Machiko Ono

A young woman working at a retirement home takes an elderly man living there on an excursion into the countryside, but the two wind up stranded in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Ono

An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Susumu Terajima

On August 12, 1985, a jumbo jet crashes, causing 520 fatalities, making the accident the biggest single-plane accident in the world. The local press...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinichi Tsutsumi

Depicts the life of a family in a remote Japanese timber village. Family head Tahara Kozo lives with his mother Sachiko, wife Yasuyo, nephew Eisuke...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Kunimura

The masterpiece of Shino Sakuragi, who won the 149th Naoki Prize for "HOTEL ROYAL" in 2013, is now a motion picture. A lawyer burdened with an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koichi Sato

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

Record shop clerk and aspiring DJ Tsutomu searches for his masculinity when challenged to a kendo duel.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ryo Kase

In the year 1590, the mighty warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is close to fulfilling his ambition of unifying all of Japan under his banner when he comes...

Genre: History

Cast: Mansai Nomura

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masaharu Fukuyama

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

A friend of the detective has been is murdered. During the investigation, he comes across a source which tells him that his friend was murdered for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yo Oizumi

A story about a woman from Yanaka Village, Tochigi Prefecture, which was abolished by the government due to the Ashio Copper Mine pollution incident...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Ono

Naomi Kawase collaborates with Shinya Arimoto, a Taiyo award-winning photographer she knows from university, to create a photo album of Machiko Ono...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Shinya Arimoto

22-year old secretary Kazuko first bumps into Tamaki on the way back from work. Tamaki is crawling along the sidewalk on crutches at a snail's pace,...

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Cast: Machiko Ono

In the early morning of January 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck, and Tadao Furuichi (Hidekazu Akai), who was running a camera...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidekazu Akai

In 2011, top-secret data on nuclear power is stolen from a university facility. At the same time, leaked information comes in about enriched uranium...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Atsuro Watabe

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

Tasuku Okano is a diligent young man who was raised by decent family. He works as a new teacher at an elementary school. Tasuko deals with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kengo Kora

A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maya Banno

A samurai Sakunosuke gets an order from clan chamberlain to kill another samurai who is married with his own younger sister. As a loyal samurai he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noriyuki Higashiyama

In the inner chambers of the Shugun's castle, 3,000 men attempt to vie for the affection of the female shogun. Based on the 4th-6th volumes in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masato Sakai

In rural Japan, the survivors of a tragedy converge and attempt to overcome their damaged selves, all while a serial killer is on the loose.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by someone or committed suicide.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryoko Fujino

A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by someone or committed suicide.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Ryoko Fujino

Sachiko runs a business in Japan, but her business fails. She then escapes to Bali. There, Sachiko meets rich Japanese man Aniki. From him, Sachiko...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shinichi Tsutsumi

After dying in a bus crash and falling to hell, high schooler Daisuke joins a demonic rock band so he can be reincarnated back into the mortal world.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Tomoya Nagase

The story is set in Chiran, Kagoshima, the site of a secret base used to launch kamikaze missions during the war. At the time, a group of young girls...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroki Narimiya

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masato Sakai

Rieko Sugita, a young and beautiful hairdresser who happens to visit a bedding shop owned by Yoshitaro (Emoto) and the latter becomes so besotted...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Machiko Ono

Yukihiko Nishino is very popular with women, but, in the end, he is always dumped by a woman. Yukihiko seeks out his true love.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yutaka Takenouchi

Ryoro Kurojima (Sadao Abe) is the director of a Tokyo apology center. His job is to teach others how to apologize. Ryoro Kurojima solves problems by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sadawo Abe

Story of the last assistant doctor in Okinawa.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masato Sakai

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

Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and eventually marries her. Not longer after their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shinobu Otake

Makoto Fukamachi is a Japanese cameraman. He finds an old camera on a backstreet of Nepal. The camera might possibly solve the mystery of whether...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Hiroshi Abe

Hi no Sakana (火の魚, Fish of the Fire) is a Japanese novel by Murō Saisei; it was first published in 1960, and was later adapted into a single...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Two young men arrive at a deserted countryside train station. They are Tsuboi and Kinoshita, amateur filmmakers on their way to a meeting with a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keishi Nagatsuka

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

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

When Suei was little, his mother had an affair with a young man who lived next door. Suei's mother and the young man killed themselves by using...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tasuku Emoto

The Bastard and the Beautiful World is an omnibus film consisting of four episodes. Fujiko is running as fast as she can, being chased after by a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

In the year 1926, Machiko Hasegawa is a 6-year-old child and lives in Fukuoka. She is a bright girl, who enjoys playing outdoors. At home, she loves...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Ono

Two tiny, aquatic humanoids search for their missing father, a boy battles a lethal allergy to eggs, and an invisible salaryman tries to become a...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Min Tanaka

Detective Ryoko Kozuki receives a demotion after having an affair with a superior. She succeeds in arresting a rapist in an undercover operation that...

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Cast: Machiko Ono

Three strangers get a strange feeling that something is "calling them." Minor things about their daily lives begin to have significance to them....

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Cast: Machiko Ono

Poet Okachimachi Kaito makes his directing debut. Featuring lead actress Ono Machiko, who starred in The Mourning Forest (Mogari no Mori) and is also...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Machiko Ono

Typically thieves enter a house, steal things and get out. This time an unsuspecting thief enters a home to steal as much as he can and instead is...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Masayoshi Yamazaki

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

A tale of two islands and growing up as a stranger in a strange land, told with an artistry that recalls Hou Hsiao-Hsien at his best. Based on...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Ono

Tomoko Ashimura types on a computer her memory of her late husband Goro, but Tomoko Ashimura succumbs to a disease. On behalf of Tomoko Ashimura, her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Ono

Taken in by the yakuza at a young age, Kenji swears allegiance to his old-school boss, pledging to adhere to the family code amid ever-changing times.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Go Ayano

Kaoru, a wealthy woman whose youth is fading, abandons the hustle and bustle of the city to live a peaceful life in a house on the coast. There she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyoka Suzuki

A woman and her child get trapped underground while investigators look for them.

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Cast: Machiko Ono

Genre: Family

Cast: Yoko Maki

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Cast: Ken Yasuda

Youth fantasy love story starring idol Kazue Fukiishi.

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Cast: Kazue Fukiishi

3 women are happy and busy raising their boys named Yu. Due to some little thing, their lives fall apart. Their anger and anxiety unconsciously head...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miho Kanno

The studio of potter Seisho Kuniyoshi is deep in the mountains, surrounded by greenery, where he devotes every day to making pottery. One day, a girl...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Murakami

7 years ago, Yoichi died in a traffic accident. His wife Ryoko did not receive compensation from her husband's death. She has since raised her son...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Ono

Amiko isn't like other children. Her endless energy makes her an outcast at school and gets her in trouble at home. When a painful family loss...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kana Osawa

A young music lover named Asano Daiyoshi died at the young age of 20. In that fact, there is a feeling that a miracle that cannot be imagined...

Genre: Music

Cast: Fuju Kamio

Hitomi Saito has been climbing the ranks for years and is set to direct an anime series for the first time, while brilliant director Chiharu Oji is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Riho Yoshioka

Akiko quit being a piano teacher and has been spending her days aimlessly without setting any goals for herself. One night on New Year’s Eve,...

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Cast: Mao Inoue

The story takes place during a summer of continuous sunshine when water supply restrictions are issued in the city. Shunsaku Iwakiri works for the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toma Ikuta

Nagasaki in 1986. Hisada, who lives with her affectionate parents and her younger brother, although there are many quarrels between couples, is a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Banke Ichiro

"There are many things that I don't like. The traffic jam on the way to Naha, my debt-ridden father, my best friend's boyfriend, milk, and my...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Misaki Hattori

Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2002 Spring Special" presents five tales. 1. Mushi Game (Ignore the Game) - starring Uchiyama Rina...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Tamori

Renowned Japanese poet Shuntaro Tanikawa teams with former "rock chick" Wakako Kaku to craft this pensive love story told almost entirely in still...

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Cast: Teruyuki Kagawa

Based on a novel of by Nukui Tokuro, Hohoemu Hito tells the story of Nito Toshimi who, after graduating from Japan’s most difficult university...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tori Matsuzaka

Tomiko, a middle-aged woman, waits patiently for her husband, who disappeared thirty years ago, to return. She lives alone in a declining fishing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yûko Tanaka

"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

Chieri is a sixth grade girl whose only friend is a stuffed toy named Cherry, which she found while hiding in the cellar during her father's funeral....

Genre: Animation

Cast: Natsumi Takamori

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tasuku Emoto

Four sisters discover that their elderly father is having an affair. When a letter is published in the newspaper detailing the affair, they try to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rie Miyazawa

Winner of the 47th Creative TV Drama Award. Through the story of a high school girl with "sensory sensitivity" who tries to create a place for...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Ami Touma

The story tells of the granddaughter of the political family Uta, who is kidnapped. The kidnappers' demand is not money, but for the politician to...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kento Nakajima

A boy battles a lethal allergy to eggs.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Machiko Ono

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tasuku Emoto