The best Masahiro Noguchi’s movies

Masahiro Noguchi

Masahiro Noguchi

Today we present the best Masahiro Noguchi’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 Masahiro Noguchi’s movies.
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The Eel

The Eel
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/05/1997
White-collar worker Yamashita finds out that his wife has a lover visiting her when he's away, suddenly returns home and kills her. After eight years in prison, he returns to live in a small village, opens a barber shop (he was trained as a barber in prison) and talks almost to no-one except for the eel he "befriended" in prison. One day he finds the unconscious body of Keiko, who attempted suicide and reminds him of his wife. She starts to work at his shop, but he doesn't let her become close to him.

Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris

Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris
7.1/10
With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broken. Nagamine and Asagi investigate while an orphaned girl named Ayana discovers a new creature she names Iris. Nagamine and Asagi must reach Ayana before she takes her revenge on Gamera, who she blames for the death of her family.

Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean

Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean
5.2/10
A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on Harutoshi Fukui's novel Shuusen no Lorelei.

Iron Girl

Iron Girl
4.3/10
In a land far away, there is a legend that an Iron Clad Savior shall bestow upon the land and save its people from grief, abuse and evil. An armored suit-wearing woman with amnesia, only known as "Iron Girl", fights against a group of outlaws called "Crazy Dogs" to save a small village in the wasteland. Is she the legendary "Iron Savior" written in the old document of the village?

A Bride for Rip Van Winkle

A Bride for Rip Van Winkle
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/03/2016
A woman hires actors and strangers to pretend to be her friends and family at her wedding.

Crying Out Love in the Center of the World

Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
7.2/10
While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caused by the events from his high school days.

Shield of Straw

Shield of Straw
6.2/10
Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter is then murdered. The suspect is Kunihide Kiyomaru (Tatsuya Fujiwara). Kunihide Kiyomaru has a prior conviction for assaulting and killing a girl 8 years ago. The police could never apprehend the suspect in the prior killing.

Arcana

Arcana
5.1/10
Detective Murakami meets a girl who suffers from memory loss. The girl has special abilities including the ability to talk with the dead. Detective Murakami names her Maki. Detective Murakami and Maki work together to solves a massive murder case involving a mad bomber. Maki's identity is revealed during their investigation.

The Many Faces of Chika

The Many Faces of Chika
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/01/2005
Director Kazuo Hara tells the tale of the eponymous Chika and four different relationships she has during the turbulent political climate of the 1970s. Four different actresses play the role of Chika in order to emphasise the different ways she is perceived by her husband, a teacher, a student and an aging gangster.

Blood

Blood
6.4/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 01/01/1998
Kasaki the hitman needs to set scores with his target Ri after the syndicate hunts him and blackmails his childhood friend to kill him.

The Laughing Policeman

The Laughing Policeman
5.4/10
A cop chasing after a female cop killer, but then gets caught in a dark web of departmental corruption.

One Cut in the Life

One Cut in the Life
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/2020
  • Character: Kazuhiko Hara
A rampage at a university, the students Yuka and Mai are frozen with fear. At gunpoint, the two perpetrators try to force them to decide which of them must die next. In a moment of distraction, Mai tries to escape but is badly injured by a shot in the back. After the killers have moved on, a student, Hayashi Yuka, comes to the rescue. But even as they try to save Mai together, the killers return. Hayashi is driven to an act of desperation that leaves him with deep wounds.

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