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Encouraged by her managers, rising pop star Mima takes on a recurring role on a popular TV show, when suddenly her handlers and collaborators begin...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Junko Iwao

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Bowie

A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Fujitani

In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwara District, navigating brothel politics...

Genre: History

Cast: Anna Tsuchiya

One day, Mana Aida receives a wedding dress from her mother and grandmother that they had worn in the past. While thinking about who she would wear...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Hitomi Nabatame

A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present. She replies...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Isao Hashizume

In this love story set in the Edo period, 27-year-old Oharu is a genius in the kitchen. Oharu attracts the attention of the master chef of the Kaga...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aya Ueto

A famous chef who is tasked with tracking down a 70-year-old missing recipe.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazunari Ninomiya

Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist....

Genre: Family

Cast: Mirai Shida

When the Shogunates greatest secret is stolen, the fate of the nation hangs in the balance. The Shogunate sends an incompetent cop, Tanaka, to Kyoto...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Fujita

Noriko lost her mother Yoshie when she was only 10-years-old. Yoshie knew she would not be able to live long enough to see her children grow up and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ai Hashimoto

A writer moves to a remote island with his daughter and young son. After settling into their new home, a neighbor arrives to welcome them and give...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Yui Ichikawa

The film follows the relationship between a mother and her son. In 1945, the mother played by Sayuri Yoshinaga fled with her two sons from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A lonely retired girl's High School Principal who's lost his wife to alcoholism moves to an old apartment in a country town. There he forms a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Taneda is permanently crashing at her apartment...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aoi Miyazaki

Diagnosed with dementia, Yuriko's mind quickly begins to fade. Yet, for her son Izumi, memories of the mother feel as vivid as when he lived them....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masaki Suda

Koji Namiki is a young pitcher who has shown great promise on the diamond by winning the National High School Basketball Championships. Shortly after...

Genre: War

Cast: Ichikawa Ebizo XI