Hirofumi Arai

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

Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda

A psychologically thrilling portrait of the severe dysfunction behind a family clinging to decorum and pride.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joe Odagiri

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 psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takako Matsu

Based on the Japanese legend of 15th century adventurer, Oguri Hangan Daisukeshige, Toyoda places us in a surreal world of tattooed Japanese slave...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakamura

Juzo Murasaki is a young man traumatized by his experience of bullying at school. He returns to his hometown and takes a job on a building site with...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Shido Nakamura

Set one year after the drama series "Moteki." 31-year-old Yukiyo Fujimoto doesn't have money, dreams or a girlfriend. He has left his job at a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Mirai Moriyama

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

As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Kenta, a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar, when he meets a man in a Hawaiian shirt named Yamaki. He invites...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yûko Takeuchi

In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

Professional killer Ken (Hirofumi Arai) is trying to break away from the yakuza. Taking up work at a local motorcycle shop, he forges a new life...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hirofumi Arai

A young girl named Kiki must leave her home for a year to begin training in witchcraft. She leaves on her broom, but first says goodbye to her...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Fuka Koshiba

Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high school's grounds. The dog, named Kuro, stays at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

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

A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

A room in a fancy downtown apartment. The evening orgy kicks off with eight men and women meeting for the first time, including an unemployed guy who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sosuke Ikematsu

A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World War II. During their research into his life, they...

Genre: War

Cast: Junichi Okada

A story about a hitman named Hayamada who carries a distinctive red gun.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nagase

"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

Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lily Franky

Toru grew up in alpine countryside around Mount Tate. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the mountain with his father to prepare their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Matsuyama

On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda

In the mountain hot springs of Izu, Japan, a love triangle is waiting to happen. It is the late 1930s when the paths of a stunning woman fleeing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi

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

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...

Genre:

Cast: Shinobu Terajima

The anthology film R246 Story centers around the major Japanese highway Route 246. Originating in Chiyoda Ward's Miyakezaka district, the 122.7...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Genki Sudo

A college senior (Mirai Moriyama) takes a bicycle trip for his last summer vacation. On his trip he comes across drive-in "HOUSE475" and its manager...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

Slacker Ichiko gets into a fight with her younger sister and begins to live on her own, working the late shift at a 100 yen shop. On her way home,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sakura Ando

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

Tobio Kurosawa (Ryuta Sato), who has been part of a manzai (stand up comedy) duo for ten years, finds himself in trouble after his partner Tamotsu...

Genre:

Cast: Ryuta Sato

Set in the early 1990's, after The Persian Gulf War began, a 30 year old man passes himself off as Captain Kuhio a pilot for an American Special...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Masato Sakai

The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyoko Koizumi

When a gold ingot and a severed human head are discovered in a small provincial town, the rush to solve the curious case wavers between tragic and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hirofumi Arai

Mirai Suzuki (Yuko Oshima) becomes responsible for her mother's debt which is owed to loan shark Kaoru Ushijima (Takayuki Yamada). To begin paying...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takayuki Yamada

Five years after a hit-and-run accident kills his wife, a distraught metalworker comes face to face with the man behind the steering wheel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masato Sakai

A smart high school student falls in love with her English teacher after she receives one-on-one tutoring from him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomohisa Yamashita

The world's first human-android acting duo, called Android Theater Project, is the collaborative brainchild of noted Japanese playwright Oriza Hirata...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bryerly Long

Prosecutor Kohei Kuryu takes charge of a case with a foreign embassy possessing the key to solve the case. Due to the extraterritoriality involving...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Takuya Kimura

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

Jam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Natsuko Akiyama

This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

To exact revenge, the Liar Game office is revived. The target is only one person: Shin'ichi Akiyama. Because of new heroine Shinomiya, Shin'ichi, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shota Matsuda

A rookie editor Hatsumi Takeda becomes an editor of Fujio Akatsuka who is known as the king of gag manga. Hanging out with her, Akatsuka sees through...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

When Mutta was 12-years-old and Hibito was 9-years-old the two brothers saw what they thought was an UFO flying towards the moon. They made a pact...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shun Oguri

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

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

Moritaka Mashiro doesn't want to follow in the path of his uncle who worked as a manga artist, but ultimately died because of exhaustion. Moritaka...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeru Satoh

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ken Yasuda

Naoki works as a not so popular host at the host club Akegarasu in Shinagawa, Tokyo. His repayment day is coming soon and he has prepared 10 million...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Masaki Suda

Atsuto was abandoned by his mother when he was young. He now works in the lost and found department at the Hoshigaoka Station. He spends his days...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomoya Nakamura

Up-and-coming manzai stand-up comedy duo Emi-Abi has lost consummate funny man Unno (a surprisingly touching Tomoya Maeno) to an accident, leaving...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryu Morioka

A timid young woman who lives with her domineering mother accepts an Adult Video scout's offer to "become somebody else" by performing in porn...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norie Yasui

The Katsuragi Household that runs a small store may appear serene. But as the younger son Minoru commits a murder on the street, the family is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hirofumi Arai

Kenji and Aya spend their summer days in a Hotel. While she is doing her own thing, he tries to work on his novel. But then a few strange hotel guest...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Six directors picked a favorite song by Japanese punk rock band "The Blue Hearts" and made a short film inspired by the song.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kiko Mizuhara

Tsuneo is a university student working part-time in a mah-jong parlour. Lately the customers have been talking about an old lady who pushes a baby...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

News about the disappearance of panties is still being covered every day. Kyosuke still wears Aiko Completo's panties to battle evil. Meanwhile, Aiko...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryohei Suzuki

Born a powerful psychic, high schooler Kusuo Saiki craves the simple life. But the weirdos in his class make it difficult to conceal his abilities.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kento Yamazaki

During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct of his leader. Years after, his dying wife wish...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Junichi Okada

Koroki is a 35-year old man who admires Japanese singer-songwriter Tamio Okuda and aspires to live like him. He works as an editor at the lifestyle...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

In an era where aliens have invaded and taken over feudal Tokyo, a young samurai finds work however he can.

Genre: Action

Cast: Shun Oguri

Hard-working Yuria runs a small printing company. Despite her best efforts, she can’t seem to attract the attention of Kazunari, a polite yet...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masataka Kubota

The suicide of a female teacher 15 years ago was actually a murder. A new investigation team, spearheaded by Mizorogi, is formed based on new...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Takaya Kamikawa

Shoji Segawa was a quiet and inconspicuous boy, but, for the first time, he is recognized by people after winning the National Middle School Shogi...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda

A major advertising festival is held each year to determine the best television commercial in the world. A rookie ad man at a big advertising company...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

Ittetsu and Maitsuko are married, but they are not just any normal couple. They robbed a bank and took a cool million or two from the capitalists....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi

One of the hottest selling tickets in town is to see the hugely popular “rakugoka”, or comic storyteller, Danshun. Danshun himself was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazunari Ninomiya

After two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shota Sometani

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuiko Kariya

Only 3 days after A-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a streetcar started running through the town burned to the ground. The drivers were teenage girls...

Genre: War

Cast: Yuina Kuroshima

A Crowd of Three tells the story of two men, Kenta & Jun, who grew up as almost brothers at a children's facility. Kenta & Jun now works as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kengo Kora

Yuriko, a daughter of Yakudza boss is lost in Russia. Here she finds Alexey - a young man who is trying to help her.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chika Arakawa

Haru is a rather cool fifth-grade elementary school student who shares the same tastes as her mother’s younger sister Yuko (Kaho) and can tell...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki