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Fumiyo Kohinata has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Swing Girls.
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The Astronaut Farmer
2007
Science Fiction · Adventure

Parasyte: Part 1
2014
Science Fiction · Horror

It
2017
Horror · Thriller

The Wolverine
2013
Action · Science Fiction

The Gift
2000
Horror · Drama

They Call Me Jeeg
2016
Science Fiction · Action

Brightburn
2019
Horror · Science Fiction

Willard
2003
Horror · Drama

A group of delinquent high school girls form a band when they accidentally poison their school's brass band and have to replace them.
Dir. Shinobu Yaguchi · With Juri Ueno, Yuta Hiraoka, Shihori Kanjiya

A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
Dir. Hideo Nakata · With Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi

A lonely university student develops a romance with a beautiful interesting woman, who turns out to be a cyborg from the future.
Dir. Kwak Jae-yong · With Haruka Ayase, Keisuke Koide, Risa Ai

A world wide electrical outage occurs. Everything that requires electricity comes to a stop. Tokyo is nearly ruined. Yoshiyuki Suzuki decides to escape from Tokyo with his family.
Dir. Shinobu Yaguchi · With Fumiyo Kohinata, Eri Fukatsu, Yuki Izumisawa

When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a brutal quest for revenge.
Dir. Takeshi Kitano · With Takeshi Kitano, Kippei Shiina, Ryo Kase

In 1969, Kenji, an elementary school kid and his friends built a secret base during their summer holidays. They fantasized that they had to fight villains who were out to conquer the world and wrote them in the Book of Prophecies. Years later in 1997, Kenji becomes a convenience store manager and leads a regular life after giving up his dreams to become a rock star. His boring life is suddenly turned upside down when his old classmate dies mysteriously and an entire family in the neighbourhood disappears. At the same time, a religious cult and its mysterious leader, Friend emerges and a strange chain of events duplicating exactly the events described in the Book of Prophecies follow. Is this the beginning of the end of the world? Who is Friend?
Dir. Yukihiko Tsutsumi · With Toshiaki Karasawa, Takako Tokiwa, Teruyuki Kagawa

Aliens replace middle-aged Inuyashiki's body with a combat robot. He uses it to fight high schooler Shishigami, who's using the same power selfishly.
With Fumiyo Kohinata, Nijiro Murakami, Kanata Hongo

Blamed by some, hailed as heroes by others, those involved with Fukushima Daiichi face a deadly, invisible threat — an unprecedented nuclear disaster.
With Koji Yakusho, Yutaka Takenouchi, Fumiyo Kohinata

Mary Smith, a young girl who lives with her great-aunt in the countryside, follows a mysterious cat into the nearby forest where she finds a strange flower and an old broom, none of which is as ordinary as it seems.
Dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi · With Yuki Amami, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Hana Sugisaki

While investigating the horrifying death of her boyfriend, Mai Takano learns about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a disturbing girl named Sadako, which kills anyone who watches it exactly one week later. When her boyfriend’s son, Yoichi, starts to develop the same psychic abilities as Sadako, Takano must find a way to keep the boy and herself from becoming the next victims.
Dir. Hideo Nakata · With Miki Nakatani, Hitomi Sato, Kyoko Fukada

Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have taken their toll on planet Earth. As a result of the use of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, much of Earth has become uninhabitable and people have become prey to new diseases. Professor Azuma's "neo-cell" project, which is supposed to be the answer to mankind's hardships, becomes a nightmare come true when mutants spawned from the experiment escape and declare war on the human race. Azuma's son Tetsuya, who was killed during the previous war, is reborn into the cyborg Casshern as mankind's last hope against the new mutant threat. This live-action sci-fi movie based on a 1973 Japanese animé of the same name.
Dir. Kazuaki Kiriya · With Yūsuke Iseya, Kumiko Aso, Akira Terao
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