Cast: Takashi Yamanaka

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Christian Bale · Ni Ni · Xinyi Zhang · Shigeo Kobayashi

Plot In 1937 China, during the second Sino-Japanese war, a mortician, John (Christian Bale) arrives at a Catholic church in Nanjing to prepare a priest for burial. Upon arrival he finds...

Direction Yoshihiro Nakamura

Cast Gaku Hamada · Atsushi Ito · Kengo Kora · Mirai Moriyama

Plot Fish Story centres around a rock band from 1975 who decide to break up having had no success, they record one last song before the band splits up. Decades later...

Direction Yukiko Sode

Cast Ginpunchō · Kei Ishibashi · Shizuka Ishibashi · Mugi Kadowaki

Plot Hanako is in her late twenties and is looking for stability with her man. She gets dumped instead. She begins dating. Miki studied and worked hard to get to where...

Direction Michihito Fujii · Hirotoshi Hara · Kenji Kuwajima

Cast Yôjirô Noda · Rena Matsui · Rila Fukushima · Rena Takeda

Plot TV Series (2017). 12 Episodes. Five women move into Shin's house, a frustrated writer who organizes a homely life for them in exchange for a considerable sum of money.

Direction Sion Sono

Cast Isao Natsuyagi · Naoko Otani · Megumi Kagurazaka · Jun Murakami

Plot Prolific Japanese director Sion Sono departs from his usual style for this movingly restrained drama of a rural family's struggle to survive in the aftermath of the Tōhoku earthquake and...

Direction Hajime Gonno · Takashi Motoki

Cast Ryo Ishibashi · Nobuaki Kaneko · Tomomi Maruyama · Kaito Yoshimura

Plot Seeking a greater justice, a band of homeless assassins flays their human targets and delivers the tattooed skins as proof of a contract fulfilled.

Direction Takuma Satô

Cast Taiga Nakano · Riho Yoshioka · Kanichiro · Takashi Yamanaka

Plot A naked drunk man shows up on a national live TV in the middle of a sacred festival Namahage, where men dressed in ogre-like costume visit homes to scare kids...

Direction Michihito Fujii

Cast Junichi Okada · Gou Ayano · Hayato Isomura · Tetta Sugimoto

Plot On the night of December 29, Detective Yuji Kudo drives his car to see his mother, who is hospitalized with a serious health condition. He receives a phone call from...

Direction Naoya Asanuma · Ryôsuke Hayasaka · Yûya Nakaizumi · Shinichirô Ueda

Cast Aki Asakura · Haruka Kinami · Tomoharu Hasegawa · Kyôka Shibata

Direction Akiyoshi Kimata

Cast Ai Hashimoto · Renji Ishibashi · Kazushige Nagashima · Tatsuomi Hamada

Plot A family in ruins recovers through their encounter with a "Zasikiwarashi", the japanese spirit.

Direction Junichi Ishikawa

Cast Yusuke Hirayama · Ai Hoemo · Masato Kato · Kika Kobayashi

Plot Due to the nation's low birth rate and aging population, the Japanese government implements a new policy. The new policy requires single men and women from the age of 25...

Direction Nobuhiro Yamashita

Cast Tamae Andô · Hirofumi Arai · Hyôe Enoki · Setsuko Karasuma

Direction Yoshimitsu Morita

Cast Koyuki · Tomoka Kurotani · Shunya Isaka · Takashi Yamanaka

Direction Hideyuki Hirayama

Cast Shôfukutei Tsurube · Gou Ayano · Nana Komatsu · Ryôta Bandô

Plot Three patients of different backgrounds, illnesses and stages are being treated at a psychiatric clinic in Nagano Prefecture. Their cases range from the criminal to merely asocial. That should be...

Direction Michihito Fujii

Cast Greg Han Hsu · Kaya Kiyohara · Joseph Chang · Shunsuke Michieda

Plot A journey begins to trace the memory of a first love, transcending the time and borders between Japan and Taiwan over a period of 18 years.

Direction Shûichi Okita

Cast Yûko Tanaka · Aoi Yû · Masahiro Higashide · Gaku Hamada

Plot In 1964, Momoko came by herself to Tokyo from her hometown. She met Shūzō and married him. They raised two children together, but Shūzō suddenly passes away. Momoko is dumbfounded...

Direction Masaharu Take

Cast Kyoko Hinami · Masaya Kato · Tomochika · Mitsuro Fukikoshi

Direction Michihito Fujii

Cast Kaya Kiyohara · Kentarô · Miki Mizuno · Takashi Yamanaka

Plot Fourteen-year-old schoolgirl Tsubame is into university student Toru. She seems him in her area and really wants to be his. She struggles with how to inform him of her love....

Direction Mitsuaki Iwagô

Cast Ginpunchō · Tasuku Emoto · Shôno Hayama · Yuki Katayama

Plot Daikichi is a 70-year-old man and lives on a small island. Since his wife died, he has lived with his cat Tama. Daikichi was born and raised on the small...

Direction Shosuke Murakami · Takao Kinoshita · Yasushi Ueda

Cast Minami · Nagisa Katahira · Ryunosuke Kamiki · Yasunori Danda

Plot Four stories of four women on Christmas Eve. A housewife was given a bouquet of flowers from a strange adolescent girl, a woman spent with her sister's lover, in an...