The best Akira Shioji’s comedy movies
Today we present the best Akira Shioji’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Akira Shioji’s movies.
Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
6.5/10
Junko (Sho Aikawa) is a low-level yakuza in the service of Yoshikawa (Toru Minegishi), despite the misgivings of his uncle (Jo Shishido). He lives off of the money earned by his girlfriend and is more interested in trying to look cool than anything else. He meets Yumeko (Chikako Aoyama), an innocent but dangerous narcoleptic runaway, after she steals his car, and she soon moves in with him. Following the assassination of a high-ranking member by the Kazama Family, Junko is called on to be the lookout while the family gets revenge. However, the other men quickly "zoom", or escape from their duty, leaving the task to Junko. Will he take out Kazama, or will he zoom?
A Taxing Woman
7.2/10
Ryoko Itakura is a government tax agent who has just landed a big promotion. Her first assignment is to catch wheeler-dealer Hideki Gondo. She has a tough job, since in Japan tax evasion is an art and Gondo is, in effect, Rembrandt.
Fall Guy
6.9/10
Ginshiro, threatened by poor repute and upcoming star Tachibana, forces his friend Yasu to marry Konatsu, Ginshiro's pregnant mistress; Yasu becomes a stuntman to make ends meet.
Sex, Gamble and Big Money
Sasuke and His Comedians
6.3/10
Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan children are wandering through the battlefield scavenging for armour when they encounter a young boy named Sasuke with magical powers he says came from a meteor that crashed onto the Earth…
Dream Street
A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka.
Good Rascals
A group of men living a low life in Edo help each other to make the best out of their lives.
Bungakusho satsujin jiken: Oinaru jyoso
6.4/10
A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.
The Racketeer Ishimatsu
Action-comedy film featuring the adventures of an itinerant merchant (Hiroki Matsukata) that becomes an unlikely hero.
Uniform Girls: The Fruit Is Ripe
5.5/10
Three high school student girls are on their spring break. They are expecting to get some sex of course. One becomes an adult magazine model. The second one nets a boyfriend. The third one is a little shy and needs helps from her friends. This last girl has fallen in love so her friends take her to his window and, by chance, arrive when mother is performing fellatio on son. The shy and pure third girl is in awe of a mother 'eating' genitalia and wants to give a similar performance.
Mamushi No Kyôdai: Shôgai Kyôkatsu Jûhappan
The Extravagant Cops
5/10
Golden Ninja
Just after the Battle of Sekigahara, a pair of children Denji and Kichizo witnessed a team of the defeated forces hide the Toyotomi treasure. When the leader cuts down the rest of the team, a bloodstained footman seems to be the only survivor, and his image haunts the pair for the next twenty years. As they are serving a prison sentence a plan is hatched to get them released so they can lead their captors to the hidden gold on Hikone Beach. Danger and excitement await the two as they run into unexpected and dangerous obstacles!
