Yui Aragaki

Kaho

Shôta Sometani

Kôji Seto

Worlds Apart

Worlds Apart (2024)

Daiki Nunami

Satoshi Oka

Saionji Ryuseigun

Kaho Seto

Miyabi lost her only daughter in an accident. After her daughter's death, she got a divorce. She now works as a call girl and is living with her new boyfriend. One day, she meets a weird customer who asks her to let him take a picture of her spine. She does as the man says and lets him take her picture, but he then asks for a picture of her feet. Since then, the man has been taking pictures of Miyabi every time. Then one day, when Miyabi is at home, she is struck by the sensation of a small hand caressing her leg. She intuits that it is her dead daughter and realizes that every time one organ is photographed, that part of the body will be able to perceive the spirit of his daughter. The last remaining part of her body is her eyes. The story of the loss of an individual eventually leads to the collapse of a society.

New Religion

New Religion (2022)

Haruka Igawa

Amane Okayama

Yûya Yagira

Elementary school student Mibou's daily revolves around his love for fish. He sees, draws, and eats them every day. His father is worried about Mibou, because he seems different from other kids. His mother, in contrast, watches him warmly and supports him. Even after Mibou becomes a high school student, he still only thinks about fish. He is also on good terms with a neighborhood thug and gets attention from people. Soon, Mibou begins to live alone. He meets many different people and somehow gets affection from them. He also takes the only path he can go.

The Fish Tale

The Fish Tale (2022)

Asami

Airi Shimizu

Ami Tomite

On the verge of an apocalyptic global event, a clan of vampires lures a crowd of humans into a glamorous hotel in order to turn it into their own private blood farm. A rival family of vamps crashes the party and sparks a violent uprising, hoping to wipe their adversaries off the map for good.—toineminatrix

Tokyo Vampire Hotel

Tokyo Vampire Hotel (2017)

Nagisa Morimoto

Kaho Minami

Mirai Moriyama

Mikkel Boe Følsgaard

During a trip to Northern Norway with her boyfriend, Ines accidentally meets seductive Japanese hostess Maria--a meeting that ends on a deadly note in the harsh wasteland of the winter country, but becomes a new beginning for Ines, who soon finds herself under a new name in a remote and foreign city: Osaka, Japan.

Miss Osaka

Miss Osaka (2021)

Ronnie Lazaro

Shogen

Jeffrey Rowe

From the award-winning Cannes/Venice/Toronto-elected director Brillante Mendoza, "GENSAN PUNCH" is inspired by the true story of a Japanese man with a prosthetic leg, who travelled to the Philippines to train to become a professional boxer.

Gensan Punch

Gensan Punch (2021)

Sôsuke Ikematsu

Kana Kurashina

Shiho Fujimura

Following her parents' divorce Ann and her mother move to her maternal grandmother's house in Shimane Prefecture. Adding to the stress is how they are not integrating well at their new home. Ann's mother commits suicide. The consolation for Ann is school-mate Daigo who is loving and helpful, but that is soon to be taken away due to the new distance between them. They grow older and drift apart, but there is still love there when they do reunite.—aghaemi

Sunadokei

Sunadokei (2008)

Machiko Ono

Rinko Kikuchi

Susumu Terajima

An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.

Naisu no mori: The First Contact

Naisu no mori: The First Contact (2005)

Jun Murakami

Akira Emoto

Arata Furuta

At a large mansion on the outskirts of Tokyo, Shuji SASAYA looks around a room with full of packed cardboard boxes. He has to sell this mansion because of his mistake. His hermit son, Yuta, brings a homeless into the house, and his daughter has frustrated by her reckless father, and wrote on Twitter, "Let's have a party today at my place. Anyone is welcome!!" A re-tweet sound is ringing at high speed beside her sleeping. The first to come to the Sasayas were moving companies Taichi and Atsushi, and a divorced mother of Yuta and Akane, Akiko. She seems to have hit-and-run away from the moving truck. A gay couple looking for a wedding venue, elementary school students come to rent a shower, two men cultivating suspicious plants on the premises of the Sasayas, and other peculiar people get together to have a wedding, a funeral and even a festival at the mansion. Both the living and the dying are in the rage of frenzy, the story unfolds.—Geta Films

Wonderful Paradise

Wonderful Paradise (2020)

Kaoru Kobayashi

Ryô Kase

In the city of Kaitan, during the winter, the local shipyard is downsized and workers are laid off. Futa (Pistol Takehara) lives with his younger sister Honami (Mitsuki Tanimura). He loses his job at the shipyard and, feeling uneasy about their situation, goes with Honami to see the sunrise on a nearby mountainside for New Year's Day. Makoto (Takashi Yamanaka), a new city hall employee, visits the only remaining house in a redevelopment area. The home belongs to a 70-year-old woman,Toki (Aki Nakazato) who lives with her cat and a few animals in her backyard. Toki refuses to vacate the land and Makoto tries to persuade her that she will be forcibly evicted. 49-year-old Ryuzo (Kaoru Kobayashi) works in a small planetarium, while his relationship with his wife Haruyo (Haruyo Hika) and teenage son is deteriorating. Haruyo finds release by working as a hostess in a cabaret. Haruo (Ryo Kase) has taken over the operation of his father's gas company, but he worries about the state of his business. He also has a strained relationship with his wife, who takes out her anger on their son Akira. Taichiro, a street car driver, spots his son, Hiroshi (Masaki Miura) walking in downtown Kaitan. Although Hiroshi lives & works in Tokyo, he has come back to Kaitan for business. But he doesn't contact his father, even though it is the holiday season.—Anon.

Sketches of Kaitan City

Sketches of Kaitan City (2010)

Kyûsaku Shimada

Yûsuke Santamaria

Thirty-year-old professional woman Sunada is a commercial agency director in Tokyo Japan. However, despite what others may think, she is unhappy with her job, career trajectory or the bustle. At the same time she travels to visit her grandmother who is hospitalized. With her travelling to Ibaraki is Kiyura, a friend.—aghaemi

Blue Hour

Blue Hour (2019)

Daphne Low

Kahoe Hon

Ruby Faye

Johnny Goh

Hui Ling's life will truly begin as soon as she makes it to Taiwan. Or so she thinks. Right now, she is at the Thai-Malaysian border, working odd jobs and saving money. Determined to make it even when she loses all her savings, she accepts her boss' offer for quick money as a human trafficker. As she descends into the darkness of her sordid trade, she witnesses the atrocities perpetrated against the Rohingya immigrants. Her beacon of light through this is Wei, a young hospital worker who believes that she is a woman from his past. AQÉRAT is a sweeping tale of displacement and morality in contemporary Malaysia.

We, the Dead

We, the Dead (2017)

Masaya Katô

Yoshio Tsuchiya

The year is 1945. After the horrific fire-bombings of the Pacific War levels Japan to the ground, the government decides to consult spiritual psychics to aid them in winning the war. Unfortunately, the resentment and agony of the souls of the fire-bombing victims culminate together to revive the evil Onmyoji, Yasunori Kato. Only a young, psychically imbued apprentice of the priests will dare fight against the evil magic user. However, can this lone man possibly contend with Kato's overwhelming power?—Voilodion

Tokyo: The Last War

Tokyo: The Last War (1989)

Masami Nagasawa

Sarutoki Minagawa

Sho Gunji

Akiko (Masami Nagasawa) is a single mother and her son is Shuhei (Sho Gunji). Akiko casually has sex with other men, including Ryo (Sadao Abe). Akiko is the only person whom Shuhei can rely on. One day, Shuhei makes a shocking decision.

Mother

Mother (2020)

Mirai Shida

Asami Usuda

Eun-kyung Shim

On a gloomy Monday morning, my week begins. Although I am sleepy, I put on my make-up and I leave home for work at a bank. I take the subway crowded with passengers and get off at the nearest station.

Fictitious OL Diary

Fictitious OL Diary (2020)

Tetsu Watanabe

Kanji Tsuda

In 1973, Gamera sacrifices his life to rid the world of the Gyaos once and for all. Thirty-three years later, a small boy, whose father witnessed the 1973 event, named Toru finds a mysterious egg. From it, hatches a small Turtle. Toru and his friends raise the turtle, who turns out to be a small Gamera. After a new man-eating creature named Zedus shows up in Japan, it's up to the small Gamera to save the world as the previous Gamera had done before.—The_Depressed_Star_Wars_Fan

Gamera the Brave

Gamera the Brave (2005)

Shûhei Nomura

Ryô Narita

Haru Kuroki

Kamakura south of Tokyo has a special book store, which is operated by Shioriko. She loves her books, her store and stocks rarities and specialties. Daisuke also works there. A stranger targets the store and seems to be after something specific. The two set out to find out what the figure is after and how they should protect themselves.—aghaemi

Biblia Koshodô no Jiken Techô

Biblia Koshodô no Jiken Techô (2018)

Yui Natsukawa

Kôichi Satô

Masaki Okada

Set against the backdrop of Japan's scenic countryside, director Nobuhiro Yamashita's tale of adolescent love avoids the tear-jerking and virulent social commentary of many first-love stories in telling the tale of a rural schoolgirl smitten by a handsome new arrival from Tokyo. Soyo Migita (Kaho) is one of six students in her combined primary and junior school. A senior pupil who is currently in her second year of junior high, Soyo is the tallest girl in school and views her fellow students as an extended family. When Soyo's place at the top her class is challenged by the arrival of former city boy Hriomi Osawa (Masaki Okada), the starry eyed schoolgirl finds the butterflies in her stomach making her clumsy and vulnerable. There's no ignoring that strange new feeling beginning to grow in Soyo's heart, and as the call of first love and the onset of maturity becomes too powerful to resist, just the thought of holding hands with the likable new arrival is enough to make her blush. Based on Fusako Kuramochi's popular manga Tennen Kokekko, A Gentle Breeze in the Village was penned by screenwriter Aya Watanabe.—Jason Buchanan, Rovi

A Gentle Breeze in the Village

A Gentle Breeze in the Village (2007)

Ryôhei Suzuki

Haruka Ayase

Three sisters live together in their late grandmother's house in the city of Kamakura. They have lived together since their dad left home for another woman and their mum imitated her husband by running off with another man. Sachi, 29, the oldest Koda sister, a nurse at the local hospital, acts as a substitute mother to Yoshino, 22, and Chika, 19. One day, the threesome learns of the death of their "traitor" father and it is only halfheartedly that they go to his funeral. But in Yamagata something unexpected happens: they meet their half-sister Suzu, 13, there and immediately fall for the spell of this exquisite young creature. Sensing that Yoko, her father's widow, will not be a fit guardian, Sachi invites Suzu to move in with them.—Guy Bellinger

Our Little Sister

Our Little Sister (2015)

Naomi Nishida

Ken Mitsuishi

Aspiring journalist Masuda is working a menial job where he grows suspicious of the loner and mysterious Suzuki. Masuda decides to write an article on his co-worker and new acquaintance whom he comes to suspect is a long-lost murderer. Then it occurs again. A murder similar to the old case is afoot and Masuda is now sure that Suzuki is the culprit.—aghaemi

My Friend 'A'

My Friend 'A' (2018)

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