Soundtrack: Shinichirô Ikebe

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Iain Glen · Masahiro Motoki · Kippei Shiina · Takaya Kamikawa

Plot Spy Sorge depicts the life of Soviet spy Richard Sorge, whose infiltration of the German embassy in Tokyo gave Stalin an ear to Axis plans through the 1930's and into...

Direction Daisaku Kimura

Cast Ken'ichi Matsuyama · Yû Aoi · Sôsuke Ikematsu · Kaoru Kobayashi

Plot An alpine story of family, determination and destiny.Toru grew up in the Tateyama mountain ranges: alpine country. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the mountain with his...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Takaya Yamauchi · Yoshiyuki Omori · Shiori Sakura · Masako Natsume

Plot In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must come to terms with their nation's defeat and the sudden occupation...

Direction Akira Ogata

Cast Atsushi Ito · Sora Tôma · Teruyuki Kagawa · Ryoko Takizawa

Plot This coming of age film tells the story of fifteen year old Michio who is sent off to a boys orphanage following the untimely death of his father. Being a...

Direction Akio Jissoji

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Kyusaku Shimada · Yumi Yoshiyuki · Yuko Daike

Plot Detective Kogoro Akechi is faced with a peculiar murder case involving forgeries of classic pornographic artworks.

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Yukiyo Toake · Shinobu Sakagami · Tomokazu Miura

Direction Buichi Saito

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Yûko Asano · Katsuyo Asari · Shinsuke Ashida

Plot It is an autobiographical story, covering half-life of Kumago Matsuzaka modeled after novelist Miyamoto Teru's father.

Direction Akira Ogata

Cast Den Fujita · Keisuke Horibe · Teruyuki Kagawa · Ittoku Kishibe

Direction Shun Nakahara

Plot Upon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is 'lucky' and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the body of...

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Komaki Kurihara · Misako Watanabe · Toyoto Fukuda · Kiyoto Harada

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Kyôzô Nagatsuka · Hideyuki Kasahara · Jun Toba · Shima Iwashita

Plot Opens with a journalist reporting on the 1997 Kobe earthquake, as he remembers a trip made as a young boy. Then, he and family took a boat trip from Awaji...

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Shinsuke Ashida · Yumiko Dazai · Toru Emori · Sei Hiraizumi

Direction Shunya Ito

Cast Yukiyo Toake · Minoru Chiaki · Teruhiko Saigô · Yumiko Nogawa

Plot Grandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when he is affected by Alzheimer's disease, but his affliction serves to deepen family ties.

Direction Daisaku Kimura

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Teruyuki Kagawa · Ryuhei Matsuda · Yukiyoshi Ozawa

Plot In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.

Direction Taku Shinjo

Cast Ippo Fujikawa · Takashi Naitô · Miyuki Ono · Nana Okada