Sansei Shiomi

A young girl, Sayaka, develops a heartwarming friendship with an old man named Hasu. Based on an award-winning novel by Ijuin Shizu.

Five years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a ...

Mayu Daimon is a woman who does not remember her mother’s face, and her father is the only person she has blood relationship in this world, ...

Masaharu Fukuyama reprises his role from 2008’s “Suspect X,” playing the physicist-cum-detective Manabu Yukawa. The ...

Young French journalist Ada Servier arrives in Kobe to cover the memorial ceremonies of the big earthquake from 1995. Fifteen years after the ...

This drama depicts the turbulent daily life of the heroine, who works in the family’s tofu shop, and her father and daughter.

An abandoned car is discovered near a camping ground and inside it is the body of an identified middle-aged man and a dog who seems to have died ...

Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. ...

On September 9th, the day of the Katakai Fireworks Festival, high school student Hana comes home from the hospital after six months of treatment ...

Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services ...

Flowers examines the lives of six women across three generations, from the Show period all the way through to the present day.

Asahiyama Zoo in Hokkaido, is the northernmost zoo in Japan. The unpopular zoo welcomes a new zoo keeper, young Yoshida (Yasuhi Nakamura), who ...

In an attempt to spur citizens into taking more productive roles in society, the Japanese government issues death messages, or ...

A set of twins — one a hard-working student and the other a drifter — team up with a dropout to unlock the secrets of the universe ...

Fuyuko (Tomoko Nakajima), begins the film nine months pregnant, but doesn’t deliver until her third year, to the bafflement of all around her.

The movie is part of the Kindaichi TV movie series. Kindaichi is played by actor Goro Inagaki. The character’s grandfather began with the ...

A day in the life of Kiriko, who has not told anyone about her father’s disappearance.

Near the slopes of Mount Fuji, there is a so called suicide forest, an infamous place where people who are tires of living have their last breath ...

Ichigo no kakera deals with a female manga artist Ichigo Nekoda (Miyazawa), whose career is heading into a downward spiral as she can’t ...

Nanako is an ordinary high school girl who lives with her mother, who is a taxi driver. One day, suddenly she has a younger brother – ...

A love story starring Tamaki Hiroshi, Konishi Manami, Ikeuchi Hiroyuki, Hirayama Aya and Kamiki Ryunosuke. Hiroyuki, a fourth-year law student ...

Maiko is a 17 year old aspiring picture book writer who was abandoned by her widowed father at the age of 3 and has lived in a foster home ever ...

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, ...

12-part omnibus made under the rules: “the main character is a detective” “at least one gag per minute” “the length ...

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.

This documentary-style film recreates the infamous Asama Sanso Incident of 1972 wherein an extreme faction of the Students Allied Red Army holed ...