Cast: Takashi Yamanaka

Direction Michihito Fujii

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

Synopsis 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 Zhang Yimou

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

Synopsis The Flowers of War (2011) is set during the 1937 Nanking Massacre, a dark chapter in the Second Sino-Japanese War. The story follows John Miller, an American mortician who takes refuge in a Catholic church. Inside, he encounters a group...

Direction Yoshihiro Nakamura

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

Synopsis 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 that song will have a profound effect on peoples lives,...

Direction Yukiko Sode

Cast Ginpunchō · Kei Ishibashi · Shizuka Ishibashi · Mugi Kadowaki

Synopsis 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 she is and is holding down a job. They are...

Direction Michihito Fujii · Hirotoshi Hara · Kenji Kuwajima

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 the resulting nuclear crisis.

Direction Hajime Gonno · Takashi Motoki

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 not to do bad things in the next year. The...

Direction Michihito Fujii

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

Synopsis 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 the station police chief asking about his involvement in the...

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

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

Direction Michihito Fujii

Cast Ryûsei Yokohama · Riho Yoshioka · Shintarô Morimoto · Anna Yamada

Synopsis Kaburagi (Ryusei Yokohama) was arrested as a suspect in a brutal murder case, but he escapes. He continues to hide and move all around Japan. During this time, he meets Sayaka (Riho Yoshioka), Kazuya (Shintaro Morimoto) and Mai (Anna Yamada)....

Direction Kimura Takafumi · Kobayashi Ogo

Cast Anne Watanabe · Masahiro Higashide · Mitsuki Takahata · Yoshiko Miyazaki

Synopsis Meiji 44th year. Meiko is the daughter of Daigo, who owns a western restaurant in Tokyo. She loves to eat the omelette prepared by Daigo, and the nukaduke (pickles) prepared by her mother, Iku. Theirs is a warm, close knitted...

Direction Junichi Ishikawa

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

Synopsis 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 to 39 to go on government planned blind dates. The...

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

Synopsis 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 that, but soon matters take a darker turn when a...

Direction Shûichi Okita

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

Synopsis 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 by being alone again. She begins to go to the...

Direction Masaharu Take

Cast Kyoko Hinami · Masaya Kato · Tomochika · Mitsuro Fukikoshi

Direction Michihito Fujii

Cast Kaya Kiyohara · Kentarô · Miki Mizuno · Takashi Yamanaka

Synopsis 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. Then her stepmother becomes pregnant and she is distracted with...