Naomi Nishida

Miyata lost his wife early on and single-handedly raised their two children. One day he notices a change in his physical condition, and decides ...

Set in the 1960’s, Joe Yabuki lives in a run-down low income area. There, alcoholic ex-boxer Danpei Tange notices Joe Yabuki’s ...

A 7 years girl is found dead in the local park’s toilet. Kaga Kyouichiro, who was asked to find the girl, and his cousin Matsumiya Shuhei who’s ...

Taishi lives with his father Kazushi. His mother left home when Taishi was very young and he barely has any memories of her. He believes that his ...

When eight men are assigned to live 14,000 kilometers from home in inhumanly cold conditions, food becomes their new existence.

Chigusa and Yuuto always spent time together as children. They enter high school at the same time and happen to be put into the same class. ...

Taro is a 12-year-old into baseball and radio, especially “Music Express,” a song-request show. Sound quaint? But it is 1977 and a ...

Sayaka Miyamoto (Nao Matsushita) and Keita Fukushima (Terunosuke Takezai) attend the same university and believe their love for each other will ...

A successful Japanese make-up artist collides with a tough-talking Shanghai taxi driver in this romantic dramedy that twists traditional roles by ...

Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada’s coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as ...

A writer moves to a remote island with his daughter and young son. After settling into their new home, a neighbor arrives to welcome them and ...

One day, an angel materializes before Kato’s eyes. While the angel seems like an average girl with a passion for gin and lime, she sports a ...

Miyuki is a single mother with a 10-year old boy Keiji. She is eager to make him a child model. Eventually, Keiji begins to get jobs rather ...

A Japanese remake of the South Korean film of the same name.

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

A released inmate is hired to solve a murder case.

LOVERS’ KISS (ラヴァーズ・キス?) is a 2003 Japanese romance movie based on a manga by Akimi Yoshida. This is a youth movie of six teenagers (three ...

The story of three pairs of characters involved one way or the other with the yakuza and a rigged boxing match and fleeing the thugs one way or ...

Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other characters’ lives.

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 ...

When pregnant lunchbox factory worker Yayoi has finally taken all the abuse she can handle, she strangles her brutish husband and disposes of the ...

A closed-room mystery where five women gathered in memory of a mysteriously dead female writer to unravel the mystery behind her death. Based on ...

The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid ...

In this contemporary documentary, the cast and the crew share their experiences of making the film.

A simple funeral turns a man’s world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he ...

An independent group of researchers called the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN) actively track Godzilla as he makes landfall in Nemuro. Matters ...

Nanako returns to her hometown on the tiny island of Aguni to meet her grandmother Nabbie. However, when Nanako’s ferry arrives, it is also ...