Nenji Kobayashi

Takashi Sasano

Rei Asami

Yûta Kanai

Bored with school, 15-year-old Daisuke Kawashima embarks on a pilgrimage to visit the 7,000-year-old cedar tree on distant Yakushima Island. Through his journey, Daisuke meets a number of interesting people, including friendly truck driver Sumire and a mysterious mountaineer girl.—Anonymous

A Class to Remember 4: Fifteen

A Class to Remember 4: Fifteen (2000)

Kunie Tanaka

Toshiyuki Nishida

Keiko Takeshita

At a night school a diverse group of students ranging from teenagers to the elderly, smart to the under-developed and of different races have been assembled to study and finally hopefully graduate. The assignment to graduate includes an essay, but life proves itself more real than that as the students soon find out.—aghaemi

A Class to Remember

A Class to Remember (1993)

Minori Terada

A widow who has raised her autistic son alone loses her job and begins attending a technical college. She meets others looking for a new start in life, including a former salary-man with whom she begins a furtive romance.

A Class to Remember 3: The New Voyage

A Class to Remember 3: The New Voyage (1998)

Jun Kunimura

Ken'ichi Endô

Yuriko Ishida

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)

Jun Miho

Katsunori Takahashi

Eiichirô Funakoshi

Hideyoshi Date (Katsunori Takahashi) is at his wits' end when we first meet him in. Deep in debt, with no job, no prospects, and no family, he's ready to end it all, and tries to do so, but he doesn't even have the nerve to commit suicide.Wacky events are set in motion when Densuke (Roi Hayashi), a grade school boy, gets into Hideyoshi's cab and demands to be taken to his prep school. Hideyoshi at first tries to get rid of him, but when he learns that Densuke comes from a rich family, he seizes on the opportunity to get himself out of his financial hole. Recalling the advice of an old prison mate (Takashi Sasano), Hideyoshi hits upon the idea of demanding ransom from Densuke's parents.Densuke is also on the run; he is impulsively running away from home because he hasn't been getting along with his parents lately. Complications ensue when Densuke's father turns out to be no ordinary business executive, but a yakuza boss (Sho Aikawa), who sends an army of underlings out to find Densuke and Hideyoshi.But in all of that, a special relationship is growing between them. Hideyoshi is starting to see the world from a new point a view, and is moved by the purity of Densuke's heart.

Yûkai Rhapsody

Yûkai Rhapsody (2010)

Teruyuki Kagawa

Yutaka Matsushige

Kimiko Yo

A young medical intern student is dismayed when he is assigned to work in a remote countryside village.

Dear Doctor

Dear Doctor (2009)

Kana Kurashina

Junpei Mizobata

Yôichi Nukumizu

Religious figure Genzo is on the way to eastern lands far from Japan when he happens about the modest home of an old couple. Their adopted son, whom they discovered in a crater following a crash landing, is ruthless, manipulative and disgusting. They need help, but also warn that their son is controlling and not controllable.—aghaemi

Chin-Yu-Ki: The Journey to the West with Farts

Chin-Yu-Ki: The Journey to the West with Farts (2016)

Akira Emoto

Kaori Momoi

Chishû Ryû

This is Japanese melo-dramatist director Yoji Yamada's ode to 1930s film production during the transition from silent film to talkies. With many loose associations we can see the rise of a young star Koharu Tanaka for the big New Year release entitled Floating Weeds.

Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies

Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies (1986)

Toshinori Omi

Misako Renbutsu

Endo Reiko visits the city of Nagaoka and listens to a motley cast's stories. She learns about the fireworks in the city and its history, how war ravaged and changed the city and the narrator's lives. In the process much obscure information is offered and digested and there are hints of what constitutes the Japanese character.—aghaemi

Casting Blossoms to the Sky

Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012)

Atsuko Takahata

Hitomi Kuroki

Ryôko Hirosue

Sosuke Tashiro is on an elite career course at a major bank until he is transferred - or rather relegated - to a subsidiary company, where he reaches retirement age. After decades of single-minded dedication to his work, he finds himself at a loss. Days pass with nothing for him to do, and time goes by at a snail's pace. "I don't want my life to end like this." Sosuke picks up the courage to look for work at a nearby job center, but his glittering academic background and impressive resume get in the way, and he has little luck. Upon seeing this, his wife Chigusa who works as a hairdresser and his daughter jokingly suggest that Sousuke should find someone to date. Coincidentally, Sousuke indeed finds someone who he is interested but things do not turn out the way he wants and his life starts to take on an uncontrollable twist.

Life in Overtime

Life in Overtime (2018)

Tadanobu Asano

Tokio Emoto

The story centers on a group of young people who travel back in time when they are in a movie theater just before closing time. They witness deaths during the closing days of Japan's feudal times and on the battlefront in China before they are sent to Hiroshima just before the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing of the city.

Labyrinth of Cinema

Labyrinth of Cinema (2019)

Hiroshi Abe

Renji Ishibashi

Yûko Takeuchi

A story set in a café situated along a small cape and run by an elderly woman named Etsuko and aided her nephew Koji.

Cape Nostalgia

Cape Nostalgia (2014)

Yû Aoi

Yuri Tsunematsu

Sakichi Satô

It is 1940 and much of the world, including Japan, is in the grips of World War II. Japan has occupied Manchuria and maintains its interests there. A well-to-do actress is married to a man who conducts business in Manchuria. He is dismayed at certain actions his government is taking there. He attempts to do something about it when a murder occurs.—aghaemi

Wife of a Spy

Wife of a Spy (2020)

Kôji Yakusho

Ittoku Kishibe

Katsumi Takahashi

A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovered that he has got terminal lung cancer and will die within half a year. He declines any treatment and decides to go to see some people he has not met for years, to write farewell letters to his family, relatives and friends...—Yamakomi

Zô no senaka

Zô no senaka (2007)

Junichiro Tsukada

Kasumi Toyama

A young girl wanders into a wing of her elementary school that has been abandoned for years and is rumored to be haunted. When she doesn't come back, a group of her classmates go looking for her, only to find that they, too, are trapped inside. They must somehow find their way to safety, and quickly, because the rumors of ghosts are turning out to be true...—Jean-Marc Rocher

Haunted School

Haunted School (1995)

Riki Takeuchi

Toshiyuki Nagashima

Yûko Natori

Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada's ex-wife. Recovering from the shock, Harada indulges in melancholy, mainly on his failure as a husband and father, and goes to a 'Rakugo' (sit-down comedy) show, where a friendly man in the audience invites him home. Harada is puzzled at the strong resemblance of this man and his wife to his own parents, who were killed nearly 30 years ago when he was twelve. He visits the couple repeatedly, and greatly enjoys the happy atmosphere there, which was much like his childhood, and such a contrast to his current existence, which is lonely and tortured. But he is no longer alone. The same night his buddy confessed, Harada was visited by Kei, a beautiful woman from the third floor, who is also the only other occupant of their apartment building. She offers champagne and company. Furious with women, he rudely rebuffs her, but she persists, and he later invites her in. That they become lovers is no surprise, but she manages to hold an air of mystery. Despite making enthusiastic love, she never allows him to see her breasts, explaining that she has a terrible scar from a burn. Harada becomes increasingly agitated about the unreality of the visits with his parents, and he notices in a mirror that his face is becoming zombie-like. Dark rings under the eyes, a white-ish tone to his skin, and a haggard look. Kei sees it too, and warns him to stop visiting the parents. She warns that they are ghosts and they are feeding off his life force...—Sharptongue

The Discarnates

The Discarnates (1988)

Shirô Sano

Kai Inowaki

Wasao, an Akita dog in Aomori Prefecture that became famous as an ugly-yet-cute dog from a traveller's blog. Heartwarming drama starring Wasao himself turns part of the life of this former stray into an original story.

Wasao

Wasao (2011)

Shun Sugata

Tatsuya Fujiwara

Keiko Takahashi

'Zen' Buddhist teacher Dogen Zenji is a very important religious person during the Kamakura period, 750 years ago. After his mother died, he decides to move to China and settle as a Buddhist teacher. One bright morning, enlightened, Zenji returns to Japan as a devoted evangelist of the 'new' Buddhism. However, this new form of Buddhism is not accepted in all communities.—Rene Guillot

Zen (2009)

Ryô Kase

Etsushi Toyokawa

A teenage girl adopts a homeless puppy and names it "Socks". They take care of each others since then, until one day when she is thinking Socks to be smaller than she thought it used be...

10 Promises to My Dog

10 Promises to My Dog (2008)

Akaji Maro

Sion Sono

Misaki Itô

An off-beat comedy about 3 'damejin' (useless persons), who don't work and spend their lives doing nothing. They actually don't want to work. When they hear 'in India one can live without working' they take it seriously. They begin to raise the money to go to India by doing anything but working, such as ripping off stamps from others' letters to sell, robbery at the bank which itself went bankrupt, etc.—Unknown

Damejin

Damejin (2006)

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