Tetsu Watanabe Movies

Unfinished film based on the life of biologist Minakata Kumagusu.

A ship runs aground on a mysterious atoll leading to an investigation by insurance representative Kusanagi, who discovers an ancient bead that he...

Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience...

Keizo Kuno, a man who once lived in the yakuza world, has abandoned his past and now lives quietly, working in a corner of Otaru. Every year, he...

A five-part comedy and horror anthology

Two 14-year-olds from troubled, abusive homes come together sharing misery and pain. In the aftermath of an earthquake, the classmates learn how to...

Chisato and Mahiro must pay four years of overdue fees or lose their membership in their assassin guild. They take part-time jobs, but find...

Ryugen (Hitoshi Ozawa) and Toraji (Kazuyoshi Ozawa) are the two candidates to succeed the head of the Kanto Kyojinkai. The conflict between the two...

A high-octane financial comedy starring a man descended from a genius con artist. It chronicles the chaotic daily life of this astonishing...

The leaders of the Kyowakai are surprised that Baba, the leader of the disciples, is still alive. After being discharged from the hospital, Baba...

A suspense drama based on Osamu Takahashi's original work starring Shinobu Otake. The shooting location of Gunkanjima is a famous tourist attraction....

Working as a first-class photographer, the frame he looks a Woojin, a man who lived stubbornly. During a business trip to Japan, a woman accidentally...

The era when yakuza could live as yakuza is over. Genichi Taguchi (Tetsu Watanabe), chairman of the Kanto Kyojin-kai, the massive organization that...

An overweight exchange student with no friends decides to join the university’s sumo team at a Japanese university. But in order to get in,...

In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce devotion of his former students, who...

Tatsuya Kakurai, a young mahjong player from Shinjuku; Satsuki, an office worker and player from Marunouchi; the veteran "Demon" Nagamasa; Awano, a...

A short movie set in a public bathhouse that depicts a confrontation between male patrons over a widow's manager. A certain public bathhouse where...

Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighbors care for him as new events occur every day.

Dumped by a bored pet owner, a mixed-breed mutt ends up with three time loser Yasuyuki, who's loveless, homeless and jobless. Yasuyuki finds solace...