Movies

Tarō is a vagabond, a wannabe, an urchin, and not what anyone would call mainstream. He does not care. Do not even ask him about his background...

A commoner inherits lordship of debt-ridden Tanjousan Bun. Officials inform him of new role and substantial debts. He learns he is son of retired...

A singular deadpan comedy, The Passion tells a story of a young woman raised in a convent named Frances-ko (Mayuko Iwasa), after Saint Francesco....

Men and one woman have drifted to an uninhabited island. The only woman will try to survive by taking advantage of her own sexual attractiveness.

In her brother's apartment where he died, Yuki finds a vacuum cleaner with its cord still hooked up to the outlet. She discovers that the...

Two children, each abandoned by their families, come together in the wake of the Sarin gas attack in Tokyo. Based on the true events of the deadly...

The bus driver Nakatsuka Yukihiko saw in his dream the sexual fantasies involving one of his regular female passengers - Noriko Otomo. On the other...

A few years ago, when Tomomi (Hiroko Akune) was on the way home from school, she saw her friend Keiko (Misaki Mori) about to be raped by a man....

Transfer student Mizuki is bullied mercilessly by her classmate. Nevertheless, she is always able to maintain her composure. Kirie, who is also...

Tatsuya Kawakami's mother becomes a member of a religious group after her husband commits suicide, and makes a large donation to the organization....

When Satoshi was little, his mother Akiko always took good care of him. She was gentle, but mentally strong. However, two years ago she was diagnosed...

This new version of Nagasaki's Yami utsu shinzô (1982) is neither a remake nor a sequel. It is both those things, and at the same time it is...

Performance by Takashi Makino with music composed by Otomo Yoshihide. A tribute for Teruto Soejima and Masayuki Takayanagi.

In 2010, while covering the issue of the "secret agreement" at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the author came across diplomatic documents relating...

Set on a remote island in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, this human drama depicts the strange shared life and family rebirth of two fisherman...

A wordless man stages an unexplained hunger strike and the people surrounding him exploit his silence to further their own cause...

Takuji Kameoka is a 37-year-old bachelor whose occupation is a “miscellaneous actor”. His only interest is drinking. One day he falls in...

Twelve year old Sei has hit puberty and is quickly becoming sexually aware, sometimes not as privately as he'd like; erections in school and other...

Based on the semibiographical novel by Jun Miura, Oh My Buddha is the classic summer coming-of-age story that is burned to a crisp with teenage...

In 1970s Onomichi, Akira invites his crush Yoshioka to spend summer break at his home. But when Yoshioka falls for Meeko, tension brews beneath the...