Yûko Tanaka

Ken Mitsuishi

Renji Ishibashi

Seiyô Uchino

Jiro Sawada is a sophomore in high school when a false accusation drives him out his hometown: a small village in Fukushima Prefecture. The entire village is abandoned after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, but Jiro returns there to live. Before long, members of his family come and join him.

Homeland

Homeland (2014)

Kengo Kôra

Tokio Emoto

Kumi Takiuchi

Directed by the novelist behind the script, Side Job focuses on Miyuki, who lost her mother to the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in the nuclear disaster area of Fukushima, Japan, who works at the local city hall and lives with her father. She does, however, supplement her income by being a prostitute in Tokyo over the weekends.—aghaemi

Side Job.

Side Job. (2017)

Mikako Ichikawa

Ryô Kase

Satomi Kobayashi

The floating clouds between the high buildings, the lines of the taillights under the moonlight, the swirling human waves... Every view in Tokyo looks as if it is alive. Before even she realizes, TOUKO starts to run away from somewhere in the city. As an actress in a fantasy world, Touko seems to have lost her grip on reality. Along her journey, she makes acquaintance with people who carry similar issues. A midnight truck driver NAGANO, who happens to give Touko a ride, is grappling with the discovery of his soul, and his soul is unable to move forward. His escape from reality is to continually move from place to place. A movie theater manager KIKUCHI is uncertain of her life. She has moved to new surroundings but feels more lost than ever. A young job seeker at the zoo YASUKO has no faith in her future. She thinks that the luck is slipping away from her. During the extraordinary time they spend together Touko and the 3 characters start to feel a new awareness growing and discover a natural freedom. Together they feel the sense of change taking place. The moment they find the oasis within. Finally, Touko begins to walk again with lightened steps toward a new beginning of everyday life in Tokyo.—Nikkatsu

Tokyo Oasis

Tokyo Oasis (2011)

Akaji Maro

Teruyuki Kagawa

Akira Emoto

In 1973, while exiled in Japan, South Korea's Kim Dae-Jung is kidnapped. Five days later he mysteriously reappears in Seoul. He will go on to become president of a democratic South Korea and he will win the Nobel peace prize. See the events leading up to the kidnapping and what happened during the five days Kim was held. Masuo Tomita is a Japanese intelligence officer who is in love with Korean teacher Lee Jeong-Mi. In an attempt to save her he is caught up in the plan to kidnap and kill Kim Dae-Jung.

KT (2002)

Ryô Yoshizawa

Honoka Matsumoto

Amane Okayama

Neither Hisano nor Kaede are mainstream and average university students. The former is not good company while the latter is an idealist who dreams of world peace and an end to suffering. having met one another they decide to do something about their aspirations. They become the founders of a club. However, Hisano vanishes into thin air one day. The association is no more and the club begins to change. He then determines to take the club back to its root.—aghaemi

Blue, Painful and Brittle

Blue, Painful and Brittle (2020)

Ren Ôsugi

Mayu Matsuoka

Keisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan's most respected legends of cinema. Made to commemorate the centenary of Kinoshita's birth, this biographical drama chronicles formative hardships and personal encounters to provide a rare glimpse into the life of one of Japan's most acclaimed screen directors. Includes archival footage from 49 of the films he produced during his career at Shochiku.—Canon y mus

Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story

Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story (2013)

Takeshi Kaneshiro

Jun Murakami

Mitsuru Fukikoshi

As the rain falls gently on the streets of Tokyo, Death emerges from the supernatural realm to decide whether or not a chosen individual will die in seven days time as scheduled. Chiba is the Grim Reaper. Precisely one week before a person is scheduled to die, Chiba appears to observe and evaluate their life, if the person have already fulfilled the purpose on earth and can step off the stage of life. At the end of those seven days, he makes the decision whether to "execute" or "pass over" his subject. It's not the most pleasant job imaginable, but Chiba always takes time to unwind by visiting the local CD shops and listening to some music. To Chiba, music is humanity's greatest invention. Chiba's latest subject is twenty-seven year old Kazue Fujiki, who leads unlucky life and seems to be ill-starred since everyone around her dies.—Sonja Pavkovic

Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death

Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death (2008)

Shûgo Oshinari

Eri Tokunaga

20-year-old Mio has lost her parents early and runs a traditional Japanese inn in Nagano with her grandmother. As her grandmother gets sick and hospitalized, Mio is forced to leave the inn and reluctantly comes to Tokyo to live with her father's old friend Kyosuke. Helping him at the bathhouse he runs, she begins to find her way in everyday life. One day, however, she learns the bathhouse is on the verge of demolition for the redevelopment in the district.

Mio on the Shore

Mio on the Shore (2019)

Machiko Ono

Kôji Yakusho

Yutaka Matsushige

The traumatized survivors of a murderous bus hijacking come together and take a road trip to attempt to overcome their damaged selves. Meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose.

Eureka

Eureka (2000)

Gô Ayano

Aimi Satsukawa

Kyûsaku Shimada

Naoko and Yusuke happen about one another while she is receiving treatment at an isolated location. He is good looking and athletic and she desires him, but it is not to be when his father is killed in an incident involving her. Their paths cross again at an athletic event several years later and they opt to help one another emotionally and physically.—aghaemi

Naoko

Naoko (2008)

Tadanobu Asano

Joe Odagiri

Kenji, abandoned by his mother, scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs including driving bar hostesses and their customers home. Besides this he takes care of the sister of an old friend in jail and a young illegal immigrant. But his life reaches a turning point when he happens to meet Chiyoko, his long lost mother. She is now married to Mamiya, the owner of an express package delivery service. They also have a teenage son, Yusuke. Subdued feelings of alarm, discomfort and resentment between Chiyoko, Kenji, and his half brother Yusuke hide underneath and are seemingly caused by the inseparable blood ties that seem to wield control over everyone's destiny. Is blood that powerful? What exactly defines a mother or a father? While Kenji struggles with these questions and attempts to escape his fate, Chiyoko seems content to let these issues unfold and find a solution. Where will it ultimately lead them?—anonymous

Sad Vacation

Sad Vacation (2007)

Maho Tomita

Yûko Kobayashi

After graduating from high school, young Hiromi (Naoko Watanabe) moves from Niigata to Tokyo to pursue her dreams of becoming an actress. She first starts out in the adult film industry under the stage name of Mihiro ...

Nude

Nude (2010)

Ewan McGregor

Ken Ogata

Vivian Wu

As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book", the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on bodies, and her sexual odyssey (and the creation of her own Pillow Book) is a "parfait mélange" of classical Japanese, modern Chinese, and Western film images.—Michael C. Berch

The Pillow Book

The Pillow Book (1995)

Takumi Kitamura

Kenshô Ono

Shôhei Yamazaki

A diving club is in danger of going bankrupt. To save the diving club, a female coach returns from the U.S. to coach the club and promises that a diver from the club will make the Japanese Olympic team.

Dive!!

Dive!! (2008)

Masaki Suda

Ittoku Kishibe

Cannes Film Festival winner Shinji Aoyama creates a chilling atmosphere in this adaptation of an award-winning novel. A young man tries to fight the deadly influence of his violent, abusive dad. Will the sins of the father carry on to the next generation in the bloodline?

The Backwater

The Backwater (2013)

Hikari Mitsushima

Masahiko Tsugawa

Eriko Nakamura

The story of the relationship between a college student whose relationship with her boyfriend is going nowhere and a bisexual medical artist who makes prosthetic body parts.

Kakera

Kakera (2009)

Tôri Matsuzaka

Takeshi Kaga

Four pianists take part in the preliminary round of an international piano playing competition. Each has a story that is different and unique. One is a former child prodigy who stopped playing when her mother died. One is a Julliard student. One works at a music store. One is a new face and yet comes recommended.—aghaemi

Listen to the Universe

Listen to the Universe (2019)

Kyoko Fukada

Kazuya Kamenashi

Kiyohiko Shibukawa

In Japan, Lieutenant Colonel Yuki (Yusuke Iseya) recommends the creation of spy training school "D Kikan".

Joker Game

Joker Game (2015)

Takayuki Yamada

Megumi Kagurazaka

In 1844, the peace of Feudal Japan is threatened by cruel Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira, who is politically rising and getting closer to his half-brother, the shogun. After the harakiri of the Namiya clan leader, samurai Shinzaemon Shimada is summoned by the shogun's advisor Sir Doi of the Akashi Clan to listen to the tragedy of Makino Uneme, whose son and daughter-in-law have been murdered by Naritsugu. Then Sir Doi shows a woman with arms, legs and tongue severed by Naritsugu and she writes with her forearm a request to Shinza to slaughter Naritsugu and his samurai. Shinza promises to kill Naritsugu and he gathers eleven other samurais and plots a plan to attack Naritsugu in his trip back to the Akashi land. But the cunning samurai Hanbei Kitou that is responsible for the security of his master foresees Shinza's intent. Shinza decides to go with his samurai through the mountain, where they find the hunter Koyata that guides them off the mountain and joins the group. Now the thirteen men prepare an ambush to Naritsugu and his army of two hundred samurai in a suicide mission to stop evil.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

13 Assassins

13 Assassins (2010)

Etsushi Toyokawa

Miho Nakayama

Mariko Kaga

Hiroko Watanabe's fiancé Itsuki died two years earlier in a mountain climbing accident. While looking through his high school yearbook, Hiroko in a fit of grief decides to write a letter to him using his old school address. Surprisingly she receives a reply, not from the dead Itsuki, but from a woman with the same name whom had known Hiroko's fiancé in school. A relationship develops between the two women as they continue to exchange letters and share memories of the dead Itsuki.—Todd K. Bowman

Love Letter

Love Letter (1995)

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