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Yoshiyama Kazuko is a third-year junior high school student. One day while cleaning the lab, she smells lavender and faints. From then on, she has...
The Little Girl Who Conquered Time
A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.
Turning Point
Sawako, working in a bank, tired of the usual everyday life, once she met the chef of French cuisine Yukio Goto and spent the night with him. Sawako...
Love of Sawako
9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies...
I Are You, You Am Me
The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle...
Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters...
Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
In the third installment of Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the end of battle, where Miyamoto continues on a mission...
Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments....
Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of legend. His beginning are not exactly...
Miyamoto Musashi
After noticing in the news there was a fire in an old canal town, Eguchi recalls visiting there a decade ago as a university student.
The Deserted City
Sashichi is a dapper and handsome man. He is called a doll Sashichi because he is "a nice man like a doll." On top of that, he is a considerable...
Ningyo Sashichi: The Cat’s Golden Claws of Death
The son of wandering actors, also a budding actor, little Akira is forced to change school often and, after having attended thirty-two different...
Mattemashita tenkousei!
Kizaki, who moved to Tokyo from the Kansai region to become a manga artist, is assigned to work at a used electrical appliance store where he works...
The Washing Machine
Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki's sixth decade behind the camera, "A Boy's Summer in 1945" (literally "A Beautiful Summer in...
A Boy's Summer in 1945
During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland...
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
Maeda Tsunanori, the lord of Kaga Domain, had two young princes - Katsumaru, the son of his legitimate wife, who died, and Yasunosuke, the son of his...
The Lord's spy
Movie adaptation of a novel by Rampo Edogawa.
Secret Liaisons
Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete...
Glory to the Filmmaker!
The film tells about a young detective Zenigata Heiji who successfully solves a disgusting and unusual case involving the manufacture of counterfeit...
The Coin Thrower Zenigata
A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each...
Three Yakuza
Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.
Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
Second live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel.
Barefoot Gen Part 3: Battle of Hiroshima
It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he...
The Rocking Horsemen
Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his psyche,...
Miss Lonely
Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada's ex-wife. Recovering from the shock,...
The Discarnates
A Francophile filmmaker in a creative rut tries to pass off a free-spirited young actress as his movie-star wife in order to fool a chief from the...
April Fish
Organized thieves battle against the Shogun’s ruthless ruling in attempt to get back their land.
Black Thief
In a village subsisting on its herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one...
Jakoman and Tetsu
On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of...
Tomorrow
Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his aunt cares for his ailing cousin. Immersed in the...
Hanagatami
Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an...
Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn
Based on a true story. Shiro, a dog who lives in an inn on Akajima in Okinawa, swims to the opposite shore on Zamami to see his love, a dog named...
Shiro and Marilyn
A human drama on the state of marriage today, following the battle between a mother and daughter over her marriage and humorous depictions of the...
A Desirable Marriage
Mondonosuke, a young sword student, has a bad dream about his sensei being killed in a duel.Consequently, he quickly returns to his sensei's dojo in...
The Third Contest
A young woman moves in with her estranged father after her mother passes away.
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
Zokubutsu zukan
A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that her late father had told her about.
The Island Closest to Heaven
In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greatest performance as a gambler returning to his home...
The Great Duel
The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis.
Sada
A heartwarming, based-on-true-story of how a hearing-impaired couple, Masahiro and Namiko, knew each other, got married and began participating in...
I Want to Hear the Wind's Song
Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as "The Domain" Each a stand alone film in it's own,...
The Domain: The Naniwa Story
The only movie theater on the Onomichi seafront is about to close its doors. Its last night of screenings will be an all-night marathon of Japanese...
Labyrinth of Cinema
Film director Mario Baba meets a mysterious gentleman, and realizes he is a important man from his boyhood. The two chase each other around, causing...
The Stupid Teacher
A legendary actress thought to be dead is discovered living in an isolated mansion. A screenwriter is tasked with writing her comeback film, which...
Legend of the Cat Monster
People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to...
Goodbye for Tomorrow
The story of two young hustlers, Tatsuro and Shin. They each have a lady friend, and everything seems to work, until the day Shin declares he's in...
A Touch of Fever
Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through...
Soup Opera
The Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a freak accident the year prior. When the other daughter...
Chizuko's Younger Sister
After a series of chance meetings a shiftless motorbike enthusiast Ko begins a romance with a carefree girl Miyo, after teaching her to ride. When...
His Motorbike, Her Island
Young Master Yakuza: Edoite Goblin
Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation...
The Motive
The Domain: White Blade
Four sisters with no consanguinity are living together since childhood. When facing misfortune and grievances in lives, they give support and...
Four Sisters
Ayase Shinsuke, a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up in. He meets a strange boy who calls himself by the...
Haruka, Nostalgia