Miyuki Matsuda

Natsume Hamanaka was a police rookie with a promising future until she was in a car crash that killed her brother and took her eyesight. Three ...

After successfully won the Tokyo qualifying tournament, Chihaya and her friends are set to go on to the nationals. As they prepare, Chihaya is ...

When Chihaya Ayase was in the 6th grade of elementary school, she met Arata Wataya. Arata Wataya transferred from Fukui Prefecture. Taichi ...

After the death of his grandfather, Koen Shirakawa (Atsushi Ito) quits his job at a bookstore and goes to a temple to become a monk.

A man, who once dreamed of becoming a punk rocker, is working as a low salaryman at a musical instrument parts company. He’s secretly in ...

On the Japanese island of Amami, despite lacking parental guidance, Kaito and his girlfriend Kyoko try to find their place in the world. While ...

Ushibuka in Amakusa City prospered a century ago with its fishing industry and red-light district, but has become Japan’s fastest declining ...

On the night of Mikihiko’s 18th birthday, Mikihiko thinks of childhood friend Morio. Morio has been in vegetative state since the age of 6 ...

Having abandoned modern civilization, Ryoichi lives an isolated, self-sufficient life on a snow-covered mountain and sends mail bombs to the CEOs ...

A laid-off designer returns to her home town after five years away.

In March 2011, Japan was struck by a catastrophic earthquake, with the devastating tsunami that followed causing a meltdown at the Fukushima ...

In a remote area of Hokkaido, two lonely high school students meet and connect through a shared love of music.

Five short stories of life’s joys and sorrows are brought together in this omnibus drama from Japan.

Five different directors adapt the works of Japanese author Otsuichi in this collection of unconventional live-action and animated shorts. A ...

A story of a group of high school boys who play the Japanese game “Bo taoshi”

One morning Hikaru Hino, a high school student living in Hakodate, wakes up to find she has grown a tail. She quickly cancels her first date with ...

Kotaro and Kuroe marry almost immediately in a Christian ceremony and move into an apartment. Life is completely joyous until, one day, Kuroe ...

Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their ...

Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of Onomichi with this film about the budding ...

Traditional Japanese pop singer Reiko (Muroi) decides to enter a well-known TV program for amateur singers along with a confused teenager (Ôtomo) ...

About an energetic kindergarden student and the people around him

Coffee-shop waitress Kanako, divorced with a young son, finds herself obliged to honour a rash promise she made to a long-time customer. He ...

The detective with the highest arrest rate. In fact, he was a vicious detective who communicated with the gangsters!

An eerie statue of the Kannon shedding tears in an old Western-style house. Fifty years of the strange lives of the mothers and daughters who ...

Based on the novel of the same name by Shoji Yuki