it comes to relationships, and believes that love itself is the most important thing a human can achieve. Haru struggles in her life between friendship and a deeper relationship with Riko.
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Waiting for Good News
Title: Waiting for Good News
Released: February 28, 2009
Type: Movie
General store manager Akio (Tetsuji Tamayama) lives a carefree live in Okinawa with his dog, Kafu. One day he receives a strange letter from a woman named Sachi, but that’s not any person he’s familiar with. It turns out that the letter was a response to a joke wish he hung up at a Shinto shrine months earlier. Then one day, Sachi (Maiko) shows up and the two begin a relationship.
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Bloody Snake Under the Sun
Title: Bloody Snake Under the Sun
Released: October 22, 2007
Type: Movie
The film is based on a true story about an Okinawan sansen (3 stringed guitar) player named Ryo and his experiences growing up in Okinawa in 1968. Ryo meets an American military solider named George, and they discover that they have more similarities than differences. The atmosphere of the film is heavily charged with discrimination and prejudice- Okinawans and Japanese (yes there is a difference-big difference in fact), US military and Japanese/Okinawans, officers and enlisted soldiers- and takes place with echoes of the civil rights movement lingering in the backdrop.
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Sukiyaki Western Django
Title: Sukiyaki Western Django
Released: September 15, 2007
Type: Movie
A nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to join, chooses his own path.
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Twilight Phantom
Title: Twilight Phantom
Released: June 9, 2007
Type: Movie
Misaki visits her boyfriend Koichi in Okinawa, the southern island of Japan. To welcome the arrival of Misaki, Koichi's friend Jinsei holds a welcoming party at his house. At the party, Misaki learns from the wise granny about the legend behind the bag hanging from the fig tree and the local demon: Kijimuna, which deeply fascinate Misaki. Jinsei then introduces Misaki to a young female writer, Kagemi, who tells Misaki the darker side of the Kijimuna legend. As the local shaman and medium to the other world, Kagemi’s knowledge in local lore gives Misaki much more to wonder about. The quiet life in Okinawa takes a sharp turn with the arrival of Jinsei’s ex-wife Sanae, which leads to a tragic accident. Soon, the parties involved begin to see a vengeful spirit and their peaceful lifes turn into a nightmare.
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Title: Kaikan shokunin
Released: July 6, 2006
Type: TV
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Chameleon
Title: Chameleon
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A Filipino transgender woman, Marie, who is drawn into the Yakuza gangster life after befriending Ai, the rebellious daughter of a powerful Yakuza boss. Set against the pulsating background of the 1990s nightlife in Sapporo, Hokkaido, the film charts the almost impossible decisions Marie faced and her tumultuous journey to discovering family, love and ultimately her true identity.