Japan

Flowers examines the lives of six women across three generations, from the Show period all the way through to the present day.

A wrestling club must deal with the fact that their newest member is an amnesiac.

A set of twins — one a hard-working student and the other a drifter — team up with a dropout to unlock the secrets of the universe ...

Mei has been in love with Yuya all her life. They’ve grown up together. But when they reach their second year of middle school, Yuya ...

Shy, quiet, and unsure of herself, Ryo Aihara doesn’t quite fit in anywhere. Though she wants to make friends, she has trouble speaking up ...

Juri, an elementary school girl, loses sight of her true self while acting out a false self to play along with her friends. Kanako, a classmate ...

A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in him slowly disintegrating mentally.

The destinies of two men, one from the future and one from the past, become entwined as a malevolent virus spreads throughout Level 4, a digital ...

Mika works as a nurse by day; by night she entertains covetous men at a girls’ bar. Shinji is blind in one eye and ekes out a living as a ...

Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his aunt cares for his ailing cousin. Immersed in ...

This exploration of Japan’s fascination with girl bands and their music follows an aspiring pop singer and her fans, delving into the ...

The morning variety show, a staple of television around the world, offers news and entertainment but TV host Shingo didn’t expect to be himself ...

Childhood best friends. Cousins. Housemates. Coworkers. Eight stories of unrequited love, eight sets of people who weren’t meant to be ...

Satoshi Murayama, the shogi (Japanese chess) master known as the arch-rival of Yoshiharu Habu, the shogi genius of the century, died of an ...

Schoolteacher Yohei is married to Miyoko. For the first time in 25 years they begin to live by themselves when their son marries and moves out. ...

Toshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. But then this old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in ...

Starting in 1970s Hokkaido, the film charts the moral descent of Detective Moroboshi over three decades, the young cop quickly gets a bit too ...

Private detective Kogoro (Kouta Kusano) receives a request from Naoko (Yuki Mamiya). She is the daughter of a family that runs a large hosital. ...

Masaatsu Naito successfully completes Sankin-kotai (required ritual to visit the shogun). On his way home, he hears that an insurrection by ...

Established in 1960, Tower Records was once a retail powerhouse with two hundred stores, in thirty countries, on five continents. From humble ...

An attack takes place on Rainbow Bridge in Odaiba, Tokyo by the fighter helicopter `Gray Ghost`. 2 days earlier, the Gray Ghost was stolen. The ...

A teenager from a small harbor town in Japan learns to follow her own dreams.

The Wages of Resistance is a feature-length documentary film that portrays an “extended span of time” of the protests against ...

A couple of friends go out in the woods to try to find the mythical village of Sugisawa, but something goes wrong and they go missing.

Relatives gather from afar in wintery Ashibetsu upon the death of patriarch Mitsuo. A mysterious woman named Nobuko suddenly shows up. Her ...

Kyoko (Sakura Ando) works as an insurance agent. Due to a series of unfortunate events, she brings shame to her family and has to leave her ...

Shunsuke has fallen for his colleague Hinako, but she is engaged albeit in a long-distance relationship. She and her boyfriend meet on the odd ...

Keisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan’s most respected legends of cinema. Made to commemorate the ...

Mitamura Yuka is a normal, shy high school student. Except for the fact that she has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers ...

The movie is centered around five friends as they end up spending the summer of 1962 shackled up together in a tiny studio apartment in Tokyo. ...