Nao Ômori

Mushi are beings in touch with the essence of life, far more basic and pure than normal living things. Most humans are incapable of perceiving Mushi...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joe Odagiri

A French corporation goes head-to-head with an American web media company for the rights to a 3-D manga pornography studio, resulting in a power...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Connie Nielsen

As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kazunari Ninomiya

A simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shinichi Tsutsumi

A 13-year-old girl named Mai refuses to go to school due to her asthma. Her parents send her to to stay with her British grandmother in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mayu Takahashi

Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his van. They are in hot pursuit of their fellow robber...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shinichi Tsutsumi

Your favourite teddy bear. That model kit that took so long to complete. The picture book you used to read over and over again. The shining stone you...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Haruka Ayase

We follow Ichi during his high school years. Mr. Dai is the best fighter in school... whenever he fights Ichi is there and has a huge smile on his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Nao Ômori

Rei is a freelance writer embattled by personal demons. She hears voices in her head, and has sleeping problems, eating disorders and drinks...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinobu Terajima

When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Minister's assassination, and on the run from...

Genre: Action

Cast: Masato Sakai

A husband and wife, who have not had sex in three years, both fall into extra-marital affairs.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miki Nakatani

Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympics—and the mood is one of...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Masami Nagasawa

To his mute sister's dismay, a young boy puts a dying rabbit out of its misery with a brick -- and soon the siblings end up in a world of nightmares.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Hikari Mitsushima

Tadashi Imamura is a burglar who idolises Ozaki, a star baseball player he shares a birthday with. One day he realises their connection is much...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gaku Hamada

A stolen military aircraft with nuclear missiles on board crashes in the snowbound Northern Japanese Alps. Two teams of rangers from Japan's Defense...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Ishiguro

After detective Natsumi Yukihira brings an end to the police hospital terrorist case, Natsumi is transferred to the Nishimonbetsu Police Station in...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryoko Shinohara

A girl named Ai gets a major record deal to sing a song written by a friend of hers who is deceased. However an obsessed stalker fan slowly starts...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayaka Maeda

Mixed up by desire, love and hatred, a disturbed young man begins tailing and eventually tries to save his neighbor, a housewife who has turned to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miwon

Three WWII veterans, reunited by family circumstances, quickly find their life savings threatened by a private corporation; they band together to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

Katsutoshi is forced to flee his hometown and ends up at a rundown nightclub called "Tokyo Playboy Club." His hot-headedness gets him into further...

Genre: Action

Cast: Nao Ômori

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eventually becomes one of the primary influences...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ichikawa Ebizo XI

In a valley, with a dense growth of trees, a baby is killed. The baby's mother Satomi is arrested as the prime suspect. The police also learn that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoko Maki

Kazu attacks a bar in Kabukicho, a Tokyo red-light district, and flees to his hometown with abducts Machiko, a pole dancer he's been stuck on. They...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kengo Kora

"Blazing Famiglia" centers around a family of former teenage gangsters. Tetsu Hino (Yoshimi Tokui) was once the leader of the most feared motorcycle...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshimi Tokui

Two youths meet in adolescence, reconnect as adults, and though both have changed drastically, their love still remains.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aoi Miyazaki

A love story about two step-siblings, Yota and Kaoru. Long ago, Yota's mother married Kaoru's jazz-playing father, effectively merging the two...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

The life of Go master Wu Qingyuan from his meteoric rise as a child prodigy to fame and fortune as a revolutionary strategic thinker, as well as the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chang Chen

13-year-old Sachiko is about to encounter the most difficult moments in her young life. Her father abandons her and her mother attempts to commit...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aoi Miyazaki

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

A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryo Kase

A man and a woman are together on the 'Chrysalis Day', the fatal day everything in your life will be decided depends on how you spend the day. A...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shinji Takeda

An anthology film consisting of four segments based on literary works by Edogawa Ranpo.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Yokubo from director Tetsuo Shinohara is based off of the award-winning love story by Mariko Koike. A young man searching for physical comfort and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuka Itaya

A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange characters. He finds a job skewering meat in a dirty old...

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Cast: Shinobu Terajima

Based on an award winning novel, It's Only Talk is about the life of Yuko, a 35-year old woman. She is single and unemployed, and suffers from manic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinobu Terajima

Jam Films 2 features 4 short films by different Japanese directors.

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Cast: Jin Katagiri

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nao Ômori

Young man, Yusuke Mamiana, fed up with his life meats a unattractive ugly girl, Kyoko, at his hometown. Out of his impulsive desire, he had a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hitomi Miwa

Breathe In, Breathe Out centers on six, later seven, individuals who have gotten jobs harvesting sugarcane on a small Okinawa island. Each worker has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Karina

While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caused by the events from his high school...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takao Osawa

Since their parents died at an early age, Susumu and Yoriko have lived together. Susumu is now 33-years-old and Yoriko is 40-years-old. Both of them...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Osamu Mukai

Rou has returned to the monastery he was raised in. As he listens to the whispering of the Gods through his germanium radio, Rou defies God in every...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hirofumi Arai

In Mahoro, the fictional suburb of Tokyo, Tada works as a general problem solver for hire. One day, former classmate Gyoten appears unannounced. Both...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eita Nagayama

Yuichiro wants to be an film director but his widowed mother wants him to become a doctor. As radiation leaks permeate the city, he tries to clear...

Genre: Action

Cast: Junko Emoto

This erotically charged drama traces the intersecting stories of a group of employees and visitors at a notorious "love hotel" in Tokyo's red-light...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shota Sometani

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Set in the late 21st century, an MRI scanner is introduced at the National Research Institute of Police Science's 9th Forensics Laboratory. The...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Toma Ikuta

Set within the fictional city of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada runs a "benriya" - a general problem solver for hire. His assistant is his former high school...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eita Nagayama

A Japanese company is being targeted by a Chinese financial group that takes advantage of weak and struggling firms - in other words, a vulture. A...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nao Ômori

Yaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, while Kita is an actor addicted to various drugs.

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomoya Nagase

Ruthless dominatrixes pursue a mild-mannered salesman who wants to get out of his unbreakable contract with a secret bondage club.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nao Ômori

Alien pods come to Earth and, naturally, start taking over Human Hosts. One such pod only manages to take over one human's, Shin Izumi, right arm....

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Shota Sometani

The Tokyo Olympics are about to open, and Rynosuke Chagawa is excited to receive a new TV set to watch the upcoming events. His wife Hiromi is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hidetaka Yoshioka

Alien pods come to Earth and, naturally, start taking over Human Hosts. One such pod only manages to take over one human's, Shin Izumi, right arm....

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Shota Sometani

High school student Shun Takahata is bored. Bored with the day-to-day monotony of school and life, he prays for change, for something exciting....

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Sota Fukushi

Doctor Rie (Miho Kanno) is know as the Joan of Ark of Obstetrics & Gynecology. She works in a challenging environment with clinics shutting down...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miho Kanno

The NPS (National Police Safety Rescue), whose purpose is to catch extreme criminals alive, becomes the center of attention. A sit-in demonstration...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Osamu Mukai

A series of short stories explore the connection of love between dogs and people.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kie Kitano

If you loved movies such as Shonen Merikensack and GS Wonderland, then this one, which predates the former, will impress you as well. The story is...

Genre: Music

Cast: Kazunobu Mineta

Second half of the violent tale of revenge from actor Sho Aikawa and director Kiyoshi Kurosawa! It's been five years since he left the force, lost...

Genre: Action

Cast: Show Aikawa

In Tokyo, Japan, several grotesque murders take place on rainy days. Detective Sawamura, who is in charge of the case, soon discovers that his own...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shun Oguri

A rock band writes a song called "Fish Story" that is foretold to save the world. The song exceeds the boundaries of space and time and ties people...

Genre: Music

Cast: Atsushi Ito

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rino Katase

Shangri-La follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly commits suicide and decide to help him out of his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Show Aikawa

When pregnant lunchbox factory worker Yayoi has finally taken all the abuse she can handle, she strangles her brutish husband and disposes of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Harada

A cop chasing after a female cop killer, but then gets caught in a dark web of departmental corruption.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Nao Ômori

A man’s body is found in the suburbs of Tokyo. The dead man was hit by a car and his head beaten by the reckless driver after the accident. The...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kyōzō Nagatsuka

A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jared Leto

Amagi, a young man is charged with the responsibility of finding out the "real name" of the actress Kaede Katsuragi. He soon discovers that she has...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koyuki

Attorneys Kensuke Komikado and Machiko Mayuzumi receive a request from a general hospital. They go up against veteran attorney Kazuma Kujou who is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masato Sakai

Five years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a noted...

Genre: Action

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

A genius and reckless poet and a hard working musician are asked by the CEO of a children literature magazine to write a war song to send children...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nao Ômori

Do you believe in love after death? On the eve of her 19th birthday, Mizuki (Kuriyama) doesn't have a lot to celebrate about. Her mother recently...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiaki Kuriyama

Original work from director Irie Yu of Memoirs of a Murder and the "8000 MILES: SR Saitama's Rapper" series. Set in a provincial city, the story...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nao Ômori

Following the showdown with his arch nemesis Ando, Detective Ango Ishikawa takes on a new case with his uncanny ability to communicate with the dead.

Genre: Action

Cast: Shun Oguri

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Katsuno

Set over one night in Tokyo, we follow Leo, a young boxer down on his luck as he meets his ‘first love’ Monica, a call-girl and an addict...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Masataka Kubota

"Quartet" tells the story of four young musicians as they form a string quartet and pursue fame.

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Cast: Yoshihiko Hakamada

Top model Lilico, having recently undergone multiple cosmetic surgeries, begins to experience troubling side effects. As she desperately tries to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erika Sawajiri

Mamoru works as an illustrator in Tokyo. He and his girlfriend decide to visit his hometown of Onomichi. It is a bitter-sweet homecoming, for Mamoru...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kasumi Nakane

One morning Hikaru Hino, a high school student living in Hakodate, wakes up to find she has grown a tail. She quickly cancels her first date with...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Aoi Miyazaki

In the time after Naomi’s parents suddenly die, she happens to meet and bond with the popular actor Morinori Tokito who lives in the same...

Genre: Family

Cast: Mikako Tabe

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Tamori

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

The daily lives of troubled youth in Okinawa.

Genre:

Cast: Yuta Hiraoka

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naoto Takenaka

Kei Watanabe is a fifth grade elementary school student. He has inherited the hunter's blood to hunt yōkai. To save the world from being destroyed,...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kokoro Terada

Kenzo and his high school friends live in anguish, believing that there is something that sets them apart from everybody else.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Takuya Ishida

An omnibus recorded in a short film by five film directors with the motif of the song "Kai Band".

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Cast: Makita Sports

Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anne Suzuki

Yuko Morimiya is a high school student and she lives with her stepfather Morimiya. Morimiya is her third father. Her mother, Rika, is a free spirited...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mei Nagano

The bestseller based on Kotaro Isaka, starring Kenji Sakaguchi, directed by Takashi Hara! Muto, who works for a family court, is involved in a bank...

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Cast: Kenji Sakaguchi

Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2003 Fall Special" presents five tales. 1. *Kagi (The Key) - starring Eguchi Yosuke. 2. Perfect...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Tamori

Teppei Mihogawa (Susumu Terajima), is a man who plays a "lavabo" with a guitar in the night city. a girl who was attracted by Teppei's song fell in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Susumu Terajima

Anzai, Mutoh, Hamada, Hagiwara, and Miru are in a car headed to a love hotel used by the Sugiyama Clan for money laundering. This one night only gang...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

A film dedicated to the band Fishmans and their "Long Season Revue" tour in 2005, the first since the death of frontman Shinji Sato.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kin-ichi Motegi

Five young men participate in an experiment drug test, which is known as a short-term, high-paying part-time job.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Mizuhashi

Anthology of five low-budget short films: "Nao and I", "MILD7", "LOVERS", "Strawberry Fields", "Label"

Genre: Drama

Cast: Houka Kinoshita

Takashi, an unemployed young man, is entrusted with a "catch ball shop" by a stranger he meets in the park. While accepting people's feelings through...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nao Ômori

Suzuki Koichi, a 30-something hikikomori shut-in, allows his mother to dotingly tend to his needs. When she discovers that Koichi has killed himself,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ittoku Kishibe

In this drama set on Shikina Island, a far-flung island of the Japanese archipelago located more than six hours from the Japanese main islands, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetaka Yoshioka

Hot-selling artist Sosuke Natsume suddenly declares filmmaking on the final day of his concert. Although the staff at his music agency are panicking...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Atsuro Watabe

"Shin Mimibukuro," which has greatly influenced numerous Japanese horror works such as "Ring" and "Ju-on," is finally being fully adapted into a...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Rina Uchiyama

A group of young people are attacked by a tragedy from a video that a young man borrowed from a rental video shop. The horrific scenes from the video...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ikki Ōsawa

A man forced to bear power and stripped of humanity. A woman skeptical of happiness. Takeshi Hongo, an Augmentation made by SHOCKER, and Ruriko...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sosuke Ikematsu

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

Natsuko's mother is hospitalized and only has six months to live. Her last wish is to see her father, who left her 20 years ago. Natsuko sets out to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Kouda

A TV special which contained the first 23 minutes of "Shin Kamen Rider" footage and was broadcasted on MBS in order to promote the movie.

Genre: Action

Cast: Sosuke Ikematsu

Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a...

Genre: History

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miho Kanno

Kiyoyoshi Kuga attends law school, aiming to work in the legal field as a lawyer. His childhood friend Mirei Orimoto also attends the same law...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ren Nagase

This is a horror film for adults that takes as its subject matter fairy tales from the East and West, and brings to life their brutality, bizarre...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ko Shibasaki

Shohei works as a doctor in a seaside hospital. One day, a new patient is admitted to the hospital with ovarian cancer. Shohei is surprised to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naoto Takenaka

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sadawo Abe