Sabu Kawahara

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

A deaf garbage collector happens upon a broken and discarded surfboard. The discovery plants in him dreams of becoming a surf champion. Encouraged by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claude Maki

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiroko Yakushimaru

Ryoko leaves the chaos of her dorm for the peace and quiet of her own place because she wants to keep her relationship with a doctor at Murata...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Etsuko Hara

Three strangers gather in search of an elusive cherry blossom. The tree hardly matters after a while, though, as they stumble into one funny and...

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Cast: Jun'ichi Kômoto

After the uprising at Wushe, Mona Rudao faces a guerrilla war against the militarily superior Japanese and Seediq clans. He and his followers must...

Genre: Action

Cast: Nolay Piho

Chizuru, a typical Japanese young female office worker, is socially clumsy, poor at romance and unhappy with her job. Being weary from a busy and...

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Cast: Rosa Kato

A year after the celebrated cracking of “The Glorious Team Batista” case, the talented medical staff at Tojo University Hospital once...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yûko Takeuchi

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, in 1940, Lieutenant Kurokawa returns home as a honored and decorated soldier but deprived of his arms and legs...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinobu Terajima

After watching her friend fall from a building a depressed high school girl runs away from home. When she is picked up by a nice guy on a phone date...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Asako Maekawa

A drunk office worker spots a discarded doll in the trash and decides to bring it home. When the doll mysteriously comes to life as a normal sized...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yûko Mizushima

Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Tanaka

When corporate executives are blackmailed into public displays of nudity on the busy streets of Shinjuku, the big guns are called out to locate...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kippei Shiina

It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yasufumi Hayashi

Youngsters find work as part-time festival street vendors and flourish in work, friendship and love.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masaya Kato

Three people whose lives have taken a turn for the worse retreat into a world of erotic dreams made flesh in this drama from director Sai Yoichi. An...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Yuki Kazamatsuri

Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and serving the lively residents of his small hometown.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

In a bid to bring back life to their town after seeing its population dwindle in recent years, the manager of a shopping mall in northern Saitama...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Inoue

Skinless Night (which borrows its title from a best-selling brand of condoms) centers on the 33-year-old Kayama Mutsuro, who supports his wife, child...

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Cast: Hitoshi Ishikawa

Urushibara Kazuki heads to Kyoto to explore the secret of his wife, Saeko, who is hospitalized for terminal cancer.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ren Osugi

The reasonable happy life of an unmarried librarian goes to hell after she meets a pregnant young woman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yasuko Utakawa

Sukiyaki can be viewed two ways, a popular Japanese cuisine or a gathering of a family. This heart-warming comedy takes place in Yokohama, where the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Aki Agarita

A fifteen year old boy travels through the Amagi Pass, he encounters some strange people, one of them is the geisha Ozuka Hana. After a murder takes...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kazunari Ninomiya

An indigenous clan-based people living in harmony with nature find their way of life threatened when violent interlopers from another culture arrive,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nolay Piho

Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Masaaki Daimon

It is the second work of the Oita trilogy of Obayashi . Following " Nigori Snow ", Ise Masazo draws a song written by composers and songwriter...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshio Kakei

Koichi and Mariko are a married couple. Both husband and wife have their own careers. Koichi is a civil servant who returns home on time, while...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryōko Watanabe

This time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence to divert Kousuke's attention on the case. Suspicion...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koji Ishizaka

Roller skating boy band Hikaru GENJI face a series of strange events after a baby one day suddenly appears in their dormitory.

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Cast: Kazumi Morohoshi

Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Kishida

The unexpected death of Fujishima Motoharu, president of a medium-sized firm, triggers a fierce battle over his estate inheritance among family...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

A group of friends get together to remember a decessed classmate. One of them is a detective who loves one of the women. But the woman is in love the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hitoshi Ozawa

"Pika*nchi Life Is Hard Dakedo Happy" centers around five friends who are residents in a Tokyo apartment complex. Now senior high school students,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jun Matsumoto

Juri swears revenge on her brother after deciding that he is responsible for the murder of their parents . . . but otherwise lives a normal and happy...

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Cast: Anna Tsuchiya

An erotic bizarre action in which the three sisters of the Ijuin family, descendants of Kunoichi, fight against the hostile Mao Noichi clan.

Genre: Action

Cast: Mickey Curtis

Japanese anthology follows the depressing lives of several people just trying to keep going in a nihilistic world. Movie version of Kosuke...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shuji Kashiwabara

The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

#6 in the King of Minami series, following "Ginjiro vs. Liquidator."

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Cast: Riki Takeuchi

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Kasumi is in the midst of an affair with Ishiyama, one of her husband's clients. When Kasumi and her family visit Ishiyama's villa in Hokkaido, she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuki Amami

Filled with guilt over his forbidden desires, a young man leaves home and his studies. He finds a new smaller place to stay, a low-paying but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Based on a manga that approaches the hearts of sick people living in a distorted modern age. The neat painting teacher and S&M Queen, Ruriko, will...

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Cast: Yoko Natsuki

Momoko Watanabe—a student who, upon visiting a shrine in order to wish good luck on a friend of hers, witnesses a murder in the forest...and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Momoko Kikuchi

A trading company employee's girlfriend loses her memory while on a trip. In place of the friend who was supposed to have accompanied her the whole...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Nagisa Katahira

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Tsuyoshi Domoto

A resilient clam diver lives way she wants despite hostile villagers and the various men that share her bedroom.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akiko Hyûga

A female prisoner escapes from the law but she can’t escape from her carnal desires.

Genre: Action

Cast: Maiko Kazama

Genre: Horror

Cast: Noboru Mitani

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Cast: Kimiko Yoshimiya

A martial arts master/detective investigates a series of murders and helps a deaf bathhouse attendant, Hisako.

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuya Takeda

Adult video store clerk, Issa, feels like a total loser after losing his job and being dumped by his girlfriend. He is blessed by a stroke of luck...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hassei Takano

When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

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

Third "The Story of Terror" film by Junji Inagawa.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Junji Inagawa

[INTERNATIONAL VERSION] Mouna Rudo was born and raised among the Seediq people, an indigenous tribe in Taiwan, and as he grew to be a man he became...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nolay Piho

Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area whose inhabitants are mainly from Okinawa. Upon...

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Cast: Mitsuko Baisho

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Cast: Toshinobu Matsuo