Movies: Natsuo Ishido

In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn't an accomplished swordsman however, and he prefers sharing the life of the residents, teaching the kids how to write e...

On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single ...

A simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what happened a day before....

Matsudo leads a normal life working in the futures market. But after receiving a promotion, he loses consciousness. He finds that he has become part of some wicked human experiment. As the scalpel is slowly inserted into his brain, he loses his past ...

In Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for nearly twenty years. Each day passes eventlessly... until one day. The monotony of their daily lives is interrupted by the appearance of a beautiful female...

When his internet business fails and leaves him in heavy debt, Ryota takes a position on a tuna fishing boat set to sail on New Year's Day 2000. In the meantime, he lives indifferently....

Akira Nobi directs this violent two-fisted tale about a pair of abandoned sibling teens who fall into a web of yakuza intrigue. The film opens with young, pretty Maki (Natsuo Ishido) luring a drunken salariman into a parking lot only to be mugged by ...

The story of a girl riding a motorcycle and embarking on a journey to meet her distant father....

This horror anthology is featuring nine independent episodes, each 30 minutes long, that are revolving around bad karma and terror....

In 1985 Hokkaido, Akiko gets close to a record store clerk after he lends her his copy of a Yutaka Ozaki album....

"GHOST HOUSE" Cast: Jinpachi Nezu ("Castle of the Owls", "Red Shadow"), Natsuo Ishido, Masako Izumi Synopsis: A young girl is forbidden by her parents to marry and decides to elope. "WHISPERS" Cast: Ryuji Harada ("Ka-chan", "Firefly"), Eisuke Tsunod...

When a woman whose job is to professionally date men disappears suddenly, a TV crew who wanted to film a documentary about women like her begin searching for her. Coincidentally, a salary-man who saw the disappeared woman and wants to meet her again ...

A young woman is convinced that someone inhabit her house during the day.... She will quickly decide to buy a camera to record what is happening in her apartment during her absences....

Japanese horror starring Stephen Fung as a man who dies in a skiing accident, only for his best friend to marry his wife and inherit his fortune. Supernatural hijinks ensue....