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In Babel, a tragic incident involving an American couple in Morocco sparks a chain of events for four families in different countries throughout the...
Babel
The Great Department Store Robbery
A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no...
The Eel
A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near...
Shall We Dance?
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner,...
Tampopo
Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighbors care for him as new events occur every day.
Sleeping Man
Shortly after hearing from a colleague about a woman whose brother committed suicide after seeing his doppelgänger, a Japanese engineer on the...
Doppelganger
Filmed somewhat in documentary style, it follows three girls over the span of one day and night in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Jonko runs a group...
Bounce Ko Gals
In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lurks some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and...
Pulse
A psychic housewife and her husband accidentally find a kidnapped girl. But instead of informing the police, they hatch a scheme to get famous by...
Séance
The story of a photographer who becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman who lives in the apartment opposite his.
Gelatin Silver, Love
A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.
Cure
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 drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on...
Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean
In pre-war Japan, a government censor tries to make the writer for a theater troupe alter his comedic script. As they work with and against each...
University of Laughs
A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo,...
Hunter in the Dark
A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since they all are in the same vicinity and by the same...
Retribution
Onuki asks people in a hospital to perform a play for Paco, who suffers from memory disorder. His only hope is to help Paco survive from her illness.
Paco and the Magical Book
Kuki is a veteran newspaper reporter who has been shuffled off to a book-development branch and finds escape in an illicit relationship with Rinko....
Lost Paradise
16 years after the fateful "revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin," involving samurais from the Ako domain who avenged their leader and then commited...
The Last Ronin
A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a...
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord...
13 Assassins
A widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for his help and increasingly starts to rely on him.
The Woodsman and the Rain
New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment and a...
Suite Dreams
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order he was duty bound to...
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet
In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho
Shinzo Egi is an asthma sufferer who does not want to be place on life support. As a last request, Shinzo Egi asks his doctor Ayano Orii if she could...
The Terminal Trust
The story of a man and a wolf-dog in East Siberia during the early 1900s.
Aurora Borealis
At a restaurant called Anrakutei on an island is a wasteland surrounded by moat and swamp. The owner Ikuzo manages the restaurant with his daughter....
The Law of Hell
Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and...
Perfect Days
Takayuki Iwabuchi, a former yakuza member with a tattoo of Kisshoten on his back. Although he has a criminal record, he is currently working as a...
Yukon
When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his...
The World of Kanako
After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and...
The Kiyosu Conference
This engaging series of childhood recollections tells of an unconventional school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun,...
Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
A man wanders alone, away from his family, in search of a place to die. He runs away from the massage therapist who is supposed to heal him, and...
Gratitude
A historical chivalric drama with tears and laughter, telling the story of Jirocho Shimizu's family, his confrontation with Katsuzo Kurokoma's...
History of Jirocho Shimizu
The story of Takuro Yazawa, a day trader who claims he can earn hundreds of millions of yen in one day, and those around him as they attempt to cope...
Toad's Oil
Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare intensely for a prestigious high school's entrance...
The Lakeside Murder Case
Based on the best-selling novel by Alessandro Baricco, this visually stunning film tells the story of a French trader who finds unexpected love far...
Silk
One day a young Brazilian man living in Japan crashes his car into the side of the house of a happy family. They take him in after realizing he had...
Família
A young queen requests a bouquet of snowdrop flowers for New Year's Day in exchange for a reward. One greedy woman sends her stepdaughter, whom she...
Twelve Months
A film based on two short stories by Shiina Makoto. Tadon is the story of a cab-driver who spends his days listening to his passengers'...
Tadon and Chikuwa
Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai....
Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own...
Dora-heita
A young foot soldier in the yakuza seeks revenge when his prostitute girlfriend dies after a session with a high-ranking Japanese politician with a...
Kamikaze Taxi
A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all...
I Just Didn't Do It
Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is...
License to Live
A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for...
Charisma
Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the...
Chronicle of My Mother
In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A cabinet meeting has continued through days and...
The Emperor in August
A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.
Tokyo Sonata
When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of...
The Choice of Hercules
A seemingly lazy salaryman is tasked with managing a company secret.
Whistleblower
Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world...
The Boy and the Beast
Kenji, the eldest son of Masajiro, a wealthy moneylender, refuses to work in the family business and becomes obsessed with farming, jewelry and...
Father of the Milky Way Railroad
Interview with actress Nana Komatsu on her debut film "The World of Kanako".
I Am Searching For Myself
The 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for his misbehavior during his short stay in Edo. On the...
The Fir Trees Remain
An employee of a bank goes missing following his retirement from the bank. Veteran detective Yobuno (Koji Yakusho), who is set to retire himself, is...
Ekiro
A Music Special episode broadcasted by NHK. This documentary looks back at the great achievements and innovative works of Ryuichi Sakamoto's carreer,...
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ars longa, vita brevis
Takizawa Bakin, a popular Edo period author, begins to recount a story he is planning in front of his friend, the artist Katsushika Hokusai. The...
Hakkenden
Sakura and Kenzo are married. Both think they can live a happy marriage, despite the fact that she cannot have children and he does not want to give...
Crimson Lotus
When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to dig, breaking open a money-and-favours scandal...
Jubaku: Spellbound
A lonely, chain-smoking office lady in Tokyo falls for her teacher when she decides to take English lessons. When her teacher disappears, she sets...
Oh Lucy!
A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.
The Third Murder
A story about the activities of Southeast Asian Mafia gangs in Shinjuku. Ryosuke Kano is an ex French Foreign Legion soldier and is now a cocaine...
Dark Society in the East
Sayo has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday when she attends a temple festival. On her way back she sees a large cherry tree which is infamous...
The Legend of Sayo
A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life.
A Samurai Chronicle
The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated...
Sekigahara
An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese...
Mifune: The Last Samurai
After finally passing his teacher's exam, Miwa (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) devoted himself to teaching in a rustic primary school. He struggles to get through...
Fireflies: River of Light
After the death of her dearest mother, her serious-minded father goes missing, leaving their only daughter Mitsuko. Six months later, it turns out...
Argentine Hag
Jin (Yakusho), a young, widowed police detective who is thinking of leaving the force to better take care of his 8 year old daughter Misaki (Kanno),...
The Hunter and the Hunted
Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the...
The Blood of Wolves
A housewife was killed by a falling fire extinguisher, which a boy of seven years dropped from the top floor of an apartment. The offender, however,...
The Sin
Unhappy after his new baby sister displaces him, four-year-old Kun begins meeting people and pets from his family's history in their unique house in...
Mirai
A remake of the 1953 film of the same name.
Eternal Monument
Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father....
Bonds
An experienced mountain rescue team is tasked with recovering crucial documents from Everest’s notorious death zone
Wings Over Everest
A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovered that he has got terminal lung cancer and will...
Walking My Life
Makabe is a yakuza who is addicted to 'shabu' (a slang refers to stimulant drug). He lives as if he wants to destroy himself. He steals a mistress of...
Shabu
The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and...
Willful Murder
Mikami, an ex-yakuza of middle age with most of his life in prison, gets released after serving 13 years of sentence for murder. Hoping to find his...
Under the Open Sky
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Memoirs of a Geisha
Osaka Gokudo Senso: Shinoidare
Panic occurs when the Governor of Tokyo proposes to attract a nuclear power plant to Tokyo.
Tokyo: Level One
Suzu is a 17-year-old high-school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day...
Belle
The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who...
The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
A unique combination of social problem and entertainment TV movie about a female journalist who is hurt to the core when the truth of an article is...
Megumi no Sekai
The TV movie is about a third-rate female lawyer who is an alcoholic, has a history of divorce, and only handles divorce settlements. She spends her...
Suzume Iro Doki
A touching true story which portrays a doctor who selflessly dedicated his personal fortune to spreading the smallpox vaccination for saving people's...
Snowflowers: Seeds of Hope
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
After female high school student Furuya Meiko is found dead in her apartment from an apparent suicide, police investigate and discover that she was...
People Without a Fort
The making of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel is chronicled through an observational approach that captures the...
Common Ground: Under Construction Notes
Takeda Shingen