7.3

Zen

2009, Japan

• Actors: Kantarou Nakamura, Yuki Uchida, Ryushin Tei, Shô Aikawa, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Masanobu Katsumura, Kengo Kora, Jun Murakami, Masahiko Nishimura, Takashi Sasano, Shun Sugata, Keiko Takahashi, Kenichiro Yasui, Tianyong Zheng
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Banmei Takahashi
• Available languages:
  • Japanese Japanese.

'Zen' Buddhist teacher Dogen Zenji is a very important religious person during the Kamakura period, 750 years ago. After his mother died, he decides to move to China and settle as a Buddhist teacher. One bright morning, enlightened, Zenji returns to Japan as a devoted evangelist of the 'new' Buddhism. However, this new form of Buddhism is not accepted in all communities.

  6.0

L: Change the World

2008, Japan

• Actors: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Sota Aoyama, Shunji Fujimura, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Mayuko Fukuda, Narushi Fukuda, Sei Hiraizumi, Shigeki Hosokawa, Renji Ishibashi, Yuta Kanai, Youki Kudoh, Tim Man, Bokuzô Masana, Thomas J. Melesky, Shido Nakamura, Kazuki Namioka, Kiyotaka Nanbara, Megumi Satô, Asaka Seto, Ron Smoorenburg, Michael Strusievici, Masanobu Takashima, Yôji Tanaka, Erika Toda, Shingo Tsurumi, David Bueno, Lex de Groot
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
• Director(s): Hideo Nakata
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A spin-off of the popular Death Note films, L: Change The World focuses on the legendary detective L as he uses his final 23 days to solve crimes all over the world. When a young girl and boy come to him for aid, L is soon faced with what may be his most difficult case yet: stopping a group of corrupted scientists from spreading a lethal virus throughout the earth.

  7.8

Desu nôto

2006, Japan

• Actors: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Asaka Seto, Shigeki Hosokawa, Erika Toda, Shunji Fujimura, Takeshi Kaga, Yu Kashii, Shido Nakamura, Sota Aoyama, Christopher Britton, Shannon Chan-Kent, Brian Drummond, Norman England, Masanori Fujita, Michiko Godai, Matt Lagan, Hikari Mitsushima, Takeo Nakahara, Ikuji Nakamura, Shin Shimizu, Brad Swaile, Yôji Tanaka, French Tickner, Vincent Tong, Masahiko Tsugawa, Colleen Wheeler
• Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
• Director(s): Shusuke Kaneko
• Available languages:
  • Japanese Japanese.

Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the perpetrator. An all out battle between the greatest minds on earth begins, the winner controlling the world.

  4.7

Batoru rowaiaru II: Chinkonka

2003, Japan

• Actors: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ai Maeda, Shûgo Oshinari, Ayana Sakai, Haruka Suenaga, Yûma Ishigaki, Miyuki Kanbe, Masaya Kikawada, Yoko Maki, Yuki Ito, Natsuki Kato, Aki Maeda, Riki Takeuchi, Aja, Munetaka Aoki, Riasu Arama, Sonny Chiba, Seiichi Ebina, Ryoji Fujihira, Maki Hamada, Ayumi Hanada, Kenji Harada, Hitomi Hasebe, Takaaki Ikeyama, Asuka Ishii, Hiroaki Ito, Ai Iwamura, Kotaru Kamijou, Minami Kanazawa, Ryo Katsuji
• Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Kenta Fukasaku
• Available languages:
  • Japanese Japanese.

Three years after the events in "Battle Royale," Shuya Nanahara (Tatsuya Fujiwara)is a well-known terrorist bent on bringing down the government. In response, they order the creation of the "Battle Royale 2" program, and send a class of junior-high students to catch and kill him.

  7.9

Batoru rowaiaru

2000, Japan

• Actors: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarô Yamamoto, Chiaki Kuriyama, Sosuke Takaoka, Takashi Tsukamoto, Yukihiro Kotani, Eri Ishikawa, Sayaka Kamiya, Aki Inoue, Takayo Mimura, Yutaka Shimada, Ren Matsuzawa, Hirohito Honda, Ryou Nitta, Sayaka Ikeda, Anna Nagata, Yukari Kanasawa, Misao Kato, Hitomi Hyuga, Satomi Ishii, Asami Kanai, Satomi Hanamura, Yousuke Shibata, Shirô Gô, Yuuki Masuda, Shigeki Hirokawa, Tamaki Mihara, Tomomi Shimaki, Yasuomi Sano
• Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Kinji Fukasaku
• Available languages:
  • Japanese Japanese.

Forty-two delinquent students, three days, one deserted Island: welcome to Battle Royale. A group of delinquent students from a Japanese high school have been forced by legislation to compete in a new forum of reality television.The students are each given a bag with a randomly selected weapon and a few rations of food and water and sent off to kill each other in a no-holds-barred (with a few minor rules) game to the death, which means that the students have three days to kill each other until one survives--or they all die. The movie focus on a few of the students and how they cope. Some decide to play the game like the psychotic Kiriyama or the sexual Mistuko, while others like the heroes of the movie--Shuya, Noriko, and Kawada--are trying to find a way to get off the Island without violence. However, as the numbers dwell down lower and lower on an hourly basis, is there any way for Shuya and classmates to survive?