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A young girl, Sayaka, develops a heartwarming friendship with an old man named Hasu. Based on an award-winning novel by Ijuin Shizu.
Show Me the Way to the Station
Haruna is a lively tomboy in the 5th year at elementary school. One day, while playing with Hiroyuki, a boy whom she has known for a long time, they...
Child by Children
This drama depicts the turbulent daily life of the heroine, who works in the family's tofu shop, and her father and daughter.
Fa no tofu
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, stays at...
Farewell, Kuro
Former yakuza underling Kazuma Kiryū has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration and is trying to piece his life...
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
12-part omnibus made under the rules: "the main character is a detective" "at least one gag per minute" "the length must not exceed 10 minutes"
Deka Matsuri
The students of Suzuran High compete for the King of School title. An ex-graduate yakuza is sent to kill the son of a criminal group, but he can't...
Crows Zero
Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services and...
Villain
In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.
Eureka
A unique group of individuals who stand out in the Japanese film industry.
The Villain Company Wolf's Soul
The biggest crisis has come to Matsushita, a shootist who has passed through numerous shrines!
The Shootist 3
The beast that lives in a cool man is awakening now!
Run the Beast
Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his van. They are in hot pursuit of their fellow robber...
Drive
Based on the true story of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada who has spent over 40 years incarcerated on death row. Iwao Hakamada was arrested...
Box: The Hakamada Case
As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of...
Beyond Outrage
Teacher Kawashima Haru takes a position on a remote island off the coast of Hokkaido, where she takes charge of six students. However, she is later...
A Chorus of Angels
Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is...
Japan Organized Crime Boss
A day in the life of Kiriko, who has not told anyone about her father's disappearance.
河の恋人
Young French journalist Ada Servier arrives in Kobe to cover the memorial ceremonies of the big earthquake from 1995. Fifteen years after the...
Memories Corner
In spring, a girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo. Once there, she is asked to reveal why she wanted to go there in the...
April Story
A salaryman debates selling his grandfather's land to pay off his father's debt.
Tokyo Rendezvous
Based on the long running manga of the same name by Sadao Shouji.
Salaryman Senka: Tanshin Funin
The story involves an aloof thief, a young man who turns to God after his father’s suicide, a manipulative marriage councilor, a man who...
A Lush Life
A new salesman named Kosuke Okuda happens to meet Mao Watarai, a friend from his middle school days. Back then, Mao was called stupid and bullied,...
Girl in the Sunny Place
A yakuza search for his past
Pinocchio: A Man Without Nationality
Seven Days War 2
A struggling model and a troubled divorcee face loneliness and desperation in Tokyo.
Open House
The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.
Swallowtail Butterfly
Flowers examines the lives of six women across three generations, from the Show period all the way through to the present day.
Flowers
Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.
GO
Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other characters' lives.
Blessing Bell
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 the...
Hard Luck Hero
If you loved movies such as Shonen Merikensack and GS Wonderland, then this one, which predates the former, will impress you as well. The story is...
Iden & Tity
Suzuki’s world is shattered when his teenage daughter is brutally attacked. The assailant, Ishihara, son of a politician, brazenly mocks Suzuki...
Fly, Daddy, Fly
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya,...
Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
On September 9th, the day of the Katakai Fireworks Festival, high school student Hana comes home from the hospital after six months of treatment for...
Fireworks from the Heart
Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later...
MARKS
Adaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark.
The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
Tobi ga kururi to
Fuyuko (Tomoko Nakajima), begins the film nine months pregnant, but doesn't deliver until her third year, to the bafflement of all around her.
Three Year Delivery
Asahiyama Zoo in Hokkaido, is the northernmost zoo in Japan. The unpopular zoo welcomes a new zoo keeper, young Yoshida (Yasuhi Nakamura), who has...
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
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 recalls what...
Monday
Masaharu Fukuyama reprises his role from 2008's "Suspect X," playing the physicist-cum-detective Manabu Yukawa. The scientist-sleuth arrives in an...
Midsummer's Equation
In an attempt to spur citizens into taking more productive roles in society, the Japanese government issues death messages, or "ikigami", informing...
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
Aki Amano, a high-school girl from Tokyo moves to the Sanriku Coast in the Tohoku region to become a female diver. She becomes a local idol, then...
Amachan
The members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their hometown, they move from Shikoku to Tokyo and resume...
Heisei Irresponsible Family: Tokyo de Luxe
The movie is part of the Kindaichi TV movie series. Kindaichi is played by actor Goro Inagaki. The character's grandfather began with the written...
Kindachi Kosuke: The Queen Bee
The film opens as a jury is about to acquit a defendant -- a bar hostess who pushed her ex-husband path of an oncoming truck, supposedly in...
The Gentle 12
When Mutta was 12-years-old and Hibito was 9-years-old the two brothers saw what they thought was an UFO flying towards the moon. They made a pact...
Space Brothers
In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent...
Blood and Bones
An appassionato art student and a dispassionate college girl make a vow, saying they would meet each other again in the Florence Cathedral after 10...
Between Calmness and Passion
A love story starring Tamaki Hiroshi, Konishi Manami, Ikeuchi Hiroyuki, Hirayama Aya and Kamiki Ryunosuke. Hiroyuki, a fourth-year law student who...
Renai Shousetsu
Ichigo no kakera deals with a female manga artist Ichigo Nekoda (Miyazawa), whose career is heading into a downward spiral as she can't reinvent the...
Ichigo Chips
Hama-chan and Su-san go fishing during a business trip, but Hama-chan has to give a lecture on Su-san's behalf in a case of mistaken identity.
Free and Easy 6
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 noted...
Outrage Coda
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 of...
Jyukai: The Sea of Trees Behind Mt. Fuji
The suicide of a female teacher 15 years ago was actually a murder. A new investigation team, spearheaded by Mizorogi, is formed based on new...
Lupin's News
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, but he is...
The Ice Ruts
This documentary-style film recreates the infamous Asama Sanso Incident of 1972 wherein an extreme faction of the Students Allied Red Army holed...
Rain of Light
Set over one night in Tokyo, we follow Leo, a young boxer down on his luck as he meets his ‘first love’ Monica, a call-girl and an addict...
First Love
A James Brown fanatic gangster decided to disband his own gang and see his long lost daughter before entering prison. Hoping to change his mind, his...
Get Up!
An entertainment drama depicting the conflict of yakuza, centering on the female torso and her sister's feud.
Kagerô 2
Kenta, a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar, when he meets a man in a Hawaiian shirt named Yamaki. He invites...
Heaven's Bookstore
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...
Seventeen
Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and...
Hold Me and Kiss Me
Hiroko attends the memorial service of her fiancé, Itsuki Fujii, who died in a mountain-climbing incident. Although Itsuki's mother says that...
Love Letter
At a train station in the suburbs of Tokyo, an accident takes place causing death and injury. Tsuyoshi is at the scene and witnesses the death of a...
A Song I Remember
As an engaged couple, Shinichi Kida and Mari Egawa spend a romantic night on a premarital trip to the southern island, but Shinichi suddenly...
Patio
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. Through...
Soup Opera
Kindachi Kosuke: The Devil Comes and Blows the Whistle
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...
Star Watching Dog
Kyō Kara Ore Wa!! The Movie
Kyō Kara Ore Wa!! 2
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 - Nanao, the son...
Nanako and Nanao: the Day They Became Sister and Brother
Shinko (Karin Aiba) is a high school student from Hamamatsu. Due to university admission pressures, she struggles with her mother. She hasn't really...
Shodo Girls: Blue Blue Sky
Kyō Kara Ore Wa!! Dengeki no 17 Sai
Kirato Saw Honorable Death With No Surrender ~ Mizuki Shigeru's War
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 and to build one...
God's Puzzle
The TV movie follows a detective with a burning sense of justice who risks his life to pursue a corruption case involving the prime minister's office.
Keijitachi no Natsu
Upon receiving a message from an old friend’s daughter, Goro arrives in Paris and learns of the elderly man’s wish to taste a particular...
The Solitary Gourmet