Robin Weigert

Jun Kunimura

Arata Iura

Goya Robles

Tokyo Cowboy

Tokyo Cowboy (2023)

Nijirô Murakami

Kento Yamazaki

Kazuki Kitamura

The Yin Yang Master Zero

The Yin Yang Master Zero (2024)

Elaiza Ikeda

Tomoya Nakamura

Yoshino Kimura

Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction

Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction (2020)

Anna Yamada

Asuka Kurosawa

Rinka Ôtani

One day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Jukai Village'. The village is hidden in Jukai Forest, a suicide spot that once you enter it, you can never come out.

Suicide Forest Village

Suicide Forest Village (2021)

Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Masato Sakai

Tomokazu Miura

Not only is Kamakura-based Masakazu Isshiki a mystery novelist, but he is also a good detective himself. His wife Akiko and he are acquainted with all manners of creatures and gods who are of, from or passing through the town. Dealing with and tackling his cases means he can use all the help he can get.—aghaemi

Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura

Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura (2017)

Chikako Aoyama

Anita Mui

Kenneth Tsang

Two former lovers are reunited in war-torn Shangai during its occupation by Japanese troops in World War 2.

Au Revoir Mon Amour

Au Revoir Mon Amour (1991)

Ayumi Itô

Noriko Eguchi

Kengo Kôra

The year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old Yonosuke Yokomichi arrives in Tokyo from Nagasaki. Ordinary in every way possible, he lives in a suburb far from the excitement of the big city and commutes to a university in the center of Tokyo. During his first days at school, Yonosuke befriends Ippei Kuramochi and Yui Akutsu. Soon after, he joins the Samba club and spends his leisure time learning to dance. In the Samba club, Yonosuke meets Kato, who turns out to be gay. Together, they take a driving class where Yoko, a rich girl, shows interest in Yonosuke. But he hardly notices her advances; he is infatuated with party girl Chiharu, an older woman he met by chance. Parallel to the depiction of this year of ordinary college life, the characters are shown sixteen years later in the year 2003. However, missing from these scenes is Yonosuke, who is said to have become a cameraman after college. After learning of Yonosuke's death, Yoko receives an envelope from his mother. The photos in the envelope - with the words "For Yoko's eyes only" written on it - captured the beauty and the "miracle of chance" those untroubled days enjoyed.—Nikkatsu Corporation

A Story of Yonosuke

A Story of Yonosuke (2012)

Dong-seok Ma

Munetaka Aoki

Joon-hyeok Lee

Seven years after the roundup in Vietnam, Ma Seok-do joins a new squad to investigate a murder case. He soon starts to dig deeper when he finds out the case involves a synthetic drug and a gang of thugs.

The Roundup: No Way Out

The Roundup: No Way Out (2023)

Akaji Maro

Ken'ichi Endô

Gorô Kishitani

Story of everyday life and romance of a taxi driver who is a Korean resident in Japan.

All Under the Moon

All Under the Moon (1993)

Shun Sugata

Ren Ôsugi

Tarô Suwa

Two petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members, fortunately they are rescued by a kindly Kindergarten teacher.

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Heist

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Heist (1995)

Sairi Itô

Saki Takaoka

A former couple remembers their most intimate days, only to part once again.

Just Remembering

Just Remembering (2021)

Tsuyoshi Mori

Shoichi Sato

Yukika Sakuratani

Sexuality blooms early when an elementary school student boy falls in love with a junior high school girl in tandem with the onset of his puberty. It is barely younger man and older woman relationship, but all concerned are proud and on a high including the students' adoring parents.—aghaemi

Gomen

Gomen (2002)

Tetsu Watanabe

Aoi Miyazaki

Ayaka Ninomiya

Tomie terrorizes an artistically inclined young girl and her widowed father, slowly integrating herself into the family.

Tomie: Forbidden Fruit

Tomie: Forbidden Fruit (2002)

Yuriko Ishida

Hayato Ichihara

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 of their own.

Kamisama no pazuru

Kamisama no pazuru (2008)

Takeshi Kitano

Takashi Tsukamoto

The plot concerns a struggle for power amongst Tokyo's Yakuza clans, today just as likely to be playing the stock market as shaking down pachinko parlors, over which the Sanmo-kai clan holds sway in the face of constant betrayal and ever-changing allegiances. The Sanmo-kai chairman learns that his henchman Ikemoto has struck an alliance with the drug-dealing Murase family, and is not best pleased, to say the least. The ensuing retaliation triggers an orgy of killings, territorial invasions and score settling while law enforcement officers are too corrupt to intervene.—Palm Springs Internation Film Festival

Outrage

Outrage (2010)

Riho Yoshioka

Ryûhei Matsuda

Fuku Suzuki

Three of Japan's most talented and prolific actor-directors have joined forces to adapt Hiroyuki Ohashi's cult manga series about characters in "an obscure corner" of the world. The film's five loosely connected storylines concern the secrets and lies, the fears and tears, and the puerile potty jokes that punctuate their daily (and in one eerie case, nightly) encounters.—NYAFF

Zokki

Zokki (2020)

Laura Post

Stephen Root

There is a town surrounded by a wall that stands 4,000 meters tall. Because the town is full of chimneys, the air is always full of smoke. No one in the town knows what the sky looks like. On one night of the town's Halloween festival, a deliveryman accidentally drops the heart he is supposed to deliver. He cannot find the heart in the smoke and gives up. The heart continues to beat where it fell in the town of chimneys.—MyAnimeList

Poupelle of Chimney Town

Poupelle of Chimney Town (2020)

Akira Emoto

Junko Asahina

Masataka Naruse

The story of beautiful Christian Nun, Kyoko (Shihomi) who is the object of affection for two very different men - one the happy-go-lucky Yakuza gangster, Haruhiko (Iwaki Kouchi) who is the next-in-line to takeover the ragtag "Tenryu Gumi" gang and the other bumbling Police Detective Kumashiro (Emoto Akira). The Tenryu Gumi is a collection of misfits and other troublemakers but are relatively peaceful due to their Christian beliefs. Their bitter rivals were the more traditional "Kuroiwa Gumi", a much more sadistic and violent group led by godfather Kuroiwa (Murota Hideo).—anonymous

The Second Is a Christian

The Second Is a Christian (1985)

Isao Natsuyagi

Tsuyoshi Kusanagi

Racked by earthquakes and volcanos, Japan is slowly sinking into the sea. A race against time and tide begins as Americans and the Japanese work together to salvage some fraction of the disappearing Japan.—Concorde - New Horizons (with permission).

Submersion of Japan

Submersion of Japan (1973)

Minami Hamabe

Masaki Suda

Fumiyo Kohinata

It is the early 1930s and the command of the Japanese Imperial Navy determines to construct the world's biggest and most formidable battleship, Yamato. One of the admirals, Yamamoto Isoroku, disagrees. He recruits the upstart and mathematics' expert Tadashi Kai who discovers there are discrepancies between the official cost estimates and the actual figures. They soon find out that they have stumbled upon a conspiracy.—aghaemi

The Great War of Archimedes

The Great War of Archimedes (2019)

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