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Movie - 2021, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

An overly curious journalist sits face to face with a resident of the mysterious district of North Shinjuku. One is trying to understand the codes and unspoken truths of a closed community; the other gradually reveals his world. Daisuke Miyazaki delivers an unorthodox, futuristic sci-fi full of recursive effects and false appearances. Shot in lustrous black and white, featuring a series of still images, this impossible dialogue is like a response from the future to Chris Marker’s La Jetée. Harrowing yet leavened by humour, the story includes street kids, ancestral pariahs and, as you’d expect, yakuzas.

Movie - 2013, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Takachiho (Hitoshi Ozawa), a loan officer at the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, leaks information about an unlisted stock deal and is convicted of insider trading. With his arrest, his powerful backers—his vice-minister father-in-law and the Nakai-gumi, who suffered massive losses—begin cutting him loose. Behind bars, Takachiho quietly waits for his chance to escape. His only possible ally is Oshiro (Masahiro Chono), the Nakai-gumi’s young boss—but everything may be part of the organization’s trap. What is Takachiho's true objective? And what fate awaits the man who deceived both the state and the yakuza?

Movie - 2013, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Four strangers (Hitoshi Ozawa, Haruna Yabuki, Takeshi Onishi, Katsuya) answer an online ad for a “high-paying job.” The task: Kidnap a yakuza boss. They don’t know each other’s faces or identities—but a dangerous trap awaits. The client is among them. Betrayal and secrets surface as their true identities are revealed. Who is the mastermind pulling the strings? A bold, new-style action entertainment from OZAWA.