Cinematography: Yutaka Yamasaki

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Yûya Yagira · Ayu Kitaura · Hiei Kimura · Momoko Shimizu

Plot In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Hiroshi Abe · Yui Natsukawa · You · Kazuya Takahashi

Plot A family drama about grown children visiting their elderly parents, which unfolds over one summer day. The aging parents have lived in the family home for decades. Their son and...

Direction Stephen Nomura Schible

Cast Ryuichi Sakamoto

Plot Portrait of Ryuichi Sakamoto, from pop icon of Japan's technological aspirations to leading activist post-Fukushima, returning to music after cancer for major opus that may be his last.

Direction Masao Adachi

Plot During the fall of 1968, four cases of murder took place in four cities with the same weapon. The film records the areas traversed by the murderer in his lifetime.

Direction Naomi Kawase

Cast Kohei Fukungaga · Yuka Hyyoudo · Naomi Kawase · Kanako Higuchi

Plot The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin,...

Direction Miwa Nishikawa

Cast Sôsuke Ikematsu · Masahiro Motoki · Eri Fukatsu · Haru Kuroki

Plot Based on a book by writer - director Miwa Nishikawa, a recently widowed writer ( Masahiro Motoki,Departures)whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief,or lack...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Ohshirô Maeda · Koki Maeda · Hiroshi Abe · Jô Odagiri

Plot In his latest film the Japanese master Hirokazu Koreeda takes a close look at the world of childhood to tell the story of Koichi, a child who lives with his...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Hiroshi Abe · Kirin Kiki · Yoko Maki · Lily Franky

Plot Dwelling on his past glory as a prize-winning author, Ryota (Hiroshi Abe) wastes the money he makes as a private detective on gambling and can barely pay child support. After...

Direction Naomi Kawase

Cast Nijiro Murakami · Jun Yoshinaga · Makiko Watanabe · Hideo Sakaki

Plot On the subtropical Japanese island of Amami, traditions about nature remain eternal. During the full-moon night of traditional dances in August, 16-year-old Kaito discovers a dead body floating in the...

Direction Alex Gibney

Cast Steve Jobs

Plot A look at the personal and private life of the late Apple CEO, Steve Jobs.

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Arata Iura · Yusuke Iseya · Susumu Terajima · Seminosuke Murasugi

Plot Members of a cult, modeled on Aum Shinrikyo, sabotage a city's water supply, then commit mass suicide near the shores of a lake. Family members (the credited cast, minus Asano)...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Junichi Okada · Rie Miyazawa · Tadanobu Asano · Arata Furuta

Plot Set in 1702, Hana yori mo naho looks back a full three centuries to a time when samurai clans offered monetary rewards to the samurais who succeeded in taking on...

Direction Masao Adachi

Cast Ukan Abeta · Shoichi Honda · Juri Ihata · Hiroko Ito

Plot A man appears and sits on the street. A boy, interested in the man sitting on the street, talks to the man, but the man doesn't say anything. The man...

Direction Akihiko Shiota

Cast Hoshi Ishida · Mitsuki Tanimura · Hidetoshi Nishijima · Miyako Koda

Plot Based on the true events of the deadly gas attacks perpetrated by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult on the Tokyo subway system, CANARY tells the moving story of two...

Direction Kei Chikaura

Cast Mirai Moriyama · Tatsuya Fuji · Yoko Maki · Hideko Hara

Plot Actor Takashi has lived estranged from his father Yohji, a retired university professor, since a messy divorce with his mother 20 years ago. They barely keep in touch, until one...

Direction Yutaka Yamasaki

Cast Makiko Watanabe · Sakura Ando · Sora Aoi · Arata Iura

Plot A seemingly "normal" office worker Hiroko (Makiko Watanabe) has a secret. At home she lives with a prosthetic torso - no head, arms or feet, just body and male private...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Haruka Ayase · Akira Ikegami

Direction Atsushi Funahashi

Plot Nuclear Nation II follows a new group of people exiled from Futaba, the region occupied by the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Since the 1960s, Futaba had been promised...

Direction Nao Kubota

Cast Yûko Tanaka · Machiko Ono · Dankan · Masanobu Ando

Plot Tomiko, a middle-aged woman, waits patiently for her husband, who disappeared thirty years ago, to return. She lives alone in a declining fishing village, and continues to search tirelessly for...

Direction Akiko Ohku

Cast Yui Aragaki · Ryuhei Matsuda · Rinko Kikuchi