The best Koji Kikkawa’s movies

Koji Kikkawa

Koji Kikkawa

18/08/1965 (58 años)
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Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins

Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
7.4/10
Former legendary assassin Kenshin Himura has now become a wandering samurai. Offering aid & protecting those in need as atonement for his past deeds. During this time Kenshin Himura comes across and aides Kaoru Kamiya (Emi Takei). Her father opened the Kamiya Kasshin-ryu, a kendo school located in Tokyo and Kaoru is now an instructor there. Kaoru then invites Kenshin to stay at her dojo. Their relationship develops further, but Kenshin is still haunted by his violent past...

Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider OOO & W Featuring Skull: Movie Wars Core

Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider OOO & W Featuring Skull: Movie Wars Core
6.4/10
Confronting a mysterious enemy, the Pteranodon Yummy, Kamen Rider Double receives aid from Ryu, who has infuriated Akiko by being too busy to attend her wedding! Akiko demands to know why he even became a Kamen Rider in the first place and the Pteranodon Yummy as it uses the Memory Memory on her to give her the answer to her question… At the Kougami Foundation, Kousei Kougami talks of the most avaricious man in Japan, Oda Nobunaga, whose final resting place was found. With Doctor Maki overseeing the process, Kougami commissions the creation of a Cell Medal homunculus based on Nobunaga himself. Kamen Rider Core begins to destroy the area as Kamen Riders OOO and Double team up to fight the enemy. However, Kamen Rider Core proves too powerful and the two go underground to destroy the Gaia Memory’s source of power to even the odds.

The Guys from Paradise

The Guys from Paradise
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 30/10/2000
  • Character: Kôhei Hayasaka
Set in the Phillipines, Takashi Miike’s “The Guys from Paradise” weaves together the stories of several real-life criminal cases. Young up-and-coming salaryman Kohei Hayakawa is sent to Paradise prison on false drug charges, and assumes his lawyers will clear up this misunderstanding fairly quickly. However, he soon comes to the realization that his innocence means less than how much bribe money he’s able to come up with for his release. It becomes apparent that Kohei is going to have to get to know his fellow inmates a little better, as he’s obviously in this situation for the long haul; but meeting a female inmate from a nearby jail certainly makes his transition to the criminal life a little easier to take.

Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie Wars 2010

Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie Wars 2010
6.6/10
Movie War 2010 is split into three parts. The Kamen Rider Decade portion of the film, written by Shoji Yonemura, is titled Kamen Rider Decade: The Last Story. It follows the series cliffhanger ending at the climax of the Rider War. The film is billed as the "True Ending" and was originally subtitled Decade vs. All Riders. The Kamen Rider W portion of the film, written by Riku Sanjo, is titled Kamen Rider W: Begins Night, taking place between episodes 14 and 15 of Kamen Rider W, investigates the origins of Kamen Rider Double as briefly shown in the cold opening of the series' first episode, referred to in the series as the "Begins Night". The film is described as the "True Beginning" and was originally subtitled Episode Zero. In the final portion of the film entitled Movie War 2010, a convergence of the two films that brings the casts and characters of Decade and W to finish the fight with Super Shocker together.

Sword of Desperation

Sword of Desperation
7.2/10
A talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Three years earlier, Kanemi killed a woman, Renko, the corrupt mistress of the powerful daimyo Tabu Ukyou. Unexpectedly, Kanemi received a lenient sentence for his crime and is allowed to return to his clan after only one year of imprisonment. Following his return, Kanemi is faced with the death of his wife, Mutsue. Thereafter, Kanemi lives with and cares for his wife's niece, Satoo, who has secret affections for Kanemi and expresses them by helping change his bleak outlook on life. Meanwhile, Kanemi's develops his unique "bird-catching" sword technique which he will soon put to test in battle for the first time against the fearsome swordsman, Hayatonosho Obiya.

The City of Lost Souls

The City of Lost Souls
6.3/10
Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo's booming Japanese-Portuguese community and seeks passage from the country from a Russian mobster. To meet his price, they hold up a bigtime drug deal between the Chinese Mafia and the local Yakuza.

The Glorious Team Batista

The Glorious Team Batista
6/10
Toho university hospital has established an outstanding coronary surgery team under the leadership of a up and coming, star, U.S. trained surgeon that specializes in the highly risky "Batista" procedure to shrink the size of enlarged hearts. Normally this procedure has only a 60% success rate, but "Team Batista" has achieved a run of 26 straight successes....when suddenly 3 patients in a row die on the operating table. Very disturbed, the lead surgeon requests an independent investigation. The hospital turns to Dr. Taguchi who is a specialist in psychosomatic disorders who is shocked to at the assignment because she knows nothing in particular about surgery. Assured, however, that this very lack of insider specialized knowledge is in fact the "objectivity" required, she diligently begins to investigate in her own polite, but persistent manner.

The Shatterer

The Shatterer
7/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 13/06/1987
  • Character: Koichi Honda
Following the opening of a Japanese auto factory in Sicily, the head of the company is kidnapped by Sicilian mobsters. This was a co-production between Italy and Japan's Toho Studios.

The Top Secret: Murder in Mind

The Top Secret: Murder in Mind
5.4/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 06/08/2016
  • Character: Kiyotaka Kainuma
Set in the late 21st century, an MRI scanner is introduced at the National Research Institute of Police Science's 9th Forensics Laboratory. The machine is able to scan the memories from even the deceased. As ethical questions arise over the machine's use, the 9th Forensics Laboratory members, including rookie Ikko Aoki and Chief Tsuyoshi Maki, struggle to solve cases.

Until the Lights Come Back

Until the Lights Come Back
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/11/2005
  • Character: Gingi
A Christmas Eve power outage provides a collection of troubled Tokyo denizens the opportunity to come clean on the misdeeds of their past.

What a Wonderful Life!!

What a Wonderful Life!!
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 28/04/2010
  • Character: Shuichi's dad
Shuichi Furukawa receives a phone call from his mother. She reminds him that they are moving the next day. The following day, Shuichi takes a train ride back to his hometown. He arrives at his parents home, but nobody is home. He looks for the house key under a potted plant but can't find the key. He starts to thinks back to his childhood days in his parents home. Shuichi grew up with his younger brother, older sister, father who ran a shoe making business out of their garage and mother. Shuichi grew up with a crush on an older woman who lived next door and he loved to make piggy banks out of empty whiskey bottles. One day on a school picnic, Shuichi's classmates grabbed a lunchbox from a fellow student and eventually gave the lunch box to Shuichi. All the other students chanted "throw it away," while Shuichi's former friend looked on in despair.

Dangerous Cops: Final 5 Days

Dangerous Cops: Final 5 Days
5.6/10

やくざの詩 OKITE[掟]

やくざの詩 OKITE[掟]
  • Release: 22/03/2003
Yakuza film directed by Hiroki Matsukata.

Lady Joker

Lady Joker
6.1/10
A Japanese film by Hideyuki Hirayama, Lady Joker is a detective thriller with elements of social commentary on Japanese society that is based on the 1997 bestselling novel by Kaoru Takamura.

Three for the Road

Three for the Road
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/07/2007

Sukanpin Walk

Sukanpin Walk
6.4/10
  • Release: 11/02/1984
  • Character: Yuji Tamikawa
Musical star vehicle for a young Kikkawa Koji.

You Gotta Chance

You Gotta Chance
  • Release: 09/02/1985
The second of Kazuki Omori's pre-Godzilla idol trilogy starring Koji Kikkawa. Omori's mid-1980s opus is full of excess; a shining example of what Japan was like during the 80s when it was lost in the dream of the bubble economy.

Kamen Rider W: Final Stage

Kamen Rider W: Final Stage
The final live stage event for the Kamen Rider W TV and Movie series.

Take It Easy

Take It Easy
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/04/1986
Coming of age film about rock musicians.

都庁爆破!

都庁爆破!
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 02/01/2018
TBS broadcasts "New Year Drama Special" Metropolitan Bombing! "" From 9 o'clock on Tuesday, January 2, 2018. This is a drama based on "Tokyo Metropolitan Bombing!" Authored by Tetsuo Takashima, a writer Takao Takashima, who appealed in a novel by the tsunami and nuclear power plants in modern Japan before these occurred.

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