Jennie Kwan

Atsuro Watabe

Yôji Tanaka

Makiko Watanabe

Being a failure as a teacher and a family man, Shinichi tries to escape everyday life by dressing up as "Zebraman", the superhero. Although the TV series was canceled after only 6 episodes, this cannot stop him from acting out his escape fantasy in a self made zebra-suit. He gets more then he could ever wish for when his black-and-white dressed alter-ego seems to be the only thing to stand between absolute (green) evil and a happy ending.—Oskar Jalink

Zebraman

Zebraman (2004)

Kôji Yakusho

Hiroyuki Ikeuchi

Jun Fubuki

A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action. Leaving his job and family without explanation, he makes his way to a mountain forest, where there is a peculiar tree called charisma. Should it be destroyed or protected? People stand divided over this one tree.—amirmu

Charisma

Charisma (1999)

Yûki Yamada

Jun Shison

Shûgo Oshinari

Riko Shirono doesn't have any big expectations for a man in her life, but she works as a love simulation game planner. She receives a request for a new love game from app company TIMEIS. Soichiro Kurokawa is the CEO for the company. He is almost perfect, but he can't understand a woman's mind. One day, Soichiro, who likes his subordinate Momose, asks Riko to teach him about love techniques. Due to Riko's help, Soichiro and Momose get close, but Riko finds herself becoming attracted to Soichiro.

My Long Awaited Love Story

My Long Awaited Love Story (2016)

Erika Sawajiri

Takayuki Yamada

Morio Kazama

How have you been? Takeshi's letter is delivered one each month to his younger brother, Naoki. Takeshi is serving a life term in prison for the crime that he had committed to save his brother. But the crime's aftereffect extends to Naoki, and, branded as a "murderer's brother," Naoki is deprived of his love, career and dream. His desperate situation gradually changes when he finds true love with Yumiko, who always stands by him. To protect the love that he has finally found, Naoki begins writing a letter to Takeshi - The touching story of a man who was powerless against his irreversible fate, but still tried to overcome it in the quest for his dream.

Tegami

Tegami (2006)

Osamu Shigematu

Yûki Amami

When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its challenges. Upon arriving in mountainous Nagano, Sassa had to compete with freezing winter temperatures, conflicting opinions between the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and the Nagano Prefectural Police, as well as public opinion to gain entrance to the lodge that held the single woman captive.—Anonymous

Totsunyûseyo! 'Asama Sansô' jiken

Totsunyûseyo! 'Asama Sansô' jiken (2002)

Ko Shibasaki

Hirotarô Honda

Kyûsaku Shimada

Shou's father Norio finds his son in a rather meaningless existence in Tokyo dominated by alcohol and porn videos. Having left home two years earlier to pursue life as a musician, Shou has left his band and his girlfriend has left him. His father asks a favor, that Shou clean out the apartment of his aunt Matsuko, who he says led a meaningless life until her murder at the age of 53. The apartment is filled with garbage bags and is even more unkempt than his apartment has become, and he becomes intrigued with his aunt as details of her life are supplied by a tattooed neighbor and others. Her feelings of neglect by her father Tsunehiro, who favored her chronically ill younger sister, Kumi, translated into becoming a dutiful junior high school teacher devoted to her students until being forced to resign after being blamed for the theft of some money by one of them. Leaving her family due to the disgrace, she had a series of affairs with lovers who physically abused her and did a stint as a massage parlor girl due to her beauty. After her pimp lover dumped her and gave her share of earnings to his new lover, they argued and after killing him she left by train and contemplated suicide. Dissuaded by a lonely barber, she happily set out to build a quiet life with him until the police came to charge her with murder. Upon her release from prison she silently slipped away after finding that the barber had started a new family. Becoming a "Yakusa Girl" she rationalized that it was better to be on the run with a mobster than be alone. However, her mobster lover rejected her after being released from a term in prison and she became an eccentric recluse. Shou concludes that his aunt fulfilled his ex-girlfriend's parting comment about it being better to give to others rather than expecting to receive.—Brian Greenhalgh

Memories of Matsuko

Memories of Matsuko (2006)

Yûsuke Iseya

Ken Yasuda

Dionne Monsanto

The film centers on Iwao Shishido, who at age forty suddenly leaves his rural village, but returns with a foreign bride during his father's funeral.

Itoshi no Irene

Itoshi no Irene (2018)

Ken Takakura

Nenji Kobayashi

A solitary middle-aged station manager is haunted by troubling memories of his past when he learns the line his station is on will be decommissioned for lack of profitability. He is visited by a young woman, who mysteriously appears to cheer him up.

The Railroad Man

The Railroad Man (1999)

Yurisa

Ami Tomite

Eihi Shiina

He is a dying man with no one to support or root for him. She is a beautiful woman caught in a world riven with paranoia, death, blood and stricken with a pandemic. He dedicates himself to rescuing and helping her. Can he fight the endemic, the alien invasion and the authorities?—aghaemi

Meatball Machine Kodoku

Meatball Machine Kodoku (2017)

Yû Aoi

Tetsu Sawaki

Shinji Higuchi

Life isn't easy for a group of high school kids growing up absurd in Japan's pervasive pop/cyber culture. As they negotiate teen badlands- school bullies, parents from another planet, lurid snapshots of sex and death- these everyday rebels without a cause seek sanctuary, even salvation, through pop star savior Lily Chou-Chou, embracing her sad, dreamy songs and sharing their fears and secrets in Lilyholic chat rooms. Immersed in the speed of everyday troubles, their lives inevitably climax in a fatal collision between real and virtual identities, a final logging-off from innocence.—Sujit R. Varma

All About Lily Chou-Chou

All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)

Takeshi Kitano

Kayoko Kishimoto

Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro hardly seems the ideal companion for little Masao who is determined to travel long distances to see the mother he has never met. Their excursion to the cycle races is the first of a series of adventures for the unlikely pair which soon turns out to be a whimsical journey of laughter and tears with a wide array of surprises and odd ball characters to meet along the way.—L.H. Wong

Kikujiro

Kikujiro (1999)

Atsuko Takahata

Takashi Naha

Yukie Nakama

The prequel to the horror film Ringu, this movie provides the background story of how Sadako later became the vengeful murdering spirit. The story starts with her as a shy, somewhat withdrawn, college student who nonetheless gets involved in a drama club. The director thinks she has talent, but some of the other performers start to get jealous of the attention he gives her. Meanwhile, a reporter investigating Sadako's spiritualist mother thinks there's something very suspicious about the young woman, and arrives on campus to confront Sadako just as a series of strange deaths start sweeping through the drama club.—Jean-Marc Rocher

Ring 0: Birthday

Ring 0: Birthday (2000)

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