Moeko Ezawa

Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After ...

Tsukiko, whose father died before she was born, lives with her mother Yoko and they provide mutual support for each other. One day, Yoko comes ...

Nursing home “Yuyoso”. Many lonely old people live there, including botanist Taro Makiso, a physicist, an actor, a bar mom, and a ...

Komaki is a thirty-something woman that has had it with her perpetually unemployed aspiring writer husband. Following the divorce, she moves back ...

Chizuru, a typical Japanese young female office worker, is socially clumsy, poor at romance and unhappy with her job. Being weary from a busy and ...

When a gal named Kasumi decides to become a traditional Japanese ‘Rakugo’ storyteller due to her uncle’s invalidity, she is ...

Mortality and death seen through the eyes of a lonely student who has an morbid and albeit naive fascination with death. His teacher, Koichi is ...

Master swordsman Akiyama Kohei’s simple life in retirement is jarred into violent sword action when he meets an elderly fencing instructor who ...

After finally passing his teacher’s exam, Miwa (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) devoted himself to teaching in a rustic primary school. He struggles to ...

A portrait of an ordinary family that turns unstable when their frivolous son Shuji returns home after a long absence.

Elderly ladies rise to the challenge of staging a play and struggle to launch a theater company. Based on the actual amateur theater company ...

The second half of the true story of Masahisa Takenaka, 4th kumicho of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan’s largest yakuza gang

Kasumi is in the midst of an affair with Ishiyama, one of her husband’s clients. When Kasumi and her family visit Ishiyama’s villa in ...

The eruption of Mt. Fuji in 1707 released hordes of demons from deep inside the earth. Sakuya, the young daughter of a samurai killed fighting ...

Takao, the owner of a coffee shop and brother-in-law to Anzai, the assistant manager of Hikari Bank, Osaka central branch, is caught in a scam by ...

Kazuya goes to live with his mother Shinobu because his father, Yoshiki, who works in the same company, has fired him according to the company ...

For Kei, a delinquent mom trucker, the bigger the payoff, the less she cares what’s in the cargo. She keeps hauling dangerous stuff without a ...

Rie, who recently married Tatsumura, the heir of a construction company, one day receives a wrong number call. Dissatisfied with her husband, she ...

Minako, a Tokyo housewife, is depressed that everyone has an active life outside the home except her. Taking her inspiration from TV reports of a ...

In late 90s Osaka, three people from various walks of life meet by chance. They team up to orchestrate a complex financial con targeting crooked ...

A normal banker decides to take on the loan sharks and yakuza.

Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some deception, ...

With a title like that… you just have to watch it.

Young Thugs: Innocent Blood follows three friends through their first year after leaving high school. Having robbed their teacher on their last ...