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The film is set in Fukagawa in the early Showa period and depicts a fateful confrontation between two men who rise and fall in a black stream, trying...
Tale on Tokai Chivalry
Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two...
Kikujiro
A neighbor dies when potted flowers fall from a balcony of an apartment complex. A man whose father suffers from dementia begins to question if it...
Somebody's Flowers
Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of...
Taboo
An action in which a former CIA female operative captures a revenge drama that unfolds against a huge secret organization.
Codename: Tomoko
When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish named Ponyo, he discovers more than he bargained...
Ponyo
Omnibus about three actresses from different generations
Nemuremitsu
Yuki Ozawa is approaching her 50's and she has now began working on her first serialized manga. The theme of her manga will be based on her mother's...
あとかたの街〜12歳の少女が見た戦争〜
Christmas Special following the series.
Bewitched in Tokyo SP
Tales of the Bizarre: 2008 Fall Special
A drama of two aging women who live a solitary life collecting discarded items from a nearby town. One day they return home to find a young girl...
Wool 100%
30 year old Yoko Sasaki (Arisa Mizuki) works diligently at a publishing company. She then receives the unexpected news that she is pregnant. Having...
Baby, Baby, Baby!
The first special of the Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi drama series.
Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi - Special 1
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s...
Departures
In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.
Empire of Passion
TBS Wednesday Drama Special about a young assistant in love with an older man who works as a photographer.
Love Story
Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.
Foundry Town
Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who...
Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
1962 Japanese movie
何もかも狂ってやがる
Wakai senpū
A girl whose younger brother as well as her lover were killed is drawn with a pistol in her hand.
Kids
A Japanese teenager embarks on a quest to find the Canadian lover of her grandmother.
Looking for Anne
Twenty-three-year-old Ken has difficulty coping with the death of his father. His mother send him to his uncle Takuma in Japan.
Kamataki
A lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time he's running from loan sharks and his personal...
The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor
A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pickpockets in Osaka. The detective (played by...
The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
After the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its allure. Even the gambling den of the Ryūzaki...
Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers
A drama depicting the world of the female writer Midori Osaki in three parts: the dramatic creation of her masterpiece, "Wanderings in the Realm of...
In Search of a Lost Writer: Wandering in the World of the Seventh Sense
Domestic drama focusing on a soon to be retired train driver and his wife.
Crossroads
Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend Yamazaki who he knew since college. Yamazaki has...
Double Bed
In the lush tradition of the glorious films of Merchant and Ivory, comes the true life story of Leonie Gilmour (Emily Mortimer), whose life crossed...
Leonie
A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man does...
Kidnapping Blues
The Yamaoki family moved from Kyoto to Tosa around the turn of the '50s; local school teacher Hirao becomes involved with Yasuko, sister to Sumio.
Remembrance
The Cricket Girl
Gabai Granny is based on the bestseller Saga No Gabai Baachan (Gabai Granny from Saga), which is penned by comedian Shimada Yoshichi as he recounts...
Granny Gabai
After she drives drunk and hits an old woman, a famous novelist is threatened with a law suit by the woman's son... unless she lets him publish his...
The Love and Death of Kaoru Mitarai
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
僕が笑うと
A motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's worth of the Imperial Navy's gold, team up to salvage...
Golden Partners
A detective drama that realistically shows the work of an experienced detective who, under cover, pursues the organizer of the arms trade route from...
Gun Demon Without Form
A love story woven by a loveless mistrust girl, Kaede Tamaki who works for a small video production company, and a mysterious young man Seishiro who...
The Last Three Times We'll Meet
Eigo ni yowai otoko azuma wa azuma, nishi wa nishi
Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko
Yukiko
In the bustle of the city, on the corners of neon streets, the eyes of a wild beast are fixed on a young girl! A gloomy portrait of youth, in which...
Teenage Wolf
Lonely after the death of her husband, whom she nursed for years, Tae decides to find a new life partner. Her family and friends try to dissuade her.
A Sparkle of Life
A newlywed wife suffers the consequences for her husband’s actions when he cheats a customer at his credit company out of a large sum of money.
Juvenile Wife
A laid-off designer returns to her home town after five years away.
Valley of Dreams
Saki, a high school girl who always skips classes, works part-time as a life adviser.
A World Without Cherry Blossoms
Two estranged brothers inherit Marukin Hot Springs, a small-town bathhouse. One sees it as an homage to their late father; the other—a...
Yudo: The Way of the Bath
Shinji (Shinichi Tsutsumi) steps out of a train station to find himself transported back to 1964.
Riding the Metro
Hiroshi, a 30 year-old businessman, has traveled back in time 20 years. He encounters Kazumi, a young woman who was gravely ill. Hiroshi regarded...
A Heartful of Love
Hama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company faces a restructuring process.
Free and Easy 15
While Kazuo Tanaka eagerly practices his greetings for the big wedding the next day, his first as a matchmaker, his second daughter Hitomi prepares...
O-higara mo yoku, go-shusho sama
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.
Tokyo Family
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!
Newly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new life with the boss' daughter. However, the chains of...
Black Strait
Yoji, a divorced and demoted Japanese man, chooses to head to Manila, believing that nobody is lonely in the Philippines.
Diamonds in the Sand
Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an...
When Marnie Was There
A family that was severely damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake that struck in March 2011, and a family that escaped the disaster. The film...
Time Never Stops
When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive...
The Sleeping Beast Within
Minami Yasuo, a college student, lives with Yuriko who has become the mistress of a foreigner named Wilson. Whenever Wilson comes, Yasuo spends his...
The Age of Our Own
A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her life and fills her little heart with the joys and...
Maiko's Visit to Tokyo
About a family shouldering an unexpected responsibility when Alzheimer's disease strikes their grandmother. The superb cast portrays this serious and...
Oriume
Soutaro Nagare is an assistant at a commercial film production company. However, one day at the studio, he punches a cameraman and gets fired. Taking...
CF Guretai
A lonely university student develops a romance with a beautiful interesting woman, who turns out to be a cyborg from the future.
Cyborg She
Horror TV-Special broadcast at the 27th September, 1991.
Emergency Special! I saw a Paranormal Phenomenon!!
The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...
How Sorrowful
TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV...
Secret Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secret Leak Incident
While stopped at a roadside phone booth for transmitting his work through the Internet to the university, Professor Hideki Satomi finds a scrap of...
Premonition
Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which...
The Little House
Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and...
Hold Me and Kiss Me
Suzume Akamatsu works at a library in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture. She delivers books by riding a bicycle. Through her work, Suzume grows as a person.
The Book Peddler
Traveling chef Ryuji is called back to Tokyo to help save his late teacher’s restaurant. With the help of his close friend Kinu, Ryuji must...
The Seven Chefs
Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new...
What a Wonderful Family! 2
Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A...
Amagi Pass
Heartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician father.
The Song of Love
Tells of the feelings and sufferings of a young girl with an incurable paralytic disease.
I Hear the Whistle
In 2012, Atsuya and his 2 childhood friends do something bad and run into an old general store. They decide to stay there until the morning. Late...
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
Haruo returns to his hometown for his mother’s second marriage, where he happens to meet his first love Miyuki for the first time in eight...
Going Home
The story of a high school boy (Toshiyuki Nagashima) in Tokyo returning to his home town of Nagano upon the death of his father.
The Days of No Return
A group of elderly women come together to sell vegetable leaves.
It's a Beautiful Life - Irodori
Set in an alternate universe, the ancient capital of Kamakura is a vibrant town where fantastical creatures live alongside humans. Akiko is a...
Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura
The story of the desperate struggle between the police and a large crime syndicate.
Chase That Man
At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one afternoon, housewife Fumie falls asleep and wakes up to...
What a Wonderful Family! 3
A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present. She replies...
What a Wonderful Family!
A continuation of the story of the postwar years in the Japanese Inland Sea. Now a decade has passed. Two friends meet and decide to look for the...
MacArthur's Children—Part II
High school student Naoki Tomura grew up in a remote area in Hokkaido. He meets piano tuner Soichiro Itadori in school and eventually decides to work...
The Forest of Wool and Steel
The blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a jealous husband bent on revenge. Zatoichi tours...
Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. They start dating but then strange things then...
Eien no 1/2
Sachi Hamano's Yurisai (Lily Festival) is about a man (Mickey Curtis) in his seventies who comes to live in an apartment building that also houses...
Lily Festival
The mysterious relationship between a breast-sick sister who lives in a warehouse and the younger brother who longs for her.
In the Cellar
Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurata as a yakuza supervising a dockworker's union....
The Armed Organization
Nakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money in his pockets. As he knocks back a couple drinks that...
A Killer Without a Grave
About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old...
House of Sleeping Beauties
Kunio Shibano was bankrupted. He visits a snowland spa area to commit suicide. But he meets Geisha Moeko, and she gives him power to face life one...
Snowland Revisited
Koji Wakamatsu adapted Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of a traveling acting troupe.
Sosuke Loses His Lover
1987film
Makeup
A valet at a fancy nightclub hatches a plot to punish those responsible for his father's death.
The Street of Desire
A Japanese Demon
Set in an old merchant house in Kyoto, the film traces the passing of an era through the story of a parent and child.
Saijo katagi
Journey
After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home.
One Who Died in Vain
The Rite of Loss
A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a...
Jungle Block
An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango” by Toshio Yasumi, a comedy, cheerful...
Shutsugeki
A female career banker shatters the glass ceiling of a mega bank by disclosing its shady business to light. Tamaki, the Gold Woman, has worked her...
Gold Woman
Based on a true story, Yoshiko and Yuriko relates the journey and great love affair of Yoshiko, who was a renowned translator of Russian literature...
Yoshiko & Yuriko
Immoral Affairs (Fukigen na kajitsu) is a Japanese film made in 1997 and directed by Katsuo Naruse.It centers on two characters: Mayako, played by...
Immoral Affairs
Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objects to the idea. One day, someone leaves behind a...
Heaven Sent
Looks back 20 years into the past of an elderly woman who died of heatstroke and paints a picture of a solitary woman's genuine despair.
The Landlady
Set on a quiet ranch in Hokkaido. One day, a colt is born from a legendary bloodline. It is given the name Oracion or "prayer". When Oracion is...
Oración
A star tennis player takes revenge on the blackmailers out to ruin his athletic career.
The Hidden Trail of the Beasts
Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko....
That Guy and I
Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father...
Translucent Tree
The third work of the popular series depicting the famous detective Kyosuke Kozu. Blind musician Ryoichi Kashiwagi died of a heart attack. His...
Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning 3
Movie theater Asahiza has existed for almost a 100 years in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture. Unlike other theaters, Asahiza plays old films and...
Cinematic Liars of Asahi-za
Murder case and trial.
Witness Chair
A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.
Kokoro no sanmyaku
A frustrated young woman returns from Tokyo to her hometown in Toyama where she meets an old woman who lives alone. There she slowly finds purpose in...
Photograph of Memories
The movie depicts the complicated romantic feelings of a woman who is attracted to a man other than her fiancé.
Kiri ni Kieta Hito
A photographer is lost in a storm and washes up on an isolated island, where he meets a vampire woman and falls in love with her.
Sea of Wonders
Abare chōhan
A documentary about the making and shooting of Yojiro Takita’s ‘Departures’ (2008)
Making of "Departures"