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Searched Person for "Asano," -- 12 results

Gohatto (1999)
Matched Talent: Asano, Tadanobu
The story of a young samurai warrior of extraordinary skill and "beauty" is the mark of several samurai who wish to posess him, as well as destroy him. A look at homosexuality in Japan, set in Kyoto during the Bakumatsu Period, which turns into a murder mystery.
Distance (2001)
Matched Talent: Asano, Tadanobu
The surviving family members of a cult-driven mass-suicide gather at the forest lake where their family members died. Forced to spend the night in the cabin once used by the cult, each person faces what has happened and how their life has changed as a result.
Party 7 (2001)
Matched Talent: Asano, Tadanobu
Wild film about seven characters at the Hotel New Mexico, located somewhere out in the boonies. Most of the action takes place in two hotel rooms, one in which two characters are watching the rest via a mirrored wall.
Picnic
Matched Talent: Asano, Tadanobu
When three pyschologically disturbed people leave their hospital, it becomes a journey of incredible misdirection. (Incidentally, this movie allowed Asano and Chara to meet and eventually marry.)
Zatoichi (2003)
Matched Talent: Asano, Tadanobu
Based on a famous historic character (a blind masseuse) who traveled the countryside of Edo Era Japan righting wrongs with his ungodly swordsman skills. An updated version featuring Kitano as the masseuse who wanders into a town run by yakuza gangs who have the local populace in a stranglehold. Violent, bloody; definitely for the samurai flick crowd, but no love for the chambara genre required to enjoy.
Cha No Aji (2003)
Matched Talent: Asano, Tadanobu
A look at an otherwise normal family, until you realize that the father is a hypno-therapist who likes to practice on family members, mother is a former manga artist looking to get back in the game, the son is a torrent of hormones, grandpa is on permenant mental vacation, and the daughter (the protagonist) has a giant, pestering alter-ego.
Akarui Mirai
Matched Talent: Asano, Tadanobu
Two friends, Arita and Nimura, waste their lives away in a deadend job until one of them kills their boss and is sent to prison. Slowly the line between reality and fantasy blur for the remaining friend.
Dead End Run
Matched Talent: Asano, Tadanobu
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Mizu No Onna
Matched Talent: Asano, Tadanobu
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Soseji (1999)
Matched Talent: Asano, Tadanobu
Director Shinya Tsukamoto brings to life a variation of an Edogawa Rampo tale of a rich doctor whose life is ripped from him by a violent and unknown visitor. Set during the Meiji Era.
Koroshiya Ichi
Matched Talent: Asano, Tadanobu
A young killer named Ichi is sought out by other killers. Based on a manga by the same title.
Samehada Otoko To Momojiri Onna (1998)
Matched Talent: Asano, Tadanobu
Toshiko on the run from her creepy uncle (and the even creepier, yet extrememly likeable, little assassin he sends after her) runs into Samehada, who is also on the run from the gang of yakuza he used to work with. Together they work to outsmart everyone in a bid for big money.