Ren Osugi

Ren Osugi

Birthday:Sep 27, 1951
Place of birth:Komatsushima, Tokushima, Japan

Filmography

2008
Achilles and the Tortoise

Achilles and the Tortoise

Comedy Drama
7.3

20082h

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.

2002
The Twilight Samurai

The Twilight Samurai

Drama Romance Historical Drama Passionate Romance
8.1

20022h 9min

Japan

Director: Yoji Yamada

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?

2000
Dead or Alive 2: Birds

Dead or Alive 2: Birds

Crime Drama Comedy
6.7

20001h 37min

Japan

Director: Takashi Miike

Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and visit the small island they once called home. After reflecting on their past lives they decided to team up and use their talents in killing for good... much to the upset of the crime syndicates.


Uzumaki

Uzumaki

Mystery Fantasy Horror Supernatural Horror Mindbender Mystery
6.1

20001h 30min

Japan

Director: Higuchinsky

The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.

1999
Dead or Alive

Dead or Alive

Action Thriller Crime
6.7

19991h 45min

Japan

Director: Takashi Miike

Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to bring it down.

1997
Cure

Cure

Crime Thriller Horror Mystery
7.5

19971h 52min

Japan

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.


Fireworks

Fireworks

Crime Drama
7.7

19971h 43min

Japan

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.

1995
Maborosi

Maborosi

Drama
7.5

19951h 50min

Japan

Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda

A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.

1993
Sonatine

Sonatine

Action Crime Thriller
7.4

19931h 34min

Japan

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war, supposedly as mediators between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, his group is attacked in an ambush. The survivors flee and make a decision to lay low at the beach while they await further instructions.