Hidetoshi Nishijima

Tomokazu Miura

Makiko Watanabe

Toshiyuki Nishida

Voices in the Wind

Voices in the Wind (2020)

Kiyohiko Shibukawa

Yuka Itaya

Shôhei Uno

Yuma is a grown woman now with the obligations and duties that come with it. Nevermind that she went 37 seconds without breathing upon birth, which resulted in her developing and living with cerebral palsy. She is disabled. She is striving to perform under the duress while juggling an aspiration to become a manga artist. With the world using her, and the reality that comes with her disability, she embarks on a sexual exploration in order to understand the subject matter demanded of her by an employer.—aghaemi

37 Seconds

37 Seconds (2019)

Hiroko Nakajima

Nobuko Sendô

Boxer Keiko was born with a hearing impairment. Boxing is a real challenge, but her club is like a family. After winning two fights, a creeping fear begins to grow in her. Confused, she goes on to her third fight. Meanwhile, the gym is about to close for good.—mubi

Small, Slow But Steady

Small, Slow But Steady (2022)

Elaiza Ikeda

Kei Tanaka

Renji Ishibashi

Tamio Akanishi works at a public office in Yokohama. He is going through one of the worst periods of his life, because his fiancee broke up with him. One day, his boss tells him to take care of a big dog with white hair, which was abandoned by its owner. Tamio begins to live with the dog, which doesn't bark and only makes a sound that sounds like "haw." So, Tamio names the dog Haw. While living together, the connection between Tamio Akanishi and Haw gets deeper.

Haw (2022)

Arata Iura

Sakura Andô

Hiroko is a young, alienated woman "in love" with a blow-up male torso. Tension rises when her sister discovers her secret desire.

Torso

Torso (2009)

Akinori Andô

Tasuku Emoto

Nagase Ren takes on the role of "I," a university student who moved to Tokyo and is living alone for the first time. I has no friends. I has no girlfriend. The lectures at the university were horribly boring, and I was always looking at Tokyo Tower on the way back from his laborious job. While being attracted to the ruthless, dignified and intelligent "Senior," played by Ikeda Elaiza, whom he meets in the "Hide and Seek Circle" that he secretly falls in love with. Meanwhile, I meets a man called "Black Suit," played by Emoto Tasuku, who is an extremely charismatic and mysterious person. Little did "I" know that the two people he met would bring excitement to his mundane, humdrum existence.

Mayonaka otome sensô

Mayonaka otome sensô (2022)

Ryudai Takahashi

Hiroo Fuseya

Tetsuro is living with his young girlfriend Aki in a pleasant house in Tokyo. They both spend a lot of time at their jobs. However their routine is upset when Tetsuro brings his 8 year old son Shun to live with them, while his ex-wife recovers from a car accident. Aki is annoyed because she was not asked, and she knows that she will have to do the bulk of the work in caring for him. This forces Aki to reevaluate her relationship, and decide whether she is to remain a modern working woman, or become a mother.—Will Gilbert

M/Other

M/Other (1999)

Jun Matsumoto

Yûko Asano

Yûta Hiraoka

It is a taboo story about love and incest between twins. Its not about sex, its about the feelings the two have for one another and how society views them

Boku wa imôto ni koi wo suru

Boku wa imôto ni koi wo suru (2007)

Fumi Nikaidô

Mayu Tsuruta

Kôtarô Shiga

After failing her university entrance exam, Sakuko is invited by her aunt Mikie to spend summer vacation in a beautiful seaside town. Sakuko gets to know the people of the town, including Takashi, a shy relative of her childhood friend.

Au Revoir L'Ete

Au Revoir L'Ete (2013)

Hinako Saeki

Yôta Kawase

Yota Kawase

Shy and self conscious Miwa attends university, goes home, studies and converses with her turtle. Saori in contrast is an entitled daughter of a rich and somewhat idolized family. Koyuzu is in the family business conducting shady business out of their offices. The agency gets even on behalf of customers. The three become entangled in life and are set against one another, which in their cases is not a simple matter.—aghaemi

Aesop's Game

Aesop's Game (2019)

Machiko Ono

Yôichirô Saitô

Shigeki Uda

A care-giver at a small retirement home takes one of her patients for a drive to the country, but the two wind up stranded in a forest where they embark on an exhausting and enlightening two-day journey.

The Mourning Forest

The Mourning Forest (2007)

Noriko Eguchi

Saki Takaoka

Shûgo Oshinari

This is the story of three Japanese women in the glamourous world of adult film. There is Miho who is a house wife in her thirties and needs to do something new with herself. There is Ayako the teenage high school girl who still relies on her mother. There is Ayano who has moved to the big city of Tokyo.—aghaemi

The Lowlife

The Lowlife (2017)

Nijirô Murakami

Jun Murakami

Tetta Sugimoto

On the subtropical Japanese island of Amami, traditions about nature remain eternal. During the full-moon night of traditional dances in August, 16-year-old Kaito discovers a dead body floating in the sea. His girlfriend Kyoko will attempt to help him understand this mysterious discovery. Together, Kaito and Kyoko will learn to become adults by experiencing the interwoven cycles of life, death and love.—Cannes Film Festival

Still the Water

Still the Water (2014)

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