Akira Emoto

Kasumi, a high school student, has lived her life with curling in a scenic town near Karuizawa, home to the oldest curling field in Honshu. In ...

Sawada graduated from an art university but cannot rely on it to make a living and is working as an assistant to a famous contemporary artist. He ...

Kiyoyoshi Kuga attends law school, aiming to work in the legal field as a lawyer. His childhood friend Mirei Orimoto also attends the same law ...

Based on the murder of nine street peddlers in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake.

Yoriko Sudo believes in a new religious group Midoriinochikai, that worships water. She lives peacefully, devoting herself to the group daily.

After going to extremes to cover up an accident, a corrupt cop’s life spirals out of control when he starts receiving threats from a ...

A lonely magazine editor finds romance with his personal trainer until a confession changes everything. Based on the novel by Makoto Takayama.

Following a near-death experience France’s leading chef throws himself into a quest seeking the flavor that has confounded his life since ...

Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.

In a park on a rainy evening, a 19-year-old university student, Fumi, offers an umbrella to a soaking wet 10-year-old girl, Sarasa. Realizing her ...

Kida and Makoto grew up together because they have it in common that they don’t have parents. And a transfer student, Yotchi, also gets ...

In consequence of his professional mistakes and declining career, Shuji and his family, the Sasaya’s, are forced to leave the wealthy suburb of ...

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 ...

Story of the struggling chorus group “Yamada Osamu and the Hello Nights”, who gain an unexpected new member in the young Ai, who ...

A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in similar circumstances a suspect is ...

Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowing a boat for the villagers all day long, he ...

When it rains it pours. Kenji divorced his wife, lost his job and his old squeeze Naoko is getting married back home in the north of Japan, ...

The acting family, the Emotos, are the subject of this documentary following Emoto Akira and his sons.

Taiko drummer, Hisakatsu Yokoyama, and fellow evacuees of Futaba, Fukushima fight to keep their beloved “Futaba Bon-Uta” alive after their ...

Kurumi is hired at a high-end hotel, but is instead dispatched to work at fun fair that is connected to the business network. The new work is out ...

Kenji is a young aspiring movie director. He falls in love with Princess Miyuki, who came from a black‐and‐white movie.

Kuki Fumihiro is a son from a wealthy zaibatsu (conglomerate) family. His father raises him to become pure evil. Kuki kills his father to protect ...

Kengo was gifted in Kendo (Japanese martial art) but he quits after a tragic incident. He works as a security guard and spends his days drinking. ...

Kagerota is a young ninja who embarks on his first mission: stealing the goldfish from a wealthy samurai. He succeeds, but then a mysterious fat ...

In a small fishing village, a gloomy middle school student named Kai meets a mermaid named Lu.

Questioning the meaning of people’s lives, the multiple stories include the work of a manga artist, old men get involved in a fight and a ...