Tetsu Watanabe Movies

1996 / Japan / Drama / 75 minutes

Set in Edo-era Kyoto, this drama depicts the adolescent battles and the love between parents and children who are born and raised in the same...

Nagisa Gumi Gold Batch Shirogane Maji (Tamotsu Ishibashi) was imprisoned in Aomori for attempted murder at the end of a war with the Shuyukai....

An Orthodox priest, Father Nikolay, the brother of a Yakuza boss, is drawn into in a mob war in Japan. He escapes to the small Russian village of...

A comedy in which Furaibo and a detective work together against a bomber.

A foreign university student tries to fit in in Kyoto by reading books to the blind and finds himself falling in love.

The eldest daughter, Masami, who ran away from home three years ago and hadn't heard from her father and sister who run the ramen shop "Kogawa...

Set against the vibrant backdrop of 1970s Japan, this coming-of-age story follows a young man navigating the turbulence of youth. As he struggles to...

Kansuke Kandaiji, an expert witness who takes see's the heart's of people and determines the true value of things.

A shopping arcade in a working-class Tokyo neighborhood filled with Baki fans comes under threat when an unscrupulous corporation tries to take over.

The strength or weakness of an organization lies in the hands of its boss. In the unforgiving world of the yakuza, where leadership is relentlessly...

Kazuya goes to live with his mother Shinobu because his father, Yoshiki, who works in the same company, has fired him according to the company policy...

A pair of Tokyo policewomen who pack their own brand of "deadly weapons" do some serious undercover work as they take on the toughest cases the...

Made-for-TV film adaptation of the 1957 novel by Seicho Matsumoto starring Takeshi Kitano and directed by Noboru Tanaka. The novel was previously...

Shigeo Tokioka (Tetsu Watanabe), a lonely man who has lost his wife, sees a three-line ad for a club in the newspaper that reads, "Tea drinking...

An omnibus special featuring four stories: two former bullies who reunite years after their friend’s suicide and face a terrifying coincidence;...

The seventh film in the Jingi series

#5 in the King of Minami series and the second film to be released theatrically. Manda's original apprentice, Ryuichi, resurfaces after being...

An entertainment drama depicting the conflict of yakuza, centering on the female torso and her sister's feud.

According to an urban legend spreading in Japan, if you call an American number at midnight from your cell phone, you'll have a wish granted in...