
Battle Royale(2000)
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.


A seemingly random series of bombings in a provincial city. The latest target is a public bus route. Detective Chaya chased terrorists and arrested a mysterious man with keen intelligence and physical power. The psychologist in charge of evaluating him is Dr. Mariko. After the psychiatric examination, she puts toward a hypothesis – “Is it possible he was born without emotions?”

Toma Ikuta
Ichiro Suzuki

Yasuko Matsuyuki
Doctor Mariko Washiya

Yosuke Eguchi
Cop

Fumi Nikaido
Noriko

Kensuke Owada
Hirono

Ken Mitsuishi
Kuroda

Masahiro Komoto

Yukiyoshi Ozawa

Renji Ishibashi

Isao Natsuyagi
The Brain Man is a crime, science fiction, action film released in 2013 exploring themes of based on novel or book, neurosurgeon, psychological, girls' love (gl), dark fiction, violence. Directed by Tomoyuki Takimoto, it stars Toma Ikuta, Yasuko Matsuyuki, Yosuke Eguchi. A seemingly random series of bombings in a provincial city. The latest target is a public bus route. Detective Chaya chased terrorists and arrested a mysterious man with keen intelligence and physical power. The psychologist in charge of evaluating him is Dr. Mariko. After the psychiatric examination, she puts toward a hypothesis – “Is it possible he was born without emotions?”
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