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Ken'ichi Matsuyama - what members say

Death Note review by Bassman71 from Stockport

Excellent Japanese fantasy/thriller 26 January 2010
...ng is of a decent standing particularly Tatsuya Fujiwara in the lead, emotastic Ken'ichi Matsuyama & the gorgeous Asaka Seto. ... Read customer review

Death Note - L Change the World review by A customer from Leeds

Awesome Film 22 January 2009
...y be disappointed as its nothing like them, but as a seperate film its awesome. Ken'ichi Matsuyama shows even more sides to L and his nature. Thought provoking and funny. We als... Read customer review

Ken'ichi Matsuyama - filmography

Gantz - Blu-ray (2011)
Starring: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Kazunari Ninomiya, Takayuki Yamada
Director: Shinsuke Sato
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GANTZ is based on a hit manga series created by Hiroya Oku and stars leading Japanese actors Kazunari Ninomiya (Letters from Iwo Jima) and Kenichi Matsuyama (Death Note, Detroit Metal City). The film tells the story of two childhood friends that are accidentally killed while trying to save a man's ..read more »

72% from 170 members

Gantz 2 - Perfect Answer on DVD (2011)
Starring: Kazunari Ninomiya, Ken'ichi Matsuyama
Director: Shinsuke Sato
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Kurono (Ninomiya Kazunari) is still fighting for his freedom and his friends life in the alien infected world under the order of Gantz. Kurono starts to discover that the endgame for Gantz is closer than he originally thought.

71% from 128 members

Gantz on DVD (2011)
Starring: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Kazunari Ninomiya, Takayuki Yamada
Director: Shinsuke Sato
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GANTZ is based on a hit manga series created by Hiroya Oku and stars leading Japanese actors Kazunari Ninomiya (Letters from Iwo Jima) and Kenichi Matsuyama (Death Note, Detroit Metal City). The film tells the story of two childhood friends that are accidentally killed while trying to save a man's ..read more »

72% from 205 members

Norwegian Wood - Blu-ray (2010)
Starring: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi, Kiko Mizuhara
Director: Anh Hung Tran
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Upon hearing the eponymous Beatles song Toru (Kenichi Matsuyama - DEATH NOTE) begins to recollect the carefree life he had lived during the 1960s and the suicide of a close friend that would forever change his it. Trying to make sense of what happened, the reawakening of Toru's grief leads him into ..read more »

58% from 654 members

Norwegian Wood on DVD (2010)
Starring: Rinko Kikuchi, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Kiko Mizuhara
Director: Anh Hung Tran
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Upon hearing the song "Norwegian Wood," Toru (Matsuyama) remembers back to his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend. As the two try, in very different ways, to contend with their grief, Toru forms a bond with another woman, Midori.

58% from 2,473 members

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (2010)
Starring: Maki Horikita, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Yuya Tegoshi
Director: Hans Canosa
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Diving to save a camera from a fall down a flight of stairs, high school junior Naomi Sukuse wakes with no memory of the last four years. Naomi must remember who she was and figure out who she wants to be in this story of love and second chances

60% from 4 members
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Kaiji - The Ultimate Gambler on DVD (2009)
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Kei Sato
Director: Toya Sato
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Kaiji Ito (Tatsuya Fujiwara - Death Note/Battle Royale) moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with society at large, Kaiji spends his days gambling, vandalising cars, and drinking booze. Two years later and his life no better, a debt collector named ..read more »

67% from 166 members

Kamui - The Lone Ninja - Blu-ray (2009)
Starring: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Koyuki, Kaoru Kobayashi
Director: Yoichi Sai
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A ninja walks away from his life as a warrior only to find he must embrace it again late in life in this action drama based on a popular manga by Sampei Shirato. As a young man, Kamui (Kenichi Matsuyama) was strong, agile and had the talent to become a great ninja fighter. However, as he learned ..read more »

53% from 318 members

Kamui - The Lone Ninja on DVD (2009)
Starring: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Koyuki, Kaoru Kobayashi
Director: Yoichi Sai
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It is 17th century Japan and Kamui is a fugitive Ninja on the run. He despises the lethal laws of the Ninja where he must use his skills to kill others, and is in search for true freedom. However, he is now hunted by his fellow ninjas as they must eliminate him for his betrayal. In order to live, ..read more »

59% from 341 members

Death Note - L Change the World on DVD (2008)
Starring: Shunji Fujimura, Mayuko Fukuda, Sei Hiraizumi
Director: Hideo Nakata
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A spin-off to the "Death Note" films featuring the character L, the enigmatic detective from those titles. The film chronicles the final 23 days of L's life, as he solves one final case involving a bioterrorist group that aims to wipe out much of humanity with a highly infectious virus, taking the ..read more »

67% from 949 members

Death Note - Blu-ray (4 discs) (2006)
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Asaka Seto, Ken'ichi Matsuyama
Director: Shusuke Kaneko
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Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's bestselling manga DEATH NOTE, has already spawned an internationally successful anime series, and now its the turn of the live-action feature film. Light Yagami (Tatsuya Fujiwara, BATTLE ROYALE) is good looking, a great student, and rich. But it's not enough. His ..read more »

71% from 475 members

Death Note on DVD (2006)
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Asaka Seto
Director: Shusuke Kaneko
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A battle between the world's 2 greatest minds begins when Light Yagami finds the Death Note, a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to rid the world of criminals. Live action version of the original Anime.

70% from 4,633 members

Death Note 2 - The Last Name on DVD (2006)
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takeshi Kaga, Shido Nakamura
Director: Shusuke Kaneko
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Light and L's psychological duel enters a new phase; whoever is careless for even a split second will lose! To complicate things further, Rem, another shinigami brings the second notebook and Misa Amane, a Japanese pop star and Kira worshipper, comes into possession of it. Now becoming a Kira ..read more »

75% from 1,815 member

Death Note - Vol.4 on DVD (2006)
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Asaka Seto
Director: Shusuke Kaneko
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With his memory recovered and Higuchi of the Yotsuba Group out of the way, Light can put his master plan into motion and march humanity closer to his perfect world. Then a new investigative force steps forward to challenge Kira - the SPK, headed by boy genius Near. Near's first plan of action: get ..read more »

82% from 620 members

Ken'ichi Matsuyama facts

5 most recent films

Gantz - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Gantz 2 - Perfect Answer - 3.5 stars
Gantz - 3.5 stars
Norwegian Wood - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Norwegian Wood - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Death Note - Vol.4 - 4.0 stars
Death Note 2 - The Last Name - 4.0 stars
Gantz - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Gantz - 3.5 stars
Death Note - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac - 3.0 stars
Kamui - The Lone Ninja - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Norwegian Wood - 3.0 stars
Norwegian Wood - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Kamui - The Lone Ninja - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Tatsuya Fujiwara - 10 times - show films
Shunji Fujimura - 7 times - show films
Asaka Seto - 7 times - show films
Erika Toda - 4 times - show films
Takeshi Kaga - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Shusuke Kaneko - 9 times - show films
Hideo Nakata - 3 times - show films
Shinsuke Sato - 3 times - show films
Yoichi Sai - 2 times - show films
Anh Hung Tran - 2 times - show films