Natsuki Deguchi

Kanji Tsuda

Haruka Fukuhara

Keiko Matsuzaka

Till We Meet Again on the Lily Hil

Till We Meet Again on the Lily Hil (2023)

Noriko Hamada

Daikichi Sugawara

Hideo Sakaki

Flower & Snake: Zero

Flower & Snake: Zero (2014)

Toshiaki Karasawa

Hitomi Kuroki

Fumiyo Kohinata

In 1969, Kenji, an elementary school kid and his friends built a secret base during their summer holidays. They fantasized that they had to fight villains who were out to conquer the world and wrote them in the Book of Prophecies. Years later in 1997, Kenji becomes a convenience store manager and leads a regular life after giving up his dreams to become a rock star. His boring life is suddenly turned upside down when his old classmate dies mysteriously and an entire family in the neighborhood disappears. At the same time, a religious cult and its mysterious leader, Friend emerges and a strange chain of events duplicating exactly the events described in the Book of Prophecies follow.—Noel Kardaris

20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End

20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End (2008)

Yuki Uchida

Takeshi Kitano

Akira Kubo

A slapstick comedy, about a goofy middle-aged man who is obsessed with the idea of having car sex. While pursuing his 'dream', he makes all the wrong moves possible, and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.—Anonymous

Getting Any?

Getting Any? (1994)

Shidô Nakamura

Mari Natsuki

Naoto Takenaka

As a child, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco came by and chased all of them away. Peco then takes Smile under his wing and teaches him how to play the game of ping pong. From there, a lifelong best friend relationship comes into existence between these two polar opposite kids. Fast forward a decade later, and Smile and Peco are now about to compete in a high-stakes regional ping pong tournament. While Peco has always wanted to be the best ping pong player in the world, he has never had the drive to fully devote himself to the game. Rather than finding him practicing in the high school gym, you would more often than not find Peco hustling other kids out of money at the local ping pong parlor. This is in contrast with Smile, who has the god-given talents to actually become the worlds best ping pong player but is too humble to destroy his opponents. More often than not, he allows his opponents to win points and even entire games out of sympathy for them. Now these two best friends try to deal with their own inner turmoils as they move further and further into the regional ping pong tournament. Peco has to overcome a knee injury while trying to rediscover the fun aspects of the game of Ping Pong. Meanwhile, Smile now seems to have gained the killer instinct by going through a rigorous training regiment instilled by his high school coach. As the tournament progresses, it becomes more likely that these two best friends will face off against each other in the final match.

Pinpon

Pinpon (2002)

Mayumi Wakamura

Mitsuru Fukikoshi

Shôsuke Tanihara

Seventeen year old high school student Rio Ozawa is always the center of attention due to her beauty. Yet Rio has never cared about anyone but herself due to her traumatic past. Her friends exist only so she can use them for her gains. Rio is only interested in money. She is involved in "compensated dating" and extortion. One day Rio's photographs get mixed up at the store with those of another person of last name Ozawa. She then meets 35 year old college professor Kouki Ozawa, and falls in love for the first time. Rio feels confused by her emotions. She changes from a confident, mature person, to something more like a typical schoolgirl with a huge crush. She follows Kouki around, asks him to tutor her, and wants to date him. Although Kouki becomes interested in Rio, there is a reason he doesn't pursue the relationship. However, Rio is very insistent and starts changing her whole world for the better in order to be with him. Suddenly Kouki disappears without saying goodbye, and Rio is crushed. Her friends, with the help of Kouki's relative, find him working at another school. Rio then finds out that he is dying of brain cancer, which is why he wanted to keep his distance, in order to avoid breaking her heart. She convinces him to get a risky operation, even if it means he cannot remember her, so that they can have more time together. In the end, he survives the operation, and they get together again, though it isn't clear if he remembers her.—ramazansengul

My Rainy Days

My Rainy Days (2009)

Chiaki Kuriyama

Kôichi Satô

Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers.

The Five

The Five (1995)

Hiroshi Abe

Yûya Yagira

Miori Takimoto

There are several iconic paintings in Japan depicting scenes of nature and the times. Several of these have become famous world-wide. Several of these are the works of Hokusai. However, the artist was not always famous or in-demand. In fact, he was struggling. He has the urge to throw in the towel, but persists. Once older he is still trying to improve and reach the pinnacle for his profession.—aghaemi

Hokusai

Hokusai (2020)

Kôichi Yamadera

Eiji Okuda

Ryoma Takeuchi

Based on the same-named novel by Ikeido Jun, the author behind bestsellers including "Hanzawa Naoki" and "Rikuoh", director Miki Takahiro makes into a live-action film as socially relevant entertainment. Yamazaki Akira (Takeuchi Ryoma) has suffered from a harsh fate due to the bankruptcy of his father's factory. Kaido Akira (Yokohama Ryusei) is born as the scion of a big company but has been refusing the chance to be the next CEO. They get hired by a Japanese megabank as part of the same cohort and go head-to-head as rivals with their conflicting beliefs.—Japanese Film Database

Akira and Akira

Akira and Akira (2022)

Honoka Murakami

Minehiro Kinomoto

Shinobu Tsuji

An online suicide club members decide to end their lives together. However, every time they try, they find themselves back in time when they meet up. Directed by a second time feature director Yoshio Kato, winning Audience Awards at SKIP CITY International D-Cinema Festival and Tanabe Benkei Film Festival in Japan, it is a thrilling and dramatic time loop original story of despair and humanity.

3 Feet Ball & Souls

3 Feet Ball & Souls (2017)

Kenta Suga

Anna Ishibashi

Kôdai Asaka

Yoko, a waitress with a dark past, and her boyfriend, Seiji, as well as her coworker, Daiichi, experience a series of bizarre phenomena. Everything's always a little strange in the town Funuma.

Pet Peeve

Pet Peeve (2013)

Asami Mizukawa

Maki Horikita

Shûji Kashiwabara

On a whim, group of college friends decide to test the validity of a local legend involving a small locker near Shibuya station.

The Locker

The Locker (2004)

Arata Furuta

Rumi Otori

Shizuko Yamamoto

Blending widescreen cinematography with digital video, JUNK FOOD casts an unblinking but painterly eye over the darkest, most brutal fringes of contemporary Japanese society. JUNK FOOD depicts the hitherto unseen world of aberrant sexuality and savage violence that emerges when the sun goes down and clean, orderly Tokyo exposes its sordid underbelly. From gambling dens to wrestling rings, through make-shift funerals and crime-of-passion murders, director Masashi Yamamoto expertly knits together a series of smoky, neon-lit vignettes with documentary immediacy and gruesome clarity. Cashing in her antiseptic white-collar world for a white powder hell of lethal sex-play and furtive drug abuse, a beautiful young computer programmer unravels her way to the gutter. Clinging to an empty dream of success, a Pakistani immigrant graduates from armed robbery to double homicide. Using the same copycat precision with which they dress and drive, a carbon copy LA style street gang mounts a bloodthirsty coup d'etat of appalling viciousness.

Junk Food

Junk Food (1997)

Hitomi Satô

Shingo Tsurumi

Gen Hoshino

Nobuko tried to be successful as an actress in Tokyo, but wasn't popular. She married her manager and soon divorced. Now a once-divorced woman in her mid-30s, she returns home to the Shinto shrine that her family runs, to help out with domestic chores.—MyDramaList

Nonko 36-sai

Nonko 36-sai (2008)

Tadanobu Asano

Michiyo Yasuda

Blind Zatoichi makes his living by gambling and giving massages. But behind his humble facade, Zatoichi is a master swordsman, gifted with lightning-fast draw and strokes of breathtaking precision. Zatoichi wanders into a town run by sinister gangs and a powerful samurai. He's destined for violent showdowns when he stumbles on two beautiful geishas avenging their parents' murder... Duels, wit and a touch of zen! Cult anti-hero Zatoichi is back in a sword-fighting adventure written, directed and starring Takeshi Kitano.—intlpress@aol.com

The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi

The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003)

Arata Iura

Ryô Narita

Two young men, Sota and Rakuto make a living by working at a bar while illegally trafficking marijuana. They're not gangsters, more like wanna-be gangsters. Lacking motivation and a plan, they're at the bottom of the bucket and always tripping over their past. But they are gradually choosing different paths as Rakuto meets a single mother and in order to support his new family, he is involved in more risky business run by a nutty and cruel yakuza. After years of silence, Sota is visited by a young woman with an unexpected news.

Smokin' on the Moon

Smokin' on the Moon (2017)

Yôta Kawase

Yota Kawase

Shôichirô Tanigawa

Takashi Uno (Yohta Kawase, RUBBER'S LOVER) wants little more from life than to play the bongo under the starlight. When his uncle passes, his freshly divorced cousin inherits their traditional country home and tasks the shy slacker with caring for it. Together with the town's underdog grocer, the three revert to a joyful childhood dynamic. Leisurely BBQ (the cheapest beef!) and cup noodles, it's all fun and games until a family from Tokyo led by an unhinged patriarch (screen veteran Kanji Tsuda, JU-ON: THE GRUDGE) and his enigmatic wife (Natsuki Mieda) manifest their desire to open a countryside café at all costs. Tadashi Nagayama - a protégé of the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival since his 2017 Grand Prix-winning debut JOURNEY OF THE TORTOISE - baffles audience expectations at every turn with this mellow yet thoroughly eccentric pastoral comedy about the right to do nothing, Japan's growing urban-rural divide, and the country's ongoing nuclear anxieties.—Kani Releasing

Being Natural

Being Natural (2018)

Rinko Kikuchi

Fumi Nikaidô

Yôji Tanaka

Settle into your chair and be transported to a place both familiar and alien; where a giant shop-girl can barely fit in her store, there's a weird green pod in every bedroom, and terrifying wood nymphs provide a heartbroken woman with the anatomically correct fruit everyone seems to covet. In the end we are left, like Alice, with the Red King's conundrum: are we dreaming them or are they dreaming us?—Sat Freedman

The Warped Forest

The Warped Forest (2011)

Joe Odagiri

Ken Mitsuishi

Yumi Asô

Four beautiful sisters of the Ninomiya family are entrusted with taking care of Kinjiro, a giant salamander and resident national treasure. On the eve of the reptile's 150th birthday, rumors spread that Kinjiro is an impostor, so a genius x-ray technician is sent to verify the claims. And as fate would have it, he falls for one of the Ninomiya sisters.—Anonymous

Pavillion sanshouo

Pavillion sanshouo (2006)

Mutsuo Yoshioka

Kyûsaku Shimada

Kai Inowaki

Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide, no giving up, the mission is more important than anything else. Sent to Lubang, a small island in the Philippines where the Americans are about to land, his role will be to wage a guerrilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender a year later, Onoda 10,000 days later.—Happy_Evil_Dude

Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021)

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