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Filmography

Ren Osugi - filmography


  • EXTE: Hair Extensions on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Chiaki Kuriyama,  Ren Osugi,  Megumi Sato
    Director: Sion Sono
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Customs agents discover a huge amount of human hair along with the bald corpse of a young girl. This arouses the curiosity of Yamazaki, a mortuary employee with a hair fetish, particularly since the girl's hair continues to grow. Now a mad hair-peddler with an endless stock of locks, Yamazaki sells ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 396 members
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  • Twilight Samurai on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Hiroyuki Sanada,  Rie Miyazawa,  Nenji Kobayashi
    Director: Yoji Yamada
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Hiroyuki Sanada, who played Ujio in Edward Zwick's Hollywood epic THE LAST SAMURAI, stars in a different kind of samurai film in Yoji Yamada's poignant drama THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI. Sanada plays the title character (Seibei Iguchi), who gets his nickname because he is a lowly worker who chooses to go ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 5,017 members
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  • Persona on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Ren Osugi,  Chiaki Kuriyama,  Tatsuya Fujiwara
    Director: Takashi Komatsu
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A psychological mystery thriller that deals with the issue of identity and the struggle for individuality in modern day Japan. High school students are invited to a party where everyone is to wear a mask. After the party the mask-wearing phenomenon spreads and soon, it turns from a fashion ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 71 members
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  • Uzumaki (2000)
    Starring: Eriko Hatsune,  Fhi Fan,  Hinako Saeki
    Director: Higuchinsky,  Higuchinsky
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Based on a Japanese comic book, Higuchinsky's UZUMAKI follows the residents of a remote town as they inexplicably become obsessed with spiral shapes. Kirie (Eriko Hatsune), a young schoolgirl, first notices this phenomena when she encounters her boyfriend's father (Ren Osugi) maniacally videotaping ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,538 member
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  • City Of Lost Souls on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Michele Reis,  Ren Osugi,  Akaji Maro
    Director: Takashi Miike
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    THE CITY OF LOST SOULS is the fruit of Japanese auteur Takashi Miike's (AUDITION) collaboration with the Hong Kong film industry, a dazzling gangster picture that mixes the absurd, brutal violence, and the surreal freely. The film stars Michelle Reis as Kei, a young Chinese woman who is in love ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,096 member
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  • Brother on DVD (2000)
    Starring: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano,  Omar Epps,  Tatyana M. Ali
    Director: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In his first film shot in the United States, Japanese director Takeshi Kitano stars as Aniki, a stoic "yakuza" (the Japanese version of the Mafia) who heads to Los Angeles after his clan loses a mob war. Unable to speak English, he still manages to take control of his little brother's small-time ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 3,621 members
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  • Hana-Bi on DVD (1997)
    Starring: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano,  Kayoko Kishimoto,  Ren Osugi
    Director: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Actor and auteur Takeshi Kitano (who in Japan also uses the stage name Beat Takeshi, primarily for his work as a television comedian) wrote, directed, edited, and starred in this unusual crime drama. Nishi (Takeshi Kitano) is a policeman whose emotions seem to run only on two extreme paths -- ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 6,250 members
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  • Shinjuku Triad Society on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Takeshi Caesar,  Kyosuke Izutsu,  Ren Osugi
    Director: Takashi Miike
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    SHINJUKU TRIAD SOCIETY is the first in a trilogy of films by Miike Takashi that are linked by the triad theme. A cop attempts to limit the effects of an attempted takeover of drug and prostitution rackets by a Taiwanese mob. However, any attempts to exercise retraint prove futile when he discovers ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 915 members
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  • Sonatine on DVD (1993)
    Starring: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano,  Ren Osugi,  Susumu Terajima
    Director: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In Takeshi Kitano's SONATINE, a Tokyo-based yakuza boss sends Murakawa (Kitano), one of his top men, on a peacekeeping mission to Okinawa, where two rival factions are coming to blows. Murakawa is naturally suspicious of the volatile situation and decides to lay low for a few days on a secluded ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 4,169 members
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Ren Osugi facts

5 most recent films

EXTE: Hair Extensions - 3.0 stars
Origin - Spirits of the Past - 3.0 stars
Origin Spirits Of The Past - The Movie - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Takeshis' - 2.5 stars
Twilight Samurai - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Twilight Samurai - 3.5 stars
Hana-Bi - 3.5 stars
Sonatine - 3.5 stars
Brother - 3.5 stars
Origin - Spirits of the Past - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Takeshis' - 2.5 stars
Persona - 2.5 stars
City Of Lost Souls - 3.0 stars
MPD - Psycho Series 1 - Parts 1 And 2 - Drifting Petals / Memories Of Sin - 3.0 stars
Uzumaki - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Susumu Terajima - 4 times - show films
Nae Yuki - 3 times - show films
'Beat' Takeshi Kitano - 3 times - show films
Rieko Miura - 3 times - show films
Chiaki Kuriyama - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Takashi Miike - 5 times - show films
'Beat' Takeshi Kitano - 3 times - show films
Keiichi Sugiyama - 2 times - show films
Takeshi Kitano - 2 times - show films
Higuchinsky - 1 times - show films