Ryo Kase

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Watanabe

In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn't an accomplished...

Genre: Action

Cast: Junichi Okada

When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation to save him....

Genre: Action

Cast: Eriko Sato

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

A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryo Kase

Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from...

Genre: Action

Cast: Masatoshi Nagase

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Fujitani

An overworked career woman leaves her life in the city for an island vacation only to encounter eccentric local inhabitants.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Satomi Kobayashi

Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They become fascinated with a deadly jellyfish.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joe Odagiri

Godzilla has become a distant memory for Japan when the destruction of a US submarine raises alarms for Admiral Tachibana. His estranged daughter...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiharu Niiyama

A very energetic, fresh and skilful début in DV from young Tokyo actor and model. Hanging out, clubbing and drugging, a young band of friends...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yûsuke Iseya

One day a puppy comes to the house of Akari, who has just turned twelve, and was trying hard to act strong after her mother suddenly fell ill. She...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rena Tanaka

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

When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Asako, a comic book artist in her early forties, is devastated by the death of her precious cat, Saba, which kept her company for over 15 years, as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyoko Koizumi

A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since they all are in the same vicinity and by the same...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Koji Yakusho

A woman finds out her father is not her real one after her mother falls into a coma while searching for a mythical creature. She decides to meet her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kumiko Aso

Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mia Wasikowska

24-year-old OL Chie Ikeshita's (Yuriko Yoshitaka) motto is to try various things to enjoy life. Chie spends her time accordingly to her motto. Chie...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yuriko Yoshitaka

Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as they...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sho Sakurai

Two youths meet in adolescence, reconnect as adults, and though both have changed drastically, their love still remains.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aoi Miyazaki

The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuki Tanimura

Follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with the responsibilities in their lives.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chizuru Ikewaki

Three stories are told, respectively set in Tokyo, Taipei, and Shanghai. The first two stories are about a Japanese person and a Taiwanese person....

Genre: Romance

Cast: Chen Bolin

On the outset, the Okunos seem like a normal happy family with father Tadashi and his two bright sons, genetics researcher Izumi and artsy Haru. When...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryo Kase

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

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

The lives of a young cop, a sanitation worker and a brooding pharmacist violently intersect on a bus that's hijacked by a suicidal political flunky,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryo Kase

In Tokyo, actress Touko leaves the filming set of her latest project and comes across three people by random chance: she gives a ride to a man named...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satomi Kobayashi

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ryo Kase

Saya Toma is a female detective with an IQ of 201. Takeru Sebumi is a career detective with a distinguished background. They work on cases by...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Erika Toda

Yuichiro is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs over him like a pall as he wanders Japan's S&M...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryo Kase

A salaryman debates selling his grandfather's land to pay off his father's debt.

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Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

Hitoshi Nagano, who works at an electronics store, picks up a cellphone left behind by a customer and goes about a scam. He calls the person's mother...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kazuya Kamenashi

High school student Saya Toma lost her parents and younger brother in an airplane accident. Detective Akio Kondo came and told her "your family has...

Genre: Action

Cast: Erika Toda

Keisuke Kinoshita sits easily alongside Ozu, Kurosawa and Naruse as one of Japan’s most respected legends of cinema. Made to commemorate the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryo Kase

Four short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Sei Ashina

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

Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one and other eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuya Yagira

A teacher arrives in Seoul to track down a woman he is in love with. However, things change after he visits a cafe and develops a relationship with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryo Kase

Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysterious white man which are all mentioned in the movie...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Erika Toda

Mysteries are revealed like the words "Simple Plan," "Third Secret of Fatima" and also the mysterious white man which are all mentioned in the movie...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Erika Toda

Minori Oyamada, a put-upon editor at a travel-guide publishing company, is asked by an old friend to plan her forthcoming wedding party in Hawaii....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nana Eikura

'Female' is comprised of five short films adapted from five novels by female authors. Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto, Tetsuo Shinohara, Ryuichi Hiroki,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nene Otsuka

Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuya Tegoshi

There once was a hospital where patients and even doctors & nurses were all weird. Above all, Onuki, a patient who built up his company all by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayaka Wilson

A story of 6 days with 5 people gathered around a small sparkling pool at Chiang Mai in Thailand. 4 years ago, Kyoko started to live in Thailand and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satomi Kobayashi

Blessed with several large rivers, interconnected streams and springs, Japan's ancient capital, Kyoto, anoints the land with a bountiful source of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Satomi Kobayashi

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

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

Naoya and Katsuhiro are boyfriends, new in their relationship. Things are uneven at first—Naoya is open and free while Katsuhiro is cautious...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reiko Kataoka

Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism. His faith in pacifism, however, is shaken and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Tells the life story of Teru Kaneko, who was born and raised in a small coastal town. While working as a clerk in a book shop, Teru starts writing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Misato Tanaka

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

Based on the short story from the best-selling collection "Poppoya" by Jiro Asada, "The Invitation from Cinema Orion" tells the story of a couple's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rie Miyazawa

Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

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

Upon the death of their estranged father, three sisters invite their 13-year-old half sister to live with them.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruka Ayase

A biopic of seminal 20th century artist Leonard Foujita, a contemporary of Picasso and Modigliani, who was famous for mixing up European and Japanese...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joe Odagiri

Romeo, A.K.A. Kosuke Matsuyama, is a second-year high school student. A nice, normal, nonviolent type, he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shun Shioya

Kenji has a dull life. He is unmotivated at the office, and unable to break off a lukewarm relationship with his girlfriend. Then, he meets an old...

Genre:

Cast: Hiroyuki Ikeuchi

Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Takehiro Murata

Laid-back baby boomer Yuichi (Ryo Iwamatsu) is a middle-aged manga artist and singer-songwriter when he isn't at his salaryman day job or watching...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ryo Iwamatsu

While a gang of high school girls randomly beats lone men at night, the photo of a young woman who has been declared missing is used to design a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yu Aoi

An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rin Takanashi

Yakuza Naoki Sando (Yosuke Natsuki) discovers his daughter Hiroko (Kumi Kaneko) in bed with his adopted son Kohji (Yusuke Iseya). Three years later,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yûsuke Iseya

Rei Kiriyama is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi player when he was in middle school. He lives by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on the the low pay he receives from his small town...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

Youngsters called Kildren, who are destined to live eternally in their adolescence. The Kildren are conscious that every day could be the last,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Rinko Kikuchi

Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andrew Garfield

The time spent between professional Shogi player Kiriyama and his three stories helps to heal his wounds. As he prepares to secure another win in an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki

In 1974, Morikazu is 94 years old and his wife Hideko is 76 years old. They live at a house in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. The garden at their home is full of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

Set one year after the fight between detectives Saya Toma, Takeru Sebumi, and Satoshi Chii. More confrontations ensues between the detectives at the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Erika Toda

Suzuki Koichi, a 30-something hikikomori shut-in, allows his mother to dotingly tend to his needs. When she discovers that Koichi has killed himself,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ittoku Kishibe

A compelling human drama about the growing social problems and public responsibilities regarding the welfare and ethical treatment of neglected dogs...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryo Kase

A famous opera singer is held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after performing at a Japanese businessman's lavish birthday party....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julianne Moore

A young Japanese woman named Yoko finds her cautious and insular nature tested when she travels to Uzbekistan to shoot the latest episode of her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Atsuko Maeda

Sisters "Manamo" and "Minamo" live separately in Hiroshima and London since the divorce of their parents. The elder sister Manamo lives in Hiroshima...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kaela Kimura

An eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a village population forty-seven in the mountains...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tayoko Shiojiri

War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Johnny Depp

The making of the movie "Nobody Knows" by award-winning director Hirokazu Kore-eda.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Yuya Yagira

Short film directed by Kurosawa Kiyoshi as part of the 学校の怪談物の怪スペシャル series centered around the legend of Hanako san.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ryo Kase

The bestseller based on Kotaro Isaka, starring Kenji Sakaguchi, directed by Takashi Hara! Muto, who works for a family court, is involved in a bank...

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Cast: Kenji Sakaguchi

Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed for lack of references, Haruko's strong accent...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mone Kamishiraishi

Japanese TV movie from 2003

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erika Sawajiri

Documentary with behind-the-scenes footage on the set of Abbas Kiarostomi's 2012 film "Like Someone in Love" with narration by the director.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Abbas Kiarostami

Second installment of omnibus series Deka Matsuri. 10 films made under the conditions "The main character must be a female detective" "the film must...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Aki Miyata

Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a...

Genre: History

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

"Kaibyo Densetsu" - Maki (Chizuru Ikewaki), who finds it strange that her best friend appears as a living spirit, goes to check on her. "Nanika ga...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Naoto Takenaka