Atsuko Takahata

Susumu Terajima

Yôko Maki

Fumiyo Kohinata

Udon

Udon (2006)

Koyuki

Tomokazu Miura

Hidetaka Yoshioka

Leaving her provincial home, teenage Mutsuko arrives in Tokyo by train to take a job in a major automotive company but finds that she is employed by a small auto repair shop owned by Norifumi Suzuki. Suzuki's hair-trigger temper is held somewhat in check by the motherly instincts of his wife, Tomoe, and his young son Ippei immediately bonds with Mutsuko as if she were his older sister. The Suzuki shop lies almost in the shadow of the Tokyo Tower as it rises steadily above the skyline during construction in 1958. Others in the neighborhood also are striving to better themselves as Japan continues to emerge from the shadow of war. Hiromi has just abandoned her shady life as a dancer to start a sake bar. Abandoned by his single mother, young Junnosuke is first handed off to Hiromi but she passes him off to Ryunosuke Chagawa, a struggling writer who runs a candy shop and only manages to sell adventure stories for boys as his serious novels continue to be rejected. Junnosuke is an avid reader of Chagawa's stories and begins to idolize him upon learning about his authorship. Junnosuke also writes stories, and makes friends with Ippei and others when they discover his tales that show Japan in the hi-tech future of the 21st century.—Brian Greenhalgh

Always: Sunset on Third Street

Always: Sunset on Third Street (2005)

Dôri Sakurada

Tadanobu Asano

Kôichi Satô

Koshiro Matsudaira lives in Tanjousan Bun in Echigo as a commoner and surrounded by people that love him, including his father Sakubei, who works for the Tanjousan Bun. One day, many officials working for Tanjousan Bun come to Koshiro's house and Sakubei tells his son the shocking truth about his birth. Koshiro learns that he is the son of Daimyo Ikkosai of the Tanjousan Bun. Even more shocking to Koshiro, is that Daimyo Ikkosai has suddenly handed over his feudal lord position to Koshiro and has gone into retirement. Koshiro thinks that he has come across good fortune, but he soon learns that the Tanjousan Bun has a huge debt that needs to be payed off soon.

Daimyô-tôsan

Daimyô-tôsan (2023)

Kanna Hashimoto

Akira Emoto

Mari Natsuki

Two estranged brothers inherit a small-town bathhouse. One sees it as an homage to their late father; the other a struggling architect as lucrative real estate for condos.

Yudô

Yudô (2022)

Osamu Mukai

Tokio Emoto

Yutaka Takenouchi

Two years after Michio Iruma left first criminal court of the Tokyo District Court, he now works as a judge at Setouchi in Okayama Prefecture. He currently has an injury case involving Japan's youngest ever Minister of Defense. Meanwhile, Chizuru Sakama works as a lawyer, following the system of judges' gain other work experience. She is currently working on a case involving a large local company. Her case is located in a neighboring town from where Michio works. Their two cases seem totally unrelated, but a secret is revealed between the two cases.

Ichikei's Crow

Ichikei's Crow (2023)

Noriko Eguchi

Honoka Matsumoto

Shôhei Uno

38-year-old Junichi Tanaka (Masaki AIBA) runs a farming business by himself in a rural town at the foot of the mountains, when one day, he ends up having to take care of his ten-year-old son Kazuya, who had been living with his mother after Junichi's divorce. Right around the time when Kazuya comes to his house, supernatural phenomena start tormenting the family-strange sounds, a murder of crows, flashing lightbulbs, and the feeling of someone's presence. Meanwhile, mysterious deaths and disappearances start to occur in the forest, where Junichi eventually witnesses "IT"-something that is clearly neither man nor animal. Just what is "IT"?. Junichi, Kazuya, and his schoolteacher Eri (Honoka MATSUMOTO) get caught up in the string of mysterious events, but that is only the beginning of the unspeakable terror.—shochikufilms

Sore ga Iru Mori

Sore ga Iru Mori (2022)

Ren Ôsugi

Tarô Suwa

Daikei Shimizu

Sho Aikawa plays a police detective whose dark personal history makes it impossible for him to stay within the limits of the legal system. But he is not just a detective; he is also a husband who has to explain to his wife how he got blood on his sleeve. And the criminals he pursues turn out to be as imperfect and oddly human as he is-and just as determined to protect their own families. This is the first of Kurosawa's films to pay homage to 1970s American gunslingers like Dirty Harry and reinvent them for modern Tokyo.—BAM/PFA

The Revenge I: A Visit from Fate

The Revenge I: A Visit from Fate (1997)

Chen Chang

Ayumi Itô

Grade schooler Ryonosuke (Kamiki Ryonosuke) has just moved to a small town with his father (Miura Tomokazu), a government official overseeing the area's unpopular airport construction project. Ryonosuke finds a new friend in milk delivery boy Kohei (Sasano Yuma) who introduces him to all the local eccentrics including Hiharu (Ohgo Suzuka), a young girl who believes she can communicate with UFOs. Kohei's dad (Kohinata Fumiyo) is also pretty strange himself, a biologist who went off on an endangered species conservation crusade years ago, but suddenly returns to town. His first homecoming project: leading a protest against the airport construction and Ryonosuke's dad.

Tôku no sora ni kieta

Tôku no sora ni kieta (2007)

Haruka Ayase

Hidetoshi Nishijima

Kôsuke Suzuki

Spun off from the television serial with the same title, the story begins with Mr. Isayama pointing a gun at his beautiful wife as she arrives home and enters the door. The wife was a secret agent who his this little from fact from her dear husband. Then again, he was a special agent posing as a technology worker himself. It seems marital bonds and co-habitation were not necessarily ingredients for honesty and sharing of information between husband and wife.—aghaemi

Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie

Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie (2021)

Yû Aoi

Yuriko Ishida

Nenji Kobayashi

Ginko seems to be living the good life: She's the respectable owner of a neighborhood drug store in Tokyo, and her daughter Koharu is about to get married to a doctor. However, Koharu's wedding day also brings homes Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed actor and a hard drinker who shows up causing trouble. Having covered for him all her life, Ginko is ready to disown her burdensome younger brother, but some things are easier said than done...—Anonymous

About Her Brother

About Her Brother (2010)

Minami Hamabe

Jun Kunimura

Masaki Suda

It is the early 1930s and the command of the Japanese Imperial Navy determines to construct the world's biggest and most formidable battleship, Yamato. One of the admirals, Yamamoto Isoroku, disagrees. He recruits the upstart and mathematics' expert Tadashi Kai who discovers there are discrepancies between the official cost estimates and the actual figures. They soon find out that they have stumbled upon a conspiracy.—aghaemi

The Great War of Archimedes

The Great War of Archimedes (2019)

Kengo Kôra

Naoto Takenaka

Masatoshi Nagase

Set in early 20th Century Japan, the movie follows the adventures of a young man who wants to get into the movie business -- but in a job unique to his country: a dramatic narrator for silent movies known as "Katsubenshi" or just "benshi". Comedy and action ensue as he becomes entangled with competing movie theaters where the crowds are drawn mostly by the skills of the dramatic interpreters rather than the movies themselves.—Scott G.G. Haller

Talking the Pictures

Talking the Pictures (2019)

Mieko Harada

Naomi Nishida

A woman with an abusive childhood travels back to taiwan from japan with her daughter in order to find her father's missing ashes, confronting her past along the way, discovering many secrets that were hidden from her throughout her life.

Begging for Love

Begging for Love (1998)

Rinko Kikuchi

Griffin Gluck

Kyôka Suzuki

Sideways
A heartwarming tale of two old friends, on a journey to rediscover their
friendship, life and themselves.
Michio (Fumio Kohinata) a struggling, middleaged scriptwriter, who returns to
the US to attend the wedding of his best friend. Daisuke (Katsuhisa Namase), who
stayed in the California after college, had a brief stint of fame as Captain Ninja, a
childrens action hero now manages a restaurant
Together, they venture out on a weeklong road trip, ending up in the Napa
Valley, where they serendipitously meet up with an old heart throb Mayuko
(Kyoka Suzuki), whom Michio tutored during his exchange student days 20 years
past, and her free spirited friend Mina (Rinko Kikuchi) raised in America.
Michio under the impression that they were going wine tasting, soon discovers
that Daisuke has ulterior motives for this last hurrah as a bachelor. During this
brief detour from daily life, each on his own discovers what is truly important in
life itself.
Filmed entirely on location in California with an allAmerican crew, we bring you
the Japanese reimagination of the 2005 Academy Awardwinning film of the
same title. Sideways is directed by born in Japan American, Cellin Gluck and
beautifully photographed by Garry Waller, Oscar nominated for his visual effects
work on Poltergeist II. Featuring a sound track composed and supervised by
Hawaiianborn ukulele artist Jake Shimabukuro, with such 1980s hits as Cyndi
Laupers Time After Time.
The New York Times calls Sideways one of the most intriguing of cross cultural
experiments.
The coming of age movie for those past the point of no return.

Sideways

Sideways (2009)

Masami Nagasawa

Yûko Takeuchi

Yôsuke Eguchi

Con men and con women Dako, Boku-chan and Lichard are professionals who know the angles, vulnerabilities, disguise and planning. They go to work in Hong Kong and are adept at siphoning huge amounts of money from evil characters like capitalists and greedy businessmen and mafia thugs.—aghaemi

The Confidence Man JP: The Movie

The Confidence Man JP: The Movie (2019)

Rie Miyazawa

Erika Sawajiri

Atsuro Watabe

Adapted from the successful play, the film takes place in the 19th Japan where a war between demons and their slayers is fought. Izumo, an Kabuki actor with a demon-slaying past, meets and falls in love with Tsubaki. However, something is not right as mysterious marks appear on her body as time progresses. At the same time, it is announced that Ashura, the queen of all demons, will be resurrected and bring destruction to the universe.—Ploy P.

Ashura-jô no hitomi

Ashura-jô no hitomi (2005)

Kôji Yakusho

An unemployed young man is on the packed Tokyo subway en route to a job interview when a schoolgirl grabs him by the wrist and fingers him as a molester. A man was feeling her up on the train. The young man is arrested and no one, not the station master, the public defender or the police, seems the least interested in his protestations of innocence. It would be much more efficient if he would accept a plea bargain.—aghaemi

I Just Didn't Do It

I Just Didn't Do It (2006)

Takashi Miike

Hideaki Anno

Noboru Iguchi

Live-action adaptation of a madcap manga about art, opposites, love and a whole lot of cosplay.

Koi no mon

Koi no mon (2004)

Shidô Nakamura

Kei Tanaka

Mio's death leaves husband Takumi and 6-year-old son Yuji fending for themselves. Taku occasionally suffers fainting spells, is disorganized, and fears that his health hindered Mio's happiness. Yuji overheard relatives speculate that his delivery compromised her health, and he blames himself for her death. Mio left him a picture book in which she departs for "The Archive Star" but re-appears during the rainy season the following year, and he eagerly awaits her return. Taking a walk in the forest outside their house, Taku and Yuji find a woman sheltering from the rain and immediately accept her as Mio. She has no memory or sense of identity, but comes home to live with them anyway. She asks Taku how they met and fell in love, and he recounts a tale of years of missed chances starting in high school until she encouraged their marriage years later. As the rainy season nears its end, Yuji finds the "time capsule" he hid with his mother before her death. Mio's diary is inside, and its version of the romance holds the answers to the mystery.—Brian Greenhalgh

Ima, ai ni yukimasu

Ima, ai ni yukimasu (2004)

Hitomi Kuroki

Asami Mizukawa

Kiriko Shimizu

In the final stages of a messy divorce, Yoshimi struggles to build a new life for herself and her daughter. Unfortunately, the challenges of single parenting and an ongoing custody battle are further complicated when they move into an apartment plagued by mysterious water leaks and haunted by the apparition of a little girl.—Molly Rose Steed

Dark Water

Dark Water (2002)

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