Backdrop fallback

The Village

The Village

Share

The Village

"All the glory of a man is nothing but a short dream."

2023

2h 0m

6.8(50 votes)

Drama

Overview

In a once-scenic village now dominated by a vast trash disposal site, a young man yearns to break free from a cruel fate tying him to the very grounds.

Where to Watch

Stream

Netflix

Links & Resources

Website IMDbView

Social & External

Production Companies

KADOKAWA

Lat-Lon

WOWOW

TV Tokyo

L'espace Vision

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Ryusei Yokohama

Ryusei Yokohama

Yu Katayama

Haru Kuroki

Haru Kuroki

Misaki Nakai

Arata Furuta

Arata Furuta

Shusaku Ohashi

Shido Nakamura

Shido Nakamura

Kokichi Ohashi

Wataru Ichinose

Wataru Ichinose

Toru Ohashi

Daiken Okudaira

Daiken Okudaira

Ryuta Kakei

Ryuto Sakuma

Ryuto Sakuma

Keiichi Nakai

Tetta Sugimoto

Tetta Sugimoto

Masaru Maruoka

Naomi Nishida

Naomi Nishida

Kimie Katayama

Hana Kino

Hana Kino

Fumi Ohashi

Creative team

Directed by: Michihito Fujii
Written by: Michihito Fujii
Produced by: Ryo Yukizane
Michiaki Tsunoda

Similar Movies

The Inheritors

The Inheritors

In a small farming valley in Austria in the beginning of the 20th century a tyrannical farmer is found dead, and all the farmhands are relieved to be free of their tyrant. But the farmer was childless, so suddenly they all inherit the farm together. Now conflicts begin, as nobody is the boss and nobody has to obey.

The Hidden Fortress

The Hidden Fortress

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.

Rat in the Kitchen

Rat in the Kitchen

A man, going through a bitter divorce, finds his kitchen ransacked every time he comes back home. He installs CCTV cameras thinking he has a pest problem. But what he uncovers instead is far more bizarre and macabre. After a bitter separation from his wife, Vikram starts to live alone, which makes him spiral into a life of loneliness, negligence and alcoholism. He begins to notice that his food is going missing and his kitchen is ransacked every time he comes home. Thinking he has a rat problem, he installs CCTV cameras around his house. But what he uncovers instead, is far more bizarre and macabre.

Love Never to End

Love Never to End

He is Kikuji Murao (Etsushi Toyokawa), a former best-selling novelist who has had a decade-long dry spell that has reduced him to university teaching and magazine hackery. After divorcing his wife (Reiko Takashima) and leaving behind his teenage daughter (Shihori Kanjiya), he meets Fuyuka Irie (Shinobu Terajima), a housewife and mother of three who is a longtime fan.

How to Forget You

How to Forget You

The story of a young composer who lost his lover and encounters grief care, which casually provides support to people in a state of

Antonia's Line

Antonia's Line

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon her. There, Antonia settles down and joins a tightly-knit but unusual community. Those around her include quirky friend Crooked Finger, would-be suitor Bas and, eventually for Antonia, a granddaughter and great-granddaughter who help create a strong family of empowered women.

Brother of Sleep

Brother of Sleep

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and discovers his love of music, especially rebuilding and playing the organ at the village church. After experiencing an "acoustic wonder", his eye color changes and he can hear even the most subtle sounds.

The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

Our Land

Our Land

After the agrarian reform, a dispute for the land starts between two families in north Albania.

The Commissar of Light

The Commissar of Light

After World War II, more than 85% of the Albanian people were illiterate. Partisan soldier Dritan Shkaba is tasked with opening new schools in north Albania to enlighten the population.

The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

Dawn Must Come

Dawn Must Come

The film depicts the lives of Guangdong peasants who have gone through the suffering of the Sino-Japanese War only to experience home-grown oppression by a rapacious landlord in their village.

Platoon

Platoon

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

Dolls

Dolls

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.

The Last Samurai

The Last Samurai

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.

Rashomon

Rashomon

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Godday Godday Chaa 2

Godday Godday Chaa 2

In a vibrant Punjabi village, women take charge of wedding festivities once dominated by men. Their spirited struggle to preserve this newfound power leads to comic chaos, as the sidelined men plot to reclaim their former glory—only to be outsmarted at every turn.

Kids Return: The Reunion

Kids Return: The Reunion

Set 10 years after "Kids Return." Shinji and Masaru have graduated from high school with different paths in their lives. Shinji attempted to become boxer and Masaru a yakuza. They both tried to rise to the top of their respective fields.

Wild Seed

Wild Seed

A man who escaped from a prison comes to his inmate's village to find his wife, after having been told how wonderful she is. He hides at her place only to find out that she receives "night visits" from the village men. He starts a killing spree, causing panic among the locals.

Pollo Loco

Pollo Loco

When a young, power-hungry drug dealer discovers the love of his life has been unfaithful with a member of his crew, he and his right-hand man seek revenge.

Recommended Movies

Shoplifters

Shoplifters

In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and odd jobs. When Osamu and his son take in a neglected young girl, their already fragile existence begins to unravel. As the family grows attached to her, buried secrets surface, forcing them to confront the true meaning of love, belonging, and what makes a family.

Dogville

Dogville

A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.

The Short History of the Long Road

The Short History of the Long Road

Nola grew up living in a van with her father, Clint—two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning to own her grief, her past, and her new destination.

Battle Royale

Battle Royale

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.

Tokyo Decadence

Tokyo Decadence

A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.

Farming

Farming

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.

The Young One

The Young One

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

Blood Diamond

Blood Diamond

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

Erin Brockovich

Erin Brockovich

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. She starts investigating and soon exposes a monumental cover-up.

Blood and Bones

Blood and Bones

In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.

Holler

Holler

In a forgotten pocket of Southern Ohio where American manufacturing and opportunity are drying up, a determined young woman finds a ticket out when she is accepted to college. Alongside her older brother, Ruth Avery joins a dangerous scrap metal crew in order to pay her way. Together, they spend one brutal winter working the scrap yards during the day and stealing valuable metal from the once thriving factories by night. With her goal in sight, Ruth finds that the ultimate cost of an education for a girl like her may be more than she bargained for, and she soon finds herself torn between a promising future and the family she would leave behind.

Female Yakuza Tale

Female Yakuza Tale

Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.

The Ballad of Jack and Rose

The Ballad of Jack and Rose

Jack Slavin is an environmentalist with a heart condition who lives with his daughter, Rose, on an isolated island. While Jack fights against developers who wish to build in the area, he also craves more contact with other people. When he invites his girlfriend, Kathleen, and her sons, Rodney and Thaddius, to move in, Rose is upset. The complicated family dynamics makes things difficult for everyone in the house.

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.

Requiem for a Dream

Requiem for a Dream

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

The Devil All the Time

The Devil All the Time

In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.

The Wonder

The Wonder

Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl's supposedly miraculous fast.

Walking Tall

Walking Tall

A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.

The Truth About Emanuel

The Truth About Emanuel

A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.

The Crush

The Crush

A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.