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A corpse of a clown is found in a park. Detective Shirataka Amane of Musashino Higashi Police Station begins investigating with rookie detective...
Hakutaka Shirataka Amane no Investigation File
Atsuko and Akira are a husband and wife duo with a daughter and a son. Atsuko is in charge of the retirement finances. She saves from money given to...
I Don't Have Any Money Left in My Retirement Account
Soft-Boiled Goro is a 1970 film directed by Kazuo Ikehiro
Useless Creature: Fighting Man's Life
The man has a monotonous job punching tickets for the Japanese railway. One night, while walking home, he saves Jun from getting raped by two...
A Pool Without Water
Bunsei era, at a time when Edo culture is at its peak, and barely 50 years before the arrival of the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Sabu is a cheerful,...
Sabu and Ichi's Detective Stories
Only Child
Aiko Juuroku Sai making-of documentary.
Good By Summer Rabbit: Another Aiko 16 The Movie
Romance story about the first female manager of the Nihon University Phoenix
My Phoenix
Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends.
Muddy River
If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the throngs of young people who missed out on the...
If You Were Young: Rage
A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to...
Distant Thunder
A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man does...
Kidnapping Blues
The daughter of a Prime Minister turns down the proposal of a young teacher when she falls for the wrong man. Despite the continual degradation by...
A Fallen Woman
As air raids intensify, fourth-grader Hisashi, or Boku-chan, chooses to evacuate from Osaka to Shimane over the objections of his mother. He is...
Boku-chan no senjō
Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his psyche,...
Miss Lonely
我が家の夢~WRCと恋のかけ橋~
The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the community's members who especially...
The Seburi Story
About an energetic kindergarden student and the people around him
Ringo no usagi
A drama about a struggling young widow with a baby whose dead husband returns to the world of the living to help her.
Twilight: Saya in Sasara
Watashitachi ga suki datta koto
“I never got to feel the warmth of a loving family.” That is what Seishiro notes down in 1948, who was adopted as a child by the...
Blossoming Into a Family
A movie starring Meijin Takahashi, the God of Famicom. Based on the Hacchaki Sensei manga.
Mr. Hacchaki's Tokyo Game
Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete...
Glory to the Filmmaker!
An auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent. Finally the man opens up,...
War and Youth
Steel-worker Saito Tetsuo, driven by an unexplained anxiety, steals bike after bike to move away from his hometown to Tokyo. Through snow-storms and...
The Bicycle Thief Was Bad
Fuyu no Hi
Second film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 2 - The Dish Mansion at Hell’s Banchô
It's Christmas Eve in Tokyo as Ichiro is moving into his new apartment one month ahead of schedule. As he is getting settled in, two strangers enter...
Ghost Soup
A community is shocked when the bodies of an elderly man and the manager of a home-visit nursing centre are found. The passing of 42 elderly patients...
Do Unto Others
Travel into Japan's nuttiest apartment house and meet its volatile inhabitants: Kyoko, the beautiful and mysterious new apartment manager; Yusaku,...
Maison Ikkoku - Apartment Fantasy
News comes out that several people found 1 kg of solid gold in their mail boxes. Maya Yamabuki moves back to her hometown and surprises the movers by...
It's On Me
A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police...
The Bullet Train
3 senior highschool girls help make a hot air balloon for a boy during their summer holidays and took up all sort of part-time jobs in the course.
Time of First Love
Goro is an archeologist, fascinated with the national treasure Gassho clay figure and remains from the Jomon period. He meets a woman, Momoko who is...
Raia Prays For…
When Chizuru joins as a teacher at Umega High School, she hears an amateur orchestra perform. Reminiscing her old days of playing the violin, she...
Golden Orchestra
A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been...
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
Aiko 16 years old is a novel by Akemi Hotta, set in Nagoya this story depicts the school life of Aiko Mita, a high school student who belongs to the...
Aiko 16-sai
Based on the comic written by Masao Yajima and illustrated by Kenshi Hirokane.
Human Scramble: Rain
Akio's sister, Neri has separated from her boyfriend. They lived in Kamakura. She moves in with her brother. Her ex-boyfriend's sister, Eiko comes to...
Younger Sister
Koji Wakamatsu adapted Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of a traveling acting troupe.
Sosuke Loses His Lover
In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have...
Space Battleship Yamato
The film is set in Karafuto after the radio broadcast of the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War. On August 15, 1945, Soviet forces...
Karafuto 1945 Summer
One spring, Tasaka, an elementary school teacher, receives a new class of first graders. While taking the children's attendance, Tasaka is surprised...
Jugyo Sankan no Onna
Tôhôkenbunroku
Also known as "History of a Man’s Face" and "By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him" . Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their...
By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
Mike is a penguin soldier who returns home after being injured during combat. Estranged from his family and friends, he leaves his hometown and...
Penguin's Memory: A Tale of Happiness
The Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a freak accident the year prior. When the other daughter...
Chizuko's Younger Sister
Just Between Us
When Miro's transsexual friend Noripee dies, Miro and his friends from the gay bar 'Eden' are once again reminded of the discrimination they are...
Eden
Chief Iizuka, who works at the Cultural Center, misunderstands two chorus groups with similar names and double-books the concert hall on New Year's...
Double Trouble
A female college student who aims to become a pianist meets a boy who raises a guide dog.
Konnichiwa Hânesu
Jiro (Jiro Sato) is a 32-year-old man who doesn't have a job. He lives at his parents' house and doesn't go outside or socialise with people. After...
Mameshiba Cubbish Puppy
Two TV directors want to film people visiting a suicide forest.
JUKAI: Mount Fuji Suicide Forest
Four sisters with no consanguinity are living together since childhood. When facing misfortune and grievances in lives, they give support and...
Four Sisters
An antique shop "Jidaiya" sells time not antiques. One day a lady run into this shop with a cat.
Time and Tide