Masato Hagiwara

The modern-day story of a man searching for a friend who has mysteriously disappeared, with a magical tale involving strange creatures, a heartbroken...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Shinji Takeda

In a post-war alternative timeline, Japan is divided into the North, controlled by the Union, and the South, controlled by the United States. A...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Hidetaka Yoshioka

A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and claims to have had no control over their...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Keiko who leads a lonely life as a fortune teller on the streets meets Goro, a leader of the con-artists. One day, Goro witnesses a group of men...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Fujiwara

A radio DJ, Mai starts a new program called, "Love Letters from the Drawer" to assist people who need an extra push to send out their simple yet very...

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Cast: Takako Tokiwa

A man gets involved in a kidnapping scheme with the wife of a wealthy businessman. She lets herself be tied up and confined in his house while he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masato Hagiwara

Based on the true story of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada who has spent over 40 years incarcerated on death row. Iwao Hakamada was arrested...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Masato Hagiwara

A Korean taxi-driver interacts both humorously and tragically with his customers and employers in '90s Tokyo.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Goro Kishitani

A cantankerous but loveable high school teacher teaches a night school in a poor neighborhood for adult students on the fringes of Japanese society.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

Story of Rikidozan, a sumo wrestler who can only achieve limited success in Japan because he's half Korean. But when Rikidozan goes to the United...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sol Kyung-gu

Physician Koichiro Kiby loses interest in work and begins drinking in a local park after the death of his wife. One day he encounters a girl who...

Genre: Action

Cast: Mami Yamasaki

Making her way through life by forming superficial relationships, Yoko keeps everyone at arm's length, whether it's her father and stepmother or...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yo Hitoto

Five young musicians, each harboring painful memories, are assembled to entertain American soldiers at an Enlisted Men's Club. Tensions emerge...

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Cast: Masato Hagiwara

Japanese film directed by Jinsei Tsuji

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Cast: Masato Hagiwara

Kasumi Sawaki (Honami Suzuki) works for a top-ranked newspaper publishing company as a capable economic reporter. Speaking six languages fluently,...

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Cast: Honami Suzuki

Eight love stories start and end in an amusement park.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Miho Kanno

Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yosuke Kubozuka

Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

Set in the year 2017, the Japanese government attempts to secretly control the DNA of its people. Ryuhei Kagura is a top scientist in the field of...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kazunari Ninomiya

Based on Saibara Rieko's manga, Ike-chan to Boku (a.k.a. Good Bye My Secret Friend) tells the heartfelt story of a young boy named Toshio and his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yu Aoi

Koichiro Shimada is sent to a research facility in Kenya, Africa by a teaching hospital in Japan. He encounters a desperate situation and decides to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takao Osawa

As the monk Ryuun, whose past and origin make him prone to internal and external fits, leaves the temple towards Tokyo, he gets to catch a glimpse of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi

Kazuo encounters a religious group travelling around Japan performing "miracles". He discovers they are fakes, but is intrigued by the showmanship of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Masato Hagiwara

Leon, who has succeeded the name of Golden Knight "GARO," devotes himself to train a young Makai Knight for the next generation, together with Prince...

Genre: Action

Cast: Katsuhito Nomura

In 2012, Atsuya and his 2 childhood friends do something bad and run into an old general store. They decide to stay there until the morning. Late...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Ryosuke Yamada

Erika Ichinose, a clinical psychologist, is recruited by the National Police Agency in an attempt to stay one step ahead of a bomb terrorist.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Kyoko Fukada

‘My dad saw a monster here. When he was a kid.’ · ‘A monster?’ · ‘Yeah, a monster. It moves between this...

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Cast: Hizuki Tanaka

Near the slopes of Mount Fuji, there is a so called suicide forest, an infamous place where people who are tires of living have their last breath of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masato Hagiwara

Investigator Yonezawa is searching images from the Tokyo Big City Marathon, targeted for a terrorist bomb attack. Within the images he sees his...

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Cast: Rokkaku Seiji

Hisashi Tanaka is a medical student in Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. He does volunteer work and gets to know Yasuaki Kano at the hospital. Yasuaki Kano...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yo Oizumi

Shima (Mirei Kiritani) is a second year high school student. She has already become the youngest ever winner of a "new writer award" for poetry. Yet,...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Mirei Kiritani

Hinata Mochizuki (Arisa Mizuki) is a superstar in the pop music scene, and Kenta Yamabe (Masato Hagiwara) is a very ordinary office worker. One day,...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Arisa Mizuki

This documentary-style film recreates the infamous Asama Sanso Incident of 1972 wherein an extreme faction of the Students Allied Red Army holed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masato Hagiwara

Set in the near future of Japan with the educational system nearing collapse. To rehabilitate the lawlessness at public schools and its troubled...

Genre: Action

Cast: Taisuke Fujigaya

A young couple is devastated when their son is killed by a falling tree during a windstorm. As the distraught father begins to look for answers into...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

With a contagious sense of abandon, three young adults' lives become intimately entangled over the course of a long summer in Hakodate, Hokkaido.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tasuku Emoto

Hana is a nineteen-year old expectant mother. She travels with her grandmother's ashes to her grandmother's house. Hana's mother, who gave birth to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aya Okamoto

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

A young bioarchaeologist Yukisuke is attracted to a girl Koyomi, who runs a small stand of taiyaki pastry that he often buys. Koyomi is hospitalized,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Taiga Nakano

University students Yuri and Masato accept a peculiar invitation to a campground party, but things turn deadly when a cursed doll starts to attack.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Nao Kosaka

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region...

Genre: History

Cast: Ken Watanabe

A directionless young man, recently released from prison, tries to make a new start in life as a boxer...

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Cast: Takeshi Yamato

Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maki Sakai

Young women disappear one after another in drizzling rain. They all hear the “cursed song” of the Cage Song before they vanish into thin...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Eiji Wentz

An office lady (Yasuko Tomita) who has a bitter memory of Christmas Eve breaks up with her affair partner (Shoji Sadaoka) and finds a new love.

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Cast: Yasuko Tomita

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Cast: Alice Hirose

In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Watanabe

Ai has had a crush forever on her classmate Tatoe. When she finds out that Tatoe is in a secret relationship with another girl, she sets out to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna Yamada

Prodded by a friend request, a feckless forty-something recalls his past relationships from the 90s onward, looking for his vanished hopes and dreams.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mirai Moriyama

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Cast: Ryoko Kuninaka

Gifted thief Lupin the Third scores a "magic lamp" and finds it contains a genie. However, after the clock strikes 7 p.m., he can't seem to remember...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kanichi Kurita

This story follows the journey of an ill-fated young man whose ambition is to be a professional antiques dealer. A hard-up young man, who makes his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Min Tanaka

Shinichi Tominaga is a prosecutor, newly appointed to the special investigation division for the Tokyo district prosecutors' office. He is currently...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Tamaki

Reiko and Tetsuya continue to live together. Reiko, who was informed by Kyoko that she was engaged to Takada, pretended not to be interested in her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yasuko Matsuyuki

Together with Shimada Akira (Hagiwara Masato), the last appointed governor of Okinawa during the war, Arai Taizo (Murakami Jun), the chief of police...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masato Hagiwara

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Cast: Hiroshi Tamaki

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Cast: Akari Suda

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masato Hagiwara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Suzuka Ohgo

A scramble of love and friendship that unfolds painfully and refreshingly, mainly on a university campus. A vivid spectacle of youth runs at full...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Masato Hagiwara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsubasa Nakagawa

Just when Hideki thinks he will lose his virginity, he gets hit by a car, and dies. God gives him a 2nd chance by placing his mind into the body of...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Shinobu Nakayama

No one seems to understand Nakami. His nights are restless, his days sleepy, and his time at school is isolating. Yet all that seems to change when...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nana Mori

A pair of siblings visit a friend in a remote town with a strange effect on its inhabitants; when they die, they transform into gravestones.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Atsuko Sakurai

Matsunaga Yasuzaemon was a man called “Electricity Monster”. The post-war recovery and high economic growth serve as the basis for him to...

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Cast: Kotaro Yoshida

One day, a deaf photographer, Miki Yamashina, happens to meet a young man, Makoto Shibata, on the street. Shibata had been averse to human contact...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akiko Oshidari

Childhood friends Hinata and Hayato are training hard in kendo for their final high school inter-high school competition. One day, Hinata is scouted...

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Cast: Rintaro Mizusawa

Despite losing her parents at age three in a car accident, Toko experiences an idyllic childhood thanks to her uncle, who raises her. She dreams of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kasumi Arimura

One family changes as they join a religious group. Kinoshita Haruka is forced to engage in her religious activities by her mother, Aiko, who is an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuumi Kawai

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Cast: Shohei Uno

A widow and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku people are forced to reside. The two boys are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naoko Ohtani

The last years of a painter, a tattoo artist, and a man who always pursues beauty regardless of authenticity. Why does the man insist that even his...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Masahiro Motoki