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Renji Ishibashi has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by Cowboy Bebop: The Movie.
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Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
1974 · Movie · Actor
Top 18%Max · Included

Outrage
2010 · Movie · Actor
Top 21%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Tokyo!
2008 · Movie · Actor
Top 28%Tubi · Free w/ ads

One Missed Call
2003 · Movie · Actor
Top 33%AMC+ · Included

One Missed Call 2
2005 · Movie · Actor
Top 44%AMC+ · Included

The Ramen Girl
2008 · Movie · Actor
Top 51%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

The year is 2071. Following a terrorist bombing, a deadly virus is released on the populace of Mars and the government has issued the largest bounty in history, for the capture of whoever is behind it. The bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop; Spike, Faye, Jet and Ed, take the case with hopes of cashing in the bounty. However, the mystery surrounding the man responsible, Vincent, goes deeper than they ever imagined, and they aren't the only ones hunting him.
Dir. Shinichiro Watanabe · With Koichi Yamadera, Unsho Ishizuka, Aoi Tada

Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interviewing a series of women, Shigeharu is enchanted by the quiet Asami. But soon things take a twisted turn as Asami isn’t what she seems to be.
Dir. Takashi Miike · With Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Jun Kunimura

A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.
Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto · With Tomorowo Taguchi, Shinya Tsukamoto, Kei Fujiwara
Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he decides to take a rest. Not only are the front desk clerks a bit strange, but even the ambiance feels unusual. Minami soon realizes he may have gotten more than he bargained for.
Dir. Takashi Miike · With Show Aikawa, Yūta Sone, Kimika Yoshino

With most of his family already dead at Ogami Itto's hands, Retsudo launches one final plot to destroy him, and when that fails, unleashes the fury of every remaining member of the Yagyu clan.
Dir. Yoshiyuki Kuroda · With Tomisaburō Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Junko Hitomi

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

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.
Dir. Bong Joon Ho, Leos Carax, Michel Gondry · With Ayako Fujitani, Ryo Kase, Ayumi Ito

People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their future death, listed on the message log. The plot thickens as the surviving characters pursue the answers to this mystery which could save their lives.
Dir. Takashi Miike · With Ko Shibasaki, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Kazue Fukiishi

A Japanese restaurant cook/owner dies after answering his daughter's cellphone. Other people are getting strange, same ringtone calls as well and dying painfully. It happened in Taiwan as well. Can the police stop it if it's a ghost?
Dir. Renpei Tsukamoto · With Rie Mimura, Hisashi Yoshizawa, Asaka Seto

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.
Dir. Takashi Miike · With Riki Takeuchi, Show Aikawa, Renji Ishibashi

An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a ramen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.
Dir. Robert Allan Ackerman · With Brittany Murphy, Tammy Blanchard, Gabriel Mann
After her brother goes missing, a young psychologist visits an infamous haunted and cursed location known as ‘Howling Village’ to investigate his disappearance and uncover her family’s dark history.
Dir. Takashi Shimizu · With Ayaka Miyoshi, Ryota Bando, Rinka Otani

"The human whose name is written in the Death Note shall die." After making the hardest decision ever, another serious case confronts L. There are only 23 days left and without his best partner Watari, L has to solve the case all by himself for the very first time.
Dir. Hideo Nakata · With Kenichi Matsuyama, Narushi Fukuda, Mayuko Fukuda
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