Etsushi Toyokawa

All Movies of Etsushi Toyokawa

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  Tokyo Swindlers
  The story unveils a series of unprecedented crimes committed by a cunning group of land scammers who use real estate sales as bait to steal large sums of money.
   2024

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  Revolver Lily
  Set in Tokyo 1924 after the Great Kanto Earthquake, story of a beautiful, cold-hearted and ruthless plotter woman who was involved in the murder of over 50 people over a three-year period.
   2023

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  Kingdom 2: To Distant Lands
  It follows a young man who dreams of becoming a general and Ying Zheng, whose goal is unification.
   2022

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  Samurai Marathon
  The American imperialists are at the door and intruding on Japan. To assess and train his troops the lord of the land announces a marathon through the land crisscrossing shores, forests and the mountain. The shogunate in Edo was n...
   2019

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  Punk Samurai Slash Down
  In search of employment and a permanent position and having committed murder the ronin Kake Junoshin tells the Kurokaze ('black wave') Han clan that a religious cult is aiming for their destruction. This gets him in, but he is soo...
   2018

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  Gosaigyô no Onna
  A predatory middle-aged woman and her partner prey upon aging older men of a certain wealth. The idea is as old as the history of mankind itself: take the man's money in exchange for something pretty on his arm's and a goo...
  Character: Toru Kashiwagi

   2016

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  Postcard
  Towards the end of the war, one hundred middle-aged soldiers were sent to the frontline according to lots drawn by their superior officer. On the night of the lottery, a soldier, expecting to be killed in action, leaves a postcard...
   2010

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  Sword of Desperation
   2010

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  20th Century Boys: The Last Chapter - Our Flag
   2009

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  A Good Husband
  The heart wrenching love story between a married couple. The jobless husband cheats on his wife and has no love for her. The wife wants to go on a trip to get pregnant. This mismatched husband and wife may find sympathy among othe...
   2009

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  7.0
  Twentieth Century Boys: Chapter Two - The Last Hope
   2009

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  Ai no rukeichi
  A man strangles his wife at her insistence. He is a writer, a novelist and has trouble writing. She is full of passion and does not want to live without her essence, her love, her admiration and everything he means to her. Unfortu...
  Character: Kikuji Murao

   2007

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  6.0
  Hula Girls
  In 1965 the planned closing of a coal mine in Iwaki (northeastern Japan) will put 2,000 people out of work with devastating effects on the community. The mining company plans to build the Hawaiian Center to promote tourism, but th...
   2006

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  Awakening
   2006

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  5.8
  The Sinking of Japan
  In the aftermath of a major earthquake under Suraga Bay, Misaki (a young girl) and Toshiro (a pilot of a deep sea submarine) are rescued from a ruined city street just as leaking gasoline ignites. Reiko Abe arrives just in time, l...
  Character: Yusuke Tadokoro

   2006

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  Year One in the North
  In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of Hokkaido. These people once supported the now displaced Samurais of the older days...
   2005

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  The Great Yokai War
  A young boy becomes an unlikely hero when he is chosen as the “Kirin Rider" and must lead Japan’s ancient Yokai spirits in their war against the evil monsters. Remake of the 1968 film “Yokai Daisenso". It’s ...
   2005

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  Until the Lights Come Back
  Christmass Eve, Tokyo. A boy looking to the stars with his telescope, sees some strange event which causes blackout in the huge metropolitan area. One event which will change many lives.
   2005

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  Yawarakai seikatsu (It's Only Talk)
   2005

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  Life
   2002

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  Battle Without Honor
   2000

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  Face
  Sullen and withdrawn 'ugly' elder sister Masako toils endlessly with mending chores in her widowed mother's dry cleaning shop, seething with hatred for her flashy younger sister Yukari, who visits only for free laundry service. Wh...
   2000

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  Village of the Eight Tombs
  A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later. Despite the Asian setting, it has a sort of strong sense of the gothic that brings to mind the works of Edgar Allan Poe and...
   1996

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  Love Letter
  Hiroko Watanabe's fiancé Itsuki died two years earlier in a mountain climbing accident. While looking through his high school yearbook, Hiroko in a fit of grief decides to write a letter to him using his old school address. Surpr...
   1995

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  4.0
  No Way Back
  When F.B.I. Agent Zack Grant's partner is killed during a blown-up operation, he attempts to find the person responsible. Mafiaso Frank Serlano believes Zack is responsible for his only sons death in the same operation and kidnaps...
   1995

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  Izakaya yurei
  Based on the homonymous novel by Masayo Yamamoto, a human comedy depicting a strange love triangle between a dead wife, a second wife, and her husband. Sotaro broke his promise to his late wife that he would never remarry and welc...
   1994

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  Tsuribaka nisshi 6 (Free and Easy 6)
  Su-san must give a lecture in far-off Iwate, which serves as another excuse for the company president and Hama-chan to go fishing. Once there, however, Hama-chan is mistaken for the company president and Su-san for his chauffeur.
   1993

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  Kira kira hikaru
  Shoko and Mutsuki get married to satisfy their worried parents, but she is well past the age at which a 'good' Japanese woman should marry, and he is in love with a young male college student. The film is less a realistic explorat...
   1992

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  Kachô Shima Kôsaku
   1992

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  Kimi wa boku o sukininaru
  Romantic comedy of four men and women on Christmas Eve.
   1989