BÚSQUEDA
An unapologetic former sex worker starts working at a bento stand in a small seaside town, bringing comfort to the lonely souls who come her way.
Call Me Chihiro
A small yet moving dance film that follows Machi—who cannot speak nor hear—her best friend, and a wanted man with whom Machi falls in...
Seiza
Yuko is a Japanese girl who was taken hostage in Iraq while volunteering there as an aid worker. Finally released and back in her hometown, Yuko...
Bashing
Eight years after the devastating tsunami, the wounds it left in Japan have still not healed. In her touching search for answers, Haru sets out on a...
Voices in the Wind
Yuji Takanashi is a university philosophy professor who can't swim. Making awkward justifications to himself about the relationship between water and...
Yes, I Can't Swim
In the time after Naomi’s parents suddenly die, she happens to meet and bond with the popular actor Morinori Tokito who lives in the same...
Living in the Sky
On a normal day, a stranger breaks into Sumire's apartment and assaults her. Sumire reacts incredibly calmly to the incident, but she still feels the...
Killing the Violet
Mashike, a city on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Nobuo Honma is a 63-year-old sake producer. He has lived with Yasuo since his wife died two years...
Man Walking on Snow
Diagnosed with dementia, Yuriko's mind quickly begins to fade. Yet, for her son Izumi, memories of the mother feel as vivid as when he lived them....
A Hundred Flowers
The movie revolves around Mitsuba, who studies traditional art of rakugo. Rakugo is a form of comical story telling, sometimes referred to as...
Talk, Talk, Talk
Kazuo Murata is a detective who has lost his wife and eventually the meaning of his existence.
Flic
Yuichiro is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs over him like a pall as he wanders Japan's S&M...
Antenna
Meet NIPPORI Ayumu, an 80 year-old man, who, due to a serious heart condition, has spent sixty years of his life confined to his house. One morning,...
Across a Gold Prairie
A socially-distanced college reunion, an unusual rapport struck between a food delivery man and a patron, a bus-stop encounter, and a blind woman...
She is me, I am her
A young man moves from the countryside to Tokyo, while experiencing hardships and happiness, in his pursuit to become a comics artist.
Onobori monogatari
Matagi is a group of hunters who lives in the mountains and targets wild animals including bears, but now more and more bear hunting is forbidden by...
Promised Land
A family moves into a house, but discover that it is haunted by a murdered girl.
House of Sayuri
Manga Ka Hori Mamoru
Suffering from heartbreak and asthma, 23-year-old Toshiyuki pushes the limits of his body to chase the ghost of his recently deceased boyfriend...
Breathless Lovers
A young couple’s announcement of their engagement to their friends is followed by a series of interactions and conflicts that forces everyone...
Passion
A nostalgic human drama based on Dazai Osamu Prize winner Tsujiuchi Tomoki's novella. Set in a declining coal-mining town in 1950s Fukuoka, the story...
Forget Me Not
Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and...
Asako I & II
A group of high school girls learn to play the game of curling.
Curling Love
An old couple, their only son, the son's wife, a young man and his lover live peacefully in a village. Then, a terrifying earthquake strikes that...
The Land of Hope
The semi-autobiographical story of a underground comedian in Tokyo, with a cast that features acts performing in the underground circuit today.
Tokyo Adios
An unexpected love triangle, a seduction trap, and a random encounter are the three episodes, told in three movements to depict three female...
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
Three people from a former theater club get back in touch for the first time in 20 years during the COVID-19 pandemic. Each of them have led...
Among Four of Us
Yuki is a 2nd year high school student. She volunteers at a paediatrics ward for her summer vacation, because she wants to witness the moment a...
Night's Tightrope
Yukiko, a 29-year-old elementary school teacher in Tokyo, struggles with student communication and personal insecurities. Overlooked in the...
Yukiko a.k.a
In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist...
Café Lumière