Kaoru Kobayashi

In Kagoshima, in the final days of World War II, an offer of marriage comes to Etsuko Kamiya, who lives with her brother and his wife. The offer ...

Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange… What’s even more strange ...

‘Female’ is comprised of five short films adapted from five novels by female authors. Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto, Tetsuo Shinohara, ...

A Labrador retriever named Quill begins specialized training as a guide dog from an early age, then the canine is paired with a blind man who is ...

The four Takezawa sisters discover that their father has an illegitimate child so they hire a private detective to investigate.

A TV movie by Kon Ichikawa, remaking of Ten Dark Women (1961)

Ghiblies (pronounced with a hard “g” as in “gallop”) is a short film aired during a TV special about Ghibli. It’s ...

A man is shocked to find out that after a deadly car accident involving his wife and daughter, his wife died, but her mind somehow got transfered ...

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 ...

Thirty years after graduation, a man and a woman meet again at an alumni reunion. They are no longer young, but the moment she sees him, memories ...

Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the ...

A special drama starring Masahiro Nakai of SMAP, which was aired on Fuji TV six times from 1996 to 2005. The original is a comic of the same name ...

A five-part comedy and horror anthology

Based on the novel of the same name by Shizuka Ijûin. Played as a double feature with Crepe (1993).

Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with bored housewife Atsuko. When Atsuko makes a ...

Near the end of WWII a lone U-Boat is sent from Germany to Japan carrying plutonium needed for a Japanese A-Bomb. During the long journey, news ...

Set in decadent, chaotic Hong Kong and Tokyo, the film tells the story of a young woman caught up in a mysterious turn of events. A young tour ...

A magical realist story of the legendary Okinawan hero Untamagiru participating in efforts to form an independent Okinawa before the island was ...

Despite his efforts of living a normal life as a banker, the life of Toru, the only son of the Yubari Family, becomes disrupted by trouble ...

Anthology film. “What’s Wrong with Eating?” Numayama Kazuki is always complaining about his wife’s, Atsugi Shizuka, body ...

The cockroaches of Saito’s apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed and plenty of leftovers to ...

Two TV salarymen uphold their duty by taking on a rival talent agency during the late-’80s bubble economy.

Daisuke is supposed to be out looking for a respectable job and equally respectable wife. He is 30 years old and devotes his attention to music ...

A drama depicting the conflict between a man that ran to an old lover suffering from advanced leukemia, his wife and child that were left behind, ...

Go Takamine’s first theatrical feature is a pioneering work of Okinawan cinema, filmed almost entirely in Okinawan dialect. Taking place ...

Based on the novel of the same name by Yoshio Kataoka.

Kazumi – whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband’s emotional conflicts with the wisdom ...

Detective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was ostensibly a student but in reality a high-priced ...

A student travels back to Kobe for the summer. Once there, he meets his friend Rat, hangs on the usual place, listening to the Beach Boys and ...