Kimiko Yo

A disabled child of separated parents gets caught up in police espionage due to his uncanny ability to remember license plate numbers.

In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist ...

2004 film

Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high school’s grounds. The dog, named Kuro, ...

A car carrying a wealthy man and his second wife, Kumako (Yo Kimiko), falls into the sea, and only Kumako survives. At first, it is thought to be ...

When a promising young boxer is crippled in a car accident, he falls into a life of dissipation and depression. No boxing ring or martial arts ...

Hotel Hibiscus is the story of one very young energetic girl named Mieko and her internatioanl family who live in Okinawa. They live in a run ...

Hana is a nineteen-year old expectant mother. She travels with her grandmother’s ashes to her grandmother’s house. Hana’s ...

A boy who suffers from impaired hearing and a young girl pianist try to solve the mysterious connection between a series of murders and the ...

A seeing-eye dog (Shiro) is granted one wish by his former owner. He chooses to become a human for a short time so he can find the girl who ...

Asako in Ruby Shoes succeeds in providing yet another challenge to views of a homogeneous South Korea by presenting to us the Asian side of ...

An officer struggles to solve a murder case despite being at odds with his lieutenant. Officer Tetsubei discovers the body of a man whose face ...

The third and final V-Cinema sequel.

In this startling psychological thriller from Japan, Mami (Hijiri Kojima) is a teacher who meets Tomo (Koji Chihara), a psychotic criminal with a ...

Kawamoto works and lives in a dilapidated pool hall which also serves as a rehearsal space for him and his friend Chikako. They seem contented to ...

Hama-chan accompanies Su-san on a business trip to Okinawa in the middle of the recession, but Su-san remains in low spirits over business matters.

A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his ...

A widow who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins attending a technical college to gain new qualifications. She ...

A fifteen year old boy travels through the Amagi Pass, he encounters some strange people, one of them is the geisha Ozuka Hana. After a murder ...

Immoral Affairs (Fukigen na kajitsu) is a Japanese film made in 1997 and directed by Katsuo Naruse.It centers on two characters: Mayako, played ...

A young student believes that the spirit of an alien from another planet has gone back in time, taking over his body to infiltrate and study ...

Time travel film

An odd journey starts as Mitsuru, a private detective, and a boy, whom a dying mobster entrusts to him, decide to go to northern Japan in search ...

Five women snatch one billion yen in jewellery from the yakuza, while construction manager Toyama burns for revenge against the mobsters who ...

A young girl wanders into a wing of her elementary school that has been abandoned for years and is rumored to be haunted. When she doesn’t ...

A V-Cinema effort from the mid-90s starring Show Aikawa and Misa Aika. Misa Aika plays Miyuki, a high school girl who is a computer nerd. She is ...