Jun Murakami

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

Filmed somewhat in documentary style, it follows three girls over the span of one day and night in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Jonko runs a group...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hitomi Sato

When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masahiro Motoki

Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days then decide either to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Takeshi Kaneshiro

The secret warriors of feudal Japan were the ninja. Sent on impossible missions, the ninja were trained to work in shadows, gather information and...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Masanobu Ando

A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young woman who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorrow is my birthday" everyday. He tries to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shunji Iwai

After four years overseas, Shozo returns to Japan to avenge his yakuza boss who was assassinated by his own treacherous top man, Kurawaki. The...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tak Sakaguchi

An introverted schoolgirl falls in love and starts a relationship with one of her classmates. Set in a small seaside town in Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mikako Ichikawa

An old couple, their only son, the son's wife, a young man and his lover live peacefully in a village. Then, a terrifying earthquake strikes that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

From the late 1950s through the '70s, more than 90,000 of the ethnic Koreans in Japan emigrated to North Korea, a country that promised them...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sakura Ando

Set towards the end of World War II, Nomura (Masatoshi Nagase) is a writer who is in despair. A woman works in bar and is a former prostitute. Many...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noriko Eguchi

Yokubo from director Tetsuo Shinohara is based off of the award-winning love story by Mariko Koike. A young man searching for physical comfort and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuka Itaya

A young woman leaves her job and lover in Japan to start a new life in Thailand.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyoko Hasegawa

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

Nanako returns to her hometown on the tiny island of Aguni to meet her grandmother Nabbie. However, when Nanako's ferry arrives, it is also carrying...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Naomi Nishida

Kurosaki is an erotic novelist who uses his editor and a hired model to act out scenarios in his living room to use for inspiration in his writing....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ren Osugi

Three stories, depicted in three different styles, unfold in three locations: "Kyoto", a lyrical improvised drama based on documentar y footage...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jun Murakami

On the Japanese island of Amami, despite lacking parental guidance, Kaito and his girlfriend Kyoko try to find their place in the world. While Kaito...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nijiro Murakami

Yukio is a typical high school student in every way except that he's an only child in a family of five. This is because he has four fathers, each...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Masaki Okada

Rei is a freelance writer embattled by personal demons. She hears voices in her head, and has sleeping problems, eating disorders and drinks...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinobu Terajima

Kazu attacks a bar in Kabukicho, a Tokyo red-light district, and flees to his hometown with abducts Machiko, a pole dancer he's been stuck on. They...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kengo Kora

Hotel Hibiscus is the story of one very young energetic girl named Mieko and her internatioanl family who live in Okinawa. They live in a run down...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Honami Kurashita

When three older men buy a 17-year-old schoolgirl named Chikako for a year's-worth of sexual services -- her motivation, aside from money, is never...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nozomi Ando

"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

Five young musicians, each harboring painful memories, are assembled to entertain American soldiers at an Enlisted Men's Club. Tensions emerge...

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Cast: Masato Hagiwara

Low-profile theater troop actor Mutsugoro Suzuki begins an oneiric journey back to his hometown, marked by his quest to find the one responsible of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsushi Tanaka

the story of a vagrant (Ishibashi) who arrives in a town in Hokkaido. With only a threadbare suit, an old pair of sneakers and a bag containing all...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryo Ishibashi

Shuichi had a motorcycle accident 4 years ago. Because of the accident, he lost the last year of his memory. One day, at a friend's wedding, Shuichi...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Tadayoshi Okura

Set at the edge of the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, with its beautiful scenic views, the film revolves around two women from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiromi Nagasaku

In the early 1200s, Dogen brought Chinese Zen philosophy to Japan, and established the Japanese Zen school of Buddhism. He taught that a person was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kantarô Nakamura

Set during the Edo Period, a young man from a noble family meets a young woman under a special tree called "Raiou" (the tree was struck by lightning...

Genre: History

Cast: Yu Aoi

Kageko, a teacher in a small mountain village with a thriving Japanese paper industry, is visited by a former student, who proposes a plan to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Baisho

Three storylines interweave in Border Line. Kurosawa (Murakami Jun) finds himself driving a taciturn young man named Matsuda (Sawaki Tetsu) halfway...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsu Sawaki

In this startling psychological thriller from Japan, Mami (Hijiri Kojima) is a teacher who meets Tomo (Koji Chihara), a psychotic criminal with a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chihara Junia

A successful businessman and his alcoholic wife attempt to piece together their unhappy lives and shattered marriage. Little do Nagai and Akira know...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Mikami

Keisuke, an aspiring samurai-movie actor lands a major role in a new film, but must contend with a director who has nothing but scorn for him, but...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Masatoshi Nagase

Seventeen-year-old Ako works part-time in a cabaret club late at night. Because of this, she falls asleep in school every day. In the new semester,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Asumi Miwa

Compilation film featuring short works from directors Hitoshi Yasaki ("Short Cakes"), Yuki Tanada (scriptwriter "Sakuran," "Tsuki to Cherry"),...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Oyamada

A sect is threatened to fall apart, when its leader, a young Korean woman, develops doubts regarding her alleged psychic powers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hyunri

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Cast: Jun Murakami

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

In a Japanese military hospital, a mysterious pandemic strikes and quickly kills seemingly at random. A group of unconnected individuals must come to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shota Sometani

A young girl named Sato watches on television as a man named Tomoki states brazenly at a press conference that he hopes convicted murderer Mitsuo is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Moeki Tsuruoka

This erotically charged drama traces the intersecting stories of a group of employees and visitors at a notorious "love hotel" in Tokyo's red-light...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shota Sometani

Chiyoko's mother died when she was young. Since that time, Chiyoko has closed her heart to others. After her pet dies, Chiyoko feels loneliness. Her...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Aoi Morikawa

Shiratori Tatsuhiko works as a scout for Burst, a talent agency in Kabukichō, Shinjuku's red light district. In a business where money means...

Genre: Action

Cast: Go Ayano

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

After the death of his father, Chihiro goes to live with his older half-brother Togo and his girlfriend Satomi. Togo and Satomi greet him with open...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shota Sometani

Samao Daikoku’s family register was taken which keeps him from escaping the underground life that he has led. To get away once and for all,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shota Sometani

The story is set in the early 21st century with the population decimated by bio terror. Two kinds of humans now exist. One is the Nokusu who were...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki

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

Komaki is a thirty-something woman that has had it with her perpetually unemployed aspiring writer husband. Following the divorce, she moves back to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Manami Konishi

Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (Ryosuke Yamada). Suzuki is a former middle school...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

21-year-old Misora Honzawa went to Tokyo from Aomori. Misora Honzawa happens to see Kumi on TV who is a yoga Instructor and model. By chance, the two...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mugi Kadowaki

Five different directors adapt the works of Japanese author Otsuichi in this collection of unconventional live-action and animated shorts. A woman is...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Patrick Harlan

Tatsuhiko Shiratori works as a scout, recruiting girls to work in the adult entertainment business. He movies to Yokohama from Shinjuku, Tokyo. He...

Genre: Action

Cast: Go Ayano

Kako, a 16-year-old high school girl, goes to a mixer pretending to be 22. While there, she meets Kouta who at first has a very intimidating aura....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kazuya Kamenashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rino Katase

Kuki is a veteran newspaper reporter who has been shuffled off to a book-development branch and finds escape in an illicit relationship with Rinko....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and never returning, deadbeat gambler Masato dies of...

Genre: Family

Cast: Issey Takahashi

A woman has an ugly face. She has been called 'monster' since childhood. A case occurs in her town that leads to her being ejected and a relocation...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Saki Takaoka

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

A woman from rural Japan marries a struggling cartoonist in Tokyo. Their life is difficult before he finds success, but at least they're together.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazue Fukiishi

Junoshin Kake is a ronin. To get hired by the Kurokaze Han, he lies and tells them that a religious group is trying to destroy them. He gets hired by...

Genre: Action

Cast: Go Ayano

Based on the manga of the same name by Buronson (Yoshiyuki Okamura). The story of a young man who volunteers to join the air force for selfish...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jun Murakami

Asami and Rina are two sisters who are both professional shogi players in the same B League. Both are also unsatisfied with their partners —...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Asaka Seto

A young woman returns to the island where she grew up.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshino Kimura

The first-person protagonist is a 27-year-old freelance writer who returns to her hometown from Tokyo, and she gets together with high school friend...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ai Hashimoto

10 years after Kenta graduated from high school he becomes a manga artist and lives in Tokyo. But lately he has been on a creative crises. One day...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jun Murakami

Japanese action film directed by Hiroshi Ando.

Genre: Action

Cast: Show Aikawa

A 5th grade elementary school student meets a transfer student who has a mysterious charm about her. He then learns her big secret.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hikaru Yamazaki

The story takes place over a 24 hour period. In the southernmost part of Japan, 20 fishing boats of an unknown nationality suddenly fire upon and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Yasuda

Set over one night in Tokyo, we follow Leo, a young boxer down on his luck as he meets his ‘first love’ Monica, a call-girl and an addict...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Masataka Kubota

Two filmmakers have to deal with a rogue mascot.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shin'ichi Hatori

A young bioarchaeologist Yukisuke is attracted to a girl Koyomi, who runs a small stand of taiyaki pastry that he often buys. Koyomi is hospitalized,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Taiga Nakano

Masuda, an aspiring journalist, plans to write an article in order to expose his co-worker Suzuki, who is a psychopathic murderer according to Masuda.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toma Ikuta

When Mio was young, she lost her parents in a great flood and also became separated from her best friend Noe. Afterwards, Mio found her talent in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Honoka Matsumoto

Haji is an actor on the cusp of turning 40, who has gotten stuck in life. At the invitation of an old friend, he visits his hometown for the first...

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Cast: Jun Murakami

Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This is the story of four 13-year-olds in search of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keita Ninomiya

Koyama Haruka was an office worker who lived an unremarkable life, but one day she comes across a large platter of Bizen ware on display at a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nao

A talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Three years earlier, Kanemi killed a woman, Renko, the corrupt mistress of the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Etsushi Toyokawa

Genre: Horror

Cast: Yumi Asou

The story takes place in a new residential area in the outskirts of Tokyo. A family photograph adorns the living room of the Hashimoto family. It is...

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Cast: Kaho Minami

A drama presented by Jun Murakami. Shimon and Short Run, who started walking on the road of the yakuza in Tokyo, were waiting for Yabuki Ginya....

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Cast: Jun Murakami

Yabuki Ginya and a short run who jumped out of the Sanryu group and became stubborn in order to stick to their own goodwill. As they disappear and...

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Cast: Jun Murakami

The third volume of the appointed drama starring Jun Murakami. It was a short run that was enlivening'Tokyo Mahouya'with his friends, but his friends...

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Cast: Jun Murakami

Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowing a boat for the villagers all day long, he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Emoto

Eiso Tsubaki, a former aristocrat, was suspected in a murder case in Ginza and committed suicide. Detective Kindaichi Kosuke, who is commissioned by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetaka Yoshioka

Keisuke Isobe and Koume Satou live a rather dull life. But when Koume's crush breaks her heart, their situation becomes quite unordinary. She starts...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruka Ishikawa

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

A youth film depicting society in the late 90's through the eyes of lethargic young adults.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mario

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hoshi Ishida

Yukina, who works as a call girl in the burbs just north of Tokyo, was sexually abused by her stepfather. Her younger stepbrother Minoru was also...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eri Kamataki

Behind the scenes of the 2004 film "Cutie Honey". Extra on Blu-ray Box.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eriko Sato

In consequence of his professional mistakes and declining career, Shuji and his family, the Sasaya’s, are forced to leave the wealthy suburb of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kaho Minami

Shinichi Tsuda, a Naoki Prize winning author, is working to publish his newest story. It revolves around Tsuyama, a driver for a call girl business...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Fujiwara

Korean photographer Bae-hwan and gay japanese hotel employee Ryu work together on a series of photographs. Their relationship crosses uneasily...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kim Min-jun

Natsuki, a sales clerk of a bookstore, and Koji. a high school student. Seemingly nothing in common, they have one thing they can share: books.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eriko Sato

Action actor Tateishi Daisuke who struggles with loneliness after suffering a traumatic experience due to an accident during filming. One day, he...

Genre: Action

Cast: Dean Fujioka

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miwako Ichikawa

Genre: Romance

Cast: Erika Sawajiri

Set in 2020 in the Shibuya neighborhood of Tokyo, the story revolves around Hachi, a boy who fled to the Japanese capital from his hometown of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuki Kura

After attending the funeral of Yu, a childhood friend, Toru gets drunk and misses the last train home. He saves a girl, Nao, after hearing her jump...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Murakami

Omnibus of six short films: Return; Ken-do star; Hana to oji-san; Adagietto Sehr, langsam; Nakayoki koto wa yoki koto ka na; Slow is Beautiful. Third...

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Cast: Kumiko Aso

Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (later played by Takumi Kitamura). Yasuo's life seemed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Abe

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Maki Sakai

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Maki Sakai

Together with Shimada Akira (Hagiwara Masato), the last appointed governor of Okinawa during the war, Arai Taizo (Murakami Jun), the chief of police...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masato Hagiwara

Amy and Sonny are two girls with contrasting personalities. Their "secret hideout" is an antique shop. One day, Amy falls in love at first sight with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rina Ohta

Another psychodrama, this time revolving around an SM club.

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Cast: Eugene Nomura

Physicist Manabu Yukawa returns to Japan from America. Detective Kaoru Utsumi visits him and talks about a case. The case is about a popular girl in...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Masaharu Fukuyama

Yoshio is a man who works for the city's water department and live with his mother. He regularly visits to the SM Queen Miho, but he still cannot...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jun Murakami

Bent on revenge, a traumatized ex-police officer must infiltrate a yakuza organization by befriending one of the group's most unhinged members.

Genre: Action

Cast: Junichi Okada

A washed-up former punk rocker is frustrated by his work at his grandmother's hot spring. He returns to Tokyo and finds himself entangled in a web...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Murakami

21st Century Girl is an omnibus feature that is of the girls, by the girls and for the girls. The work of 15 women directors under the age of 30,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Serena Motola

Movie adaptation of a novel by Rampo Edogawa.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Hada

Fourth installment in Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 8 films.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sadawo Abe

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Cast: Takanori Jinnai

Modeled on Setouchi Jakucho, Inoue Mitsuharu, and his wife, 2 women depicts the special relationship between a man and two women, based on the novel...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinobu Terajima

Matsudo leads a normal life working in the futures market. But after receiving a promotion, he loses consciousness. He finds that he has become part...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Jun Murakami

A man is assaulted by someone with a bat and attempts to figure out why.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Houka Kinoshita

Taiko drummer, Hisakatsu Yokoyama, and fellow evacuees of Futaba, Fukushima fight to keep their beloved “Futaba Bon-Uta” alive after...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kimiko Yo

Inuyama is intrigued by the existence of "Jake," a mysterious crocodile that has been sighted in many countries around the world. He continues to...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Ren Osugi

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's film "Gemini".

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Shinya Tsukamoto

A fantasy comedy in which Fumie Hosokawa and Ai Iijima play angels. The angel Elle arrives on earth completely naked. She had escaped from heaven to...

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Cast: Fumie Hosokawa

Ami and her father were sitting around the dinner table, where her mother Mikako, who had died a year earlier, was reflected in an enclosure-shaped...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Halo Asada

One day, a boy's body is found again under the same bridge. The case is eerily similar to Masaki's case from 22 years ago. Haru has a connection with...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kengo Kora

The fourth instalment of LDH Pictures, Cinema Fighters project. This time with all the main characters of the six short stories being portrayed by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Abe Junko

Genre: Animation

Cast: Takahiro Sakurai