Jun Murakami

When three older men buy a 17-year-old schoolgirl named Chikako for a year’s-worth of sexual services — her motivation, aside from ...

Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days then decide either to ...

An introverted schoolgirl falls in love and starts a relationship with one of her classmates. Set in a small seaside town in Japan, the love of ...

Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowing a boat for the villagers all day long, he ...

Taiko drummer, Hisakatsu Yokoyama, and fellow evacuees of Futaba, Fukushima fight to keep their beloved “Futaba Bon-Uta” alive after their ...

Kuki is a veteran newspaper reporter who has been shuffled off to a book-development branch and finds escape in an illicit relationship with ...

Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can’t cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This is the story of four 13-year-olds in ...

A senseless double murder resonates eight years later in four intertwined stories.

Junoshin Kake is a ronin. To get hired by the Kurokaze Han, he lies and tells them that a religious group is trying to destroy them. He gets ...

Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (later played by Takumi Kitamura). Yasuo’s ...

Adapted from the manga Hell Dogs by Fukamachi Akio.

In a seaside town where very little happens, middle school students Keisuke Isobe and Koume Satou live a rather dull life. But when Koume’s ...

Nanako returns to her hometown on the tiny island of Aguni to meet her grandmother Nabbie. However, when Nanako’s ferry arrives, it is also ...

Set during the Edo Period, a young man from a noble family meets a young woman under a special tree called “Raiou” (the tree was ...

Action actor Tateishi Daisuke who struggles with loneliness after suffering a traumatic experience due to an accident during filming. One day, he ...

When Mio was young, she lost her parents in a great flood and also became separated from her best friend Noe. Afterwards, Mio found her talent in ...

A young bioarchaeologist Yukisuke is attracted to a girl Koyomi, who runs a small stand of taiyaki pastry that he often buys. Koyomi is ...

Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can’t cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This is the story of four 13-year-olds in ...

Yukio is a typical high school student in every way except that he’s an only child in a family of five. This is because he has four ...

Komaki is a thirty-something woman that has had it with her perpetually unemployed aspiring writer husband. Following the divorce, she moves back ...

The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger ...

An old couple, their only son, the son’s wife, a young man and his lover live peacefully in a village. Then, a terrifying earthquake ...

Samao Daikoku’s family register was taken which keeps him from escaping the underground life that he has led. To get away once and for all, Samao ...

Set at the edge of the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, with its beautiful scenic views, the film revolves around two women from ...

Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (Ryosuke Yamada). Suzuki is a former middle ...

Shuichi (Tadayoshi Okura) had a motorcycle accident 4 years ago. Because of the accident, he lost the last year of his memory. One day, at a ...

Set after the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, all 14-year-old Sumida Yuichi wants to become is a regular boy and live a decent life. His ...

Kako, a 16-year-old high school girl, goes to a mixer pretending to be 22. While there, she meets Kouta who at first has a very intimidating ...

Tatsuhiko Shiratori works as a scout, recruiting girls to work in the adult entertainment business. He movies to Yokohama from Shinjuku, Tokyo. ...

A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo.