Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With Mitsuru Fukikoshi

1. The Twilight Samurai (2002)

129 min | Drama, Romance

As the feudal Japan era draws to a close, a widower samurai experiences difficulty balancing clan loyalties, 2 young daughters, an aged mother, and the sudden reappearance of his childhood sweetheart.

Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi, Ren Ôsugi

Votes: 25,515

2. The Naked Director (2019–2021)

TV-MA | 48 min | Biography, Drama

Follows the story of Toru Muranishi's unusual and dramatic life filled with big ambitions as well as spectacular setbacks in his attempt to turn Japan's porn industry on its head.

Stars: Takayuki Yamada, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Misato Morita, Tokio Emoto

Votes: 6,941

3. Love Exposure (2008)

Unrated | 237 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

A bizarre love triangle forms between a young Catholic upskirt photographer, a misandric girl and a manipulative cultist.

Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Andô, Yutaka Shimizu

Votes: 15,914

4. Cold Fish (2010)

Not Rated | 146 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

The lives of a bored suburban couple are changed forever when a seemingly nice old man gives their daughter a job at his fish store, and soon his gruesome hobbies are brought to light.

Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Denden, Asuka Kurosawa, Megumi Kagurazaka

Votes: 14,526

5. The Days (2023)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, History, Thriller

Blamed by some, hailed as heroes by others, those involved with Fukushima Daiichi face a deadly, invisible threat an unprecedented nuclear disaster.

Stars: Koji Yakusho, Hao Feng, Nobi Nakanishi, Minae Noji

Votes: 6,497

6. Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002)

Not Rated | 88 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A new Godzilla causes the JSDF to construct a cyborg countermeasure from the original monster's remains. The beast's restless soul is discovered to inhabit the machine as the pilot must learn to find value in her own life.

Directors: Masaaki Tezuka, Kazuki Ômori | Stars: Yumiko Shaku, Shin Takuma, Kana Onodera, Kô Takasugi

Votes: 5,449

7. Midnight Diner (2009–2014)

TV-MA | 24 min | Drama

Shinya Shokudo is a tv series from Japan since 2009. It tells many stories about ordinary people eat in shinya shokudo, which means a restaurant at midnight. This small restaurant opens from 12 in the evening to 7 in the morning.

Stars: Kaoru Kobayashi, Mansaku Fuwa, Toshiki Ayata, Shôhei Uno

Votes: 3,159

8. Himizu (2011)

129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty.

Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Shôta Sometani, Fumi Nikaidô, Tetsu Watanabe, Mitsuru Fukikoshi

Votes: 4,709

9. Unnatural (2018)

54 min | Drama, Mystery

Stories of Unnatural Death Investigation, a Japanese non-governmental organization as they work on unnatural death cases and try to reveal the truth behind the deaths.

Stars: Satomi Ishihara, Masataka Kubota, Yutaka Matsushige, Mikako Ichikawa

Votes: 2,001

10. Lesson of the Evil (2012)

Unrated | 129 min | Horror, Thriller

A popular high school teacher concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body.

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Fumi Nikaidô, Takehiro Hira, Hideaki Itô, Shôta Sometani

Votes: 6,793

11. Love & Pop (1998)

110 min | Drama

A high school girl engages in compensated dating in order to buy an expensive ring before the day ends.

Director: Hideaki Anno | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Megumi Hayashibara, Akira Ishida

Votes: 1,870

12. My Rainy Days (2009)

119 min | Drama, Romance

Seventeen year old high school student Rio Ozawa is always the center of attention due to her beauty. Yet Rio has never cared about anyone but herself due to her traumatic past. Her friends... See full summary »

Director: Yuri Kanchiku | Stars: Nozomi Sasaki, Shôsuke Tanihara, Hikaru Yamamoto, Mitsuki Ôishi

Votes: 2,387

13. Aibou: Tokyo Detective Duo (2000–2023)

110 min | Drama

Detective Ukyo Sugishita and his partner solve cases by just the two of them as "Special Task Unit" of MPD where demoted people belong.

Stars: Yutaka Mizutani, Atsushi Yamanishi, Kazuhisa Kawahara, Ryo Ono

Votes: 136

14. Love Will Tear Us Apart (2023)

87 min | Horror

Wakaba saves her classmate Koki who was being bullied. From then on, people who are involved with Wakaba are killed one after another. When the murderer is found out, Wakaba realizes what true love is.

Director: Ken'ichi Ugana | Stars: Jun Amaki, Yuzu Aoki, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Sayu Kubota

Votes: 7

15. Gamera 2: Attack of the Legion (1995)

Not Rated | 99 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

A meteor lands in Japan and unleashes hundreds of insect-like "Legion" creatures bent on colonizing the Earth. Gamera shows up to deal with the ever-evolving space adversary but the battle may result in him losing his bond with humanity.

Director: Shûsuke Kaneko | Stars: Toshiyuki Nagashima, Miki Mizuno, Tamotsu Ishibashi, Mitsuru Fukikoshi

Votes: 3,099

16. Guinea Pig 4: Devil Woman Doctor (1986 Video)

52 min | Comedy, Horror

A drag queen doctor named Peter conducts experiments on patients which end up in anguish!

Director: Hajime Tabe | Stars: Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Kobuhei Hayashiya, Masami Hisamoto, Nezumi Imamura

Votes: 1,118

17. Revolver Lily (2023)

139 min | Action, Adventure

Takes place in 1924 and centres on Yuri, who killed 57 people as a spy before going underground as the madam of a small brothel. There, she encounters an orphan whose family was murdered ... See full summary »

Director: Isao Yukisada | Stars: Sadao Abe, Haruka Ayase, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Kotone Furukawa

Votes: 98

18. The Journalist (2022– )

TV-14 | 50 min | Drama, Thriller

A dedicated journalist who doggedly pursues the truth about a government corruption scandal even as powerful enemies seek to neutralize her reporting.

Stars: Ren Hanami, Andrew Lee, Keisuke Hoashi, Andrew Grace

Votes: 882

19. Tokyo Vampire Hotel (2017)

390 min | Drama, Horror

Manami is targeted by vampires on her 22nd birthday and K, who possesses tremendous power, tries to save her in a raging battle. On that day, young men and women are invited to the hotel where a huge matchmaking convention is being held.

Stars: Ami Tomite, Kaho, Hirotatsu Terabayashi, Megumi Kagurazaka

Votes: 698

20. Red Post on Escher Street (2020)

148 min | Comedy, Drama

It follows a filmmaker who holds auditions for his next project. Several of the actors who fail to win roles participate as extras.

Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Mala Morgan, Garrett Cassell, Sen Fujimaru, Tomoko Fujita

Votes: 969

21. My Korean Teacher (2016)

98 min | Comedy

Young-Ung is not having a good time. His girlfriend is a gold digger and cheated on him. He is in Japan and working, but his employer has laid him off and is being raided. The products are ... See full summary »

Director: Yûzô Asahara | Stars: Nozomi Sasaki, Yesung, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Eri Fuse

Votes: 96

22. Samurai Fiction (1998)

111 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A noble young samurai searches for a thief who has stolen a precious treasure and killed one of his clansmen and meets an older samurai who tries to deter him from the violence of revenge.

Director: Hiroyuki Nakano | Stars: Morio Kazama, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Tomoyasu Hotei, Tamaki Ogawa

Votes: 2,760

23. Kabei: Our Mother (2008)

Not Rated | 133 min | Drama

Based on childhood days of Teruyo Nogami.

Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Mayumi Tanaka, Chieko Baishô, Mirai Shida

Votes: 1,518 | Gross: $0.01M

24. Inosenusu Enzai Bengoshi (2019– )

Crime

This work is a human drama that attorney, Taku Kurokawa challenges reversal play with weapons, passion, and science as a weapon to cause "miracle" to clear false charges. Kurokawa who plays... See full summary »

Stars: Eiji Akaso, Haruna Kawaguchi, Kentarô Sakaguchi, Mikako Ichikawa

Votes: 54

25. The Hours of My Life (2014)

54 min | Drama, Romance

Sawada Takuto is an ordinary university student, who one day learns that he has A.L.S. (Lou Gehrig's disease) with not much time left to live. Instead of wallowing in despair, Takuto tries to live his life to the fullest.

Stars: Haruma Miura, Mikako Tabe, Shunsuke Kazama, Takumi Saitô

Votes: 496

26. Mole Song Final (2021)

129 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Trilogy about a cop who goes undercover and becomes a fully-fledged Yakuza.

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Tôma Ikuta, Paolo Andrea Di Pietro, Ken'ichi Endô, Mitsuru Fukikoshi

Votes: 161

27. Riaru onigokko (2008)

98 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Teenager is transported to a parallel world where everyone who shares his family name is being hunted down by the dictatorial government.

Director: Issei Shibata | Stars: Takuya Ishida, Mitsuki Tanimura, Shunsuke Daitô, Rio Matsumoto

Votes: 304

28. Gunshi Kanbee (2014)

Drama, History

Gunshi Kanbei (Strategist Kanbei) is a-year long taiga drama by NHK in 2014. This fictional series consists of 50 episodes and follows the journey of Kuroda Kanbei, a historical figure who ... See full summary »

Stars: Jun'ichi Okada, Gaku Hamada, Miki Nakatani, Mokomichi Hayami

Votes: 119

29. Yakuza 5 (2012 Video Game)

M | Action, Crime, Drama

The story begins in Fukuoka with Daigo Dojima having met with Tadashi Madarame, the patriarch of the local clan. Daigo then leaves to meet discreetly with Kazuma Kiryu who now lives under ... See full summary »

Directors: Kazuki Hosokawa, Masayoshi Yokoyama, Toshihiro Nagoshi | Stars: Takaya Kuroda, Kôichi Yamadera, Rie Kugimiya, Rikiya Koyama

Votes: 518

30. A Girl Missing (2019)

111 min | Drama, Mystery

A home-care nurse's relationship with the family she has spent years working for is threatened when her nephew is arrested for kidnapping their daughter.

Director: Kôji Fukada | Stars: Mariko Tsutsui, Mikako Ichikawa, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Kentez Asaka

Votes: 1,160

31. Winny (2023)

127 min | Drama

Programmer Isamu Kaneko is arrested as the creator of Winny, a peer-to-peer file-sharing program that quickly became the software of choice for online piracy in Japan.

Director: Yusaku Matsumoto | Stars: Masahiro Higashide, Takahiro Miura, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Mitsuru Fukikoshi

Votes: 88

32. Moribito (2016–2018)

Drama, Fantasy

A mysterious spear-wielding woman named Balsa arrives in the New Yogo Kingdom. After saving Prince Chagum from a thinly veiled assassination attempt, ordered by his own father, Balsa is tasked to protect him from his father.

Stars: Haruka Ayase, Masahiro Higashide, Fumino Kimura, Kento Hayashi

Votes: 261

33. Shomuni (1998– )

Comedy, Drama

Tsukahara Sawako, a newcomer in a big company, starts going out with a superior, only to realise that the latter is married. Due to this scandal, she is demoted to Shyomu ni, a department ... See full summary »

Stars: Makiko Esumi, Kotomi Kyôno, Yumiko Takahashi, Keiko Toda

Votes: 280

34. Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger (2019–2020)

TV-PG | 25 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

65 million years ago, the knights of the Ryusoul Tribe were selected to participate in a war campaign against the dictating Druidon Tribe who sought to rule Earth. But the Druidon's war ... See full summary »

Stars: Hayate Ichinose, Keito Tsuna, Ichika Osaki, Yuito Obara

Votes: 102

35. Tsure ga utsu ni narimashite. (2011)

121 min | Drama

A husband is suffering from melancholia, and he wants to commit suicide. His wife, who is a cartoonist, forces him to quit his job for the therapy. The wife's optimism influence the husband, and they live happily ever after.

Director: Kiyoshi Sasabe | Stars: Aoi Miyazaki, Masato Sakai, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Kanji Tsuda

Votes: 723

36. Amachan (2013)

15 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

A young girl from Tokyo moves to the Tohoku region to become a female diver. A so-called 'Ama' diver.

Stars: Non, Kyôko Koizumi, Tetta Sugimoto, Ai Hashimoto

Votes: 583

37. Namae no nai Onnatachi: Usotsuki Onna (2018)

86 min | Comedy

A journalist named Atsushi has a specialty of writing about adult film actresses. He then meets a woman named Hanako and forms a relationship with her. But her younger sister Asuka arrives and falls in love.

Director: Toshiki Satô | Stars: Shô Kasamatsu, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Fujiko, Mutsuo Yoshioka

Votes: 34

38. Silver Spoon (2014)

111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Yuugo, who grew up in the city, finds himself in an unfamiliar environment at Ooejo Agricultural High School, surrounded by nature and animals. Yuugo is also the only one who doesn't know ... See full summary »

Director: Keisuke Yoshida | Stars: Kento Nakajima, Alice Hirose, Tomohiro Ichikawa, Haru Kuroki

Votes: 381

39. Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story (2019)

TV-14 | 45 min | Comedy, Drama, History

A drama about the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

Stars: Mirai Moriyama, Kankurô Nakamura, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Koji Yakusho

Votes: 106

40. Heaven's Story (2010)

Not Rated | 278 min | Drama

(Japanese with English subtitles) Part revenge story, part existential meditation, Heaven's Story is 100% modern epic, gracefully threading together multiple suburban tales of lost souls seeking retribution and redemption.

Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Noriko Eguchi, Akira Emoto, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Kanji Furutachi

Votes: 158

41. Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death (2008)

113 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Kaneshiro plays a Grim Reaper who appears to his victims in human form and spends a week with them before deciding whether to off them or not.

Director: Masaya Kakehi | Stars: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Manami Konishi, Sumiko Fuji, Yuki Enomoto

Votes: 1,247

42. The Land of Hope (2012)

Not Rated | 133 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

An earth-quake causes a nuclear crisis in a fictive Japanese prefecture. In wake of the disaster, the members of the Ono family who reside just outside the border of the mandatory evacuation zone face uncertainty.

Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Isao Natsuyagi, Naoko Ohtani, Jun Murakami, Megumi Kagurazaka

Votes: 1,265

43. Cherry Boys (2018)

113 min | Comedy

Shinichi, Tatsuya, and Makoto live in a provincial town. They are all friends and 25 years old. Even though they only think about women and sex, they are all still virgins. To change their lives, they set up a plan to have sex.

Director: Ken'ichirô Nishiumi | Stars: Ryôma Baba, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Han'nya, Kento Hayashi

Votes: 90

44. Ryuu ga gotoku Online (2018 Video Game)

M | Animation, Action

Ryu ga Gotoku Online is a free-to-play collectible card gacha game and as a spin-off title of the Like a Dragon franchise. The game features both Kazuma Kiryu and the succeeding protagonist Ichiban Kasuga.

Stars: Shô Aikawa, Masuo Amada, Kinryû Arimoto, Sarah Emi Bridcutt

45. Bitter Blood (2014)

54 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Story of two detectives and their relationship as father and son.

Stars: Takeru Satoh, Atsuro Watabe, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Tetsushi Tanaka

Votes: 409

46. Special Investigation Nine (2018–2023)

Crime, Drama

The #9 investigation team has been disbanded and members of the #9 investigation team have been scattered around. One year later, the Chief of the National Police Agency, Sojiro Kandagawa, ... See full summary »

Stars: Yuki Yamada, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Noriko Nakagoshi, Yoshihiko Inohara

Votes: 14

47. Kemonomichi (2006– )

Drama

Animal Trail, a natural path made by traffic of wild animals, can sometimes be helpful for people who are totally lost in the wilderness. One day, a woman who is exhausted with her hopeless... See full summary »

Stars: Misa Uehara, Oji Osuga, Mitsunari Sakamoto, Takuya Iba

Votes: 25

48. Suzuran (1999)

15 min | Drama

Beginning in 1924, a time when both steam engine trains and early Showa Era's first train stations are just beginning. In the waiting room of Asumoe Station, a small country station, a ... See full summary »

Stars: Kiichiro Kawauchi, Shun'ichi Ban, Chieko Baishô, Rumi Hiiragi

Votes: 27

49. The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji (2013)

130 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

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 is suddenly fired by the Police Chief due... See full summary »

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Tôma Ikuta, Ryôhei Abe, Yoshiki Arizono, Ken'ichi Endô

Votes: 1,082

50. Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Yûrei manshon (2005)

93 min | Horror

Aimi and her father move into an old, apartment building and learn quickly that things are not normal here. The landlord warns Aimi and her father of the curfew. First, all residents must ... See full summary »

Director: Akio Yoshida | Stars: Mei Kurokawa, Yoshihiko Hosoda, Yûta Sone, Ayaka Maeda

Votes: 491