Ken Watanabe – MRQE

Bel Canto

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A famous opera singer is held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after performing at a Japanese businessman’s lavish birthday party. Unexpected bonds are forged in the standoff that ensues.

Ikari

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word ikari (rage) written with their blood. The killer undergoes plastic surgery and flees. At three different locations in Japan, a male stranger appears. People suspect that the stranger might be the murderer.

“Tokyo Vice”

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Based on Jake Adelsteins non-fiction book of the same name.

Kokuhô

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Nagasaki, 1964 Following the death of his yakuza father, 14-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing of a famous Kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actors only son, he decides to dedicate himself to this traditional form of theatre. For decades, the two young men grow and evolve togetherfrom acting school to the grandest stagesamid scandals and glory, brotherhood and betrayals… One of them will become the greatest Japanese master of the art of Kabuki.

Kensuke’s Kingdom

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young boy Michael is taken by his family on a round-the-world sailing trip. But when a storm strikes, Michael and his dog Stella are swept overboard and washed up on a remote island. They struggle to survive, but one day Michael wakes to find fresh fish and coconut milk by his cave. He discovers his mysterious benefactor is Kensuke, a former Japanese soldier, creator of a treetop kingdom and protector of the orangutans. Slowly, communicating through drawings rather than words, Michael and Kensuke form a friendship. But something threatens to destroy the fragile world Kensuke has created.

Fukushima 50

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.

Kizuna

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father. His life begins to unravel when a journalist following him takes an interest in the wife of a boyhood chum, and the wife of another close friend takes an interest in Ise. A couple of murders later, Ise/Haga goes on the run and also sets out for revenge.

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species, thought to be mere myths, rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity’s very existence hanging in the balance.

The Sea of Trees

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In Japan’s Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him on a life-changing journey of love and redemption.

Godzilla

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when an ancient alpha predator arises from the sea to combat malevolent adversaries that threaten the survival of humanity. The creatures leave colossal destruction in their wake, as they make their way toward their final battleground: San Francisco.